AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
banding plane: a plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
bandlet: a small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.-same as bandelet.
bandog: a mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
bandolier: a broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.-one of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.
bandy: a carriage or cart used in india, esp. one drawn by bullocks.-a club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.-the game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.-to beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.-to give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.-to toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.-to content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.-bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
bane: that which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.-destruction; death.-any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.-a disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.-to be the bane of; to ruin.
baneberry: a genus (actaea) of plants, of the order ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. the red or white berries are poisonous.
baneful: having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
bang: to beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.-to beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.-to make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.-a blow as with a club; a heavy blow.-the sound produced by a sudden concussion.-to cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).-the short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.-alt. of bangue
bangle: to waste by little and little; to fritter away.-an ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in india and africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
banian: a hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.-a man's loose gown, like that worn by the banians.-the indian fig. see banyan.
banish: to condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.-to drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.-to drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
banister: a stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. it has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
bank: a bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.-a mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.-a steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.-the margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.-an elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of newfoundland.-the face of the coal at which miners are working.-a deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.-the ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.-to raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.-to heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.-to pass by the banks of.-a bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.-the bench or seat upon which the judges sit.-the regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. see banc.-a sort of table used by printers.-a bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.-an establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.-the building or office used for banking purposes.-a fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.-the sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.-in certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.-to deposit in a bank.-to keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.-to deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
bank bill: in america (and formerly in england), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.-in england, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.
bank book: a book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.
bank note: a promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.-formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. see bank bill, 2.-a promissory note payable at a bank.
bank-sided: having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.
banker: one who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.-a money changer.-the dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.-a vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of newfoundland.-a ditcher; a drain digger.-the stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
bankrupt: a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.-a trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.-a person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.-being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.-depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.-relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.-destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).-to make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
bankruptcy: the state of being actually or legally bankrupt.-the act or process of becoming a bankrupt.-complete loss; -- followed by of.
banlieue: the territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.
banner: a kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.-a large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.-any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
banneret: originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.-a title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.-a civil officer in some swiss cantons.-a small banner.
bannerol: a banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. see banderole.
bannock: a kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in scotland and the northern counties of england.
banns: notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
banquet: a feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.-a dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.-to treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.-to regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.-to partake of a dessert after a feast.
banquette: a raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.-a narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
banshie: a supernatural being supposed by the irish and scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
bantam: a variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from bantam, a district of java.
banter: to address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.-to jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.-to delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.-to challenge or defy to a match.-the act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
bantingism: a method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from william banting of london.
bantling: a young or small child; an infant. [slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
banyan: a tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the indian fig (ficus indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
baobab: a gigantic african tree (adansonia digitata), also naturalized in india. see adansonia.
baphomet: an idol or symbolical figure which the templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
baptism: the act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of christ. this is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
baptist: one who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to john, the forerunner of christ.-one of a denomination of christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. see anabaptist.
baptistry: in early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.-a part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
baptize: to administer the sacrament of baptism to.-to christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.-to sanctify; to consecrate.
bar: a piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.-an indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.-anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.-a bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.-any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the house of commons.-the railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.-the place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.-the whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.-a special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.-any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of god.-a barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.-an ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.-a broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.-a vertical line across the staff. bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.-the space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.-the part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.-a drilling or tamping rod.-a vein or dike crossing a lode.-a gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.-a slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.-to fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.-to restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.-to except; to exclude by exception.-to cross with one or more stripes or lines.
barb: beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.-a muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.-paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. the name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.-the point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. hence: anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.-a bit for a horse.-one of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. see feather.-a southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the united states; -- also improperly called whiting.-a hair or bristle ending in a double hook.-to shave or dress the beard of.-to clip; to mow.-to furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.-the barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from barbary into spain by the moors.-a blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from barbary.-armor for a horse. same as 2d bard, n., 1.
barbacan: see barbican.-a tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. it was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.-an opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
barbacanage: see barbicanage.-money paid for the support of a barbican.
barbadoes: a west indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
barbaic: of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east.-of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.
barbara: the first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. it indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
barbarian: a foreigner.-a man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.-a person destitute of culture.-a cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.-of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
barbarism: an uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.-a barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.-an offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. see solecism.
barbarity: the state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.-cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.-a barbarous or cruel act.-barbarism; impurity of speech.
barbarize: to become barbarous.-to adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.-to make barbarous.
barbarous: being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.-foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.-cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.-contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
barbary: the countries on the north coast of africa from egypt to the atlantic. hence: a barbary horse; a barb. [obs.] also, a kind of pigeon.
barbecue: a hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.-a social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.-a floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.-to dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.-to roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.
barbed: of barb-accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. see barded ( which is the proper form.)-furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
barbel: a slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.-a large fresh-water fish ( barbus vulgaris) found in many european rivers. its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.-barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. see 1st barb, 3.
barber: one whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.-to shave and dress the beard or hair of.
barberry: a shrub of the genus berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. b. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. the bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
barbet: a variety of small dog, having long curly hair.-a bird of the family bucconidae, allied to the cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. it inhabits tropical america and africa.-a larva that feeds on aphides.
barbette: a mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
barbiers: a variety of paralysis, peculiar to india and the malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
barbituric acid: a white, crystalline substance, ch2(co.nh)2.co, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea.
barbule: a very minute barb or beard.-one of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. see feather.
barcarolle: a popular song or melody sung by venetian gondoliers.-a piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
bard: a professional poet and singer, as among the ancient celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.-hence: a poet; as, the bard of avon.-alt. of barde-to cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.-the exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.-specifically, peruvian bark.
barde: a piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [often in the pl.]-defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.-a thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
barded: accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.-wearing rich caparisons.
bare: without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.-with head uncovered; bareheaded.-without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.-plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.-destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of  (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.-threadbare; much worn.-mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.-surface; body; substance.-that part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.-to strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.-bore; the old preterit of bear, v.-of bear
bareback: on the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
barefaced: with the face uncovered; not masked.-without concealment; undisguised. hence: shameless; audacious.
barefacedness: the quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
barege: a gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.
barely: without covering; nakedly.-without concealment or disguise.-merely; only.-but just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
baresark: a berserker, or norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. hence, adverbially: without shirt of mail or armor.
bargain: an agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.-an agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.-a purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.-the thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.-to make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.-to transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
bargainee: the party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.
bargainor: one who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.
barge: a pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.-a large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.-a large boat used by flag officers.-a double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.-a large omnibus used for excursions.
bargecourse: a part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.
bargeman: the man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
bargemastter: the proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
barghest: a goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.
baric: of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.-of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.
barilla: a name given to several species of salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.-the alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.-impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.
barite: native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. it has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. it is a common mineral in metallic veins.