AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
hemimellitic: having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.
hemimetabolic: having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
hemin: a substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also teichmann's crystals. chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.
hemina: a measure of half a sextary.-a measure equal to about ten fluid ounces.
hemiopsia: a defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at.
hemipeptone: a product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.
hemipode: any bird of the genus turnix. various species inhabit asia, africa, and australia.
hemiprotein: an insoluble, proteid substance, described by schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. it is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.
hemiptera: an order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. in many of the species (heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.
hemisphere: a half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.-half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.-the people who inhabit a hemisphere.
hemispherical: containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
hemistichal: pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.
hemitrope: half turned round; half inverted; (crystallog.) having a twinned structure.-that which is hemitropal in construction; (crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
hemitropous: turned half round; half inverted.-having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.
hemlock: the name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the conium maculatum. see conium.-an evergreen tree common in north america (abies, / tsuga, canadensis); hemlock spruce.-the wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
hemmer: one who, or that which, hems with a needle.-an attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.-a tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.
hemoglobin: the normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. it is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called haematoglobulin. in arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. it crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called haematocrystallin. see blood crystal, under blood.
hemoptysis: the expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.
hemorrhagic: pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage.
hemorrhoidal: of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.-of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves.
hemorrhoids: livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
hemostatic: of or relating to stagnation of the blood.-serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.-a medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
hemp: a plant of the genus cannabis (c. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. the name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.-the fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. the name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp.
hemstitch: to ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
hemstitched: of hemstitch-having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
hen: the female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
henbane: a plant of the genus hyoscyamus (h. niger). all parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. it is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. see hyoscyamus.
henbit: a weed of the genus lamium (l. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.
hence: from this place; away.-from this time; in the future; as, a week hence.-from this reason; as an inference or deduction.-from this source or origin.-to send away.
henchman: an attendant; a servant; a follower. now chiefly used as a political cant term.
hendecane: a hydrocarbon, c11h24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. called also endecane, undecane.
hendecatoic: undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.
hendiadys: a figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
henfish: a marine fish; the sea bream.-a young bib. see bib, n., 2.
henna: a thorny tree or shrub of the genus lawsonia (l. alba). the fragrant white blossoms are used by the buddhists in religious ceremonies. the powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the east to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.-the leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.
hennotannic: pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid.
henotheism: primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest.
henpeck: to subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
henry: the unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.
hent: of hent-to seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.
hepar: liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. it is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. called also hepar sulphuris (/).-any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).
hepatic: of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.-resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.-pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.
hepatica: a genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to anemone; squirrel cup.-any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. see hepaticae, in the supplement.
hepatite: a variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.
hepatization: impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.-conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
hepatize: to impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.-to gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
hepato-pancreas: a digestive gland in crustacea, mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
hepatocystic: of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.
hepatogenous: arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
hepatorenal: of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.
heptachord: a system of seven sounds.-a lyre with seven chords.-a composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.
heptad: an atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. also used as an adjective.
heptane: any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, c7h16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc.
heptarchic: of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy.
heptavalent: having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals.
heptine: any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, c7h12, of the acetylene series.
heptoic: pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.
heptone: a liquid hydrocarbon, c7h10, of the valylene series.
heptyl: a compound radical, c7h15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.
heptylene: a colorless liquid hydrocarbon, c7h14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. called also heptene.
heptylic: pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol.  cf. /nanthylic.
her: the form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, i saw her with her purse out.-alt. of here
heracleonite: a follower of heracleon of alexandria, a judaizing gnostic, in the early history of the christian church.
herald: an officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. he was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.-in the middle ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. in modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in england. see heralds' college (below), and king-at-arms.-a proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.-a forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.-any messenger.-to introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
heraldic: of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.
heraldry: the art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
herapathite: the sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
herb: a plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.-grass; herbage.
herbaceous: of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
herbage: herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.-the liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
herbal: of or pertaining to herbs.-a book containing the names and descriptions of plants.-a collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium.
