AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
mimic: alt. of mimical-one who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.-to imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.-to assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.
mimical: imitative; mimetic.-consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures.-imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
mimicker: one who mimics; a mimic.-an animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.
mimicry: the act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.-protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.
mimosa: a genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (mimosa sensitiva, and m. pudica).
mimotannic: pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannin or tannic acid found in acacia, mimosa, etc.
mina: an ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. the attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.-see myna.
minaret: a slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.
minargent: an alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.
mince: to cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.-to suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.-to affect; to make a parade of.-to walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.-to act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.-a short, precise step; an affected manner.
mince-meat: minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
mind: the intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.-the state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) opinion; judgment; belief.-choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.-courage; spirit.-memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.-to fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.-to occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.-to obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.-to have in mind; to purpose.-to put in mind; to remind.-to give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
minder: one who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.-one to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.
mindful: bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
mindless: not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.-unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
mine: see mien.-belonging to me; my. used as a pronominal to me; my. used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "vengeance is mine; i will repay." rom. xii. 19. also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.-to dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.-to form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.-to dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.-to dig into, for ore or metal.-to get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.-a subterranean cavity or passage-a pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.-a cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.-any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.-fig.: a rich source of wealth or other good.
miner: one who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.-any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. they are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.-the chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of australia (myzantha garrula).
mineral: an inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.-a mine.-anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).-of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.-impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
mineralization: the process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.-the act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.-the conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.
mineralize: to transform into a mineral.-to impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.-to go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
mineralizer: an element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
mineralogist: one versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.-a carrier shell (phorus).
mineralogy: the science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.-a treatise or book on this science.
minerva: the goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the grecian pallas athene.
mingle: to mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.-to associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.-to deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.-to put together; to join.-to make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.-to become mixed or blended.-a mixture.
mingle-mangle: to mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.-a hotchpotch.
miniate: to paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.-of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
miniature: originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.-greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.-lettering in red; rubric distinction.-a particular feature or trait.-being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.-to represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.
minie ball: a conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.
minify: to make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.-to degrade by speech or action.
minikin: a little darling; a favorite; a minion.-a little pin.-small; diminutive.
minim: anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.-the smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.-a small fish; a minnow.-a little man or being; a dwarf.-one of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by st. francis of paola.-a time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.-a short poetical encomium.-minute.
minimum: the least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.
minimus: a being of the smallest size.-the little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.
mining: of mine-the act or business of making mines or of working them.-of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
minion: minimum.-a loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.-an obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.-a small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.-an ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.-fine; trim; dainty.
minionette: small; delicate.-a size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc.
minister: a servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.-an officer of justice.-one to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.-a representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.-one who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.-to furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.-to act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.-to supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.
ministerial: of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.-of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal.-tending to advance or promote; contributive.
ministrant: performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.-one who ministers.
ministry: the act of ministering; ministration; service.-agency; instrumentality.-the office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.-the body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.-administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of pitt.
minium: a heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, pb3o4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. it is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. called also red lead.
miniver: a fur esteemed in the middle ages as a part of costume. it is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.
mink: a carnivorous mammal of the genus putorius, allied to the weasel. the european mink is putorius lutreola. the common american mink (p. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black.  its fur is highly valued.  called also minx, nurik, and vison.
minnesinger: a love-singer; specifically, one of a class of german poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. they were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.
minnow: a small european fresh-water cyprinoid fish (phoxinus laevis, formerly leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. the name is also applied to several allied american species, of the genera phoxinus, notropis, or minnilus, and rhinichthys.-any of numerous small american cyprinodont fishes of the genus fundulus, and related genera. they live both in fresh and in salt water. called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.
mino bird: an asiatic bird (gracula musica), allied to the starlings. it is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. it is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.
minor: inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.-less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.-a person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in england and the united states, one under twenty-one years of age.-the minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. it is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.-a minorite; a franciscan friar.
minority: the state of being a minor, or under age.-state of being less or small.-the smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
minos: a king and lawgiver of crete, fabled to be the son of jupiter and europa.  after death he was made a judge in the lower regions.
minotaur: a fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by daedalus in crete.
minster: a church of a monastery.  the name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as beverly minster, southwell minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
minstrel: in the middle ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
minstrelsy: the arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.-musical instruments.-a collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.
mint: the name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. see mentha.-a place where money is coined by public authority.-any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.-to make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.-to invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
mintage: the coin, or other production, made in a mint.-the duty paid to the mint for coining.
minuet: a slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.-a tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.
minuscule: any very small, minute object.-a small roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.-of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules.
minute: the sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)-the sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').-a nautical or a geographic mile.-a coin; a half farthing.-a very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.-a point of time; a moment.-the memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.-a fixed part of a module. see module.-of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.-to set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.-very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.-attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
minute-jack: a figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.-a timeserver; an inconstant person.
minutely: in a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.-happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.-at intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.
minuteman: a militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the american revolution.
minutia: a minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.
minx: a pert or a wanton girl.-a she puppy; a pet dog.-the mink; -- called also minx otter.
miocene: of or pertaining to the middle division of the tertiary.-the miocene period. see chart of geology.
miohippus: an extinct miocene mammal of the horse family, closely related to the genus anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on each foot.
mirabilary: one who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.
miracle: a wonder or wonderful thing.-specifically: an event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed.-a miracle play.-a story or legend abounding in miracles.-to make wonderful.
miraculous: of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.-supernatural; wonderful.-wonder-working.
mirage: an optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. the reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. when the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. the fata morgana and looming are species of mirage.
mire: an ant.-deep mud; wet, spongy earth.-to cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.-to soil with mud or foul matter.-to stick in mire.
mirror: a looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.-that which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.-see speculum.-to reflect, as in a mirror.
mirth: merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.-that which causes merriment.
mirthful: full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.-indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face.
miry: abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
mirza: the common title of honor in persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. when appended to the surname, it signifies prince.
mis-: a prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.
misadventure: mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
misalliance: a marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
misapply: to apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
misapprehension: a mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
misbear: to carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.
misbecome: not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.
misbegotten: unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.
misbehave: to behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
misbehaved: of misbehave-guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude.
miscall: to call by a wrong name; to name improperly.-to call by a bad name; to abuse.
miscarriage: unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.-ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.-the act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
miscarry: to carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.-to bring forth young before the proper time.
miscast: to cast or reckon wrongly.-an erroneous cast or reckoning.
miscegenation: a mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.
miscellanarian: of or pertaining to miscellanies.-a writer of miscellanies.
miscellane: a mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.
miscellaneous: mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
miscellany: a mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.-miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
mischaracterize: to characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.
mischief: harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.-cause of trouble or vexation; trouble.-to do harm to.
mischief-maker: one who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.
mischief-making: causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.-the act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.
mischievous: causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
miscible: capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions.
miscolor: to give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.
misconceive: to conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
misconduct: wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.-to conduct amiss; to mismanage.-to behave amiss.
miscreancy: the quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
miscreant: one who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.-one not restrained by christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.-holding a false religious faith.-destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.
miscreate: miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles.-to create badly or amiss.
miscue: a false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.
misdeal: to deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.-the act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
misdemean: to behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
misderive: to turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.-to derive erroneously.
misdirect: to give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
misdirection: the act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.-an error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.
misdo: to do wrongly.-to do wrong to; to illtreat.-to do wrong; to commit a fault.
misdoing: of misdo-a wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.
misdoubt: to be suspicious of; to have suspicion.-suspicion.-irresolution; hesitation.