AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
malpractice: evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
malt: barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. it is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.-relating to, containing, or made with, malt.-to make into malt; as, to malt barley.-to become malt; also, to make grain into malt.
maltese: of or pertaining to malta or to its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of malta; the people of malta.
maltha: a variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.-mortar.
malthusian: of or pertaining to the political economist, the rev. t. r. malthus, or conforming to his views; as, malthusian theories.
maltine: the fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.
maltonic: of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. see gluconic.
maltose: a crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. it resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.
malvaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. the cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.
malversation: evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.
mameluke: one of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by mehemet ali in 1811.
mamgabey: any one of several african monkeys of the genus cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (c. fuliginosus), which is sooty black.
mamma: mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.-a glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.
mammalia: the highest class of vertebrata. the young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
mammary: of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.
mammee: a fruit tree of tropical america, belonging to the genus mammea (m. americana); also, its fruit. the latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. it is often called mammee apple.
mammiferous: having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mammalia.
mammillary: of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.-composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.
mammillated: having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae.-bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells.
mammonish: actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of mammon.
mammonization: the process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.
mammoth: an extinct, hairy, maned elephant (elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. the last of the race, in europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.-resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
mamzer: a person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the mosaic law; a bastard.
man: a human being; -- opposed tobeast.-especially: an adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.-the human race; mankind.-the male portion of the human race.-one possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.-an adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.-a term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, come, man, we 've no time to lose!-a married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.-one, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.-one of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.-to supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.-to furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.-to tame, as a hawk.-to furnish with a servants.-to wait on as a manservant.
man-eater: one who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. carcharodon rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.
manacle: a handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.-to put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers.
manage: the handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. see manege.-to have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.-hence: esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.-to train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.-to treat with care; to husband.-to bring about; to contrive.-to direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.
manageable: such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.
management: the act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.-business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.-judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.-the collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.
manager: one who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.-a person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist.-a contriver; an intriguer.
managerial: of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities.
managery: management; manner of using; conduct; direction.-husbandry; economy; frugality.
manakin: any one of numerous small birds belonging to pipra, manacus, and other genera of the family pipridae. they are mostly natives of central and south america. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. the name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.-a dwarf. see manikin.
manatee: any species of trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow.
manbote: a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).
manchineel: a euphorbiaceous tree (hippomane mancinella) of tropical america, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.
manchu: of or pertaining to manchuria or its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of manchuria; also, the language spoken by the manchus.
manciple: a steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or inn of court.
mancus: an old anglo saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. the silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern english money.
mandamus: a writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.
mandarin: a chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in china and annam.-a small orange, with easily separable rind. it is thought to be of chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
mandarining: the process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.
mandatary: one to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.-one who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.
mandate: an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.-a rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.-a contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. by the roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
mandator: a director; one who gives a mandate or order.-the person who employs another to perform a mandate.
mandelic: pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.
mandible: the bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.-the anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. see illust. of diptera.
mandibular: of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.-the principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
mandibuliform: having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
mandibulohyoid: pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
mandingos: ; sing. mandingo. (ethnol.) an extensive and powerful tribe of west african negroes.
mandragora: a genus of plants; the mandrake. see mandrake, 1.
mandragorite: one who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
mandrake: a low plant (mandragora officinarum) of the nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. it was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. all parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. it is found in the mediterranean region.-the may apple (podophyllum peltatum). see may apple under may, and podophyllum.
mandrel: a bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.-the live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. it is usually driven by a pulley.
mandrill: a large west african baboon (cynocephalus, / papio, mormon). the adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.
manductor: a conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music.
manducus: a grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
mane: the long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. see illust. of horse.
manege: art of horsemanship, or of training horses.-a school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.
maneh: a hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.
manes: the benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
maneuver: alt. of manoeuvre-alt. of manoeuvre-alt. of manoeuvre
manful: showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
manganese: an element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. symbol mn. atomic weight 54.8.
manganic: of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds.  cf. manganous.
manganite: one of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. it occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.-a compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid.
manganous: of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.
mangel-wurzel: a kind of large field beet (b. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. see beet.
manger: a trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.-the fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.
mangle: to cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.-to mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.-a machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.-to smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
mangler: one who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.-one who smooths with a mangle.
mango: the fruit of the mango tree. it is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. the green fruit is pickled for market.-a green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.
mangonist: one who mangonizes.-a slave dealer; also, a strumpet.
mangostan: a tree of the east indies of the genus garcinia (g. mangostana). the tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.
mangrove: the name of one or two trees of the genus rhizophora (r. mangle, and r. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. the seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.-the mango fish.
manhole: a hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.
manhood: the state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.-manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.
mania: violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.  cf. delirium.-excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
maniac: raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.-a raving lunatic; a madman.
manicate: covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.
manichean: alt. of manichee-of or pertaining to the manichaeans.
manichee: a believer in the doctrines of manes, a persian of the third century a. d., who taught a dualism in which light is regarded as the source of good, and darkness as the source of evil.
manicheism: the doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the manichaeans.
manichordon: the clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.
manicure: a person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails.
manifest: evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.-detected; convicted; -- with of.-a public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. see manifesto.-a list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse.-to show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.-to exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
manifestation: the act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of god's power in creation.
manifesto: a public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives.
manifold: various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.-exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number.-a copy of a writing made by the manifold process.-a cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.-the third stomach of a ruminant animal.-to take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.
manifolded: of manifold-having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield.
maniglion: either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.
manikin: a little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.-a model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.
manilla: of or pertaining to manila or manilla, the capital of the philippine islands; made in, or exported from, that city.-a ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of africa.-a piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of africa.-same as manila.
manioc: the tropical plants (manihot utilissima, and m. aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
maniple: a handful.-a division of the roman army numbering sixty men exclusive of officers, any small body of soldiers; a company.-originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the roman catholic church. it is sometimes worn in the english church service.
manipular: of or pertaining to the maniple, or company.-manipulatory; as, manipular operations.
manipulate: to treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.-to control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.-to use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.
manipulation: the act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.-the use of the hands in mesmeric operations.-artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.
manis: a genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. they inhabit the warmest parts of asia and africa, and feed on ants. called also scaly anteater. see pangolin.
manitu: a name given by tribes of american indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship.
mankind: the human race; man, taken collectively.-men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race.-human feelings; humanity.-manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.
manks: of or pertaining to the language or people of the of man.-the language spoken in the isle of man. see manx.
manlike: like man, or like a man, in form or nature; having the qualities of a man, esp. the nobler qualities; manly.
manly: having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.-in a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.
manna: the food supplied to the israelites in their journey through the wilderness of arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.-a name given to lichens of the genus lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of arabia and africa, and gathered and used as food.-a sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of fraxinus ornus, and f. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of southern europe.
manna croup: the portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.-the husked grains of manna grass.
manner: mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.-characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.-customary method of acting; habit.-carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.-the style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.-certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.-sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.
mannered: having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self.-affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity.
mannerism: adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
mannerist: one addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. see citation under mannerism.
mannerly: showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.-with good manners.
mannheim gold: a kind of brass made in imitation of gold. it contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc.
mannide: a white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.
mannish: resembling a human being in form or nature; human.-resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.-fond of men; -- said of a woman.
mannitan: a white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.
mannite: a white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane.  cf. dulcite.-a sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.
mannitose: a variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.