AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
maieutics: the art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
maikel: a south american carnivore of the genus conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. the tail is not bushy.
maikong: a south american wild dog (canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
mail: a spot.-a small piece of money; especially, an english silver half-penny of the time of henry v.-rent; tribute.-a flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. it was used especially for defensive armor.-hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.-a contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.-any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.-to arm with mail.-to pinion.-a bag; a wallet.-the bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.-that which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.-a trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.-to deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.
mailed: of mail-protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.-spotted; speckled.
maim: to deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.-to mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.-the privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.-the privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. see mayhem.
main: a hand or match at dice.-a stake played for at dice.-the largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.-a match at cockfighting.-a main-hamper.-strength; force; might; violent effort.-the chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.-the great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.-the continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.-principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.-very or extremely strong.-vast; huge.-unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.-principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.-important; necessary.-very; extremely; as, main heavy.
main yard: the yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.
main-gauche: the dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.
main-hamper: a hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
mainly: very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.-principally; chiefly.
mainpernable: capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
mainpernor: a surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.
mainprise: a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. this writ is now obsolete.-deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.-to suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.
mainsheet: one of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.
mainspring: the principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. hence: the chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
mainstay: the stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.-main support; principal dependence.
maintain: to hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.-to keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.-to continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.-to bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.-to affirm; to support or defend by argument.
maintainor: one who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
maintenance: the act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.-that which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.-an officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. see champerty.
maize: a large species of american grass of the genus zea (z. mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; indian corn. also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.
majestic: possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.
majesty: the dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns.-hence, used with the possessive pronoun, the title of an emperor, king or queen; -- in this sense taking a plural; as, their majesties attended the concert.-dignity; elevation of manner or style.
majolica: a kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in italy in the 16th century.
major: greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.-of greater dignity; more important.-of full legal age.-greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.-an officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.-a person of full age.-that premise which contains the major term. it its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: no unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].-a mayor.
major general: an officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
major-domo: a man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
majorat: the right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental europe.-property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.
majority: the quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.-the military rank of a major.-the condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.-the greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.-ancestors; ancestry.-the amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. see plurality.
majuscule: a capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. see majusculae.
make: a companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.-to cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.-to form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.-to produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.-to bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.-to execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.-to gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.-to find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.-to put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.-to cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.-to cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.-to require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.-to become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.-to compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.-to be engaged or concerned in.-to reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.-to act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.-to proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.-to tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.-to increase; to augment; to accrue.-to compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.-structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
make-believe: a feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.-feigned; insincere.
make-up: the way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
maker: one who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the creator.-the person who makes a promissory note.-one who writes verses; a poet.
makeweight: that which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
making: of make-the act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.-composition, or structure.-a poem.-that which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.-external appearance; from.
making-iron: a tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
making-up: the act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.-the act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
mal-: a prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, f. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. in some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. see malice.
malabar: a region in the western part of the peninsula of india, between the mountains and the sea.
malachite: native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
malacobdella: a genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. they have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. see illust. of bdellomorpha.
malacoderm: one of a tribe of beetles (malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
malacopoda: a class of air-breathing arthropoda; -- called also protracheata, and onychophora.
malacopterygii: an order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. it includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. called also malacopteri.
malacosteon: a peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.
malacostraca: a subclass of crustacea, including arthrostraca and thoracostraca, or all those higher than the entomostraca.
malacostracology: that branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
malacozoa: an extensive group of invertebrata, including the mollusca, brachiopoda, and bryozoa. called also malacozoaria.
maladdress: bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one.
maladroit: of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
malady: any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.-a moral or mental defect or disorder.
malaga: a city and a province of spain, on the mediterranean.  hence, malaga grapes, malaga raisins, malaga wines.
malaise: an indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
malambo: a yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the south american shrub croton malambo.
malamic: of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.
malamide: the acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
malanders: a scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. see sallenders.
malapert: bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.-a malapert person.
malapterurus: a genus of african siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. see electric cat, under electric.
malar: of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.-the cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
malaria: air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.-a morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.
malashaganay: the fresh-water drumfish (haploidonotus grunniens).
malassimilation: imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.-an imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.
malaxation: the act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.
malaxator: one who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass.
malay: one of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the malay peninsula and the western islands of the indian archipelago.-alt. of malayan
malayalam: the name given to one the cultivated dravidian languages, closely related to the tamil.
malbrouck: a west african arboreal monkey (cercopithecus cynosurus).
malconformation: imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
malcontent: discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.-one who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.
maldanian: any species of marine annelids of the genus maldane, or family maldanidae. they have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.
male: evil; wicked; bad.-same as mail, a bag.-of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.-capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.-suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.-consisting of males; as, a male choir.-adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.-an animal of the male sex.-a plant bearing only staminate flowers.
malebranchism: the philosophical system of malebranche, an eminent french metaphysician. the fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to god.
malediction: a proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.
malefactor: an evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.-one who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal.
malefic: doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.
maleic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.
maleo: a bird of celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. it makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.
malevolence: the quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. see synonym of malice.
malevolent: wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.
malfeasance: the doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.
malformation: ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.
malice: enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.-any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.-to regard with extreme ill will.
malicious: indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.-proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.-with wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.
malign: having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.-unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.-malignant; as, a malign ulcer.-to treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.-to speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.-to entertain malice.
malignancy: the state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.-unfavorableness; evil nature.-virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.-the state of being a malignant.
malignant: disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.-characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.-tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.-a man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.-one of the adherents of charles l. or charles ll.; -- so called by the opposite party.
malignity: the state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.-virulence; deadly quality.-extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.
malingerer: in the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
malkin: originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.-a mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.-a scarecrow.-a mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
mall: a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.-a heavy blow.-an old game played with malls or mallets and balls. see pall-mall.-a place where the game of mall was played. hence: a public walk; a level shaded walk.-to beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.-formerly, among teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.-a court of justice.-a place where justice is administered.-a place where public meetings are held.
mallard: a drake; the male of anas boschas.-a large wild duck (anas boschas) inhabiting both america and europe. the domestic duck has descended from this species. called also greenhead.
malleability: the quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness.
malleable: capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
malleation: the act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
malleolar: of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
malleolus: a projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. the malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.-" a layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.
mallet: a small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.
malleus: the outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. it is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. see illust. of far.-one of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of rotifera. see mastax.-a genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
mallophaga: an extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. see bird louse, under bird.
mallotus: a genus of small arctic fishes. one american species, the capelin (mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.
mallows: a genus of plants (malva) having mucilaginous qualities. see malvaceous.
malma: a spotted trout (salvelinus malma), inhabiting northern america, west of the rocky mountains; -- called also dolly varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
malmbrick: a kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
malonic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, ch2.(co2h)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.
malonyl: a hydrocarbon radical, ch2.(co)2, from malonic acid.
malpighia: a genus of tropical american shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. the drupes of malpighia urens are eaten under the name of barbadoes cherries.
malpighiaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of south american forests.
malpighian: of, pertaining to, or discovered by, marcello malpighi, an italian anatomist of the 17th century.