AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
cretonne: a strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.-a fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.-a kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
creux: used in english only in the expression en creux. thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
crevalle: the cavally or jurel.-the pompano (trachynotus carolinus).
crevasse: a deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.-a breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower mississippi.
crevice: a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.-to crack; to flaw.
creviced: having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
crew: the manx shearwater.-a company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.-the company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.-in an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.-imp. of crow-of crow
crewelwork: embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.
crib: a manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.-a stall for oxen or other cattle.-a small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.-a box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.-a hovel; a hut; a cottage.-a structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.-a structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.-a small raft of timber.-a small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.-a miner's luncheon.-the discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.-to shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.-to pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from milton.-to crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.-to make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.-to seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
cribbage: a game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (see crib, 11.) it is characterized by a great variety of chances.
cribbing: of crib-the act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.-purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.-a framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.-a vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. the horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
cribble: a coarse sieve or screen.-coarse flour or meal.-to cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.-coarse; as, cribble bread.
cribellum: a peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
cribration: the act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.
cribriform: resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
crick: the creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.-a painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.-a small jackscrew.
cricket: an orthopterous insect of the genus gryllus, and allied genera. the males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.-a low stool.-a game much played in england, and sometimes in america, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.-a small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.-to play at cricket.
cricoid: resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.
cricothyroid: of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
crier: one who cries; one who makes proclamation.-an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.
crime: any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.-gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.-any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.-that which occasion crime.
criminal: guilty of crime or sin.-involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.-relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.-one who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
criminality: the quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
criminate: to accuse of, or charge with, a crime.-to involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
criminatory: relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
crimp: to fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle.  cf. crisp.-to pinch and hold; to seize.-to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.-to cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.-easily crumbled; friable; brittle.-weak; inconsistent; contradictory.-a coal broker.-one who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.-a keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.-hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.-a game at cards.
crimpage: the act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
crimper: one who, or that which, crimps-a curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.-a device for giving hair a wavy appearance.-a machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
crimpy: having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the saxony sheep.
crimson: a deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.-of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.-to dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.-to become crimson; to blush.
crined: having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.
cringe: to draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.-to contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.-servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
cringle: a withe for fastening a gate.-an iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. the cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.
crinite: having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.-bearded or tufted with hairs.
crinkle: to form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.-to turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.-a winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
crinkled: of crinkle-having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.
crinoidal: of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.
crinoidea: a large class of echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. see blastoidea, cystoidea, comatula.
crinoline: a kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.-a lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.
crinum: a genus of bulbous plants, of the order amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.
cripple: one who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.-lame; halting.-to deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.-to deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
crippling: of cripple-spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
crisis: the point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.-that change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
crisp: curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.-curled with the ripple of the water.-brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.-possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.-lively; sparking; effervescing.-brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.-to curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.-to cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. cf. crimp.-to make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.-to undulate or ripple.  cf.  crisp, v. t.-that which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.
crispation: the act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.-a very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.
crisper: one who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
crispin: a shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.-a member of a union or association of shoemakers.
crispy: formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.-crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.
crissal: pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.-having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.
crisscross: a mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.-a child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.-to mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.-in opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.-with opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
crissum: that part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.
criterion: a standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.
crith: the unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. it is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.
crithomancu: a kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.
critic: one skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.-one who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.-the art of criticism.-an act of criticism; a critique.-of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.-to criticise; to play the critic.
critical: qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.-pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.-inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.-inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.-characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.-pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
critically: in a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.-at a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.
criticalness: the state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.-accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
criticise: to examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.-to express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.-to act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.-to discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault.
criticism: the rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.-the act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
critique: the art of criticism.-a critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, kant's "critique of pure reason."-a critic; one who criticises.-to criticise or pass judgment upon.
cro-quette: a ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.
croak: to make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.-to complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.-to utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.-the coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
croaker: one who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.-a small american fish (micropogon undulatus), of the atlantic coast.-an american fresh-water fish (aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.-the surf fish of california.
croat: a native of croatia, in austria; esp., one of the native slavic race.-an irregular soldier, generally from croatia.
crocein: a name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure.  in general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.
croceous: of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.
crocetin: a dyestuff, obtained from the chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.
crochet: a kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. commonly used adjectively.-to knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.
crocidolite: a mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. it is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. a silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.
crocin: the coloring matter of chinese yellow pods, the fruit of gardenia grandiflora.-a red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (crocus sativus). see polychroite.
crock: the loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.-to soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.-to give off crock or smut.-a low stool.-any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.-to lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
crockery: earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.
crocket: an ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.-a croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
crocodile: a large reptile of the genus crocodilus, of several species. they grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of africa, asia, and america. the eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. the best known species is that of the nile (c. vulgaris, or c. niloticus). the florida crocodile (c. americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. the name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.-a fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
crocodilia: an order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
crocodilian: like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.-one of the crocodilia.
crocoite: lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
croconic: of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.-pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.
crocose: a white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.
crocus: a genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. c. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; c. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.-a deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (crocus of mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
croesus: a king of lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable croesus.
crofter: one who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of scotland.
croissante: terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.
cromlech: a monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. they are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of christianity into these countries.
cromorna: a certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
crone: an old ewe.-an old woman; -- usually in contempt.-an old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
cronstedtite: a mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the swedish mineralogist cronstedt.
croodle: to cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.-to fawn or coax.-to coo.
crook: a bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.-any implement having a bent or crooked end.-the staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.-a bishop's staff of office. cf. pastoral staff.-a pothook.-an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.-a small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.-a person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.-to turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.-to turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.-to bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
crookback: a crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
crookbill: a new zealand plover (anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
crooked: of crook-characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.-not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.-false; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
crookedly: in a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
crookedness: the condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
crookes tube: a vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from w. crookes who introduced it.
croon: to make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.-to hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.-to sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.-to soothe by singing softly.-a low, continued moan; a murmur.-a low singing; a plain, artless melody.
crop: the pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.-the top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.-that which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.-grain or other product of the field while standing.-anything cut off or gathered.-hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.-a projecting ornament in carved stone. specifically, a finial.-tin ore prepared for smelting.-outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.-a riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.-to cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.-fig.: to cut off, as if in harvest.-to cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.-to yield harvest.
cropper: one that crops.-a variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.-a machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.-a fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
croquet: an open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.-the act of croqueting.-in the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
crore: ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).
crosier: the pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of god.