AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
cyrenian: pertaining to cyrene, in africa; cyrenaic.-a native or inhabitant of cyrene.-one of a school of philosophers, established at cyrene by aristippus, a disciple of socrates. their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the epicureans.
cyst: a pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.-in old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.-one of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the pacific, and common rockweeds (fuci) of our shores.-a small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in rotifera, etc.-a form assumed by protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. it generally precedes the production of germs. see encystment.
cystic: having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.-containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.-pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
cysticercus: the larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).
cystidea: an order of crinoidea, mostly fossils of the paleozoic rocks. they were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.
cystine: a white crystalline substance, c3h7nso2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.
cystocarp: a minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
cystocele: hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
cystolith: a concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.-a urinary calculus.
cystoplast: a nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
cystose: containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
cystotomy: the act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
cytoblast: the nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
cytode: a nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.
cytogenesis: development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. see gemmation, budding, karyokinesis; also cell development, under cell.
cytogenous: producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.
cytoid: cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
cytoplasm: the substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
cytula: the fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
czarinian: of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.
czech: one of the czechs.-the language of the czechs (often called bohemian), the harshest and richest of the slavic languages.
czechs: the most westerly branch of the great slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in bohemia and moravia.
d: the fourth letter of the english alphabet, and a vocal consonant. the english letter is from latin, which is from greek, which took it from ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being egyptian. it is related most nearly to t and th; as, eng. deep, g. tief; eng. daughter, g. tochter, gr. qyga`thr, skr. duhitr. see guide to pronunciation, ã178, 179, 229.-the nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in c), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of c (that in a minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of f.-as a numeral d stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original tuscan numeral for 1000.
dab: a skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.-a name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the european species, pleuronectes limanda. the american rough dab is hippoglossoides platessoides.-to strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.-to strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.-a gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.-a small mass of anything soft or moist.
dabb: a large, spine-tailed lizard (uromastix spinipes), found in egypt, arabia, and palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.
dabber: that with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.
dabble: to wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.-to play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.-to work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.
dabbler: one who dabbles.-one who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.
dabchick: a small water bird (podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
daboia: a large and highly venomous asiatic viper (daboia xanthica).
dabster: one who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
dacapo: from the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters d. c. also, the strain so repeated.
dace: a small european cyprinoid fish (squalius leuciscus or leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.
dachshund: one of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. there are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
dacian: of or pertaining to dacia or the dacians.-a native of ancient dacia.
dactyl: a poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, l. tegm/n/, e. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.-a finger or toe; a digit.-the claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
dactylar: pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.-of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.
dactylic: pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.-a line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.-dactylic meters.
dactylioglyph: an engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.-the inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.
dactyliography: the art of writing or engraving upon gems.-in general, the literature or history of the art.
dactyliology: that branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.-that branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.
dactylology: the art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
dactylopterous: having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
dactylozooid: a kind of zooid of siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. see siphonophora.
daddy longlegs: an arachnidan of the genus phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.-a name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.
dade: to hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.-to walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.
dadle: to toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
dado: that part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. see illust. of column.-in any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course.  see base course, under base.-in interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
daedalian: cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.-crafty; deceitful.
daff: to cast aside; to put off; to doff.-a stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull.-to act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.-to daunt.
daffodil: a plant of the genus asphodelus.-a plant of the genus narcissus (n. pseudo-narcissus). it has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.
daft: stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.-gay; playful; frolicsome.
dag: a dagger; a poniard.-a large pistol formerly used.-the unbranched antler of a young deer.-a misty shower; dew.-a loose end; a dangling shred.-to daggle or bemire.-to cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.-to be misty; to drizzle.
dag-tailed: daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
dagger: a short weapon used for stabbing. this is the general term: cf. poniard, stiletto, bowie knife, dirk, misericorde, anlace.-a mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. it is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.-to pierce with a dagger; to stab.-a timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
dagges: an ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the chronicles of st albans.
daggle: to trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.-to run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
daggle-tail: alt. of daggle-tailed-a slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
daggle-tailed: having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
dago: a nickname given to a person of spanish (or, by extension, portuguese or italian) descent.
dagon: the national god of the philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.-a slip or piece.
dagswain: a coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.
daguerreian: pertaining to daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.
daguerreotype: an early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.-the process of taking such pictures.-to produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.-to impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
dahabeah: a nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.
