AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
leprosy: a cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. these are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. in one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. in addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. it is incurable, and is probably contagious.
leprous: infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.-leprose.
leptiform: having a form somewhat like leptus; -- said of active insect larvae having three pairs of legs. see larva.
leptocardia: the lowest class of vertebrata, including only the amphioxus. the heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel. the blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. see amphioxus.
leptocardian: of or pertaining to the leptocardia.-one of the leptocardia.
leptomeningitis: inflammation of the pia mater or of the arachnoid membrane.
leptorhine: having the nose narrow; -- said esp. of the skull. opposed to platyrhine.
leptothrix: a genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.-having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals.
leptus: the six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; -- sometimes used as a generic name. see harvest mite, under harvest.
lere: learning; lesson; lore.-to learn; to teach.-empty.-flesh; skin.
lernaea: a linnaean genus of parasitic entomostraca, -- the same as the family lernaeidae.
lernaeacea: a suborder of copepod crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. the young, however, are active and swim freely. see illustration in appendix.
lernean: one of a family (lernaeidae) of parasitic crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. see illust. in appendix.
lerot: a small european rodent (eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.
lesbian: of or pertaining to the island anciently called lesbos, now mitylene, in the grecian archipelago.
lesion: a hurt; an injury.-loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.-any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
less: unless.-smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.-not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.-a smaller portion or quantity.-the inferior, younger, or smaller.-to make less; to lessen.
lessen: to make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune.-to become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened.
lesson: anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.-that which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.-a portion of scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.-a severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.- an exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.-to teach; to instruct.
lest: to listen.-lust; desire; pleasure.-last; least.-for fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not.-that (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension.
let: to retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.-a retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.-a stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.-of let-to leave; to relinquish; to abandon.-to consider; to think; to esteem.-to cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.-to permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.-to allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.-to give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.-to forbear.-to be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. see note under let, v. t.
let-off: a device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.
let-up: abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
lethal: one of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. it is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.-deadly; mortal; fatal.
lethargical: pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.
lethargy: morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.-a state of inaction or indifference.-to lethargize.
lethe: death.-a river of hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.-oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
lethean: of or pertaining to lethe; resembling in effect the water of lethe.
letter: one who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.-one who retards or hinders.-a mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.-a written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.-a writing; an inscription.-verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.-a single type; type, collectively; a style of type.-learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.-a letter; an epistle.-to impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
lettered: of letter-literate; educated; versed in literature.-of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned.-inscribed or stamped with letters.
lettering: of letter-the act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.-the letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
letterpress: print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
letterwood: the beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus brosimum (b. aubletii), found in guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. it is much used for bows and for walking sticks.
lettic: of or pertaining to the letts; lettish.-of or pertaining to a branch of the slavic family, subdivided into lettish, lithuanian, and old prussian.-the language of the letts; lettish.-the language of the lettic race, including lettish, lithuanian, and old prussian.
lettish: of or pertaining to the letts.-the language spoken by the letts. see lettic.
letts: an indo-european people, allied to the lithuanians and old prussians, and inhabiting a part of the baltic provinces of russia.
lettuce: a composite plant of the genus lactuca (l. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. the commonest wild lettuce of the united states is l. canadensis.
leuc-: same as leuco-.-a combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.
leucadendron: a genus of evergreen shrubs from the cape of good hope, having handsome foliage. leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.
leucaniline: a colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. it forms colorless salts.
leucin: a white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. it is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.
leucinic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from leucin, and called also oxycaproic acid.
leucite: a mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. it is a silicate of alumina and potash. it is found in the volcanic rocks of italy, especially at vesuvius.-a leucoplast.
leucitoid: the trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so called as being the form of the mineral leucite.
leucocyte: a colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc.
leucocythemia: a disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia.
leucoethiopic: white and black; -- said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.
leucoline: a nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. cf. quinoline.
leucoma: a white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo.
leucomaine: an animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.
leuconic: pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
leucophane: a mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. called also leucophanite.
leucophlegmacy: a dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
leucophlegmatic: having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.
leucophyll: a colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green.
leucoplastid: one of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.
leucopyrite: a mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.
leucorrhoea: a discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites.
leucoryx: a large antelope of north africa (oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.
leucoscope: an instrument, devised by professor helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness.
leucosoid: like or pertaining to the leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or calappa.
leucoturic: pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. see oxalantin.
leucous: white; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.
leucoxene: a nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.
levant: rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. see couchant and levant, under couchant.-the countries washed by the eastern part of the mediterranean and its contiguous waters.-a levanter (the wind so called).-eastern.-to run away from one's debts; to decamp.
levanter: one who levants, or decamps.-a strong easterly wind peculiar to the mediterranean.
levantine: of or pertaining to the levant.-a native or inhabitant of the levant.-a stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the levant.
levation: the act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
levator: a muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.-a surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.
leve: dear. see lief.-same as 3d & 4th leave.-to live.-to believe.-to grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.
levee: the act of rising.-a morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.-to attend the levee or levees of.-an embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.-to keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
level: a line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.-a horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point.-an approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.-hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.-a uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.-an instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.-a measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level.-a horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine.-even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake.-coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.-even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to.-straightforward; direct; clear; open.-well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [colloq.] -of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.-to make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.-to bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.-to bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.-figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.-to adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.-to be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.-to aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object.
leveler: one who, or that which, levels.-one who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
leveling: of level-the act or operation of making level.-the art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad.
lever: more agreeable; more pleasing.-rather.-a rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. it is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum f, the weight w, or the power p, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.-a bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.-an arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
leverwood: the american hop hornbeam (ostrya virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.
leviable: fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law.
leviathan: an aquatic animal, described in the book of job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of scripture.-the whale, or a great whale.
levigate: made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated.-to make smooth in various senses-to free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.-to mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids.-to polish.-to make smooth in action.-technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments.-made smooth, as if polished.
leviratical: of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother.
levirostres: a group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.
levitate: to rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.-to make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.
levitation: lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.-the act or process of making buoyant.
levite: one of the tribe or family of levi; a descendant of levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.-a priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.
levitical: of or pertaining to a levite or the levites.-priestly.-of or pertaining to, or designating, the law contained in the book of leviticus.
levitically: after the manner of the levites; in accordance with the levitical law.
leviticus: the third canonical book of the old testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and levites among the hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.
levity: the quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.-lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.-lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.
levo-: a prefix from l. laevus-pertaining to, or toward, the left; as, levorotatory.-turning the plane of polarized light to the left; as, levotartaric acid; levoracemic acid; levogyratory crystals, etc.
levogyrate: turning or twisting the plane of polarization towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc.
levorotatory: turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc.
levulin: a substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. it is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose.
levulinic: pertaining to, or denoting, an acid (called also acetyl-propionic acid), c5h8o3, obtained by the action of dilute acids on various sugars (as levulose).
levulosan: an unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.
levulose: a sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar. it is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization to the left.
levy: a name formerly given in pennsylvania, maryland, and virginia to the spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.-the act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.-that which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.-the taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.-to raise, as a siege.-to raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.-to raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.-to gather or exact; as, to levy money.-to erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.-to take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.-to seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in england, is by seizing the goods.
levynite: a whitish, reddish, or yellowish, transparent or translucent mineral, allied to chabazite.
lewd: not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.-belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.-given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.-suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.
lewisson: an iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.-a kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
lex: law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.
lexical: of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.
lexicography: the art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
lexicology: the science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
lexicon: a vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the greek, hebrew, or latin language.
lexiphanic: using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
ley: to lay; to wager.-law.-see lye.-grass or meadow land; a lea.-fallow; unseeded.