AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
gallopin: an under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.
galloping: of gallop-going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
galloway: a small horse of a breed raised at galloway, scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.
gallowglass: a heavy-armed foot soldier from ireland and the western isles in the time of edward /
gallows: of gallows-a frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.-a wretch who deserves the gallows.-the rest for the tympan when raised.-a pair of suspenders or braces.
gallstone: a concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. see calculus, n., 1.
gally: to frighten; to worry.-like gall; bitter as gall.-see galley, n., 4.
gallyambic: consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
galop: a kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.
galoshe: a clog or patten.-hence: an overshoe worn in wet weather.-a gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.-same as galoche.
galvanic: of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
galvanism: electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.-the branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
galvanize: to affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.-to plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.-to restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.-to coat, as iron, with zinc. see galvanized iron.
galvanocaustic: relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
galvanocautery: cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
galvanograph: a copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.
galvanography: the art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.-a method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.
galvanologist: one who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.
galvanometer: an instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.
galvanoplastic: of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like.
galvanoscope: an instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.
galvanotropism: the tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.
gama grass: a species of grass (tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the west indies, mexico, and the southern states of north america as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
gamashes: high boots or buskins; in scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
gambier: the inspissated juice of a plant (uncaria gambir) growing in malacca. it is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of terra japonica, is used for chewing with the areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing.-catechu.
gambison: a defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.
gambit: a mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
gamble: to play or game for money or other stake.-to lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.
gamboge: a concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in siam, ceylon, and malabar. it is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from cambodia, or cambogia, -- whence its name. the best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.
gambol: a skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.-to dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.
gambrel: the hind leg of a horse.-a stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.-to truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.
game: crooked; lame; as, a game leg.-sport of any kind; jest, frolic.-a contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.-the use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.-that which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.-in some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.-a scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.-animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.-having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.-of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.-to rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in old english, impersonally with dative.-to play at any sport or diversion.-to play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
game fowl: a handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.
gamester: a merry, frolicsome person.-a person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.-a prostitute; a strumpet.
gamic: pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
gammadion: a cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. see fylfot.
gammer: an old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
gammon: the buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.-to make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.-backgammon.-an imposition or hoax; humbug.-to beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.-to impose on; to hoax; to cajole.-to fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
gammoning: of gammon-the lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.-the act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
gamogenesis: the production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.
gamomorphism: that stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
gamopetalous: having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.
gamy: having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.-showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.
ganch: to drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.
gang: to go; to walk.-a going; a course.-a number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.-a combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.-a set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.-the mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
gang-flower: the common english milkwort (polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week.
gangetic: pertaining to, or inhabiting, the ganges; as, the gangetic shark.
gangliated: furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.
ganglion: a mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.-a node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.-a globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew.
ganglionic: pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.
gangrene: a term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.-to produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
gangrenous: affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.
gangway: a passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.-in the english house of commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.-the opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.-that part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.
ganja: the dried hemp plant, used in india for smoking. it is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.
gannet: one of several species of sea birds of the genus sula, allied to the pelicans.
gannister: a refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.
ganocephala: a group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.
ganoid: of or pertaining to ganoidei. -- n. one of the ganoidei.
ganoidei: one of the subclasses of fishes. they have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.
gantlet: a military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.-a glove. see gauntlet.
gantline: a line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.
ganza: a kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
gaol: a place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
gap: an opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.-to notch, as a sword or knife.-to make an opening in; to breach.
gape: to open the mouth wide-expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.-indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.-to pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.-to long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.-the act of gaping; a yawn.-the width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.
gaper: one who gapes.-a european fish. see 4th comber.-a large edible clam (schizothaerus nuttalli), of the pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.-an east indian bird of the genus cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.
gapeworm: the parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. see illustration in appendix.
gar: any slender marine fish of the genera belone and tylosurus. see garfish.-the gar pike. see alligator gar (under alligator), and gar pike.-to cause; to make.
garancin: an extract of madder by sulphuric acid. it consists essentially of alizarin.
garb: clothing in general.-the whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.-costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.-external appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.-a sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).-to clothe; array; deck.
garbage: offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.-to strip of the bowels; to clean.
garbel: same as garboard.-anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
garble: to sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.-to pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.-refuse; rubbish.-impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
garboard: one of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
garcinia: a genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (garcinia mangostana), found in the islands of the indian archipelago; -- so called in honor of dr. garcin.
gardant: turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.
garden: a piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.-a rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.-to lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.-to cultivate as a garden.
gardenia: a genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of dr. alexander garden.
gardening: of garden-the art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
gardyloo: an old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in edingburgh.
garefowl: the great auk; also, the razorbill. see auk.
garfish: a european marine fish (belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.-one of several species of similar fishes of the genus tylosurus, of which one species (t. marinus) is common on the atlantic coast. t. caribbaeus, a very large species, and t. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. many of the common names of the european garfish are also applied to the american species.
garganey: a small european duck (anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.
gargantuan: characteristic of gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
garget: the throat.-a diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.-a distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite.-see poke.
gargle: see gargoyle.-to wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.-to warble; to sing as if gargling-a liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.
gargoulette: a water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
gargoyle: a spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
garibaldi: a jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the italians patriot garibaldi.-a california market fish (pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.
garish: showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.-gay to extravagance; flighty.
garland: the crown of a king.-a wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.-the top; the thing most prized.-a book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.-a sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.-a grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.-to deck with a garland.
garlic: a plant of the genus allium (a. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.-a kind of jig or farce.
garmented: having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
garner: a granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.-to gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
garnet: a mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. the commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. the dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.-a tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.
garnierite: an amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. it is an important ore of nickel.
garnish: to decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.-to ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.-to furnish; to supply.-to fit with fetters.-to warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. see garnishee, v. t.-something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.-something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. see garnish, v. t., 2.-fetters.-a fee; specifically, in english jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
garnishee: one who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.-to make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.-to attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
garnishment: ornament; embellishment; decoration.-warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.-warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.-a fee. see garnish, n., 4.
garniture: that which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
garret: a turret; a watchtower.-that part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.
garrison: a body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.-a fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.-to place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.-to secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
garrot: a stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.-the european golden-eye.
garrote: a spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.-to strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
garroter: one who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
garrulous: talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.-having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
garrupa: one of several species of california market fishes, of the genus sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. see rockfish.
garter: a band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.-the distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in great britain, called the order of the garter, instituted by edward iii.; also, the order itself.-same as bendlet.-to bind with a garter.-to invest with the order of the garter.
garth: a close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.-a dam or weir for catching fish.-a hoop or band.
garvie: the sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
gas: an aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. in present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state.-a complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. it gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.-laughing gas.-any irrespirable aeriform fluid.
gas-burner: the jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
gascon: of or pertaining to gascony, in france, or to the gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.-a native of gascony; a boaster; a bully. see gasconade.
gasconade: a boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.-to boast; to brag; to bluster.
gaseous: in the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.-lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
gash: to make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.-a deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
gasify: to convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.-to become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
gasket: a line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. called also casket.-the plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.-any ring or washer of packing.
gaskins: loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.-packing of hemp.-a horse's thighs.
gaslight: the light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.-a gas jet or burner.
gasogen: an apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.-a volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.
gasoline: a highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. it is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. see carburetor.
gasometer: an apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.
gasometry: the art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
gasoscope: an apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.