AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
humid: containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.
humidity: moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.
humiliate: to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.
humiliation: the act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.-the state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.
humility: the state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.-an act of submission or courtesy.
humin: a bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.
humite: a mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of vesuvius. it is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.
hummel: to separate from the awns; -- said of barley.-having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.
hummer: one who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.-a humming bird.
humming: of hum-emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.-a sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.
hummock: a rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.-a ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.-timbered land. see hammock.
humor: moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.-a vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.-state of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.-changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.-that quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.-to comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.-to help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
humoral: pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.
humoralism: the state or quality of being humoral.-the doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.
humorism: the theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; galenism.-the manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.
humorist: one who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.-one who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.-one who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
humorous: moist; humid; watery.-subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.-full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
humorously: capriciously; whimsically.-facetiously; wittily.
humorousness: moodiness; capriciousness.-facetiousness; jocularity.
humorsome: moody; whimsical; capricious.-jocose; witty; humorous.
hump: a protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.-a fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
humpback: a crooked back; a humped back.-a humpbacked person; a hunchback.-any whale of the genus megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. several species are known. the most common ones in the north atlantic are megaptera longimana of europe, and m. osphyia of america; that of the california coasts is m. versabilis.-a small salmon (oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of america.
humpy: full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.
humus: that portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. it is a valuable constituent of soils.
hun: one of a warlike nomadic people of northern asia who, in the 5th century, under atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of europe.
hunch: a hump; a protuberance.-a lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.-a push or thrust, as with the elbow.-to push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.-to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
hunchback: a back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
hundred: the product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or c.-a division of a country in england, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.-ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
hundreder: an inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.-a person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs.-one who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred.
hundredth: coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.-forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.-one of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.
hundredweight: a denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. by the legal standard of england it is 112 pounds. in most of the united states, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.
hungarian: of or pertaining to hungary or to the people of hungary.-a native or one of the people of hungary.
hunger: an uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.-any strong eager desire.-to feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.-to have an eager desire; to long.-to make hungry; to famish.
hungry: feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.-showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.-not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
hunk: a large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
hunker: originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the democratic party in new york; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.
hunks: a covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard.
hunt: to search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.-to search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.-to drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.-to use or manage in the chase, as hounds.-to use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.-to follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.-to seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.-the act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.-the game secured in the hunt.-a pack of hounds.-an association of huntsmen.-a district of country hunted over.
hunt's-up: a tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call.
hunt-counter: a worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer.
hunter: one who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.-a dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.-a horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.-one who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.-a kind of spider. see hunting spider, under hunting.-a hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
hunterian: discovered or described by john hunter, an english surgeon; as, the hunterian chancre. see chancre.
huntsman: one who hunts, or who practices hunting.-the person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
hurdle: a movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.-in england, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.-an artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.-to hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
hurdy-gurdy: a stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.-in california, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.
hurl: to send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.-to emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.-to twist or turn.-to hurl one's self; to go quickly.-to perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).-to play the game of hurling. see hurling.-the act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.-tumult; riot; hurly-burly.-a table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
hurlbone: see whirlbone.-a bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse.
hurling: of hurl-the act of throwing with force.-a kind of game at ball, formerly played.
huron-iroquous: a linguistic group of warlike north american indians, belonging to the same stock as the algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the five nations. they formerly occupied the region about lakes erie and ontario, and the larger part of new york.
huronian: of or pertaining to certain non-fossiliferous rocks on the borders of lake huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the archaean age.
hurons: ; sing. huron. (ethnol.) a powerful and warlike tribe of north american indians of the algonquin stock. they formerly occupied the country between lakes huron, erie, and ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the five nations about 1650.
hurra: a word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome.
hurrah: alt. of hurra-a cheer; a shout of joy, etc.-to utter hurrahs; to huzza.-to salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.
hurricane: a violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the east and west indies. also used figuratively.
hurried: urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.-done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job.-of hurry
hurry: to hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.-to impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.-to cause to be done quickly.-to move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.-the act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
hurst: a wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in hazlehurst.
hurt: a band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.-a husk. see husk, 2.-of hurt-to cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.-to impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.-to wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
hurter: a bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.-an injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.-injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.-one who hurts or does harm.-a butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (mil.) a piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.
hurtful: tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
hurtle: to meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.-to move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.-to make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.-to move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.-to push; to jostle; to hurl.
