AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
corybant: one of the priests of cybele in phrygia. the rites of the corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
corybantiasm: a kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
corybantic: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.
corymb: a flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.-any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.
coryphaenoid: belonging to, or like, the genus coryphaena. see dolphin.
coryphene: a fish of the genus coryphaena. see dolphin. (2)
corypheus: the conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.
coryphodon: a genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of europe and america. its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.
coscoroba: a large, white, south american duck, of the genus cascoroba, resembling a swan.
cosecant: the secant of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.
cosening: anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
cosher: to levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. see coshering.-to treat with hospitality; to pet.
coshering: a feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
cosignitary: signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.-one who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of berlin.
cosinage: collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.-a writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
cosine: the sine of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.
cosmetic: alt. of cosmetical-any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
cosmetical: imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.
cosmical: pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.-pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.-characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.-rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.
cosmically: with the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.-universally.
cosmogonist: one who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.
cosmogony: the creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of hesoid; the cosmogonies of thales, anaxagoras, and plato.
cosmography: a description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.
cosmolabe: an instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.
cosmoline: a substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.
cosmology: the science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
cosmoplastic: pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of god; world-forming.
cosmopolite: one who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.-having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.-common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.-see cosmopolitan.
cosmopolitism: the condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
cosmorama: an exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.
cosmos: the universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.-the theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.
cosmosphere: an apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. it consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
coss: a hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two english miles.-a thing (only in phrase below).
cossack: one of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of little russia and those of the don forming the principal divisions.
cosset: a lamb reared without the aid of the dam. hence: a pet, in general.-to treat as a pet; to fondle.
cossical: of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.
cost: a rib; a side; a region or coast.-see cottise.-of cost-to require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.-to require to be borne or suffered; to cause.-the amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.-loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.-expenses incurred in litigation.
costa: a rib of an animal or a human being.-a rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.-the anterior rib in the wing of an insect.-one of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
costal: pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.-relating to a costa, or rib.
costard: an apple, large and round like the head.-the head; -- used contemptuously.
costated: having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
costeaning: the process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. it consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
costermonger: an apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
costive: retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.-reserved; formal; close; cold.-dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
costiveness: an unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.-inability to express one's self; stiffness.
costmary: a garden plant (chrysanthemum balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. it is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. called also alecost.
costotome: an instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.
costrel: a bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
costume: dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.-such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.-a character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
costumer: one who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.
cot: a small house; a cottage or hut.-a pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.-a cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.-a small, rudely-formed boat.-a sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
cotangent: the tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.
cotarnine: a white, crystalline substance, c12h13no3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. it has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.
cote: a cottage or hut.-a shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.-to go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.-to quote.
cotemporary: living or being at the same time; contemporary.-one who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.
coterie: a set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
cothurn: a buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.
cothurnated: wearing a cothurn.-relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
cotillion: a brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.-a tune which regulates the dance.-a kind of woolen material for women's skirts.-a formal ball.
cotinga: a bird of the family cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored south american species; -- called also chatterers.
cotland: land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.
cotquean: a man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.-a she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.
cotswold: an open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the cotswold hills, in gloucestershire, england.
cottager: one who lives in a cottage.-one who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
cotter: alt. of cottar-a piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. it is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [see illust.] in the united states a cotter is commonly called a key.-a toggle.-to fasten with a cotter.
cottier: in great britain and ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
cottise: a diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. when a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. see also couple-close.
cottised: set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.
cottoid: like a fish of the genus cottus.-a fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus cottus. see sculpin.
cotton: a soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.-the cotton plant. see cotten plant, below.-cloth made of cotton.-to rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.-to go on prosperously; to succeed.-to unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.-to take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
cottontail: the american wood rabbit (lepus sylvaticus); -- also called molly cottontail.
cottonwood: an american tree of the genus populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the p. monilifera and p. angustifolia of the western united states.
cottony: covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.-of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
cotyledon: one of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.-a leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.
cotyledonary: having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.
cotyledonous: of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.
cotyloid: shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.-pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.
coucal: a large, old world, ground cuckoo of the genus centropus, of several species.
couch: to lay upon a bed or other resting place.-to arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.-to lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.-to transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.-to conceal; to include or involve darkly.-to arrange; to place; to inlay.-to put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.-to treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.-to lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.-to lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.-to bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.-a bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the united states, a lounge.-any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.-a mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.-a preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
couchant: lying down with head erect; squatting.-lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.
couche: not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.-lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
couchee: a reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.
coucher: one who couches.-one who couches paper.-a factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.-the book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
couching: of couch-the operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.-embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.
coudee: a measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.
cougar: an american feline quadruped (felis concolor), resembling the african panther in size and habits. its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the american lion. called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. see puma.
cough: to expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.-to expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.-to bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.-a sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.-the more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
could: of can-was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
coulee: a stream-a stream of lava. also, in the western united states, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a caon, which has precipitous sides.
coulisse: a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.-one of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.
couloir: a deep gorge; a gully.-a dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.
coulomb: the standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. it is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. formerly called weber.
coumaric: relating to, derived from, or like, the dipterix odorata, a tree of guiana.
coumarin: the concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of dipterix (formerly coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, c9h6o2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. coumarin in also made artificially.
council: an assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.-a body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council.-act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.
councilman: a member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
counsel: interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.-examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.-result of consultation; advice; instruction.-deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.-a secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.-one who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.-to give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.-to advise or recommend, as an act or course.
counselable: willing to receive counsel or follow advice.-suitable to be advised; advisable, wise.
counselor: one who counsels; an adviser.-a member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [see under consilor.]-one whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.
count: to tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.-to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.-to esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.-to number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.-to reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.-to take account or note; -- with-to plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.-the act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.-an object of interest or account; value; estimation.-a formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.-a nobleman on the continent of europe, equal in rank to an english earl.
countenance: to encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.-to make a show of; to pretend.
counter: a prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. see counter, adv. & a.-one who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.-a piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.-money; coin; -- used in contempt.-a prison; either of two prisons formerly in london.-a telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.-a table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.-contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.-in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.-at or against the front or face.-contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.-the after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.-same as contra. formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.-the breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.-the back leather or heel part of a boot.-an encounter.-to return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
counter brace: the brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.-a brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
counter tenor: one of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
counter-couchant: lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
counter-courant: running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
counter-paly: paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.
counter-roll: a duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
counter-salient: leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
counteract: to act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
counterbalance: to oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.-a weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another-a mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel-a counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
counterbore: a flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.-a kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.-to form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
counterbrace: to brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.-to brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
counterbuff: to strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.-a blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
countercaster: a caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
counterchange: to give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.-to checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. see counterchaged, a., 2.-exchange; reciprocation.
counterchanged: of counterchange-exchanged.-having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
countercharm: to destroy the effect of a charm upon.-that which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.