AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
lining: of line-the act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.-that which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.
link: a torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.-a single ring or division of a chain.-hence: anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.-anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.-any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.-any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (steam engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.-the length of one joint of gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.  cf. chain, n., 4.-a bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.-sausages; -- because linked together.-to connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.-to be connected.
link motion: a valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.
linkage: the act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.-manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule.-a system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. it is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.
linkwork: a fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain.-mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another.
linnaeite: a mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. it is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.
linnet: any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera linota, acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common european species (l. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. the feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. the american redpoll linnet (acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. see redpoll, and twite.
linoleic: pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
linoleum: linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. in this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which india rubber has been applied.-a kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.
linoxin: a resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.
linsang: any viverrine mammal of the genus prionodon, inhabiting the east indies and southern asia. the common east indian linsang (p. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. the guinea linsang (porana richardsonii) is brown with black spots.
linsey-woolsey: cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.-jargon.-made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean.
linstock: a pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
lint: flax.-linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
lintel: a horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
linum: a genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (linum usitatissimum).
lion: a large carnivorous feline mammal (felis leo), found in southern asia and in most parts of africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. the adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. the length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. the color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. in one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.-a sign and a constellation; leo.-an object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in london at that time.
lion's ear: a name given in western south america to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of culcitium, and espeletia.
lion's foot: a composite plant of the genus prenanthes, of which several species are found in the united states.-the edelweiss.
lion's leaf: a south european plant of the genus leontice (l. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.
lion's tail: a genus of labiate plants (leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. l. cardiaca is the common motherwort.
lionced: adorned with lions' heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross.
lionism: an attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.
lionize: to treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.-to show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.
lip: one of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. in man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.-an edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.-the sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.-one of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.-the odd and peculiar petal in the orchis family. see orchidaceous.-one of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.-to touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.-to utter; to speak.-to clip; to trim.
lipans: a tribe of north american indians, inhabiting the northern part of mexico. they belong to the tinneh stock, and are closely related to the apaches.
liparian: any species of a family (liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.
lipic: pertaining to, or derived from, fat. the word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.
lipochrin: a yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. it is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.
lipogram: a writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the odyssey of tryphiodorus there was no a in the first book, no b in the second, and so on.
lipogrammatic: omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.
lipped: of lip-having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.-labiate.
lippitude: soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyed; blearedness.
liquate: to melt; to become liquid.-to separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.
liquation: the act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.-the process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.
liquefacient: that which serves to liquefy.-an agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
liquefaction: the act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.-the state of being liquid.-the act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
liquefy: to convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.-to become liquid.
liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.-being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.-flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.-pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.-fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.-clear; definite in terms or amount.-a substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.-a letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. m and n also are called liquids.
liquidambar: a genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. liquidambar styraciflua is the north american sweet qum, and l. orientalis is found in asia minor.-the balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. the liquid balsam of the oriental tree is liquid storax.
liquidate: to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.-in an extended sense: to ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).-to discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.-to make clear and intelligible.-to make liquid.
liquidator: one who, or that which, liquidates.-an officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company.
liquor: any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.-specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.-a solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.-to supply with liquor.-to grease.
lirella: a linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.
liriodendron: a genus of large and very beautiful trees of north america, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the cretaceous epoch.
liripoop: a pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.-acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem.-a silly person.
liroconite: a hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.
lisbon: a sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of estremadura, and so called as being shipped from lisbon, in portugal.
lisp: to pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.-to speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.-to speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.-to pronounce with a lisp.-to utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.-to speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.-the habit or act of lisping. see lisp, v. i., 1.
liss: release; remission; ease; relief.-to free, as from care or pain; to relieve.
lissencephala: a general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as rodentia, insectivora, etc.
lissome: limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.-light; nimble; active.
list: a line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.-to inclose for combat; as, to list a field.-to hearken; to attend; to listen.-to listen or hearken to.-to desire or choose; to please.-to lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.-inclination; desire.-an inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.-a strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.-a limit or boundary; a border.-the lobe of the ear; the ear itself.-a stripe.-a roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.-a little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.-a narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.-a piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.-the first thin coat of tin.-a wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.-to sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.-to cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.-to enroll; to place or register in a list.-to engage, as a soldier; to enlist.-to cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.-to engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
listen: to give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.-to give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.-to attend to.
lister: a spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.-one who makes a list or roll.-same as leister.
listerism: the systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from joseph lister, an english surgeon.
listing: of list-the act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the stock exchange.-the selvedge of cloth; list.-the sapwood cut from the edge of a board.-the throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops.
listless: having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
lit: of light-of light-a form of the imp. & p. p. of light.
litany: a solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. it is usually of a penitential character.
litchi: the fruit of a tree native to china (nephelium litchi). it is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. in the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.
literal: according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.-following the letter or exact words; not free.-consisting of, or expressed by, letters.-giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.-literal meaning.
literalism: that which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.-the tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.
literalist: one who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
literalize: to make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize scripture.
literally: according to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.-with close adherence to words; word by word.
literary: of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.-versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
literate: instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.-one educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.-a literary man.
literator: one who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.-a person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.-a learned person; a literatus.
literature: learning; acquaintance with letters or books.-the collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.-the class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.-the occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
literatus: a learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.
lith: 3d pers. sing. pres. of lie, to recline, for lieth.-a joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
lithaemia: a condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.
lithagogue: a medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
litharge: lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. it is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. called also massicot.
lithargyrum: crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
lithe: to listen or listen to; to hearken to.-mild; calm; as, lithe weather.-capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.-to smooth; to soften; to palliate.
litherly: crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
lithia: the oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. see lithium.
lithiasis: the formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
lithic: of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.-pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.-a medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.-pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.
lithiophilite: a phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.
lithium: a metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.
lithobilic: pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.
lithocyst: a sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). they are found in many medusae, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.
lithodome: any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus lithodomus.
lithodomous: like, or pertaining to, lithodomus; lithophagous.
lithodomus: a genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. called also lithophagus.
lithofellic: pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.
lithofracteur: an explosive compound of nitroglycerin. see nitroglycerin.
lithoglyphic: of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.
lithograph: to trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. see lithography.-a print made by lithography.
lithographical: of or pertaining to lithography; made by lithography; as, the lithographic art; a lithographic picture.
lithography: the art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. the process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. see lithographic limestone, under lithographic.
lithological: of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.-of or pertaining to lithology.
lithologically: from a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically.
lithology: the science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.-a treatise on stones found in the body.
lithontriptic: having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forceps.-a lithontriptic remedy or agent, as distilled water.
lithophagous: eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.-eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. see lithodomus.
lithophane: porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.
lithophyse: a spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. it is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name.
lithophyte: a hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. all the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.
lithosian: any one of various species of moths belonging to the family lithosidae. many of them are beautifully colored.
lithotint: a kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with india ink.-a picture produced by this process.
lithotome: a stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.-an instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.
lithotomist: one who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.
lithotripsy: the operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.
lithotriptor: an instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.