AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
bluebottle: a plant (centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. it receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.-a large and troublesome species of blowfly (musca vomitoria). its body is steel blue.
bluecap: the bluepoll.-the blue bonnet or blue titmouse.-a scot; a scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.
bluecoat: one dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
bluefin: a species of whitefish (coregonus nigripinnis) found in lake michigan.
bluefish: a large voracious fish (pomatomus saitatrix), of the family carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the american coast. on the new jersey and rhode island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.-a west indian fish (platyglossus radiatus), of the family labridae.
bluegown: one of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.
bluestocking: a literary lady; a female pedant.-the american avocet (recurvirostra americana).
bluestockingism: the character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
bluestone: blue vitriol.-a grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern united states.
bluethroat: a singing bird of northern europe and asia (cyanecula suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
bluets: a name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the houstonia coerulea, the centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the vaccinium angustifolium.
bluff: having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.-rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.-surly; churlish; gruff; rough.-abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.-a high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.-an act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.-a game at cards; poker.-to deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.-to frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.-to act as in the game of bluff.
bluffy: having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.-inclined to bo bluff; brusque.
bluing: of blue-the act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.-something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.
blunder: to make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.-to move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.-to cause to blunder.-to do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.-confusion; disturbance.-a gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
blunderbuss: a short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.-a stupid, blundering fellow.
blunge: to amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
blunger: a wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
blunt: having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.-dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.-abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.-hard to impress or penetrate.-to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.-to repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.-a fencer's foil.-a short needle with a strong point. see needle.-money.
bluntly: in a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
bluntness: want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.-abruptness of address; rude plainness.
blur: to render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.-to cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.-to sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.-that which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.-a dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.-a moral stain or blot.
blurt: to utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
blush: to become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.-to grow red; to have a red or rosy color.-to have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.-to suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.-to express or make known by blushing.-a suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.-a red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
blushing: of blush-showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.-the act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
blushingly: in a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
blushless: free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
bluster: to blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.-to talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.-to utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.-fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.-noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
blusterer: one who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
blustering: of bluster-exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.-uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
bo tree: the peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at anurajahpoora in ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become buddha.
boa: a genus of large american serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of mexico (b. imperator), and the chevalier boa of peru (b. eques).-a long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
boa constrictor: a large and powerful serpent of tropical america, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. see illustration in appendix.
board: a piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.-a table to put food upon.-hence: what is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.-a table at which a council or court is held. hence:  a council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the board of admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.-a square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.-paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.-the stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.-the border or side of anything.-the side of a ship.-the stretch which a ship makes in one tack.-to cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.-to go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.-to enter, as a railway car.-to furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.-to place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.-to obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.-to approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
boarder: one who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.-one who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
boarding: of board-the act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.-the act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.-the act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
boarfish: a mediterranean fish (capros aper), of the family caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.-an australian percoid fish (histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.
boast: to vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.-to speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.-to display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.-to display vaingloriously.-to possess or have; as, to boast a name.-to dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.-to shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.-act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.-the cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
boaster: one who boasts; a braggart.-a stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
boastful: given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
boasting: of boast-the act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
boat: a small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.-hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc.  the term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the cunard boats.-a vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.-to transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.-to place in a boat; as, to boat oars.-to go or row in a boat.
boat bug: an aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.
boat shell: a marine gastropod of the genus crepidula. the species are numerous. it is so named from its form and interior deck.-a marine univalve shell of the genus cymba.
boat-tail: a large grackle or blackbird (quiscalus major), found in the southern united states.
boatable: such as can be transported in a boat.-navigable for boats, or small river craft.
boatbill: a wading bird (cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of south america. its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.-a perching bird of india, of the genus eurylaimus.
boating: of boat-the act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.-in persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
boatman: a man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.-a boat bug. see boat bug.
boatswain: an officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.-the jager gull.-the tropic bird.
bob: anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.-a knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.-a small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.-the ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.-a small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.-a short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.-a working beam.-a knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.-a peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.-the refrain of a song.-a blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.-a jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.-a shilling.-to cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.-to strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.-to cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.-to mock or delude; to cheat.-to cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.-to have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.-to angle with a bob. see bob, n., 2 & 3.
bob wig: a short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.
bob-cherry: a play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
bobbery: a squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
bobbin: a small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.-a spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. it is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.-the little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.-a fine cord or narrow braid.-a cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
bobbinet: a kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
bobby: a nickname for a policeman; -- from sir robert peel, who remodeled the police force. see peeler.
bobolink: an american singing bird (dolichonyx oryzivorus). the male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and boblincoln.
bobsleigh: a short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
bobstay: a rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
bobtail: an animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.-bobtailed.
bobtailed: having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
bobwhite: the common quail of north america (colinus, or ortyx, virginianus); -- so called from its note.
bocardo: a form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.-a prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in oxford, which was used as a prison.
bocca: the round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
boce: a european fish (box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
bockelet: a kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret.
bocking: a coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of bocking, in england, where it was first made.
bockland: see bookland.-charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. this species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
bode: to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.-to foreshow something; to augur.-an omen; a foreshadowing.-a bid; an offer.-a messenger; a herald.-a stop; a halting; delay.-abode.-bid or bidden.
bodge: a botch; a patch.-to botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.-see budge.
bodice: a kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.-a close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.
bodied: having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.-of body
bodily: having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.-of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.-real; actual; put in execution.-corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.-in respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "leapt bodily below."
boding: of bode-foreshowing; presaging; ominous.-a prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
bodkin: a dagger.-an implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.-a sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.-a kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.-a kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.-see baudekin.
bodleian: of or pertaining to sir thomas bodley, or to the celebrated library at oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
body: the material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.-the trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.-the real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.-a person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.-a number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.-a number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.-any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.-amount; quantity; extent.-that part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.-the bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.-the shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.-a figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.-consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.-to furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
bodyguard: a guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.-retinue; attendance; following.
boeotian: of or pertaining to boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.-a native of boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.
bog: a quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.-a little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.-to sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
bogberry: the small cranberry (vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
boggle: to stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.-to do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.-to play fast and loose; to dissemble.-to embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
boggy: consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
bogie: a four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
bogle: a goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
bogtrotter: one who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of irish.
bogue: to fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.-the boce; -- called also bogue bream. see boce.
bogus: spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.-a liquor made of rum and molasses.
bogwood: the wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. it is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
bohemia: a country of central europe.-fig.: the region or community of social bohemians. see bohemian, n., 3.
bohemian: of or pertaining to bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. see bohemian, n., 2.-of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "bohemian" (see bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.-a native of bohemia.-the language of the czechs (the ancient inhabitants of bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the slavic family.-a restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in france) thought to have come from bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
boil: to be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.-to be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.-to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.-to be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.-to be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.-to heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.-to form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.-to subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.-to steep or soak in warm water.-act or state of boiling.-a hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
boiled: of boil-dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
boiler: one who boils.-a vessel in which any thing is boiled.-a strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
boilery: a place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
boiling: of boil-heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.-the act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.-exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
bois durci: a hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
boisterous: rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.-exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.-noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.-vehement; excessive.
boisterousness: the state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.