AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
entasia: tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
entasis: a slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.-same as entasia.
entelechy: an actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.
entellus: an east indian long-tailed bearded monkey (semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. it is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.
enter: to come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.-to unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.-to engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.-to pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.-to cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.-to inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.-to go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.-to place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.-to make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. see entry, 4.-to file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.-to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of congress."-to initiate; to introduce favorably.-to go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.-to get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.-to penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.
entermewer: a hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.
enterocoele: a perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.
enteropneusta: a group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. balanoglossus is the only known genus. see illustration in appendix.
enterotome: a kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.
enterprise: that which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.-willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.-to undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.-to treat with hospitality; to entertain.-to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
enterprising: having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
entertain: to be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.-to give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.-to engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.-to give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.-to meet or encounter, as an enemy.-to keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.-to lead on; to bring along; to introduce.-to receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.-entertainment.
entertainment: the act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.-that which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) that which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.-admission into service; service.-payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
entheic: caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.
enthrallment: the act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. see inthrallment.
enthrone: to seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or dignity.-to induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.
enthronization: the act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.
enthronize: to place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.
enthusiasm: inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.-a state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.-enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm.-lively manifestation of joy or zeal.
enthusiast: one moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) one who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) one whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.
enthusiastical: filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art.
enthymeme: an argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, we are dependent; therefore we should be humble. here the major proposition is suppressed. the complete syllogism would be, dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.
entice: to draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. often in a bad sense: to lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.
enticement: the act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.-that which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.
entire: complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.-without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.-consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.-having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.-not gelded; -- said of a horse.-internal; interior.-entirely.-a name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.
entirely: in an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.-without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.
entireness: the state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.-integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.-oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.-of entirety
entirety: the state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.-that which is entire; the whole.
entitle: to give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "commentaries;"  to entitle a man "honorable."-to give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.-to attribute; to ascribe.
entity: a real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
entogastric: pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
entomb: to deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.
entombment: the act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.
entomere: the more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
entomology: that part of zoology which treats of insects.-a treatise on the science of entomology.
entomophaga: one of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. see ichneumon, 2.-a group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum.-a group of edentates, including the ant-eaters.
entomophagan: relating to the entomophaga.-one of the entomophaga.
entomophilous: fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
entomostraca: one of the subclasses of crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. the group embraces several orders; as the phyllopoda, ostracoda, copepoda, and pectostraca. see copepoda, phyllopoda, and cladocera.
entomostracan: relating to the entomostraca.-one of the entomostraca.
entoperipheral: being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. opposed to epiperipheral.
entophytic: of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.
entoplasm: the inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.-endosarc.
entoplastic: pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.
entoplastron: the median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.
entoprocta: a group of bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. see pedicellina.
entoptic: relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.
entosthoblast: the granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.
entozoa: a group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the helminthes.-an artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.-of entozoon
entr'acte: the interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.-a dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.
entrails: the internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.-the internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
entrain: to draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.-to put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.-to go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.
entrance: the act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.-liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.-the passage, door, or gate, for entering.-the entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.-the causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.-the angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.-the bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.-to put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.-to put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
entrap: to catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
entreat: to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.-to treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.-to beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.-to invite; to entertain.-to treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.-to make an earnest petition or request.-entreaty.
entreaty: treatment; reception; entertainment.-the act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
entree: a coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.-in french usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in english usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
entremets: a side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.-any small entertainment between two greater ones.
entrepot: a warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.
entrepreneur: one who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
entresol: a low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
entrochal: pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.
entropy: a certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. if a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. the entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. sometimes called the thermodynamic function.
entry: the act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.-the act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.-that by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.-the exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. see enter, v. t., 8, and entrance, n., 5.-the actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.-a putting upon record in proper form and order.-the act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
entwine: to twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.-to be twisted or twined.
enucleate: to bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.-to remove without cutting (as a tumor).-to bring to light; to make clear.
enumerate: to count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.
enumeration: the act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.-a detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.-a recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
enunciate: to make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.-to make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.-to utter words or syllables articulately.
enunciation: the act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.-mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.-that which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
envelop: to put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.-that which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.-the nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.-a work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. it is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.-a curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.-a set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft.  now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope.  it is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.
envelopment: the act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.-that which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
envenom: to taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.-to taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
envermeil: to color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red.
enviable: fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
envious: malignant; mischievous; spiteful.-feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.-inspiring envy.-excessively careful; cautious.
environ: to surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.-about; around.
environment: act of environing; state of being environed.-that which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
environs: the parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
envoy: one dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. an envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.-an explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the french from, l'envoi.
envy: malice; ill will; spite.-chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of caesar.-emulation; rivalry.-public odium; ill repute.-an object of envious notice or feeling.-to feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.-to feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.-to long after; to desire strongly; to covet.-to do harm to; to injure; to disparage.-to hate.-to emulate.-to be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.-to show malice or ill will; to rail.
enwomb: to conceive in the womb.-to bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.
enzootic: afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. it corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
enzyme: an unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.
eocene: pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, eocene deposits.-the eocene formation.
eolian: aeolian.-formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.
eolis: a genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. see ceratobranchia.
eophyte: a fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the silurian age.
eosaurus: an extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of nova scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
eosin: a yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. it is also used for making a fine red ink. its solution is fluorescent.
eosphorite: a hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. it is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.
eozoic: of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found.
eozoon: a peculiar structure found in the archaean limestones of canada and other regions. by some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.
eozoonal: pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.