AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
buhlwork: decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
build: to erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.-to raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.-to increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.-to exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.-to rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.-form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
builder: one who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
building: of build-the act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.-the art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.-that which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
built: of build-shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.-formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
bulau: an east indian insectivorous mammal (gymnura rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
bulb: a spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. it differs from a corm in not being solid.-a name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.-an expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.-to take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
bulbar: of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
bulblet: a small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.
bulbous: having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
bulbul: the persian nightingale (pycnonotus jocosus). the name is also applied to several other asiatic singing birds, of the family timaliidae. the green bulbuls belong to the chloropsis and allied genera.
bulge: the bilge or protuberant part of a cask.-a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.-the bilge of a vessel. see bilge, 2.-to swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.-to bilge, as a ship; to founder.
bulgy: bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.
bulimus: a genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. the species are numerous and abundant in tropical america.
bulimy: a disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.
bulk: magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.-the main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.-the cargo of a vessel when stowed.-the body.-to appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.-a projecting part of a building.
bulker: a person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
bulkhead: a partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.-a structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
bulky: of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
bull: the male of any species of cattle (bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.-one who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.-taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.-a constellation of the zodiac between aries and gemini. it contains the pleiades.-one who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. see 4th bear, n., 5.-of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.-to be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.-to endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull lake shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. see 1st bull, n., 4.-a seal. see bulla.-a letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the incarnation."  see apostolical brief, under brief.-a grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
bull brier: a species of smilax (s. pseudo-china) growing from new jersey to the gulf of mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and china brier.
bull trout: in england, a large salmon trout of several species, as salmo trutta and s. cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.-salvelinus malma of california and oregon; -- called also dolly varden trout and red-spotted trout.-the huso or salmon of the danube.
bull's-eye: a small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.-a small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.-a small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.-a circular or oval opening for air or light.-a lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.-aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of taurus or the bull.-the center of a target.-a thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.-a small and thick old-fashioned watch.
bulla: a bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.-the ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.-a leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of st. peter and st. paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.-a genus of marine shells. see bubble shell.
bullace: a small european plum (prunus communis, var. insitita). see plum.-the bully tree.
bullary: a collection of papal bulls.-a place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.
bullbeggar: something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
bullcomber: a scaraboid beetle; esp. the typhaeus vulgaris of europe.
bulldog: a variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.-a refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.-characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
bulldoze: to intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in louisiana.
bullen-nail: a nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.
bullet: a small ball.-a missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.-a cannon ball.-the fetlock of a horse.
bulletin: a brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.-any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.-a periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.
bullfighting: a barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in spain.
bullfinch: a bird of the genus pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the p. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.
bullfrog: a very large species of frog (rana catesbiana), found in north america; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.
bullhead: a fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus uranidea, esp. u. gobio of europe, and u. richardsoni of the united states; -- called also miller's thumb.-in america, several species of amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.-a marine fish of the genus cottus; the sculpin.-the black-bellied plover (squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.-the golden plover.-a stupid fellow; a lubber.-a small black water insect.
bullheaded: having a head like that of a bull. fig.: headstrong; obstinate; dogged.
bullion: uncoined gold or silver in the mass.-base or uncurrent coin.-showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.-heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
bullionist: an advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.
bullirag: to intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
bullition: the action of boiling; boiling. [obs.] see ebullition.
bullock: a young bull, or any male of the ox kind.-an ox, steer, or stag.-to bully.
bully: a noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.-a brisk, dashing fellow.-jovial and blustering; dashing.-fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.-to intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.-to act as a bully.
bully tree: the name of several west indian trees of the order sapotaceae, as dipholis nigra and species of sapota and mimusops. most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
bultow: a trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
bulwark: a rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.-that which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.-the sides of a ship above the upper deck.-to fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
bum: the buttock.-to make murmuring or humming sound.-a humming noise.
bumble: the bittern.-to make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.
bumblebee: a large bee of the genus bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
bumboat: a clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.
bumkin: a projecting beam or boom; as: (a) one projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) one from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) a small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
bummalo: a small marine asiatic fish (saurus ophidon) used in india as a relish; -- called also bombay duck.
bummer: an idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
bump: to strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.-to come in violent contact with something; to thump.-a thump; a heavy blow.-a swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.-one of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;"  the bump of  "acquisitiveness."-the act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.-to make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.-the noise made by the bittern.
bumper: a cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.-a covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.-that which bumps or causes a bump.-anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
bumpkin: an awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
bunch: a protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.-a collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.-a small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.-to swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.-to form into a bunch or bunches.
bunch grass: a grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. in california, atropis tenuifolia, festuca scabrella, and several kinds of stipa are favorite bunch grasses. in utah, eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
bunchberry: the dwarf cornel (cornus canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
bunchy: swelling out in bunches.-growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.-yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.
bund: league; confederacy; esp. the confederation of german states.-an embankment against inundation.
bunder: a boat or raft used in the east indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
bundesrath: the federal council of the german empire. in the bundesrath and the reichstag are vested the legislative functions. the federal council of switzerland is also so called.
bundle: a number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.-to tie or bind in a bundle or roll.-to send off abruptly or without ceremony.-to prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.-to sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.
bung: the large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.-the orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.-a sharper or pickpocket.-to stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
bungalow: a thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.
bungarum: a venomous snake of india, of the genus bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
bungle: to act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.-to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.-a clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
bungling: of bungle-unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.
bungo: a kind of canoe used in central and south america; also, a kind of boat used in the southern united states.
bunion: same as bunyon.-an enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
bunk: a wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.-one of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.-a piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.-to go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
bunker: a sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.-a large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
bunko: a kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.
bunkum: speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.-see buncombe.
bunn: a slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.-see bun.
bunny: a great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.-a pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
bunodonts: a division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.
bunt: a fungus (ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.-the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.-to swell out; as, the sail bunts.-to strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
bunter: a woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
buntine: a thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
bunting: a bird of the genus emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family fringillidae).-alt. of buntine
buntline: one of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
buoy: a float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.-to keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.-to support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.-to fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.-to float; to rise like a buoy.
buoyage: buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
buoyancy: the property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.-the upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.-cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
buoyant: having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.-bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.-light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.
buprestidan: one of a tribe of beetles, of the genus buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. the larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
bur fish: a spinose, plectognath fish of the allantic coast of the united states (esp. chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
burbot: a fresh-water fish of the genus lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
burden: that which is borne or carried; a load.-that which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.-the capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.-the tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.-the proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.-a fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.-a birth.-to encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.-to oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.-to impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).-the verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. hence: that which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.-the drone of a bagpipe.-a club.
burdensome: grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
burdock: a genus of coarse biennial herbs (lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
bureau: originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.-the place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.-hence: a department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.-a chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
bureaucracy: a system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.-government officials, collectively.
bureaucrat: an official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
burette: an apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. it consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
burgage: a tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.
burgee: a kind of small coat.-a swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
burgeois: see 1st bourgeois.-a burgess; a citizen. see 2d bourgeois.
burgess: an inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.-one who represents a borough in parliament.-a magistrate of a borough.-an inhabitant of a scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
burggrave: originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.
burghbote: a contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
burghbrech: the offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
burgher: a freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.-a member of that party, among the scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
burghmaster: a burgomaster.-an officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.
burghmote: a court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
burglariously: with an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.
burglary: breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.
burgomaster: a chief magistrate of a municipal town in holland, flanders, and germany, corresponding to mayor in england and the united states; a burghmaster.-an aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.
burgoo: a kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.
burgrass: grass of the genus cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.
burgundy: an old province of france (in the eastern central part).-a richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in burgundy, france.