AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
chicory: a branching perennial plant (cichorium intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in europe, asia, and america; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. see endive.-the root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.
chide: to rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.-fig.: to be noisy about; to chafe against.-to utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.-to make a clamorous noise; to chafe.-a continuous noise or murmur.
chief: the head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.-the principal part; the most valuable portion.-the upper third part of the field. it is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.-highest in office or rank; principal; head.-principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.-very intimate, near, or close.
chief hare: a small rodent (lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the rocky mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, american pika, and little chief hare.
chiefly: in the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.-for the most part; mostly.
chieftain: a captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.
chiff-chaff: a species of european warbler (sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.
chignon: a knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.
chigre: a species of flea (pulex penetrans), common in the west indies and south america, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. when the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. see jigger.
chikara: the goat antelope (tragops bennettii) of india.-the indian four-horned antelope (tetraceros quadricornis).
chilblain: a blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.-to produce chilblains upon.
child: a son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. used also of animals and plants.-a descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of israel; the children of edom.-one who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of god; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.-a noble youth. see childe.-a young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.-a female infant.-to give birth; to produce young.
childbed: the state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
childcrowing: the crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
childe: a cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, childe roland.
childermas day: a day (december 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by herod at bethlehem; -- called also holy innocent's day.
childhood: the state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.-children, taken collectively.-the commencement; the first period.
childish: of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.-puerile; trifling; weak.
childishly: in the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
childishness: the state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
childlike: resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
childly: having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.-like a child.
chiliad: a thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
chilian: of or pertaining to chili.-a native or citizen of chili.-alt. of chiliarch
chiliasm: the millennium.-the doctrine of the personal reign of christ on earth during the millennium.
chiliast: one who believes in the second coming of christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.
chill: a moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.-a sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.-a check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.-an iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.-the hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.-moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.-affected by cold.-characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.-discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.-to strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.-to check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.-to produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.-to become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
chilled: of chill-hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.-having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."
chilliness: a state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.-a moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.-formality; lack of warmth.
chilling: of chill-making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.
chilly: moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
chilognatha: one of the two principal orders of myriapods. they have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
chilopoda: one of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. they have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. they are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.
chilostomata: an extensive suborder of marine bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. they have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.
chiltern hundreds: a tract of crown land in buckinghamshire and oxfordshire, england, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. as members of parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
chimaera: a cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order holocephali. the teeth are few and large. the head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
chimango: a south american carrion buzzard (milvago chimango). see caracara.
chimb: the edge of a cask, etc; a chine. see chine, n., 3.-chime.
chime: see chine, n., 3.-the harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.-a set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.-pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.-to sound in harmonious accord, as bells.-to be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.-to join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.-to make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.-to cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.-to utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
chimera: a monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.-a vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
chimere: the upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
chimerical: merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
chimney: a fireplace or hearth.-that part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. often used instead of chimney shaft.-a tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.-a body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
chimney-breast: the horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
chimpanzee: an african ape (anthropithecus troglodytes or troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. when full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
chin: the lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.-the exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.
china: a country in eastern asia.-china ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. see porcelain.
chinch: the bedbug (cimex lectularius).-a bug (blissus leucopterus), which, in the united states, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. it resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
chinchilla: a small rodent (chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. it is a native of peru and chili.-the fur of the chinchilla.-a heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.
chine: a chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, shanklin chine in the isle of wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.-the backbone or spine of an animal; the back.-a piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [see illust. of beef.]-the edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.-to cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.-too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
chined: of chine-pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.-broken in the back.
chinese: of or pertaining to china; peculiar to china.-a native or natives of china, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in china.-the language of china, which is monosyllabic.
chink: a small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.-to crack; to open.-to cause to open in cracks or fissures.-to fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.-a short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.-money; cash.-to cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.-to make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
chinky: full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
chinned: having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.
chinook: one of a tribe of north american indians now living in the state of washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. chinooks also called flathead indians.-a warm westerly wind from the country of the chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the rocky mountains, in montana and the adjacent territory.-a jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the chinooks) generally understood by all the indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the united states.
chinquapin: a branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (castanea pumila) of north america, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
chinse: to thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
chintz: cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.
chip: to cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.-to break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.-to bet, as with chips in the game of poker.-to break or fly off in small pieces.-a piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.-a fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.-wood or cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.-anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.-one of the counters used in poker and other games.-the triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
chipmunk: a squirrel-like animal of the genus tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. the common species of the united states is the tamias striatus.
chippeways: a tribe of indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of lake superior; -- called also objibways.
chipping: of chip-a chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.-the act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.-the breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
chippy: abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.-a small american sparrow (spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
chiretta: a plant (agathotes chirayta) found in northern india, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
chirk: to shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.-to chirp like a bird.-to cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.-lively; cheerful; in good spirits.
chirm: to chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.-clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.
chirograph: a writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. it answered to what is now called a charter party.-the last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.
chirographer: one who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.-see chirographist, 2.
chirographist: a chirographer; a writer or engrosser.-one who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
chirography: the art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.-the art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
chirology: the art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. see dactylalogy.
chiromancy: the art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
chiroplast: an instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.
chiropodist: one who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
chirp: to make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.-a short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.
chirrup: to quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.-to chirp.-the act of chirping; a chirp.
chisel: a tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.-to cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.-to cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
chisleu: the ninth month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of november with a part of december.
chisley: having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil.
chit: the embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of indian corn or of potatoes.-a child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.-an excrescence on the body, as a wart.-a small tool used in cleaving laths.-to shoot out; to sprout.-chideth.
chitin: a white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
chiton: an under garment among the ancient greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.-one of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. see polyplacophora.
chitter: to chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.-to shiver or chatter with cold.
chitterling: the frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. see chitterlings.
chivalrous: pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
chivalry: a body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.-the dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.-the qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.-a tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.-exploit.
chive: a filament of a stamen.-a perennial plant (allium schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. the young leaves are used in omelets, etc.
chlamyphore: a small south american edentate (chlamyphorus truncatus, and c. retusus) allied to the armadillo. it is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.
chlamys: a loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient greeks; a kind of cloak.
chloasma: a cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
chloral: a colorless oily liquid, ccl3.cho, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.-chloral hydrate.
chloralum: an impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
chloranil: a yellow crystalline substance, c6cl4.o2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.
chlorhydrin: one of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.
chloric: pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, hclo3.
chloridate: to treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.
chloride: a binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
chlorination: the act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
chlorine: one of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. it is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. it is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. symbol cl. atomic weight, 35.4.
chloriodic: compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.
chlorite: the name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. they are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.-any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.
chlormethane: a colorless gas, ch3cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.
chlorocruorin: a green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
chlorodyne: a patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, indian hemp, etc.
chloroform: a colorless volatile liquid, chcl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. it is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.-to treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.
chlorometer: an instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
chloropal: a massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. it is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
chloropeptic: of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
chlorophane: a variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.-the yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. see chromophane.
chlorophyll: literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
chloroplastid: a granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.
chlorosis: the green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.-a disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
chlorous: of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, hclo2.-pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.
chlorpicrin: a heavy, colorless liquid, ccl3.no2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
choanoid: funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
chock: to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.-to fill up, as a cavity.-a wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.-a heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. it has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.-entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.-to encounter.-an encounter.
chockablock: hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.