AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
covenanter: one who makes a covenant.-one who subscribed and defended the "solemn league and covenant." see covenant.
covenanting: of covenant-belonging to a covenant. specifically, belonging to the scotch covenanters.
cover: to overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.-to envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.-to invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.-to hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.-to brood or sit on; to incubate.-to shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.-to remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.-to extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.-to put the usual covering or headdress on.-to copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.-anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.-anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.-shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.-the woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.-the lap of a slide valve.-a tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.-to spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.
cover-point: the fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
covered: of cover-under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.-of covet
covering: of cover-anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
coversed sine: the versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. see illust. of functions.
covert: covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.-sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.-under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.-a place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.-one of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. see illust. of bird.
coverture: covering; shelter; defense; hiding.-the condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.
covet: to wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.-to long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).-to have or indulge inordinate desire.
covetous: very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.-inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
covetousness: strong desire.-a strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
covey: a brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.-a company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.-to brood; to incubate.-a pantry.
covin: a collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.-deceit; fraud; artifice.
cow: a chimney cap; a cowl-the mature female of bovine animals.-the female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.-to depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.-a wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
cow parsley: an umbelliferous plant of the genus chaerophyllum (c. temulum and c. sylvestre).
cow parsnip: a coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus heracleum (h. sphondylium in england, and h. lanatum in america).
cow tree: a tree (galactodendron utile or brosimum galactodendron) of south america, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.
cow-pilot: a handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of florida and the west indies (pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.
coward: borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.-destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.-belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.-a person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.-to make timorous; to frighten.
cowardice: want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
cowardly: wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.-proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.-in the manner of a coward.
cowbane: a poisonous umbelliferous plant; in england, the cicuta virosa; in the united states, the cicuta maculata and the archemora rigida. see water hemlock.
cowberry: a species of vaccinium (v. vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.
cowbird: the cow blackbird (molothrus ater), an american starling. like the european cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.
cowboy: a cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the western and southwestern united states.-one of the marauders who, in the revolutionary war infested the neutral ground between the american and british lines, and committed depredations on the americans.
cowcatxjer: a strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
cower: to stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.-to cherish with care.
cowfish: the grampus.-a california dolphin (tursiops gillii).-a marine plectognath fish (ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
cowhage: a leguminous climbing plant of the genus mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. the spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
cowhide: the hide of a cow.-leather made of the hide of a cow.-a coarse whip made of untanned leather.-to flog with a cowhide.
cowish: timorous; fearful; cowardly.-an umbelliferous plant (peucedanum cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in oregon.
cowl: a monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. the name was also applied to the hood and garment together.-a cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.-a wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.-a vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.
cowlick: a tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
cowpea: the seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus dolichos; also, the plant itself. many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the united states.
cowpox: a pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
cowslip: a common flower in england (primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. it is often cultivated in the united states.-in the united states, the marsh marigold (caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. it is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. see illust. of marsh marigold.
cowwheat: a weed of the genus melampyrum, with black seeds, found on european wheatfields.
coxcomb: a strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.-the cap itself.-the top of the head, or the head itself-a vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.-a name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. same as cockscomb.
coxcombical: befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.
coxcombry: the manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
coy: quiet; still.-shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.-soft; gentle; hesitating.-to allure; to entice; to decoy.-to caress with the hand; to stroke.-to behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.-to make difficulty; to be unwilling.
coyness: the quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
coyote: a carnivorous animal (canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of north america; -- called also prairie wolf. its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
coypu: a south american rodent (myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. it produces a valuable fur called nutria.
cozen: to cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.-to deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
cozy: snug; comfortable; easy; contented.-chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.-a wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
cr/che: a public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.
crab: one of the brachyuran crustacea. they are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. the abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.-the zodiacal constellation cancer.-a crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.-a cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.-a movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.-a form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.-a machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.-a claw for anchoring a portable machine.-to make sour or morose; to embitter.-to beat with a crabstick.-to drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.-sour; rough; austere.
crab-yaws: a disease in the west indies. it is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. see yaws.
crabbed: characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.-characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.-obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.-cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
crabbing: the act or art of catching crabs.-the fighting of hawks with each other.-a process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
crabeater: the cobia.-an etheostomoid fish of the southern united states (hadropterus nigrofasciatus).-a small european heron (ardea minuta, and other allied species).
crabstick: a stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
crack: to break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.-to rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.-to cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.-to utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.-to cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.-to burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.-to be ruined or impaired; to fail.-to utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.-to utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.-a partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.-rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.-a sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.-the tone of voice when changed at puberty.-mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.-a crazy or crack-brained person.-a boast; boasting.-breach of chastity.-a boy, generally a pert, lively boy.-a brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.-free conversation; friendly chat.-of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
cracked: of crack-coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.-crack-brained.
cracker: one who, or that which, cracks.-a noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.-a small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.-a thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a boston cracker; a graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.-a nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the southern united states.-the pintail duck.-a pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
crackle: to make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.-the noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.-a kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.-a condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, chinese crackle; bohemian crackle.
crackled: covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
crackling: the making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.-the well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.-food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
cracowes: long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of europe; -- so called from cracow, in poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.
cradle: a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.-infancy, or very early life.-an implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.-a tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.-a framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.-a case for a broken or dislocated limb.-a frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.-a machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.-a suspended scaffold used in shafts.-the ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.-the basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.-to lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.-to nurse or train in infancy.-to cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.-to transport a vessel by means of a cradle.-to lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
cradling: of cradle-the act of using a cradle.-cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.-the framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
craft: strength; might; secret power.-art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.-those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.-cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.-a vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.-to play tricks; to practice artifice.
craftiness: dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
crafty: relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.-possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.-skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
crag: a steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.-a partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the tertiary age.-the neck or throat-the neck piece or scrag of mutton.
cragged: full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
craggy: full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
cragsman: one accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
crake: to cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.-to boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.-a boast. see crack, n.-any species or rail of the genera crex and porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. see corncrake.
cram: to press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.-to fill with food to satiety; to stuff.-to put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.-to eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.-to make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.-the act of cramming.-information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.-a warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
crambo: a game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.-a word rhyming with another word.
crammer: one who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
cramp: that which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.-a device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.-a rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.-a piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.-a spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.-to compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.-to fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.-to bind together; to unite.-to form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.-to afflict with cramp.-knotty; difficult.
crampet: a cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
crampfish: the torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. see electric fish, and torpedo.
cramponee: having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.
crampoons: a clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.-iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.
cranage: the liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.-the money or price paid for the use of a crane.
cranberry: a red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of vaccinum or oxycoccus.) the high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of viburnum (v. opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.
crane: a measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.-a wading bird of the genus grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.-a machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. in one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane see illust. of derrick.-an iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.-a siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.-a forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. see crotch, 2.-to cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.-to stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.-to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
crane's-bill: the geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.-a pair of long-beaked forceps.
crania: a genus of living brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.-of cranium
cranioclasm: the crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.
cranioclast: an instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.
craniofacial: of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.
craniology: the department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.
cranium: the skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. see skull.
crank: a bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. see bell crank.-any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.-a twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.-a twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.-a person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.-a sick person; an invalid.-sick; infirm.-liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.-full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.-to run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
cranked: formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.
crankle: to break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.-to bend, turn, or wind.-a bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
crankness: liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.-sprightliness; vigor; health.
cranky: full of spirit; crank.-addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.-unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
crannied: having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.-of cranny
crannoge: one of the stockaded islands in scotland and ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. they may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the middle ages. see also lake dwellings, under lake.