AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
lighten: to descend; to light.-to burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.-to grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.-to make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.-to illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.-to emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.-to free from trouble and fill with joy.-to make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.-to make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.-to cheer; to exhilarate.
lighter: one who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.-a large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.-to convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
lighterage: the price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.-the act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
lighthouse: a tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
lighting: of light-of light-a name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.
lightly: with little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.-swiftly; nimbly; with agility.-without deep impression.-in a small degree; slightly; not severely.-with little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.-without reason, or for reasons of little weight.-commonly; usually.-without dejection; cheerfully.-without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.-not chastely; wantonly.
lightness: the state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.-illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.-absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.
lightning: a discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. the sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.-the act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.-lightening.
lightroom: a small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
lights: the lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
lightsome: having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.-gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating.
lightwood: pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the southern united states; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
lign-aloes: aloes wood, or agallochum. see  agallochum.-a fragrant tree mentioned in the bible.
ligneous: made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
lignification: a change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. it is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.
lignin: a substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.
lignite: mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. it is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. called also brown coal, wood coal.
lignitic: containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.
lignoceric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.
lignose: alt. of lignous-see lignin.-an explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. see nitroglycerin.
lignum rhodium: the fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of rhodorhiza from the canary islands, and of the west indian amyris balsamifera.
lignum-vitae: a tree (guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of america, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. see guaiacum.
ligroin: a trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. it is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. it is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.
ligula: see ligule.-the central process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. it sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees.-a tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. see parapodium.
ligulated: like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.-composed of ligules.
ligule: the thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.-a strap-shaped corolla of flowers of compositae.-a band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.
liguliflorous: bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc.
ligustrin: a bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; -- called also ligustron.
likable: such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person.
like: having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.-equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.-having probability; affording probability; probable; likely.-inclined toward; disposed to; as, to feel like taking a walk.-that which is equal or similar to another; the counterpart; an exact resemblance; a copy.-a liking; a preference; inclination; -- usually in pl.; as, we all have likes and dislikes.-in a manner like that of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him.-in a like or similar manner.-likely; probably.-to suit; to please; to be agreeable to.-to be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy.-to liken; to compare.-to be pleased; to choose.-to have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).-to come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late.  cf. had like, under like, a.
likelihood: appearance; show; sign; expression.-likeness; resemblance.-appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude.
likely: worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.-having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.-similar; like; alike.-such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome.-having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.-in all probability; probably.
liken: to allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.-to make or cause to be like.
likeness: the state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.-appearance or form; guise.-that which closely resembles; a portrait.-a comparison; parable; proverb.
liking: of like-looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. see like, to look.-the state of being pleasing; a suiting. see on liking, below.-the state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement i have no liking for.-appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.
lilac: a shrub of the genus syringa. there are six species, natives of europe and asia.  syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and s. persica, the persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. in the british colonies various other shrubs have this name.-a light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
liliaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.-like the blossom of a lily in general form.
lilliputian: one belonging to a very diminutive race described in swift's "voyage to lilliput."-a person or thing of very small size.-of or pertaining to the imaginary island of lilliput described by swift, or to its inhabitants.-of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.
lilly-pilly: an australian myrtaceous tree (eugenia smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. the wood is hard and fine-grained.
lilt: to do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.-to sing cheerfully.-to utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.-animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.-a lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
lily: a plant and flower of the genus lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.-a name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as pancratium, crinum, amaryllis, nerine, etc.-that end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
lim naea: a genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail.
lima/on: a curve of the fourth degree, invented by pascal. its polar equation is r = a cos / + b.
limacina: a genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the arctic and antarctic seas. it contributes to the food of the right whales.
limax: a genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. they have a small rudimentary shell. the breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. several species are troublesome in gardens. see slug.
limb: a part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.-an arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.-a thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.-an elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.-to supply with limbs.-to dismember; to tear off the limbs of.-a border or edge, in certain special uses.-the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.-the border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.-the graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
limbat: a cooling periodical wind in the isle of cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, a. m., to the middle of the day or later.
limbed: having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.
