AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
hobbism: the philosophical system of thomas hobbes, an english materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic control over everything relating to law, morals, and religion.
hobble: to walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.-to move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.-to fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.-to perplex; to embarrass.-an unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.-same as hopple.-difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
hobblebush: a low bush (viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. it is found in the northern united states. called also shinhopple.
hobbler: one who hobbles.-one who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the middle ages who was mounted on a hobby.
hobbletehoy: a youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
hobbly: rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.
hobby: a small, strong-winged european falcon (falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.-alt. of hobbyhorse
hobbyhorse: a strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from ireland; an ambling nag.-a stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride.-a subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion.
hobbyhorsical: pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.
hobgoblin: a frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, robin goodfellow.
hobnail: a short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.-a clownish person; a rustic.-to tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
hobnob: have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.-at random; hit or miss. (obs.)-to drink familiarly (with another).-to associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.-familiar, social intercourse.
hocco: the crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. see curassow.
hock: a rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. the name is also given indiscriminately to all rhenish wines.-alt. of hough-to disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
hockday: a holiday commemorating the expulsion of the danes, formerly observed on the second tuesday after easter; -- called also hocktide.
hockey: a game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.-the stick used by the players.
hockle: to hamstring; to hock; to hough.-to mow, as stubble.
hocus: to deceive or cheat.-to adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker.-to stupefy with drugged liquor.-one who cheats or deceives.-drugged liquor.
hocuspocus: a term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.-a juggler or trickster.-a juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense.-to cheat.
hod: a kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.-a utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.
hoddengray: applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by scotch peasants.
hodgkin's disease: a morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by dr. hodgkin, an english physician.
hodograph: a curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
hoe: a tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. it is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.-the horned or piked dogfish. see dogfish.-to cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.-to use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
hoecake: a cake of indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
hoemother: the basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. see liver shark, under liver.
hog: a quadruped of the genus sus, and allied genera of suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of s. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.-a mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.-a young sheep that has not been shorn.-a rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.-a device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.-to cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.-to scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.-to become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
hogback: an upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.-see hogframe.-a ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.
hogchain: a chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
hogchoker: an american sole (achirus lineatus, or a. achirus), related to the european sole, but of no market value.
hogfish: a large west indian and florida food fish (lachnolaemus).-the pigfish or sailor's choice.-an american fresh-water fish; the log perch.-a large, red, spiny-headed, european marine fish (scorpaena scrofa).
hogframe: a trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. used chiefly in american river and lake steamers. called also hogging frame, and hogback.
hogged: of hog-broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. see hog, v. i.
hoggery: hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
hogget: a young boar of the second year.-a sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.
hogging: of hog-drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.
hogmanay: the old name, in scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant.
hognosesnake: a harmless north american snake of the genus heterodon, esp. h. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.
hognut: the pignut.-in england, the bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.
hogscore: a distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
hogshead: an english measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe.-a large cask or barrel, of indefinite contents; esp. one containing from 100 to 140 gallons.
hogweed: a common weed (ambrosia artemisiaege). see ambrosia, 3.-in england, the heracleum sphondylium.
hoiden: a rude, clownish youth.-a rude, bold girl; a romp.-rustic; rude; bold.-to romp rudely or indecently.
hoist: to raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.-that by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.-the act of hoisting; a lift.-the perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.-the height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.-hoisted.
hoistway: an opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.
hoity-toity: thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.
holaspidean: having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
hold: the whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.-to cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain.-to retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend.-to have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.-to impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.-to maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.-to prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service.-to receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for.-to accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.-to consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge.-to bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high.-in general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. hence:-not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.-not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.-not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.-not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.-to restrain one's self; to refrain.-to derive right or title; -- generally with of.-the act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.-the authority or ground to take or keep; claim.-binding power and influence.-something that may be grasped; means of support.-a place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.-a place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.-a character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.
holdback: check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.-the projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.
