AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
hot-head: a violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
hot-headed: fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
hotbed: a bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.-a place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
hotchpotch: a mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.-a blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. in modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.
hotcockles: a childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.
hote: of hight-of hote-to command; to enjoin.-to promise.-to be called; to be named.
hotel: a house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.-in france, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
hothouse: a house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.-a bagnio, or bathing house.-a brothel; a bagnio.-a heated room for drying green ware.
hotly: in a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.-in a lustful manner; lustfully.
hotness: the quality or state of being hot.-heat or excitement of mind or manner; violence; vehemence; impetuousity; ardor; fury.
hotpress: to apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
hottentot: one of a degraded and savage race of south africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.-the language of the hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds.
hough: the joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.-a piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.-the popliteal space; the ham.-same as hock, a joint.-same as hock, to hamstring.-an adz; a hoe.-to cut with a hoe.
hound: a variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc.-a despicable person.-a houndfish.-projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.-a side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.-to set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.-to hunt or chase with hounds, or as with hounds.
hound's-tongue: a biennial weed (cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. it bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. called also dog's-tongue.
houndfish: any small shark of the genus galeus or mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (g. canis), of europe and america; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.
hounding: of hound-the act of one who hounds.-the part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
hour: the twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.-the time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? at what hour shall we meet?-fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.-certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.-a measure of distance traveled.
hourglass: an instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. it consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
hourly: happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.-every hour; frequently; continually.
house: a structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.-household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. see below.-those who dwell in the same house; a household.-a family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of austria; the house of hanover; the house of israel.-one of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the house of lords; the house of commons; the house of representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. see congress, and parliament.-a firm, or commercial establishment.-a public house; an inn; a hotel.-a twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. the houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.-a square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.-an audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.-the body, as the habitation of the soul.-the grave.-to take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.-to drive to a shelter.-to admit to residence; to harbor.-to deposit and cover, as in the grave.-to stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.-to take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.-to have a position in one of the houses. see house, n., 8.
housebote: wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. this latter is often called firebote. see bote.
housebreaking: the act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. see burglary, and to break a house, under break.
housecarl: a household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of king canute.
household: those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.-a line of ancestory; a race or house.-belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.
householder: the master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
housekeeper: one who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.-one who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.-one who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household.-one who keeps or stays much at home.-a house dog.
housekeeping: the state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.-care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.-hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.-domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.
houseleek: a succulent plant of the genus sempervivum (s. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. it is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.
houseless: destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
housemaid: a female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.
houseroom: room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
housewarming: a feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
housewife: the wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.-a little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy.-a hussy.-alt. of housewive
housewifely: pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
housewifery: the business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
housewive: to manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
housework: the work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
housing: of house-the act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.-that which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.-the space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.-a niche for a statue.-a frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.-that portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.-a covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.-a houseline. see houseline.-a cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.-an appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
houyhnhnm: one of the race of horses described by swift in his imaginary travels of lemuel gulliver. the houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
hove: of heave-of heave-imp. & p. p. of heave.-to rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.-to hover around; to loiter; to lurk.
hovel: an open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.-a poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.-a large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.-to put in a hovel; to shelter.
hoveler: one who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
hoveling: of hovel-a method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
hoven: of heave-affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.-p. p. of heave.-affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.
hover: a cover; a shelter; a protection.-to hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.-to hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
hoverer: a device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.
how: in what manner or way; by what means or process.-to what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality.-for what reason; from what cause.-in what state, condition, or plight.-by what name, designation, or title.-at what price; how dear.
howadji: a traveler.-a merchant; -- so called in the east because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.
howbeit: be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however.
howdah: a seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.
howel: a tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.-to smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.
however: in whetever manner, way, or degree.-at all events; at least; in any case.-nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, i shall not oppose your design; i can not, however, approve of it.
howitzer: a gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.-a short, light, largebore cannon, usually having a chamber of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.
howl: to utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.-to utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.-to make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.-to utter with outcry.-the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.-a prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
howler: one who howls.-any south american monkey of the genus mycetes. many species are known. they are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.
howsoever: in what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however.-although; though; however.
hoy: a small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.-ho! halloe! stop!
hub: the central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. see illust. of axle box.-the hilt of a weapon.-a rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [u.s.] see hubby.-a goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.-a hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.-a screw hob. see hob, 3.-a block for scotching a wheel.
hubble-bubble: a tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. in india, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.
hubby: full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
hubner: a mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. it is native manganese tungstate.
huchen: a large salmon (salmo, / salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.
huckaback: a kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.
huckle: the hip; the haunch.-a bunch or part projecting like the hip.
huckleberry: the edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the american genus gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. the commonest huckelberry comes from g. resinosa.-the shrub that bears the berries. called also whortleberry.
huckster: a retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.-a mean, trickish fellow.-to deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
huddle: to press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.-to crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.-to do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together.-a crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.
hudibrastic: similar to, or in the style of, the poem "hudibras," by samuel butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
hudsonian: of or pertaining to hudson's bay or to the hudson river; as, the hudsonian curlew.
hue: color or shade of color; tint; dye.-a predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.-a shouting or vociferation.
hued: having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many-hued.
huer: one who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. see balker.
huff: to swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.-to treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.-to remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). see huff, v. i., 3.-to enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.-to bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.-to remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.-a swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.-a boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
huffcap: a blusterer; a bully.-blustering; swaggering.
huffy: puffed up; as, huffy bread.-characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
hug: to cower; to crouch; to curl up.-to crowd together; to cuddle.-to press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.-to hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.-to keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.-a close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.
huge: very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
hugger: one who hugs or embraces.-to conceal; to lurk ambush.
hugger-mugger: privacy; secrecy. commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.-secret; clandestine; sly.-confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.
huguenot: a french protestant of the period of the religious wars in france in the 16th century.
huia bird: a new zealand starling (heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.
hulk: the body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.-a heavy ship of clumsy build.-anything bulky or unwieldly.-to take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.
hull: the outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.-the frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.-to strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.-to pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.-to toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
huller: one who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
hum: to make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.-to make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.-to make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.-to express satisfaction by a humming noise.-to have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.-to sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune.-to express satisfaction with by humming.-to flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.-a low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.-any inarticulate and buzzing sound-the confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry.-a buzz or murmur, as of approbation.-an imposition or hoax.-an inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc.-a kind of strong drink formerly used.-ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
human: belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.-a human being.
humane: pertaining to man; human.-having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent.-humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.
humanist: one of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name humanist as their distinctive title.-one who purposes the study of the humanities, or polite literature.-one versed in knowledge of human nature.
humanistic: of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.-pertaining to polite kiterature.
humanitarian: pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of christ's nature.-content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.-benevolent; philanthropic.-one who denies the divinity of christ, and believes him to have been merely human.-one who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.-one who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.
humanitarianism: the distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of christ.-the doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations.
humanity: the quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.-mankind collectively; the human race.-the quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.-mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.-the branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
humanize: to render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.-to give a human character or expression to.-to convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.-to become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
humanly: in a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.-kindly; humanely.
humble: near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.-thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of god; lowly; waek; modest.-hornless. see hummel.-to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.-to make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
humbug: an imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.-a spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.-one who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.-to deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
humdrum: monotonous; dull; commonplace.-a dull fellow; a bore.-monotonous and tedious routine.-a low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.
humeral: of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial.
humerus: the bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb.-the part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.
humic: pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. see humin.