AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
hope: a sloping plain between mountain ridges.-a small bay; an inlet; a haven.-a desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.-one who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.-that which is hoped for; an object of hope.-to entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for.-to place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.-to desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.-to expect; to fear.
hopeful: full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.-having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.
hopeless: destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.-giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.-unhoped for; despaired of.
hopper: one who, or that which, hops.-a chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.-see grasshopper, 2.-a game. see hopscotch.-see grasshopper, and frog hopper, grape hopper, leaf hopper, tree hopper, under frog, grape, leaf, and tree.-the larva of a cheese fly.-a vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
hoppestere: an unexplained epithet used by chaucer in reference to ships. by some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing,"  "warlike."
hoppet: a hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.-an infant in arms.
hopping: of hop-the act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.-a gathering of hops.
hopple: to impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.-fig.: to entangle; to hamper.-a fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.
hoppo: a collector of customs, as at canton; an overseer of commerce.-a tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
hopscotch: a child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.
horary: of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.-occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
horatian: of or pertaining to horace, the latin poet, or resembling his style.
horde: a wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
hordeic: pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.
hordeolum: a small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
horehound: a plant of the genus marrubium (m. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.
horizon: the circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.-a plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.-a plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon.-the unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.-the epoch or time during which a deposit was made.-the chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line.
horizontal: pertaining to, or near, the horizon.-parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.-measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.
hormogonium: a chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated.
horn: a hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. the hollow horns of the ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.-the antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.-any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) a projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) a tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) a hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) a sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.-an incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (asclepias).-something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn-a wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.-a drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.-the cornucopia, or horn of plenty.-a vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.-the pointed beak of an anvil.-the high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.-the ionic volute.-the outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.-a curved projection on the fore part of a plane.-one of the projections at the four corners of the jewish altar of burnt offering.-one of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.-the curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.-the tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.-a symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.-an emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.-to furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.-to cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
hornbeam: a tree of the genus carpinus (c. americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. it is common along the banks of streams in the united states, and is also called ironwood. the english hornbeam is c. betulus. the american is called also blue beech and water beech.
hornbill: any bird of the family bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. they inhabit the tropical parts of asia, africa, and the east indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. the size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. they feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.
hornblende: the common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (see amphibole.) it belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. also used as a general term to include the whole species.
hornblendic: composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.
hornbook: the first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the lord's prayer, were written or printed; a primer.-a book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.
hornbug: a large nocturnal beetle of the genus lucanus (as l. capreolus, and l. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. the grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
horned: furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
horner: one who works or deal in horn or horns.-one who winds or blows the horn.-one who horns or cuckolds.-the british sand lance or sand eel (ammodytes lanceolatus).
hornet: a large, strong wasp. the european species (vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. it is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. the american white-faced hornet (v. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.
hornito: a low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit.
hornpipe: an instrument of music formerly popular in wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. it was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.-a lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.
hornsnake: a harmless snake (farancia abacura), found in the southern united states. the color is bluish black above, red below.
hornstone: a siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
horntail: any one of family (uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. the larvae bore in the wood of trees. so called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.
hornwork: an outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. it is connected with the works in rear by long wings.
hornwort: an aquatic plant (ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.
horny: having horns or hornlike projections.-composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.-hard; callous.
hornyhead: any north american river chub of the genus hybopsis, esp. h. biguttatus.
horography: an account of the hours.-the art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials.
horologe: a servant who called out the hours.-an instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.
horologer: a maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.
horologiography: an account of instruments that show the hour.-the art of constructing clocks or dials; horography.
horology: the science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.
horopter: the line or surface in which are situated all the points which are seen single while the point of sight, or the adjustment of the eyes, remains unchanged.
horoscope: the representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.-the diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.-the planisphere invented by jean paduanus.-a table showing the length of the days and nights at all places.
horoscopy: the art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.-aspect of the stars at the time of a person's birth.
horrent: standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
horrible: exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
horrid: rough; rugged; bristling.-fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
horrify: to cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.
