AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
glacier: an immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the alps, or over an extended area, as in greenland.
glacis: a gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see illust. of ravelin).
glad: pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.-wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.-to make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.-to be glad; to rejoice.
gladden: to make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.-to be or become glad; to rejoice.
glade: an open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.-an everglade.-an opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.
gladen: sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the european iris foetidissima.
gladiate: sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.
gladiator: originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.-one who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
gladiatorian: of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.
gladiole: a lilylike plant, of the genus gladiolus; -- called also corn flag.
gladiolus: a genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.-the middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum.
gladly: preferably; by choice.-with pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly.
gladsome: pleased; joyful; cheerful.-causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.
gladstone: a four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.
glair: the white of egg. it is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.-any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.-a broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.-to smear with the white of an egg.
glairin: a glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.
glairy: like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy.
glaive: a weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.-a sword; -- used poetically and loosely.
glama: a copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
glamour: a charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.-witchcraft; magic; a spell.-a kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.-any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
glance: a sudden flash of light or splendor.-a quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.-an incidental or passing thought or allusion.-a name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.-to shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.-to strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "your arrow hath glanced".-to look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.-to make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.-to move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.-to shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.-to hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
glancing: of glance-shooting, as light.-flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
glancingly: in a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
gland: an organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.-an organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.-a special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.-any very small prominence.-the movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. see illust. of stuffing box, under stuffing.-the crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
glanders: a highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. it may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
glandiferous: bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
glandiform: having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
glandular: containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
glandulous: containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
glans: the vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.-the acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.-goiter.-a pessary.
glare: to shine with a bright, dazzling light.-to look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.-to be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.-to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.-a bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.-a fierce, piercing look or stare.-a viscous, transparent substance. see glair.-a smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.-smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
glaring: of glare-clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.
glary: of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.
glase: to furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.-to incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.-to apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
glass: a hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. it is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.-any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.-anything made of glass.-a looking-glass; a mirror.-a vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.-a drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.-an optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses.-a weatherglass; a barometer.-to reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; -- used reflexively.-to case in glass.-to cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.-to smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
glass-crab: the larval state (phyllosoma) of the genus palinurus and allied genera. it is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. see phyllosoma.
glass-rope: a remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus hyalonema, first brought from japan. it has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
glass-snake: a long, footless lizard (ophiosaurus ventralis), of the southern united states; -- so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. it grows to the length of three feet. the name is applied also to similar species found in the old world.
glass-sponge: a siliceous sponge, of the genus hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. see glass-rope, and euplectella.
glasseye: a fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.-a species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.
glassful: the contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.-glassy; shining like glass.
glasshouse: a house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
glassite: a member of a scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by john glass, a minister of the established church of scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." the english and american adherents of this faith are called sandemanians, after robert sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of glass.
glasswort: a seashore plant of the spinach family (salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (salsola kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
glassy: made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.-resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.-dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
glauber's salts: sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. it is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."
glaucic: of or pertaining to the glaucium or horned poppy; -- formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.
glaucine: glaucous or glaucescent.-an alkaloid obtained from the plant glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
glaucodot: a metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.
glaucoma: dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
glauconite: the green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. it is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. see greensand.
glaucophane: a mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. it is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.
glaucous: of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.-covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.
glaucus: a genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. these mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
glaver: to prate; to jabber; to babble.-to flatter; to wheedle.
glaze: to become glazed of glassy.-the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. see glaze, v. t., 3.-broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.-a glazing oven. see glost oven.
glazer: one who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.-a tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc.
glazing: of glase-the act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.-the glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.-the glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.-transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.
glazy: having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
gleam: to disgorge filth, as a hawk.-a shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.-brightness; splendor.-to shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.-to shine; to cast light; to glitter.-to shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
gleamy: darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.
glean: to gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.-to gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.-to collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.-to gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.-to pick up or gather anything by degrees.-a collection made by gleaning.-cleaning; afterbirth.
gleaning: of glean-the act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
glebe: a lump; a clod.-turf; soil; ground; sod.-the land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
gleby: pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
glede: the common european kite (milvus ictinus). this name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.-a live coal.
glee: music; minstrelsy; entertainment.-joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.-an unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. it is not necessarily gleesome.
gleek: a jest or scoff; a trick or deception.-an enticing look or glance.-to make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.-a game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.-three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything.
gleet: a transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.-to flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.-to flow slowly, as water.
glenlivet: a kind of scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made.
glenoid: having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
gleucometer: an instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
gley: to squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.-asquint; askance; obliquely.
gliadin: vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. it is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.
glib: smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.-speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.-to make glib.-a thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.-to castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
glide: the glede or kite.-to move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.-to pass with a glide, as the voice.-the act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.-a transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see guide to pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). also (by bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see guide to pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
gliff: a transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.-a moment: as, for a gliff.
glimmer: to give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.-a faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.-mica. see mica.
glimmering: of glimmer-faint, unsteady light; a glimmer.-a faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
glimpse: a sudden flash; transient luster.-a short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.-a faint idea; an inkling.-to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.-to catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
glint: a glimpse, glance, or gleam.-to glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.-to glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.
glioma: a tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
glissette: the locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
glisten: to sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.
glister: to be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.-glitter; luster.
glitter: to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.-to be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.-a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
gloam: to begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.-to be sullen or morose.-the twilight; gloaming.
gloaming: twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.-sullenness; melancholy.
gloat: to look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
globe: a round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.-anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.-the earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.-a round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.-a body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the romans, answering to the modern infantry square.-to gather or form into a globe.
globefish: a plectognath fish of the genera diodon, tetrodon, and allied genera. the globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. see diodon.
globeflower: a plant of the genus trollius (t. europaeus), found in the mountainous parts of europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.-the american plant trollius laxus.
globigerina: a genus of small foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. see illust. of foraminifera.
globose: having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
globular: globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
globule: a little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.-a minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.-a little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.
globuliferous: bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.
globulin: an albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. it is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. it is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. in the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.
glochidium: the larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
glome: to gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.-gloom.-one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.
glomerate: gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.-to gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
glomeration: the act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.-that which is formed into a ball; a ball.
glomerule: a head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.-a glomerulus.
glomerulus: the bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a malpighian capsule of the kidney.
glomuliferous: having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
glonoine: same as nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin.-a dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.
gloom: partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.-a shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.-cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.-in gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.-to shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.-to become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.-to render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.-to fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
glooming: of gloom-twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
gloomy: imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.-affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
gloria: a doxology (beginning gloria patri, glory be to the father), sung or said at the end of the psalms in the service of the roman catholic and other churches.-a portion of the mass (gloria in excelsis deo, glory be to god on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. in the episcopal church the version in english is used.-the musical setting of a gloria.
glorification: the act of glorifyng or of giving glory to.-the state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of christ after his resurrection.
glorify: to make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.-to make glorious in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore.
gloriosa: a genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of india.
glorious: exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.-eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.-ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.