AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
button: a knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.-a catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.-a bud; a germ of a plant.-a piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.-a globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.-to fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.-to dress or clothe.-to be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
buttonbush: a shrub (cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. see capitulum.
buttonhole: the hole or loop in which a button is caught.-to hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
buttonmold: a disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
buttons: a boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
buttonweed: the name of several plants of the genera spermacoce and diodia, of the madder family.
buttonwood: the platanus occidentalis, or american plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the united states, sycamore. the california buttonwood is p. racemosa.
buttress: a projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.-anything which supports or strengthens.-to support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
butylene: any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, c4h8, of the ethylene series. they are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
butyrin: a butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.
butyrometer: an instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.
buxine: an alkaloid obtained from the buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. it is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.
buxom: yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.-having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
buy: to acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.-to acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.-to negotiate or treat about a purchase.
buzz: to make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. hence: to utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.-to sound forth by buzzing.-to whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.-to talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.-to sound with a "buzz".-a continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.-a whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.-the audible friction of voice consonants.
buzzard: a bird of prey of the hawk family, belonging to the genus buteo and related genera.-a blockhead; a dunce.-senseless; stupid.
buzzer: one who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.
buzzsaw: a circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.
by: in the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.-on; along; in traversing. compare 5.-near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.-used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.-against.-with, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.-near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.-passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.-aside; as, to lay by; to put by.-out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. it was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
by-bidder: one who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles.
by-blow: a side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.-an illegitimate child; a bastard.
by-dependence: an appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory.
by-law: a local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.-a law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. in this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.
by-pass: a by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.
by-product: a secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.
by-street: a separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
by-wash: the outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.
byard: a piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
bye: a thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.-a run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.-a dwelling.-in certain games, a station or place of an individual player.
byplay: action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
byssaceous: byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae.
byssus: a cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. it is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.-a tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the pinna and mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.-an obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.-asbestus.
bystander: one who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
byway: a secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
byword: a common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.-the object of a contemptuous saying.
byzantine: a gold coin, so called from being coined at byzantium. see bezant.-of or pertaining to byzantium.-a native or inhabitant of byzantium, now constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of constantinople.
c: c is the third letter of the english alphabet. it is from the latin letter c, which in old latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. in anglo-saxon words, or old english before the norman conquest, it always has the sound of k. the latin c was the same letter as the greek /, /, and came from the greek alphabet. the greeks got it from the ph/nicians. the english name of c is from the latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the french. etymologically c is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other sibilant sounds). examples of these relations are in l. acutus, e. acute, ague; e. acrid, eager, vinegar; l. cornu, e. horn; e. cat, kitten; e. coy, quiet; l. circare, of. cerchier, e. search.-the keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.-c after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.-the "c clef," a modification of the letter c, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle c.-as a numeral, c stands for latin centum or 100, cc for 200, etc.
c. g. s.: an abbreviation for centimeter, gram, second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
caaba: the small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all mohammedans must pray.
cab: a kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.-the covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.-a hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
cabal: tradition; occult doctrine. see cabala-a secret.-a number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.-the secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.-to unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
cabala: a kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the scriptures among jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. it assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. the cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.-secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.
cabalism: the secret science of the cabalists.-a superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
cabalistical: of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
cabaret: a tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.-a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub.  the term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment.-the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}.
cabas: a flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.
cabassou: a species of armadillo of the genus xenurus (x. unicinctus and x. hispidus); the tatouay.
cabazite: a mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. it is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. called also chabasie.
cabbage: an esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild brassica oleracea of europe. the common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. the cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.-the terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. see cabbage tree, below.-the cabbage palmetto. see below.-to form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.-to purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.-cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
cabbiri: certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the pelasgians in lemnos and samothrace and afterwards throughout greece; -- also called sons of hephaestus (or vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
cabbling: the process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
caber: a pole or beam used in scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.
cabezon: a california fish (hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.
cabin: a cottage or small house; a hut.-a small room; an inclosed place.-a room in ship for officers or passengers.-to live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.-to confine in, or as in, a cabin.
