AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
hedge: a thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.-to inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.-to obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.-to surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).-to surround so as to prevent escape.-to shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.-to reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.-to use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
hedgehog: a small european insectivore (erinaceus europaeus), and other allied species of asia and africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. it is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. it is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.-the canadian porcupine.-a species of medicago (m. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.-a form of dredging machine.
hedger: one who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
hedgerow: a row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.
hedonic: pertaining to pleasure.-of or relating to hedonism or the hedonic sect.
heed: to mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.-to mind; to consider.-attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.-careful consideration; obedient regard.-a look or expression of heading.
heedful: full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant.
heedless: without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
heel: to lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.-the hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.-the hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.-the latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.-anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.-the part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests-the after end of a ship's keel.-the lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.-in a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.-the uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.-the part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.-management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.-the lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. in the united states, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.-a cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.-to perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.-to add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.-to arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
heelball: a composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.
heeler: a cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.-a dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
heelpiece: a piece of armor to protect the heels.-a piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.-the end.
heelpost: the post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.-the post to which a gate or door is hinged.-the quoin post of a lock gate.
heelspur: a slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. it helps to support the wing membranes. see illust. of cheiropter.
heeltap: one of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.-a small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking.-to add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)
heeltool: a tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.
heer: a yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. see spindle.-hair.
heft: same as haft, n.-the act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.-weight; ponderousness.-the greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.-of heft-to heave up; to raise aloft.-to prove or try the weight of by raising.
hegelism: the system of logic and philosophy set forth by hegel, a german writer (1770-1831).
hegemony: leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
hegira: the flight of mohammed from mecca, september 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of mohammed.
heigh-ho: an exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.
height: the condition of being high; elevated position.-the distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.-degree of latitude either north or south.-that which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, alpine heights.-elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.-progress toward eminence; grade; degree.-utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
heighten: to make high; to raise higher; to elevate.-to carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
heinous: hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
heir: one who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.-one who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.-to inherit; to succeed to.
heirloom: any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.
helcoplasty: the act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
helenin: a neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.
heliacal: emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.
helianthin: an artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.
helical: of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.
helichrysum: a genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers."
helicin: a glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (salix helix of linnaeus.)
helicine: curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.
helicoid: spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.-shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the helicidae, or snail family.-a warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
helicon: a mountain in boeotia, in greece, supposed by the greeks to be the residence of apollo and the muses.
heliconia: one of numerous species of heliconius, a genus of tropical american butterflies. the wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.
heliconian: of or pertaining to helicon.-like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus heliconius.
helicotrema: the opening by which the two scalae communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.
heliocentrical: pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical.
heliograph: a picture taken by heliography; a photograph.-an instrument for taking photographs of the sun.-an apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. see heliotrope, 3.
heliographic: of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.
heliolite: a fossil coral of the genus heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. it is found in the silurian rocks.
heliometer: an instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.
heliometrical: of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
heliometry: the apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. see heliometer.
heliopora: an east indian stony coral now known to belong to the alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.
helioscope: a telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light.
heliostat: an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.
heliotrope: an instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.-a plant of the genus heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. h. peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.-an instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.-see bloodstone (a).
heliotroper: the person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.
heliotypy: a method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
heliozoa: an order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
helium: a gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
helix: a nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. the common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. it is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.-a caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the corinthian capital.-the incurved margin or rim of the external ear. see illust. of ear.-a genus of land snails, including a large number of species.
hell: the place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in hebrew sheol, and by the greeks hades.-the place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. hence, any mental torment; anguish.-a place where outcast persons or things are gathered-a dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.-a gambling house.-a place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.-to overwhelm.
hellbender: a large north american aquatic salamander (protonopsis horrida or menopoma alleghaniensis). it is very voracious and very tenacious of life. also called alligator, and water dog.
hellebore: a genus of perennial herbs (helleborus) of the crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. h. niger is the european black hellebore, or christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. h. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.-any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus veratrum, especially v. album and v. viride, both called white hellebore.
