AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
bottom: the lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.-the part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.-that upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.-the bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.-the fundament; the buttocks.-an abyss.-low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.-the part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.-power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.-dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.-of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.-to found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.-to furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.-to reach or get to the bottom of.-to rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.-to reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.-a ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.-to wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
bottomed: of bottom-having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
bottomless: without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
bottomry: a contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. if the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. see hypothecation.
bottone: having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
bouch: a mouth.-an allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
bouche: same as bush, a lining.-same as bush, to line.-alt. of bouch
boud: a weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
boudoir: a small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.
bougainvillaea: a genus of plants of the order nyctoginaceae, from tropical south america, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
bouge: to swell out.-to bilge.-to stave in; to bilge.-bouche (see bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.-to scoop out with a gouge.-to scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.-to cheat in a bargain; to chouse.
bough: an arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.-a gallows.
bought: a flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.-the part of a sling that contains the stone.-imp. & p. p. of buy.-purchased; bribed.-of buy
bougie: a long, flexible instrument, that is-a long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. it is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
bouilli: boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
bouillon: a nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.-an excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
boulangerite: a mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact.  it is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
boulder: same as bowlder.-a large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.-a mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. see drift.
boulevard: originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.-a public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. hence: a broad avenue in or around a city.
boultin: a molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the tuscan and roman doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.-one of the shafts of a clustered column.
bounce: to strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.-to leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.-to boast; to talk big; to bluster.-to drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.-to cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.-to eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.-to bully; to scold.-a sudden leap or bound; a rebound.-a heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.-an explosion, or the noise of one.-bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.-a dogfish of europe (scyllium catulus).-with a sudden leap; suddenly.
bouncer: one who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.-a boaster; a bully.-a bold lie; also, a liar.-something big; a good stout example of the kind.
bouncing: of bounce-stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.-excessive; big.
bound: of bind-of bind-the external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.-to limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.-to name the boundaries of; as, to bound france.-to move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.-to rebound, as an elastic ball.-to make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.-to cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.-a leap; an elastic spring; a jump.-rebound; as, the bound of a ball.-spring from one foot to the other.-imp. & p. p. of bind.-restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.-inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.-under legal or moral restraint or obligation.-constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.-resolved; as, i am bound to do it.-constipated; costive.-ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to cadiz, or for cadiz.
boundary: that which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
bounden: of bind-bound; fastened by bonds.-under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.-made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
bounteous: liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.
bountiful: free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.-plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.
bounty: goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.-liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.-that which is given generously or liberally.-a premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
bouquet: a nosegay; a bunch of flowers.-a perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.
bourbon: a member of a family which has occupied several european thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of france.-a politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
bourbonism: the principles of those adhering to the house of bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
bourdon: a pilgrim's staff.-a drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. see burden (of a song.)-a kind of organ stop.
bourgeois: a size of type between long primer and brevier. see type.-a man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.-characteristic of the middle class, as in france.
bourgeoisie: the french middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
bourgeon: to sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
bouri: a mullet (mugil capito) found in the rivers of southern europe and in africa.
bourne: a stream or rivulet; a burn.-a bound; a boundary; a limit. hence: point aimed at; goal.
bournonite: a mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. it is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
bourse: an exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the stock exchange of paris.
bouse: to drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. see booze.-drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.
boustrophedon: an ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early greek and hittite.
bout: as much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.-a conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
bouts-rimes: words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
bovate: an oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
bovey coal: a kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at bovey tracey, devonshire, england. it is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
bovid: relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus bos is the type.
bovine: of or pertaining to the genus bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.-having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
bow: to cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.-to exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.-to bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.-to cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.-to express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.-to bend; to curve.-to stop.-to bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.-to incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.-an inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.-anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.-a weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.-an ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.-the u-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.-an appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.-an arcograph.-any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.-a rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.-two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.-to play (music) with a bow.-to manage the bow.-the bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.-one who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
bow hand: the hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.-the hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand.
bow net: a trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.-a net for catching birds.
bow oar: the oar used by the bowman.-one who rows at the bow of a boat.
bow-compass: an arcograph.-a small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.-a pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.
bowel: one of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.-hence, figuratively: the interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.-the seat of pity or kindness. hence: tenderness; compassion.-offspring.-to take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
bowenite: a hard, compact variety of serpentine found in rhode island. it is of a light green color and resembles jade.
bower: one who bows or bends.-an anchor carried at the bow of a ship.-a muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.-one of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.-anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.-a rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.-a shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.-to embower; to inclose.-to lodge.-a young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
bower bird: an australian bird (ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird.
bowery: shading, like a bower; full of bowers.-a farm or plantation with its buildings.-characteristic of the street called the bowery, in new york city; swaggering; flashy.
bowfin: a voracious ganoid fish (amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the united states; the mudfish; -- called also johnny grindle, and dogfish.
bowgrace: a frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
bowhead: the great arctic or greenland whale. (balaena mysticetus). see baleen, and whale.
bowie knife: a knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the united states. it was named from its inventor, colonel james bowie.  also, by extension, any large sheath knife.
bowing: of bow-of bow-the act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.-in hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.
bowknot: a knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
bowl: a concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.-specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.-the contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.-the hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.-a ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.-an ancient game, popular in great britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.-the game of tenpins or bowling.-to roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.-to roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.-to pelt or strike with anything rolled.-to play with bowls.-to roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.-to move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
bowler: one who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
bowline: a rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
bowling: of bowl-the act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
bowman: a man who uses a bow; an archer.-the man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.
bowse: to carouse; to bouse; to booze.-to pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.-a carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
bowsprit: a large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
bowssen: to drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).
bowstring: the string of a bow.-a string used by the turks for strangling offenders.-to strangle with a bowstring.
bowstringed: of bowstring-furnished with bowstring.-put to death with a bowstring; strangled.
bowwow: an onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.-onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.
box: a tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. the common box (buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (b. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. the wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.-a receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.-the quantity that a box contain.-a space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.-a chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.-a small country house.-a boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.-an axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.-a chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.-the driver's seat on a carriage or coach.-a present in a box; a present; esp. a christmas box or gift.-the square in which the pitcher stands.-a mediterranean food fish; the bogue.-to inclose in a box.-to furnish with boxes, as a wheel.-to inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.-a blow on the head or ear with the hand.-to fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.-to strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.-to boxhaul.
boxen: made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (buxus).
boxhaul: to put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).
boxhauling: a method of going from one tack to another. see boxhaul.
boxing: of box-the act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.-material used in making boxes or casings.-any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.-the external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.-the act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.
boy: a male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.-to act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
boyard: a member of a russian aristocratic order abolished by peter the great. also, one of a privileged class in roumania.
boyau: a winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.
boycott: to combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.-the process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
boyish: resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
boza: an acidulated fermented drink of the arabs and egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.
brabble: to clamor; to contest noisily.-a broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.
brabbler: a clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
brace: that which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.-a cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.-the state of being braced or tight; tension.-a piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. it may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. a boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.-a vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.-a rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.-a curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.-a pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.-straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.-harness; warlike preparation.-armor for the arm; vantbrace.-the mouth of a shaft.-to furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.-to draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.-to bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.-to place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.-to move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.-to get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
bracelet: an ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.-a piece of defensive armor for the arm.
bracer: that which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.-a covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.-a medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
brachelytra: a group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
brachial: pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.-of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.
brachiata: a division of the crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. see crinoidea.
brachiate: having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
brachioganoidei: an order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of africa is a living example. see crossopterygii.
brachiolaria: a peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.
brachiopoda: a class of molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.
brachium: the upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
brachycephalism: the state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
brachycephalous: having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.