AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
carronade: a kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. it has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.
carrot: an umbelliferous biennial plant (daucus carota), of many varieties.-the esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.
carroty: like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
carry: to convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.-to have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.-to move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.-to transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from greece into asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.-to convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.-to bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.-to get possession of by force; to capture.-to contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.-to bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.-to bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.-to act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.-to have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.-to hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.-to have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.-a tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
carryall: a light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
cart: a common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.-a two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.-a light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.-an open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.-to carry or convey in a cart.-to expose in a cart by way of punishment.-to carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
cartbote: wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
carte blanche: a blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. hence: unconditional terms; unlimited authority.
carte de visite: a visiting card.-a photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
cartel: an agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.-a letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat.-to defy or challenge.
carter: a charioteer.-a man who drives a cart; a teamster.-any species of phalangium; -- also called harvestman-a british fish; the whiff.
cartesian: of or pertaining to the french philosopher rene descartes, or his philosophy.-an adherent of descartes.
carthaginian: of a pertaining to ancient carthage, a city of northern africa.-a native or inhabitant of carthage.
carthamin: a red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or carthamus tinctorius.
carthusian: a member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at chartreuse in france by st. bruno, in the year 1086.-pertaining to the carthusian.
cartilaginous: of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.-having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
cartoon: a design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of raphael.-a large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "puck."
cartouch: a roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge-a cartridge box.-a wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.-a gunner's bag for ammunition-a military pass for a soldier on furlough.-a cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper-a tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.-an oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
cartridge: a complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
cartulary: a register, or record, as of a monastery or church.-an ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.
carucage: a tax on every plow or plowland.-the act of plowing.
carucate: a plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
caruncula: a small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.-an excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.-a naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
carunculous: of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.
carvacrol: a thick oily liquid, c10h13.oh, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (carum carui).
carve: to cut.-to cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.-to make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.-to cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.-to cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.-to take or make, as by cutting; to provide.-to lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.-to exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.-to cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.-a carucate.
carvelbuilt: having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
carver: one who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.-one who carves or divides meat at table.-a large knife for carving.
carving: of carve-the act or art of one who carves.-a piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.-the whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the italian carving of the 15th century.
carvist: a hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year.
caryatid: of or pertaining to a caryatid.-a draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
caryophyllaceous: having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink-belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.
caryophyllin: a tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
caryopsis: a one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
cascabel: the projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. in old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [see illust. of cannon.]
cascade: a fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.-to fall in a cascade.-to vomit.
cascalho: a deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the brazilian diamond is usually found.
cascara sagrada: holy bark; the bark of the california buckthorn (rhamnus purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
cascarilla: a euphorbiaceous west indian shrub (croton eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.
cascarillin: a white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
case: a box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.-a box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.-a shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.-an inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.-a small fissure which admits water to the workings.-to cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.-to strip the skin from; as, to case a box.-chance; accident; hap; opportunity.-that which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the indian tribes.-a patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.-the matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.-one of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.-to propose hypothetical cases.
case knife: a knife carried in a sheath or case.-a large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
case-bay: the space between two principals or girders-one of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
caseharden: to subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.-to render insensible to good influences.
casehardened: having the surface hardened, as iron tools.-hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.
casein: a proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. in the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.
casemate: a bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.-a hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.
casement: a window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (poetically) a window.
caseous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.
casern: a lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.
caseworm: a worm or grub that makes for itself a case. see caddice.
cash: a place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.-ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money-immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.-to pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.-to disband.-a chinese coin.
cashew: a tree (anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. it is native in tropical america, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.
cashier: one who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.-to dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.-to put away or reject; to disregard.
cashierer: one who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs.
cashmere: a rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of cashmere, thibet, and the himalayas. some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to europeans.-a dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
cashmerette: a kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.
casing: of case-of cash-the act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.-an outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.-an inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. see case, n., 4.
casino: a small country house.-a building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.-a game at cards. see cassino.
cask: same as casque.-a barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. it may be larger or smaller than a barrel.-the quantity contained in a cask.-a casket; a small box for jewels.-to put into a cask.
casket: a small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.-a kind of burial case.-anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed-the body.-the tomb.-a book of selections.-a gasket. see gasket.-to put into, or preserve in, a casket.
casque: a piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.
cass: to render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
cassareep: a condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. see pepper pot.
cassava: a shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.-a nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
casserole: a small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.-a mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.
cassia: a genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. the leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.-the bark of several species of cinnamomum grown in china, etc.; chinese cinnamon.  it is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.
cassican: an american bird of the genus cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. the name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an australian bird.
cassideous: helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.
cassidony: the french lavender (lavandula stoechas)-the goldilocks (chrysocoma linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus gnaphalium or cudweed.
cassimere: a thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.
cassinette: a cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
cassino: a game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
cassioberry: the fruit of the viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from virginia to florida.
cassiopeia: a constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between cepheus and perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of cepheus, a fabulous king of ethiopia.
cassiterite: native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (stream tin). it is the chief source of metallic tin. see black tin, under black.
cassius: a brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. it is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. commonly called purple of cassius.
cassock: a long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.-a garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.
cassolette: a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
cassowary: a large bird, of the genus casuarius, found in the east indies. it is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. it is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. other species inhabit new guinea, australia, etc.
cassumuniar: a pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the east indies.
cast: of cast-to send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.-to direct or turn, as the eyes.-to drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.-to throw down, as in wrestling.-to throw up, as a mound, or rampart.-to throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.-to bring forth prematurely; to slink.-to throw out or emit; to exhale.-to cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.-to impose; to bestow; to rest.-to dismiss; to discard; to cashier.-to compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.-to contrive; to plan.-to defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.-to turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.-to form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.-to stereotype or electrotype.-to fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.-to throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.-to turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.-to consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.-to calculate; to compute.-to receive form or shape in a mold.-to warp; to become twisted out of shape.-to vomit.-3d pres. of cast, for casteth.-the act of casting or throwing; a throw.-the thing thrown.-the distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.-a throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.-that which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.-the act of casting in a mold.-an impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.-that which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.-form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.-a tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.-a chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.-the assignment of parts in a play to the actors.-a flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.-a stoke, touch, or trick.-a motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.-a tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.-four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.-contrivance; plot, design.
cast iron: highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. it can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.
cast-iron: made of cast iron. hence, fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
castalian: of or pertaining to castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on mt. parnassus sacred to the muses.
castanea: a genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.
castanets: two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the spaniards and moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.
castaway: one who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.-one who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.-of no value; rejected; useless.
caste: one of the hereditary classes into which the hindoos are divided according to the laws of brahmanism.-a separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
castellany: the lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
castellated: inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.-furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
caster: one who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.-a vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.-a stand to hold a set of cruets.-a small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.
castigate: to punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.-to emend; to correct.
castigation: corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.-emendation; correction.
castigatory: punitive in order to amendment; corrective.-an instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
castile soap: a kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
castilian: an inhabitant or native of castile, in spain.-the spanish language as spoken in castile.
casting: of cast-the act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.-the act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.-that which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.-the warping of a board.-the act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
castle: a fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.-any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.-a small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.-a piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.-to move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
castle-guard: the guard or defense of a castle.-a tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward.-a feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
castlebuilder: fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.
castled: of castle-having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.-fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
castling: of castle-that which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.-a compound move of the king and castle. see castle, v. i.