AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
autumnal: of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.-past the middle of life; in the third stage.
auxesis: a figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.
auxiliary: conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.-a helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.-foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.-a verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in english; etre and avoir, in french; avere and essere, in italian; estar and haber, in spanish.-a quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.
avail: to turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.-to promote; to assist.-to be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.-profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.-proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.-see avale, v.
available: having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.-such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.
availableness: competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.-quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended.
avalanche: a large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.-a fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.-a sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
avale: to cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.-to bring low; to abase.-to descend; to fall; to dismount.
avant-courier: a person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.
avarice: an excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.-an inordinate desire for some supposed good.
avaricious: actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
avatar: the descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of vishnu.-incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.
avaunt: begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "get thee gone."-to advance; to move forward; to elevate.-to depart; to move away.-to vaunt; to boast.-a vaunt; to boast.
ave mary: a salutation and prayer to the virgin mary, as mother of god; -- used in the roman catholic church.-a particular time (as in italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the ave maria.
avellane: in the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.
avena: a genus of grasses, including the common oat (avena sativa); the oat grasses.
avenage: a quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
avener: an officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.
avenge: to take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.-to treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.-to take vengeance.-vengeance; revenge.
avenger: one who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.-one who takes vengeance.
avens: a plant of the genus geum, esp. geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
aventine: pertaining to mons aventinus, one of the seven hills on which rome stood.-a post of security or defense.
aventure: accident; chance; adventure.-a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
aventurine: a kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. it was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.-a variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
avenue: a way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.-the principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.-a broad street; as, the fifth avenue in new york.
aver: a work horse, or working ox.-to assert, or prove, the truth of.-to avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. see averment.-to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
average: that service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.-a tariff or duty on goods, etc.-any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.-a contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.-the equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.-a mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. thus, if a loses 5 dollars, b 9, and c 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.-any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.-in the english corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.-pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average englishman; beings of the average stamp.-according to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.-to find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.-to divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.-to do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.-to form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
avercorn: a reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
averment: the act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.-verification; establishment by evidence.-a positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
avernian: of or pertaining to avernus, a lake of campania, in italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. it was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.
averroist: one of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from averroes, or averrhoes, a celebrated arabian philosopher. he held the doctrine of monopsychism.
averruncator: an instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.
averse: turned away or backward.-having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.-to turn away.
aversely: backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.-with repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.
aversion: a turning away.-opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.-the object of dislike or repugnance.
avert: to turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted?  "to avert his ire."-to turn away.
averted: of avert-turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
aviary: a house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.
avicula: a genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
avicularia: see prehensile processes on the cells of some bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.
avidity: greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.
avignon berry: the fruit of the rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of avignon, in france. it is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. called also french berry.
avise: to look at; to view; to think of.-to advise; to counsel.-to consider; to reflect.
avocado: the pulpy fruit of persea gratissima, a tree of tropical america. it is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.
avocation: a calling away; a diversion.-that which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.-pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
avoid: to empty.-to emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.-to quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.-to make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.-to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.-to get rid of.-to defeat or evade; to invalidate. thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.-to retire; to withdraw.-to become void or vacant.
avoidable: capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.-capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
avoidance: the act of annulling; annulment.-the act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.-a dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.-the act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.-the courts by which anything is carried off.
avoider: the person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.-one who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
avoirdupois: goods sold by weight.-avoirdupois weight.-weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
avoset: a grallatorial bird, of the genus recurvirostra; the scooper. the bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. the american species is r. americana.-same as avocet.
avouch: to appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.-to maintain a just or true; to vouch for.-to declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.-to acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.-evidence; declaration.
avow: to declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.-to acknowledge and justify, as an act done. see avowry.-avowal.-to bind, or to devote, by a vow.-a vow or determination.
avowance: act of avowing; avowal.-upholding; defense; vindication.
avowant: the defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
avowee: the person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. see advowson.
avowry: an advocate; a patron; a patron saint.-the act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.
avulsion: a tearing asunder; a forcible separation.-a fragment torn off.-the sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. the property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.
await: to watch for; to look out for.-to wait on, serve, or attend.-to wait for; to stay for; to expect. see expect.-to be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.-to watch.-to wait (on or upon).-to wait; to stay in waiting.-a waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.
awake: to rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.-to rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.-to cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.-not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
awaken: of awake-to rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
awakening: of awaken-rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.-the act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. specifically: a revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
award: to give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.-to determine; to make an award.-a judgment, sentence, or final decision. specifically: the decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.-the paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
aware: watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.-apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.
awash: washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
away: from a place; hence.-absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.-aside; off; in another direction.-from a state or condition of being; out of existence.-by ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: go or come away; begone; take away.-on; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.
away-going: sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops.
awe: dread; great fear mingled with respect.-the emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.-to strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
aweather: on the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather!
aweigh: just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.
awesome: causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.-expressive of awe or terror.
awful: oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.-inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.-struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.-worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.-frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
awfully: in an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.-very; excessively.
awfulness: the quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.-the state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence.
awk: odd; out of order; perverse.-wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).-clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.-perversely; in the wrong way.
awkly: in an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.-awkwardly.
awkward: wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.-not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.-perverse; adverse; untoward.
awl: a pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. the blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
awlwort: a plant (subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.
awn: the bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
awning: a rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.-that part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
awry: turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.-aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
axe: a tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. it is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. the broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.-alt. of axeman
axial: of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.-belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
axially: in relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.
axil: the angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
axile: situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.
axilla: the armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.-an axil.
axillars: feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.
axillary: of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.-situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.
axinite: a borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
axinomancy: a species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.
axiom: a self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "the whole is greater than a part;"  "a thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."-an established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.
axiomatical: of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms.
axis: the spotted deer (cervus axis or axis maculata) of india, where it is called hog deer and parrah (moorish name).-a straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.-a straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.-the stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.-the second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.-also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.-one of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.-the primary or secondary central line of any design.
axle: the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.-a transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.-an axis; as, the sun's axle.
axle box: a bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.-the journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
axle guard: the part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the united states, and a housing in england.
axletree: a bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.-a spindle or axle of a wheel.
axminster: an axminster carpet, an imitation turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from axminster, eng.
axolotl: an amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of mexico; the siredon.
axstone: a variety of jade. it is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the south sea islands, for making axes or hatchets.
axunge: fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.
ay: ah! alas!-same as aye.-yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. it is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.-always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
aye: alt. of ay-an affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "to call for the ayes and noes;" "the ayes have it."-alt. of ay
aye-aye: a singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in madagascar (cheiromys madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.
ayme: the utterance of the ejaculation "ay me !" [obs.] see ay, interj.
ayrshire: one of a superior breed of cattle from ayrshire, scotland. ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.
ayuntamiento: in spain and spanish america, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
azalea: a genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of china or of north america; false honeysuckle. the genus is scarcely distinct from rhododendron.
azarole: the neapolitan medlar (crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern europe; also, its fruit.
azedarach: a handsome asiatic tree (melia azedarach), common in the southern united states; -- called also, pride of india, pride of china, and bead tree.-the bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.
azimuth: the quadrant of an azimuth circle.-an arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.
azo-: a combining form of azote-applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.-now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. these compounds furnish many artificial dyes. see diazo-.
azobenzene: a substance (c6h5.n2.c6h5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.
azoic: destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.