AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
flag: to hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.-to droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.-to let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.-to enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.-that which flags or hangs down loosely.-a cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.-a group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.-a group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.-the bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.-to signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.-to convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.-an aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera iris and acorus.-to furnish or deck out with flags.-a flat stone used for paving.-any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.-to lay with flags of flat stones.
flagellant: one of a fanatical sect which flourished in europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.
flagellata: an order of infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. it includes monads. see infusoria, and monad.
flagellate: to whip; to scourge; to flog.-flagelliform.-of or pertaining to the flagellata.
flagelliform: shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.
flagellum: a young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.-a long, whiplike cilium. see flagellata.-an appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.-a lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. see maxilliped.
flageolet: a small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. it produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.
flagging: of flag-a pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.-growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.
flaggy: weak; flexible; limber.-tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple.-abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.
flagitious: disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.-guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.-characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.
flagon: a vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. it is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.
flagrancy: a burning; great heat; inflammation.-the condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
flagrant: flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.-actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.-flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
flagship: the vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
flagstone: a flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. see flag, a stone.
flail: an instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.-an ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
flake: a paling; a hurdle.-a platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.-a small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.-a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.-a little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.-a sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.-to form into flakes.-to separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
flaky: consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
flam: a freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.-to deceive with a falsehood.
flambeau: a flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
flamboyant: characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) french gothic style.
flamboyer: a name given in the east and west indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of caesalpinia.
flame: a stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.-burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.-ardor of affection; the passion of love.-a person beloved; a sweetheart.-to burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.-to burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.-to kindle; to inflame; to excite.
flamen: a priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. the most honored were those of jupiter, mars, and quirinus, called respectively flamen dialis, flamen martialis, and flamen quirinalis.
flaming: of flame-emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.-of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.-ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
flamingo: any bird of the genus phoenicopterus. the flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. their color is usually red or pink. the american flamingo is p. ruber; the european is p. antiquorum.
flamy: flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.
flanch: a flange.-a bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
flaneur: one who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
flange: an external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.-a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.-to make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.-to be bent into a flange.
flanged: of flange-having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
flank: the fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. see illust. of beef.-the side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.-that part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.-the side of any building.-that part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.-to stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.-to overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.-to border; to touch.-to be posted on the side.
flanker: one who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.-to defend by lateral fortifications.-to attack sideways.
flap: anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.-a hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.-the motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.-a disease in the lips of horses.-to beat with a flap; to strike.-to move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.-to move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.-to fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
flapdragon: a game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.-the thing thus caught and eaten.-to swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.
flapjack: a fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.-a fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.
flare: to burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.-to shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.-to shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.-to be exposed to too much light.-to open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.-an unsteady, broad, offensive light.-a spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.-leaf of lard.
flaring: of flare-that flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.-opening or speading outwards.
flash: to burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.-to break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.-to burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.-to send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.-to convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.-to cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. see flashing, n., 3 (b).-to trick up in a showy manner.-to strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.-a sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.-a sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.-the time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.-a preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.-showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.-wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.-slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.-a pool.-a reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
flashboard: a board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
flasher: one who, or that which, flashes.-a man of more appearance of wit than reality.-a large sparoid fish of the atlantic coast and all tropical seas (lobotes surinamensis).-the european red-backed shrike (lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
flashing: of flash-the creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.-pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. by extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the united states, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like.  cf. filleting.-the reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.-a mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
flashy: dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.-fiery; vehement; impetuous.-showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.-without taste or spirit.
flask: a small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.-a narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.-a bed in a gun carriage.-the wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. when there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
flasket: a long, shallow basket, with two handles.-a small flask.-a vessel in which viands are served.
flat: having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.-lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.-wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.-tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.-unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.-lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.-clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.-below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; a flat.-not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.-sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.-in a flat manner; directly; flatly.-without allowance for accrued interest.-a level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the united states, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the mohawk flats.-a level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.-something broad and flat in form-a flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.-a straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.-a car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.-a platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.-the flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.-a floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.-a horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.-a dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.-a character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.-a homaloid space or extension.-to make flat; to flatten; to level.-to render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.-to depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.-to become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.-to fall form the pitch.
flat foot: a foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.
flat-bottomed: having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
flat-cap: a kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in england, and continued in london after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of london.
flat-footed: having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.-firm-footed; determined.
flat-headed: having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
flatbill: any bird of the genus flatyrynchus. they belong to the family of flycatchers.
flatboat: a boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
flatfish: any fish of the family pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (pleuronectes americanus). the flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. see flounder.
flathead: characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of american indians.-a chinook indian. see chinook, n., 1.
flating: with the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position.
flatly: in a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.
flatness: the quality or state of being flat.-eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.-want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.-want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.-depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.
flatten: to reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.-to throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.-to make vapid or insipid; to render stale.-to lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.-to become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
flatter: one who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.-a flat-faced fulling hammer.-a drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.-to treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.-to raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.-to portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.-to use flattery or insincere praise.
flattering: of flatter-that flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.
flattery: the act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
flatting: of flat-the process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.-a mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.-a method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.-the process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
flatulent: affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.-generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.-turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.-pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
flatus: of flatus-a breath; a puff of wind.-wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.
flatware: articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.
flatwise: with the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
flatworm: any worm belonging to the plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.
flaunt: to throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.-to display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.-anything displayed for show.
flavaniline: a yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, c16h14n2, of artifical production. it is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.
flavine: a yellow, crystalline, organic base, c13h12n2o, obtained artificially.
flavol: a yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it.
flavor: that quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.-that quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.-that which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.-that quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.-to give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.
flaw: a crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.-a defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.-a sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.-a sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.-to crack; to make flaws in.-to break; to violate; to make of no effect.
flawy: full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.-subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.
flax: a plant of the genus linum, esp. the l. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. the fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. linseed oil is expressed from the seed.-the skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
flax-plant: a plant in new zealand (phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. the leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
flaxen: made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
flay: to skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
flea: to flay.-an insect belonging to the genus pulex, of the order aphaniptera. fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. the bite is poisonous to most persons. the human flea (pulex irritans), abundant in europe, is rare in america, where the dog flea (p. canis) takes its place. see aphaniptera, and dog flea. see illustration in appendix.
flea-beetle: a small beetle of the family halticidae, of many species. they have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. the turnip flea-beetle (phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.
flea-bite: the bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.-a trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.
flea-bitten: bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.-white, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.
flea-louse: a jumping plant louse of the family psyllidae, of many species. that of the pear tree is psylla pyri.
fleabane: one of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. they belong, for the most part, to the genera conyza, erigeron, and pulicaria.
fleaking: a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.
fleam: a sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.
flear: see fleer.-a word or look of derision or mockery.-a grin of civility; a leer.
fleawort: an herb used in medicine (plantago psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.
fleche: a simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.