AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
alnage: measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.
alnager: a measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in england, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.
aloe: the wood of the agalloch.-a genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. they are natives of warm countries.-the inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.
aloetic: consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.-a medicine containing chiefly aloes.
aloft: on high; in the air; high above the ground.-in the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (fig. and colloq.), in or to heaven.-above; on top of.
alogian: one of an ancient sect who rejected st. john's gospel and the apocalypse, which speak of christ as the logos.
alone: quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.-of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.-sole; only; exclusive.-hence; unique; rare; matchless.-solely; simply; exclusively.
along: by the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.-in a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.-in company; together.-by the length of, as distinguished from across.-(now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)
alongside: along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
aloof: same as alewife.-at or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.-without sympathy; unfavorably.-away from; clear from.
alose: to praise.-the european shad (clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. the name is sometimes applied to the american shad (clupea sapidissima). see shad.
alouatte: one of the several species of howling monkeys of south america. see howler, 2.
alp: a very high mountain. specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in europe, containing the lofty mountains of switzerland, etc.-fig.: something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.-a bullfinch.
alpaca: an animal of peru (lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.-wool of the alpaca.-a thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
alpestrine: pertaining to the alps, or other high mountains; as, alpestrine diseases, etc.
alpha: the first letter in the greek alphabet, answering to a, and hence used to denote the beginning.
alphabet: the letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.-the simplest rudiments; elements.-to designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
alphabetical: pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.-literal.
alphabetize: to arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.-to furnish with an alphabet.
alphonsine: of or relating to alphonso x., the wise, king of castile (1252-1284).
alpia: the seed of canary grass (phalaris canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.
alpine: of or pertaining to the alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, alpine snows; alpine plants.-like the alps; lofty.
alquifou: a lead ore found in cornwall, england, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.
already: prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
alsatian: pertaining to alsatia.-an inhabitant of alsatia or alsace in germany, or of alsatia or white friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in london.
alsike: a species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; trifolium hybridum.
also: in like manner; likewise.-in addition; besides; as well; further; too.-even as; as; so.
altar: a raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.-in the christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the holy eucharist; the communion table.
altarage: the offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.-the profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
altarwise: in the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
alter: to make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.-to agitate; to affect mentally.-to geld.-to become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
alteration: the act of altering or making different.-the state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
alterative: causing ateration.-gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.-a medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
altercate: to contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
altercation: warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
alternate: being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.-designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.-distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.-that which alternates with something else; vicissitude.-a substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.-a proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.-to perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.-to happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.-to vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
alternately: in reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.-by alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
alternation: the reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.-permutation.-the response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
alternative: offering a choice of two things.-disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.-alternate; reciprocal.-an offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.-either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.-the course of action or the thing offered in place of another.-a choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
althea: a genus of plants of the mallow family. it includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.-an ornamental shrub (hibiscus syriacus) of the mallow family.
althorn: an instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the french horn.
although: grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
altimeter: an instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc.
altiscope: an arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.
altitude: space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.-the elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. it is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.-the perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.-height of degree; highest point or degree.-height of rank or excellence; superiority.-elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
alto: formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. in instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.-an alto singer.
alto-rilievo: high relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.
altrices: nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces.
altruism: regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness.
altruistic: regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; -- opposed to egoistic or selfish.
aludel: one of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation.
alum: a double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. it has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.-to steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
alum root: a north american herb (heuchera americana) of the saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.
alum shale: a variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.
alumina: one of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, al2o3.
aluminate: a compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
aluminium: the metallic base of alumina. this metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. atomic weight 27.08. symbol al.
aluminous: pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
alunogen: a white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.
alveary: a beehive, or something resembling a beehive.-the hollow of the external ear.
alveolar: of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets.
alveoliform: having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.
alveolus: a cell in a honeycomb.-a small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil-a small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.
alvine: of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.
always: at all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, god is always the same.-constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally.
alyssum: a genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. the sweet alyssum (a. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.
