AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
homocategoric: belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.
homocercal: having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.
homodemic: a morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
homodermic: relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.
homodont: having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.
homodromous: running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.-moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.
homodynamous: pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.
homoeomeria: the state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.
homoeomerical: pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles.
homoeomerous: having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.
homoeomorphism: a near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. see isomorphism.
homoeopathy: same as homeopathic, homeopathist, homeopathy.
homoeozoic: pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface.
homogamous: having all the flowers alike; -- said of such composite plants as eupatorium, and the thistels.
homogangliate: having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.
homogeneous: of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.-possessing the same number of factors of a given kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial.
homogenesis: that method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.
homogenetic: homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.
homogenous: having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. see homoplastic.
homogeny: joint nature.-the correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.
homogonous: having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.
homograph: one of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.
homographic: employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.-possessing the property of homography.
homography: that method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.-a relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.
homoioptoton: a figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
homoiothermal: maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.
homoiousian: one of the semi-arians of the 4th century, who held that the son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the father; -- opposed to homoousian.-of or pertaining to homoiousians, or their belief.
homologate: to approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding.
homologation: confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.
homological: pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology.
homologinic: pertaining to, or characterized by, homology; as, homologinic qualities, or differences.
homologoumena: those books of the new testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.
homologous: having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.-corresponding in relative position and proportion.-having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.-characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. see homology, 3.-being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates.
homolographic: preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion.
homologue: that which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.
homology: the quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.-correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure.-the correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, ch4, ethane, c2h6, propane, c3h8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. in an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other.  cf. heterology.
homomallous: uniformly bending or curving to one side; -- said of leaves which grow on several sides of a stem.
homomorphism: same as homomorphy.-the possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.-the possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects.
homomorphy: similarity of form; resemblance in external characters, while widely different in fundamental structure; resemblance in geometric ground form. see homophyly, promorphology.
homonym: a word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
homonymous: having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.-having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous.
homonymously: in an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.-equivocally; ambiguously.
homonymy: sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.-sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.
homoousian: one of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the nicene creed, and maintained that the son had the same essence or substance with the father; -- opposed to homoiousian.-of or pertaining to the homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
homophone: a letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.-a word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
homophonous: originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.-now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.-expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey.
homophony: sameness of sound.-sameness of sound; unison.-plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. see homophonous.
homophyly: that form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.
homoplasmy: resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.
homoplast: one of the plastids composing the idorgan of haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
homoplastic: of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.
homopolic: in promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. see promorphology.
homoptera: a suborder of hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. see hemiptera.
homostyled: having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants.
homosystemic: developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.
homothermous: warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal.
homotropous: turned in the same direction with something else.-having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum.
homotypal: of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.
homotype: that which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc.
homotypy: a term suggested by haeckel to be instead of serial homology. see homotype.
hone: to pine; to lament; to long.-a kind of swelling in the cheek.-a stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.-to sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
honest: decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.-characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.-open; frank; as, an honest countenance.-chaste; faithful; virtuous.-to adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
honestly: honorably; becomingly; decently.-in an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly.
honesty: honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.-the quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.-chastity; modesty.-satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. lunaria biennis is common honesty; l. rediva is perennial honesty.
honewort: an umbelliferous plant of the genus sison (s. amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.
honey: a sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.-that which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.-sweet one; -- a term of endearment.-to be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.-to make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
honeybee: any bee of the genus apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (apis mellifica), the italian bee (a. ligustica), and the arabiab bee (a. fasciata). the two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
honeycomb: a mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.-any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
honeydew: a sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.-a kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.
honeysuckle: one of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.
honeywort: a european plant of the genus cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees.
hong: a mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in china, as formerly at canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.-to hang.
honiton lace: a kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in honiton, england.
honor: esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.-that which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.-a nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.-that to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank.-fame; reputation; credit.-a token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors.-a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.-a title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, his honor the mayor. see note under honorable.-a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.-academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.-the ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. the ten and nine are sometimes called dutch honors.-to regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the supreme being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.-to dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.-to accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange.
honorable: worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.-high-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.-proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.-conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.-worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.-performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.-of reputable association or use; respectable.-an epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable senate; the honorable gentleman.
honorableness: the state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.-conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
honorably: in an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.-decently; becomingly.
honorary: a fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.-an honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.-done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.-conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree.-holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.
hood: state; condition.-a covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment-a soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.-a part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.-a like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.-an ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.-a covering for a horse's head.-a covering for a hawk's head and eyes. see illust. of falcon.-anything resembling a hood in form or use-the top or head of a carriage.-a chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.-a projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.-the top of a pump.-a covering for a mortar.-the hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.-a covering or porch for a companion hatch.-the endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.-to cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.-to cover; to hide; to blind.
hood moulding: a projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
hooded: of hood-covered with a hood.-furnished with a hood or something like a hood.-hood-shaped; esp. (bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the indian turnip.-having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.-having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
hoodwink: to blind by covering the eyes.-to cover; to hide.-to deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.
hoof: the horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.-a hoofed animal; a beast.-see ungula.-to walk as cattle.-to be on a tramp; to foot.
hook: a piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.-that part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.-an implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.-see eccentric, and v-hook.-a snare; a trap.-a field sown two years in succession.-the projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.-to catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.-to seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.-to steal.-to bend; to curve as a hook.
hookah: a pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.
hooke's gearing: spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
hooked: of hook-having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.-provided with a hook or hooks.
hooker: one who, or that which, hooks.-a dutch vessel with two masts.-a fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of ireland.-a sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
hoolock: a small black gibbon (hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of assam.
hoop: a pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.-a ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.-a circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.-a quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.-an old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.-to bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.-to clasp; to encircle; to surround.-to utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.-to whoop, as in whooping cough. see whoop.-to drive or follow with a shout.-to call by a shout or peculiar cry.-a shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.-the hoopoe. see hoopoe.
hooper: one who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.-the european whistling, or wild, swan (olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.
hoopoo: a european bird of the genus upupa (u. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. called also hoop, whoop. the name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.
hoot: to cry out or shout in contempt.-to make the peculiar cry of an owl.-to assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.-a derisive cry or shout.-the cry of an owl.
hoove: a disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.
hop: to move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.-to walk lame; to limp; to halt.-to dance.-a leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.-a dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.-a climbing plant (humulus lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. it is cultivated for its fruit (hops).-the catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.-the fruit of the dog-rose. see hip.-to impregnate with hops.-to gather hops. [perhaps only in the form hopping, vb. n.]