AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
fleck: a flake; also, a lock, as of wool.-a spot; a streak; a speckle.-to spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
flection: the act of bending, or state of being bent.-the variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
fledge: feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.-to furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.-to furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
flee: to run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. this is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
fleece: the entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.-any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.-the fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.-to deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.-to strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.-to spread over as with wool.
fleeced: of fleece-furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.-stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
fleecer: one who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.
fleer: one who flees.-to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.-to grin with an air of civility; to leer.-to mock; to flout at.
fleet: to sail; to float.-to fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.-to slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.-to pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.-to hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.-to draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.-to cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.-swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.-light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.-a number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.-a flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as fleet street in london.-a former prison in london, which originally stood near a stream, the fleet (now filled up).-to take the cream from; to skim.
fleeting: of fleet-passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
fleetness: swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
flemish: pertaining to flanders, or the flemings.-the language or dialect spoken by the flemings; also, collectively, the people of flanders.
flense: to strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
flesh: the aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.-animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.-the human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.-the human eace; mankind; humanity.-human nature-in a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.-in a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.-the character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.-kindred; stock; race.-the soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.-to feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.-to glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.-to remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
fleshed: of flesh-corpulent; fat; having flesh.-glutted; satiated; initiated.
flesher: a butcher.-a two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
fleshiness: the state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
fleshliness: the state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
fleshly: of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.-animal; not/vegetable.-human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.-carnal; wordly; lascivious.-in a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.
fleshmonger: one who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.
fleshpot: a pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked-plenty; high living.
fleshy: full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.-human.-composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
fleur-de-lis: the iris. see flower-de-luce.-a conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. it is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of france.
fleury: finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.
flews: the pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. see illust. of bloodhound.
flexibility: the state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
flexible: capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.-willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.-capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
flexion: the act of flexing or bending; a turning.-a bending; a part bent; a fold.-syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.-the bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.
flexor: a muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.
flexuous: having turns, windings, or flexures.-having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.-wavering; not steady; flickering.
flexural: of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
flexure: the act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.-a turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.-the last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.-the small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
flick: to whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.-a flitch; as, a flick of bacon.
flicker: to flutter; to flap the wings without flying.-to waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.-the act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.-the golden-winged woodpecker (colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
flidge: fledged; fledge.-to become fledged; to fledge.
flier: one who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.-a fly. see fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).-see flyer, n., 5.-see flyer, n., 4.
flight: the act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.-the act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.-lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.-a number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.-a series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.-a kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. see shaft.-the husk or glume of oats.
flight-shot: the distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
flighted: taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.-feathered; -- said of arrows.
flighter: a horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
flighty: fleeting; swift; transient.-indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
flimsy: weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.-thin or transfer paper.-a bank note.
flinch: to withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.-to let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.-the act of flinching.
fling: to cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.-to shed forth; to emit; to scatter.-to throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.-to throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.-to cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.-to throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.-a cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.-a severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.-a kind of dance; as, the highland fling.-a trifing matter; an object of contempt.
flingdust: one who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
flint: a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. it is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.-a piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.-anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
flint glass: a soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. it is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. called also crystal glass.  cf. glass.
flintiness: the state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
flintlock: a lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.-a hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of european and other armies.
flintwood: an australian name for the very hard wood of the eucalyptus piluralis.
flinty: consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
flip: a mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.-to toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
flip-flap: the repeated stroke of something long and loose.-with repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
flipe: to turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.
flippant: of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.-speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.-a flippant person.
flipper: a broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.-the hand.
flirt: to throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.-to toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.-to jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.-to run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.-to utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.-a sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.-one who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.-pert; wanton.
flisk: to frisk; to skip; to caper.-a caper; a spring; a whim.
flit: to move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.-to flutter; to rove on the wing.-to pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.-to remove from one place or habitation to another.-to be unstable; to be easily or often moved.-nimble; quick; swift. [obs.] see fleet.
flitch: the side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.-one of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.-the outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
flitter: to flutter.-to flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.-a rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
flittermouse: a bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
flitting: of flit-a flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.-a removal from one habitation to another.
float: anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.-a mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.-the hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.-the cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.-anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.-a float board. see float board (below).-a contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.-the act of flowing; flux; flow.-a quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.-the trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.-a polishing block used in marble working; a runner.-a single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.-a coal cart.-the sea; a wave. see flote, n.-to rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.-to move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.-to cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.-to flood; to overflow; to cover with water.-to pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.-to support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
floater: one who floats or swims.-a float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
floating: of float-buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.-free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.-not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.-floating threads. see floating threads, above.-the second coat of three-coat plastering.
floccillation: a delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
floccose: spotted with small tufts like wool.-having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
flocculate: to aggregate into small lumps.-furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
flocculation: the process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
flocculent: clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.-applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
flocculus: a small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
floccus: the tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.-a tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.-a woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
flock: a company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.-a christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.-to gather in companies or crowds.-to flock to; to crowd.-a lock of wool or hair.-woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.-very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.-to coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
flog: to beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
flogger: one who flogs.-a kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
flood: a great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.-the flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.-a great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.-menstrual disharge; menses.-to overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.-to cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
flooding: of flood-the filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.-an abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
floor: the bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.-the structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.-the surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.-a story of a building. see story.-the part of the house assigned to the members.-the right to speak.-that part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.-the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.-a horizontal, flat ore body.-to cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.-to strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.-to finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
floorer: anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.
flooring: of floor-a platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. see floor, n.-material for the construction of a floor or floors.
floorwalker: one who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
flop: to clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.-to turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.-to strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.-to fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.-act of flopping.
floppy: having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
flora: the goddess of flowers and spring.-the complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
floral: pertaining to flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.-containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.
floran: tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
floreal: the eight month of the french republican calendar. it began april 20, and ended may 19. see vendemiare.
florence: an ancient gold coin of the time of edward iii., of six shillings sterling value.-a kind of cloth.
florentine: belonging or relating to florence, in italy.-a native or inhabitant of florence, a city in italy.-a kind of silk.-a kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.
floret: a little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.-a foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
florid: covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.-bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.-embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.-flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
florida bean: the large, roundish, flattened seed of mucuna urens. see under bean.-one of the very large seeds of the entada scandens.
florideae: a subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
floriken: an indian bustard (otis aurita). the bengal floriken is sypheotides bengalensis.
florin: a silver coin of florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. the name is given to different coins in different countries. the florin of england, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the netherlands, about 40 cents; of austria, about 36 cents.
florist: a cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.-one who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
flos-ferri: a variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.
floscularian: one of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
flosh: a hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
floss: the slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.-untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.-a small stream of water.-fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
flossy: pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
flota: a fleet; especially, a /eet of spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from cadiz to vera cruz, in mexico, to transport to spain the production of spanish america.