helleborein: a poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. it has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.
helleborin: a poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. it possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.
hellenic: of or pertaining to the hellenes, or inhabitants of greece; greek; grecian.-the dialect, formed with slight variations from the attic, which prevailed among greek writers after the time of alexander.
hellenism: a phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the greek language; a grecism.-the type of character of the ancient greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection.
hellenist: one who affiliates with greeks, or imitates greek manners; esp., a person of jewish extraction who used the greek language as his mother tongue, as did the jews of asia minor, greece, syria, and egypt; distinguished from the hebraists, or native jews (acts vi. 1).-one skilled in the greek language and literature; as, the critical hellenist.
hellenize: to use the greek language; to play the greek; to grecize.-to give a greek form or character to; to grecize; as, to hellenize a word.
hellespont: a narrow strait between europe and asia, now called the daradanelles. it connects the aegean sea and the sea of marmora.
hellgramite: the aquatic larva of a large american winged insect (corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. it belongs to the neuroptera.
hellier: one who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
hellish: of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
helm: see haulm, straw.-the apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.-the place or office of direction or administration.-one at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.-a helve.-to steer; to guide; to direct.-a helmet.-a heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.-to cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.
helmet: a defensive covering for the head. see casque, headpiece, morion, sallet, and illust. of beaver.-the representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.-a helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.-that which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.-the upper part of a retort.-the hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.-a naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
helmet-shaped: shaped like a helmet; galeate. see illust. of galeate.
helmeted: wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.
helminth: an intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the helminthes.
helminthes: one of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. it is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. called also enthelminthes, enthelmintha.
helminthic: of or relating to worms, or helminthes; expelling worms.-a vermifuge; an anthelmintic.
helminthite: one of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.
helminthology: the natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.
helot: a slave in ancient sparta; a spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.
help: to furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "help me scale yon balcony."-to furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.-to furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.-to change for the better; to remedy.-to prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?-to forbear; to avoid.-to wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.-to lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.-strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.-remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.-a helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.-specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.
helper: one who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
helpless: destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.-beyond help; irremediable.-bringing no help; unaiding.-unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
helve: the handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.-the lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer.-a forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.-to furnish with a helve, as an ax.
helvetic: of or pertaining to the helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the alps, now switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the alpine regions; as, the helvetic confederacy; helvetic states.
helvite: a mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.
hem: them-an onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. it is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.-an utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.-to make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.-the edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.-border; edge; margin.-a border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.-to form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.-to border; to edge
hemacite: a composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.
hemadromometer: an instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.
hemadromometry: the act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; haemotachometry.
hemadynamics: the principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.
hemadynamometer: an instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer.
hemal: relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.
hemapophysis: the second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
hematein: a reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, c16h12o6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.
hematin: hematoxylin.-a bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained from blood. it exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.
hematinometric: relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.
hematinon: a red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.
hematite: an important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. it occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. see brown hematite, under brown.
hematocrya: the cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematotherma.
hematoidin: a crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. it resembles bilirubin. when present in the corpora lutea it is called haemolutein.
hematoma: a circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
hematophilia: a condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.
hematosis: sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood.-the arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis.
hematotherma: the warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.
hemautography: the obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.
hemelytrum: one of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
hemeralopia: a disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.
hemerobian: a neuropterous insect of the genus hemerobius, and allied genera.
hemerocallis: a genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
hemi-demi-semiquaver: a short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
hemialbumose: an albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. it is readily convertible into hemipeptone. called also hemialbumin.
hemibranchi: an order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. it includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and fistularia.
hemicycle: a half circle; a semicircle.-a semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room.
hemidactyl: any species of old world geckoes of the genus hemidactylus. the hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
hemigamous: having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.
hemiglyph: the half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the doric order.
hemihedral: having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.
hemihedron: a solid hemihedrally derived. the tetrahedron is a hemihedron.
hemiholohedral: presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.