AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
beam: any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.-one of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.-the width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.-the bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.-the principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.-the pole of a carriage.-a cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.-the straight part or shank of an anchor.-the main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.-a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.-a ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.-fig.: a ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.-one of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.-to send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.-to emit beams of light.
beambird: a small european flycatcher (muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
beamy: emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.-resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.-having horns, or antlers.
bean: a name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera faba, phaseolus, and dolichos; also, to the herbs.-the popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
bean caper: a deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus zygophyllum.
bean trefoil: a leguminous shrub of southern europe, with trifoliate leaves (anagyris foetida).
bear: to support or sustain; to hold up.-to support and remove or carry; to convey.-to conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.-to possess and use, as power; to exercise.-to sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.-to possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.-to possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor-to endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.-to gain or win.-to sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.-to render or give; to bring forward.-to carry on, or maintain; to have.-to admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.-to manage, wield, or direct.-to behave; to conduct.-to afford; to be to; to supply with.-to bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.-to produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.-to suffer, as in carrying a burden.-to endure with patience; to be patient.-to press; -- with on or upon, or against.-to take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.-to relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?-to have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.-to be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears n. by e.-a bier.-any species of the genus ursus, and of the closely allied genera. bears are plantigrade carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.-an animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.-one of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the great bear and the lesser bear, or ursa major and ursa minor.-metaphorically: a brutal, coarse, or morose person.-a person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.-a portable punching machine.-a block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.-to endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.-alt. of bere
bear's-breech: see acanthus, n., 1.-the english cow parsnip (heracleum sphondylium)
bear's-ear: a kind of primrose (primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
bear's-foot: a species of hellebore (helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. it has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
bear's-paw: a large bivalve shell of the east indies (hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
bearberry: a trailing plant of the heath family (arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
beard: the hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.-the long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.-the cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds-the appendages to the jaw in some cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.-the byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.-the gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.-in insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.-long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.-a barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.-that part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.-that part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.-an imposition; a trick.-to take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.-to oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.-to deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
beardless: without a beard. hence: not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.-destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
bearer: one who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.-specifically: one who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.-a palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.-a tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.-one who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.-a strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
bearing: of bear-the manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.-patient endurance; suffering without complaint.-the situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.-purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.-the act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.-that part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.-the portion of a support on which anything rests.-improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.-the part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.-the part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.-any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.-the situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was w. n. w.-the widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.-the line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
bearing rein: a short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the united states a checkrein.
bearish: partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
bearskin: the skin of a bear.-a coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.-a cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
beast: any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.-any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.-as opposed to man: any irrational animal.-fig.: a coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.-a game at cards similar to loo.-a penalty at beast, omber, etc. hence: to be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
beastly: pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.-characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.-abominable; as, beastly weather.
beat: of beat-of beat-to strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.-to punish by blows; to thrash.-to scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.-to dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.-to tread, as a path.-to overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.-to cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.-to exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.-to give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. see alarm, charge, parley, etc.-to strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.-to move with pulsation or throbbing.-to come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.-to be in agitation or doubt.-to make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.-to make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.-to make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.-to sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.-a stroke; a blow.-a recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.-the rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. in the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.-a transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.-a sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. see beat, v. i., 8.-a round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.-a place of habitual or frequent resort.-a cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.-weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
beaten: of beat-made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.-vanquished; conquered; baffled.-exhausted; tired out.-become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.-tried; practiced.
beater: one who, or that which, beats.-a person who beats up game for the hunters.
beatifical: having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.
beatification: the act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the r. c. church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.
beatify: to pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.-to make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.-to ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.
beating: of beat-the act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.-pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.-pulsative sounds. see beat, n.-the process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
beatitude: felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.-any one of the nine declarations (called the beatitudes), made in the sermon on the mount (matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.-beatification.
beau: a man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.-a man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover.
beau ideal: a conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
beaufet: a niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
beautify: to make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.-to become beautiful; to advance in beauty.