herbalist: one skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
herbarium: a collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.-a book or case for preserving dried plants.
herbivora: an extensive division of mammalia. it formerly included the proboscidea, hyracoidea, perissodactyla, and artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (ungulata). they feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
herborization: the act of herborizing.-the figure of plants in minerals or fossils.
herborize: to search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them.-to form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. see arborized.
herby: having the nature of, pertaining to, or covered with, herbs or herbage.
hercogamous: not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
herculean: requiring the strength of hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an herculean task.-having extraordinary strength or size; as, herculean limbs.
hercules: a hero, fabled to have been the son of jupiter and alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."-a constellation in the northern hemisphere, near lyra.
hercynian: of or pertaining to an extensive forest in germany, of which there are still portions in swabia and the hartz mountains.
herd: haired.-a number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.-a crowd of low people; a rabble.-one who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.-to unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.-to associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.-to act as a herdsman or a shepherd.-to form or put into a herd.
herdbook: a book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.
herdsman: the owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.
here: of them; their.-hair.-see her, their.-her; hers. see her.-in this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.-in the present life or state.-to or into this place; hither. [colloq.] see thither.-at this point of time, or of an argument; now.
here-at: at, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat.
hereafter: in time to come; in some future time or state.-a future existence or state.
hereditable: capable of being inherited. see inheritable.-qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.
hereditament: any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
hereditary: descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.-transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
heredity: hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. see pangenesis.
hereford: one of a breed of cattle originating in herefordshire, england. the herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.
hereinafter: in the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like).
heremitical: of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society.
heresy: an opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.-religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.-an offense against christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.
heretic: one who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.-one who having made a profession of christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."
hereticate: to decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical.
heriot: formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
herisson: a beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.
heritable: capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.-capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
heritage: that which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.-a possession; the israelites, as god's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
hermaphrodite: an individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. in some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. in the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. see illust. in appendix, under helminths.-including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.
hermaphroditical: partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; characterized by hermaphroditism.
hermaphroditism: the union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.
hermeneutical: unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.
hermeneutically: according to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of scripture was examined hermeneutically.
hermeneutics: the science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the scriptures is to be ascertained.
hermes: see mercury.-originally, a boundary stone dedicated to hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. these figures, though often representing hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. called also herma. see terminal statue, under terminal.
hermetical: of, pertaining to, or taught by, hermes trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. hence: alchemical; chemic.-of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.-made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. see note under hermetically.
hermetically: in an hermetical manner; chemically.-by fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure.
hermit: a person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.-a beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
hermitage: the habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.-a celebrated french wine, both white and red, of the department of drome.
hermodactyl: a heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.
hermogenian: a disciple of hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in africa near the close of the second century. he held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.
hernani: a thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.
hernia: a protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. called also rupture.
hero: an illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as hercules.-a man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.-the principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as achilles in the iliad, ulysses in the odyssey, and aeneas in the aeneid.
herodian: one of a party among the jews, composed of partisans of herod of galilee. they joined with the pharisees against christ.
herodiones: a division of wading birds, including the herons, storks, and allied forms. called also herodii.
heroic: of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.-worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.-larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
heroicomical: combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.
heroine: a woman of an heroic spirit.-the principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.
heroism: the qualities characteristic of a hero, as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
heron: any wading bird of the genus ardea and allied genera, of the family ardeidae. the herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. the common european heron (ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
herpes: an eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.
herpetic: pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.
herpetologist: one versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.
herpetology: the natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
herpetotomist: one who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.
herr: a title of respect given to gentlemen in germany, equivalent to the english mister.
herring: one of various species of fishes of the genus clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or english herring (c. harengus) of the north atlantic. herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of europe and america, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
herringbone: pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
herrnhuter: one of the moravians; -- so called from the settlement of herrnhut (the lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the moravians at the invitation of nicholas lewis, count of zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of bautzen.