AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
cuspid: one of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. see tooth.
cuspidated: having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.
cuspidor: any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.
custodian: one who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
custody: a keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.-judicial or penal safe-keeping.-state of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
custom: frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.-habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.-long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. see usage, and prescription.-familiar aquaintance; familiarity.-to make familiar; to accustom.-to supply with customers.-to have a custom.-the customary toll, tax, or tribute.-duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.-to pay the customs of.
customary: agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.-holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.-a book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the customary of the normans.
customer: one who collect customs; a toll gatherer.-one who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.-a person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.-a peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.-a lewd woman.
cut: of cut-to separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.-to sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.-to sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.-to castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.-to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.-to wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.-to intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.-to refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.-to absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.-to do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.-to admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.-to perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.-to make a stroke with a whip.-to interfere, as a horse.-to move or make off quickly.-to divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.-an opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.-a stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.-that which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.-a notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.-the surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.-a portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.-an engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.-the act of dividing a pack cards.-the right to divide; as, whose cut is it?-manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.-a common work horse; a gelding.-the failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.-a skein of yarn.-gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.-formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.-overcome by liquor; tipsy.
cut-off: that which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.-the valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in.  see expansion gear, under expansion.-any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.
cut-out: a species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.-a device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
cutaneous: of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
cutgrass: a grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of leersia.
cuticle: the scarfskin or epidermis. see skin.-the outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.-a thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
cuticular: pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.
cutin: the substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.
cutinization: the conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.
cutlass: a short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. see curtal ax.
cutler: one who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.
cutlet: a piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.
cutose: a variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.
cutpurse: one who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket
cutter: one who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.-that which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.-a fore tooth; an incisor.-a boat used by ships of war.-a fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. a cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.-a small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.-a small, light one-horse sleigh.-an officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.-a ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.-a kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
cutthroat: one who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.-murderous; cruel; barbarous.
cutting: of cut-the act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.-something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.-adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.-chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.-severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
cuttle bone: the shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
cuttlefish: a cephalopod of the genus sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. the name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.-a foul-mouthed fellow.
cuttoo plate: a hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
cutty: a short spoon.-a short tobacco pipe.-a light or unchaste woman.
cuttystool: a low stool-a seat in old scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
cutwater: the fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.-a starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.-a sea bird of the atlantic (rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. see skimmer.
cutwork: an ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
cutworm: a caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. during the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. the common cutworms are the larvae of various species of agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.
cuvette: a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.-a cunette.-a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.
cyamelide: a white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
cyamellone: a complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.
cyanic: pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.-of or pertaining to a blue color.
cyanin: the blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.
cyanine: one of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
cyanite: a mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. it is a silicate of aluminium.
cyanogen: a colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, c2n2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. it is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. it conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. the name is also applied to the univalent radical, cn (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.
cyanopathy: a disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.
cyanophyll: a blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
cyanosed: rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.
cyanosis: a condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. see cyanopathy.
cyanosite: native sulphate of copper. cf. blue vitriol, under blue.
cyanotic: relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.
cyanuric acid: an organic acid, c3o3n3h3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. it is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.
cyatholith: a kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.
cyathophylloid: like, or pertaining to, the family cyathophyllidae.-a fossil coral of the family cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group rugosa; -- also called cup corals. thay are found in paleozoic rocks.
cycad: any plant of the natural order cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.
cycadaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. the sago palm is an example.
cycas: a genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. the pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
cyclamen: a genus of plants of the primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. it is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
cyclamin: a white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of cyclamen europaeum.
cyclas: a long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the middle ages. it was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
cycle: an imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.-an interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.-an age; a long period of time.-an orderly list for a given time; a calendar.-the circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of arthur and the knights of the round table, and that of charlemagne and his paladins.-one entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.-a bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.-to pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.-to ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
cyclical: of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
cyclide: a surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. the tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.
cycling: of cycle-the act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.
cyclobranchiate: having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.
cycloganoid: of or pertaining to the cycloganoidei.-one of the cycloganoidei.
cycloganoidei: an order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. the bowfin (amia calva) is a living example.
cycloid: a curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.-of or pertaining to the cycloidei.-one of the cycloidei.
cycloidal: pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.
cycloidei: an order of fishes, formerly proposed by agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. the group is now regarded as artificial.
cyclometer: a contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.
cyclone: a violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. this center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
cyclopaedia: the circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. see encyclopedia.
cyclopean: pertaining to the cyclops; characteristic of the cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, cyclopean labors; cyclopean architecture.
cyclopedic: belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.
cyclops: one of a race of giants, sons of neptune and amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. they were fabled to inhabit sicily, and to assist in the workshops of vulcan, under mt. etna.-a genus of minute entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. see copepoda.-a portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
cyclorama: a pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. the realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.
cycloscope: a machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.
cyclosis: the circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
cyclostomi: a glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the marsipobranchii.
cyclostylar: relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.
cyclostyle: a contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. the writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. copies are transferred with an inked roller.
cydonin: a peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.
cygnus: a constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, lyra; the swan.
cylinder: a solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.-the space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. the space may be limited or unlimited in length.-any hollow body of cylindrical form-the chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.-the barrel of an air or other pump.-the revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.-the bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.-the revolving square prism carrying the cards in a jacquard loom.
cylindrical: having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
cylindroid: a solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.-a certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.
cyma: a member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.-a cyme. see cyme.
cymbal: a musical instrument used by the ancients. it is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.-a musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.-a musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
cymbiform: shaped like a boat; (bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
cyme: a flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.
cymene: a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, ch3.c6h4.c3h7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.
cymidine: a liquid organic base, c10h13.nh2, derived from cymene.
cymogene: a highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.
cymophanous: having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
cymous: having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.
cynanche: any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.
cynanthropy: a kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.
cynarrhodium: a fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
cynic: alt. of cynical-one of a sect or school of philosophers founded by antisthenes, and of whom diogenes was a disciple. the first cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. hence the term cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.-one who holds views resembling those of the cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy.
cynical: having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.-pertaining to the dog star; as, the cynic, or sothic, year; cynic cycle.-belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.-given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.
cynicism: the doctrine of the cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.
cynoidea: a division of carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.
cynosure: the constellation of the lesser bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.-that which serves to direct.-anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
cyperaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.
cyperus: a large genus of plants belonging to the sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the egyptian papyrus.
cyphonautes: the free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain bryozoa.
cyphonism: a punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. it is still in use among some oriental nations.
cypres: a rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
cypress: a coniferous tree of the genus cupressus. the species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
cyprian: belonging to cyprus.-of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.-a native or inhabitant of cyprus, especially of ancient cyprus; a cypriot.-a lewd woman; a harlot.
cyprinodont: one of the cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. see minnow.
cyprinoid: like the carp (cyprinus).-one of the cyprinidae, or carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.
cypris: a genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water crustacea, belonging to the ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
cyprus: a thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. it was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
cypsela: a one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.
cyrenaic: pertaining to cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern africa, and to cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by aristippus, a native of cyrene.-a native of cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of aristippus. see cyrenian, n.