AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
catholicity: the state or quality of being catholic; universality.-liberality of sentiments; catholicism.-adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.-adherence to the doctrines of the church of rome, or the doctrines themselves.
catholicos: the spiritual head of the armenian church, who resides at etchmiadzin, russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the armenians of russia, turkey, and persia, including the patriarchs of constantinople, jerusalem, and sis.
catilinarian: pertaining to catiline, the roman conspirator; resembling catiline's conspiracy.
cation: an electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.
catkin: an ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. see illust. of ament.
catling: a little cat; a kitten.-catgut; a catgut string.-a double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
catlinite: a red clay from the upper missouri region, used by the indians for their pipes.
catmint: a well-know plant of the genus nepeta (n. cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. it is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.
catonian: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old roman, cato the censor; severe; inflexible.
catoptrics: that part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics.
catoptromancy: a species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. if his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.
catskill period: the closing subdivision of the devonian age in america. the rocks of this period are well developed in the catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the carboniferous formation. see the diagram under geology.
catstitch: to fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
catsup: a table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.-same as catchup, and ketchup.
cattle: quadrupeds of the bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
caucasian: of or pertaining to the caucasus, a mountainous region between the black and caspian seas.-of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about mount caucasus were formerly taken as the type.-a native or inhabitant of the caucasus, esp. a circassian or georgian.-a member of any of the white races of mankind.
caucus: a meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.-to hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
cauda galli: a plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.
caudal: of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.
caudex: the stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
caudicula: a slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
caudle: a kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.-to make into caudle.-too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
caul: a covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.-the fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. see omentum.-a part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.
caulicle: a short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.
cauliculus: in the corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. see illust. of corinthian order, under corinthian.
cauliflower: an annual variety of brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.-the edible head or "curd" of a cauliflower plant.
caulocarpous: having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.
causal: relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.-a causal word or form of speech.
causality: the agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.-the faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
causally: according to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.-the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.
causative: effective, as a cause or agent; causing.-expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.-a word which expresses or suggests a cause.
cause: that which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.-that which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.-sake; interest; advantage.-a suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.-any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.-the side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.-to effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.-to assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.-abbreviation of because.
causeless: 1. self-originating; uncreated.-without just or sufficient reason; groundless.-without cause or reason.
causeuse: a kind of sofa for two persons. a tete-/-tete.
causey: a way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.
caustic: alt. of caustical-any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.-a caustic curve or caustic surface.
caustical: capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.-severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.
causticily: the quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.-severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
cautelous: caution; prudent; wary.-crafty; deceitful; false.
cauterization: the act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
cauterize: to burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.-to sear, as the conscience.
cautery: a burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.-the iron of other agent in cauterizing.
caution: a careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.-security; guaranty; bail.-precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.-to give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed.
cautionary: conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.-given as a pledge or as security.-wary; cautious.
cautious: attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
cavalcade: a procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
cavalier: a military man serving on horseback; a knight.-a gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.-one of the court party in the time of king charles i. as contrasted with a roundhead or an adherent of parliament.-a work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.-gay; easy; offhand; frank.-high-spirited.-supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.-of or pertaining to the party of king charles i.
cavalierly: in a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
cavally: a carangoid fish of the atlantic coast (caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [see illust. under carangoid.]
cavatina: originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
cave: a hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.-any hollow place, or part; a cavity.-to make hollow; to scoop out.-to dwell in a cave.-to fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. hence (slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
caveat: a notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.-a description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.-intimation of caution; warning; protest.
cavendish: leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
cavernous: full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.-filled with small cavities or cells.-having a sound caused by a cavity.
cavetto: a concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture.  see illust. of column.
caviar: the roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in russia.
cavicornia: a group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
cavil: to raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.-to cavil at.-a captious or frivolous objection.
caviling: of cavil-disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. see captious.
cavin: a hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.
cavity: hollowness.-a hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.
cavo-rilievo: hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
cavy: a rodent of the genera cavia and dolichotis, as the guinea pig (cavia cobaya). cavies are natives of south america.
