AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
frisker: one who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
frisket: the light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
frit: the material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. it is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.-the material for glaze of pottery.-to prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.-to fritter; -- with away.
frith: a narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the frith of forth.-a kind of weir for catching fish.-a forest; a woody place.-a small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
frithstool: a seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
fritillaria: a genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the guinea-hen flower (f. meleagris) another. see crown-imperial.
fritillary: a plant with checkered petals, of the genus fritillaria: the guinea-hen flower. see fritillaria.-one of several species of butterflies belonging to argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common fritillaria. see aphrodite.
fritter: a small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.-a fragment; a shred; a small piece.-to cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.-to break into small pieces or fragments.
fritting: of frit-the formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
frivolity: the condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
frivolous: of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.-given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.
friz: to curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.-to form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.-to soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.-that which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.
frizel: a movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
frizette: a curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
frizzle: to curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.-a curl; a lock of hair crisped.
fro: from; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. see to and fro under to.-from.
frock: a loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of european modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.-a coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. it has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.-to clothe in a frock.-to make a monk of.  cf. unfrock.
froe: a dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.-an iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
frog: an amphibious animal of the genus rana and related genera, of many species. frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.-the triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.-a supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.-an oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.-the loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.-to ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. see frog, n., 4.
frogbit: a european plant (hydrocharis morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. it has roundish leaves and small white flowers.-an american plant (limnobium spongia), with similar habits.
frogfish: see angler, n., 2.-an oceanic fish of the genus antennarius or pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.
frogged: provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. see frog, n., 4.
frogmouth: one of several species of asiatic and east indian birds of the genus batrachostomus  (family podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
frogshell: one of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to ranella and allied genera.
frolic: full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.-a wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.-a scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.-to play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
from: out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. it is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from boston to springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
frond: the organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
frondation: the act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
fronde: a political party in france, during the minority of louis xiv., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
frondescence: the time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.-the act of bursting into leaf.
frondose: frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.-leafy.
frons: the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
front: the forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.-the forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.-the part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.-a position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.-the most conspicuous part.-that which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.-the beginning.-of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.-to oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.-to appear before; to meet.-to face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.-to stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.-to adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.-to have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
frontal: belonging to the front part; being in front-of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.-something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet-an ornamental band for the hair.-the metal face guard of a soldier.-a little pediment over a door or window.-a movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.-a medicament or application for the forehead.-the frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.
frontier: that part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.-an outwork.-lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.-of or relating to a frontier.-to constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
frontignan: a sweet muscadine wine made in frontignan (languedoc), france.-a grape of many varieties and colors.
frontispiece: the part which first meets the eye-the principal front of a building.-an ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
frontlet: a frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.-a frown (likened to a frontlet).-the margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.
fronto-: a combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
frory: frozen; stiff with cold.-covered with a froth like hoarfrost.
frost: the act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.-the state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.-frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.-coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.-to injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.-to cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.-to roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
frost-blite: a plant of the genus atriplex; orache.-the lamb's-quarters (chenopodium album).
frostbite: the freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.-to expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
frosted: covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
frostfish: the tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the new england coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. see tomcod.-the smelt.-a name applied in new zealand to the scabbard fish (lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
frosting: of frost-a composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.-a lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
frostweed: an american species of rockrose (helianthemum canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
frostwork: the figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
frosty: attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.-covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.-chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.-appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
froth: the bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.-any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.-light, unsubstantial matter.-to cause to foam.-to spit, vent, or eject, as froth.-to cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.-to throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
frothy: full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.-not firm or solid; soft; unstable.-of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.
frounce: to gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.-to form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.-a wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.-an affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
frouzy: fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. see frowzy.
frow: a woman; especially, a dutch or german woman.-a dirty woman; a slattern.-a cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.-brittle.
froward: not willing to yield or compiy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
frown: to contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.-to manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.-to repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.-a wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.-any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of providence; the frowns of fortune.
frozen: of freeze-congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.-subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.-cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.
fructed: bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
fructidor: the twelfth month of the french republican calendar; -- commencing august 18, and ending september 16. see vendemiaire.
fructification: the act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.-the collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.-the process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
fructify: to bear fruit.-to make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
frue vanner: a moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
frugal: economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.-obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune.
frugality: the quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.-a sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
frugivora: the fruit bate; a group of the cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. see eruit bat, under fruit.
fruit: whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.-the pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. see 3.-the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.-the spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.-the produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.-that which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.-to bear fruit.
fruit'y: having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
fruitage: fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.-product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
fruitful: full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
fruition: use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
fruitless: lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.-productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
frumentation: a largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
frumenty: food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
frump: to insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.-a contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.-a cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
frumpish: cross-tempered; scornful.-old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
frush: to batter; to break in pieces.-easily broken; brittle; crisp.-noise; clatter; crash.-the frog of a horse's foot.-a discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.
frustrate: vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.-to bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.-to make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
frustration: the act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
frustule: the siliceous shell of a diatom. it is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
frustum: the part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.-one of the drums of the shaft of a column.
frutage: a picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.-a confection of fruit.
frutescent: somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the american species of wistaria.
frutex: a plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
fruticose: pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
fry: to cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.-to undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.-to simmer; to boil.-to undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.-to be agitated; to be greatly moved.-the young of any fish.-a swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
ftiction: the act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.-the resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. it may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.-a clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.
fub: alt. of fubs-to put off by trickery; to cheat.
fubsy: plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.
fuchsia: a genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. they are natives of mexico and south america. double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.
fuchsine: aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. it consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. see rosaniline.
fucoid: properly, belonging to an order of alga: (fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. the common rockweeds and the gulfweed (sargassum) are fucoid in character.-in a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.-a plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. see fucoid, a.
fucoidal: fucoid.-containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.
fucus: a paint; a dye; also, false show.-a genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
fucusol: an oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.
fud: the tail of a hare, coney, etc.-woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.
fuddle: to make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.-to drink to excess.
fudge: a made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.-to make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.-to foist; to interpolate.
fuegian: of or pertaining to terra del fuego.-a native of terra del fuego.
fuel: any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.-anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.-to feed with fuel.-to store or furnish with fuel or firing.
fuero: a code; a charter; a grant of privileges.-a custom having the force of law.-a declaration by a magistrate.-a place where justice is administered.-the jurisdiction of a tribunal.
fugacious: flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.-fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.
fugacity: the quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.-uncertainty; instability.
fugato: in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.-a composition resembling a fugue.
fugitive: fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.-not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.-one who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.-something hard to be caught or detained.
fugitiveness: the quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
fugleman: a soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. he originally stood in front of the right wing.-hence, one who leads the way.
fugue: a polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. the theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.