AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
monument: something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.-a building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the washington monument; the bunker hill monument. also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.-a stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.-a saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
monumental: of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.-serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.
monureid: any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid.
moo: see mo.-to make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word.-the lowing of a cow.
mood: manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. see mode which is the preferable form).-manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. same as mode.-temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
moodiness: the quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
moody: subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.-hence: out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.
moolley: same as mulley.-a mulley or polled animal.-a cow.-destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow.
moon: the celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. the diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. see lunar month, under month.-a secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of jupiter or saturn.-the time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.-a crescentlike outwork. see half-moon.-to expose to the rays of the moon.-to act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
moon-culminating: culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the nautical almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
moon-eye: a eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.-any species of american fresh-water fishes of the genus hyodon, esp. h. tergisus of the great lakes and adjacent waters.-the cisco.
moon-eyed: having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
moonblink: a temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
mooncalf: a monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.-a dolt; a stupid fellow.
moonfish: an american marine fish (vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.-a broad, thin, silvery marine fish (selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.-the mola. see sunfish, 1.
moonflower: the oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.-a kind of morning glory (ipomoea bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
moonlight: the light of the moon.-occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.
moonseed: a climbing plant of the genus menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
moonset: the descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
moonshine: the light of the moon.-hence, show without substance or reality.-a month.-a preparation of eggs for food.-moonlight.
moonshiner: a person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
moonstone: a nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. it is used as a gem. the best specimens come from ceylon.
moonstruck: mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.-produced by the supposed influence of the moon.-made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
moonwort: the herb lunary or honesty. see honesty.-any fern of the genus botrychium, esp. b. lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
moony: of or pertaining to the moon.-furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.-silly; weakly sentimental.
moor: one of a mixed race inhabiting morocco, algeria, tunis, and tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.-any individual of the swarthy races of africa or asia which have adopted the mohammedan religion.-an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.-a game preserve consisting of moorland.-to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.-fig.: to secure, or fix firmly.-to cast anchor; to become fast.
moorball: a fresh-water alga (cladophora aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
mooring: of moor-the act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.-that which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.-the place or condition of a ship thus confined.
moorish: having the characteristics of a moor or heath.-of or pertaining to morocco or the moors; in the style of the moors.
mooruk: a species of cassowary (casuarius bennetti) found in new britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. it is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
moory: of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.-a kind of blue cloth made in india.
moose: a large cervine mammal (alces machlis, or a. americanus), native of the northern united states and canada. the adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. it closely resembles the european elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. see elk.
moosewood: the striped maple (acer pennsylvanicum).-leatherwood.
moot: see 1st mot.-a ring for gauging wooden pins.-to argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.-specifically: to discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.-to argue or plead in a supposed case.-a meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in anglo-saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.-a discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.-subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.-of mot
moot-hill: a hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the saxons; -- called, in scotland, mute-hill.
mop: a made-up face; a grimace.-to make a wry mouth.-an implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.-a fair where servants are hired.-the young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.-to rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
mopboard: a narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. see baseboard.
mope: to be dull and spiritless.-to make spiritless and stupid.-a dull, spiritless person.
moppet: a rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.-a long-haired pet dog.
mora: a game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by italians of the lower classes.-a leguminous tree of guiana and trinidad (dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.-delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
moral: relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.-conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.-capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.-acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.-supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.-serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.-the doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.-the inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.-a morality play. see morality, 5.-to moralize.
morale: the moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
moralist: one who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.-one who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
morality: the relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.-the quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.-the doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.-the practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.-a kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as charity, faith, death, vice, etc. such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of henry viii.-intent; meaning; moral.
moralization: the act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.-explanation in a moral sense.
moralize: to apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.-to furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.-to render moral; to correct the morals of.-to give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.-to make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
morally: in a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.-according to moral rules; virtuously.-in moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.-in a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.
moravian: of or pertaining to moravia, or to the united brethren. see moravian, n.-one of a religious sect called the united brethren (an offshoot of the hussites in bohemia), which formed a separate church of moravia, a northern district of austria, about the middle of the 15th century. after being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of the renewed church of the united brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of count zinzendorf in saxony. called also herrnhuter.
