AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
bladder: a bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.-any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.-a distended, membranaceous pericarp.-anything inflated, empty, or unsound.-to swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.-to put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
bladderwort: a genus (utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. these serve as traps for minute animals. see ascidium.
blade: properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. the term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.-the cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.-the broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.-the scapula or shoulder blade.-the principal rafters of a roof.-the four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.-a sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.-to furnish with a blade.-to put forth or have a blade.
bladed: having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.-divested of blades; as, bladed corn.-composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.
bladefish: a long, thin, marine fish of europe (trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.
blain: an inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.-a bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
blamable: deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
blame: to censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.-to bring reproach upon; to blemish.-an expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.-that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.-hurt; injury.
blameful: faulty; meriting blame.-attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious.
blameless: free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.
blancard: a kind of linen cloth made in normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.
blanch: to take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.-to bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.-to make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.-to whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.-to give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).-to cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.-fig.: to whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.-to grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.-to avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.-to cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.-to use evasion.-ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
blanch holding: a mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
blancher: one who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.-one who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
blanchimeter: an instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.
blancmange: a preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.
blancmanger: a sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.
bland: mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.-having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.
blandish: to flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.-to make agreeable and enticing.
blandishment: the act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
blank: of a white or pale color; without color.-free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.-utterly confounded or discomfited.-empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.-lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.-lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.-absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.-any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.-a lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.-a paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.-a paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.-the point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.-aim; shot; range.-a kind of base silver money, first coined in england by henry v., and worth about 8 pence; also, a french coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.-a piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.-a piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."-to make void; to annul.-to blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
blanket: a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.-a piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.-a streak or layer of blubber in whales.-to cover with a blanket.-to toss in a blanket by way of punishment.-to take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
blanketing: of blanket-cloth for blankets.-the act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
blankly: in a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.-directly; flatly; point blank.
blanquillo: a large fish of florida and the w. indies (caulolatilus chrysops). it is red, marked with yellow.
blare: to sound loudly and somewhat harshly.-to cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.-the harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.
blarney: smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.-to influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.
blase: having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
blaspheme: to speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the holy spirit.-figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: to calumniate; to revile; to abuse.-to utter blasphemy.
blasphemous: speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.
blasphemy: an indignity offered to god in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, god; speaking evil of god; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.-figuratively, of things held in high honor: calumny; abuse; vilification.
blast: a violent gust of wind.-a forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. hence: the continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.-the exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.-the sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.-a sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.-the act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.-a flatulent disease of sheep.-to injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.-hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.-to confound by a loud blast or din.-to rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.-to be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.-to blow; to blow on a trumpet.
blast pipe: the exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
blasted: of blast-blighted; withered.-confounded; accursed; detestable.-rent open by an explosive.
blastema: the structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
blastematic: connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
blastide: a small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
blasting: of blast-a blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.-the act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
blastoderm: the germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
blastoidea: one of the divisions of crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. they are so named on account of their budlike form.
blastophore: that portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
blastopore: the pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.
blastosphere: the hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.
blastostyle: in certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. see hydroidea, and athecata.
blastula: that stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
blat: to cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.-to utter inconsiderately.
blatant: bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
blatter: to prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.
blatterer: one who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.
blaze: a stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.-intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.-a bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.-a white spot on the forehead of a horse.-a spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.-to shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.-to send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.-to be resplendent.-to mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.-to designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.-to make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.-to blazon.
blazing: of blaze-burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
blazon: a shield.-an heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.-the art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.-ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.-to depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.-to deck; to embellish; to adorn.-to describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.-to shine; to be conspicuous.
blazoner: one who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.
blazonry: same as blazon, 3.-a coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.-artistic representation or display.
blea: the part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
bleach: to make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.-to grow white or lose color; to whiten.
bleaching: of bleach-the act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.
bleak: without color; pale; pallid.-desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.-cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.-a small european river fish (leuciscus alburnus), of the family cyprinidae; the blay.
blear: dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.-causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.-to make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. figuratively: to obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
blear-eyed: having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.-lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot.
bleared: of blear-dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.
bleareye: a disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
bleat: to make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.-a plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
bleating: of bleat-crying as a sheep does.-the cry of, or as of, a sheep.
bleb: a large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
blebby: containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.
bleed: to emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.-to withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, dr. a. bleeds in fevers.-to lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.-to issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.-to lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.-to pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.-to let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.-to lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.-to draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
bleeder: one who, or that which, draws blood.-one in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
bleeding: of bleed-emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.-a running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.
blemish: to mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.-to tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.-any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
blemishment: the state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment.
blench: to shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.-to fly off; to turn aside.-to baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.-to draw back from; to deny from fear.-a looking aside or askance.-to grow or make pale.
blencher: one who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. see blancher.-one who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
blend: to mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. hence: to confuse; to confound.-to pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.-to mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.-a thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.-to make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
blende: a mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. it is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.-a general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.
blender: one who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.
blending: of blend-the act of mingling.-the method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
blennorrhea: an inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.-gonorrhea.
blenny: a marine fish of the genus blennius or family blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. the species are numerous.
blent: of blend-mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.-blinded.  also (chaucer), 3d sing. pres. blindeth.
blesbok: a south african antelope (alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.
bless: to make or pronounce holy; to consecrate-to make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.-to express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.-to invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.-to make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).-to guard; to keep; to protect.-to praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.-to esteem or account happy; to felicitate.-to wave; to brandish.
blessed: of bless-hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.-enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.-imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.-enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.-beatified.-used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
blessedness: the state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of god.
blessing: of bless-the act of one who blesses.-a declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.-a means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.-a gift.-grateful praise or worship.
bletonism: the supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one bleton, of france.
blight: to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.-hence: to destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.-to be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.-mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.-the act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.-that which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.-a downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.-a rashlike eruption on the human skin.
blind: destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.-not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.-undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.-having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.-involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.-having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.-unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.-abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.-to make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.-to deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.-to darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.-to cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.-something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.-something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.-a blindage. see blindage.-a halting place.-alt. of blinde
blindage: a cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
blinder: one who, or that which, blinds.-one of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
blindfish: a small fish (amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the mammoth cave, in kentucky. related fishes from other caves take the same name.
blindfold: to cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.-having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. hence: heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
blinding: of blind-making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.-a thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. see blind, v. t., 4.
blindly: without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
blindman's buff: a play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.
blindworm: a small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.