horripilation: a real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
horror: a bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.-a shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.-a painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.-that which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
horse: a hoofed quadruped of the genus equus; especially, the domestic horse (e. caballus), which was domesticated in egypt and asia at a very early period. it has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. the mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. the horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. the horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.-the male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.-mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.-a frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.-a frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.-anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.-a mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.-see footrope, a.-a breastband for a leadsman.-an iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.-a jackstay.-to provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.-to sit astride of; to bestride.-to cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.-to take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.-to place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.-to get on horseback.
horse guards: a body of cavalry so called; esp., a british regiment, called the royal horse guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.
horse power: the power which a horse exerts.-a unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. it is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 english units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.-a machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor.
horse-chestnut: the large nutlike seed of a species of aesculus (ae. hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.-the tree itself, which was brought from constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. the native american species are called buckeyes.
horse-drench: a dose of physic for a horse.-the appliance by which the dose is administred.
horse-jockey: a professional rider and trainer of race horses.-a trainer and dealer in horses.
horse-leech: a large blood-sucking leech (haemopsis vorax), of europe and northern africa. it attacks the lips and mouths of horses.-a farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
horse-leechery: the business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
horse-litter: a carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
horse-radish: a plant of the genus nasturtium (n. armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.
horseback: the back of a horse.-an extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
horsefish: the moonfish (selene setipinnis).-the sauger.
horseflesh: the flesh of horses.-horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh.
horsefly: any dipterous fly of the family tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.-the horse tick or forest fly (hippobosca).
horsehair: a hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.
horseman: a rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.-a mounted soldier; a cavalryman.-a land crab of the genus ocypoda, living on the coast of brazil and the west indies, noted for running very swiftly.-a west indian fish of the genus eques, as the light-horseman (e. lanceolatus).
horsemanship: the act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.
horsemint: a coarse american plant of the mint family (monarda punctata).-in england, the wild mint (mentha sylvestris).
horsenail: a thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.
horseshoe: a shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter u, nailed to a horse's hoof.-anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.-the limulus of horsehoe crab.
horsetail: a leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. it is of the genus equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. see illust. of equisetum.-a turkish standard, denoting rank.
horseweed: a composite plant (erigeron canadensis), which is a common weed.
horsewhip: a whip for horses.-to flog or chastise with a horsewhip.
horsewood: a west indian tree (calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.
horsiness: the condition or quality of being a horse; that which pertains to a horse.-fondness for, or interest in, horses.
horsy: pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions.
hortation: the act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
hortative: giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative.-an exhortation.
hortatory: giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech.
horticultural: of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.
horticulture: the cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
hortus siccus: a collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.
hosanna: a hebrew exclamation of praise to the lord, or an invocation of blessings.
hose: of hose-close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.-covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.-a flexible pipe, made of leather, india rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.
hosier: one who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
hosiery: the business of a hosier.-stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.
hospice: a convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the alps; as, the hospice of the great st. bernard.
hospitable: receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.-proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites.
hospital: a place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.-a building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.-hospitable.
hospitaler: one residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.-one of an order of knights who built a hospital at jerusalem for pilgrims, a. d. 1042.  they were called knights of st. john of jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to malta, knights of malta.
hospitalism: a vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
hospitality: the act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.
hospitalize: to render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
hospitate: to receive hospitality; to be a guest.-to receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
hospodar: a title borne by the princes or governors of moldavia and wallachia before those countries were united as roumania.
host: the consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of christ, which in the mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.-an army; a number of men gathered for war.-any great number or multitude; a throng.-one who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.-to give entertainment to.-to lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
hostage: a person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.
hosteler: the keeper of a hostel or inn.-a student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in oxford or cambridge.
hostess: a female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.-a woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.
hostile: belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.-an enemy; esp., an american indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
hostility: state of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.-an act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
hostler: an innkeeper. [obs.] see hosteler.-the person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person.-the person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip.
hot: of hight-imp. & p. p. of hote.-having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.-characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.-lustful; lewd; lecherous.-acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.-of hote-of hote
hot-blooded: having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.
hot-brained: ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.