AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
finite: having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.
finn: a native of finland; one of the finn/ in the ethnological sense. see finns.
finnan haddie: haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at findon (pron. fin"an), scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
finnikin: a variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
finnish: of or pertaining to finland, to the finns, or to their language.-a northern turanian group of languages; the language of the finns.
finns: natives of finland; finlanders.-a branch of the mongolian race, inhabiting northern and eastern europe, including the magyars, bulgarians, permians, lapps, and finlanders.
finny: having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.-abounding in fishes.
finochio: an umbelliferous plant (foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. the blanched stems are used in france and italy as a culinary vegetable.
fiord: a narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of norway and alaska.
fiorin: a species of creeping bent grass (agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
fiorite: a variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from fiora, in ischia.
fippenny bit: the spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in pennsylvania and the adjacent states.
fir: a genus (abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. the species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc.  the scotch fir is a pinus.
fire: the evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.-fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.-the burning of a house or town; a conflagration.-anything which destroys or affects like fire.-ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.-liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.-splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.-torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.-the discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.-to set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.-to subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.-to inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.-to animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.-to feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.-to light up as if by fire; to illuminate.-to cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.-to drive by fire.-to cauterize.-to take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.-to be irritated or inflamed with passion.-to discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
fire beetle: a very brilliantly luminous beetle (pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in central and south america; -- called also cucujo.  the name is also applied to other species. see firefly.
fire-fanged: injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
fire-set: a set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
firearm: a gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
fireback: one of several species of pheasants of the genus euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. they inhabit southern asia and the east indies.
fireball: a ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.-a luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.
firebrand: a piece of burning wood.-one who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
firecrest: a small european kinglet (regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.
firedrake: a fiery dragon.-a fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.-a worker at a furnace or fire.
firefish: a singular marine fish of the genus pterois, family scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the indo-pacific region. they are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.
fireflaire: a european sting ray of the genus trygon (t. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.
firefly: any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family lampyridae.
firelock: an old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. hence, a gun having such a lock.
fireman: a man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.-a man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
fireplace: the part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
fireprrofing: the act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
firestone: iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.-a stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of england, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
firewarden: an officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
fireweed: an american plant (erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.-the great willow-herb (epilobium spicatum).
firework: a device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. the most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. a number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. the skyrocket is a common form of firework. the name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.-a pyrotechnic exhibition.
fireworm: the larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
firing: the act of disharging firearms.-the mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.-the application of fire, or of a cautery.-the process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.-fuel; firewood or coal.
firk: to beat; to strike; to chastise.-to fly out; to turn out; to go off.-a freak; trick; quirk.
firkin: a varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.-a small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
firlot: a dry measure formerly used in scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. the linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
firm: fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.-not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent.-solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land.-indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.-the name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of hope & co.-to fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.-to fix or direct with firmness.
firmament: fixed foundation; established basis.-the region of the air; the sky or heavens.-the orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.
firman: in turkey and some other oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
firmer-chisel: a chisel, thin in proportion to its width. it has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
first: preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.-foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.-most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, demosthenes was the first orator of greece.-before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.-the upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect.
first-class: of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
first-hand: obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
first-rate: of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.-a war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.
firstborn: first brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
firstling: the first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.-the thing first thought or done.-firstborn.
firstly: in the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
fiscal: pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.-the income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.-a treasurer.-a public officer in scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.-the solicitor in spain and portugal; the attorney-general.
fisetin: a yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid.
fish: a counter, used in various games.-of fish-a name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.-an oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. it breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. see pisces.-the twelfth sign of the zodiac; pisces.-the flesh of fish, used as food.-a purchase used to fish the anchor.-a piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.-to attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.-to seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.-to catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.-to search by raking or sweeping.-to try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.-to strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. see fish joint, under fish, n.
fish-bellied: bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail.
fish-tackle: a tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. the block used is called the fish-block.
fish-tail: like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
fisher: one who fishes.-a carnivorous animal of the weasel family (mustela canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."
fisherman: one whose occupation is to catch fish.-a ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
fishery: the business or practice of catching fish; fishing.-a place for catching fish.-the right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
fishhawk: the osprey (pandion haliaetus), found both in europe and america; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
fishhook: a hook for catching fish.-a hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
fishing: of fish-the act, practice, or art of one who fishes.-a fishery.-pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.
fishskin: the skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.)-see ichthyosis.
fishy: consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.-extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
fissile: capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.
fissilinguia: a group of lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards.
fission: a cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.-a method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. see segmentation, and cell division, under division.-a process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. see strobilation.
fissipalmate: semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. see illust. under aves.
fissiped: alt. of fissipedal-one of the fissipedia.
fissipedia: a division of the carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to pinnipedia.
fissirostral: having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.
fissural: pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.
fissure: a narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.-to cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
fissurella: a genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
fist: the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.-the talons of a bird of prey.-the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.-to strike with the fist.-to gripe with the fist.
fistic: pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes.
fisticuff: a cuff or blow with the fist or hand-a fight with the fists; boxing.
fistula: a reed; a pipe.-a pipe for convejing water.-a permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
fistularia: a genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
fistulous: having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.-hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose.
fit: imp. & p. p. of fight.-in old english, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus.-adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.-prepared; ready.-conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.-to make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.-to bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.-to supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.-to be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on.-to be proper or becoming.-to be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.-the quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.-the coincidence of parts that come in contact.-the part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.-a stroke or blow.-a sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.-a mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.-a passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action.-a darting point; a sudden emission.
fitch: a vetch.-a word found in the authorized version of the bible, representing different hebrew originals. in isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the east. in ezekiel iv. 9, the revised version now reads spelt.-the european polecat; also, its fur.
fitchew: the european polecat (putorius foetidus). see polecat.
fitly: in a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
fitness: the state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
fitter: one who fits or makes to fit;-one who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.-one who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.-a coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.-a little piece; a flitter; a flinder.
fitting: of fit-anything used in fitting up-necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.-fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.
fitweed: a plant (eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.
fitz: a son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, fitzroy, the son of the king; fitzclarence, the son of the duke of clarence.
five: four and one added; one more than four.-the number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.-a symbol representing this number, as 5, or v.
five-finger: see cinquefoil.-a starfish with five rays, esp. asterias rubens.
five-twenties: five-twenty bonds of the united states (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
fivefold: in fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
fives: a kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.-a disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
fix: fixed; solidified.-to make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.-to hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.-to transfix; to pierce.-to render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.-to put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.-to line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.-to become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.-to become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.-a position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.-fettling.
fixation: the act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.-the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.-the act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.-a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
fixed: of fix-securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.-stable; non-volatile.
fixedness: the state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.-the quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
fixing: of fix-the act or process of making fixed.-that which is fixed; a fixture.-arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.
fixity: fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.-coherence of parts.
fixture: that which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.-state of being fixed; fixedness.-anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. this term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. in this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.
fizgig: a fishgig.-a firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.-a gadding, flirting girl.
fizz: to make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.-a hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.
fizzle: to make a hissing sound.-to make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.-a failure or abortive effort.
flabbergast: to astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.
flabby: yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
flabellation: the act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.
flabelliform: having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
flabellinerved: having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.
flabellum: a fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.
flaccid: yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.