AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pteridophyta: a class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. see the note under cryptogamia.
pterobranchia: an order of marine bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. the genus rhabdopleura is the type.  called also podostomata. see rhabdopleura.
pteroceras: a genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.
pterocletes: a division of birds including the sand grouse. they are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse.  called also pteroclomorphae.
pterodactyl: an extinct flying reptile; one of the pterosauria. see illustration in appendix.
pteroglossal: having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.
pteron: the region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
pterophore: any moth of the genus pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. see plume moth, under plume.
pteropoda: a class of mollusca in which the anterior lobes of the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.
pterosauria: an extinct order of flying reptiles of the mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also pterodactyli, and ornithosauria.
pterotic: of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.-the pterotic bone.
pterygium: a superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.
pterygoid: like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone.-of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone.-a pterygoid bone.
pterygomaxillary: of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.
pterygopalatine: of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.
pterygopodium: a specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.
pterygoquadrate: of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.
pteryla: one of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.
pterylography: the study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pterylae, of birds.
ptilopaedic: having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypaedic; -- said of the young of certain birds.
ptisan: a decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.-an aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.
ptomaine: one of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. the ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.
ptosis: drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.
ptyalin: an unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.
puberty: the earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.-the period when a plant first bears flowers.
pubes: the hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.-hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.-the down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.
pubescence: the quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.-a covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
pubescent: arrived at puberty.-covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
pubic: of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. see pubes.-of or pertaining to the pubis.
pubis: the ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
public: of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.-open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.-open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house.-the general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the american public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.-a public house; an inn.
public-spirited: having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men.-dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure.
publican: a farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. the inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.-the keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
publication: the act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at mount sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.-the act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.-that which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.-an act done in public.
publicist: a writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.
publicity: the quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
publicly: with exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.-in the name of the community.
publicness: the quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.-the quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property.
publish: to make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.-to make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.-to send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.-to utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper.
publishment: the act or process of making publicly known; publication.-a public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some states.
puccoon: any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the north american indians, as the bloodroot and two species of lithospermum (l. hirtum, and l. canescens); also, the pigment itself.
pucherite: vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.
puck: a celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also robin goodfellow, friar rush, pug, etc.-the goatsucker.
pucker: to gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.-a fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.-a state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
puckery: producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.-inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
puddening: a quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.-a bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.
pudder: to make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.-to perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man.-a pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.
pudding: a species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.-anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.-an intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.-any food or victuals.-same as puddening.
puddle: a small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.-clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.-to make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).-to make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.-to make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.-to subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.-to make a dirty stir.
puddle-ball: the lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
puddle-bar: an iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
puddler: one who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
puddling: of puddle-the process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.-puddle. see puddle, n., 2.-the art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities.
pudgy: short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.
pudu: a very small deer (pudua humilis), native of the chilian andes. it has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long.
pueblo: a communistic building erected by certain indian tribes of arizona and new mexico. it is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. the term is also applied to any indian village in the same region.
puerility: the quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.-that which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.
puerperal: of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.
puff: a sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.-anything light and filled with air.-a puffball.-a kind of light pastry.-a utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.-an exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.-to blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.-to blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.-to breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.-to swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.-to breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.-to drive with a puff, or with puffs.-to repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.-to cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.-to inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.-to praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.-puffed up; vain.
puff-leg: any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
puffball: a kind of ball-shaped fungus (lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
puffer: one who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.-one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.-any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of tetrodon and diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.-the common, or harbor, porpoise.-a kier.
puffery: the act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
puffin: an arctic sea bird fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.-the puffball.-a sort of apple.
puffing: of puff-a. & n. from puff, v. i. & t.
puffingly: in a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.
puffy: swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.-hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
pug: to mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.-to fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. see pugging, 2.-tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.-a pug mill.-an elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as puck.-a name for a monkey.-a name for a fox.-an intimate; a crony; a dear one.-chaff; the refuse of grain.-a prostitute.-one of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.-any geometrid moth of the genus eupithecia.
pugging: of pug-the act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.-mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the united states usually called deafening.-thieving.
pugh: pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.
pugilist: one who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
puisne: later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.-puny; petty; unskilled.-younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the court of common pleas; the puisne barons of the court of exchequer.-one who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.
puissant: powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.
puke: to eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.-to eject from the stomach; to vomit up.-a medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.-of a color supposed to be between black and russet.
pulas: the east indian leguminous tree butea frondosa. see gum butea, under gum.
pulchritude: that quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.-attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
pule: to cry like a chicken.-to whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
puling: of pule-a cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.-whimpering; whining; childish.
pull: to draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.-to draw apart; to tear; to rend.-to gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.-to move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.-to hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.-to take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.-to strike the ball in a particular manner. see pull, n., 8.-to exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.-the act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.-a contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.-a pluck; loss or violence suffered.-a knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.-the act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.-the act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.-something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.-a kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
pullback: that which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.-the iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.
pulley: a wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.-to raise or lift by means of a pulley.
pullman car: a kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to pullman.
pulmocutaneous: of or pertaining to the lungs and the akin; as, the pulmocutaneous arteries of the frog.
pulmograde: swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae.
pulmonarian: any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. also used adjectively.
pulmonary: of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic.-lungwort.
pulmonata: an extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in helix, or land snails, limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as limnaea and planorbis.
pulmonate: having breathing organs that act as lungs.-pertaining to the pulmonata.-one of the pulmonata.
pulmonic: relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.-a pulmonic medicine.
pulp: a moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.-a tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.-the soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.-the exterior part of a coffee berry.-the material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.-to reduce to pulp.-to deprive of the pulp, or integument.
pulpatoon: a kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit.
pulpit: an elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.-the whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.-a desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.-of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
pulpiteer: one who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt.
pulpy: like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.
pulsatile: capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.-pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.
pulsatilla: a genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. this genus is now merged in anemone. some species, as anemone pulsatilla, anemone pratensis, and anemone patens, are used medicinally.
pulsation: a beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.-a single beat or throb of a series.-a stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.-any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. this constitutes battery.
pulse: leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.-the beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.-any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.-to beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.-to drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
pulsion: the act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.
pulsometer: a device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.-a pulsimeter.
pulu: a vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the hawaiian islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus cibotium, chiefly c. menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.
pulverize: to reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.-to become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.
pulverulence: the state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.
pulverulent: consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.
pulvil: a sweet-scented powder; pulvillio.-to apply pulvil to.
pulvillo: a kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags.
pulvinated: curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.-having the form of a cushion.
pulvinic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
puma: a large american carnivore (felis concolor), found from canada to patagonia, especially among the mountains. its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. called also catamount, cougar, american lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.
pumice: a very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. it is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. it is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. called also pumice stone.
pumiced: affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. the disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.
pump: a low shoe with a thin sole.-an hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.-to raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.-to draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.-figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.-to work, or raise water, a pump.
pumpernickel: a sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the westphalian peasants. it is acid but nourishing.
pumpkin: a well-known trailing plant (cucurbita pepo)  and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
pun: to pound.-a play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.-to make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.-to persuade or affect by a pun.