cabinet: a hut; a cottage; a small house.-a small room, or retired apartment; a closet.-a private room in which consultations are held.-the advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.-a set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. hence:-a decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. see etagere.-any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.-suitable for a cabinet; small.-to inclose
cabinetmaker: one whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.
cabinetwork: the art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.
cable: a large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. it is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.-a rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.-a molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.-to fasten with a cable.-to ornament with cabling.  see cabling.-to telegraph by a submarine cable
cabled: of cable-fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.-adorned with cabling.
cablelaid: composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.-twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
cabling: of cable-the decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. these are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
cabob: a small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in turkey and persia.-a leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.-to roast, as a cabob.
caboched: showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
caboodle: the whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.
caboose: a house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.-a car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.
cabrerite: an apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the sierra cabrera, spain.
cabrilla: a name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the meditarranean, the coast of california, etc.  in california, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.
caburn: a small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.
cacajao: a south american short-tailed monkey (pithecia (/ brachyurus) melanocephala).
cacao: a small evergreen tree (theobroma cacao) of south america and the west indies. its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
cachalot: the sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus).  it has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. see sperm whale.
cache: a hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
cachectical: having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood.
cachepot: an ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.
cachexy: a condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
cachinnation: loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
cachiri: a fermented liquor made in cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry.
cacholong: an opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
cachucha: an andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.
cachunde: a pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in india as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
cackerel: the mendole; a small worthless mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. see mendole.
cackle: to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.-to laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.-to talk in a silly manner; to prattle.-the sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.-idle talk; silly prattle.
cackler: a fowl that cackles.-one who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
cacochymy: a vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.
cacodyl: alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, as2(ch3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. it is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines.
cacoethes: a bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "the itch for writing".-a bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
cacolet: a chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
cacomixl: a north american carnivore (bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. it inhabits mexico, texas, and california.
cacoon: one of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
cacophony: an uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.-a combination of discordant sounds.-an unhealthy state of the voice.
cacoxenite: a hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. the phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
cactaceous: belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
cactus: any plant of the order cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. see cereus. they usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of america.
cacuminal: pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
cad: a person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.-a lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
cadaster: an official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.
cadaveric: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
cadaverous: having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.-of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
caddis: the larva of a caddice fly. these larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc.  they are a favorite bait with anglers. called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.-a kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
cade: bred by hand; domesticated; petted.-to bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.-a barrel or cask, as of fish.-a species of juniper (juniperus oxycedrus) of mediterranean countries.
cadence: the act or state of declining or sinking.-a fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.-a rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.-rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.-see cadency.-harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.-a uniform time and place in marching.-the close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.-a cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.-to regulate by musical measure.
cadenza: a parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
cadet: the younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.-a gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.-a young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at west point, annapolis, or woolwich.
cadetship: the position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.
cadge: to carry, as a burden.-to hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.-to intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.-a circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
cadger: a packman or itinerant huckster.-one who gets his living by trickery or begging.-one who carries hawks on a cadge.
cadgy: cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.
cadi: an inferior magistrate or judge among the mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.
cadilesker: a chief judge in the turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.
cadillac: a large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
cadmean: of or pertaining to cadmus, a fabulous prince of thebes, who was said to have introduced into greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. these are called cadmean letters.
cadmia: an oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. formerly applied to the mineral calamine.
cadmic: pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.
cadmium: a comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. it is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. symbol cd. atomic weight 111.8. it was discovered by stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.
cadrans: an instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
cadre: the framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
caduceus: the official staff or wand of hermes or mercury, the messenger of the gods. it was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.
caducibranchiate: with temporary gills: -- applied to those amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
caducous: dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.
caecal: of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.-having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.
caecilian: a limbless amphibian belonging to the order caeciliae or ophimorpha. see ophiomorpha.
caecum: a cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.-the blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.
caesar: a roman emperor, as being the successor of augustus caesar. hence, a kaiser, or emperor of germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. see kaiser, kesar.