AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
flotson: goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.
flounce: to throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.-the act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.-an ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.-to deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
flounder: a flatfish of the family pleuronectidae, of many species.-a tool used in crimping boot fronts.-to fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.-the act of floundering.
flour: the finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.-to grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.-to sprinkle with flour.
floured: of flour-finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.
flourish: to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.-to be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.-to use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.-to make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.-to make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.-to execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.-to boast; to vaunt; to brag.-to adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.-to embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.-to move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.-to develop; to make thrive; to expand.-a flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.-decoration; ornament; beauty.-something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.-a fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.-a fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.-the waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
flout: to mock or insult; to treat with contempt.-to practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.-a mock; an insult.
floutingly: with flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.
flow: imp. sing. of fly, v. i.-to move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.-to become liquid; to melt.-to proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.-to glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.-to have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.-to hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.-to rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.-to discharge blood in excess from the uterus.-to cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.-to cover with varnish.-a stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.-a continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.-any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.-the tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. see ebb and flow, under ebb.-a low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
flower: in the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.-that part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. a complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. in mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. see blossom, and corolla.-the fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.-grain pulverized; meal; flour.-a substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.-a figure of speech; an ornament of style.-ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.-menstrual discharges.-to blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in june.-to come into the finest or fairest condition.-to froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.-to come off as flowers by sublimation.-to embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
flower-de-luce: a genus of perennial herbs (iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal french emblem.
flower-fence: a tropical leguminous bush (poinciana, / caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the west indies.
flowering: of flower-having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.-the act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.-the act of adorning with flowers.
flowerpot: a vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
flowery: full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.-highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.
flowing: of flow-that flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.-a. & n. from flow, v. i. & t.
flown: p. p. of fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.-flushed, inflated.-of fly
fluavil: a hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.
fluctuant: moving like a wave; wavering-showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.-floating on the waves.
fluctuate: to move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.-to move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.-to cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.
fluctuation: a motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.-a wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.-the motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
flue: an inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage-a compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.-a passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.-a pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.-light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
fluency: the quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.
fluent: flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.-ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.-a current of water; a stream.-a variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.
fluework: a general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.
fluffy: pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
fluid: having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.-a fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
fluinity: the quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity.
fluke: the european flounder.  see flounder.-a parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers.  two species (fasciola hepatica and distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.-the part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. see anchor.-one of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.-an instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.-an accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the united states); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.
flume: a stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
flummery: a light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.-something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
flunk: to fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.-to fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.-a failure or backing out-a total failure in a recitation.
flunky: a contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.-one who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.-one easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
flunlyism: the quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
fluo-: a combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.
fluoboric: pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.
fluocerite: a fluoride of cerium, occuring near fahlun in sweden. tynosite, from colorado, is probably the same mineral.
fluor: a fluid state.-menstrual flux; catamenia; menses.-see fluorite.
fluoranthene: a white crystalline hydrocarbon c/h/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
fluorene: a colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, c13h10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. it occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.
fluorescein: a yellowish red, crystalline substance, c20h12o5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. it has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
fluorescence: that property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. it is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. the light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light.
fluorescin: a colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.
fluorine: a non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. it always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. if set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. it is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. symbol f. atomic weight 19.
fluorite: calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. it is used as a flux. some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.
fluoroid: a tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
fluosilicate: a double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.
flurry: a sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.-a light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.-violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.-the violent spasms of a dying whale.-to put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
flush: to flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.-to become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.-to snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.-to start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.-to cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.-to cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.-to make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.-to excite; to animate; to stir.-to cause to start, as a hunter a bird.-a sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.-a suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.-any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.-a sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.-a flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.-a hand of cards of the same suit.-full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.-affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.-unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.-consisting of cards of one suit.-so as to be level or even.
flusher: a workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.-the red-backed shrike. see flasher.
flushing: of flush-a heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /-a surface formed of floating threads.
fluster: to make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.-to be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.-heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
flusteration: the act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
flute: a musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. the modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.-a channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. see illust. under base, n.-a similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.-a long french breakfast roll.-a stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.-a kind of flyboat; a storeship.-to play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.-to play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.-to form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
flute a bec: a beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
fluted: of flute-thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.-decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
flutemouth: a fish of the genus aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
fluter: one who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.-one who makes grooves or flutings.
fluting: of flute-decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
flutist: a performer on the flute; a flautist.-to move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.-to move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.-to be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.
flutter: to vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.-to drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.-the act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.-hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
fluvial: belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
fluviatile: belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.
fluvio-marine: formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.
flux: the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.-the setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.-the state of being liquid through heat; fusion.-any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.-a fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. see bloody flux.-the matter thus discharged.-the quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.-flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.-to affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.-to cause to become fluid; to fuse.-to cause a discharge from; to purge.
fluxion: the act of flowing.-the matter that flows.-fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.-an unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.-a constantly varying indication.-the infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.-a method of analysis developed by newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.
fluxional: pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
fluxionary: fluxional.-pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.
fly: to move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.-to move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.-to float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.-to move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.-to run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. see note under flee.-to move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.-to cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.-to fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.-to hunt with a hawk.-any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.-any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. see diptera, and illust. in append.-a hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.-a familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.-a parasite.-a kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.-the length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.-the part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.-that part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.-two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.-a heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. see fly wheel (below).-the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.-the pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.-a shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.-formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.-a vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.-the outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.-one of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.-the fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.-a batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.-knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
flybane: a kind of catchfly of the genus silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
flyblow: to deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.-one of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
flyboat: a large dutch coasting vessel.-a kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
flycatcher: one of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.