AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
classical: of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.-of or pertaining to the ancient greeks and romans, esp. to greek or roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient greeks and romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.-conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
classicalism: a classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.-adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
classically: in a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.-in the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
classification: the act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
classify: to distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
classis: a class or order; sort; kind.-an ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the reformed dutch. it is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the presbyterian church.
classman: a member of a class; a classmate.-a candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.
clastic: pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).-fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.
clathrate: shaped like a lattice; cancellate.-having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.
clatter: to make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.-to talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.-to make a rattling noise with.-a rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.-commotion; disturbance.-rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
claude lorraine glass: a slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.
clause: a separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.-a subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.-see letters clause / close, under letter.
claustrum: a thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.
clavated: club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [see illust. of antennae.]
clavellated: said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.
claver: see clover.-frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
clavichord: a keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. see clarichord.
clavicle: the collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. in man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. in birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.
clavicorn: having club-shaped antennae. see antennae-one of the clavicornes.
claviger: one who carries the keys of any place.-one who carries a club; a club bearer.
claw: a sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.-the whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.-anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.-a slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.-to pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.-to relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.-to rail at; to scold.-to scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
clawback: a flatterer or sycophant.-flattering; sycophantic.-to flatter.
clay: a soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. it is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.-earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.-to cover or manure with clay.-to clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
clayes: wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
claytonia: an american genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.
cleading: a jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.-the planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
clean: free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.-free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.-free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.-free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.-free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.-free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.-free from ceremonial defilement.-free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.-well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.-without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.-without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.-to render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
clean-limbed: with well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.
cleaning: of clean-the act of making clean.-the afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
cleanly: habitually clean; pure; innocent.-cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.-adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.-in a clean manner; neatly.-innocently; without stain.-adroitly; dexterously.
cleanness: the state or quality of being clean.-purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
cleanse: to render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
clear: free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.-free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.-able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.-not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.-easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.-without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.-without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.-free from guilt or stain; unblemished.-without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.-free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.-free from embarrassment; detention, etc.-full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.-in a clear manner; plainly.-without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.-to render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.-to free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.-to free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.-to render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.-to free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.-to free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.-to leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.-to gain without deduction; to net.-to become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.-to disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.-to make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.-to obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for liverpool to-day.
clear-cut: having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.-concisely and distinctly expressed.
clear-sighted: seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
clearance: the act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.-a certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.-clear or net profit.-the distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.
clearer: one who, or that which, clears.-a tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
clearing: of clear-the act or process of making clear.-a tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.-a method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.-the gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
clearstarch: to stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
clearwing: a lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
cleat: a strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.-a device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. it is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.-to strengthen with a cleat.
cleavage: the act of cleaving or splitting.-the quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. see parting.-division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
cleave: to adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.-to unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.-to fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.-to part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.-to part or open naturally; to divide.-to part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
cleaver: one who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
cleavers: a species of galium (g. aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
cleche: charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. compare voided.
cledgy: stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.
clef: a character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
cleft: of cleave-of cleave-imp. & p. p. from cleave.-divided; split; partly divided or split.-incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.-a space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.-a piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.-a disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
cleistogamous: having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
clematis: a genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
clemency: disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.-mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
clementine: of or pertaining to clement, esp. to st. clement of rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to pope clement v. and his compilations of canon law.
clepsine: a genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. they feed upon mollusks and worms.
clepsydra: a water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. see illust. in appendix.
clerestory: the upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.-same as clearstory.
clergical: of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.
clergy: the body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of god, in the christian church, in distinction from the laity; in england, usually restricted to the ministers of the established church.-learning; also, a learned profession.-the privilege or benefit of clergy.
clergyable: entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.
clergyman: an ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in england usually restricted to a minister of the established church.
clerical: of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.-of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.
clericalism: an excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
clerisy: the literati, or well educated class.-the clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
clerk: a clergyman or ecclesiastic.-a man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.-a parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.-one employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.-an assistant in a shop or store.
clever: possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.-showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.-having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.-well-shaped; handsome.-good-natured; obliging.
cleverness: the quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
clevis: a piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.
clew: alt. of clue-to direct; to guide, as by a thread.-to move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
cliche: a stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
click: to make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.-to move with the sound of a click.-to cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.-a slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.-a kind of articulation used by the natives of southern africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. the sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.-to snatch.-a detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. see illust. of ratched wheel.-the latch of a door.
clicker: one who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.-one who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
clidastes: a genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the mosasaurus. see illust. in appendix.
client: a citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.-a dependent; one under the protection of another.-one who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
clientele: the condition or position of a client; clientship-the clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.-the persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.
cliff limestone: a series of limestone strata found in ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly silurian and partly devonian.
clift: a cliff.-a cleft of crack; a narrow opening.-the fork of the legs; the crotch.
climacteric: relating to a climacteric; critical.-a period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. the critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.-any critical period.
climate: one of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.-the condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.-to dwell.
climatic: of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
climax: upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.-a figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.-the highest point; the greatest degree.
climb: to ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.-to ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.-to ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.-to ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.-the act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
climber: one who, or that which, climbs-a plant that climbs.-a bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.-to climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
clinanthium: the receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
clinch: to hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.-to set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.-to bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.-to make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.-to hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.-the act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.-a pun.-a hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
clincher: one who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.-that which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
cling: to adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.-to cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.-to make to dry up or wither.-adherence; attachment; devotion.
clingstone: having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.-a fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
clinic: one confined to the bed by sickness.-one who receives baptism on a sick bed.-a school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.-of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.-of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
clink: to cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.-to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.-to rhyme. [humorous].-a slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
clinker: a mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.-scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.-a scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.-a kind of brick. see dutch clinker, under dutch.
clinker-built: having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. see lapstreak.
clinkstone: an igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. see phonolite.
clinodiagonal: that diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. see crystallization.-pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
clinographic: pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
clinoid: like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
clinometer: an instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
clinometric: pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.-pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
clinopinacoid: the plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
clinorhombic: possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
clinquant: glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.-tinsel; dutch gold.
clione: a genus of naked pteropods. one species (clione papilonacea), abundant in the arctic ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the greenland whale. it is sometimes incorrectly called clio.
clip: to embrace, hence; to encompass.-to cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.-to curtail; to cut short.-to move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.-an embrace.-a cutting; a shearing.-the product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.-a clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.-an embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.-a projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.-a blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
clipper: one who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.-a machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.-a vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.
clipping: of clip-the act of embracing.-the act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.-that which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.