AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
post-temporal: situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.-a post-temporal bone.
post-tympanic: situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
postage: the price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.
postaxial: situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
postboy: one who rides post horses; a position; a courier.-a boy who carries letters from the post.
postclavicle: a bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.
postcomminion: the concluding portion of the communion service.-a prayer or prayers which the priest says at mass, after the ablutions.
postcommissure: a transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure.
postdate: to date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.-to affix a date to after the event.-made or done after the date assigned.-a date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.
postdiluvian: being or happening after the flood in noah's days.-one who lived after the flood.
postea: the return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record.
postentry: a second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.-an additional or subsequent entry.
poster: a large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.-one who posts bills; a billposter.-one who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.-a post horse.
posterior: later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.-situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.-at or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.-on the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower.
posteriority: the state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
posterity: the race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of abraham.-succeeding generations; future times.
postern: originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.-a subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.-back; being behind; private.
postero: - (/). a combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.
postfix: a letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.-to annex; specifically (gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.
postfrontal: situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.-a postfrontal bone.
postfurca: one of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.
postgeniture: the condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.
posthaste: haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.-with speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste.
posthouse: a house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.-a house for distributing the malls; a post office.
posthumous: born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.-published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.-being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation.
postil: originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.-a short homily or commentary on a passage of scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of charlemagne.-to write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.-to write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.
postiler: one who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.
postilion: one who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.
postillate: to explain by marginal notes; to postil.-to write postils; to comment.-to preach by expounding scripture verse by verse, in regular order.
postillator: one who postillates; one who expounds the scriptures verse by verse.
posting: of post-the act of traveling post.-the act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
postliminy: the return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.-the right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
postman: a post or courier; a letter carrier.-one of the two most experienced barristers in the court of exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. the other of the two is called the tubman.
postmark: the mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.-to mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.
postmaster: one who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.-one who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
postmaster-general: the chief officer of the post-office department of a government. in the united states the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
postmeridian: coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (abbrev. p. m.)-fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late.
postnatal: after birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.
postnuptial: being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.
postorbital: situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.-a postorbital bone or scale.
postpliocene: of or pertaining to the period immediately following the pliocene; pleistocene. also used as a noun. see quaternary.
postpone: to defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.-to place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.
postponement: the act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay.
postposition: the act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.-a word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition.
postpositive: placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.
postprandial: happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
postscapula: the part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
postscapular: of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.
postscenium: the part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.
postscript: a paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.
postscutellum: the hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.
postticous: posterior.-situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.
postulate: something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.-the enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.-postulated.-to beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.-to take without express consent; to assume.-to invite earnestly; to solicit.
postulation: the act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.
posture: the position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (fine arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.-place; position; situation.-state or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.-to place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.-to assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.-fig.: to assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
posy: a brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.-a flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.
pot: a metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.-an earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.-the quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.-a metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.-a crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.-a wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.-a perforated cask for draining sugar.-a size of paper. see pott.-to place or inclose in pots-to preserve seasoned in pots.-to set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.-to drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.-to pocket.-to tipple; to drink.
pot-walloper: a voter in certain boroughs of england, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.-one who cleans pots; a scullion.
potable: fit to be drunk; drinkable.-a potable liquid; a beverage.
potamian: a river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (potamites, or trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. see trionyx.
potamology: a scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.
potance: the stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
potash: the hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, koh, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.-the impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
potassa: potassium oxide.-potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.
potassium: an alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. atomic weight 39.0. symbol k (kalium).
potassoxyl: the radical ko, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.
potato: a plant (solanum tuberosum) of the nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. it is native of south america, but a form of the species is found native as far north as new mexico.-the sweet potato (see below).
potboiler: a term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.
potboy: a boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.
poteen: whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the irish peasantry.
potency: the quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.
potent: producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.-having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.-powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.-a prince; a potentate.-a staff or crutch.-one of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
potentate: one who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
potential: being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.-existing in possibility, not in actuality.-anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.-in the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. it is called also newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.-the energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
potentiality: the quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
potentiometer: an instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.
potentness: the quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.
potestate: a chief ruler; a potentate. [obs.] wyclif.
pother: bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.-to make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.-to harass and perplex; to worry.
pothole: a circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.
pothook: an s-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.-a written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.
potichomanie: the art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.
potion: a draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine.-to drug.
potluck: whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.
potoroo: any small kangaroo belonging to hypsiprymnus, bettongia, and allied genera, native of australia and tasmania. called also kangaroo rat.
potpourri: a medley or mixture.-a ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together.-a jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.-a piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley.-a literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.
potsdam group: a subdivision of the primordial or cambrian period in american geology; -- so named from the sandstone of potsdam, new york. see chart of geology.
pott's disease: caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from percival pott, an english surgeon.
pottage: a kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
potter: one whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.-one who hawks crockery or earthenware.-one who pots meats or other eatables.-the red-bellied terrapin. see terrapin.-to busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.-to walk lazily or idly; to saunter.-to poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.
pottery: the vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.-the place where earthen vessels are made.
potting: of pot-tippling.-the act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.-the process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining.
pottle: a liquid measure of four pints.-a pot or tankard.-a vessel or small basket for holding fruit.
potto: a nocturnal mammal (perodictius potto) of the lemur family, found in west africa. it has rudimentary forefingers. called also aposoro, and bush dog.-the kinkajou.
pouch: a small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.-that which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch-a protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.-a sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.-a cyst or sac containing fluid.-a silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.-a bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.-to put or take into a pouch.-to swallow; -- said of fowls.-to pout.-to pocket; to put up with.
pouched: of pouch-having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.-having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.-having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.
poudrette: a manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
poultice: a soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.-to apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.
poultry: domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
pounce: a fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.-charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.-to sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.-the claw or talon of a bird of prey.-a punch or stamp.-cloth worked in eyelet holes.-to strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.-to punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.-to fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. also used figuratively.
pounced: furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle.-ornamented with perforations or dots.
pouncet box: a box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes.
pouncing: of pounce-the art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.-decorative perforation of cloth.
pound: to strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.-to comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.-to strike heavy blows; to beat.-to make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.-an inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.-a level stretch in a canal between locks.-a kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.-to confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.-of pound-a certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.-a british denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86.  there is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
poundage: a sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.-a subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.-the sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in england, and formerly in the united states, at so much of the pound.-to collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.-confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.-a charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
poundal: a unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. it is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
poundcake: a kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
pounder: one who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.-an instrument used for pounding; a pestle.-a person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
pounding: of pound-the act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.-a pounded or pulverized substance.
poundrate: a rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
poupart's ligament: a ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.
pour: poor.-to pore.-to cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.-to send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.-to send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.-to flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.-a stream, or something like a stream; a flood.
pourpoint: a quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
poussette: a movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.-to perform a certain movement in a dance.
pout: the young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.-to shoot pouts.-to thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.-to protrude.-a sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.-the european whiting pout or bib.
pouter: one who, or that which, pouts.-a variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.
poverty: the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.-any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.