AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
great-heartedness: the quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
greaten: to make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand.-to become large; to dilate.
greatness: the state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.-pride; haughtiness.
greave: a grove.-armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.-to clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
greaves: the sediment of melted tallow. it is made into cakes for dogs' food. in scotland it is called cracklings.
grebe: one of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus colymbus (formerly podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of america, europe, and asia. they have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.
grecian: of or pertaining to greece; greek.-a native or naturalized inhabitant of greece; a greek.-a jew who spoke greek; a hellenist.-one well versed in the greek language, literature, or history.
grecize: to render grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a greek form; as, the name is grecized.-to translate into greek.-alt. of grecianize
greco-roman: having characteristics that are partly greek and partly roman; as, greco-roman architecture.
grecque: an ornament supposed to be of greek origin, esp. a fret or meander.
gree: good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably.-rank; degree; position.-the prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize.-to agree.-a step.
greed: an eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
greedy: having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.-having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
greek: of or pertaining to greece or the greeks; grecian.-a native, or one of the people, of greece; a grecian; also, the language of greece.-a swindler; a knave; a cheat.-something unintelligible; as, it was all greek to me.
green: having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.-having a sickly color; wan.-full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.-not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.-not roasted; half raw.-immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.-not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.-the color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.-a grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.-fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.-pl. leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.-any substance or pigment of a green color.-to make green.-to become or grow green.
green-broom: a plant of the genus genista (g. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
green-eyed: having green eyes.-seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts.
green-leek: an australian parrakeet (polytelis barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.
greenback: one of the legal tender notes of the united states; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
greenbacker: one of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
greenbone: any garfish (belone or tylosurus).-the european eelpout.
greencloth: a board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the british sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.
greenfinch: a european finch (ligurinus chloris);  -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.-the texas sparrow  (embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
greengage: a kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. it is called in france reine claude, after the queen of francis i. see gage.
greengill: an oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.
greening: of green-a greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the rhode island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.
greenlet: l. (zool.) one of numerous species of small american singing birds, of the genus vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love  (v. philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (v. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (v. flavifrons) and others. see vireo.-any species of cyclorhis, a genus of tropical american birds allied to the tits.
greenly: with a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely.-of a green color.
greenness: the quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.-freshness; vigor; newness.-immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.
greenockite: native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
greensand: a variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
greenshank: a european sandpiper or snipe (totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
greenstone: a name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
greenwood: a forest as it appears is spring and summer.-pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade.
greet: great.-to weep; to cry; to lament.-mourning.-to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.-to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.-to accost; to address.-to meet and give salutations.-greeting.
greeting: of greet-expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
greeve: see grieve, an overseer.-a manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.
gregarious: habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
grego: a short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the greeks and others in the levant.
gregorian: pertaining to, or originated by, some person named gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.
greisen: a crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of cornwall and saxony.
gremial: of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.-a bosom friend.-a cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.
grenade: a hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.
grenadier: originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. in modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of napoleon i. one of the regiment of grenadier guards of the british army, etc.-any marine fish of the genus macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish.-a bright-colored south african grosbeak (pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.
grenadillo: a handsome tropical american wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony.
grenadine: a thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.-a trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.
gressorious: adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. see illust. under aves.
greyhound: a slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. it is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the egyptian monuments.
gribble: a small marine isopod crustacean (limnoria lignorum or l. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in europe and america.
griddle: an iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.-a sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
griddlecake: a cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.
gride: to cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.
gridiron: a grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.-an openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.-a football field.
grief: pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.-cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.-physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.
grievance: a cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.-grieving; grief; affliction.
grieve: alt. of greeve-to occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.-to sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate.-to feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over.
grieving: of grieve-sad; sorrowful; causing grief.-the act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.
grievous: causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.-characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.-full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.
griff: grasp; reach.-an arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
griffon: a fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. it is often represented in grecian and roman works of art.-a representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.-a species of large vulture (gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of southern europe, north africa, and asia minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. it is supposed to be the "eagle" of the bible. the bearded griffin is the lammergeir.-an english early apple.
