AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
blink: to wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.-to see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.-to shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.-to turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.-to shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.-to trick; to deceive.-a glimpse or glance.-gleam; glimmer; sparkle.-the dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.-boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
blinkard: one who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.-that which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.
blinker: one who, or that which, blinks.-a blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.-a kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
bliss: orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
blissful: full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
blissom: to be lustful; to be lascivious.-lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.
blister: a vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.-any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.-a vesicatory; a plaster of spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.-to be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.-to raise a blister or blisters upon.-to give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
blite: a genus of herbs (blitum) with a fleshy calyx. blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
blithe: gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.
blizzard: a gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.
bloat: to make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.-to inflate; to puff up; to make vain.-to grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.-bloated.-a term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.-to dry (herrings) in smoke. see blote.
bloated: of bloat-distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
bloater: the common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
blob: something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.-a small fresh-water fish (uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
block: a piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.-the solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.-the wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.-the pattern or shape of a hat.-a large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.-a square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.-a grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. it is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.-the perch on which a bird of prey is kept.-any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.-a piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.-a piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.-a blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.-a section of a railroad where the block system is used. see block system, below.-to obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.-to secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.-to shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
blockade: the shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.-an obstruction to passage.-to shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. see note under blockade, n.-hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.-to obstruct entrance to or egress from.
blockhouse: an edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in america and germany.-a house of squared logs.
blocking: of block-the act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.-blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
blond metal: a variety of clay ironstone, in staffordshire, england, used for making tools.
blonde: of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.-a person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.-a kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.
blood: the fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. see under arterial.-relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.-descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.-descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.-the fleshy nature of man.-the shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.-a bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.-temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.-a man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.-the juice of anything, especially if red.-to bleed.-to stain, smear or wet, with blood.-to give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.-to heat the blood of; to exasperate.
blood money: money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.-money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.
blood vessel: any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
bloodbird: an australian honeysucker (myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.
blooded: of blood-having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.
bloodflower: a genus of bulbous plants, natives of southern africa, named haemanthus, of the amaryllis family. the juice of h. toxicarius is used by the hottentots to poison their arrows.
bloodhound: a breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. it is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. the cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.
bloodless: destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.-not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.-without spirit or activity.
bloodletter: one who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
bloodletting: the act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
bloodroot: a plant (sanguinaria canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and indian paint. it has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. see sanguinaria.
bloodshed: the shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
bloodshot: red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.
bloodstick: a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.
bloodstone: a green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.-hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."
bloodsucker: any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (hirudo medicinalis), and related species.-one who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.-a hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
bloodwit: a fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
bloodwort: a plant, rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. the name is applied also to bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
bloody: containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.-smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.-given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.-attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.-infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.-to stain with blood.
bloody flux: the dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
bloody hand: a hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of england, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.-a red hand, as in the arms of ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the united kingdom.
bloody sweat: a sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in england and other countries.
bloom: a blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.-the opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.-a state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.-the delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. hence: anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.-the clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.-a yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.-a popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.-to produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.-to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.-to cause to blossom; to make flourish.-to bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.-a mass of wrought iron from the catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.-a large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
bloomer: a costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.-a woman who wears a bloomer costume.
bloomery: a furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
blooming: of bloom-the process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.-opening in blossoms; flowering.-thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
bloomy: full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.-covered with bloom, as fruit.
blossom: the flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.-a blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.-the color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.-to put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.-to flourish and prosper.
blot: to spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.-to impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.-to stain with infamy; to disgrace.-to obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.-to obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.-to dry, as writing, with blotting paper.-to take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.-a spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.-an obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.-a spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.-an exposure of a single man to be taken up.-a single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.-a weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
blotch: a blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. also fig.; as, a moral blotch.-a large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
blote: to cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
blotter: one who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.-a wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.
blottesque: characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
blotting paper: a kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
blouse: a light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in france; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the united states army.
blow: to flower; to blossom; to bloom.-to cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).-a blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.-a forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.-a sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.-the infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.-to produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.-to send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.-to breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.-to sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.-to spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.-to be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.-to talk loudly; to boast; to storm.-to force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.-to drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.-to cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.-to clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.-to burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.-to spread by report; to publish; to disclose.-to form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.-to inflate, as with pride; to puff up.-to put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.-to deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).-a blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.-the act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.-the spouting of a whale.-a single heat or operation of the bessemer converter.-an egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
blow-off: a blowing off steam, water, etc.;-as, a blow-off cock or pipe.-an outburst of temper or excitement.
blow-out: the cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
blowball: the downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
blower: one who, or that which, blows.-a device for producing a current of air; as: (a) a metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) a machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.-a blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.-the whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.-a small fish of the atlantic coast (tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.-a braggart, or loud talker.
blowfly: any species of fly of the genus musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
blowgun: a tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. it is a weapon much used by certain indians of america and the west indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube.  see sumpitan.
blowhole: a cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.-a nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.-a hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.-an air hole in a casting.
blown: of blow-of blow-swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.-stale; worthless.-out of breath; tired; exhausted.-covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.-opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.
blowpipe: a tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.-a blowgun; a blowtube.
blowtube: a blowgun.-a similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.-a long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.
blowzed: having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
blowzy: coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.
blubber: a bubble.-the fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. it lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.-a large sea nettle or medusa.-to weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.-to swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.-to give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
blubbered: of blubber-swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip.
blubbery: swollen; protuberant.-like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
bludgeon: a short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
blue: having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.-pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.-low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.-suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.-severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.-literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.-one of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. sometimes, poetically, the sky.-a pedantic woman; a bluestocking.-low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.-to make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
blue book: a parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.-the united states official "biennial register."
blue grass: a species of grass (poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
blue jay: the common jay of the united states (cyanocitta, or cyanura, cristata). the predominant color is bright blue.
blue-bonnet: a broad, flat scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a scotchman.-a plant. same as bluebottle.-the european blue titmouse (parus coeruleus); the bluecap.
blue-eyed grass: a grasslike plant (sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
blue-john: a name given to fluor spar in derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
blueback: a trout (salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of maine.-a salmon (oncorhynchus nerka) of the columbia river and northward.-an american river herring (clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
bluebeard: the hero of a mediaeval french nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. she entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.
bluebell: a plant of the genus campanula, especially the campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.-a plant of the genus scilla (scilla nutans).
blueberry: the berry of several species of vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the american huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. the commonest species are v. pennsylvanicum and v. vacillans.  v. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
bluebill: a duck of the genus fuligula. two american species (f. marila and f. affinis) are common. see scaup duck.
bluebird: a small song bird (sialia sialis), very common in the united states, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. the male is blue, with the breast reddish. it is related to the european robin.