AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
or: a particle that marks an alternative; as, you may read or may write, -- that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both. it corresponds to either. you may ride either to london or to windsor. it often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade.-ere; before; sooner than.-yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
ora: a money of account among the anglo-saxons, valued, in the domesday book, at twenty pence sterling.-of os
orache: a genus (atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.
oracle: the answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.-hence: the deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.-the communications, revelations, or messages delivered by god to the prophets; also, the entire sacred scriptures -- usually in the plural.-the sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.-one who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.-any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.-a wise sentence or decision of great authority.-to utter oracles.
oracular: of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.-resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
oral: uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.-of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.
orally: in an oral manner.-by, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally.
orang-outang: an arboreal anthropoid ape (simia satyrus), which inhabits borneo and sumatra. often called simply orang.
orange: the fruit of a tree of the genus citrus (c. aurantium). it is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.-the tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.-the color of an orange; reddish yellow.-of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.
orangeade: a drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
orangeism: attachment to the principles of the society of orangemen; the tenets or practices of the orangemen.
orangeman: one of a secret society, organized in the north of ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of great britain, the support of the protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of william, prince of orange, who became william iii. of england.
orangeroot: an american ranunculaceous plant (hidrastis canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
oration: an elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, webster's oration at bunker hill.-to deliver an oration.
orator: a public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.-in equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.-a plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.-an officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
oratorical: of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
oratorio: a more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the mysteries and the miracle and passion plays, which were acted.-performance or rendering of such a composition.
oratory: a place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.-the art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
orb: a blank window or panel.-a spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.-one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.-a circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.-a period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.-the eye, as luminous and spherical.-a revolving circular body; a wheel.-a sphere of action.-same as mound, a ball or globe. see lst mound.-a body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.-to form into an orb or circle.-to encircle; to surround; to inclose.-to become round like an orb.
orbation: the state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.
orbicular: resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.
orbiculate: that which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.-alt. of orbiculated
orbiculated: made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline.
orbit: the path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.-an orb or ball.-the cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.-the skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
orbitelae: a division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or epeira.
orbitolites: a genus of living foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
orbitonasal: of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
orbitosphenoid: of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone.-the orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. it generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
orbitosphenoidal: of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
orcein: a reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. it is closely related to litmus.
orchard: a garden.-an inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
orchestian: any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus orchestia, or family orchestidae. see beach flea, under beach.
orchestra: the space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.-the place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.-loosely: a band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.-strictly: a band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.-a band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.-the instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
orchestral: of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
orchestration: the arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
orchidaceous: pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus orchis is the type. they are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. the flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. about one hundred species occur in the united states, but several thousand in the tropics.
orchis: a genus of endogenous plants growing in the north temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. they are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. see orchidaceous.-any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
orchotomy: the operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
orcin: a colorless crystalline substance, c6h3.ch3.(oh)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (roccella, lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene.  it changes readily into orcein.
ordain: to set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.-to regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.-to set apart for an office; to appoint.-to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
ordeal: an ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in europe, and still practiced in the east and by savage tribes.-any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.-of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
order: regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system-of material things, like the books in a library.-of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.-of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.-right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.-the customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.-conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.-that which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.-a command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.-hence: a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.-a number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.-a body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the order of the bath; the franciscan order.-an ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.-the disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.-an assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the carnivora and insectivora are orders of mammalia.-the placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.-rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.-to put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.-to give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.-to give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.-to admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.-to give orders; to issue commands.
orderer: one who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.-one who gives orders.
orderly: conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.-observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.-performed in good or established order; well-regulated.-being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.-according to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.-a noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.-a street sweeper.
ordinal: indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.-of or pertaining to an order.-a word or number denoting order or succession.-the book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.-a book containing the rubrics of the mass.
ordinance: orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.-a rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.-an established rite or ceremony.-rank; order; station.-ordnance; cannon.
ordinarily: according to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe.
ordinary: according to established order; methodical; settled; regular.-common; customary; usual.-of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.-an officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.-one who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.-a judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.-the mass; the common run.-that which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.-anything which is in ordinary or common use.-a dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.-a charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. the bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. see subordinary.
ordinate: well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.-the distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.-to appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
ordination: the act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.-the act of setting apart to an office in the christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.-disposition; arrangement; order.
ordnance: heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
ordonnance: the disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
ordovician: of or pertaining to a division of the silurian formation, corresponding in general to the lower silurian of most authors, exclusive of the cambrian.-the ordovician formation.
ordure: dung; excrement; faeces.-defect; imperfection; fault.
ore: honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.-the native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc.  usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).-a native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.-metal; as, the liquid ore.
oreades: a group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. see satyr, 2.
orectic: of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
oregon grape: an evergreen species of barberry (berberis aquifolium), of oregon and california; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
oreodon: a genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the tertiary formation of the rocky mountains. it is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
oreoselin: a white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (imperatoria oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
oreosoma: a genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
organ: an instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.-a natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.-a component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.-a medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.-a wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.-to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
organic: of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains.  cf. inorganic.-produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.-instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.-forming a whole composed of organs. hence: of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.-pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
organically: in an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally.
organicism: the doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.
organific: making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs.
organism: organic structure; organization.-an organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
organist: one who plays on the organ.-one of the priests who organized or sung in parts.
organista: any one of several south american wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
organizable: capable of being organized; esp. (biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
organization: the act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.-the state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition.-that which is organized; an organized existence; an organism-an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life.
organize: to furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.-to arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.-to sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
organo-: a combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.
organogen: a name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.
organogenesis: the origin and development of organs in animals and plants.-the germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
organoleptic: making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.
organology: the science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.-that branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. see morphology.
organoplastic: having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.
organule: one of the essential cells or elements of an organ. see sense organule, under sense.
organum: an organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the aristotelian writers by lord bacon, as the title ("novum organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.
organzine: a kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.