holder: one who is employed in the hold of a vessel.-one who, or that which, holds.-one who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.-the payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.
holdfast: something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.-a conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.
holding: of hold-the act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.-a tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.-that which holds, binds, or influences.-the burden or chorus of a song.
hole: whole.-a hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.-an excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.-to cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.-to drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.-to go or get into a hole.
holethnos: a parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.
holiday: a consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. see holyday.-a day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.-a day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.-of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.-occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
holily: piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.-sacredly; inviolably.
holiness: the state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.-the state of being hallowed, or consecrated to god or to his worship; sacredness.
holing: undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.
holland: a kind of linen first manufactured in holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
hollander: a native or one of the people of holland; a dutchman.-a very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, dutch clinker.
hollo: ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.-to call out or exclaim; to halloo.  this form is now mostly replaced by hello.
hollow: having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.-depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.-reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.-not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.-a cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.-a low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.-to make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.-wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. see all, adv.-hollo.-to shout; to hollo.-to urge or call by shouting.
hollow-hearted: insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.
hollowness: state of being hollow.-insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.
holly: wholly.-a tree or shrub of the genus ilex. the european species (ilex aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about michaelmas.-the holm oak. see 1st holm.
hollyhock: a species of althaea (a. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
holm: a common evergreen oak, of europe (quercus ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.-an islet in a river.-low, flat land.
holmos: a name given to a vase having a rounded body-a closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.-a drinking cup having a foot and stem.
holoblastic: undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.
holocaust: a burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the jews and some pagan nations.-sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [an extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
holocephali: an order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also holocephala. see chimaera; also illustration in appendix.
holocrystalline: completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
holograph: a document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
holohedral: having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.
holohemihedral: presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes.
holometabolic: having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.
holophotal: causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.
holophote: a lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.
holophrastic: expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of america.
holosiderite: meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.
holostei: an extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. see illustration in appendix.
holosteric: wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.
holostomata: an artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.
holostraca: a division of phyllopod crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.
holothurian: belonging to the holothurioidea.-one of the holothurioidea.
holotricha: a group of ciliated infusoria, having cilia all over the body.
holster: a leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.
holt: 3d pers. sing. pres. of hold, contr. from holdeth.-a piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.-a deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.
holy: set apart to the service or worship of god; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.-spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to god.
holystone: a stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.-to scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.
homacanth: having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.
homage: a symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.-respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.-reverence directed to the supreme being; reverential worship; devout affection.-to pay reverence to by external action.-to cause to pay homage.
homager: one who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal.
homaloidal: flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
homatropine: an alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. it is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
homaxonial: relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. see under promorphology.
home: see homelyn.-one's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.-one's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.-the abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.-the locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.-a place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.-the home base; he started for home.-of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.-close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.-to one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.-close; closely.-to the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
home-bred: bred at home; domestic; not foreign.-not polished; rude; uncultivated.
homeliness: domesticity; care of home.-familiarity; intimacy.-plainness; want of elegance or beauty.-coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language.
homeling: a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling.
homely: belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate.-plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.-of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome.-plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed.
homelyn: the european sand ray (raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
homemade: made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country.
homeopathic: of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy.
homeopathy: the art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. this system was founded by dr. samuel hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
homer: a carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.-see hoemother.-a hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
homeric: of or pertaining to homer, the most famous of greek poets; resembling the poetry of homer.
homespun: spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.-plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.-cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.-an unpolished, rustic person.
homestead: the home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.-the home or seat of a family; place of origin.-the home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
homesteader: one who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner.
homeward: being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.-alt. of homewards
homicide: the killing of one human being by another.-one who kills another; a manslayer.
homiletical: of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.-of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.
homiletics: the art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.
homilite: a borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.
homily: a discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.-a serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
hominy: maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.
hommock: a small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. see hummock.
hommocky: filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.
homo-: a combining form from gr. "omo`s, one and the same, common, joint.