AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
grammar: the science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.-the art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.-a treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.-treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.-to discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
grammarian: one versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.-one who writes on, or teaches, grammar.
grammatical: of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.-according to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
gramme: the unit of weight in the metric system. it was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. it is equal to 15.432 grains. see grain, n., 4.-same as gram the weight.
gramme machine: a kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its french inventor, m. gramme.
grampus: a toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus grampus, esp. g. griseus of europe and america, which is valued for its oil. it grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. called also cowfish. the california grampus is g. stearnsii.-a kind of tongs used in a bloomery.
granadilla: the fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. passiflora quadrangularis) found in brazil and the west indies. it is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. the fruit of passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices.
granary: a storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (fig.), a region fertile in grain.
grand: of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.-great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.-having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.-standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generaliy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.
grandchild: a son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
grandee: a man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. in spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
grandeur: the state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.
grandfather: a father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
grandfatherly: like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.
grandiloquence: the use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
grandiose: impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.-characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.
grange: a building for storing grain; a granary.-a farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.-a farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.-a farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.-an association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. the first grange was organized in 1867.
grangerism: the practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.
granite: a crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. it differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.
granite state: new hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
granitic: like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.-consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.
granitoid: resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
granivorous: eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds.
grant: to give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.-to bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.-to admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.-to assent; to consent.-the act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.-the yielding or admission of something in dispute.-the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.-a transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
granulate: to form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.-to raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.-to collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.-alt. of granulated
granulated: of granulate-consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.-having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.
granulation: the act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.-the state of being granulated.-one of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing.-the act or process of the formation of such prominences.
granulite: a whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
granulose: the main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.
grape: a well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. the berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.-the plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.-a mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.-grapeshot.
grapeshot: a cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.
grapevine: a vine or climbing shrub, of the genus vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
graphical: of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.-of or pertaining to the art of writing.-written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.-well delineated; clearly and vividly described.-having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer.
graphics: the art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.
graphite: native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. it is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. often called plumbago or black lead.
graphology: the art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.
graphoscope: an optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.
graphotype: a process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. the surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
grapnel: a small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.
grapple: to seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.-to fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.-to use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another.-a seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.-an instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab.-a grappling iron.
grappling: of grapple-a laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.-a grapple; a struggle.  a match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
grapsoid: pertaining to the genus grapsus or the family grapsidae.-a grapsoid crab.
graptolite: one of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus graptolites and allied genera, found in the silurian rocks. they belong to an extinct group (graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.
graptolitic: of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.
grasp: to seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.-to lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.-to effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.-a gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.-reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.-forcible possession; hold.-wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.-the handle of a sword or of an oar.
grasping: seizing; embracing; catching.-avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
grass: popularly: herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.-an endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.-the season of fresh grass; spring.-metaphorically used for what is transitory.-to cover with grass or with turf.-to expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.-to bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.-to produce grass.
grass tree: an australian plant of the genus xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. these plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. they yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called botany-bay gum, and gum acaroides.-a similar australian plant (kingia australis).
grasshopper: any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families acrididae and locustidae. the species and genera are very numerous.  the former family includes the western grasshopper or locust (caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the mississippi. in the eastern united states the red-legged (caloptenus femurrubrum and c. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. they are closely related to the migratory locusts of the old world. see locust.-in ordinary square or upright pianos of london make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.
grassy: covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.-resembling grass; green.
grate: serving to gratify; agreeable.-a structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.-a frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.-to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.-to rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.-to reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.-to fret; to irritate; to offend.-to make a harsh sound by friction.-to produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. hence; to produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.
grated: of grate-furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.
grateful: having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.-affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.
grater: one who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
graticulation: the division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.
graticule: a design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
gratification: the act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.-that which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.-a reward; a recompense; a gratuity.
gratify: to please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.-to requite; to recompense.
grating: of grate-a partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.-a system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating.-the strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.-that grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.-a harsh sound caused by attrition.
gratiolin: one of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (gratiola officinalis).
gratitude: the state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
gratuitous: given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.-not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption.
gratuity: something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.-something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
gravamen: the grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. bouvier.
grave: to clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.-of great weight; heavy; ponderous.-of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.-not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.-not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.-slow and solemn in movement.-to dig. [obs.] chaucer.-to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.-to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.-to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.-to entomb; to bury.-to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.-an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. hence: death; destruction.
gravedigger: a digger of graves.-see burying beetle, under bury, v. t.
gravel: small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.-a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.-to cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.-to run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.-to check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.-to hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
gravelling: of gravel-the act of covering with gravel.-a layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).-a salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
gravelly: abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
gravenstein: a kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
graver: one who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.-an ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.
gravery: the act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving.
gravestone: a stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
gravic: pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.
gravid: being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.
graving: of grave-the act of cleaning a ship's bottom.-the act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio.-that which is graved or carved.-impression, as upon the mind or heart.
gravitate: to obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
gravitation: the act of gravitating.-that species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. see attraction, and weight.
gravity: the state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.-sobriety of character or demeanor.-importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.-the tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.-lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.
gravy: the juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.-liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
gray: white mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.-gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.-old; mature; as, gray experience. ames.-a gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.-an animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
grayback: the california gray whale.-the redbreasted sandpiper or knot.-the dowitcher.-the body louse.
graylag: the common wild gray goose (anser anser) of europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. see illust. of goose.
grayling: a european fish (thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber.  it inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.-an american fish of the genus thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (t. ontariensis), inhabits several streams in michigan; another  (t. montanus), is found in the yellowstone region.
graywacke: a conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.
graze: to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.-to feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.-to tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.-to rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.-to eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.-to yield grass for grazing.-to touch something lightly in passing.-the act of grazing; the cropping of grass.-a light touch; a slight scratch.
grazing: of graze-the act of one who, or that which, grazes.-a pasture; growing grass.
grease: animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.-an inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.-to smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.-to bribe; to corrupt with presents.-to cheat or cozen; to overreach.-to affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
greaser: one who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.-a nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a mexican of the lowest type.
greasiness: the quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
greasy: composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.-smeared or defiled with grease.-like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.-fat of body; bulky.-gross; indelicate; indecent.-affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. see grease, n., 2.
great: large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.-large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.-long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.-superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.-endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.-holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.-entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.-pregnant; big (with young).-more than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.-older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.-the whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
great-bellied: having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming.
great-hearted: high-spirited; fearless.-generous; magnanimous; noble.