AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
edulcorate: to render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.-to free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify.
edulcoration: the act of sweetening or edulcorating.-the act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water.
edulcorator: a contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.
eel: an elongated fish of many genera and species. the common eels of europe and america belong to the genus anguilla. the electrical eel is a species of gymnotus. the so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. see conger eel, electric eel, and gymnotus.
eelgrass: a plant (zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the north atlantic coast.
eelpot: a boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.
eelpout: a european fish (zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and maroona eel. also, an american species (z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. both are edible, but of little value.-a fresh-water fish, the burbot.
eery: serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.-affected with fear; affrighted.
efface: to cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.-to destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
effect: execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in may.-manifestation; expression; sign.-in general: that which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.-impression left on the mind; sensation produced.-power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.-consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.-the purport; the sum and substance.-reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.-goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.-to produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.-to bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
effective: having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.-that which produces a given effect; a cause.-one who is capable of active service.-specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of europe.
effectual: producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.
effectuate: to bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.
effeminacy: characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.
effeminate: having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.-womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.-to make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.-to grow womanish or weak.
effeminately: in an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.-by means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman.
effendi: master; sir; -- a title of a turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.
efferent: conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.-conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.-an efferent duct or stream.
effervesce: to be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.-to exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.
effervescency: a kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
effervescent: gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
effet: the common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.
effete: no longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
efficacious: possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.
efficacy: power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.
efficiency: the quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.-the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
efficient: causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.-an efficient cause; a prime mover.
effigy: the image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
efflation: the act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.
effloresce: to blossom forth.-to change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.-to become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.
efflorescence: flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.-a redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.-the formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.-the powder or crust thus formed.
efflorescent: that effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.-covered with an efflorescence.
efflower: to remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.
effluence: a flowing out, or emanation.-that which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.
effluent: flowing out; as, effluent beams.-a stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
effluvium: subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.
efflux: the act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.-that which flows out; emanation; effluence.-to run out; to flow forth; to pass away.
effluxion: the act of flowing out; effusion.-that which flows out; effluvium; emanation.
effort: an exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.-a force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.-to stimulate.
effrontery: impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
effulge: to cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.-to shine forth; to beam.
effulgence: the state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
effulgent: diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.
effuse: poured out freely; profuse.-disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.-spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence.-having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.-effusion; loss.-to pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.-to emanate; to issue.
effusion: the act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.-that which is poured out, literally or figuratively.-the escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. it may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.-the liquid escaping or exuded.
eft: a european lizard of the genus seps.-a salamander, esp. the european smooth newt (triton punctatus).-again; afterwards; soon; quickly.
eger: alt. of egre-an impetuous flood; a bore. see eagre.
egest: to cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.
egesta: that which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.
egg: the oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. it consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.-a simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.-anything resembling an egg in form.-to urge on; to instigate; to incite/
egg-bird: a species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (sterna fuliginosa) of the west indies. in the bahama islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, phaethon flavirostris.
egg-glass: a small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.
eggar: any bombycid moth of the genera eriogaster and lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (l. roboris) of europe.
eggery: a place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.
egghot: a kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
eggnog: a drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.
eggplant: a plant (solanum melongena), of east indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
eggshell: the shell or exterior covering of an egg. also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.-a smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus ovulum, resembling an egg in form.
egilopical: pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an aegilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.
eglantine: a species of rose (rosa eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.-the sweetbrier (r. rubiginosa).
ego: the conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.
egoism: the doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of descartes and johann gottlieb fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.-excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
egoist: one given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.-a believer in egoism.
egoistical: pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving.
egophony: the sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.
egotism: the practice of too frequently using the word i; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. the word is also used in the sense of egoism.
egotist: one addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.
egregious: surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake.
egress: the act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.-the passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.-to go out; to depart; to leave.
egret: the name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. they are generally white. among the best known species are the american egret (ardea, / herodias, egretta); the great egret (a. alba); the little egret (a. garzetta), of europe; and the american snowy egret (a. candidissima).-a plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.-the flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.-a kind of ape.
egyptian: pertaining to egypt, in africa.-a native, or one of the people, of egypt; also, the egyptian language.-a gypsy.
ehlite: a mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.
eider: any species of sea duck of the genus somateria, esp. somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of europe and america, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. the american eider (s. dresseri), the king eider (s. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (arctonetta fischeri) are related species.
eidograph: an instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.
eight: an island in a river; an ait.-seven and one; as, eight years.-the number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.-a symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
eighteen: eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.-the number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.-a symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.
eighteenth: next in order after the seventeenth.-consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.-the quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.-the eighth after the tenth.
eighth: next in order after the seventh.-consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.-the quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.-the interval of an octave.
eightieth: the next in order after seventy-ninth.-consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.-the quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.
eighty: eight times ten; fourscore.-the sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.-a symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
eikon: an image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
eikosane: a solid hydrocarbon, c20h42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
eikosylene: a liquid hydrocarbon, c20h38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.
eisteddfod: am assembly or session of the welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
either: one of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.-each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.-precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. it is correlative to or.
ejaculate: to throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.-to throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.-to utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.
ejaculation: the act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.-the uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.-the act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
ejaculatory: casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.-suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition.-sudden; hasty.
eject: to expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language.-to cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
ejection: the act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.-the act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.-the state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
ejectment: a casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.-a species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it.
ejector: one who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.-a jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
ekaboron: the name given by mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. see scandium.
ekaluminium: the name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. see gallium, and cf. ekabor.
ekasilicon: the name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. see germanium, and cf. ekabor.
eke: to increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.-in addition; also; likewise.-an addition.
eking: of eke-a lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.-the carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
el dorado: a name given by the spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of south america, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.-any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
elaborate: wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.-to produce with labor-to perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
elaboration: the act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.-the natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
elaeagnus: a genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.
elaeolite: a variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.
elaeoptene: the more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts.
elaiodic: derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid.
elaiometer: an apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.
elamite: a dweller in flam (or susiana), an ancient kingdom of southwestern asia, afterwards a province of persia.
eland: a species of large south african antelope (oreas canna). it is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also cape elk.-the elk or moose.
elaphine: pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or cervus elaphus.
elaphure: a species of deer (elaphurus davidianus) found in china. it is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
elapine: like or pertaining to the elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. see ophidia.
elaps: a genus of venomous snakes found both in america and the old world. many species are known. see coral snake, under coral.
elapse: to slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
elasipoda: an order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. they are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.
elasmobranch: of or pertaining to the elasmobranchii.-one of the elasmobranchii.
elasmobranchiate: of or pertaining to elasmobranchii.-one of the elasmobranchii.
elasmobranchii: a subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the chimaera. the skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.
elasmosaurus: an extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from kansas, allied to plesiosaurus.
elastic: springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; india rubber is elastic.-able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.-an elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of india rubber.
elasticity: the quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.-power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork.
elastin: a nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. it is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.
elate: lifted up; raised; elevated.-having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.-to raise; to exalt.-to exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.
elater: one who, or that which, elates.-an elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.-any beetle of the family elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.-the caudal spring used by podura and related insects for leaping. see collembola.-the active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (ecballium agreste, formerly motordica elaterium) and other related species. it is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
elaterite: a mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
elaterium: a cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (ecballium agreste, formerly called momordica elaterium).