AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
drive: to impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.-to urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.-to urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.-to carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.-to clear, by forcing away what is contained.-to dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.-to pass away; -- said of time.-to rush and press with violence; to move furiously.-to be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.-to go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.-to press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.-to distrain for rent.-driven.-the act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.-a place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.-violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.-in type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.-a collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
drivel: to slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.-to be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.-slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.-inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.-a driveler; a fool; an idiot.-a servant; a drudge.
driver: one who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.-the person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.-an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.-a part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. specifically:-the driving wheel of a locomotive.-an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.-a crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.-the after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
driving: of drive-having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.-communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.-the act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.-tendency; drift.
drizzle: to rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.-to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.-fine rain or mist.
drogher: a small craft used in the west india islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.
droil: to work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.-a drudge.-mean labor; toil.
droit: a right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
droitural: relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.
droll: queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.-one whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.-something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.-to jest; to play the buffoon.-to lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.-to make a jest of; to set in a comical light.
drollery: the quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.-something which serves to raise mirth-a puppet show; also, a puppet.-a lively or comic picture.
dromaeognathous: having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.
dromatherium: a small extinct triassic mammal from north carolina, the earliest yet found in america.
drome: the crab plover (dromas ardeola), a peculiar north african bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
dromedary: the arabian camel (camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the bactrian camel, which has two humps.
dromon: in the middle ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.
drone: the male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. it gathers no honey. see honeybee.-one who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.-that which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) a drum. [obs.] halliwell. (b) the part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.-a humming or deep murmuring sound.-a monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.-to utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.-to love in idleness; to do nothing.
drone fly: a dipterous insect (eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. see eristalis.
drongo: a passerine bird of the family dicruridae. they are usually black with a deeply forked tail. they are natives of asia, africa, and australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
droop: to hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.-to grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.-to proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.-to let droop or sink.-a drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
drop: the quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.-that which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.-same as gutta.-any small pendent ornament.-whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something-a door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.-a machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.-a contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.-a curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.-a drop press or drop hammer.-the distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.-any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.-the depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.-act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.-to pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.-to cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.-to let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.-to bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.-to lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.-to send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.-to give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.-to cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.-to fall in drops.-to fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.-to let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.-to fall dead, or to fall in death.-to come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.-to come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.-to fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.-to fall short of a mark.-to be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
droplight: an apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
dropper: one who, or that which, drops. specif.: (fishing) a fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.-a dropping tube.-a branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.-a dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.
dropping: of drop-the action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.-that which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
dropsical: diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.-of or pertaining to dropsy.
dropsy: an unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
dropworm: the larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.
dropwort: an old world species of spiraea (s. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.
drosera: a genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. see sundew.
drosky: a low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in german cities.
drosometer: an instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. it consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.
dross: the scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.-rust of metals.-waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
drossy: of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.
drought: dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.-thirst; want of drink.-scarcity; lack.
droughty: characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.-dry; thirsty; wanting drink.
drove: of drive-of drive.-a collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.-any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.-a crowd of people in motion.-a road for driving cattle; a driftway.-a narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.-a broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.-the grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.
drover: one who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.-a boat driven by the tide.
drown: to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.-to overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.-to deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.-to overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
drowse: to sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.-to make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.-a slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
drowsy: inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.-disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.-dull; stupid.
drub: to beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.-a blow with a cudgel; a thump.
drudge: to perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.-to consume laboriously; -- with away.-one who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
drudger: one who drudges; a drudge.-a dredging box.
drudgery: the act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
drug: to drudge; to toil laboriously.-a drudge (?).-any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.-any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.-to prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.-to affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. also fig.-to tincture with something offensive or injurious.-to dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
drugget: a coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.-by extension, any material used for the same purpose.
druggist: one who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.
druid: one of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the celtic race, especially among the gauls and britons.-a member of a social and benevolent order, founded in london in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient druids. lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.
druidism: the system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the druids; the rites and ceremonies of the druids.
drum: an instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.-anything resembling a drum in form-a sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.-a small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.-the tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.-one of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.-a cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.-see drumfish.-a noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.-a tea party; a kettledrum.-to beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.-to beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.-to throb, as the heart.-to go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.-to execute on a drum, as a tune.-(with out) to expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.-(with up) to assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
drum major: .-the chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.-the marching leader of a military band.-a noisy gathering. [r.] see under drum, n., 4.
drumble: to be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.-to mumble in speaking.
drumfish: any fish of the family sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.
drumhead: the parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.-the top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. see illust. of capstan.
drumlin: a hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
drummer: one whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.-one who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.-a fish that makes a sound when caught-the squeteague.-a california sculpin.-a large west indian cockroach (blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.
drumming: of drum-the act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.
drummond light: a very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.
drumstick: a stick with which a drum is beaten.-anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.
drunk: of drink-of drink-intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).-drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.-a drunken condition; a spree.
drunkard: one who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
drunken: of drink-overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.-saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.-pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
drunkenness: the state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.-disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
drupaceous: producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
drupe: a fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. the exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.
drupelet: a small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.
druse: a cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.-one of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the lebanon mountains of syria.
druxy: having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.
dry: free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) of the weather: free from rain or mist.-of vegetable matter: free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.-of animals: not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.-of persons: thirsty; needing drink.-of the eyes: not shedding tears.-of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.-destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.-characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.-exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.-to make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.-to grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.-to evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.-to shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
dry goods: a commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
dry nurse: a nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.
dryad: a wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
dryandra: a genus of shrubs growing in australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.
dryfland: an ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.
drying: of dry-adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.-having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
dryly: in a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
dryobalanops: the genus to which belongs the single species d. camphora, a lofty resinous tree of borneo and sumatra, yielding borneo camphor and camphor oil.
drysalter: a dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.
drysaltery: the articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.
dual: expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in greek.
dualin: an explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. it is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.
dualism: state of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction-a view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.-a system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.-the doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of god, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.-the theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
dualist: one who believes in dualism; a ditheist.-one who administers two offices.
dub: to confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son henry a knight.-to invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.-to clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.-to strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;-to dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.-to strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.-to rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.-to prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.-to make a noise by brisk drumbeats.-a blow.-a pool or puddle.
dubber: one who, or that which, dubs.-a globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in india to hold ghee, oil, etc.
dubbing: of dub-the act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.-the act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.-a dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.-the body substance of an angler's fly.
dubious: doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.-occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.-of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
duboisine: an alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an australian tree (duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. it produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.
ducally: in the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.
ducat: a coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.
duces tecum: a judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.
duchess: the wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.