am: the first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. see be.
amadavat: the strawberry finch, a small indian song bird (estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. the female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill.
amadou: a spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (boletus and polyporus) which grows on old trees; german tinder; punk. it has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
amain: with might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.-at full speed; in great haste; also, at once.-to lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.-to lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.
amalgam: an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.-a mixture or compound of different things.-a native compound of mercury and silver.-to amalgamate.
amalgamate: to compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.-to mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another.-to unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.-to coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.-alt. of amalgamated
amalgamation: the act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.-the mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.
amalgamator: one who, or that which, amalgamates. specifically: a machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.
amandine: the vegetable casein of almonds.-a kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.
amanuensis: a person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
amarantaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.
amaranth: an imaginary flower supposed never to fade.-a genus of ornamental annual plants (amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.-a color inclining to purple.
amaranthine: of or pertaining to amaranth.-unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying.-of a purplish color.
amaryllideous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. the narcissus and daffodil are members of this family.
amaryllis: a pastoral sweetheart.-a family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.-a genus of the same family, including the belladonna lily.
amass: to collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.-a mass; a heap.
amassette: an instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.
amassment: an amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation.
amasthenic: uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.
amate: to dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.-to be a mate to; to match.
amateur: a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
amateurish: in the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.
amatorial: of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.
amatory: pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.
amaurosis: a loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of milton.
amaze: to bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.-to confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly.-to be astounded.-bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement.
amazedness: the state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.
amazement: the condition of being amazed; bewilderment [obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.-frenzy; madness.
amazon: one of a fabulous race of female warriors in scythia; hence, a female warrior.-a tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.-a name numerous species of south american parrots of the genus chrysotis
amazonian: pertaining to or resembling an amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.-of or pertaining to the river amazon in south america, or to its valley.
ambages: a circuit; a winding. hence: circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
amber: a yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. it takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. by friction, it becomes strongly electric.-amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.-ambergris.-the balsam, liquidambar.-consisting of amber; made of amber.-resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.-to scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.-to preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
amber room: a room formerly in the czar's summer palace in russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber.  the amber was removed by occupying german troops during the second world war and has, as of 1997, never been recovered.  the room is being recreated from old photographs by russian artisans.
amber seed: seed of the hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from egypt and the west indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed.
amber tree: a species of anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.
ambergris: a substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the indian ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. in color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. the floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. it is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
ambidexter: using both hands with equal ease.-a person who uses both hands with equal facility.-a double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes.-a juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict.
ambidexterity: the quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.-versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation.-double-dealing.-a juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.
ambidextral: pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side.
ambidextrous: having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.-practicing or siding with both parties.
ambidextrousness: the quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
ambient: encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.-something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.
ambigenous: of two kinds.-partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
ambigu: an entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.
ambiguity: the quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
ambiguous: doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.
ambilevous: left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter.
ambiparous: characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.
ambition: the act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.-an eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.-to seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
ambitious: possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.-strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.-springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
ambitus: the exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.-a canvassing for votes.
amble: to go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.-to move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.-a peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side.-a movement like the amble of a horse.
amblygon: an obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle.
amblyopy: weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.
amblypoda: a group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the tertiary formation of the united states.
amboyna wood: a beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. it is obtained from the pterocarpus indicus of amboyna, borneo, etc.
ambreate: a salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.
ambreic: of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.
ambrose: a sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. see ambrosia, 3.
ambrosia: the fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.-an unguent of the gods.-a perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.-formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
ambrosial: consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.-divinely excellent or beautiful.
ambrosian: ambrosial.-of or pertaining to st. ambrose; as, the ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of milan, instituted by st. ambrose.
ambrosin: an early coin struck by the dukes of milan, and bearing the figure of st. ambrose on horseback.
ambrotype: a picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
ambry: in churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.-a store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc.-almonry.
ambs-ace: double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. hence: bad luck; anything of no account or value.
ambulacral: of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.