caw: to cry like a crow, rook, or raven.-the cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
cayugas: a tribe of indians formerly inhabiting western new-york, forming part of the confederacy called the five nations.
caada: a small caon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
caon: a deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
cañada: ( n. ) A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
cañon: ( n. ) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
cease: to come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.-to be wanting; to fail; to pass away.-to put a stop to; to bring to an end.-extinction.
cecidomyia: a genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the hessian fly. see hessian fly.
cedar: the name of several evergreen trees. the wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.-of or pertaining to cedar.
cede: to yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
cedilla: a mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.
cedrat: properly the citron, a variety of citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.
cedrene: a rich aromatic oil, c15h24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.
ceil: to overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.-to line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
ceiling: of ceil-the inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.-the lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.-the inner planking of a vessel.
celadon: a pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
celandine: a perennial herbaceous plant (chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. it is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
celature: the act or art of engraving or embossing.-that which is engraved.
celebrant: one who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the roman catholic church, as distinguished from his assistants.
celebrate: to extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the most high.-to honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.-to perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.
celebrity: celebration; solemnization.-the state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of washington.-a person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.
celeriac: turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.
celery: a plant of the parsley family (apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.
celestial: belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.-of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.-an inhabitant of heaven.-a native of china.
celestinian: a monk of the austere branch of the franciscan order founded by celestine v. in the 13th centry.
celestite: native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. it occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.
celiac: see coellac.-relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.
celibacy: the state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.
celibate: celibate state; celibacy.-one who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.-unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.
cell: a very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.-a small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.-any small cavity, or hollow place.-the space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.-same as cella.-a jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.-one of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.-to place or inclose in a cell.
cella: the part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.
cellar: a room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
cellarage: the space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.-chare for storage in a cellar.
cellarer: a steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
cellaret: a receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
cellepore: a genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the bryozoa.
cellulitis: an inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
celluloid: a substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. it is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
cellulose: consisting of, or containing, cells.-the substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. it is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. it is a carbohydrate, (c6h10o5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. when pure, it is a white amorphous mass. see starch, granulose, lignin.
celotomy: the act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.
celsius: the celsius thermometer or scale, so called from anders celsius, a swedish astronomer, who invented it. it is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.
celt: one of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of central and western europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy ireland, wales, the highlands of scotland, and the northern shores of france.-a weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early celtic nations.
celtiberian: of or pertaining to the ancient celtiberia (a district in spain lying between the ebro and the tagus) or its inhabitants the celtiberi (celts of the river iberus).-an inhabitant of celtiberia.
celtic: of or pertaining to the celts; as, celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.-the language of the celts.
cement: any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.-a kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.-the powder used in cementation. see cementation, n., 2.-bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.-the layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.-to unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.-to unite firmly or closely.-to overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.-to become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
cemental: of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
cementation: the act or process of cementing.-a process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
cemetery: a place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
cenanthy: the absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
cenobite: one of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
cenobitism: the state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
cenogamy: the state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
cenotaph: an empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
cenozoic: belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or age of mammals, and the quaternary, or age of man. [written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] see geology.
cense: a census; -- also, a public rate or tax.-condition; rank.-to perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.-to burn or scatter incense.
censor: one of two magistrates of rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.-one who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some european countries.-one given to fault-finding; a censurer.-a critic; a reviewer.
censorial: belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.-full of censure; censorious.
censorious: addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.-implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
censorship: the office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
censurable: deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
censure: judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.-the act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.-judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.-to form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.-to find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.-to condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.-to judge.
census: a numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.-an official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
cent: a hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.-a united states coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.-an old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
cental: a weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the united states a hundredweight.-relating to a hundred.
centare: a measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
centaur: a fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.-a constellation in the southern heavens between hydra and the southern cross.
centaurea: a large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (centaurea cyanus) and the star thistle (c. calcitrapa).
centaury: a gentianaceous plant not fully identified. the name is usually given to the erytheraea centaurium and the chlora perfoliata of europe, but is also extended to the whole genus sabbatia, and even to the unrelated centaurea.
centenary: relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.-occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.-the aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.-a commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
centennial: relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.-happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.-lasting or aged a hundred years.-the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.