AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
dolphin: a cetacean of the genus delphinus and allied genera (esp. d. delphis); the true dolphin.-the coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. it is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. see coryphaenoid.-a mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.-a kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.-a spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.-a mooring post on a wharf or beach.-a permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.-in old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.-a small constellation between aquila and pegasus. see delphinus, n., 2.
dolt: a heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.-to behave foolishly.
doltish: doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.
dom: a title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. see don, and dan.-in portugal and brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.
domain: dominion; empire; authority.-the territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. also used figuratively.-landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.-ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
dome: a building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.-a cupola formed on a large scale.-any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.-a prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.-decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
domebook: a book said to have been compiled under the direction of king alfred. it is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments.
domestic: of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.-of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.-remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.-living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.-made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.-one who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.-articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
domesticate: to make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.-to cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.-to tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
domestication: the act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
domett: a kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.
domeykite: a massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.
domicile: an abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.-a residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.-to establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.
domiciliate: to establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.-to domesticate.
domicillary: of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.
domify: to divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. see house, in astrological sense.-to tame; to domesticate.
domina: lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.
dominant: ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.-the fifth tone of the scale; thus g is the dominant of c, a of d, and so on.
domination: the act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.-a ruling party; a party in power.-a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
domine: a name given to a pastor of the reformed church. the word is also applied locally in the united states, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.-a west indian fish (epinula magistralis), of the family trichiuridae. it is a long-bodied, voracious fish.
domineer: to rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
dominical: indicating, or pertaining to, the lord's day, or sunday.-relating to, or given by, our lord; as, the dominical (or lord's) prayer.-the lord's day or sunday; also, the lord's prayer.
dominican: of or pertaining to st. dominic (dominic de guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.-one of an order of mendicant monks founded by dominic de guzman, in 1215. a province of the order was established in england in 1221. the first foundation in the united states was made in 1807. the master of the sacred palace at rome is always a dominican friar. the dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of st. mary, and in france, jacobins.
dominie: a schoolmaster; a pedagogue.-a clergyman. see domine, 1.
dominion: sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.-superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.-that which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.-a supposed high order of angels; dominations. see domination, 3.
domino: a kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.-a mourning veil formerly worn by women.-a kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.-a costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.-a person wearing a domino.-a game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. the game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played-one of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
dominus: master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
domite: a grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the puy-de-dome in auvergne, france, where it is found.
don: sir; mr; signior; -- a title in spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.-a grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the english universities.-to put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.
donate: to give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
donation: the act of giving or bestowing; a grant.-that which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.-the act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.
donatist: a follower of donatus, the leader of a body of north african schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. they claimed to be the true church.
donative: a gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.-a benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. see the note under benefice, n., 3.-vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
donatory: a donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
donax: a canelike grass of southern europe (arundo donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
doncella: a handsome fish of florida and the west indies (platyglossus radiatus). the name is applied also to the ladyfish (harpe rufa) of the same region.
done: of do-p. p. from do, and formerly the infinitive.-performed; executed; finished.-it is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.-given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
donee: the person to whom a gift or donation is made.-anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.
doni: a clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of coromandel and ceylon.
donjon: the chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. see illust. of castle.
donkey: an ass; or (less frequently) a mule.-a stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
donor: one who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.-one who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.
doob grass: a perennial, creeping grass (cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the united states.
dooly: a kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.
doom: judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.-that to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.-ruin; death.-discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.-to judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.-to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.-to ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.-to assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.-to destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
doom palm: a species of palm tree (hyphaene thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in egypt and abyssinia.
doomsday: a day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.-the day of the final judgment.
door: an opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.-the frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.-passage; means of approach or access.-an entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
doorga: a hindoo divinity, the consort of siva, represented with ten arms.
doorkeeper: one who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
doornail: the nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "as dead as a doornail."
doorplane: a plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
doorstop: the block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
dop: alt. of doop-to dip.-a dip; a low courtesy.