dahlia: a genus of plants native to mexico and central america, of the order compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. the numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.
dahlin: a variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. see inulin.
daily: happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.-a publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.-every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.
daintily: in a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.
daintiness: the quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
dainty: value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.-that which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.-a term of fondness.-rare; valuable; costly.-delicious to the palate; toothsome.-nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.-requiring dainties. hence: overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
dairy: the place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.-that department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.-a dairy farm.
dais: the high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.-a platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.-a canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
daisy: a genus of low herbs (bellis), belonging to the family compositae. the common english and classical daisy is b. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.-the whiteweed (chrysanthemum leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in north america; -- called also oxeye daisy. see whiteweed.
dak: post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
dakir: a measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
dakota group: a subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in western north america; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
dakotas: an extensive race or stock of indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the mississippi river; -- also, in part, called sioux.
dal segno: a direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. see segno.
dale: a low place between hills; a vale or valley.-a trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
dalesman: one living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of england, norway, etc.
dalliance: the act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.-delay or procrastination.-entertaining discourse.
dallier: one who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.
dally: to waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.-to interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.-to delay unnecessarily; to while away.
dalmania: a genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the upper silurian and devonian rocks.
dalmatic: a vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in dalmatia.-a robe worn on state ocasions, as by english kings at their coronation.
daltonism: inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. it has various forms and degrees. so called from the chemist dalton, who had this infirmity.
dam: a female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.-a kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.-a barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.-a firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.-to obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.-to shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
damage: injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.-the estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.-to ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.-to receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.
damageable: capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.-hurtful; pernicious.
daman: a small herbivorous mammal of the genus hyrax. the species found in palestine and syria is hyrax syriacus; that of northern africa is h. brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. see cony, and hyrax.
damascene: of or relating to damascus.-a kind of plume, now called damson. see damson.-same as damask, or damaskeen, v. t.
damask: damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.-linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.-a heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.-damask or damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.-a deep pink or rose color.-pertaining to, or originating at, the city of damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of damascus.-having the color of the damask rose.-to decorate in a way peculiar to damascus or attributed to damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. see damaskeen.
damasken: to decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
damasse: woven like damask.-a damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.
dambonite: a white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an african caoutchouc.
dame: a mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.-the mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.-a woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.-a mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
damewort: a cruciferrous plant (hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
damianist: a follower of damian, patriarch of alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the holy trinity.
dammara: an oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. it is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the east indies, esp. shorea robusta and the dammar pine.-a large tree of the order coniferae, indigenous to the east indies and australasia; -- called also agathis. there are several species.
damn: to condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.-to doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.-to condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.-to invoke damnation; to curse.
damnable: liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.-odious; pernicious; detestable.
damnableness: the state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
damnably: in a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.-odiously; detestably; excessively.
damnation: the state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.-condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.-a sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
damned: of damn-sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.-hateful; detestable; abominable.
damning: of damn-that damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
damp: moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.-dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.-a gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.-being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.-dejected; depressed; sunk.-to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.-to put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
dampen: to make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.-to depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.-to become damp; to deaden.
damper: that which damps or checks; as: (a) a valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) a contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
damsel: a young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, damsel pepin; damsel richard, prince of wales.-a young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.-an attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
damson: a small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.
dan: a title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.-a small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
danaide: a water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
danalite: a mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. it is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
danburite: a borosilicate of lime, first found at danbury, conn. it is near the topaz in form.
dance: to move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.-to move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.-to cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.-the leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.-a tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
dancette: deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
dandelion: a well-known plant of the genus taraxacum (t. officinale, formerly called t. dens-leonis and leontodos taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
dander: dandruff or scurf on the head.-anger or vexation; rage.-to wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.
dandified: made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.-of dandify
dandle: to move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.-to treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.-to play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
dandruff: a scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.
dandy: one who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.-a sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.-a small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.-a dandy roller. see below.
danegelt: an annual tax formerly laid on the english nation to buy off the ravages of danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. it afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
danewort: a fetid european species of elder (sambucus ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also daneweed, dane's weed, and dane's-blood. [said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the danes.]
danger: authority; jurisdiction; control.-power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.-exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.-difficulty; sparingness.-coyness; disdainful behavior.-to endanger.