AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
beteela: an east india muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
beteem: to give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.-to allow; to permit; to suffer.
betel: a species of pepper (piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the east indies. it is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.
betel nut: the nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the east with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.
bethabara wood: a highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. the tree is unknown, but it is thought to be east indian.
bethel: a place of worship; a hallowed spot.-a chapel for dissenters.-a house of worship for seamen.
bethink: to call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought.-to think; to recollect; to consider.
bethlehem: a hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.-in the ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made.
bethlemite: an inhabitant of bethlehem in judea.-an insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.-one of an extinct english order of monks.
betide: to happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.-to come to pass; to happen; to occur.
betimes: in good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.-in a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.
betoken: to signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.-to foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.
betoss: to put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.
betrap: to draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.-to put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.
betray: to deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.-to prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.-to violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.-to disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.-to mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.-to lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.-to show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
betrim: to set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.
betroth: to contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.-to promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.-to nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
betrothal: the act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.
betrothment: the act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.
better: having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.-preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.-greater in amount; larger; more.-improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.-more advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.-advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.-one who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.-in a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, henry writes better than john; veterans fight better than recruits.-more correctly or thoroughly.-in a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.-more, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.-to improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.-to improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.-to surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.-to give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.-to become better; to improve.-one who bets or lays a wager.
betterment: a making better; amendment; improvement.-an improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
betterness: the quality of being better or superior; superiority.-the difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
bettong: a small, leaping australian marsupial of the genus bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
betty: a short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.-a name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.-a pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from italy; -- called by chemists a florence flask.
betulin: a substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common european birch (betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.
between: in the space which separates; betwixt; as, new york is between boston and philadelphia.-used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.-belonging in common to two; shared by both.-belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.-with relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.-in intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.-intermediate time or space; interval.
betwixt: in the space which separates; between.-from one to another of; mutually affecting.
beurre: a beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, beurre d'anjou; beurre clairgeau.
bevel: any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.-an instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.-having the slant of a bevel; slanting.-hence: morally distorted; not upright.-to cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.-to deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
bevel gear: a kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
bevelled: of bevel-formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.-replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.
bevelment: the replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
bever: a light repast between meals; a lunch.-to take a light repast between meals.
beverage: liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.-specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.-a treat, or drink money.
bevilled: notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
bevy: a company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.-a flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.
bewail: to express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.-to express grief; to lament.
beware: to be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.-to have a special regard; to heed.-to avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.
beweep: to weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.-to weep.
bewhore: to corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.-to pronounce or characterize as a whore.
bewilder: to lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
bewildered: of bewilder-greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.
bewildering: of bewilder-causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties.
bewilderment: the state of being bewildered.-a bewildering tangle or confusion.
bewitch: to gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.-to charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
bewitchery: the power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination.
bewitching: of bewitch-having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming.
bewitchment: the act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched.-the power of bewitching or charming.
bewray: to soil. see beray.-to expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.
bey: a governor of a province or district in the turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of tunis.
beyond: on the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.-at a place or time not yet reached; before.-past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.-in a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind.-further away; at a distance; yonder.
bezant: a gold coin of byzantium or constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in england) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. there were also white or silver bezants.-a circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.-a decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
bezel: the rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
bezique: a game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.
bezoar: a calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. hence: any antidote or panacea.
bezoardic: pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.-a medicine containing bezoar.
bezoartical: having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing.
bezzle: to plunder; to waste in riot.-to drink to excess; to revel.
bhang: an astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (cannabis indica), and chewed or smoked in the east as a means of intoxication. see hasheesh.
bhunder: an indian monkey (macacus rhesus), protected by the hindoos as sacred. see rhesus.
bi-: in most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.-in the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. be- and di- are often used interchangeably.
biacid: having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. see diacid.
bias: a weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.-a leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.-a wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.-a slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.-inclined to one side; swelled on one side.-cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.-in a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.-to incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
biauriculate: having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.-having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.
bib: a small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.-an arctic fish (gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.-a bibcock.-alt. of bibbe-to drink; to sip; to tipple.
bibasic: having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. see dibasic.
bibber: one given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.
bibbs: pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.
bible: a book.-the book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the scriptures of the old and new testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the old testament; as, king james's bible; douay bible; luther's bible. also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the jews; as, a rabbinical bible.-a book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the koran is often called the mohammedan bible.-a book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
biblical: pertaining to, or derived from, the bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
biblicist: one skilled in the knowledge of the bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the scriptures.
bibliography: a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.
bibliolatrist: a worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
bibliolatry: book worship, esp. of the bible; -- applied by roman catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the bible over that of the pope or the church, and by protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the scriptures.
bibliology: an account of books; book lore; bibliography.-the literature or doctrine of the bible.
bibliomancy: a kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
biblist: one who makes the bible the sole rule of faith.-a biblical scholar; a biblicist.
bibulous: readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.-inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
bicarbonate: a carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.
bicarinate: having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.
bicentenary: of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.-the two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.
bicentennial: consisting of two hundred years.-occurring every two hundred years.-the two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.
biceps: a muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
bichir: a remarkable ganoid fish (polypterus bichir) found in the nile and other african rivers. see brachioganoidei.
bichloride: a compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride.
bichromate: a salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.
bichromatize: to combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.
bicipital: having two heads or origins, as a muscle.-pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.-dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.
bicker: a small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.-to skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.-to contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.-to move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.-a skirmish; an encounter.-a fight with stones between two parties of boys.-a wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
bickering: of bicker-a skirmishing.-altercation; wrangling.
bickern: an anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.
bicrenate: twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.
bicuspid: alt. of bicuspidate-one of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. see tooth, n.
bicuspidate: having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
bicycle: a light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. it has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
bid: of bid-of bid-to make an offer of; to propose. specifically : to offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).-to offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.-to proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.-to order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.-to invite; to call in; to request to come.-imp. & p. p. of bid.-an offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.-to pray.-to make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
bidale: an invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.
biddery ware: a kind of metallic ware made in india. the material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened.
bidding: of bid-command; order; a proclamation or notifying.-the act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.
bidding prayer: the prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.-the prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.
bide: to dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.-to remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.-to encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.-to wait for; as, i bide my time. see abide.
bidet: a small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.-a kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
biennial: happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.-continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.-something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.-a plant which exists or lasts for two years.
bier: a handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.-a count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
bierbalk: a church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.
bifarious: twofold; arranged in two rows.-pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.
biffin: a sort of apple peculiar to norfolk, eng.-a baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.
bifid: cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
bifilar: two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
biforine: an oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order araceae. it has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.
big: having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.-great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.-having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. as applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.-alt. of bigg-alt. of bigg
big-bellied: having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
bigeminate: having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.
bigeye: a fish of the genus priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.
bigg: barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.-to build.-see big, n. & v.
biggin: a child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.-a coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from mr. biggin, the inventor.-alt. of bigging
bigha: a measure of land in india, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
bight: a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.-a bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the bight of benin.-the double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.
bigly: in a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.
bignonia: a large genus of american, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. b. capreolata is the cross vine of the southern united states. the trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.
bignoniaceous: of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.
bigot: a hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.-a person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. in an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.-bigoted.
bigoted: obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.
bigotry: the state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.-the practice or tenets of a bigot.
bijou: a trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
bikh: the east indian name of a virulent poison extracted from aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
bilalo: a two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of manila.
bilamellated: formed of two plates, as the stigma of the mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
bilander: a small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in holland.