AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
forge: a place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.-the works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.-the act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.-to form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.-to form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.-to coin.-to make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.-to commit forgery.-to move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.-to impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
forger: one who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.-especially: one guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
forgery: the act of forging metal into shape.-the act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.-that which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
forget: to lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.-to treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
forget-me-not: a small herb, of the genus myosotis (m. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
forgetful: apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.-heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.-causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
forgetfulness: the quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.-loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.-failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
forging: of forge-the act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.-the act of counterfeiting.-a piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
forgive: to give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.-to give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.-to cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
forgiveness: the act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.-disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
forgiving: of forgive-disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.
forisfamiliate: literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority.-to renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
fork: an instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.-anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.-one of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.-the place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.-the gibbet.-to shoot into blades, as corn.-to divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.-to raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
fork-tailed: having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.
forkbeard: a european fish (raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.-the european forked hake or hake's-dame (phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.
forked: of fork-formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.-having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
forktail: one of several asiatic and east indian passerine birds, belonging to enucurus, and allied genera. the tail is deeply forking.-a salmon in its fourth year's growth.
forlore: of forlese-imp. pl. & p. p. of forlese.
forlorn: of forlese-deserted; abandoned; lost.-destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.-a lost, forsaken, or solitary person.-a forlorn hope; a vanguard.
form: the shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.-constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.-established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.-show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.-orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.-a shape; an image; a phantom.-that by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.-a long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.-the seat or bed of a hare.-the type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.-the boundary line of a material object. in painting, more generally, the human body.-the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.-the combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. it is not necessarily a closed solid.-that assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.-mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. in modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.-the peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.-to give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.-to give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.-to go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.-to provide with a form, as a hare. see form, n., 9.-to derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.-to take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.-to run to a form, as a hare.
formal: see methylal.-belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.-belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.-done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.-devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.-having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.-dependent in form; conventional.-sound; normal.
formaldehyde: a colorless, volatile liquid, h2co, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
formalism: the practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
formalist: one overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.
formality: the condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.-form without substance.-compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.-an established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.-the dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.-that which is formal; the formal part.-the quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.-the manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.
formalize: to give form, or a certain form, to; to model.-to render formal.-to affect formality.
formally: in a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.
formation: the act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.-the manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.-a substance formed or deposited.-mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.-a group of beds of the same age or period; as, the eocene formation.-the arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
formative: giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.-serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.-capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.-that which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.-a word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
formed: of form-arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.-having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. see ferment, n.
formedon: a writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. this writ has been abolished.
former: one who forms; a maker; a creator.-a shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.-a templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.-a cutting die.-preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.-near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.-earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.
formeret: one of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
formerly: in time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
formic: pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.
formica: a linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. see ant.
formicaroid: like or pertaining to the family formicaridae or ant thrushes.
formicary: the nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
formicid: pertaining to the ants.-one of the family formicidae, or ants.
formidable: exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
formidableness: the quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
forming: of form-the act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.
formula: a prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.-a written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.-a rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.-a prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.-a symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.
formularization: the act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
formulary: stated; prescribed; ritual.-a book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents.-prescribed form or model; formula.
formulate: to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
formyl: a univalent radical, h.c:o, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.-formerly, the radical methyl, ch3.
fornicate: alt. of fornicated-to commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
fornicated: vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.-arching over; overarched.
fornication: unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.-adultery.-incest.-idolatry.
fornicator: an unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
fornix: an arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.-esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
forray: to foray; to ravage; to pillage.-the act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. see foray.
forsake: to quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.-to renounce; to reject; to refuse.
forslack: to neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
forslow: to delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.-to loiter.
forsooth: in truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.-to address respectfully with the term forsooth.-a person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.
forswear: to reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.-to deny upon oath.-to swear falsely; to commit perjury.
forswearer: one who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
fort: a strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
fortalice: a small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.
forte: the strong point; that in which one excels.-the stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.-loudly; strongly; powerfully.
forted: furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.
forth: forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.-out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.-beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.-throughly; from beginning to end.-forth from; out of.-a way; a passage or ford.
forthink: to repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.
forthright: straight forward; in a straight direction.-direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man.-a straight path.
forthwith: immediately; without delay; directly.-as soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.
fortieth: following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.-constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.-one of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.
fortification: the act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.-that which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
fortifier: one who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.
fortify: to add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.-to strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.-to raise defensive works.
fortitude: power to resist attack; strength; firmness.-that strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
fortnightly: occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.-once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.
fortress: a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.-to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
fortuitous: happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.-happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
fortunate: coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.-receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.
fortune: the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.-that which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.-that which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.-wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.-to make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.-to provide with a fortune.-to presage; to tell the fortune of.-to fall out; to happen.
forty: four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.-the sum of four tens; forty units or objects.-a symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
forty-spot: the tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (pardalotus quadragintus).
forum: a market place or public place in rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.-a tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.
forwander: to wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
forward: an agreement; a covenant; a promise.-alt. of forwards-near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.-ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.-ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.-advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.-to help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.-to send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
forwarder: one who forwards or promotes; a promoter.-one who sends forward anything; (com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.-one employed in forwarding.
forwarding: of forward-the act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.-the process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.
forwardness: the quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of christians in propagating the gospel.-an advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness.-eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.-boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.-a state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil.
forwards: toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.-same as forward.
forwot: pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of forwete.
fossa: a pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.
fossette: a little hollow; hence, a dimple.-a small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.
fosseway: one of the great military roads constructed by the romans in england and other parts of europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.
fossil: dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.-like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.-a substance dug from the earth.-the remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.-a person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
fossilism: the science or state of fossils.-the state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
fossilist: one who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.
fossilize: to convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.-to cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.-to become fossil.-to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
fossilized: of fossilize-converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
fossores: a group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. they excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.