AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
'em: ( ) An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them.
'sblood: ( interj. ) An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath.
'sdeath: ( interj. ) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.
'snails: ( interj. ) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body).
'swounds: ( interj. ) An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath.
'twixt: ( ) An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.
, a , or an . pcp.  it is presumably an older spelling of scanned. --2.: ( ) Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.
, a , or an . pcp.  it is presumably an older spelling of scanned. --2. specifically (pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically: ( ) To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize.
-able: ( ) An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.
-ably: ( ) A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
-ana: ( ) A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.
-ance: ( ) A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.
-ancy: ( ) A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.
-ant: ( ) A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
-arch: ( a. ) A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
-art: ( ) The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.
-ate: ( ) As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
-ation: ( ) A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.
-blast: ( ) A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
-derm: ( n. ) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc.
-ed: ( ) The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented.
-ee: ( ) A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.
-en: ( ) A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, such as children and brethren, it has been added to older plural forms.
-ence: ( ) A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.
-ency: ( ) A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.
-ent: ( ) An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.
-escent: ( ) A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
-esque: ( ) A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.
-ess: ( ) A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress.
-est: ( ) A suffix used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs; as, smoothest; earl(y)iest.
-et: ( ) A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.
-ferous: ( ) A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
-ful: ( a. ) A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.
-fy: ( ) A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.
-gen: ( ) A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
-genous: ( ) A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.
-gerous: ( ) A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.
-gram: ( ) A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
-graphy: ( ) A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.
-grave: ( ) A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
-hood: ( ) A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.
-ic: ( ) A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc.
-ics: ( ) A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.
-ide: ( ) A suffix used to denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.
-ine: ( ) A suffix, indicating that those substances of whose names it is a part are basic, and alkaloidal in their nature.
-ion: ( ) A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction.
-ish: ( ) A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.
-ism: ( ) A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.
-ist: ( ) A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.
-ite: ( ) A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.
-itis: ( ) A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis.
-ive: ( ) An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.
-ize: ( ) A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.
-less: ( ) A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
-let: ( ) A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet, wavelet, armlet.
-ling: ( ) A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.
-lite: ( ) Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.
-logy: ( ) A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
-ly: ( a. ) A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance.
-mancy: ( ) A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.
-ment: ( ) A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.
-mere: ( ) A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
-meter: ( ) A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
-metry: ( ) A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry.
-mo: ( ) A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc.  A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16°, 18°, etc.
-morphous: ( ) A combining form denoting form, shape; as, isomorphous.
-ness: ( ) A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness.
-ock: ( ) A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock.
-oid: ( ) A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.
-ol: ( ) A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as carbinol, glycerol, etc.
-oma: ( ) A suffix used in medical terms to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.
-one: ( ) A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.
-or: ( ) A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc.
-ory: ( ) An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amendatory, etc.
-ose: ( ) A suffix denoting full of, containing, having the qualities of, like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a globe.
-ous: ( ) An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.
-plastic: ( ) A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.
-plasty: ( ) A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.
-pod: ( ) A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.
-poda: ( ) A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. /, /, foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.
-prossing: ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Nol-pros
-retted: ( a. ) Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule.
-ric: ( ) A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.
-s: ( ) The suffix used to form the plural of most words; as in roads, elfs, sides, accounts.
-scope: ( ) A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
-ship: ( n. ) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
-some: ( ) A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
-ster: ( ) A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.
-tre: ( n. ) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.
-type: ( n. ) A combining form signifying impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype.
-wards: ( v. i. ) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.
-ways: ( ) A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.
-yl: ( ) A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.
\d8gregarin\91: an order of protozoa, allied to the rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc.   when adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also gregarinida, and gregarinaria.
a: the first letter of the english and of many other alphabets. the capital a of the alphabets of middle and western europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old latin a, which was borrowed from the greek alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the hebrew aleph, and itself from the egyptian origin. the aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of greek articulation; and the greeks took it to represent their vowel alpha with the a sound, the phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols.-the name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in c), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in a minor. the second string of the violin is tuned to the a in the treble staff. -- a sharp (a/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between a and b. -- a flat (a/) is the name of a tone intermediate between a and g.-an adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.-in each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.-in; on; at; by.-in process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. this is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging.-of.-a barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they.-an expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter
a 1: a registry mark given by underwriters (as at lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. inferior grades are indicated by a 2 and a 3.
a b c: the first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.-a primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.-the simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the a b c of finance.
a cappella: in church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.-a time indication, equivalent to alla breve.
a mensa et thoro: a kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife.
a posteriori: characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. this is the reverse of a priori reasoning.-applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.
a priori: characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. the reverse of a posteriori.-applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.
a-: a, as a prefix to english words, is derived from various sources. (1) it frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of as. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (as. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) as. of off, from, as in adown (as. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) as. a- (goth. us-, ur-, ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) old english y- or i- (corrupted from the as. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with ohg. ga-, gi-, goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) french a (l. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) l. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to e. un-.
aam: a dutch and german measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at antwerp 36 1/2, at hamburg 38 1/4.
aard-vark: an edentate mammal, of the genus orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of southern africa. it burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
aard-wolf: a carnivorous quadruped (proteles lalandii), of south africa, resembling the fox and hyena. see proteles.
aaron's rod: a rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of mercury, which has two.-a plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.
ab: the fifth month of the jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with august.
ab-: a prefix in many words of latin origin. it signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. see a-(6).
abaca: the manila-hemp plant (musa textilis); also, its fiber. see manila hemp under manila.
abaciscus: one of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.
aback: toward the back or rear; backward.-behind; in the rear.-backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.-an abacus.
abactinal: pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal.
abactor: one who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
abaculus: a small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.
abacus: a table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.-a calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. it is still employed in china.-the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. see column.-a tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.-a board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
abaddon: the destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as apollyon and asmodeus.-hell; the bottomless pit.
abaft: behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.-toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.
abalienate: to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.-to estrange; to withdraw.-to cause alienation of (mind).
abalone: a univalve mollusk of the genus haliotis. the shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. several large species are found on the coast of california, clinging closely to the rocks.
abandon: to cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.-to give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.-reflexively: to give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.-to relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.-abandonment; relinquishment.-a complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
abandoned: of abandon-forsaken, deserted.-self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
abandonment: the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.-the relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.-the relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.-the voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.-careless freedom or ease; abandon.
abanga: a west indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.
abarticulation: articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.
abase: to lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.-to cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.
abased: of abase-lowered; humbled.-borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
abasement: the act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
abash: to destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
abatable: capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.
abate: to beat down; to overthrow.-to bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.-to deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.-to blunt.-to reduce in estimation; to deprive.-to bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.-to diminish; to reduce. legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.-to decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.-to be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.-abatement.