AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
bishop's length: a canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. the half bishop measures 45 by 56.
bishop's-weed: an umbelliferous plant of the genus ammi.-goutweed (aegopodium podagraria).
bishop's-wort: wood betony (stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (nigella damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.
bishopric: a diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.-the office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter.
bisilicate: a salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. the bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
bisk: soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.-see bisque.
bismer: shame; abuse.-a rule steelyard.-the fifteen-spined (gasterosteus spinachia).
bismuth: one of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. it is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. it melts at 507¡ fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. it is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. specific gravity 9.8. atomic weight 207.5. symbol bi.
bismuthic: of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.
bismuthous: of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
bismuthyl: hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.
bison: the aurochs or european bison.-the american bison buffalo (bison americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of north america, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the rocky mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.
bisque: unglazed white porcelain.-a point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.-a white soup made of crayfish.
bissextile: leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of february on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. but one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.-pertaining to leap year.
bistort: an herbaceous plant of the genus polygonum, section bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. its root is used in medicine as an astringent.
bistoury: a surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.
bisulcate: having two grooves or furrows.-cloven; said of a foot or hoof.
bisulphate: a sulphate 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 sulphates; an acid sulphate.
bisulphide: a sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, fes2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.
bisulphite: a salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.
bit: the part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.-fig.: anything which curbs or restrains.-to put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.-imp. & p. p. of bite.-a part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. hence: a small piece of anything; a little; a mite.-somewhat; something, but not very great.-a tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. see bitstock.-the part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.-the cutting iron of a plane.-in the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.-3d sing. pr. of bid, for biddeth.-of bite-of bite
bitangent: possessing the property of touching at two points.-a line that touches a curve in two points.
bitartrate: a salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
bitch: the female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.-an opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.
bite: to seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.-to puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.-to cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.-to cheat; to trick; to take in.-to take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.-to seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?-to cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.-to cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.-to take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.-to take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.-the act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.-the act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.-the wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.-a morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.-the hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.-a cheat; a trick; a fraud.-a sharper; one who cheats.-a blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
biter: one who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.-one who cheats; a sharper.
biternate: doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.
biting: of bite-that bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.
biting in: the process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. see etch.
bitt: see bitts.-to put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
bitten: of bite-p. p. of bite.-terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
bitter: aa turn of the cable which is round the bitts.-having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.-causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.-causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.-characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.-mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.-any substance that is bitter. see bitters.-to make bitter.
bitter spar: a common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. see dolomite.
bittern: a wading bird of the genus botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.-the brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.-a very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
bitterness: the quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.-a state of extreme impiety or enmity to god.-dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
bitternut: the swamp hickory (carya amara). its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
bitterroot: a plant (lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of idaho, montana, etc. it gives the name to the bitter root mountains and river. the indians call both the plant and the river spaet'lum.
bitters: a liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
bittersweet: sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (fig.), pleasant but painful.-anything which is bittersweet.-a kind of apple so called.-a climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. the whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. the branches are the officinal dulcamara.-an american woody climber (celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called roxbury waxwork.
bitterweed: a species of ambrosia (a. artemisiaefolia); roman worm wood.
bitterwood: a west indian tree (picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug jamaica quassia is obtained.
bitterwort: the yellow gentian (gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
bittock: a small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.
bitts: a frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
bitumen: mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; jew's pitch.  it occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the dead and caspian seas. it is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. see asphalt.-by extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
bituminate: to treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
bituminous: having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
biuret: a white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, c2o2n3h5, formed by heating urea. it is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
bivalve: a mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. the shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. see mollusca.-a pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.-having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
bivalved: having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
bivector: a term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1  are vectors.
biventral: having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
bivium: one side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
bivouac: the watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.-an encampment for the night without tents or covering.-to watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.-to encamp for the night without tents or covering.
biweekly: occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.-a publication issued every two weeks.
bizarre: odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.
bizet: the upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. see brilliant, n.
blab: to utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.-to talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.-one who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.