morbid: not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.-of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
morbidezza: delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.-a term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.
morbidity: the quality or state of being morbid.-morbid quality; disease; sickness.-amount of disease; sick rate.
morbifical: causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.
morbillous: pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.
mordacious: biting; given to biting; hence, figuratively, sarcastic; severe; scathing.
mordacity: the quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
mordant: biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.-serving to fix colors.-any corroding substance used in etching.-any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.-any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.-to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
mordicant: biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body.
more: a hill.-a root.-greater; superior; increased-greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.-greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.-additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.-a greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.-that which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.-in a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.-with a verb or participle.-with an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.-in addition; further; besides; again.-to make more; to increase.
moreen: a thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.
morel: an edible fungus (morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. it is used as food, and for flavoring sauces.-nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries.-a kind of cherry. see morello.
morello: a kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.
morendo: dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.
moreover: beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise.
morepork: the australian crested goatsucker (aegotheles novae-hollandiae). also applied to other allied birds, as podargus cuveiri.
moresque: of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the moors; moorish.-the moresque style of architecture or decoration. see moorish architecture, under moorish.
morganatic: pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband.
morgay: the european small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. see the note under houndfish.
morgue: a place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
moribund: in a dying state; dying; at the point of death.-a dying person.
moric: pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see morin); as, moric acid.
morin: a yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (maclura tinctoria, formerly called morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid.
morinda: a genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly east indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. the wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.
morindin: a yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an east indian plant (morinda citrifolia).
moringa: a genus of trees of southern india and northern africa. one species (moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of m. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.
morintannic: pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic (maclura, formerly morus, tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.
morion: a kind of open helmet, without visor or beaver, and somewhat resembling a hat.-a dark variety of smoky quartz.
morisco: moresque.-a thing of moorish origin; as: (a) the moorish language. (b) a moorish dance, now called morris dance. marston. (c) one who dances the moorish dance. shak. (d) moresque decoration or architecture.
mormon: a genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin.-the mandrill.-one of a sect in the united states, followers of joseph smith, who professed to have found an addition to the bible, engraved on golden plates, called the book of mormon, first published in 1830. the mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.-of or pertaining to the mormons; as, the mormon religion; mormon practices.
morn: the first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.
morne: of or pertaining to the morn; morning.-a ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.-without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.-the first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.-the first or early part; as, the morning of life.-the goddess aurora.
morning: pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.
morning-glory: a climbing plant (ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. see dextrorsal.
morocco: a fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the moors.
morosaurus: an extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in jurassic strata in america.
morose: of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.-lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
moroxylic: of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric.
morphine: a bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
morphinism: a morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.
morpho: any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical american butterflies, of the genus morpho. they are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. the lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.
morphogeny: history of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny.
morphology: that branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. see tectology, and promorphology.
morphon: a morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. see tectology.
morphophyly: the tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions.
morphotic: connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids.
morris: a moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.-a dance formerly common in england, often performed in pagenats, processions, and may games. the dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of robin hood, maidmarian, and other fictious characters.-an old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played.-a marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. it is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.
morrow: morning.-the next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood.-the day following the present; to-morrow.
morse: the walrus. see walrus.-a clasp for fastening garments in front.
morse alphabet: a telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by samuel f.b.morse, the inventor of morse's telegraph. the letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (a), - . . . (b), -.. (d), . (e), .. (o), . . . (r), -- (t), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.
morsel: a little bite or bit of food.-a small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
mort: a great quantity or number.-a woman; a female.-a salmon in its third year.-death; esp., the death of game in the chase.-a note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.-the skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
mortal: subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.-destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.-fatally vulnerable; vital.-of or pertaining to the time of death.-affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.-human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.-very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.-a being subject to death; a human being; man.
mortality: the condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.-human life; the life of a mortal being.-those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.-death; destruction.-the whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.
mortally: in a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.-in the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.-in an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.