AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
geropigia: a mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines.
gerrymander: to divide (a state) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.
gerund: a kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.-a verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, "ic haebbe mete to etanne" (i have meat to eat.) in modern english the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone.
gerundial: pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use.
gerundive: pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial.-the future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved.
gerundively: in the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.
gest: a guest.-something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.-an action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.-a tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.-gesture; bearing; deportment.-a stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.-a roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. many of them are extant in the herald's office.
gestation: the act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).-the act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.-exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
gestic: pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.-relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing.
gesticulate: to make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.-to represent by gesture; to act.
gesticulation: the act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.-a gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.-antic tricks or motions.
gesture: manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.-a motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion.-to accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.-to make gestures; to gesticulate.
get: jet, the mineral.-fashion; manner; custom.-artifice; contrivance.-to procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.-hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.-to beget; to procreate; to generate.-to obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's greek lesson.-to prevail on; to induce; to persuade.-to procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.-to betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.-to make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.-to arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.-offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
get-up: general composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc.
getter: one who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
getterup: one who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc.
getting: of get-the act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.-that which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
gewgaw: a showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.-showy; unreal; pretentious.
geyser: a boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
geyserite: a loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.
ghastly: like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.-horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.-in a ghastly manner; hideously.
ghaut: a pass through a mountain.-a range of mountains.-stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.
gheber ghebre: a worshiper of fire; a zoroastrian; a parsee.
gherkin: a kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.-see sea gherkin.
ghibelline: one of a faction in italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the german emperors, and opposed the guelfs, or adherents of the poses.
ghost: the spirit; the soul of man.-the disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.-any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.-a false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.-to die; to expire.-to appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
ghostly: relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.-of or pertaining to apparitions.-spiritually; mystically.
ghoul: an imaginary evil being among eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
giallolino: a term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.
giant: a man of extraordinari bulk and stature.-a person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.-any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.-like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
giantship: the state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant.
giaour: an infidel; -- a term applied by turks to disbelievers in the mohammedan religion, especially christrians.
gib: a male cat; a tomcat.-to act like a cat.-a piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.-to secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.-to balk. see jib, v. i.
gib-cat: a male cat, esp. an old one. see lst gib. n.
gibbartas: one of several finback whales of the north atlantic; -- called also jupiter whale.
gibberish: rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.-unmeaning; as, gibberish language.
gibbet: a kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.-the projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.-to hang and expose on a gibbet.-to expose to infamy; to blacken.
gibbon: any arboreal ape of the genus hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the east indies and southern asia. they are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
gibbose: humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.
gibbostity: the state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.
gibbous: swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.-hunched; hump-backed.
gibe: to cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.-to reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.-an expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.
gibel: a kind of carp (cyprinus gibelio); -- called also prussian carp.
giblets: the inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
gibstaff: a staff to guage water, or to push a boat.-a staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.
gid: a disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. it is caused by the presence of the c/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. see c/nurus.
giddy: having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.-promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.-bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.-characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.-to reel; to whirl.-to make dizzy or unsteady.
gier-eagle: a bird referred to in the bible (lev. xi. 18and deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the egyptian vulture (neophron percnopterus).
gieseckite: a mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. it is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.
gift: anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.-the act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the president.-a bribe; anything given to corrupt.-some quality or endowment given to man by god; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.-a voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. it can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.-to endow with some power or faculty.
gig: a fiddle.-to engender.-a kind of spear or harpoon. see fishgig.-to fish with a gig.-a playful or wanton girl; a giglot.-a top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.-a light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.-a long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.-a rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
gigantic: of extraordinary size; like a giant.-such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.
gigantomachy: a war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.
giggle: to laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.-a kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
giggot: see gigot.-a leg of mutton.-a small piece of flesh; a slice.
giglot: alt. of giglet-giddi; light; inconstant; wanton.
gila monster: a large tuberculated lizard (heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of arizona, new mexico, etc. it is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
gild: to overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.-to make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.-to give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.-to make red with drinking.
gilder: one who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.-a dutch coin. see guilder.
