AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
mousehole: a hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse.
mouser: a cat that catches mice.-one who pries about on the lookout for something.
mousetail: a genus of ranunculaceous plants (myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.
mousing: of mouse-impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.-the act of hunting mice.-a turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.-a ratchet movement in a loom.
moutan: the chinese tree peony (paeonia mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
mouth: the opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.-an opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;-the opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.-the opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.-the opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.-the opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.-the entrance into a harbor.-the crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.-a principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.-cry; voice.-speech; language; testimony.-a wry face; a grimace; a mow.-to take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.-to utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.-to form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.-to make mouths at.-to speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.-to put mouth to mouth; to kiss.-to make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
mouthed: of mouth-furnished with a mouth.-having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
mouthful: as much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.-hence, a small quantity.
mouthpiece: the part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.-an appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.-one who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party.
movable: capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.-changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.-an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.-property not attached to the soil.
move: to cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.-to transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.-to excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.-to arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.-to propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.-to apply to, as for aid.-to change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.-to act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.-to change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.-to change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.-the act of moving; a movement.-the act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.-an act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
movement: the act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.-motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.-manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.-the rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.-one of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.-a system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.
mover: a person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.-a person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.-one who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.-a proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.
moving: of move-changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.-exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal.-the act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.
mow: a wry face.-to make mouths.-same as mew, a gull.-of mow-may; can.-to cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.-to cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.-to cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.-to cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.-a heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.-the place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.-to lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
mowburn: to heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.
mowe: of mow-see 4th mow.-see 1st & 2d mow.
mower: one who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.
mowing: of mow-the act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.-land from which grass is cut; meadow land.
mown: of mow-cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.
moxa: a soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of artemisia chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.-a plant from which this substance is obtained, esp.  artemisia chinensis, and a. moxa.
moya: mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in south america.
mozzetta: a cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the roman catholic church.
mr.: the customary abbreviation of mister in writing and printing. see master, 4.
mrs.: the customary abbreviation of mistress when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing.
mucamide: the acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
mucedin: a yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also mucin.
much: great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.-many in number.-high in rank or position.-a great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as i.-a thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.-to a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.
mucic: pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.
mucific: inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous.-secreting mucus.
mucigen: a substance which is formed in mucous epithelial cells, and gives rise to mucin.
mucilage: a gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.-an aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.
mucilaginous: partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid.-of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage; as, the mucilaginous glands.-soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage; as, mucilaginous gums or plants.
mucin: see mucedin.-an albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. it is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. see illust. of demilune.
mucivore: an insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain diptera, of the tribe mucivora.
muck: abbreviation of amuck.-dung in a moist state; manure.-vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.-anything filthy or vile.-money; -- in contempt.-like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.-to manure with muck.
mucker: a term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.-to scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.
muckworm: a larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.-one who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.
mucky: filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.-vile, in a moral sense; sordid.
mucocele: an enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter.
muconic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid, obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic acid.
mucor: a genus of minute fungi. the plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.
mucous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.-secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane.
mucro: a minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.
mucronated: ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf.
mucus: a viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. it covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.-any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.-a gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
mud: earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.-to bury in mud.-to make muddy or turbid.
mudar: either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (calotropis gigantea, and c. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. the acrid milky juice is used medicinally.
mudarin: a brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.
muddily: in a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.
muddiness: the condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.-obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.
muddle: to make turbid, or muddy, as water.-to cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.-to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.-to mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.-to dabble in mud.-to think and act in a confused, aimless way.-a state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
muddy: abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.-turbid with mud; as, muddy water.-consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.-confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.-not clear or bright.-to soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.-fig.: to cloud; to make dull or heavy.
mudfish: the european loach.-the bowfin.-the south american lipedosiren, and the allied african species (protopterus annectens). see lipedosiren.-the mud minnow.
mudhole: a hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.-a hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
mudsill: the lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. see sill.
