AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pilentum: an easy chariot or carriage, used by roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.
pileorhiza: a cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
piles: the small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. see hemorrhoids. [the singular pile is sometimes used.]
pileus: a kind of skull cap of felt.-the expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. see mushroom.-the top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.
pilewort: a plant (ranunculus ficaria of linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.
pilfer: to steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.-to take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.
pilgarlic: one who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
pilgrim: a wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.-one who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to loretto; canterbury pilgrims. see palmer.-of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.-to journey; to wander; to ramble.
pilgrimage: the journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. fig., the journey of human life.-a tedious and wearisome time.
pilidium: the free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. it has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.
piliferous: bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.-beset with hairs.
piling: of pile-the act of heaping up.-the process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.-a series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
pill: the peel or skin.-to be peeled; to peel off in flakes.-to deprive of hair; to make bald.-to peel; to make by removing the skin.-to rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. see peel, to plunder.-a medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.-figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
pillage: the act of pillaging; robbery.-that which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.-to strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.-to take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
pillar: the general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.-figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the pillars of hercules; a pillar of the state.-a portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.-the center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.-having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
pillared: supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.
pillion: a panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride.
pillorize: to set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory.
pillory: a frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.-to set in, or punish with, the pillory.-figuratively, to expose to public scorn.
pillow: anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.-a piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.-a block under the inner end of a bowsprit.-a kind of plain, coarse fustian.-to rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.
pillowcase: a removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
pillowed: of pillow-provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow.
pillworm: any myriapod of the genus iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. see illust. under myriapod.
pillwort: any plant of the genus pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.
pilocarpine: an alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.
pilose: hairy; full of, or made of, hair.-clothed thickly with pile or soft down.-covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.
pilot: one employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.-specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.-figuratively: a guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.-an instrument for detecting the compass error.-the cowcatcher of a locomotive.-to direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.-figuratively: to guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
pilotage: the pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.-the compensation made or allowed to a pilot.-guidance, as by a pilot.
pilular: of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.
pimaric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.
pimelic: pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.-designating the acid proper (c5h10(co2/h)2) which is obtained from camphoric acid.
pimelite: an apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. it is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.
pimento: allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. see allspice.
pimp: one who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.-to procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.
pimpernel: a plant of the genus anagallis, of which one species (a. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
pimpillo: a west indian name for the prickly pear (opuntia); -- called also pimploes.
pimping: of pimp-little; petty; pitiful.-puny; sickly.
pimple: any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.-fig.: a swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
pin: to peen.-to inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.-a piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.-especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.-hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.-that which resembles a pin in its form or use-a peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.-a linchpin.-a rolling-pin.-a clothespin.-a short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.-the tenon of a dovetail joint.-one of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.-the bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.-mood; humor.-caligo. see caligo.-an ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a masonic pin.-the leg; as, to knock one off his pins.-to fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
pin-eyed: having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. the opposite of thrum-eyed.
pin-tailed: having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.
pinacolin: a colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.
pinacone: a white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type.
pinafore: an apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
pinax: a tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
pinch: to press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.-o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.-to plait.-figuratively: to cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.-to move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. see pinch, n., 4.-to act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.-to take hold; to grip, as a dog does.-to spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.-a close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.-as much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.-pian; pang.-a lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. called also pinch bar.
pinchbeck: an alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. it is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.-made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
pinchcock: a clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
pinchers: an instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
pinching: of pinch-compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
pincpinc: an african wren warbler. (drymoica textrix).
pindar: the peanut (arachis hypogaea); -- so called in the west indies.
pindaric: of or pertaining to pindar, the greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of pindar; as, pindaric odes.-a pindaric ode.
pine: woe; torment; pain.-to inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.-to grieve or mourn for.-to suffer; to be afflicted.-to languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away.-to languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.-any tree of the coniferous genus pinus. see pinus.-the wood of the pine tree.-a pineapple.
pineapple: a tropical plant (ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be american.
pinedrops: a reddish herb (pterospora andromedea) of the united states, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.
pinefinch: a small american bird (spinus, / chrysomitris, spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and american siskin.-the pine grosbeak.
pinenchyma: tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
pinery: a pine forest; a grove of pines.-a hothouse in which pineapples are grown.
pinesap: a reddish fleshy herb of the genus monotropa (m. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.
pinetum: a plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.
pineweed: a low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (hypericum sarothra), common in sandy soil in the eastern united states.
