AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
lactucic: pertaining to, or derived from, the juice of the lactuca virosa; -- said of certain acids.
lactucin: a white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium.
lactucone: a white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.
lacturamic: pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
lacuna: a small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.-a small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
lacunar: pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.-the ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.-one of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.
lacunous: furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunae; as, a lacunose leaf.
lacustrine: found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers.
lacwork: ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of oriental work of this kind.
lad: p. p. of lead, to guide.-a boy; a youth; a stripling.-a companion; a comrade; a mate.
ladanum: a gum resin gathered from certain oriental species of cistus. it has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.
ladder: a frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.-that which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence.
lade: to load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.-to throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.-to transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.-to draw water.-to admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.-the mouth of a river.-a passage for water; a ditch or drain.
laden: loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.
ladies' eardrops: the small-flowered fuchsia (f. coccinea), and other closely related species.
ladies' tresses: a name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
lading: of lade-the act of loading.-that which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight; burden; as, the lading of a ship.
ladino: one of the half-breed descendants of whites and indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout central america. they are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
ladle: a cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.-a vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.-the float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.-an instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.-a ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.-to take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.
ladrone: a robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.
lady: a woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.-a woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.-a woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.-a woman of social distinction or position. in england, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. the wife of a baronet or knight has the title of lady by courtesy, but not by right.-a woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.-a wife; -- not now in approved usage.-the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. it consists of calcareous plates.-belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.-the day of the annunciation of the virgin mary, march 25. see annunciation.
lady's bedstraw: the common bedstraw (galium verum); also, a slender-leaved east indian shrub (pharnaceum mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
lady's comb: an umbelliferous plant (scandix pecten-veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
lady's cushion: an herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (armeria vulgaris).
lady's finger: the kidney vetch.-a variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.-a long, slender variety of the potato.-one of the branchiae of the lobster.
lady's hair: a plant of the genus briza (b. media); a variety of quaking grass.
lady's mantle: a genus of rosaceous herbs (alchemilla), esp. the european a. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.
lady's seal: the european solomon's seal (polygonatum verticillatum).-the black bryony (tamus communis).
lady's slipper: any orchidaceous plant of the genus cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. less commonly, in the united states, the garden balsam (impatiens balsamina).
lady's smock: a plant of the genus cardamine (c. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
lady's thumb: an annual weed (polygonum persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
ladybird: any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus coccinella and allied genera (family coccinellidae); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common european species. see coccinella.
ladyfish: a large, handsome oceanic fish (albula vulpes), found both in the atlantic and pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, french mullet, and macabe.-a labroid fish (harpe rufa) of florida and the west indies.
ladykin: a little lady; -- applied by the writers of queen elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form lakin, to the virgin mary.
ladylike: like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.-becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.-delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
ladyship: the rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).
laelaps: a genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the cretaceous formation of the united states. they had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
laemodipoda: a division of amphipod crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. the whale louse, or cyamus, and caprella are examples.
laetere sunday: the fourth sunday of lent; -- so named from the latin word laetare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that day in the roman catholic service.
laevorotatory: same as levorotatory.  cf. dextrorotatory.
lafayette: the dollar fish.-a market fish, the goody, or spot (liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the united states.
lag: coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.-last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.-last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.-one who lags; that which comes in last.-the fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.-the amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.-a stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.-see graylag.-to walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.-to cause to lag; to slacken.-to cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. see lag, n., 4.-one transported for a crime.-to transport for crime.
lagemorpha: a group of rodents, including the hares. they have four incisors in the upper jaw. called also duplicidentata.
lagena: the terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.
lagenian: like, or pertaining to, lagena, a genus of foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.
lager beer: originally a german beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the united states; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.
laggard: slow; sluggish; backward.-one who lags; a loiterer.
lagging: of lag-the clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.-lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
lagoon: a shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of venice.-a lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. see atoll.
lagophthalmos: a morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.
laicality: the state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
laically: as a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
lair: a place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.-a burying place.-a pasture; sometimes, food.
laird: a lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
laissez faire: noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.
laity: the people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.-the state of a layman.-those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
lake: a pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.-a kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.-to play; to sport.-a large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
lakeweed: the water pepper (polygonum hydropiper), an aquatic plant of europe and north america.
