AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
fulcrum: a prop or support.-that by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.-an accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.-the horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.-one of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.-the connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
fulfill: to fill up; to make full or complete.-to accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
fulfillment: the act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.-execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
fulgurata: a spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.
fulgurating: resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
fulguration: the act of lightening.-the sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
fulgurite: a vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
fuliginosity: the condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.
fuliginous: pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.-pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.
full: filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.-abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.-not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.-sated; surfeited.-having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.-having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.-filled with emotions.-impregnated; made pregnant.-complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.-quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.-to become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.-to thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.-to become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
full-blooded: having a full supply of blood.-of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.
full-blown: fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose.-fully distended with wind, as a sail.
full-bottomed: full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in great britain.-of great capacity below the water line.
full-orbed: having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
fuller: one whose occupation is to full cloth.-a die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.-to form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
fulling: of full-the process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.
fully: in a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.
fulmar: one of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (ossifraga gigantea).
fulmiaic: pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.
fulminate: to thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.-to issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.-to cause to explode.-to utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.-a salt of fulminic acid. see under fulminic.-a fulminating powder.
fulminating: of fulminate-thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.-hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
fulmination: the act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.-the act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.-that which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
fulmine: to thunder.-to shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
fulminuric: pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.
fulsome: full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.-offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.-lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
fumaric: pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (fumaria officinalis).
fumarole: a hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.
fumble: to feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.-to grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.-to handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.-to handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
fume: exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.-rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.-anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.-the incense of praise; inordinate flattery.-to smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.-to be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.-to pass off in fumes or vapors.-to be in a rage; to be hot with anger.-to expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.-to praise inordinately; to flatter.-to throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
fumigate: to apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.-to smoke; to perfume.
fumigation: the act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.-vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
fumigator: one who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
fumitory: the common uame of several species of the genus fumaria, annual herbs of the old world, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. f. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.
funambulatory: performing like a ropedancer.-narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.
function: the act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.-the appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.-the natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.-the course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.-a quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. each quantity is said to be a function of the other. thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. if x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, log. x, and sin. x, are all functions of x.-alt. of functionate
functional: pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.-pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
functionary: one charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
fund: an aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.-a stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.-the stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.-an invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.-a store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.-to provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.-to place in a fund, as money.-to put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
fundament: foundation.-the part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (anat.), the anus.
fundamental: pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. hence: essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.-a leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the christian faith.
fundamentally: primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
funded: of fund-existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.-invested in public funds; as, funded money.
funding: of fund-providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.-investing in the public funds.
fundus: the bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.
funeral: the solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.-the procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.-a funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.-per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.
funereal: suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. hence: dark; dismal; mournful.
fungia: a genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
fungian: of or pertaining to the fungidae, a family of stony corals.-one of the fungidae.
fungibles: things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things.-movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually.
fungous: of the nature of fungi; spongy.-growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.
fungus: any one of the fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.-a spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.
funicle: a small cord, ligature, or fiber.-the little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.
funicular: consisting of a small cord or fiber.-dependent on the tension of a cord.-pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.
funiculus: a cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.-a short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion.-in bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. see bryozoa, and phylactolema.
funiliform: resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.
funk: an offensive smell; a stench.-to envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.-to emit an offensive smell; to stink.-to be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.-alt. of funking
funnel: a vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.-a passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.
funnelform: having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.
funny: droll; comical; amusing; laughable.-a clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.
fur: the short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.-the skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.-strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.-articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).-any coating considered as resembling fur-a coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.-the soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.-the deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.-one of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. there are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.-of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.-to line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.-to cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.-to nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
furbish: to rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.
furbisher: one who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
furcated: forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.
furculum: the wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
furfuran: a colorless, oily substance, c4h4o, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.
furfurine: a white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
furfurol: a colorless oily liquid, c4h3o.cho, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.
furile: a yellow, crystalline substance, (c4h3o)2.c2o2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
furilic: pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.
furious: transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.-rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
furl: to draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. totten.
furlong: a measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
furlough: leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.-to furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.
furnace: an inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.-a place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.-to throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
furnish: to supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.-to offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.-that which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
furniture: that with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.-articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.-the necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.-the masts and rigging of a ship.-the mountings of a gun.-builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.-pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.-a mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.
furoin: a colorless, crystalline substance, c10h8o4, from furfurol.
furriery: furs, in general.-the business of a furrier; trade in furs.
furring: of fur-the leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. see fur, v. t., 3.-the strips thus laid on.-double planking of a ship's side.-a deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.
furrow: a trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.-any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.-to cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.-to mark with channels or with wrinkles.
furry: covered with fur; dressed in fur.-consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.-resembling fur.
further: to a greater distance; in addition; moreover. see farther.-more remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. see farther.-beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.-to help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.
furthest: superl. most remote; most in advance; farthest. see further, a.-at the greatest distance; farthest.
furtive: stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
furuncle: a superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
fury: a thief.-violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.-violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.-pl. (greek myth.) the avenging deities, tisiphone, alecto, and megaera; the erinyes or eumenides.-one of the parcae, or fates, esp. atropos.-a stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
furze: a thorny evergreen shrub (ulex europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of great britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. the dwarf furze is ulex nanus.
furzeling: an english warbler (melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and dartford warbler.
furzy: bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
fusain: fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.-a drawing made with it. see charcoal, n. 2, and charcoal drawing, under charcoal.
fusarole: a molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the doric, ionic, and corinthian orders of architecture.
fuscin: a brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
fuse: to liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.-to unite or blend, as if melted together.-to be reduced from a solid to a quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.-to be blended, as if melted together.-a tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. see fuze.
fusee: a flintlock gun. see 2d fusil.-a fuse. see fuse, n.-a kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.-a small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track.  it will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.-the track of a buck.-the cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.-a similar wheel used in other machinery.
fusel oil: a hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
fusiform: shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
fusil: capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.-running or flowing, as a liquid.-formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.-a light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.-a bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
fusilier: formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. hence, in the plural:-a title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "the royal fusiliers," etc.
fusillade: a simultaneous discharge of firearms.-to shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
fusiness: a fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
fusion: the act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.-the state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.-the union or blending together of things, as, melted together.-the union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.
fuss: a tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.-one who is unduly anxious about trifles.-to be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
fussy: making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
fust: a strong, musty smell; mustiness.-to become moldy; to smell ill.
fustet: the wood of the rhus cptinus or venice sumach, a shrub of southern europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant.