AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
drama: a composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. it is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.-a series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.-dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
dramatical: of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid.
dramatize: to compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
drank: of drink.-wild oats, or darnel grass. see drake a plant.-of drink
drape: to cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.-to rail at; to banter.-to make cloth.-to design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
draper: one who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
drapery: the occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.-cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.-a textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.
drastic: acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.-a violent purgative. see cathartic.
draught: the act of drawing or pulling-the act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.-the drawing of a bowstring.-act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.-the act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.-a sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.-the act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see draft, n., 2)-the act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.-that which is drawn-that which is taken by sweeping with a net.-the force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.-the quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.-a sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.-an order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.-a current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.-that which draws-a team of oxen or horses.-a sink or drain; a privy.-a mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.-capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.-the depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.-an allowance on weighable goods. [eng.] see draft, 4.-a move, as at chess or checkers.-the bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.-see draft, n., 7.-used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.-relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.-used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.-drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.-to draw out; to call forth. see draft.-to diminish or exhaust by drawing.-to draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
draughtboard: a checkered board on which draughts are played. see checkerboard.
draughts: a mild vesicatory. see draught, n., 3 (c).-a game, now more commonly called checkers. see checkers.
draughtsman: one who draws pleadings or other writings.-one who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.-a "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.-one who drinks drams; a tippler.
draughty: pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
dravida: a race of hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the hindoo or aryan invasion.
drawback: a loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.-money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
drawbar: an openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. it is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.-a bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
drawbench: a machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
drawbore: a hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.-to make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.-to enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
drawboy: a boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
drawbridge: a bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
drawcansir: a blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
drawee: the person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
drawer: one who, or that which, draws-one who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.-one who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.-one who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.-that which is drawn-a sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.-an under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
drawfiling: the process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
drawgear: a harness for draught horses.-the means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
drawhead: the flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
drawing: of draw-the act of pulling, or attracting.-the act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.-the process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.-the process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.-the distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
drawing-room: a room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.-the company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.
drawknife: a joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.-a tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
drawl: to utter in a slow, lengthened tone.-to speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.-a lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
drawloom: a kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.-a species of damask made on the drawloom.
drawplate: a hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
drawrod: a rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
dray: a squirrel's nest.-a strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.-a kind of sledge or sled.
drayage: use of a dray.-the charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
dread: to fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.-to be in dread, or great fear.-great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.-reverential or respectful fear; awe.-an object of terrified apprehension.-a person highly revered.-fury; dreadfulness.-doubt; as, out of dread.-exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.-inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
dreadful: full of dread or terror; fearful.-inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.-inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
dreadless: free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart.-exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.-without doubt.
dreadnaught: a fearless person.-hence: a garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
dream: the thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.-a visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.-to have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.-to let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.-to have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.
dreamer: one who dreams.-a visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
dreamland: an unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.
dreamy: abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.
dreariness: sorrow; wretchedness.-dismalness; gloomy solitude.
dreary: sorrowful; distressful.-exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
dredge: any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) a dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) a dredging machine. (c) an iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.-very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.-to catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.-a mixture of oats and barley.-to sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
dredger: one who fishes with a dredge.-a dredging machine.-a box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
dree: to endure; to suffer.-to be able to do or endure.-wearisome; tedious.
dreg: corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.
dregginess: fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.
dreggy: containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.
dreissena: a genus of bivalve shells of which one species (d. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of europe.
drench: to cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.-to steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.-a drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.-a military vassal mentioned in domesday book.
drencher: one who, or that which, west or steeps.-one who administers a drench.
dress: to direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.-to arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.-to treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.-to adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) to prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.-to cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.-to put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.-to break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.-to arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, right, dress!-to clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.-that which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.-a lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.-attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.-the system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
dress coat: a coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. it is worn on occasions of ceremony. the dress coat of officers of the united states army is a full-skirted frock coat.
dress goods: a term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
dresser: one who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.-a kind of pick for shaping large coal.-an assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.-a table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.-a cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
dressing: of dress-dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.-an application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.-manure or compost over land. when it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.-a preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.-the stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.-gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.-an ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.-castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
dressmaker: a maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
drib: to do by little and little-to cut off by a little at a time; to crop.-to appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.-to lead along step by step; to entice.-to shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.-a drop.
dribble: to fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.-to slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.-to fall weakly and slowly.-to let fall in drops.-a drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
driblet: a small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
drier: one who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.-drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.-alt. of driest
drift: a driving; a violent movement.-the act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.-course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.-the tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.-that which is driven, forced, or urged along-anything driven at random.-a mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.-a drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.-the horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.-a collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.-in south africa, a ford in a river.-a slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.-a tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.-a deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.-a passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.-the distance through which a current flows in a given time.-the angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.-the distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.-the place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.-the distance between the two blocks of a tackle.-the difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.-to float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.-to accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.-to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.-to drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.-to drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.-to enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.-that causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
driftage: deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.-anything that drifts.
driftpiece: an upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
driftway: a common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.-same as drift, 11.
driftwind: a driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
driftwood: wood drifted or floated by water.-fig.: whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
drifty: full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
drill: to pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.-to train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.-to practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self.-an instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.-the act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.-any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in latin grammar.-a marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. the most destructive kind is urosalpinx cinerea.-to cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.-to sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.-to entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.-to cause to slip or waste away by degrees.-to trickle.-to sow in drills.-a small trickling stream; a rill.-an implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.-a light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.-a row of seed sown in a furrow.-a large african baboon (cynocephalus leucophaeus).-same as drilling.
drill press: a machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
drilling: of drill-the act of piercing with a drill.-a training by repeated exercises.-the act of using a drill in sowing seeds.-a heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.
drimys: a genus of magnoliaceous trees. drimys aromatica furnishes winter's bark.
drink: to swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.-to quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.-to swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.-to take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.-to take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.-to smoke, as tobacco.-liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.-specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
drinkable: capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. macaulay. also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
drinker: one who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
drinking: of drink-the act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.-the practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.-an entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
drip: to fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.-to let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.-to let fall in drops.-a falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.-that part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
dripping: of drip-a falling in drops, or the sound so made.-that which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.