AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ebullition: a boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.-effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.-a sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
eburin: a composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
eburnation: a condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
ecardines: an order of brachiopoda; the lyopomata. see brachiopoda.
ecarte: a game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
ecballium: a genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species ecballium agreste (or elaterium), the squirting cucumber. its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.
ecbatic: denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.
ecbolic: a drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
ecboline: an alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.
ecce homo: a picture which represents the savior as given up to the people by pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
eccentric: deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.-not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.-pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.-not coincident as to motive or end.-deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.-a circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.-one who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.-in the ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.-a circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.-a disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. it is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. the motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
eccentricity: the state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.-the ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.-the ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.-the distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
ecchymose: to discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.
ecchymosis: a livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.
eccle: the european green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle.
ecclesia: the public legislative assembly of the athenians.-a church, either as a body or as a building.
ecclesiarch: an official of the eastern church, resembling a sacrist in the western church.
ecclesiastic: of or pertaining to the church. see ecclesiastical.-a person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
ecclesiastical: of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
eccoriate: to strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
eccritic: a remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
ecdysis: the act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.
ecgonine: a colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
echauguette: a small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. see castle.
echelon: an arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.-an arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or v formation.-to place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.-to take position in echelon.
echidna: a monster, half maid and half serpent.-a genus of monotremata found in australia, tasmania, and new guinea. they are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and australian ant-eater.
echidnine: the clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.
echinated: set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
echinococcus: a parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. it is the larval stage of the taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.
echinodermata: one of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. by many writers it was formerly included in the radiata.
echinodermatous: relating to echinodermata; echinodermal.
echinoid: of or pertaining to the echinoidea.-one of the echinoidea.
echinoidea: the class echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. they have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. see spatangoid, clypeastroid.
echinus: a hedgehog.-a genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of europe.-the rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the grecian doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. see entablature.-the quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the roman doric style. see illust. of column-a name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with roman doric capital. the name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.
echiuroidea: a division of annelida which includes the genus echiurus and allies. they are often classed among the gephyrea, and called the armed gephyreans.
echo: a sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.-fig.: sympathetic recognition; response; answer.-a wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.-a nymph, the daughter of air and earth, who, for love of narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.-to send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.-to repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.-to give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
echometer: a graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.
echometry: the art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.-the art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.
eclaircise: to make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.
eclaircissement: the clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation.
eclampsia: a fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
eclat: brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.-demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause.
eclectic: selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.-consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.-one who follows an eclectic method.
eclipse: an interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. a lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. a satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. the obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. the eclipse of a small portion of the sun by mercury or venus is called a transit of the planet.-the loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.-to cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.-to obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.-to suffer an eclipse.
ecliptic: a great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. it is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.-a great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.-pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.-pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.
eclogite: a rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.
eclogue: a pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the ecloques of virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
economical: pertaining to the household; domestic.-relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.-managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.-managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time.-relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths.-regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
economics: the science of household affairs, or of domestic management.-political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. see political economy, under political.
economist: one who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.-one who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.
economize: to manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.-to be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.
economizer: one who, or that which, economizes.-specifically: (steam boilers) an arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
economy: the management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.-orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.-the system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the jewish economy.-thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.
ecorche: a manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
ecoute: one of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. they serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
ecphractic: serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent.-an ecphractic medicine.
ecraseur: an instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
ecru: having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
ecstasy: the state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.-excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.-violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.-a state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. the body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.-to fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
ecstatic: pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.-delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.-an enthusiast.
ectal: pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental.
ectental: relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum.
ecteron: the external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.
ecthlipsis: the dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.-the elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
ecthoreum: the slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. see nettling cell.
ecthyma: a cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
ectoblast: the outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.-the outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall.
ectobronchium: one of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
ectocuniform: one of the bones of the tarsus. see cuneiform.
ectoderm: the outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.-the external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. see illust. of blastoderm.
ectolecithal: having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.
ectomere: the more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
ectoparasite: any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.
ectopia: a morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.
ectopic: out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.
ectoplasm: the outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.-the outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell.-the ectosarc of protozoan.
ectoprocta: an order of bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.
ectosarc: the semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.
ectosteal: of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
ectostosis: a process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.
ectypal: copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
ectype: a copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. hence:-a work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).-a copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed.
ectypography: a method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.
ecumenical: general; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
eczema: an inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
edda: the religious or mythological book of the old scandinavian tribes of german origin, containing two collections of sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
edder: an adder or serpent.-flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.-to bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge.
eddy: a current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.-a current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.-to move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.-to collect as into an eddy.
edelweiss: a little, perennial, white, woolly plant (leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the alps.
eden: the garden where adam and eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.
edentata: an order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also bruta. the incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.
edentate: destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.-belonging to the edentata.-one of the edentata.
edge: the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.-any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.-sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.-the border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.-to furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.-to shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.-to furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.-to make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.-to move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.-to move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.-to sail close to the wind.
edgeless: without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
edging: of edge-that which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.-the operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
edgy: easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.-having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
edh: the name of the anglo-saxon letter /, capital form /. it is sounded as "english th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth."
edible: fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.-anything edible.
edict: a public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the roman emperors; the edicts of the french monarch.
edictal: relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the roman edictal law.
edification: the act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.-a building or edifice.
edifice: a building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
edifier: one who builds.-one who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction.
edify: to build; to construct.-to instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.-to teach or persuade.-to improve.
edingtonite: a grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. it is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
edit: to superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
edition: a literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of chaucer; chalmers' edition of shakespeare.-the whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.
editor: one who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
editorial: of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.-a leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.
edomite: one of the descendants of esau or edom, the brother of jacob; an idumean.
edriophthalma: a group of crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the arthrostraca.
educate: to bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.
education: the act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
educationist: one who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
educative: tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
educe: to bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.
eductor: one who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
edulcorant: having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.-an edulcorant remedy.