hurtless: doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.
husband: the male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.-a cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.-one who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.-a married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.-the male of a pair of animals.-to direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.-to cultivate, as land; to till.-to furnish with a husband.
husbandman: the master of a family.-a farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.
husbandry: care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.-the business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.
hush: to still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.-to appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.-to become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.-stillness; silence; quiet.-silent; quiet.
hushing: of hush-the process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.
husk: the external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the united states, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.-the supporting frame of a run of millstones.-to strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk indian corn.
husked: of husk-covered with a husk.-stripped of husks; deprived of husks.
huskiness: the state of being husky.-roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice.
husking: of husk-the act or process of stripping off husks, as from indian corn.-a meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also
husky: abounding with husks; consisting of husks.-rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
huso: a large european sturgeon (acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the black and caspian seas. it sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. called also hausen.-the huchen, a large salmon.
hussar: originally, one of the national cavalry of hungary and croatia; now, one of the light cavalry of european armies.
hussite: a follower of john huss, the bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.
hussy: a housewife or housekeeper.-a worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.-a pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.-a case or bag. see housewife, 2.
hustings: a court formerly held in several cities of england; specif., a court held in london, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. in the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.-any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the british parliament.-the platform on which candidates for parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
hustle: to shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.-to push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
huswife: a female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.-a worthless woman; a hussy.-a case for sewing materials. see housewife.-to manage with frugality; -- said of a woman.
huswifely: like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.-in a huswifely manner.
hut: a small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
hutch: to place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.-a chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.-a measure of two winchester bushels.-the case of a flour bolt.-a car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.-a jig for washing ore.-to hoard or lay up, in a chest.-to wash (ore) in a box or jig.
hutchunsonian: a follower of john hutchinson of yorkshire, england, who believed that the hebrew scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.
huttonian: relating to what is now called the plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by dr. james hutton.
huyghenian: pertaining to, or invented by, christian huyghens, a dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the huyghenian telescope.
huzza: a word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.-a shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah.-to shout huzza; to cheer.-to receive or attend with huzzas.
hyacinth: a bulbous plant of the genus hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. h. orientalis is a common variety.-a plant of the genus camassia (c. farseri), called also eastern camass; wild hyacinth.-the name also given to scilla peruviana, a mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, hyacinth of peru.-a red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. see zircon.
hyacinthine: belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
hyads: a cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
hyalea: a pteroid of the genus cavolina. see pteropoda, and illustration in appendix.
hyaline: glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.-a poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.-the pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.-the main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
hyalite: a pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also muller's glass.
hyaloid: resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
hyalonema: a genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. the stem of the japanese species (h. sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. see glass-rope.
hyalophane: a species of the feldspar group containing barium. see feldspar.
hyalospongia: an order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also hexactinellinae.
hyblaean: pertaining to hybla, an ancient town of sicily, famous for its bees.
hybodont: of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.
hybrid: the offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. see mongrel.-produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.
hybridizable: capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock.
hydantoic: pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. see glycoluric.
hydantoin: a derivative of urea, c3h4n2o2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.
hydatid: a membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. it is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as echinococcus and coenurus. see these words in the vocabulary.
hydr-: see under hydro-.-a combining form from gr. /, /, water (see hydra).-a combining form of hydrogen, indicating hydrogen as an ingredient, as hydrochloric; or a reduction product obtained by hydrogen, as hydroquinone.
hydra: a serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of lerna, in the peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. it was slain by hercules. hence, a terrible monster.-hence: a multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.-any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.-a southern constellation of great length lying southerly from cancer, leo, and virgo.
hydra-tainted: dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
hydrachnid: an aquatic mite of the genus hydrachna. the hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
hydracid: an acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no oxygen, from the oxygen acids or oxacids. see acid.
hydracrylic: pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lastic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.
hydractinian: any species or marine hydroids, of the genus hydractinia and allied genera. these hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. see illust. of athecata.
hydragogue: causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.-a hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.
hydramide: one of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
hydramine: one of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. they have the properties both of alcohol and amines.
hydrangea: a genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. h. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of china or japan.
hydrant: a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
hydranth: one of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. see illust. of hydroidea.
hydrargochloride: a compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
hydrargyrate: of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury.
hydrargyrism: a diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.
hydrastine: an alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (hydrastis canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. it is used as a tonic and febrifuge.