AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
brindled: having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
brine: water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.-the ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.-tears; -- so called from their saltness.-to steep or saturate in brine.-to sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
bring: to convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.-to cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.-to convey; to move; to carry or conduct.-to persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.-to produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?
brininess: the state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
brink: the edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. also fig.
briny: of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.
brisk: full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.-full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.-to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
brisket: that part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
briskness: liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
bristle: a short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.-a stiff, sharp, roundish hair.-to erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.-to fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.-to rise or stand erect, like bristles.-to appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.-to show defiance or indignation.
bristle-shaped: resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
bristletail: an insect of the genera lepisma, campodea, etc., belonging to the thysanura.
brisure: any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.-a mark of cadency or difference.
britannia: a white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. it somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. called also britannia metal.
britannic: of or pertaining to great britain; british; as, her britannic majesty.
briticism: a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to great britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to great britain.
british: of or pertaining to great britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.-people of great britain.
britisher: an englishman; a subject or inhabitant of great britain, esp. one in the british military or naval service.
britt: the young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.-the minute marine animals (chiefly entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.
brittle star: any species of ophiuran starfishes. see ophiuroidea.
britzska: a long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.
broach: a spit.-an awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.-a tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. the broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.-a straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.-a broad chisel for stonecutting.-a spire rising from a tower.-a clasp for fastening a garment. see brooch.-a spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.-the stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.-the pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.-to spit; to pierce as with a spit.-to tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. hence: to let out; to shed, as blood.-to open for the first time, as stores.-to make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.-to cause to begin or break out.-to shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.-to enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
broacher: a spit; a broach.-one who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.
broad: wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.-extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.-extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.-fig.: having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.-comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.-plain; evident; as, a broad hint.-free; unrestrained; unconfined.-characterized by breadth. see breadth.-cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.-strongly marked; as, a broad scotch accent.-the broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.-the spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.-a lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
broad church: a portion of the church of england, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the high church party and the low church, or evangelical, party. the term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of christian doctrine and fellowship.
broad gauge: a wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. see gauge.
broadax broadaxe: an ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.-an ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.
broadbill: a wild duck (aythya, / fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the united states, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. see scaup duck.-the shoveler. see shoveler.
broadbrim: a hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of friends.-a member of the society of friends; a quaker.
broadcast: a casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.-cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.-scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.-so as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.
broadcloth: a fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
broaden: to grow broad; to become broader or wider.-to make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.
broadleaf: a tree (terminalia latifolia) of jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
broadmouth: one of the eurylaimidae, a family of east indian passerine birds.
broadness: the condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.
broadpiece: an old english gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a carolus or jacobus.
broadside: the side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.-a discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.-a volley of abuse or denunciation.-a sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.
brob: a peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.
brobdingnagian: colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.-a giant.
brocade: silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
brocaded: woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.-dressed in brocade.
brocard: an elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.
brocatel: a kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.-a marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. it is also called siena marble, from its locality.
broccoli: a plant of the cabbage species (brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. the "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.
brochantite: a basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
broche: woven with a figure; as, broche goods.-see broach, n.
brochure: a printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.
brocket: a male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.-a small south american deer, of several species (coassus superciliaris, c. rufus, and c. auritus).
brog: a pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.-to prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.
brogue: a stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.-a dialectic pronunciation; esp. the irish manner of pronouncing english.
broil: a tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.-to cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.-to subject to great (commonly direct) heat.-to be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
broiler: one who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.-one who broils, or cooks by broiling.-a gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.-a chicken or other bird fit for broiling.
broiling: of broil-excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.-the act of causing anything to broil.
broke: of break-to transact business for another.-to act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.-imp. & p. p. of break.
broken: of break-separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.-disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.-fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.-made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.-subdued; humbled; contrite.-subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.-crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.-not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.-ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.-imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken english; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.
broken-backed: having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.-hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship.
brokenness: the state or quality of being broken; unevenness.-contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
broker: one who transacts business for another; an agent.-an agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. he takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. he generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.-a dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.-a dealer in secondhand goods.-a pimp or procurer.
brokerage: the business or employment of a broker.-the fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
broma: aliment; food.-a light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
bromal: an oily, colorless fluid, cbr3.coh, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
bromate: a salt of bromic acid.-to combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
brome grass: a genus (bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
bromeliaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera tillandsia and billbergia are examples. the pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
bromic: of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.
bromine: one of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. atomic weight 79.8.  symbol br.  it is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. in combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. it occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.
bromism: a diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. it is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
bromize: to prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.
bromlife: a carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
bromoform: a colorless liquid, chbr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. it is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. in composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. it is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects.
brompicrin: a pungent colorless explosive liquid, cno2br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.
bronchia: the bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.
bronchitis: inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
broncho-pneumonia: inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
bronchophony: a modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.
bronchotomy: an incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.
bronchus: one of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
brontosaurus: a genus of american jurassic dinosaurs. a length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.
brontotherium: a genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western north america. they were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. see illustration in appendix.
brontozoum: an extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in mesozoic sandstone.
bronze: an alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. it is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. the varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.-a statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.-a yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.-boldness; impudence; "brass."-to give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.-to make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
bronzewing: an australian pigeon of the genus phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
bronzine: a metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.-made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.
bronzing: of bronze-the act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.-a material for bronzing.
bronzist: one who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.
bronzite: a variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. it is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
brooch: an ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. formerly worn by men on the hat.-a painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an india painting.-to adorn as with a brooch.
brood: the young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.-the young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.-that which is bred or produced; breed; species.-heavy waste in tin and copper ores.-sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.-kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.-to sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.-to have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.-to sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.-to cherish with care.-to think anxiously or moodily upon.
brook: a natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.-to use; to enjoy.-to bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.-to deserve; to earn.
brookite: a mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
brooklime: a plant (veronica beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. the american species is v. americana.
brookweed: a small white-flowered herb (samolus valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
broom: a plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the cytisus scoparius of western europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.-an implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.-see bream.
broom corn: a variety of sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
broom rape: a genus (orobanche) of parasitic plants of europe and asia. they are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. the name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as aphyllon uniflorumand a. ludovicianum.
broomy: of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
brose: pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. it is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.
broth: liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
brothel: a house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
brother: a male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. in the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.-one related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.-one who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.-to make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
brother german: a brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
brother-in-law: the brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
brotherhood: the state of being brothers or a brother.-an association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.-the whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.-persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
brotherly: of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.-like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
brougham: a light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
brow: the prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.-the hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.-the forehead; as, a feverish brow.-the general air of the countenance.-the edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.-to bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
browbeat: of browbeat-to depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.
browbeating: of browbeat-the act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
browed: having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.
brown: of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.-a dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.-to make brown or dusky.-to make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.-to give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.-to become brown.
brown bill: a bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. see 4th bill.
brown thrush: a common american singing bird (harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
brownian: pertaining to dr. robert brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
brownie: an imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
browning: of brown-the act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.-a smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
brownism: the views or teachings of robert brown of the brownists.-the doctrines of the brunonian system of medicine. see brunonian.
brownist: a follower of robert brown, of england, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.-one who advocates the brunonian system of medicine.
brownwort: a species of figwort or scrophularia (s. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.