AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
enactor: one who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
enaliosauria: an extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the ichthyosauria and the plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.
enaliosaurian: pertaining to the enaliosauria.-one of the enaliosauria.
enallage: a substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
enamel: a variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.-a glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.-that which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.-the intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. it merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.-to lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.-to variegate with colors as if with enamel.-to form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.-to disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.-to practice the art of enameling.-relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.
enamelar: consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.
enameled: of enamel-coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.
enamelist: one who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.
enamor: to inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
enantiomorphous: similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.
enantiopathy: an opposite passion or affection.-allopathy; -- a term used by followers of hahnemann, or homeopathists.
enantiosis: a figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.
enargite: an iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. it contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.
enarthrosis: a ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. see articulation.
enation: any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.
encamp: to form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.-to form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
encampment: the act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.-the place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
encapsulation: the act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.
encarpus: an ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.
encasement: the act of encasing; also, that which encases.-an old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. see ovulist.
encauma: an ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.
encaustic: prepared by means of heat; burned in.-the method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.
enceinte: the line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.-the area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.-pregnant; with child.
encenia: a festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at oxford and cambridge, england) commemorative of founders or benefactors.
encephaloid: resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.-an encephaloid cancer.
encephalopathy: any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
encephalous: having a head; -- said of most mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.
enchain: to bind with a chain; to hold in chains.-to hold fast; to confine; as, to enchain attention.-to link together; to connect.
enchant: to charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.-to delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.
enchanted: of enchant-under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.
enchanter: one who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment.
enchantment: the act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.-the effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.-that which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.
enchantress: a woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.
enchase: to incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.-to chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.-to delineate or describe, as by writing.
enchodus: a genus of extinct cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. they were allied to the pike (esox).
enchoric: belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. see demotic.
enchylemma: the basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.
enchyma: the primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.
encircle: to form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
enclave: a tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. see exclave.-to inclose within an alien territory.
enclitic: alt. of enclitical-a word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).
enclitical: affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.
encomiastical: bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse.
encompass: to circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.
encore: once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.-a call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.-to call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.
encoubert: one of several species of armadillos of the genera dasypus and euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.
encounter: to come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.-to meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at waterloo.-a meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.-a meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.
encourage: to give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.
encouragement: the act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.-that which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
encratite: one of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also continent.
encrinital: relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.
encrinite: a fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling, the genus encrinus. sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.
encrinoidea: that order of the crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called brachiata and articulata. see illusts. under comatula and crinoidea.
encroach: to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.-encroachment.
encroacher: one who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
encroachment: the act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.-that which is taken by encroaching on another.-an unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
encrustment: that which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation.
encumber: to impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.-to load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
encumbrance: that which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. see incumbrance.-same as incumbrance.
encyclical: sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.-an encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.
encyclopaedia: the circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
encyclopedical: pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.
encyclopedism: the art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
encyclopedist: the compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.
encysted: inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.
encystment: a process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.-a process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. see trichina.
end: the extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.-point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.-termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.-the object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.-that which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.-one of the yarns of the worsted warp in a brussels carpet.-to bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.-to form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.-to destroy; to put to death.-to come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
end-: a combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.
endanger: to put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.-to incur the hazard of; to risk.
endaspidean: having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.
endear: to make dear or beloved.-to raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
endearment: the act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.
endeavor: to exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.-to exert one's self; to work for a certain end.-an exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
endecagynous: having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.
endecane: one of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, c11h24, found as a constituent of petroleum.
endeictic: serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.
endemical: peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
ender: one who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
ending: of end-termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.-the final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. see 3d case, 5.
endive: a composite herb (cichorium endivia). its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.
endless: without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.-infinite; excessive; unlimited.-without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.-void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
endocardial: pertaining to the endocardium.-seated or generated within the heart; as, endocardial murmurs.
endochrome: the coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
endoderm: the inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.-the innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. see illust. of ectoderm.
endodermis: a layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
endogamy: marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.
endogen: a plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. the leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. the endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. see exogen.
endogenous: increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.-originating from within; increasing by internal growth.
endogeny: growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
endognath: the inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of crustacea. see maxilla.
endolymph: the watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
endolymphatic: pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct.-within a lymphatic vessel; endolymphangial.
endometrium: the membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.
endomorph: a crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.
endomysium: the delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.
endoparasite: any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. see entozoon.
endophragma: a chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain crustacea.
endoplastica: a group of rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba.
endopleurite: the portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.
endopodite: the internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of crustacea. see maxilliped.
endorhiza: any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.
endorhizous: having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.
endorse: same as indorse.-a subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).
endosarc: the semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.
endoscope: an instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
endoskeletal: pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.
endoskeleton: the bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
endosmometric: pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.
endosmosis: the transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.
endosmotic: pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic.
endosperm: the albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
endoss: to put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse.
endosternite: the part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in crustacea and insects.
endosteum: the layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
endostome: the foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.-and endostoma.
endostosis: a process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.
endostyle: a fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. see tunicata.
endotheca: the tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. it usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.
endothelium: the thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. see epithelium.
endow: to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.-to enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
endowment: the act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.-that which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.-that which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
endurance: a state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.-the act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
endure: to continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.-to remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.-to remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.-to bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.-to harden; to toughen; to make hardy.
endurer: one who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.
enduring: of endure-lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.
endysis: the act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.
enema: an injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
enemy: one hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.-hostile; inimical.
energetical: having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.-exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.
energetics: that branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.
energical: in a state of action; acting; operating.-having energy or great power; energetic.
energize: to use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.-to give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.
energy: internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.-power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.-strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.-capacity for performing work.
enerlasting: eternal duration, past of future; eternity.-(with the definite article) the eternal being; god.-a plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the french, the cudweeds, etc.-a cloth fabic for shoes, etc. see lasting.
enervate: to deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.-weakened; weak; without strength of force.
enervation: the act of weakening, or reducing strength.-the state of being weakened; effeminacy.
enfeeble: to make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.