AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pleurobranch: any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.
pleurocarpous: side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.
pleurocentrum: one of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.
pleurodont: having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.-any lizard having pleurodont teeth.
pleurodynia: a painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.
pleuron: one of the sides of an animal.-one of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.-one of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.
pleuronectoid: pertaining to the pleuronectidae, or flounder family.
pleuroperitoneal: of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.
pleuroperitoneum: the pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.
pleuropneumonia: inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.
pleurosigma: a genus of diatoms of elongated elliptical shape, but having the sides slightly curved in the form of a letter s.  pleurosigma angulatum has very fine striations, and is a favorite object for testing the high powers of microscopes.
pleurothotonus: a species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally.
pleurotoma: any marine gastropod belonging to pleurotoma, and ether allied genera of the family pleurotmidae. the species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. the outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit.
pleximeter: a small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.
plexure: the act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.
plexus: of plexus-a network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.-the system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.
pliability: the quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition.
pliable: capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.-flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
pliancy: the quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.
pliant: capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax.  also used figuratively: easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.-favorable to pliancy.
plica: a disease of the hair (plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. the disease is of polish origin, and is hence called also polish plait.-a diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.-the bend of the wing of a bird.
plicidentine: a form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.
pliers: a kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
plight: imp. & p. p. of plight, to pledge.-imp. & p. p. of pluck.-to weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.-a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.-that which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.-condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.-to pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.-to promise; to engage; to betroth.
plimsoll's mark: a mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all british sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from samuel plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
plinth: in classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. see illust. of column.
pliocene: of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the tertiary age.-the pliocene period or deposits.
pliohippus: an extinct genus of horses from the pliocene deposits. each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
pliosaurus: an extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.
ploce: a figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "his wife's a wife indeed."
plod: to travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.-to toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.-to walk on slowly or heavily.
plodding: of plod-progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits.
plonge: to cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
plongee: a slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course.
plot: a small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.-a plantation laid out.-a plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.-to make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.-any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the rye-house plot.-a share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.-contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.-a plan; a purpose.-in fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.-to form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.-to contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.-to plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
plotinist: a disciple of plotinus, a celebrated platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine being, to whom it reunited at death.
plotter: one who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.
plough: see plow.-a well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.-fig.: agriculture; husbandry.-a carucate of land; a plowland.-a joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.-an implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.-same as charles's wain.-to turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.-to furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.-to trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. see plow, n., 5.-to cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.-to labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
ploughbote: wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. see bote.
ploughboy: a boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.
ploughfoot: an adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.
ploughman: one who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.-a rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
ploughshare: the share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.
plougland: land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.-the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide.
plover: any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily charadrinsae. they are prized as game birds.-any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (dromas ardeola); the american upland, plover (bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.
ploy: sport; frolic.-to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
ployment: the act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.
pluck: to pull; to draw.-especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.-to strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.-to reject at an examination for degrees.-to make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.-the act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.-the heart, liver, and lights of an animal.-spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.-the act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. see pluck, v. t., 4.-the lyrie.
plucker: one who, or that which, plucks.-a machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
plucky: having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
pluff: to throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.-a puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.-a hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it.
plug: any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.-a flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.-a high, tapering silk hat.-a worthless horse.-a block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.-to stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
plugging: of plug-the act of stopping with a plug.-the material of which a plug or stopple is made.
plum: the edible drupaceous fruit of the prunus domestica, and of several other species of prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.-a grape dried in the sun; a raisin.-a handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
plumb: a little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. see plumb line, below.-perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.-in a plumb direction; perpendicularly.-to adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.-to sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.-to seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.-to supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.
plumbagin: a crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the leadwort (plumbago) family.
plumbagineous: pertaining to natural order (plumbagineae) of gamopetalous herbs, of which plumbago is the type. the order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.
plumbaginous: resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.
plumbago: same as graphite.-a genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
plumber: one who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
plumbery: the business of a plumber.-a place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.
plumbic: of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.
plumbing: of plumb-the art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.-the lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.
plumbism: a diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. it is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. see under colic, lead, and wrist.
plumbous: of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.
plume: a feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.-an ornamental tuft of feathers.-a feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.-a token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.-a large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.-to pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.-to strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.-to adorn with feathers or plumes.-to pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
plumicorn: an ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.
plummet: a piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.-a plumb bob or a plumb line. see under plumb, n.-hence, any weight.-a piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
plumming: the operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
plumous: having feathers or plumes.-having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
plump: well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.-a knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.-to grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.-to drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.-to give a plumper. see plumper, 2.-to make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.-to cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.-to give (a vote), as a plumper. see plumper, 2.-directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
plumper: one who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.-a vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. a person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.-a voter who plumps his vote.-a downright, unqualified lie.
plumularia: any hydroid belonging to plumularia and other genera of the family plumularidae. they generally grow in plumelike forms.
plumule: of plumula-the first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. see illust. of radicle.-a down feather.-the aftershaft of a feather. see illust. under feather.-one of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
plumulose: having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.
plumy: covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
plunder: to take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.-to take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.-the act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. see syn. of pillage.-that which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.-personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
plunge: to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast.  also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.-to baptize by immersion.-to entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.-to thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.-to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.-to bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.-the act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.-hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.-the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.-heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
plunger: one who, or that which, plunges; a diver.-a long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.-one who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.-a boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.-the firing pin of a breechloader.
plunket: a kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.
pluperfect: more than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.-the pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
plural: relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.-the plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
pluralism: the quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.-the state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
plurality: the state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.-the greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. when there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. see majority.-see plurality of benefices, below.
pluralize: to make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.-to multiply; to make manifold.-to take a plural; to assume a plural form; as, a noun pluralizes.-to hold more than one benefice at the same time.
pluri-: a combining form from l. plus, pluris, more, many; as pluriliteral.
pluries: a writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.
plurilocular: having several cells or loculi-having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.
pluriparous: producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal.
pluroderes: a group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. the matamata is an example.
plus: more, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.-hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
plush: a textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
pluteus: the free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.
pluto: the son of saturn and rhea, brother of jupiter and neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the lower world.
plutocracy: a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
plutonic: of or pertaining to pluto; plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.-of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the plutonists; igneous; as, the plutonic theory.
plutonism: the theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the neptunian theory.
plutonist: one who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a plutonian. see plutonism.
plutus: the son of jason and ceres, and the god of wealth. he was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.
pluvial: of or pertaining to rain; rainy.-produced by the action of rain.-a priest's cope.
pluviometer: an instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
pluviometrical: of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a pluviometer.
pluviose: the fifth month of the french republican calendar adopted in 1793. it began january 20, and ended february 18. see vendemiaire.
ply: to bend.-to lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.-to employ diligently; to use steadily.-to practice or perform with diligence; to work at.-to bend; to yield.-to act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.-to work to windward; to beat.-a fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.-bent; turn; direction; bias.
plyer: one who, or that which, plies-a kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. it consists of timbers joined in the form of a st. andrew's cross.-see pliers.
plymouth brethren: the members of a religious sect which first appeared at plymouth, england, about 1830. they protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. also called brethren, christian brethren, plymouthists, etc. the darbyites are a division of the brethren.
pneumatical: consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.-of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.-moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.-fitted to contain air; having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
pneumaticity: the state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
pneumatics: that branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. see mechanics.-the scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to god, angels, and men.
pneumato-: a combining form from gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.
pneumatocele: a distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
pneumatocyst: a cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in physalia.
pneumatogarm: a tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.