AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
melilot: any species of melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. the blue melilot (melilotus caerulea) is used in switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.
melilotic: of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or melilot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from melilot as a white crystalline substance.
meliorate: to make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.-to grow better.
melioration: the act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.
meliphagan: belonging to the genus meliphaga.-any bird of the genus meliphaga and allied genera; a honey eater; -- called also meliphagidan.
melisma: a piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.-a grace or embellishment.
melissa: a genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (melissa officinalis).
melissic: pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax; specif., denoting an acid obtained by oxidation of myricin.
melitose: a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called australian manna (a secretion of certain species of eucalyptus).
mellifluous: flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice.
mellite: a mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. it is a mellitate of alumina.
mellitic: containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.-pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite.
mellone: a yellow powder, c6h3n9, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. it has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides.
mellow: soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.-easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.-not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.-well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.-warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.-to make mellow.-to become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
melluco: a climbing plant (ullucus officinalis) of the andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.
melocotoon: a quince.-a kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.
melodeon: a kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.-a music hall.
melodic: of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.
melodics: the department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
melodiograph: a contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.
melodious: containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.
melodize: to make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.-to make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.
melodrama: formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. in opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of beethoven's "fidelio".
melodramatic: of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
melody: a sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.-a rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.-the air or tune of a musical piece.
meloe: a genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. these beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. see oil beetle, under oil.
melolonthidian: a beetle of the genus melolontha, and allied genera. see may beetle, under may.
melon: the juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.-a large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus melo.
melop/ia: the art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
melopiano: a piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.
meloplastic: of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.
meloplasty: the process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.
melotype: a picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.
melt: see 2d milt.-to reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.-hence: to soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.-to be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.-to dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.-hence: to be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.-to lose distinct form or outline; to blend.-to disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
melting: of melt-liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.-causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood.
melton: a kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. a commoner variety has a cotton warp.
member: to remember; to cause to remember; to mention.-a part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.-hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body-a part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.-either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the sign of equality.-any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.-any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.-one of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of friends.
membered: having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.-having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations.
membranaceous: same as membranous.-thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar.
membrane: a thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.
membranous: pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.-membranaceous.
memento: a hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
memnon: a celebrated egyptian statue near thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
memoirs: a memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. see history, 2.-a memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.-an account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.
memorabilia: things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
memorandum: a record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.-a brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.
memorial: serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.-mnemonic; assisting the memory.-anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.-a memorandum; a record.-a written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.-memory; remembrance.-a species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.
memorialize: to address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
memorize: to cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.-to commit to memory; to learn by heart.
memory: the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.-the reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.-the actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.-the time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.-something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.-a memorial.
memphian: of or pertaining to the ancient city of memphis in egypt; hence, egyptian; as, memphian darkness.
men: of man-pl. of man.-a man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.
men-pleaser: one whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than god.
menaccanite: an iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. it is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.
menace: the show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.-to express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.-to threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.-to act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
menagerie: a piace where animals are kept and trained.-a collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
menaion: a work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the greek church for a month; also, each volume of the same.
mend: to repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.-to alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.-to help, to advance, to further; to add to.-to grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
mendacious: given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.-false; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement.
mendacity: the quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.-a falsehood; a lie.
mendicant: practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.-a beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
menhaden: an american marine fish of the herring familt (brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
menhir: a large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. many, of unknown date, are found in brittany and throughout northern europe.
menial: belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.-pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.-a domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.-a person of a servile character or disposition.
meniere's disease: a disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. it is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. named after meniere, a french physician.
meninges: the three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
meniscus: a crescent.-a lens convex on one side and concave on the other.-an interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds.
menispermaceous: pertaining to a natural order (menispermace/) of climbing plants of which moonseed (menispermum) is the type.
menispermic: pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the anamirta cocculus.
menispermine: an alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of anamirta cocculus, formerly menispermum cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.
mennonite: one of a small denomination of christians, so called from menno simons of friesland, their founder. they believe that the new testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.
menobranchus: a large aquatic american salamander of the genus necturus, having permanent external gills.
menology: a register of months.-a brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written.
menopause: the period of natural cessation of menstruation. see change of life, under change.
menorrhagia: profuse menstruation.-any profuse bleeding from the uterus; metrorrhagia.
mensal: belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensal conversation.-occurring once in a month; monthly.
menses: the catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
menstrual: recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.-of or pertaining to the menses; as, menstrual discharges; the menstrual period.-of or pertaining to a menstruum.
menstruate: menstruous.-to discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
menstruation: the discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.
menstruous: having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.-of or pertaining tj the monthly flow; catamenial.
mensuration: the act, process, or art, of measuring.-that branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.
mental: of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.-a plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.-of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.
mentha: a widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. the plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.
menthene: a colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol. it has an agreeable odor and a cooling taste.
menthol: a white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (mentha); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor.
mention: a speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. used especially in the phrase to make mention of.-to make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.
mentomeckelian: of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw.-the bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.
mephistophelian: pertaining to, or resembling, the devil mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.
mephitical: tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.-offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
mephitis: noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.-a genus of mammals, including the skunks.
mercantile: of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
mercaptan: any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. in general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. the name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, c2h5sh. so called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.
mercaptide: a compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, c2h5sk.
mercenary: acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.-hence: moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.-one who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
mercer: originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
merchandise: the objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.-the act or business of trading; trade; traffic.-to trade; to carry on commerce.-to make merchandise of; to buy and sell.
merchant: one who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.-a trading vessel; a merchantman.-one who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.-of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.-to be a merchant; to trade.
merchantable: fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
merchantman: a merchant.-a trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.
merchantry: the body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.-the business of a merchant; merchandise.
merchet: in old english and in scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
merciful: full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.-unwilling to give pain; compassionate.
merciless: destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.
mercurammonium: a radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.
mercurial: having the qualities fabled to belong to the god mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.-having the form or image of mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.-of or pertaining to mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty.-of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. see mercury, 2.-caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.-a person having mercurial qualities.-a preparation containing mercury.
mercurialist: one under the influence of mercury; one resembling mercury in character.-a physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.
mercurialize: to affect with mercury.-to treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury.-to be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.
mercuric: of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.
mercurification: the process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.-the act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.
mercurify: to obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.-to combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize.
mercurous: of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.
mercury: a latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the greek hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.-a metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. it is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. specific gravity 13.6. symbol hg (hydrargyrum). atomic weight 199.8. mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. it was named by the alchemists after the god mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.-one of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.-a carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.-sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.-a plant (mercurialis annua), of the spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in europe.-to wash with a preparation of mercury.
mercy: forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.-compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.-disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.-a blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
mere: a pool or lake.-a boundary.-to divide, limit, or bound.-a mare.-unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.-only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
meretricious: of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.-resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
merganser: any bird of the genus merganser, and allied genera. they are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.
merge: to cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.-to be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
merger: one who, or that which, merges.-an absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.
meride: a permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides.