AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
cornage: anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
cornbind: a weed that binds stalks of corn, as convolvulus arvensis, polygonum convolvulus.
corncrake: a bird (crex crex or c. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the european crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.
corncutter: a machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.-an implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of indian corn.
corndodger: a cake made of the meal of indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.
cornea: the transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. see eye.
cornel: the cornelian cherry (cornus mas), a european shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.-any species of the genus cornus, as c. florida, the flowering cornel; c. stolonifera, the osier cornel; c. canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.
corneocalcareous: formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.-horny on one side and calcareous on the other.
corner: the point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.-the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.-an edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.-a secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.-direction; quarter.-the state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.-to drive into a corner.-to drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.-to get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
cornered: of corner-1 having corners or angles.-in a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
cornet: an obsolete rude reed instrument (ger. zinken), of the oboe family.-a brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. see cornet-a-piston.-a certain organ stop or register.-a cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.-a troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.-the standard of such a troop.-the lowest grade of commissioned officer in a british cavalry troop, who carried the standard. the office was abolished in 1871.-a headdress-a square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.-a part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.-see coronet, 2.
cornet-a-piston: a brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
cornfield: a field where corn is or has been growing; -- in england, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in america, a field of indian corn.
cornflower: a conspicuous wild flower (centaurea cyanus), growing in grainfields.
cornic: pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (cornus florida).
cornice: any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
corniferous: of or pertaining to the lowest period of the devonian age. (see the diagram, under geology.) the corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the state of new york.
cornin: a bitter principle obtained from dogwood (cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.-an extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.
cornish: of or pertaining to cornwall, in england.-the dialect, or the people, of cornwall.
corno di bassetto: a tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the english horn, which is a tenor oboe.
corno inglese: a reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the english horn.
cornstarch: starch made from indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.
cornu ammonis: a fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.
cornucopia: the horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. it is an emblem of abundance.-a genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
cornute: alt. of cornuted-to bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.
corny: strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.-producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.-containing corn; tasting well of malt.-tipsy.
corody: an allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.
corolla: the inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. it is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. see the note under blossom.
corollaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.
corollary: that which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.-something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.
corolliflorous: having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. compare calycifloral and thalamifloral.
coromandel: the west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the bay of bengal.
corona: a crown or garland bestowed among the romans as a reward for distinguished services.-the projecting part of a classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. see illust. of column.-the upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.-the shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.-a peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.-an inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.-any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.-a circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.-a peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.-a crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. it is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. called also corona lucis.-a character [/]  called the pause or hold.
coronal: of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).-of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.-of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.-of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.-a crown; wreath; garland.-the frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
coronary: of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.-resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.-a small bone in the foot of a horse.-informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.
coronated: having or wearing a crown.-having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.-girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.-having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
coronation: the act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.-the pomp or assembly at a coronation.
coronel: a colonel.-the iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.
coroner: an officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.
coronet: an ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. the word is used by shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.-the upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.-the iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.
coronilla: a genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.
coronis: in greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.-the curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
coronoid: resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.
coronule: a coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. see pappus.
corosso: the name in central america for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. see ivory nut.
corporal: a noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. in the united states army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. he places and relieves sentinels.-belonging or relating to the body; bodily.-having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. in this sense now usually written corporeal.-alt. of corporale
corporale: a fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.
corporality: the state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality.-a confraternity; a guild.
corporate: formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.-belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.-united; general; collectively one.-to incorporate.-to become incorporated.
corporately: in a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.-in, or as regarda, the body.
corporation: a body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
corporeal: having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.
corporeity: the state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.
corps: the human body, whether living or dead.-a body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.-a body or code of laws.-the land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
corpse: a human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.-the dead body of a human being; -- used also fig.
corpulency: excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.-thickness; density; compactness.
corpuscle: a minute particle; an atom; a molecule.-a protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.  see blood.
corrade: to gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.-to erode, as the bed of a stream. see corrosion.
corral: a pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.-to surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the southwestern united states now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.
corrasion: the erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.
correct: set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.-to make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.-to remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).-to bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.-to counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
correction: the act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.-the act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.-that which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.-abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.-an allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
correctional: tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
corrective: having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.-qualifying; limiting.-that which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.-limitation; restriction.
correctness: the state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.
corrector: one who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
correlate: to have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.-to put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.-one who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.
correlation: reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.
correlative: having or indicating a reciprocal relation.-one who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.-the antecedent of a pronoun.
correspond: to be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.-to be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.-to have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.
correspondence: friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.-the letters which pass between correspondents.-mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
correspondent: suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.-one with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.-one who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.-one who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
corresponding: of correspond-answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.-carrying on intercourse by letters.
corridor: a gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.-the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
corrigibility: quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
corrigible: capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.-submissive to correction; docile.-deserving chastisement; punishable.-having power to correct; corrective.
corrival: a fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.-having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.-to compete with; to rival.
corroborant: strengthening; supporting; corroborating.-anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.
corroborate: to make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.-to make more certain; to confirm; to establish.-corroborated.
corroboration: the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.-that which corroborates.
corroborative: tending to strengthen of confirm.-a medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
corroboratory: tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
corrode: to eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.-to consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.-to have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
corrosion: the action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.
corrosive: eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.-having the quality of fretting or vexing.-that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.-that which has the power of fretting or irritating.
corroval: a dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of new granada as an arrow poison.
corrovaline: a poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
corrugate: wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.-to form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.
corrugation: the act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
corrupt: changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.-changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.-abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.-to change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.-to change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.-to draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.-to debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.-to waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.-to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.-to become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
corrupter: one who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.
corruptibility: the quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.
corruptible: capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.-capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.-that which may decay and perish; the human body.
corruption: the act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.-the product of corruption; putrid matter.-the act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.-the act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
corruptive: having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
corruptly: in a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.
corsage: the waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.-a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament.  typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. it is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.
corsair: a pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.-a piratical vessel.
corsak: a small foxlike mammal (cynalopex corsac), found in central asia.
corse: a living body or its bulk.-a corpse; the dead body of a human being.
corselet: armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.-the thorax of an insect.
corset: in the middle ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.-an article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.-to inclose in corsets.
corsned: the morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. if the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.
cortes: the legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in spain and in portugal answers, in some measure, to the parliament of great britain.
cortex: bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.-bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.-the outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.
cortical: belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
corticifer: one of the gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.
corticiferous: producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.-having a barklike c/nenchyms.
corticine: a material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or india rubber.
cortile: an open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
corundum: the earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. it is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.
corvee: an obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
corvette: a war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the united states navy a sloop of war.