AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
guide: the leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.-to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.-to regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.-a person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.-one who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.-any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator-a blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.-a grooved director for a probe or knife.-a strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.-a noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
guideboard: a board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.
guidepost: a post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
guidguid: a south american ant bird of the genus hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
guidon: a small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. in the united states service, each company of cavalry has a guidon.-one who carries a flag.-one of a community established at rome, by charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the holy land.
guild: an association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the stationers' guild; the ironmongers' guild. they were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.-a guildhall.-a religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
guilder: a dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.
guilding: the art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.-gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.-any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
guile: craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.-to disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
guileful: full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.
guillemot: one of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. they have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.
guilloche: an ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.
guillotine: a machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.-any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.-to behead with the guillotine.
guilt: the criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.-exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.
guiltless: free from guilt; innocent.-without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
guilty: having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.-evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.-conscious; cognizant.-condemned to payment.
guinea: a district on the west coast of africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the guinea fowl, guinea grass, guinea peach, etc., are named.-a gold coin of england current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817.
guipure: a term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.
guise: customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.-external appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.-cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
guitar: a stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
guitguit: one of several species of small tropical american birds of the family coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. see quit.
gula: the upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.-a plate which in most insects supports the submentum.-a capping molding. same as cymatium.
gular: pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. see illust. of bird, and bowfin.
gulch: act of gulching or gulping.-a glutton.-a ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.-to swallow greedily; to gulp down.
gules: the tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.
gulf: a hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,-that which swallows; the gullet.-that which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.-a portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the gulf of mexico.-a large deposit of ore in a lode.
gulgul: a cement made in india from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.
gull: to deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.-a cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.-one easily cheated; a dupe.-one of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus larus and allied genera.
gullery: an act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.
gullet: the tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.-something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions-a channel for water.-a preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.-a concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.
gully: a large knife.-a channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.-a grooved iron rail or tram plate.-to wear into a gully or into gullies.-to flow noisily.
gulp: to swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.-the act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.-a disgorging.
gum: the dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.-to deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). see gummer.-a vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.-see gum tree, below.-a hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.-a rubber overshoe.-to smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.-to exude or from gum; to become gummy.
gum ammoniac: the concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the dorema ammoniacum. it is brought chiefly from persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. it has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. it is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
gumbo: a soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.-the okra plant or its pods.
gummer: a punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
gummite: a yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.
gummous: gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.-of or pertaining to a gumma.
gummy: consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
gumption: capacity; shrewdness; common sense.-the art of preparing colors.-megilp.
gun: of gin-a weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms.  larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. see these terms in the vocabulary.-a piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.-violent blasts of wind.-to practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
guna: in sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. the term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.
gunflint: a sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. it was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.
gunnel: a gunwale.-a small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus muraenoides; esp., m. gunnellus of europe and america; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
gunner: one who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.-a warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.-the great northern diver or loon. see loon.-the sea bream.
gunnery: that branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
gunny cloth: a strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus corchorus (c. olitorius and c. capsularis), of india. the fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.
gunpowder: a black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. it is used in gunnery and blasting.
gunroom: an apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the united states navy.
gunshot: act of firing a gun; a shot.-the distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.-made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
gunstick: a stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
gunter rig: a topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.
gunter's chain: the chain ordinarily used in measuring land. see chain, n., 4, and gunter's scale.
gunter's line: a logarithmic line on gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.
gunter's quadrant: a thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. by it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. see gunter's scale.
gunter's scale: a scale invented by the rev. edmund gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at gresham college, london, who invented also gunter's chain, and gunter's quadrant.
gunwale: the upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
gurgle: to run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.-the act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "tinkling gurgles."
gurjun: a thin balsam or wood oil derived from the diptcrocarpus laevis, an east indian tree. it is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.
gurnet: one ofseveral european marine fishes, of the genus trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. some of the species are highly esteemed for food. the name is sometimes applied to the american sea robins.
gurt: a gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
gush: to issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.-to make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.-a sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.-a sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.
gushing: of gush-rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters.-emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental.
gushingly: in a gushing manner; copiously.-weakly; sentimentally; effusively.
gusset: a small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.-anything resembling a gusset in a garment-a small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.-a kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.-an abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
gust: a sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.-a sudden violent burst of passion.-the sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto.-gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment.-intellectual taste; fancy.-to taste; to have a relish for.
gustable: capable of being tasted; tastable.-pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.-anything that can be tasted.
gustatory: pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
gusty: subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.
gut: a narrow passage of water; as, the gut of canso.-an intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.-one of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. see catgut.-the sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. this, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.-to take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.-to plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.
gutta: a drop.-one of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.
gutta-percha: a concrete juice produced by various trees found in the malayan archipelago, especially by the isonandra, /  dichopsis, gutta. it becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. it dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. in many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. the mimusops globosa of guiana also yields this material.
guttatrap: the inspissated juice of a tree of the genus artocarpus (a. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.
gutter: a channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.-a small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.-any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.-to cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.-to supply with a gutter or gutters.-to become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
guttiferous: yielding gum or resinous substances.-pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (guttiferae) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.
guttle: to put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [obs.] l'estrange.
guttural: of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.-a sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.
gutturalism: the quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of a [in the 16th cent.]
gutturo-: a combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo-nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.
gutwort: a plant, globularia alypum, a violent purgative, found in africa.
guy: a rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.-to steady or guide with a guy.-a grotesque effigy, like that of guy fawkes, dressed up in england on the fifth of november, the day of the gunpowder plot.-a person of queer looks or dress.-to fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
guze: a roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
guzzle: to swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.-to swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.-an insatiable thing or person.
gwiniad: a fish (coregonus ferus) of north wales and northern europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly.
gybe: see jib.-see gibe.-to shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
gymnasiarch: an athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
gymnasium: a place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.-a school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of german schools of this kind.
gymnast: one who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.
gymnastical: pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
gymnastics: athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
gymnoblastea: the athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.
gymnocarpous: naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.
gymnocladus: a genus of leguminous plants; the kentucky coffee tree. the leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.
gymnocopa: a group of transparent, free-swimming annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages.
gymnodont: one of a group of plectognath fishes (gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. see bur fish, globefish, diodon.
gymnogen: one of a class of plants, so called by lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. same as gymnosperm.
gymnonoti: the order of fishes which includes the gymnotus or electrical eel. the dorsal fin is wanting.
gymnopaedic: having young that are naked when hatched; psilopaedic;  -- said of certain birds.
gymnophiona: an order of amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. see ophiomorpha.
gymnophthalmata: a group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.
gymnoplast: a cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.
gymnosophist: one of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in india by alexander the great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.
gymnosperm: a plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock.  cf. angiosperm.
gymnospermous: having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.-belonging to the class of plants consisting of gymnosperms.
gymnotus: a genus of south american fresh-water fishes, including the gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. it has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.
gynaecium: the part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women.
gynaecophore: a ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. see illust. of haematozoa.
gynandria: a class of plants in the linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.
gynandromorphism: an abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.
gynandrous: having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class gynandria.
gynantherous: pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.
gynodioecious: dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
gynoecium: the pistils of a flower, taken collectively. see illust. of carpophore.
gynophore: the pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.-one of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain siphonophora.
gyp: a college servant; -- so called in cambridge, england; at oxford called a scout.
gypseous: resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.
gypsum: a mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). when calcined, it forms plaster of paris. selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.