AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
auctioneer: a person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.-to sell by auction; to auction.
audacious: daring; spirited; adventurous.-contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.-committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.
audaciously: in an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.
audacity: daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.-reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.
audible: capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.-that which may be heard.
audience: the act of hearing; attention to sounds.-admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.-an auditory; an assembly of hearers. also applied by authors to their readers.
audient: listening; paying attention; as, audient souls.-a hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.
audiometer: an instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
audiphone: an instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.
audit: an audience; a hearing.-an examination in general; a judicial examination.-the result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.-a general receptacle or receiver.-to examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.-to settle or adjust an account.
audita querela: a writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment.
auditor: a hearer or listener.-a person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.-one who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
auditorium: the part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.
auditory: of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. see ear.-an assembly of hearers; an audience.-an auditorium.
auf: a changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
augean: of or pertaining to augeus, king of elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. hercules cleansed it in a single day.-hence: exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
auger: a carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. it has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. a pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. a screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.-an instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
auget: a priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
aught: alt. of aucht-anything; any part.-at all; in any degree.
augite: a variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.
augitic: pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
augment: to enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.-to add an augment to.-to increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.-enlargement by addition; increase.-a vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in greek and sanskrit verbs.
augmentation: the act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.-the state of being augmented; enlargement.-the thing added by way of enlargement.-a additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.-the stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.-in counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
augmentative: having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.-a word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. opposed to diminutive.
augur: an official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.-one who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.-to conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.-to anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.-to predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
augural: of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.
augurate: to make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.-the office of an augur.
augury: the art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.-an omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.-a rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
august: of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.-the eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
augustan: of or pertaining to augustus caesar or to his times.-of or pertaining to the town of augsburg.
augustinian: a member of one of the religious orders called after st. augustine; an austin friar.-of or pertaining to st. augustine, bishop of hippo in northern africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines.-one of a class of divines, who, following st. augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.
auk: a name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family alcidae. the great auk, now extinct, is alca (/ plautus) impennis. the razor-billed auk is a. torda.  see puffin, guillemot, and murre.
aularian: relating to a hall.-at oxford, england, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.
auld: old; as, auld reekie (old smoky), i. e., edinburgh.
auld lang syne: a scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past.
aulic: pertaining to a royal court.-the ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some european universities. it begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).
aumery: a form of ambry, a closet; but confused with almonry, as if a place for alms.
auncel: a rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in england.
aune: a french cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at paris, 0.95 of an english ell); -- now superseded by the meter.
aunt: the sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. also applied to an uncle's wife.-an old woman; and old gossip.-a bawd, or a prostitute.
aunty: a familiar name for an aunt. in the southern united states a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
aura: any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.-the peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.
aural: of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.-of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.
aurantiaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, the aurantiaceae, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.
aurate: a combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.
aurated: resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.-combined with auric acid.-having ears. see aurited.
aurelia: the chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.-a genus of jellyfishes. see discophora.
aurelian: of or pertaining to the aurelia.-an amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.
aureole: a celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.-the circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.-a halo, actual or figurative.-see areola, 2.
auric: of or pertaining to gold.-pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.
aurichalcite: a hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. it yields a kind of brass on reduction.
auricle: the external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.-the chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. see heart.-an angular or ear-shaped lobe.-an instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.
auricled: having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.
auricula: a species of primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.-a species of hirneola (h. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula judae, or jew's-ear.-a genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish-one of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
auricular: of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.-told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.-recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.-received by the ear; known by report.-pertaining to the auricles of the heart.
auricularia: a kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. see illustration in appendix.
auriculated: having ears or appendages like ears; eared. esp.: (a) (bot.) having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (zool.) having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.
auriga: the charioteer, or wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between perseus and gemini. it contains the bright star capella.
aurin: a red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.
aurochloride: the trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
aurochs: the european bison (bison bonasus, / europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the caucasus. it is distinct from the urus of caesar, with which it has often been confused.
aurocyanide: a double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.
aurora: the rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.-the rise, dawn, or beginning.-the roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. the poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.-a species of crowfoot.-the aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
auroral: belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.
aurous: containing gold.-pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.
auscultation: the act of listening or hearkening to.-an examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.
auspicate: auspicious.-to foreshow; to foretoken.-to give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business.
auspice: a divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.-protection; patronage and care; guidance.
auspicious: having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.-prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.-favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
austere: sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.-severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.-unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
austereness: harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.-severity; strictness; austerity.
austerity: sourness and harshness to the taste.-severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.-plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.
austral: southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.
australasian: of or pertaining to australasia; as, australasian regions.-a native or an inhabitant of australasia.
austrian: of or pertaining to austria, or to its inhabitants.-a native or an inhabitant of austria.
authentic: having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register.-authoritative.-of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.-vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.-having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.-an original (book or document).
authenticate: to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.-to prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
authenticity: the quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.-genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
authentics: a collection of the novels or new constitutions of justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authenticity.
author: the beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.-one who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.-the editor of a periodical.-an informant.-to occasion; to originate.-to tell; to say; to declare.
authoritative: having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.-having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone.
authority: legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.-government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the states; the military authorities.-the power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.-that which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc.-testimony; witness.-a precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.-a book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.-justification; warrant.
authorize: to clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.-to make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.-to establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.-to sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.-to justify; to furnish a ground for.
authorized: of authorize-possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.-sanctioned by authority.
authorship: the quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.-source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
auto-: a combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.
auto-da-fe: a judgment of the inquisition in spain and portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.-an execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. it was usually held on sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.-a session of the court of inquisition.
autobiography: a biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.
autocarpian: consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
autocephalous: having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain greek churches.
autochthon: one who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. this title was assumed by the ancient greeks, particularly the athenians.-that which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin.
autocracy: independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.-supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.-political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.-the action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
autocrat: an absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, autocrat of all the russias (a title of the czar).-one who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.
autocratical: of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
autocratrix: a female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of russia.
autodynamic: supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.
autogamy: self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
autograph: that which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.-in one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.
autographical: pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.-pertaining to, or used in, the process of autography; as, autographic ink, paper, or press.
autography: the science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.-a process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
automatical: having an inherent power of action or motion.-pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.-not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions.
automatism: the state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (metaph.) a theory as to the activity of matter.
automaton: any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.-a self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
autonomasy: the use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "he has gone to town," for, "he has gone to london."
autonomous: independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.-having independent existence or laws.
autonomy: the power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.-the sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. in this, according to kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.
autophagi: birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.
autophony: an auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.
autoplasty: the process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.
autopsy: personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.-dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.
autoptical: seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.
autostylic: having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the amphibia.
autotheism: the doctrine of god's self-existence.-deification of one's self; self-worship.
autotype: a facsimile.-a photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
autotypography: a process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.
autumn: the third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about september 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about december 23; but in popular language, autumn, in america, comprises september, october, and november.-the harvest or fruits of autumn.-the time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.