AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
democratic: pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.-relating to a political party so called.-befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
demogorgon: a mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. see gorgon.
demoiselle: a young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.-the numidian crane (anthropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements.-a beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus agrion.
demolish: to throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
demolisher: one who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
demolition: the act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
demon: a spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.-one's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of socrates.-an evil spirit; a devil.
demonetization: the act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.
demoniac: alt. of demoniacal-a human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.-one of a sect of anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.
demoniacal: pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.-influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power.
demoniacism: the state of being demoniac, or the practices of demoniacs.
demonize: to convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.-to control or possess by a demon.
demonology: a treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations.
demonomagy: magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.
demonstrable: capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.-proved; apparent.
demonstrate: to point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.-to show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial.-to exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
demonstration: the act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.-an expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show.-the exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.-(mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack.-the act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself.-a course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.
demonstrative: having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.-expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.-consisting of eulogy or of invective.-a demonstrative pronoun; as, "this" and "that" are demonstratives.
demonstrator: one who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.-a teacher of practical anatomy.
demoralization: the act of corrupting or subverting morals. especially: the act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
demoralize: to corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
demosthenic: pertaining to, or in the style of, demosthenes, the grecian orator.
demster: a deemster.-an officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.
demulce: to soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften.
demulcent: softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.-a substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting it from irritation. gum arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.
demur: to linger; to stay; to tarry.-to delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.-to scruple or object; to take exception; as, i demur to that statement.-to interpose a demurrer. see demurrer, 2.-to suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about.-to cause delay to; to put off.-stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple.
demure: of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.-affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.-to look demurely.
demurely: in a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty.
demureness: the state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
demurrage: the detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.-the allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.
demurrer: one who demurs.-a stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further.
demy: a printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. see under paper.-a half fellow at magdalen college, oxford.-pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.
den: a small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.-a squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.-any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.-a narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.-to live in, or as in, a den.
denarcotize: to deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium.
denarius: a roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the new testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
denary: containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.-the number ten; a division into ten.-a coin; the anglicized form of denarius.
denaturalize: to render unnatural; to alienate from nature.-to renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize.
dendrite: a stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.
dendritical: pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.
dendroc/la: a division of the turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.
dendrolite: a petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.
dengue: a specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. it occurs in india, egypt, the west indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
denial: the act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.-a refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.-a refusal to grant; rejection of a request.-a refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of god.
denier: one who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of christ.-a small copper coin of insignificant value.
denigrate: to blacken thoroughly; to make very black.-fig.: to blacken or sully; to defame.
denitrification: the act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.
denize: to make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.
denizen: a dweller; an inhabitant.-one who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.-one admitted to residence in a foreign country.-to constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.-to provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
dennet: a light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.
denominate: to give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.-having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. see compound number, under compound.
denomination: the act of naming or designating.-that by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.-a class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of christians.
denominationalism: a denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.
denominative: conferring a denomination or name.-connotative; as, a denominative name.-possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.-derived from a substantive or an adjective; as, a denominative verb.-a denominative name or term; denominative verb.
denominator: one who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.-that number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.-that part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.
denote: to mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.-to be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.
denouement: the unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.-the solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
denounce: to make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).-to proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.-to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
dense: having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.-stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
density: the quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.-the ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.-depth of shade.
dent: a stroke; a blow.-a slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.-to make a dent upon; to indent.-a tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
dental: of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.-formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.-an articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.-a marine mollusk of the genus dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. see dentalium.
dentalium: a genus of marine mollusks belonging to the scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.
dentary: pertaining to, or bearing, teeth.-the distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.
dentate-ciliate: having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.
dentated: toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.-having teeth or toothlike points. see illust. of antennae.
dentately: in a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.
dentex: an edible european marine fish (sparus dentex, or dentex vulgaris) of the family percidae.
denticete: the division of cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.
denticulated: furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.
denticulation: the state of being set with small notches or teeth.-a diminutive tooth; a denticle.
dentil: a small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the ionic, corinthian, and composite orders.
dentilabial: formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed.-a dentilabial sound or letter.
dentilingual: produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed.-a dentilingual sound or letter.
dentine: the dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. it contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.
dentiphone: an instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
dentirostral: having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. see illust. (n) under beak.
dentist: one whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
dentition: the development and cutting of teeth; teething.-the system of teeth peculiar to an animal.
denudation: the act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.-the laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
denude: to divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
denunciation: proclamation; announcement; a publishing.-the act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.-that by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
denunciator: one who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.
denunciatory: characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.
denutrition: the opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
deny: to declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.-to refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.-to refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.-to disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.-to answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.
deobstruct: to remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.
deobstruent: removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient.-a medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.
deodand: a personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to god, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.
deodar: a kind of cedar (cedrus deodara), growing in india, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in england as an ornamental tree.
deodorization: the act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.
deodorize: to deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.
deodorizer: he who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.
deoxidizer: that which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.
depaint: painted.-to paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.-to mark with, or as with, color; to color.
depart: to part; to divide; to separate.-to go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination.-to forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading.-to pass away; to perish.-to quit this world; to die.-to part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.-to divide in order to share; to apportion.-to leave; to depart from.-division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.-a going away; departure; hence, death.
department: act of departing; departure.-a part, portion, or subdivision.-a distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.-subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.-a territorial division; a district; esp., in france, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the department of the loire.-a military subdivision of a country; as, the department of the potomac.
departure: division; separation; putting away.-separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.-removal from the present life; death; decease.-deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.-the desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.-the distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
depasture: to pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.
depatriate: to withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
depauperate: to make poor; to impoverish.-falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.
depend: to hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.-to hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.-to rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of.-to trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.-to serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.-to impend.
dependence: the act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.-the state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).-mutu/// /onnection and support; concatenation; systematic ///er relation.-subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self.-a resting with confidence; reliance; trust.-that on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.-that which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else.-a matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel.
dependency: state of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.-a thing hanging down; a dependence.-that which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.-a territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, great britain has its dependencies in asia, africa, and america.
dependent: hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.-relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on god; dependent upon friends.-one who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.-that which depends; corollary; consequence.
deperditely: hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.
dephlegmate: to deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.
dephlegmation: the operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.
dephlegmator: an instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
dephlogisticcate: to deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability.
depict: depicted.-depicted.-to form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.-to represent in words; to describe vividly.
depilatory: having the quality or power of removing hair.-an application used to take off hair.
deplete: to empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.-to reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
depletion: the act of depleting or emptying.-the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
deplorable: worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
deplore: to feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.-to complain of.-to regard as hopeless; to give up.-to lament.
deploy: to open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.-alt. of deployment
deployment: the act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
deplumation: the stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.-a disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
deplume: to strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.-to lay bare; to expose.