gill: an organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.-the radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.-the fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.-the flesh under or about the chin.-one of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.-a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.-a leech.-a woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.-a measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.-a young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.-the ground ivy (nepeta glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.-malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
gillie gilly: a boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the scottish highlands.
gillyflower: a name given by old writers to the clove pink (dianthus caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.-a kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
gilt: of gild-a female pig, when young.-imp. & p. p. of gild.-gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.-gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.-money.
gilt-edged: having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.-of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
gilthead: a marine fish.-the pagrus, / chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.-the crenilabrus melops, of the british coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
gimbals: a contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. it consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.
gimlet: a small tool for boring holes. it has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.-to pierce or make with a gimlet.-to turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
gimmal: joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.-a quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.
gimmor: a piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
gimp: smart; spruce; trim; nice.-a narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.-to notch; to indent; to jag.
gin: against; near by; towards; as, gin night.-if.-to begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. see gan.-a strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called hollands and holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in holland. common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.-contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.-a machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.-a hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.-a machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.-to catch in a trap.-to clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
ginger: a plant of the genus zingiber, of the east and west indies. the species most known is z. officinale.-the hot and spicy rootstock of zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
gingerbread: a kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
gingham: a kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
ginglymodi: an order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. they have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. see ganoidel.
ginglymoidal: pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.
ginglymus: a hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.
ginkgo: a large ornamental tree (ginkgo biloba) from china and japan, belonging to the yew suborder of coniferae. its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.
ginseng: a plant of the genus aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the chinese. the chinese plant (aralia schinseng) has become so rare that the american (a. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from america to china. the root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.
gip: to take out the entrails of (herrings).-a servant. see gyp.
giraffe: an african ruminant (camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. it is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.
girandole: an ornamental branched candlestick.-a flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form.-a kind of revolving firework.-a series of chambers in defensive mines.
girasole girasol: see heliotrope.-a variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.
gird: a stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.-a cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.-to strike; to smite.-to sneer at; to mock; to gibe.-to gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.-to encircle or bind with any flexible band.-to make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.-to surround; to encircle, or encompass.-to clothe; to swathe; to invest.-to prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
girder: one who girds; a satirist.-one who, or that which, girds.-a main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. see illusts. of frame, and doubleframed floor, under double.
girdle: a griddle.-that which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.-the zodiac; also, the equator.-the line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. see illust. of brilliant.-a thin bed or stratum of stone.-the clitellus of an earthworm.-to bind with a belt or sash; to gird.-to inclose; to environ; to shut in.-to make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
girdler: one who girdles.-a maker of girdles.-an american longicorn beetle (oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.
girl: a young person of either sex; a child.-a female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.-a female servant; a maidservant.-a roebuck two years old.
girlish: like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.
girondist: a member of the moderate republican party formed in the french legislative assembly in 1791. the girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of la gironde.-of or pertaining to the girondists.
girt: of gird-imp. & p. p. of gird.-to gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.-bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.-same as girth.
girth: a band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.-the measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.-a small horizontal brace or girder.-to bind as with a girth.
gisarm: a weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.
gismondite: a native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near rome.
gist: a resting place.-the main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
gith: the corn cockle; also anciently applied to the nigella, or fennel flower.
gittith: a musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of gath, and thence obtained by david. it is mentioned in the title of psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.
give: to bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.-to yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.-to yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.-to communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.-to grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.-to exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.-to devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.-to set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.-to allow or admit by way of supposition.-to attribute; to assign; to adjudge.-to excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.-to pledge; as, to give one's word.-to cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.-to give a gift or gifts.-to yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.-to become soft or moist.-to move; to recede.-to shed tears; to weep.-to have a misgiving.-to open; to lead.
given: of give-p. p. & a. from give, v.-granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.-disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.-stated; fixed; as, in a given time.
giver: one who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
giving: of give-the act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.-a gift; a benefaction.-the act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
gizzard: the second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.-a thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.-a stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
glabella: the space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.-of glabellum
glabellum: the median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. see trilobite.
glacial: pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.-resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
glaciate: to turn to ice.-to convert into, or cover with, ice.-to produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.
glaciation: act of freezing.-that which is formed by freezing; ice.-the process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.