AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ambulacrum: one of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. these zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. in star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.-one of the suckers on the feet of mites.
ambulance: a field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.-an ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.
ambulator: one who walks about; a walker.-a beetle of the genus lamia.-a genus of birds, or one of this genus.-an instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator.
ambulatory: of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.-accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.-pertaining to a walk.-not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.-a place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
ambury: a soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.-a disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.
ambuscade: a lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. hence: a lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.-a place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly.-the body of troops lying in ambush.-to post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.-to lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.-to lie in ambush.
ambush: a disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. hence: unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.-a concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.-the troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.-to station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.-to attack by ambush; to waylay.-to lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.
amelcorn: a variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also french rice.
ameliorate: to make better; to improve; to meliorate.-to grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
amelioration: the act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
ameliorative: tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.
amen: an expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, so be it. at the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. when it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.-to say amen to; to sanction fully.
amenable: easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.-liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law.-liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.-willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
amenableness: the quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.
amend: to change or modify in any way for the better-by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;-by supplying deficiencies;-by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.-to grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
amendment: an alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.-in public bodies; any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.-correction of an error in a writ or process.
amenity: the quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.
amentaceous: resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.-bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
amerce: to punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.-to punish, in general; to mulct.
amercement: the infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. it differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. hence, the act or practice of affeering. [see affeer.]
american: of or pertaining to america; as, the american continent: american indians.-of or pertaining to the united states.-a native of america; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of europeans born in america, and especially to the citizens of the united states.
americanism: attachment to the united states.-a custom peculiar to the united states or to america; an american characteristic or idea.-a word or phrase peculiar to the united states.
americanize: to render american; to assimilate to the americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with american characteristics.
ametabolous: not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.
amethyst: a variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. it is much used as a jeweler's stone.-a purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.
amethystine: resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.-composed of, or containing, amethyst.
amharic: of or pertaining to amhara, a division of abyssinia; as, the amharic language is closely allied to the ethiopic.-the amharic language (now the chief language of abyssinia).
amia: a genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to north america; called bowfin in lake champlain, dogfish in lake erie, and mudfish in south carolina, etc. see bowfin.
amiability: the quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition.
amiable: lovable; lovely; pleasing.-friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.-possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.-done out of love.
amianthus: earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.
amic: related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid.
amicability: the quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.
amicable: friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.
amice: a square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the roman catholic church while saying mass.-a hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.
amid: see amidst.-in the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
amide: a compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. it may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical.
amidin: start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. it is soluble in cold water.
amidogen: a compound radical, nh2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.
amidships: in the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth.
amine: one of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.
amioid: like or pertaining to the amioidei.-one of the amioidei.
amioidei: an order of ganoid fishes of which amia is the type. see bowfin and ganoidei.
amir: emir.-one of the mohammedan nobility of afghanistan and scinde.-same as ameer.
amiss: astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.-wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.-a fault, wrong, or mistake.
amity: friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the whigs and tories.
ammodyte: one of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.-a kind of viper in southern europe.
ammonia: a gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, nh3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
ammoniacal: of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
ammonite: a fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. there are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. they differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu ammonis.
ammonitoidea: an extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in mesozoic rocks. see ammonite.
ammonium: a compound radical, nh4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.
ammunition: military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.-articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.-any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.-to provide with ammunition.
amnesia: forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.
amnesty: forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.-an act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.-to grant amnesty to.
amniota: that group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. it comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.
amniotic: of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.
amoeba: a rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. see rhizopoda.
amoebaeum: a poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of virgil.
amoebea: that division of the rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.
amoeboid: resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba.
amomum: a genus of aromatic plants. it includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.
amongst: mixed or mingled; surrounded by.-conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of.-expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.
amoret: an amorous girl or woman; a wanton.-a love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) love glances or love tricks.-a petty love affair or amour.
amoroso: a lover; a man enamored.-in a soft, tender, amatory style.
amorous: inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.-affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on.-of or relating to, or produced by, love.
amorousness: the quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.
amorpha: a genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.
amorphism: a state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.
amorphous: having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.-without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.-of no particular kind or character; anomalous.
amortization: the act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.-the extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.
amortize: to make as if dead; to destroy.-to alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. see mortmain.-to clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.
amotion: removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.-deprivation of possession.
amotus: elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.
amount: to go up; to ascend.-to rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.-to rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.-to signify; to amount to.-the sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.-the effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
amour: love; affection.-love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.
amove: to remove, as a person or thing, from a position.-to dismiss from an office or station.-to move or be moved; to excite.
ampelite: an earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.
ampere: alt. of ampere-the unit of electric current; -- defined by the international electrical congress in 1893 and by u. s. statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the c. g. s. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. called also the international ampere.
amphi-: a prefix in words of greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
amphiarthrosis: a form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.
amphiaster: the achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.
amphibian: of or pertaining to the amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.-one of the amphibia.
amphibiology: a treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the amphibia.
amphibious: having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.-pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.-of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.
amphiblastic: segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.
amphibole: a common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. it occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. the color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. it is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. see hornblende.
amphibolic: of or pertaining to amphiboly; ambiguous; equivocal.-of or resembling the mineral amphibole.
amphibology: a phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. it differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
amphibrach: a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. in modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
amphicarpous: producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.
amphichroic: exhibiting or producing two colors, as substances which in the color test may change red litmus to blue and blue litmus to red.
amphicoelous: having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae.
amphicome: a kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination.
amphictyonic: of or pertaining to the amphictyons or their league or council; as, an amphictyonic town or state; the amphictyonic body.
amphictyons: deputies from the confederated states of ancient greece to a congress or council. they considered both political and religious matters.
amphictyony: a league of states of ancient greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the amphictyonic council. its object was to maintain the common interests of greece.
amphid: a salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.
amphidisc: a peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.
amphidromical: pertaining to an attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
amphigamous: having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by de candolle to the lowest order of plants.
amphigen: an element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
amphigonic: pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation.
amphigory: a nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.
amphimacer: a foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.
amphineura: a division of mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
amphioxus: a fishlike creature (amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. its body is pointed at both ends. it is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. it forms the type of the group acrania, leptocardia, etc.
amphipneust: one of a tribe of amphibia, which have both lungs and gills at the same time, as the proteus and siren.
amphipoda: a numerous group of fourteen -- footed crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. the body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. the beach flea is an example. see tetradecapoda and arthrostraca.
amphiprostyle: doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.-an amphiprostyle temple or edifice.
amphirhina: a name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.
amphisbaena: a fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way.-a genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. see illustration in appendix.
amphisbaenoid: like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus amphisbaena.
amphiscians: the inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.
amphistomous: having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
amphistylic: having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.
amphitheatre: an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.-anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.
amphitheatrical: of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
amphitrocha: a kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.
amphitropous: having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.
amphiuma: a genus of amphibians, inhabiting the southern united states, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the congo snake.
amphopeptone: a product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.
amphora: among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.
amphoric: produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.
ample: large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.-fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.-not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.
ampleness: the state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
amplexicaul: clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves.
ampliation: enlargement; amplification.-a postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument.
amplification: the act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.-the enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject.-the matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.
amplify: to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.-to enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.-to become larger.-to speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
amplitude: state of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size.-largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness.-of extent of capacity or intellectual powers.-of extent of means or resources.-the arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. at the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. it is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.-the arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.-the horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.-the extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.-an angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions.
ampulla: a narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.-a cruet for the wine and water at mass.-the vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept.-any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.
amputate: to prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.-to cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)