dopplerite: a brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
dor: a large european scaraboid beetle (geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. the name is also applied to allied american species, as the june bug. called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.-a trick, joke, or deception.-to make a fool of; to deceive.
dorado: a southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes xiphias, or the swordfish.-a large, oceanic fish of the genus coryphaena.
doree: a european marine fish (zeus faber), of a yellow color. see illust. of john doree.
dorhawk: the european goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. see goatsucker.
dorian: of or pertaining to the ancient greeks of doris; doric; as, a dorian fashion.-same as doric, 3.-a native or inhabitant of doris in greece.
doric: pertaining to doris, in ancient greece, or to the dorians; as, the doric dialect.-belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the romans. see abacus, capital, order.-of or relating to one of the ancient greek musical modes or keys. its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.-the doric dialect.
doris: a genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.
dorking fowl: one of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. there are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. they are highly esteemed for the table.
dormant: sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.-in a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.-a large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
dormer window: a window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
dormitive: causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.-a medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
dormitory: a sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.-a burial place.
dormouse: a small european rodent of the genus myoxus, of several species. they live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
dornock: a coarse sort of damask, originally made at tournay (in flemish, doornick), belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. also, a stout figured linen manufactured in scotland.
dorr: the dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. see 1st dor.-to deceive. [obs.] see dor, v. t.-to deafen with noise.
dorsal: pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.-pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.-pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.-a hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.
dorsally: on, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
dorse: same as dorsal, n.-the back of a book.-the baltic or variable cod (gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
dorsibranchiata: a division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [see illusts. under annelida and chaetopoda.]
dorsibranchiate: having branchiae along the back; belonging to the dorsibranchiata.-one of the dorsibranchiata.
dorsiferous: bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.
dorsiventral: having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. the leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.-see dorsoventral.
dorsoventral: from the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
dorsum: the ridge of a hill.-the back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.
dory: a european fish. see doree, and john doree.-the american wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. see pike perch.-a small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
doryphora: a genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. see potato beetle.
doryphoros: a spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
dose: the quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.-a sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.-anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.-to proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.-to give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.-to give anything nauseous to.
dossil: a small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.-a roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
dot: a marriage portion; dowry.-a small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.-anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.-to mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.-to mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.-to make dots or specks.
dotage: feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.-foolish utterance; drivel.-excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
dotal: pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
dotation: the act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.-endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
dote: a marriage portion. [obs.] see 1st dot, n.-natural endowments.-to act foolishly.-to be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.-to be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.-an imbecile; a dotard.
doted: of dote-stupid; foolish.-half-rotten; as, doted wood.
doter: one who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.-one excessively fond, or weak in love.
dotted: of dot-marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.
dotterel: decayed.-a european bird of the plover family (eudromias, / charadrius, morinellus). it is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.-a silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.
douay bible: a translation of the scriptures into the english language for the use of english-speaking roman catholics; -- done from the latin vulgate by english scholars resident in france. the new testament portion was published at rheims, a. d. 1582, the old testament at douai, a. d. 1609-10. various revised editions have since been published.
double: twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.-being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.-divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.-having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. the white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.-twice; doubly.-to increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.-to make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.-to be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.-to pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.-to unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.-to be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.-to return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.-to play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.-to set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.-twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.-among compositors, a doublet (see doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.-that which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.-a turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.-something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. hence, a wraith.-a player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.-double beer; strong beer.-a feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.-a game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.-an old term for a variation, as in bach's suites.
double first: a degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.-one who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.
double-acting: acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
double-bank: to row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
double-banked: applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
double-breasted: folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
double-charge: to load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.-to overcharge.
double-decker: a man-of-war having two gun decks.-a public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof.
double-dyed: dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.
double-ender: a vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.-a locomotive with pilot at each end.
double-entendre: a word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
double-faced: having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.-deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
double-hung: having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
double-milled: twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
double-quick: of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.-double-quick time, step, or march.-to move, or cause to move, in double-quick time.
double-ripper: a kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other.