black: destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.-in a less literal sense: enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.-fig.: dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.-expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.-sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.-that which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.-a black pigment or dye.-a negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain african races.-a black garment or dress; as, she wears black-mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.-the part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.-a stain; a spot; a smooch.-to make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.-to make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
black art: the art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
black bass: an edible, fresh-water fish of the united states, of the genus micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is m. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is m. salmoides.-the sea bass. see blackfish, 3.
black book: one of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.-a book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of england, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.-a book containing details of the enormities practiced in the english monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under henry viii., to hasten their dissolution.-a book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of edw. iii.-a book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the english universities, or the english armies.-any book which treats of necromancy.
black friar: a friar of the dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in france, jacobin. also, sometimes, a benedictine.
black hole: a dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the black hole) in a fort at calcutta, into which 146 english prisoners were thrust by the nabob suraja dowla on the night of june 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
black lead: plumbago; graphite. it leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. see graphite.
black letter: the old english or gothic letter, in which the early english manuscripts were written, and the first english books were printed. it was conspicuous for its blackness. see type.
black monday: easter monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of edward iii.'s soldiers, then before paris, died from the cold.-the first monday after the holidays; -- so called by english schoolboys.
black pudding: a kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
black rod: the usher to the chapter of the garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. he is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the house of lords.-an usher in the legislature of british colonies.
black vomit: a copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
black-browed: having black eyebrows. hence: gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
black-jack: a name given by english miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. see blende.-caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.-a large leather vessel for beer, etc.-the quercus nigra, or barren oak.-the ensign of a pirate.
black-letter: written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.-given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date.-of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. hence: unlucky; inauspicious.
blackball: a composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.-a ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.-to vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.-to blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
blackband: an earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
blackberry: the fruit of several species of bramble (rubus); also, the plant itself. rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of england; r. villosus and r. canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the united states. there are also other kinds.
blackbird: in england, a species of thrush (turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. in america the name is given to several birds, as the quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. see redwing.
blackboard: a broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. it is much used in schools.
blackburnian warbler: a beautiful warbler of the united states (dendroica blackburniae). the male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
blackcap: a small european song bird (sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.-an american titmouse (parus atricapillus); the chickadee.-an apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.-the black raspberry.
blackcoat: a clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.
blackcock: the male of the european black grouse (tetrao tetrix, linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. the female is called gray hen. see heath grouse.
blacken: to make or render black.-to make dark; to darken; to cloud.-to defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.-to grow black or dark.
blackfeet: a tribe of north american indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper missouri river to the saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
blackfish: a small kind of whale, of the genus globicephalus, of several species. the most common is g. melas. also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.-the tautog of new england (tautoga).-the black sea bass (centropristis atrarius) of the atlantic coast. it is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black harry.-a fish of southern europe (centrolophus pompilus) of the mackerel family.-the female salmon in the spawning season.
blackfoot: of or pertaining to the blackfeet; as, a blackfoot indian.-a blackfoot indian.
blackguard: the scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.-the criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.-a person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.-a vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.-to revile or abuse in scurrilous language.-scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
blackguardly: in the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
blacking: of black-any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.-the act or process of making black.
blackleg: a notorious gambler.-a disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
blacklist: to put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. see black list, under black, a.
blackly: in a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
blackmail: a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of england and south of scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.-payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.-black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.-to extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
blackmailer: one who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
blackmailing: of blackmail-the act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
blackness: the quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
blacks: the name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.-soot flying in the air.-black garments, etc. see black, n., 4.
blacksmith: a smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.-a fish of the pacific coast (chromis, / heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
blacksnake: a snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the united states, the bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the scotophis alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
blackstrap: a mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.-bad port wine; any common wine of the mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
blacktail: a fish; the ruff or pope.-the black-tailed deer (cervus / cariacus columbianus) of california and oregon; also, the mule deer of the rocky mountains. see mule deer.
blackthorn: a spreading thorny shrub or small tree (prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.-a species of crataegus or hawthorn (c. tomentosa). both are used for hedges.
blackwash: a lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.-a wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
blackwood: a name given to several dark-colored timbers. the east indian black wood is from the tree dalbergia latifolia.
blackwork: work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.