limber: the shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.-the detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. on top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.-gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.-to attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.-easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.-to cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
limbus: an extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.-hence: any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.-a border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
lime: a thong by which a dog is led; a leash.-the linden tree. see linden.-a fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. there are two kinds; citrus medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (c. medica, var. limetta) which is only slightly sour.-birdlime.-oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. it develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.-to smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.-to entangle; to insnare.-to treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.-to cement.
lime-twigged: beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.
limekiln: a kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
limenean: of or pertaining to lima, or to the inhabitants of lima, in peru.-a native or inhabitant of lima.
limestone: a rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. it sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. crystalline limestone is called marble.
limewater: water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
limicolae: a group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the grallae.
limit: that which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.-the space or thing defined by limits.-that which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.-a restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.-a determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.-a determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.-to apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.-to beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
limitary: placed at the limit, as a guard.-confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc.-limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive.-that which serves to limit; a boundary; border land.-a limiter. see limiter, 2.
limitation: the act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.-that which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.-a certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.-a limited time within or during which something is to be done.-a certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.-a settling of an estate or property by specific rules.-a restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
limited: of limit-confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
limiter: one who, or that which, limits.-a friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district.
limitive: involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
limmer: limber.-a limehound; a leamer.-a mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.-a low, base fellow; also, a prostitute.-a man rope at the side of a ladder.
limn: to draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.-to illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.
limner: a painter; an artist-one who paints portraits.-one who illuminates books.
limning: of limn-the act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced.
limonite: hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. it includes bog iron. also called brown hematite.
limp: to halt; to walk lamely. also used figuratively.-a halt; the act of limping.-a scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.-flaccid; flabby, as flesh.-lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
limpet: in a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.-any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.-any species of siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.-a keyhole limpet. see fissurella.
limpid: characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.
limpkin: either one of two species of wading birds of the genus aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. the limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. one species (a. giganteus) inhabits florida and the west indies; the other (a. scolopaceus) is found in south america. called also courlan, and crying bird.
limu: the hawaiian name for seaweeds. over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as limu lipoa, limu palawai, etc.
limuloidea: an order of merostomata, including among living animals the genus limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the carboniferous period. called also xiphosura.
limulus: the only existing genus of merostomata. it includes only a few species from the east indies, and one (limulus polyphemus) from the atlantic coast of north america. called also molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
limy: smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous.-containing lime; as, a limy soil.-resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.
lin: to yield; to stop; to cease.-to cease from.-a pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.-a waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.-a steep ravine.
linament: lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
linarite: a hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.
linchpin: a pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
linden: a handsome tree (tilia europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. the tree is common in europe.-in america, the basswood, or tilia americana.
lindia: a peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. by some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the arthropoda.
lindiform: resembling the genus lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvae.
lineage: descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
lineal: descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.-inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).-composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.-in the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.
lineally: in a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the conqueror.
lineament: one of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the plural.
linear: of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.-like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.
lineated: marked with lines.-marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.
lineman: one who carries the line in surveying, etc.-a man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.
linen: made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.-resembling linen cloth; white; pale.-thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.-underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.
liner: one who lines, as, a liner of shoes.-a vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.-a thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.-a lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.-a slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.-a ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.
ling: a large, marine, gadoid fish (molva vulgaris) of northern europe and greenland. it is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. called also drizzle.-the burbot of lake ontario.-an american hake of the genus phycis.-a new zealand food fish of the genus genypterus. the name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.-heather (calluna vulgaris).
lingam: the phallic symbol under which siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.
lingel: a shoemaker's thread.-a little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.
linger: to delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.-to protract; to draw out.-to spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.
lingering: of linger-delaying.-drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.
lingism: a mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by pehr henrik ling, a swede. see kinesiatrics.
lingot: a linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. see linget.
lingua: a tongue.-a median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
lingua franca: the commercial language of the levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.
linguadental: formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.-an articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.
lingual: of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.-a consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.
linguatulina: an order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. they have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. called also pentastomida.
linguist: a master of the use of language; a talker.-a person skilled in languages.
linguistical: of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
linguistics: the science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
lingula: a tonguelike process or part.-any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging to the genus lingula, and related genera. see brachiopoda, and illustration in appendix.
liniment: a liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.