AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
del credere: an agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.
delacrymation: an involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.
delamination: formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
delate: to carry; to convey.-to carry abroad; to spread; to make public.-to carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.-to carry on; to conduct.-to dilate.
delaware: an american grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
delawares: a tribe of indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the delaware river, but now mostly located in the indian territory.
delay: a putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.-to put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.-to retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.-to allay; to temper.-to move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
dele: erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /.-to erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.-to deal; to divide; to distribute.
delegacy: the act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.-a body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.
delegate: any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.-one elected by the people of a territory to represent them in congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.-one sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.-sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.-to send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.-to intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
delegation: the act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.-one or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from massachusetts; a deputation.-a kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
delete: to blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
deleterious: hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.
deletitious: of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.
delf: a mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.-same as delftware.
delftware: pottery made at the city of delft in holland; hence:-earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.
deliberate: weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.-formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result.-not hasty or sudden; slow.-to weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.-to take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.
deliberately: with careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
deliberation: the act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.-careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or council.
deliberative: pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.-a discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.-a kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
delicacy: the state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.-nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.-nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.-addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.-nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.-the state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.-that which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.-pleasure; gratification; delight.
delicate: addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.-pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor.-slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature."-fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.-slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture; as, delicate lace or silk.-soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.-light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a delicate blue.-refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.-tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health.-requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.-of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.-nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.-affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a delicate thermometer.-a choice dainty; a delicacy.-a delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
deliciate: to delight one's self; to indulge in feasting; to revel.
delicious: affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.-addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.
deliciously: delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.
deliciousness: the quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast.-luxury.
delict: an offense or transgression against law; (scots law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
delight: a high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.-that which gives great pleasure or delight.-licentious pleasure; lust.-to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.-to have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.
delilah: the mistress of samson, who betrayed him (judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.
delineate: delineated; portrayed.-to indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. see delineation.-to portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.
delineation: the act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.-a delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words.
delineator: one who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.-a perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
delinquency: failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.
delinquent: failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.-one who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
deliquate: to melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.-to cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste.
deliquesce: to dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
deliquescence: the act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.
deliquescent: dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.-branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
deliquiate: to melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
deliquium: a melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.-a sinking away; a swooning.-a melting or maudlin mood.
deliriant: a poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).
delirifacient: producing, or tending to produce, delirium.-any substance which tends to cause delirium.
delirious: having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
delirium: a state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.-strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
delitescence: concealment; seclusion; retirement.-the sudden disappearance of inflammation.
deliver: to set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.-to give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.-to make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.-to give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.-to free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.-to discover; to show.-to deliberate.-to admit; to allow to pass.-free; nimble; sprightly; active.
deliverance: the act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.-act of bringing forth children.-act of speaking; utterance.-the state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.-anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.-any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
deliverer: one who delivers or rescues; a preserver.-one who relates or communicates.
delivery: the act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.-the act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.-the act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.-the act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.-the act of exerting one's strength or limbs.-the act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
della crusca: a shortened form of accademia della crusca, an academy in florence, italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the italian language.
dellacruscan: of or pertaining to the accademia della crusca in florence.
deloul: a special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.
delphic: of or relating to delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.-ambiguous; mysterious.
delphin: alt. of delphine-a fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.
delphine: pertaining to the dauphin of france; as, the delphin classics, an edition of the latin classics, prepared in the reign of louis xiv., for the use of the dauphin (in usum delphini).-pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.
delphinic: pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.-pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (delphinium staphisagria).
delphinine: a poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.
delphinoidea: the division of cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.
delphinus: a genus of cetacea, including the dolphin. see dolphin, 1.-the dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of aquila.
delta: a tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the ganges, of the nile, or of the mississippi.
delthyris: a name formerly given to certain silurian brachiopod shells of the genus spirifer.
deltohedron: a solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. it is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.
deludable: capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on; gullible.
delude: to lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.-to frustrate or disappoint.
deluge: a washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, the deluge, the great flood in the days of noah (gen. vii.).-fig.: anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.-to overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.-to overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
delundung: an east indian carnivorous mammal (prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. it is handsomely spotted.
delusion: the act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.-the state of being deluded or misled.-that which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
delusional: of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
delusive: apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.
delve: to dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.-to dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.-to dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.-a place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
demagnetize: to deprive of magnetic properties. see magnetize.-to free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize.
demagogue: a leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
demand: to ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.-to inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.-to require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.-to call into court; to summon.-to make a demand; to inquire.-the act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.-earnest inquiry; question; query.-a diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.-that which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.-the asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.-the right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.-a thing or amount claimed to be due.
demantoid: a yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the urals. it is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
demarcate: to mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.
demarcation: the act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
demarch: march; walk; gait.-a chief or ruler of a deme or district in greece.
deme: a territorial subdivision of attica (also of modern greece), corresponding to a township.-an undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
demean: to manage; to conduct; to treat.-to conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.-to debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.-management; treatment.-behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.-demesne.-resources; means.
demeanor: management; treatment; conduct.-behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.
dementia: insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
demerit: that which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.-that which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.-the state of one who deserves ill.-to deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.-to depreciate or cry down.-to deserve praise or blame.
demersion: the act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.-the state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water.
demesne: a lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
demesnial: of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.
demi-rilievo: half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.-a work of sculpture of the above character. see alto-rilievo.
demibastion: a half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
demicadence: an imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
demicannon: a kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
demicircle: an instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. it resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.
demiculverin: a kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
demigod: a half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
demigorge: half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
demijohn: a glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.
demilance: a light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
demilancer: a soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.
demilune: a work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. see ravelin.-a crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.
demimonde: persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.
demise: transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.-the decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.-the conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.-to transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.-to convey; to give.-to convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
demisemiquaver: a short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.
demission: the act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.-resignation of an office.
demissionary: pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.-tending to lower, depress, or degrade.
demisuit: a suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
demit: to let fall; to depress.-to yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties.-to lay down, as an office; to resign.
demitint: that part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.-the shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. also called half tint.
demiurge: the chief magistrate in some of the greek states.-god, as the maker of the world.-according to the gnostics, an agent or one employed by the supreme being to create the material universe and man.
demivolt: a half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.
demobilization: the disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.
demobilize: to disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.
democracy: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.-government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.-collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.-the principles and policy of the democratic party, so called.
democrat: one who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.-a member of the democratic party.