AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
porgy: the scup.-the sailor's choice, or pinfish.-the margate fish.-the spadefish.-any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the pacific coast. the name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
porifera: a grand division of the invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also spongiae, spongida, and spongiozoa. the principal divisions are calcispongiae, keratosa or fibrospongiae, and silicea.
porism: a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.-a corollary.
poristical: of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.
porites: an important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
porkwood: the coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (pisonia obtusata) of florida and the west indies. also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.
pornographic: of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
pornography: licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.-a treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
porous: full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
porousness: the quality of being porous.-the open parts; the interstices of anything.
porphyrite: a rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.
porphyritic: relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.
porphyrization: the act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
porphyrize: to cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.
porphyrogenitism: the principle of succession in royal families, especially among the eastern roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.
porphyry: a term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. there are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.
porpita: a genus of bright-colored siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. the individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. the disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
porpoise: any small cetacean of the genus phocaena, especially p. communis, or p. phocaena, of europe, and the closely allied american species (p. americana). the color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. they are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.-a true dolphin (delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
porporino: a composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold.
porridge: a food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
porringer: a porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.
port: a dark red or purple astringent wine made in portugal. it contains a large percentage of alcohol.-a place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. used also figuratively.-in law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.-a passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.-an opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.-a passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.-to carry; to bear; to transport.-to throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.-the manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.-the larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. see note under larboard. also used adjectively.-to turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.
port-royalist: one of the dwellers in the cistercian convent of port royal des champs, near paris, when it was the home of the jansenists in the 17th century, among them being arnauld, pascal, and other famous scholars.  cf. jansenist.
porta: the part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.-the foramen of monro.
portable: capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.-possible to be endured; supportable.
portage: a sailor's wages when in port.-the amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.-a porthole.-the act of carrying or transporting.-the price of carriage; porterage.-capacity for carrying; tonnage.-a carry between navigable waters. see 3d carry.-to carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
portague: a portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
portal: a door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.-the lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.-formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.-by analogy with the french portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.-the space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.-a prayer book or breviary; a portass.-of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
portamento: in singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.
portate: borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
portative: portable.-capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.
portcullis: a grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy.-an english coin of the reign of elizabeth, struck for the use of the east india company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.-to obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
porte: the ottoman court; the government of the turkish empire, officially called the sublime porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.
porte-cochere: a large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. it is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochere. also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.
portend: to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.-to stretch out before.
portent: that which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
portentous: of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.-hence: monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
porter: a man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.-a carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.-a bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.-a malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.
porterage: the work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.-money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.
portfire: a case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.
portfolio: a portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc.-hence: the office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio.
portgrave: in old english law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve.
portico: a colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.
portion: that which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.-a part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.-a part assigned; allotment; share; fate.-the part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.-a wife's fortune; a dowry.-to separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.-to endow with a portion or inheritance.
portionist: a scholar at merton college, oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.-one of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.
portland cement: a cement having the color of the portland stone of england, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. it contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.
portland stone: a yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the isle of portland in england, much used in building.
portland vase: a celebrated cinerary urn or vase found in the tomb of the emperor alexander severus. it is owned by the duke of portland, and kept in the british museum.
portliness: the quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.-bulkiness; corpulence.
portly: having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.-bulky; corpulent.
portman: an inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the cinque ports.
portmanteau: a bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.
portmote: in old english law, a court, or mote, held in a port town.
portoir: one who, or that which, bears; hence, one who, or that which, produces.
portrait: the likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.-hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.-to portray; to draw.
portraiture: a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.-pictures, collectively; painting.-the art or practice of making portraits.-to represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
portray: to paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.-hence, figuratively, to describe in words.-to adorn with pictures.
portuguese: of or pertaining to portugal, or its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of portugal; people of portugal.
portulaca: a genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus.
portulacaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (portulacaceae), of which portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (claytonia) and other genera.
pose: standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.-a cold in the head; catarrh.-the attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.-to place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.-to assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.-to interrogate; to question.-to question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
poser: one who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
posit: to dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.-to assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.
position: the state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.-the spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.-hence: the ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.-relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.-a method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.-to indicate the position of; to place.
positive: having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.-derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.-definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise.-hence: not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof.-prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.-fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.-having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation.-corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.-electro-positive.-hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.-that which is capable of being affirmed; reality.-that which settles by absolute appointment.-the positive degree or form.-a picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.-the positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
positively: in a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.
positiveness: the quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. see positive, a.
positivism: a system of philosophy originated by m. auguste comte, which deals only with positives. it excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. this philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.
pospolite: a kind of militia in poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.
posse comitatus: the power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed.-a collection of people; a throng; a rabble.
possess: to occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.-to have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.-to obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.-to enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.-to put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.
possession: the act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.-the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.-the thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.-the state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.-to invest with property.
possessioner: a possessor; a property holder.-an invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars.
possessival: of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination.
possessive: of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession.-the possessive case.-a possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case.
possessor: one who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor.
possessory: of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.
posset: a beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.-to curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood.-to treat with possets; to pamper.
possibility: the quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.-that which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate.
possible: capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that judas meant no wrong.
possibly: in a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.
post: hired to do what is wrong; suborned.-a piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.-the doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.-the place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.-a station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.-a military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.-the piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.-a messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.-an established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.-haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.-one who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.-a station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.-a size of printing and writing paper. see the table under paper.-to attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.-to hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.-to enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.-to assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.-to carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.-to place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.-to inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.-to travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.-to rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.-with post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
post note: a note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.
post-: a prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.
post-abdomen: that part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
post-captain: a captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the british navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. the term was also used in the united states navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.
post-disseizin: a subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished.
post-disseizor: a person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.
post-fine: a duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.
post-obit bond: a bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations.