AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
footstalk: the stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.-the peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.-the stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod crustacea; eyestalk.-the lower part of a millstone spindle. it rests in a step.
footstall: the stirrup of a woman's saddle.-the plinth or base of a pillar.
footstep: the mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.-an inclined plane under a hand printing press.
footworn: worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
footy: having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.-poor; mean.
fop: one whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
fop-doodle: a stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
foppery: the behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.-folly; foolery.
foppish: foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
for: in the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.-indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.-indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.-indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.-indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.-indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.-indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.-indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.-indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.-indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.-because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in old english, the reason of anything.-since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. it is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.-one who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
for-: a prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. it often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
forage: the act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.-food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.-to wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.-to strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
foraminifera: an extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. some species are covered with sand. see rhizophoda.
foraminiferous: having small openings, or foramina.-pertaining to, or composed of, foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
forasmuch: in consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. see under for, prep.
foray: a sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.-to pillage; to ravage.
forbear: an ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.-to refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.-to refuse; to decline; to give no heed.-to control one's self when provoked.-to keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.-to treat with consideration or indulgence.-to cease from bearing.
forbearance: the act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.-the quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
forbearing: of forbear-disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
forbid: of forbid-to command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.-to deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.-to oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.-to accurse; to blast.-to defy; to challenge.-to utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
forbiddance: the act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
forbidding: of forbid-repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
force: to stuff; to lard; to farce.-a waterfall; a cascade.-strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.-power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.-strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.-strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.-validity; efficacy.-any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.-to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.-to compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.-to do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.-to obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.-to impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.-to put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.-to exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.-to compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.-to provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.-to allow the force of; to value; to care for.-to use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.-to make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.-to be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
force pump: a pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.-a pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. see illust. of plunger pump, under plunger.
forced: of force-done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
forcemeat: meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
forceps: a pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.-the caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. see earwig.
forcer: one who, or that which, forces or drives.-the solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.-a small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
forcible: possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.-violent; impetuous.-using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
forcing: of force-the accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.-the art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.
forcipal: forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
ford: a place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.-a stream; a current.-to pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
fordo: to destroy; to undo; to ruin.-to overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
fore: journey; way; method of proceeding.-in the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.-formerly; previously; afore.-in or towards the bows of a ship.-advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.-the front; hence, that which is in front; the future.-before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
fore-topgallant: designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. see sail.
fore-topmast: the mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. see ship.
forearm: to arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.-that part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
forebode: to foretell.-to be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.-to fortell; to presage; to augur.-prognostication; presage.
foreboding: of forebode-presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
forebrace: a rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
forebrain: the anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. see brain.
forecast: to plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.-to foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.-to contrive or plan beforehand.-previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.-foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.
forecastle: a short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.-that part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.-in merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
foreclose: to shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
foreclosure: the act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
foredeem: to recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.-to know or discover beforehand; to foretell.
foredoom: to doom beforehand; to predestinate.-doom or sentence decreed in advance.
forefather: one who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
forefend: to hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. see forfend.
forefoot: one of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.-a piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
foreganger: a short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached.
foregleam: an antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
forego: to quit; to relinquish; to leave.-to relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.-to go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
foregoer: one who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.-a purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.-one who forbears to enjoy.
foreground: on a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself.  cf. distance, n., 6.
foregut: the anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.
forehand: all that part of a horse which is before the rider.-the chief or most important part.-superiority; advantage; start; precedence.-done beforehand; anticipative.
forehanded: early; timely; seasonable.-beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer.-formed in the forehand or fore parts.
forehead: the front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.-the aspect or countenance; assurance.-the front or fore part of anything.
forehearth: the forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
forehook: a piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
foreign: outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.-not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.-remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.-held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
foreigner: a person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
forejudge: to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.-to expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
forejudger: a judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
foreknowledge: knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
forel: a kind of parchment for book covers. see forrill.-to bind with a forel.
foreland: a promontory or cape; a headland; as, the north and south foreland in kent, england.-a piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.-that portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
forelock: the lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.-a cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.
foreman: the first or chief man-the chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.-the chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
foremilk: the milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
foremost: first in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
forename: a name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.-to name or mention before.
forensic: belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.-an exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.
foreordain: to ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
forepossessed: holding or held formerly in possession.-preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.
forereach: to advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.-to shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
forerun: to turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).-to come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
forerunner: a messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.-a predecessor; an ancestor.-a piece of rag terminating the log line.
foresail: the sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.-the gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.-the fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
foresee: to see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.-to provide.-to have or exercise foresight.
foreshorten: to represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.-fig.: to represent pictorially to the imagination.
foreshot: in distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
foreshow: to show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
foreside: the front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.-the outside or external covering.
foresight: the act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.-action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.-any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.-muzzle sight. see fore sight, under fore, a.
foreskin: the fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
foreslow: to make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [obs.] see forslow, v. t.-to loiter. [obs.] see forslow, v. i.
forest: an extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the united states, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.-a large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.-of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.-to cover with trees or wood.
forestaff: an instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.
forestage: a duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.-a service paid by foresters to the king.
forestall: to take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.-to take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.-to deprive; -- with of.-to obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
forestay: a large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. see illust. under ship.
forester: one who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.-an inhabitant of a forest.-a forest tree.-a lepidopterous insect belonging to alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (a. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.
foretaste: a taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.-to taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.-to taste before another.
foretell: to predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.-to utter predictions.
forethink: to think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.-to contrive (something) beforehend.-to contrive beforehand.
forethought: thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.-a thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
foretoken: prognostic; previous omen.-to foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
foretop: the hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.-that part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.-the platform at the head of the foremast.
forewarn: to warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
forewit: a leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.-foresight; prudence.
forewoman: a woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
forewot: of forewite-pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of forewite.
forfeit: injury; wrong; mischief.-a thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.-something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.-lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.-to lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.-to be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.-to fail to keep an obligation.-in the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
forfeiture: the act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.-that which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
forficula: a genus of insects including the earwigs. see earwig, 1.