AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
lurg: a large marine annelid (nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of europe and america. it is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.
lurid: pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.-having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.-of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
lurry: a confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.
luscious: sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.-cloying; fulsome.-gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.
lusitanian: pertaining to lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with portugal.-one of the people of lusitania.
lusk: lazy; slothful.-a lazy fellow; a lubber.-to be idle or unemployed.
lussheburgh: a spurious coin of light weight imported into england from luxemburg, or lussheburgh, as it was formerly called.
lust: pleasure.-inclination; desire.-longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.-licentious craving; sexual appetite.-hence: virility; vigor; active power.-to list; to like.-to have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.
lustering: of lustre-the act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.-the brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
lustful: full of lust; excited by lust.-exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality.-strong; lusty.
lustral: of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.-of or pertaining to a lustrum.
lustrate: to make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
lustration: the act of lustrating or purifying.-a sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
lustre: brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.-renown; splendor; distinction; glory.-a candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.-the appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.-a substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.-a fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.-to make lustrous.-same as luster.
lustrum: a lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. hence: a period of five years.
lusty: exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.-beautiful; handsome; pleasant.-of large size; big. [obs.] " three lusty vessels." evelyn. hence, sometimes, pregnant.-lustful; lascivious.
lute: a cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.-a packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.-a straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.-to close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.-a stringed instrument formerly much in use. it consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. the strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.-to sound, as a lute. piers plowman. keats.-to play on a lute, or as on a lute.
luteic: pertaining to, or derived from, weld (reseda luteola).-pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of euphorbia cyparissias.
lutein: a substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.
luteocobaltic: pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color.  cf. cobaltic.
luteolin: a yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (reseda luteola).
lutestring: a plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
lutheran: of or pertaining to luther; adhering to the doctrines of luther or the lutheran church.-one who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of luther or the lutheran church.
lutidine: any one of several metameric alkaloids, c5h3n.(ch3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. these alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.
luxate: luxated.-to displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to put out of joint; to dislocate.
luxation: the act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
luxullianite: a kind of granite from luxullian, cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.
luxuriance: the state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.
luxuriant: exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.
luxuriate: to grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.-to feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.-to indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.
luxurious: of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease.
luxury: a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.-anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.-lechery; lust.-luxuriance; exuberance.
luz: a bone of the human body which was supposed by certain rabbinical writers to be indestructible. its location was a matter of dispute.
lycanthrope: a human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.-one affected with lycanthropy.
lycanthropy: the supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.-a kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.
lyceum: a place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of athens, where aristotle taught philosophy.-a house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.-a higher school, in europe, which prepares youths for the university.-an association for debate and literary improvement.
lychnis: a genus of old world plants belonging to the pink family (caryophyllaceae). most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. the botanical name is in common use for the garden species. the corn cockle (lychnis githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.
lycine: a weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (lycium barbarum). see betaine.
lycoperdon: a genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.
lycopodiaceous: belonging, or relating, to the lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
lycopodium: a genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order lycopodiaceae; club moss.
lydian: of or pertaining to lydia, a country of asia minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.
lye: a strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. it is much used in making soap, etc.-a short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.-a falsehood.
lyencephala: a group of mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
lygodium: a genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.
lying: of lie-of lie-of lie, to tell a falsehood.-of lie, to be supported horizontally.
lying-in: the state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.-the act of bearing a child.
lyme grass: a coarse perennial grass of several species of elymus, esp. e. canadensis, and the european e. arenarius.
lymhound: a dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound.
lymph: a spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.-an alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. it is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.-a fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. in the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together.
lymphangial: of or pertaining to the lymphatics, or lymphoid tissue; lymphatic.
lymphatic: pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.-madly enthusiastic; frantic.-one of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.-a mad enthusiast; a lunatic.
lymphoid: resembling lymph; also, resembling a lymphatic gland; adenoid; as, lymphoid tissue.
lymphoma: a tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma.
lynch: to inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. see lynch law.
lynch law: the act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.
lynx: any one of several species of feline animals of the genus felis, and subgenus lynx. they have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.-one of the northern constellations.
lyonnaise: applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. they are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
lyopomata: an order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are not articulated by a hinge. it includes the lingula, discina, and allied forms.
lyra: a northern constellation, the harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called alpha lyrae, or vega.-the middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
lyrated: lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.-shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.
lyre: a stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.-one of the constellations; lyra. see lyra.
lyre bird: any one of two or three species of australian birds of the genus menura. the male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. the common lyre bird (menura superba), inhabiting new south wales, is about the size of a grouse. its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.