beauty: an assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.-a particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.-a beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.-prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
beauxite: a ferruginous hydrate of alumina. it is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.-see bauxite.
beaver: an amphibious rodent, of the genus castor.-the fur of the beaver.-a hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.-beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.-that piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. it was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.
beaverteen: a kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
bebirine: an alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of guiana (nectandra rodioei). it is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.
beblubber: to make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
becalm: to render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.-to keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
becard: a south american bird of the flycatcher family. (tityra inquisetor).
because: by or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.-in order that; that.
beccafico: a small bird. (silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.
bechance: by chance; by accident.-to befall; to chance; to happen to.
bechic: pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.-a medicine for relieving coughs.
beck: see beak.-a small brook.-a vat. see back.-to nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.-to notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.-a significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
becker: a european fish (pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
becket: a small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.-a spade for digging turf.
beckon: to make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.-a sign made without words; a beck.
become: of become-to pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.-to come; to get.-to suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.
becoming: of become-appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.-that which is becoming or appropriate.
becomingness: the quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
becripple: to make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
becuna: a fish of the mediterranean (sphyraena spet). see barracuda.
bed: an article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. specifically: a sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. in a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.-(used as the symbol of matrimony) marriage.-a plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.-a mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.-the bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.-a layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.-see gun carriage, and mortar bed.-the horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.-a course of stone or brick in a wall.-the place or material in which a block or brick is laid.-the lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.-the foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.-the superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.-the flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.-to place in a bed.-to make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.-to furnish with a bed or bedding.-to plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.-to lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.-to dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.-to lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.-to go to bed; to cohabit.
bed screw: a form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.-a long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
bedash: to wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
bedaub: to daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
bedbug: a wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (cimex lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds.  see illustration in appendix.
bedchair: a chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.
bedcord: a cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
bedded: of bed-provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
bedding: of bed-a bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.-the state or position of beds and layers.
bede: to pray; also, to offer; to proffer.-a kind of pickax.
bedegar: a gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (rhodites rosae). it was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
bedehouse: an almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.-same as beadhouse.
beden: the abyssinian or arabian ibex (capra nubiana). it is probably the wild goat of the bible.
bedesman: a poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.-same as beadsman.
bedevil: to throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.-to spoil; to corrupt.
bedevilment: the state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.
bedfellow: one who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
bedight: of bedight-to bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.
bedizenment: that which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
bedlam: a place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.-an insane person; a lunatic; a madman.-any place where uproar and confusion prevail.-belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
bedouin: one of the nomadic arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over arabia, syria, and northern africa, esp. in the deserts.-pertaining to the bedouins; nomad.
bedpan: a pan for warming beds.-a shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.
bedplate: the foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.
bedpost: one of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.-anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off.  see bedstaff.
bedraggle: to draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
bedroom: a room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.-room in a bed.
bedsore: a sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.
bedstaff: "a wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."
bedstraw: straw put into a bed.-a genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
bedswerver: one who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.
bedtick: a tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.
bedung: to cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
bedwarf: to make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
bee: p. p. of be; -- used for been.-an insect of the order hymenoptera, and family apidae (the honeybees), or family andrenidae (the solitary bees.) see honeybee.-a neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.-pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
bee line: the shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line.
bee-eater: a bird of the genus merops, that feeds on bees. the european species (m. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.-an african bird of the genus rhinopomastes.
beebread: a brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. it is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.
beechen: consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.
beef: an animal of the genus bos, especially the common species, b. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.-the flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.-applied colloquially to human flesh.-of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
beefeater: one who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.-one of the yeomen of the guard, in england.-an african bird of the genus buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. two species are known.
beefsteak: a steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
beefwood: an australian tree (casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees stenocarpus salignus of new south wales, and banksia compar of queensland.
beefy: having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.
beelzebub: the title of a heathen deity to whom the jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the devil or a devil. see baal.