AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
halcyon: a kingfisher. by modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (halcyon sancta) of australia.-pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.-hence: calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
hale: sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.-welfare.-to pull; to drag; to haul.
halesia: a genus of american shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. they have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.
half: consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.-consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.-in an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.-part; side; behalf.-one of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.-to halve. [obs.] see halve.
half blood: the relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. see blood, n., 2 and 4.-a person so related to another.-a person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
half-and-half: a mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
half-blooded: proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.-degenerate; mean.
half-boot: a boot with a short top covering only the ankle. see cocker, and congress boot, under congress.
half-bred: half-blooded.-imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
half-breed: half-blooded.-a person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the american indian and the white race.
half-caste: one born of a european parent on the one side, and of a hindoo or mohammedan on the other. also adjective; as, half-caste parents.
half-deck: a shell of the genus crepidula; a boat shell. see boat shell.-see half deck, under deck.
half-hearted: wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.-lacking zeal or courage; lukewarm.
half-mast: a point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).
half-moon: the moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.-the shape of a half-moon; a crescent.-an outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.-a marine, sparoid, food fish of california (caesiosoma californiense). the body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. called also medialuna.
half-pike: a short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon.
half-ray: a straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.
half-timbered: constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
half-tounue: a jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.
half-yearly: two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. twice in a year; semiannually.
halfbeak: any slender, marine fish of the genus hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.
halfer: one who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.-a male fallow deer gelded.
halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. see quarterpace.
halfway: in the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.-equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.
halibut: a large, northern, marine flatfish (hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family pleuronectidae. it often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. it is an important food fish.
halichondriae: an order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also keratosilicoidea.
halidom: holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths.-holy doom; the last day.
halieutics: a treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.
hall: a building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, westminster hall, in london.-the chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. it was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.-a vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.-any corridor or passage in a building.-a name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.-a college in an english university (at oxford, an unendowed college).-the apartment in which english university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.-cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
hall-mark: the official stamp of the goldsmiths' company and other assay offices, in the united kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.
hallelujah: praise ye jehovah; praise ye the lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to god, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.
halloo: a loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.-to cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.-to encourage with shouts.-to chase with shouts or outcries.-to call or shout to; to hail.-an exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.
hallow: to make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
halloysite: a claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
hallucinate: to wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
hallucination: the act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.-the perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
hallucinator: one whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
hallux: the first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.
halma: the long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the pentathlon.
halo: a luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.-a circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.-an ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.-a colored circle around a nipple; an areola.-to form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
haloed: of halo-surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.
halogen: an electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. see chlorine family, under chlorine.
haloid: resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides.-a haloid substance.
halometer: an instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.
halones: alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.
haloscope: an instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
halotrichite: an iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.
haloxyline: an explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.
halse: to embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.-to adjure; to beseech; to entreat.-to haul; to hoist.
halt: 3d pers. sing. pres. of hold, contraction for holdeth.-a stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.-to hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.-to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.-to cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.-halting or stopping in walking; lame.-the act of limping; lameness.-to walk lamely; to limp.-to have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
halter: one who halts or limps; a cripple.-a strong strap or cord.-a rope or strap, with or without a headstall, for leading or tying a horse.-a rope for hanging malefactors; a noose.-to tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter.
halter-sack: a term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged.
halve: a half.-to divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.-to join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
halved: of halve-appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
halysites: a genus of silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. see chain coral, under chain.
ham: home.-the region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.-the thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
hamadryad: a tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.-a large venomous east indian snake (orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.
hamadryas: the sacred baboon of egypt (cynocephalus hamadryas).
hamamelis: a genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (hamamelis virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.
hame: home.-one of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. they are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.
hamilton period: a subdivision of the devonian system of america; -- so named from hamilton, madison co., new york. it includes the marcellus, hamilton, and genesee epochs or groups. see the chart of geology.
haminura: a large edible river fish (erythrinus macrodon) of guiana.
hamite: a fossil cephalopod of the genus hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.-a descendant of ham, noah's second son. see gen. x. 6-20.
hammer: an instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.-something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer-that part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.-the padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.-the malleus.-that part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.-also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, st. augustine was the hammer of heresies.-to beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.-to form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.-to form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.-to be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.-to strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
hammer-beam: a member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
hammer-dressed: having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
hammer-harden: to harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
hammer-less: without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
hammerhead: a shark of the genus sphyrna or zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. the sphyrna zygaena is found in the north atlantic. called also hammer fish, and balance fish.-a fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.-an african fruit bat (hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.
hammock: a swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.-a piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
hamper: a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.-to put in a hamper.-to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.-a shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.-articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
hamshackle: to fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.
hamster: a small european rodent (cricetus frumentarius). it is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.
hamstring: one of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.-to lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
hamular: hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone.
hamulus: a hook, or hooklike process.-a hooked barbicel of a feather.
han't: a contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. in the united states the commoner spelling is hain't.
hanaper: a kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.
hanch: see hanse.-a sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.
hand: that part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. see manus.-that which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand-a limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.-an index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.-a measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.-side; part; direction, either right or left.-power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.-actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.-an agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.-handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. hence, a signature.-personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.-agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.-rate; price.-that which is, or may be, held in a hand at once-the quota of cards received from the dealer.-a bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.-the small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.-to give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.-to lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.-to manage; as, i hand my oar.-to seize; to lay hands on.-to pledge by the hand; to handfast.-to furl; -- said of a sail.-to cooperate.
hand-hole: a small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
hand-winged: having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. see cheiroptera.
handbill: a loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.-a pruning hook.
handbook: a book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.
handcuff: a fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.-to apply handcuffs to; to manacle.
handed: of hand-with hands joined; hand in hand.-having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
handfast: hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.-contract; specifically, espousal.-fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.-to pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.-strong; steadfast.
handful: as much as the hand will grasp or contain.-a hand's breadth; four inches.-a small quantity.
handicap: an allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.-a race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.-an old game at cards.-to encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.
handicraft: a trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.-a man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
handkerchief: a piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.-a piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.
handle: to touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.-to manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.-to accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.-to receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.-to deal with; to make a business of.-to treat; to use, well or ill.-to manage; to control; to practice skill upon.-to use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.-to use the hands.-that part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.-that of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
handling: of handle-a touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. see handle, v. t.-the mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.
handsel: a sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.-price; payment.-to give a handsel to.-to use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
handsome: dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.-agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.-suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.-evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.-ample; moderately large.
handspike: a bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
handwheel: any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.
handwriting: the cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.-that which is written by hand; manuscript.
handy: performed by the hand.-skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit.-ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.-easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.
handygripe: seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting.
handyy-dandy: a child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.
hang: to suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.-to fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.-to fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.-to put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.-to cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc.-to paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.-to hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.-to be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.-to be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.-to die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.-to hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.-to be, or be like, a suspended weight.-to hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.-to lean or incline; to incline downward.-to slope down; as, hanging grounds.-to be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.-the manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.-connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.-a sharp or steep declivity or slope.
hangbird: the baltimore oriole (icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. see baltimore oriole.