AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
piper: see pepper.-one who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.-a common european gurnard (trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.-a sea urchin (goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the american and european coasts.
piperaceous: of or pertaining to the order of plants (piperaceae) of which the pepper (piper nigrum) is the type. there are about a dozen genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and aromatic qualities.
piperic: pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
piperidine: an oily liquid alkaloid, c5h11n, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. it is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
piperine: a white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. it is obtained from the black pepper (piper nigrum) and other species.
piperonal: a white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.
pipestone: a kind of clay slate, carved by the indians into tobacco pipes.  cf. catlinite.
pipette: a small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
pipewort: any plant of a genus (eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.
piping: of pipe-playing on a musical pipe.-peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.-emitting a high, shrill sound.-simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.-a small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.-pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.-the act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.-a piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
pipistrelle: a small european bat (vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.
pipit: any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to anthus and allied genera, of the family motacillidae. they strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. they are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.
pippin: an apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.-a name given to apples of several different kinds, as newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin.
pipra: any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to pipra and allied genera, of the family pipridae. the male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. they chiefly inhabit south america.
pipsissewa: a low evergreen plant (chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. it has been used in nephritic diseases. called also prince's pine.
piquant: stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.
pique: a cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.-the jigger. see jigger.-a feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.-keenly felt desire; a longing.-in piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.-to wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.-to excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.-to pride or value; -- used reflexively.-to cause annoyance or irritation.
piquet: see picket.-a game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
piracy: the act or crime of a pirate.-robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.-nan
pirate: a robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.-an armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.-one who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.-to play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.-to publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.
piratical: of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.
piraya: a large voracious fresh-water fish (serrasalmo piraya) of south america, having lancet-shaped teeth.
piririgua: a south american bird (guira guira) allied to the cuckoos.
pirl: to spin, as a top.-to twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.
pirn: a quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.
pirouette: a whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.-the whirling about of a horse.-to perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.
pisces: the twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs.-a zodiacal constellation, including the first point of aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the fish.-the class of vertebrata that includes the fishes. the principal divisions are elasmobranchii, ganoidei, and teleostei.
piscina: a niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.
piscine: of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.
pise: a species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.
pisiform: resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.-a small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. see illust. of artiodactyla.
pisolite: a variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.
pissabed: a name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
pissasphalt: earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. it is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
pistachio: the nut of the pistacia vera, a tree of the order anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. it is wholesome and nutritive. the tree grows in arabia, persia, syria, and sicily.
pistacia: the name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the mediterranean mastic tree (pistacia lentiscus), and the species (p. terebinthus) which yields chian or cyprus turpentine.
pistil: an epistle.-the seed-bearing organ of a flower. it consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. when composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. see illust. of flower, and ovary.
pistillaceous: growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil.
pistillate: having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
pistol: the smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. see illust. of revolver.-to shoot with a pistol.
pistole: the name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of europe. in spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in germany and italy nearly the same. there was an old italian pistole worth about $5.40.
piston: a sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. it usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. it is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.
pit: a large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation-the shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.-a large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.-a vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.-any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.-a covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. also used figuratively.-a depression or hollow in the surface of the human body-the hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.-see pit of the stomach (below).-the indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.-formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in england, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the united states, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.-an inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.-the endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.-a depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.-to place or put into a pit or hole.-to mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.-to introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
pita: a fiber obtained from the agave americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. called also pita fiber, and pita thread.-the plant which yields the fiber.
pitahaya: a cactaceous shrub (cereus pitajaya) of tropical america, which yields a delicious fruit.
pitapat: in a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.-a light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.
pitch: a thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. it is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.-see pitchstone.-to cover over or smear with pitch.-fig.: to darken; to blacken; to obscure.-to throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.-to thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.-to set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.-to fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.-to set or fix, as a price or value.-to fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.-to light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.-to fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.-to plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.-a throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.-that point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.-a point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.-height; stature.-a descent; a fall; a thrusting down.-the point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.-the relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.-the limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.-the distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.-the length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.-the distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.
pitch-faced: having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
pitchblende: a pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. see uraninite.
pitcher: one who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.-a sort of crowbar for digging.-a wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.-a tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
pitchfork: a fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.-to pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
pitching: of pitch-the act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.-the rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.-a facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
pitchstone: an igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
pitchwork: the work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
pitchy: partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.-smeared with pitch.-black; pitch-dark; dismal.
piteous: pious; devout.-evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.-fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.-paltry; mean; pitiful.
pitfall: a pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.
pith: the soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. it consists of cellular tissue.-the spongy interior substance of a feather.-the spinal cord; the marrow.-hence: the which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.-to destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.
pitheci: a division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. sometimes used in the sense of primates.
pithecoid: of or pertaining to the genus pithecia, or subfamily pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied south american monkeys.-of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular, or to the higher apes of the old world, collectively.
pithy: consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.-having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
pitiable: deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
pitiful: full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.-piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.-to be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
pitiless: destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.-exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.
pitman: one who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.-the connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
pitot's tube: a bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.
pitpan: a long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in central america.
pitta: any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to pitta, and allied genera of the family pittidae. most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. they are called also ground thrushes, and old world ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.
pittacal: a dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. it consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
pittance: an allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.-a meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
pitted: of pit-marked with little pits, as in smallpox. see pit, v. t., 2.-having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
pitter: a contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.-to make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.
pituitary: secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.-of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.
pituitous: consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.
pity: piety.-a feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.-a reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.-to feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.-to move to pity; -- used impersonally.-to be compassionate; to show pity.
pitying: of pity-expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.
pityriasis: a superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.
piu: a little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.
pivot: a fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.-the end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.-hence, figuratively: a turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.-the officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.-to place on a pivot.
pivotal: of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.
pixie: an old english name for a fairy; an elf.-a low creeping evergreen plant (pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in new jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
pizzicato: a direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (abrev. pizz.)
pia cloth: a fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. it is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.
pion: the edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as pinus pinea of southern europe, and p. parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of western north america.-see monkey's puzzle.
piña cloth: ( ) A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.
piñon: ( n. ) The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.
placable: capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
placard: a public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.-permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.-a written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.-an extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.-a kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.-to post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.-to announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.
placate: same as placard, 4 & 5.-to appease; to pacify; to concilate.
place: any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.-a broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.-a position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.-rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.-vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).-a definite position or passage of a document.-ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.-reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.-position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.-to assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.-to put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.-to put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.-to set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.-to attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
placebo: the first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.-a prescription intended to humor or satisfy.
placenta: the vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.-the part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
placental: of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.-of or pertaining to the placentalia.-one of the placentalia.
placentalia: a division of mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
placentary: having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
placentation: the mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.-the mode in which the placenta is arranged or composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation.
placentiform: having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
placer: one who places or sets.-a deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.
placet: a vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.-the assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.
placid: pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.
placitum: a public court or assembly in the middle ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.-a court, or cause in court.-a plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.