piney: see piny.-a term used in designating an east indian tree (the vateria indica or piney tree, of the order dipterocarpeae, which grows in malabar, etc.) or its products.
pinfeather: a feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
pinfeathered: having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
pinfish: the sailor's choice (diplodus, / lagodon, rhomboides).-the salt-water bream (diplodus holbrooki).
pinfold: a place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.
ping: the sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.-to make the sound called ping.
pinic: of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.
pining: of pine-languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.-wasting; consuming.
pinion: a moth of the genus lithophane, as l. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.-a feather; a quill.-a wing, literal or figurative.-the joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.-a fetter for the arm.-a cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.-to bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.-to disable by cutting off the pinion joint.-to disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.-hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
pinite: a compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. it is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.-any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the pine family.-a sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (pinus lambertina). it is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
pink: a vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.-to wink; to blink.-half-shut; winking.-to pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.-to stab; to pierce as with a sword.-to choose; to cull; to pick out.-a stab.-a name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. the species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.-a color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.-anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.-the european minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.-resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
pinked: of pink-pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.
pinking: of pink-the act of piercing or stabbing.-the act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron.
pinkroot: the root of spigelia marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of s. anthelmia. see definition 2 (below).-a perennial north american herb (spigelia marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. called also carolina pink, maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.-an annual south american and west indian plant (spigelia anthelmia).
pinna: a leaflet of a pinnate leaf. see illust. of bipinnate leaf, under bipinnate.-one of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.-one of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.-any species of pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. the byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.-the auricle of the ear. see ear.
pinnace: a small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.-a man-of-war's boat.-a procuress; a pimp.
pinnacle: an architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.-anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.-to build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
pinnated: consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. see abruptly pinnate, and illust., under abruptly.-having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
pinnatifid: divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
pinnatiped: having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds.-any bird which has the toes bordered by membranes.
pinner: one who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.-a headdress like a cap, with long lappets.-an apron with a bib; a pinafore.-a cloth band for a gown.-a pin maker.-one who pins or impounds cattle. see pin, v. t.
pinnigrade: an animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.
pinniped: one of the pinnipedia; a seal.-one of the pinnipedes.
pinnipedia: a suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to fissipedia.
pinnothere: a crab of the genus pinnotheres. see oyster crab, under oyster.
pinnulate: having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnae.
pinnule: one of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. see illust. of bipinnate leaf, under bipinnate.-any one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.
pinnywinkles: an instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs.
pinocle: a game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.-see penuchle.
pinole: an aromatic powder used in italy in the manufacture of chocolate.-parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. mixed with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.
pint: a measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. see quart.-the laughing gull.
pintado: any bird of the genus numida. several species are found in africa. the common pintado, or guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. see guinea fowl, under guinea.
pintail: a northern duck (dafila acuta), native of both continents. the adult male has a long, tapering tail. called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.-the sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and rocky mountains (pediocaetes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.
pintle: a little pin.-an upright pivot pin-the pivot pin of a hinge.-a hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.-a pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.-a kingbolt of a wagon.
pintos: a mountain tribe of mexican indians living near acapulco. they are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. called also speckled indians.
pinus: a large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. the genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. see pine.
pinweed: any plant of the genus lechea, low north american herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
pinworm: a small nematoid worm (oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. it is most common in children and aged persons.
pinxit: a word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, rubens pinxit, rubens painted (this).
pioned: a shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds."
pioneer: a soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.-one who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.-to go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
pious: of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.-practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
pip: a contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. by some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.-a seed, as of an apple or orange.-one of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.-to cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
pipa: the surinam toad (pipa americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.
pipage: transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.
pipe: a wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.-any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.-a small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.-a passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.-the key or sound of the voice.-the peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.-the bagpipe; as, the pipes of lucknow.-an elongated body or vein of ore.-a roll formerly used in the english exchequer, otherwise called the great roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.-a boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.-a cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.-to play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.-to call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.-to emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.-to become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.-to perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.-to call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.-to furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
pipe clay: a plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.
pipe layer: one who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.-a politician who works in secret; -- in this sense, usually written as one word.
pipe laying: the laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.-the act or method of making combinations for personal advantage secretly or slyly; -- in this sense, usually written as one word.
pipeclay: to whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.-to clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts.
pipefish: any lophobranch fish of the genus siphostoma, or syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. the mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. the male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.
pipemouth: any fish of the genus fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. see fistularia.