grig: a cricket or grasshopper.-any small eel.-the broad-nosed eel. see glut.-heath.
grill: a gridiron.-that which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.-to broil on a grill or gridiron.-to torment, as if by broiling.
grillage: a framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
grim: of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
grimace: a distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.-to make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
grime: foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.-to sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
grimly: grim; hideous; stern.-in a grim manner; fiercely.
grimme: a west african antelope (cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.
grimness: fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
grin: a snare; a gin.-to show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.-to set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.-to express by grinning.-the act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.
grind: to reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.-to wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.-to oppress by severe exactions; to harass.-to study hard for examination.-to perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.-to become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.-to become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.-to move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.-to perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.-the act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.-any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.-a hard student; a dig.
grindelia: the dried stems and leaves of tarweed (grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.
grinder: one who, or that which, grinds.-one of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.-the restless flycatcher (seisura inquieta)  of australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. it makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.
grindstone: a flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects.
grint: 3d pers. sing. pres. of grind, contr. from grindeth.
grip: the griffin.-a small ditch or furrow.-to trench; to drain.-an energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.-a peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.-that by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.-a device for grasping or holding fast to something.-to give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
gripe: a vulture; the griffin.-to catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.-to seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.-to pinch; to distress. specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.-to clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.-to suffer griping pains.-to tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.-grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.-that on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.-a device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.-oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.-pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.-the piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.-the compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.-an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
gripper: one who, or that which, grips or seizes.-in printing presses, the fingers or nippers.
gripple: a grasp; a gripe.-griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.
grisaille: decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in english especially for painted glass.-a kind of french fancy dress goods.
grise: of gree-see grice, a pig.-a step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
griseous: of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.
grisette: a french girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.
grisly: frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.
grison: a south american animal of the family mustelidae (galictis vittata). it is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. its under parts are black. also called south american glutton.-a south american monkey (lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.
grisons: inhabitants of the eastern swiss alps.-the largest and most eastern of the swiss cantons.
grist: ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.-supply; provision.-in rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
gristly: consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
gristmill: a mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
grit: sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.-the coarse part of meal.-grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.-a hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone.  the name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.-structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.-firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.-to give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.-to grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
gritty: containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.-spirited; resolute; unyielding.
grivet: a monkey of the upper nile and abyssinia (cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. it was known to the ancient egyptians. called also tota.
grizzled: gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
grizzly: somewhat gray; grizzled.-a grizzly bear. see under grizzly, a.-in hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
groan: to give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.-to strive after earnestly, as with groans.-to affect by groans.-a low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.
groat: an old english silver coin, equal to four pence.-any small sum of money.
groats: dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
grocer: a trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.
grocery: the commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the united states almost always in the plural form, in this sense.-a retail grocer's shop or store.
grog: a mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.
grogginess: state of being groggy.-tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, which causes him to move in a hobbling manner.
groggy: overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.-weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.-moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse.
grogran: a coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.
grogshop: a shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.
groin: the snout of a swine.-to grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur.-the line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.-the projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.-the surface formed by two such vaults.-a frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.-to fashion into groins; to build with groins.
groined: of groin-built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.
grommet: a ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. sometimes written grummet.-a ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.
gromwell: a plant of the genus lithospermum (l. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. the german gromwell is the stellera.
groom: a boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.-one of several officers of the english royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.-a man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.-to tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.
groomer: one who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.
groomsman: a male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.
groove: a furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.-hence: the habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.-a shaft or excavation.-to cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
grooving: the act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.
grope: to feel with or use the hands; to handle.-to search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.-to search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.-to examine; to test; to sound.
groper: one who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
gros: a heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de naples; gros de tours.
grosbeak: one of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. the common european grosbeak or hawfinch is coccothraustes vulgaris.
groschen: a small silver coin and money of account of germany, worth about two cents. it is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.
grosgrain: of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.
gross: great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.-coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.-not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.-expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.-thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.-great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.-whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.-the main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.-the number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
grossification: the act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.-the swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. henslow.
grossly: in a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
grossness: the state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.
grossular: pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.-a translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.
grossulin: a vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (ribes grossularia) and other fruits.