lakh: one hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.-same as lac, one hundred thousand.
laky: pertaining to a lake.-transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
lallation: an imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds like l.
lalo: the powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras.  cf. couscous.
lama: see llama.-in thibet, mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called lamaism.
lamaism: a modified form of buddhism which prevails in thibet, mongolia, and some adjacent parts of asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. see 2d lama.
lamarckian: pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of lamarckianism.
lamarckism: the theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
lamasery: a monastery or convent of lamas, in thibet, mongolia, etc.
lamb: the young of the sheep.-any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.-a simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the stock exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.-to bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
lamb's-quarters: a name given to several plants of the goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as chenopodium album and atriplex patulsa.
lambative: taken by licking with the tongue.-a medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
lambda: the name of the greek letter /, /, corresponding with the english letter l, l.-the point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
lambdacism: a fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.-a defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion.-the use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, amelican for american.
lambdoid: shaped like the greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.
lambent: playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.-twinkling or gleaming; fickering.
lambert pine: the gigantic sugar pine of california and oregon (pinus lambertiana). it has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. the timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the eastern states.
lambrequin: a kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.-a leather flap hanging from a cuirass.-a piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.
lambskin: the skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. also used adjectively.-a kind of woolen.
lame: moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.-to some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.-hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.-to make lame.
lamella: a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.
lamellary: of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellae; lamellar.
lamellated: composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. see illust. of antennae.
lamellibranchiata: a class of mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
lamellibranchiate: having lamellar gills; belonging to the lamellibranchia.-one of the lamellibranchia.
lamellicorn: having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.-terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of antennae.-a lamellicorn insect.
lamellicornia: a group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also lamellicornes.
lamelliferous: bearing, or composed of, lamellae, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.
lamellirostres: a group of birds embracing the anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.
lamely: an a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.
lameness: the condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.
lament: to express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.-to mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.-grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.-an elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
lamentable: mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.-fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.-miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
lamentation: the act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.-a book of the old testament attributed to the prophet jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.
lames: small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.
lamia: a monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
lamina: a thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.-the blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.-a thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.
laminable: capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip.
laminal: in, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.
laminaria: a genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. the fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. see illust. of kelp.
laminarian: pertaining to seaweeds of the genus laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
laminate: consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.-to cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.-to form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.-to separate into laminae.
laminiplantar: having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
laminitis: inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
lammas: the first day of august; -- called also lammas day, and lammastide.
lammergeier: a very large vulture (gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of southern europe, asia, and northern africa. when full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. it is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. it feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. it has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. it is supposed to be the ossifrage of the bible. called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.
lamp: a thin plate or lamina.-a light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.-figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.-a device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. see incandescent lamp, under incandescent.
lamp-post: a post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.
lampadrome: a race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. he who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize.
lampas: an inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.
lampblack: the fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. it consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. it is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
lampern: the river lamprey (ammocoetes, / lampetra, fluviatilis).
lampic: pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.
lampless: being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.
lamplighter: one who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.-the calico bass.
lampoon: a personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.-to subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
lamprey: an eel-like marsipobranch of the genus petromyzon, and allied genera. the lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see illust. of cyclostomi). there are seven small branchial openings on each side.
lampyrine: an insect of the genus lampyris, or family lampyridae. see lampyris.
lanarkite: a mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
lance: a weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.-a soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.-a small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.-an instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.-one of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.-to pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.-to open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.-to throw in the manner of a lance. see lanch.
lance fish: a slender marine fish of the genus ammodytes, especially ammodytes tobianus of the english coast; -- called also sand lance.
lancegaye: a kind of spear anciently used. its use was prohibited by a statute of richard ii.
lancelet: a small fishlike animal (amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. it is the type of the class leptocardia. see amphioxus, leptocardia.
lanceolated: rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
lancepesade: an assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.
lancer: one who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.-a lancet.-a set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
lancet: a surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.-an iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
lancewood: a tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. also, the tree which produces this wood, duguetia quitarensis (a native of guiana and cuba), and several other trees of the same family (anonaseae).
lancinating: of lanciname-piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).