lyric: alt. of lyrical-a lyric poem; a lyrical composition.-a composer of lyric poems.-a verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.-the words of a song.
lyrical: of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.-fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.
lyrid: one of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of april; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation lyra.
lyrie: a european fish (peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
lyrist: a musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
lysis: the resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.
lythe: the european pollack; -- called also laith, and leet.-soft; flexible.
lytta: a fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.
m: m, the thirteenth letter of the english alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. see guide to pronunciation, // 178-180, 242.-as a numeral, m stands for one thousand, both in english and latin.-a quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.-a brand or stigma, having the shape of an m, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy.
ma: a child's word for mother.-in oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother.-but; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, "vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick).
ma'am: madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.
maa: the common european gull (larus canus); -- called also mar. see new, a gull.
maara shell: a large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (turbo margaritaceus), from the pacific islands. it is used as an ornament.
mabby: a spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the barbadoes.
mabolo: a kind of persimmon tree (diospyros discolor) from the philippine islands, now introduced into the east and west indies. it bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.
macaco: any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (l. catta).
macacus: a genus of monkeys, found in asia and the east indies. they have short tails and prominent eyebrows.
macadamize: to cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
macaque: any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus macacus; as, m. maurus, the moor macaque of the east indies.
macaranga gum: a gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (macaranga indica) that grows in the east indies. it is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.
macaroni: long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; italian or genoese paste.-a medley; something droll or extravagant.-a sort of droll or fool.-a finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to english fops of about 1775.-the designation of a body of maryland soldiers in the revolutionary war, distinguished by a rich uniform.
macaronic: pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.-of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.-a heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.-a kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding latin terminations to other roots.
macaroon: a small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.-a finical fellow, or macaroni.
macassar oil: a kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from macassar, a district of the island of celebes. also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.
macauco: any one of several species of small lemurs, as lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.
macavahu: a small brazilian monkey (callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.
macaw: any parrot of the genus sittace, or macrocercus. about eighteen species are known, all of them american. they are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. the voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.
maccabean: of or pertaining to judas maccabeus or to the maccabees; as, the maccabean princes; maccabean times.
maccabees: the name given later times to the asmonaeans, a family of jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of antiochus iv., 168-161 b. c., which led to a period of freedom for israel.-the name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of jewish affairs in or about the time of the maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the roman catholic church, but are included in the apocrypha by protestants. also applied to three books, two of which are found in some mss. of the septuagint.
mace: a money of account in china equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.-a kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. see nutmeg.-a heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the middle ages, for breaking metal armor.-a staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.-an officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.-a knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.-a rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
macedonian: belonging, or relating, to macedonia.-a native or inhabitant of macedonia.-one of a certain religious sect, followers of macedonius, bishop of constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the holy ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the father and the son.
macerate: to make lean; to cause to waste away.-to subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.-to soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
macerater: one who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.
machairodus: a genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.
machete: a large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of spanish america as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
machiavelian: of or pertaining to machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.-one who adopts the principles of machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician.
machiavelianism: the supposed principles of machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.
machicolation: an opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. see illusts. of battlement and castle.-the act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.
machinate: to plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.-to contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.
machination: the act of machinating.-that which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
machinator: one who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
machine: in general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.-any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the greeks entered troy; a coach; a bicycle.-a person who acts mechanically or at will of another.-a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.-a political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.-supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.-to subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
machinery: machines, in general, or collectively.-the working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.-the supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.-the means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
machining: of machine-of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.
machinist: a constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.-one skilled in the use of machine tools.-a person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
macho: the striped mullet of california (mugil cephalus, / mexicanus).
mackerel: a pimp; also, a bawd.-any species of the genus scomber, and of several related genera. they are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. most of them are highly prized for food.
mackinaw: a thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the united states.
mackintosh: a waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
mackle: same macule.-to blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
macle: chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. see chiastolite.-a crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.-a twin crystal.
macled: marked like macle (chiastolite).-having a twin structure. see twin, a.-see mascled.
maclurea: a genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower silurian rocks.
macrame lace: a coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.
macro-: a combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.
macro-chemistry: the science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro-chemistry.
macrocephalous: having a large head.-having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.
macrochires: a division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. so called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
macrocosm: the great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. see microcosm.
macrocystis: an immensely long blackish seaweed of the pacific (macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.
macrodactyl: one of a group of wading birds (macrodactyli) having very long toes.