AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
gospel: glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning christ, the kingdom of god, and salvation.-one of the four narratives of the life and death of jesus christ, written by matthew, mark, luke, and john.-a selection from one of the gospels, for use in a religious service; as, the gospel for the day.-any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel.-anything propounded or accepted as infallibly true; as, they took his words for gospel.-accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness.-to instruct in the gospel.
gospeler: one of the four evangelists.-a follower of wyclif, the first english religious reformer; hence, a puritan.-a priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.
gospelize: to form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us.-to instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages.
gossamer: a fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. it is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.-any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff.-an outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer.
gossan: decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.
gossat: a small british marine fish (motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling.
gossip: a sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.-a friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.-one who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.-the tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.-to stand sponsor to.-to make merry.-to prate; to chat; to talk much.-to run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
gossipry: spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.-idle talk; gossip.
gossypium: a genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. the species are much confused. g. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by g. barbadense, a shrubby variety. there are several other kinds besides these.
got: of get-of get-imp. & p. p. of get. see get.
goth: one of an ancient teutonic race, who dwelt between the elbe and the vistula in the early part of the christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the roman empire.-one who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.
gothamist: a wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from gotham, in nottinghamshire, england, noted for some pleasant blunders.
gothic: pertaining to the goths; as, gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.-of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in western europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d.  see illust. of abacus, and capital.-the language of the goths; especially, the language of that part of the visigoths who settled in moesia in the 4th century. see goth.-a kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.-the style described in gothic, a., 2.
gothicism: a gothic idiom.-conformity to the gothic style of architecture.-rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
gouache: a method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.
goudron: a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts.
gouge: a chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.-a bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.-an incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.-soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.-the act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.-imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
gougeshell: a sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus vermetus; also, the pinna. see vermetus.
goulards extract: an aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
goura: one of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus goura, inhabiting new guinea and adjacent islands. the queen victoria pigeon (goura victoria) and the crowned pigeon (g. coronata) are among the beat known species.
gourami: a very largo east indian freshwater fish (osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into southern europe.
gourd: a fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.-a dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.-a false die. see gord.-alt. of gourde
gourd tree: a tree (the crescentia cujete, or calabash tree) of the west indies and central america.
gourmand: a greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. see gormand.
gout: a drop; a clot or coagulation.-a constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. it consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. it is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. it may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.-a disease of cornstalks. see corn fly, under corn.-taste; relish.
goutwort: a coarse umbelliferous plant of europe (aegopodium podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.
gouty: diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.-pertaining to the gout.-swollen, as if from gout.-boggy; as, gouty land.
govern: to direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.-to regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse.-to require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case.-to exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.
governable: capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient.
governess: a female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
governing: of govern-holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state.-requiring a particular case.
government: the act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.-the mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.-the right or power of governing; authority.-the person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.-the body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of europe.-management of the limbs or body.-the influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.
governor: one who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a state; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of pennsylvania.-one who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.-a pilot; a steersman.-a contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
governor general: a governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of canada, of india.
gowk: to make a, booby of one); to stupefy.-the european cuckoo; -- called also gawky.-a simpleton; a gawk or gawky.
gown: a loose, flowing upper garment-the ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.-the official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.-a loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.-any sort of dress or garb.
gownman: one whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an english university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
graafian: pertaining to, or discovered by, regnier de graaf, a dutch physician.
grab: a vessel used on the malabar coast, having two or three masts.-to gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.-a sudden grasp or seizure.-an instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
grabble: to grope; to feel with the hands.-to lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
grace: the exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.-the divine favor toward man; the mercy of god, as distinguished from his justice; also, any benefits his mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with god; enjoyment of the divine favor.-the prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.-the same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.-fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.-inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.-beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.-graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of apollo but oftener of venus. they were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, aglaia, euphrosyne, and thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.-the title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of england.-thanks.-a petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.-ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.-an act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.-a play designed to promote or display grace of motion. it consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. called also grace hoop or hoops.-to adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.-to dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.-to supply with heavenly grace.-to add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
graced: of grace-endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.
graceful: displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
graceless: wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.-unfortunate.  cf. grace, n., 4.
gracious: abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.-abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.-produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.
graciously: in a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.-fortunately; luckily.
grackle: one of several american blackbirds, of the family icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (scolecophagus carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see boat-tail); the purple grackle (quiscalus quiscula, or q. versicolor). see crow blackbird, under crow.-an asiatic bird of the genus gracula. see myna.
gradate: to grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.-to bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
gradation: the act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.-the act or process of bringing to a certain grade.-any degree or relative position in an order or series.-a gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.-a diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.-to form with gradations.
gradatory: proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.-suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.-a series of steps from a cloister into a church.
grade: a step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.-the rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.-a graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.-the result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. if the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.-to arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.-to reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.-to cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.-a harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
grader: one who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
gradient: moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.-rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.-adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.-the rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.-a part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.-the rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
gradine: any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.-a toothed chised by sculptors.
grading: of grade-the act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.
gradino: a step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.  cf. superaltar, and gradin.
gradual: proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.-an antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.-a service book containing the musical portions of the mass.-a series of steps.
gradualness: the quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
graduate: to mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.-to admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at yale college.-to prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.-to bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.-to pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.-to taper, as the tail of certain birds.-to take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.-one who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.-a graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. see under graduated.-arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.
graduated: of graduate-marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.-tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
graduation: the act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.-the marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.-the exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
graduator: one who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.-an instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals.-an apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
graf: a german title of nobility, equivalent to earl in english, or count in french. see earl.
graffiti: inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the catacombs, or at pompeii.
graft: a small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. the two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.-a branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.-a portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.-to insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.-to implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.-to join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.-to cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.-to insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
grafter: one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.-an instrument by which grafting is facilitated.-the original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
grafting: of graft-the act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.-the transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.-a scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.
grail: a book of offices in the roman catholic church; a gradual.-a broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the holy grail.-small particles of earth; gravel.-one of the small feathers of a hawk.
graille: a halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.
grain: see groan.-a single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of  those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.-the fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.-any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.-the unit of the english system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy.  a grain is equal to .0648 gram. see gram. -a reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to tyrian purple.-the composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.-the direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.-the fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.-the hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.-the remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. also called draff.-a rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. see grained, a., 4.-temper; natural disposition; inclination.-a sort of spice, the grain of paradise.-to paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.-to form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.-to take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).-to yield fruit.-to form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.-a branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.-a tine, prong, or fork.-one the branches of a valley or of a river.-an iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.-a blade of a sword, knife, etc.-a thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
grained: of grain-having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.-dyed in grain; ingrained.-painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.-having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
grainer: an infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.-a knife for taking the hair off skins.-one who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
graining: indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.-a process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.-painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of  wood, atone, etc.-the process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.-a small european fresh-water fish (leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace.
grains: see 5th grain, n., 2 (b).-pigeon's dung used in tanning.  see grainer. n., 1.
graith: see greith.-furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.
grallae: an order of birds which formerly included all the waders.  by later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also grallatores.
gram: angry.-the east indian name of the chick-pea (cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.-alt. of gramme
grama grass: the name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the western united states, esp. the bouteloua oligostachya.
graminaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants.
gramineous: like, or pertaining to, grass. see grass, n., 2.
graminivorous: feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.
grammalogue: literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.