AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
boomdas: a small african hyracoid mammal (dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.
boomer: one who, or that which, booms.-a north american rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. see sewellel.-a large male kangaroo.-one who works up a "boom".
boomerang: a very singular missile weapon used by the natives of australia and in some parts of india. it is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. when thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.
booming: of boom-rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.-advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.-the act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.
boomorah: a small west african chevrotain (hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.
boomslange: a large south african tree snake (bucephalus capensis). although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.
boon: a prayer or petition.-that which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.-good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.-kind; bountiful; benign.-gay; merry; jovial; convivial.-the woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
boor: a husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.-a dutch, german, or russian peasant; esp. a dutch colonist in south africa, guiana, etc.: a boer.-a rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
boorish: like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
boose: a stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.-to drink excessively. see booze.
boost: to lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.-a push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
boot: remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.-that which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.-profit; gain; advantage; use.-to profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?-to enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.-a covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.-an instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in scotland.-a place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.-a place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.-an apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.-the metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.-to put boots on, esp. for riding.-to punish by kicking with a booted foot.-to boot one's self; to put on one's boots.-booty; spoil.
booted: of boot-of boot-wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.-having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.
booth: a house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.-a covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.
boothose: stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.-hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.
boothy: see bothy.-a wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.
bootikin: a little boot, legging, or gaiter.-a covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.
booting: of boot-of boot-advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.-a kind of torture. see boot, n., 2.-a kicking, as with a booted foot.
boottopping: the act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.-sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
boottree: an instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
booty: that which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
booze: to drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.-a carouse; a drinking.
boozer: one who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
boozy: a little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
bopeep: the act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
borachte: a large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. hence: a drunkard.
boracic: pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
boracite: a mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
borage: a mucilaginous plant of the genus borago (b. officinalis), which is used, esp. in france, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
boraginaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
borax: a white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. it occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in tuscany. it was originally obtained from a lake in thibet, and was sent to europe under the name of tincal. borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, na2b4o7.10h2o.
bord: a board; a table.-the face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.-see bourd.
bordeaux: pertaining to bordeaux in the south of france.-a claret wine from bordeaux.
bordelais: of or pertaining to bordeaux, in france, or to the district around bordeaux.
bordello: a brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
border: the outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.-a boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.-a strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.-a narrow flower bed.-to touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, connecticut borders on massachusetts.-to approach; to come near to; to verge.-to make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.-to be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.-to confine within bounds; to limit.
borderer: one who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
bordland: either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
bordlode: the service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
bordure: a border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. it is usually plain, but may be charged.
bore: of bear-to perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.-to form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.-to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.-to weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.-to befool; to trick.-to make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).-to be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.-to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.-to shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.-a hole made by boring; a perforation.-the internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.-the size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.-a tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.-caliber; importance.-a person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.-a tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the amazon, in south america, the hoogly and indus, in india, and the tsien-tang, in china.-less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the bay of fundy and in the british channel.-imp. of 1st & 2d bear.
boreal: northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
borecole: a brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.
boredom: the state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.-the realm of bores; bores, collectively.
borele: the smaller two-horned rhinoceros of south africa (atelodus bicornis).
borer: one that bores; an instrument for boring.-a marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. see teredo.-any bivalve mollusk (saxicava, lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.-one of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. see apple borer, under apple.-the hagfish (myxine).
boride: a binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
boring: of bore-the act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.-a hole made by boring.-the chips or fragments made by boring.
born: of bear-brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.-having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.
borne: of bear-carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. see bear, v. t.
borneol: a rare variety of camphor, c10h17.oh, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. it is said to occur in the camphor tree of borneo and sumatra (dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in european or american commerce, being in great request by the chinese. called also borneo camphor, malay camphor, and camphol.
bornite: a valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.
borofluoride: a double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.
boroglyceride: a compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.
boron: a nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. it is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. it occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. atomic weight 10.9. symbol b.
borosilicate: a double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.
borough: in england, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in america, an incorporated town or village, as in pennsylvania and connecticut.-the collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.-an association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.-the pledge or surety thus given.
borough-english: a custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.
borrel: coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.-a kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.-ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.
borrow: to receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.-to take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.-to copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.-to feign or counterfeit.-to receive; to take; to derive.-something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.-the act of borrowing.
borsholder: the head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
bort: imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
bos: a genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.
boscage: a growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.-food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
bosh: figure; outline; show.-empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.-one of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.-the lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.-in forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.
bosky: woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.-caused by boscage.
bosom: the breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.-the breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.-embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.-any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.-the part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.-inclination; desire.-a depression round the eye of a millstone.-of or pertaining to the bosom.-intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.-to inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.-to conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
bosomed: of bosom-having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.
bosporian: of or pertaining to the thracian or the cimmerian bosporus.
bosporus: a strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the bosporus (formerly the thracian bosporus) or strait of constantinople, between the black sea and sea of marmora; the cimmerian bosporus, between the black sea and sea of azof.
bosquet: a grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.-see bosket.
boss: any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.-a protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. see umbilicus.-a projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.-a wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.-the enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.-a swage or die used for shaping metals.-a head or reservoir of water.-to ornament with bosses; to stud.-a master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.
bossage: a stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.-rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.
bossy: ornamented with bosses; studded.-a cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.
boston: a game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from boston, massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the french army in america during the revolutionary war.
boswellian: relating to, or characteristic of, boswell, the biographer of dr. johnson.
botanical: of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
botanize: to seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.-to explore for botanical purposes.
botanomancy: an ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.
botany: the science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. see plant.-a book which treats of the science of botany.
botany bay: a harbor on the east coast of australia, and an english convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by cook in 1770.
botargo: a sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
botch: a swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.-a patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.-work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.-to mark with, or as with, botches.-to repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.-to put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
botcher: one who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.-a clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.-a young salmon; a grilse.
botchery: a botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
bote: compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.-payment of any kind.-a privilege or allowance of necessaries.
botfly: a dipterous insect of the family (estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. a common species is one of the botflies of the horse (gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. in tropical america one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. see gadfly.
both: the one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.-as well; not only; equally.
bother: to annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. see pother.-to feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.-one who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
botheration: the act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
bothersome: vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
bothnic: of or pertaining to bothnia, a country of northern europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the baltic sea.
bothrenchyma: dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
botocudos: a brazilian tribe of indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called aymbores.
botryogen: a hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. it often occurs in botryoidal form.
botryoidal: having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
botryolite: a variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
botryose: having the form of a cluster of grapes.-of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
bots: the larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.
bottine: a small boot; a lady's boot.-an appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
bottle: a hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.-the contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.-fig.: intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.-to put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.-a bundle, esp. of hay.
bottle-nose: a cetacean of the dolphin family, of several species, as delphinus tursio and lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of europe.-the puffin.
bottled: of bottle-put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.-having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.
bottlehead: a cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.
bottleholder: one who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.-one who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.
bottling: of bottle-the act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.