mudwort: a small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (limosella aquatica).
muff: a soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.-a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.-a blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.-a stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.-a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.-the whitethroat.-to handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
muffin: a light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
muffle: the bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.-to wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.-to prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.-to wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.-to speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.-anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.-an earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.-a small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.-a pulley block containing several sheaves.
muffler: anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.-a cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.-a kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed.-one who muffles.
mufti: an official expounder of mohammedan law.-citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; -- a term derived from the british service in india.
mug: a kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.-the face or mouth.
muggletonian: one of an extinct sect, named after ludovic muggleton, an english journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired.
muggy: moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.-warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.
mugweed: a slender european weed (galium cruciata); -- called also crossweed.
mugwort: a somewhat aromatic composite weed (artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
mugwump: a bolter from the republican party in the national election of 1884; an independent.
muharram: the first month of the mohammedan year.-a festival of the shiah sect of the mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month mohurrum.
mulatto: the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.
mulberry: the berry or fruit of any tree of the genus morus; also, the tree itself. see morus.-a dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.
mulberry-faced: having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.
mulch: half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.-to cover or dress with mulch.
mulct: a fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.-a blemish or defect.-to punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.-hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline.
mulctuary: imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine.
mule: a hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. see hinny.-a plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.-a very stubborn person.-a machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
muley: a stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.-see mulley.
muliebrity: the state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.-hence: effeminancy; softness.
mulier: a woman.-lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.-a woman; a wife; a mother.
mulierly: in the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.
mulierty: condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.
mull: a thin, soft kind of muslin.-a promontory; as, the mull of cantyre.-a snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.-dirt; rubbish.-to powder; to pulverize.-to work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.-an inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.-to heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.-to dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
mullar: a die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
mullein: any plant of the genus verbascum. they are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. the common species, with densely woolly leaves, is verbascum thapsus.
muller: one who, or that which, mulls.-a vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.-a stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.
mullet: any one of numerous fishes of the genus mugil; -- called also gray mullets. they are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. among the most valuable species are mugil capito of europe, and m. cephalus which occurs both on the european and american coasts.-any species of the genus mullus, or family mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (m. surmulletus) of southern europe. the former is the mullet of the romans. it is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. see surmullet.-a star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.-small pinchers for curling the hair.
mulligrubs: a griping of the intestines; colic.-hence, sullenness; the sulks.
mulliod: like or pertaining to the genus mullus, which includes the surmullet, or red mullet.
mullion: a slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.-an upright member of a framing. see stile.-to furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions.
mult-: see multi-.-a prefix signifying much or many; several; more than one; as, multiaxial, multocular.
multiaxial: having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to monoaxial.
multicostate: having numerous ribs, or costae, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals.
multifarious: having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.-having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.
multifariousness: multiplied diversity.-the fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them.
multifid: having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.
multiflue: having many flues; as, a multiflue boiler. see boiler.
multifoil: an ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils.-having more than five divisions or foils.
multiformity: the quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing.
multilocular: having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.
multiped: an insect having many feet, as a myriapod.-having many feet.
multiple: containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts.-a quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder.
multiplicand: the number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier. see note under multiplication.
multiplication: the act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation.-the process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.-an increase above the normal number of parts, especially of petals; augmentation.-the art of increasing gold or silver by magic, -- attributed formerly to the alchemists.
multiplicity: the quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects.
multiplier: one who, or that which, multiplies or increases number.-the number by which another number is multiplied. see the note under multiplication.-an instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity. it is particularly used to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. see thermomultiplier.
multiply: to increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.-to add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. see the note under multiplication.-to increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.-to become greater in number; to become numerous.-to increase in extent and influence; to spread.-to increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
multipolar: having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.
multipresent: being, or having the power to be, present in two or more places at once.
multisect: divided into many similar segments; -- said of an insect or myriapod.
multiseptate: divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.
multiserial: arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.
multispiral: having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.