AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
cumin: a dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (cuminum cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.
cuminic: pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.
cuminol: a liquid, c3h7.c6h4.cho, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.
cumshaw: a present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of canton.-to give or make a present to.
cumu-cirro-stratus: nimbus, or rain cloud. see nimbus, and cloud.
cumulative: composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.-augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.-tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.-given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
cunabula: the earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.-the extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
cundurango: the bark of a south american vine (gonolobus condurango) of the milkweed family. it has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer.
cuneated: wedge-shaped-wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.
cunette: a drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
cuniform: wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient persian and assyrian inscriptions. see arrowheaded.-pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.-the wedge-shaped characters used in ancient persian and assyrian inscriptions.-one of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. they are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.-one of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
cunner: a small edible fish of the atlantic coast (ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.-a small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
cunning: knowing; skillful; dexterous.-wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.-crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.-pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.-knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.-the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
cup: a small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.-the contents of such a vessel; a cupful.-repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.-that which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.-anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.-a cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.-to supply with cups of wine.-to apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. see cupping.-to make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
cupbearer: one whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.-one of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master.
cupboard: a board or shelf for cups and dishes.-a small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.-to collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
cupel: a shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).-to refine by means of a cupel.
cupellation: the act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.
cupid: the god of love, son of venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
cupidity: a passionate desire; love.-eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
cupola: a roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. when on a large scale it is usually called dome.-a small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.-a furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.-a revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.-the top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.
cupping: of cup-the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
cupric: of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.
cuprite: the red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.
cuproid: a solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.
cuprous: of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.
cupule: a cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.-a sucker or acetabulum.
cupuliferous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.
cur: a mongrel or inferior dog.-a worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.
curacoa: a liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of curaccao.
curari: a black resinoid extract prepared by the south american indians from the bark of several species of strychnos (s. toxifera, etc.). it sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the indians as an arrow poison.
curarine: a deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the strychnos toxifera. it is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.
curassow: a large gallinaceous bird of the american genera crax, ourax, etc., of the family cracidae.
curate: one who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
curator: one who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.-one appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.
curatrix: a woman who cures.-a woman who is a guardian or custodian.
curb: to bend or curve-to guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.-to furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.-to bend; to crouch; to cringe.-that which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.-an assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.-a frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.-a curbstone.-a swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
curb roof: a roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.
curbstone: a stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.
curculio: one of a large group of beetles (rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.
curculionidous: pertaining to the curculionideae, or weevil tribe.
curcuma: a genus of plants of the order scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (curcuma longa).
curcumin: the coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, c14h14o4, with a green fluorescence.
curd: the coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. it is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.-the coagulated part of any liquid.-the edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.-to cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.-to become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey
curdle: to change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.-to thicken; to congeal.-to change into curd; to cause to coagulate.-to congeal or thicken.
cure: care, heed, or attention.-spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.-medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.-act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.-means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.-to heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.-to subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.-to set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.-to prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.-to pay heed; to care; to give attention.-to restore health; to effect a cure.-to become healed.-a curate; a pardon.
cureall: a remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.
curer: one who cures; a healer; a physician.-one who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
curette: a scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
curfew: the ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by william the conqueror; also, the bell itself.-a utensil for covering the fire.
curia: one of the thirty parts into which the roman people were divided by romulus.-the place of assembly of one of these divisions.-the place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.-the court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.-any court of justice.-the roman see in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia romana.
curialistic: pertaining to a court.-relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the latin church.
curiologic: pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.
curiosity: the state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.-disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.-that which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
curious: difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.-exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.-careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.-exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
curiousness: carefulness; painstaking.-the state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.-inquisitiveness; curiosity.
curl: to twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.-to twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.-to deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.-to raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.-to shape (the brim) into a curve.-to contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.-to move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.-to play at the game called curling.-a ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.-an undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.-a disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
curled: of curl-having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
curler: one who, or that which, curls.-a player at the game called curling.
curlew: a wading bird of the genus numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
curling: of curl-the act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.-a scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
curly: curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
curlycue: some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
curmudgeon: an avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
curmudgeonly: like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
curmurring: murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
currant: a small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the levant, chiefly from zante and cephalonia; -- used in cookery.-the acid fruit or berry of the ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.-a shrub or bush of several species of the genus ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the ribes rubrum.
currency: a continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.-the state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.-that which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.-fluency; readiness of utterance.-current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
current: running or moving rapidly.-now passing, as time; as, the current month.-passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.-commonly estimated or acknowledged.-fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.-a flowing or passing; onward motion. hence: a body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.-general course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
currentness: the quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.-easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
curricle: a small or short course.-a two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.
curriculum: a race course; a place for running.-a course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
curried: dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.-prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.-of curry
currish: having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.
curry: to dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.-to dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.-to beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.-a kind of sauce much used in india, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.-a stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.-to flavor or cook with curry.
currycomb: a kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.-to comb with a currycomb.
curse: to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.-to bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.-to utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.-an invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.-evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.-the cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
cursed: of curse-deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
cursedly: in a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
cursedness: the state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.-wickedness; sin; cursing.-shrewishness.
cursitor: a courier or runner.-an officer in the court of chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.
cursive: running; flowing.-a character used in cursive writing.-a manuscript, especially of the new testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
cursores: an order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the ratitaae.-a group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
cursorial: adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. see illust. of aves.-of or pertaining to the cursores.
cursoriness: the quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
cursory: running about; not stationary.-characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
curst: of curse-imp. & p. p. of curse.-froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
curstness: peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
curt: characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
curtail: to cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.-the scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
curtail dog: a dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.
curtain: a hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.-that part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. see illustrations of ravelin and bastion.-that part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.-a flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.-to inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
curtal: curt; brief; laconic.-a horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.
curtana: the pointless sword carried before english monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of edward the confessor.
curtate: shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.
curtation: the interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
curtesy: the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
curtilage: a yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
curule: of or pertaining to a chariot.-of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.
curvature: the act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.-the amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
curve: bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.-a bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.-a line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.-to bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.-to bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
curvet: a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.-a prank; a frolic.-to make a curvet; to leap; to bound.-to leap and frisk; to frolic.-to cause to curvet.
curvilinear: consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.
curvilinearity: the state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
curvinerved: having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
curvirostres: a group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
curvity: the state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
cushion: a case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.-anything resembling a cushion in properties or use-a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf-a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston-the elastic edge of a billiard table.-a riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.-to seat or place on, or as on a cushion.-to furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.-to conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
cusk: a large, edible, marine fish (brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of europe and america; -- called also tusk and torsk.
cusp: a triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.-the beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.-the point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.-a multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.-a prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.-a sharp and rigid point.-to furnish with a cusp or cusps.