AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
palilogy: the repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "the living, the living, he shall praise thee."
palimpsest: a parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
palindrome: a word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; hannah; or lewd did i live, & evil i did dwel.
paling: of pale-pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.-the act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
palingenesy: a new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.-that form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.
palingenetic: of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process.
palinode: an ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.-a retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
palinurus: an instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass
palisade: a strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.-any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.-to surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
palissy: designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by bernard palissy, in france, in the 16th centry.
pall: same as pawl.-an outer garment; a cloak mantle.-a kind of rich stuff used for garments in the middle ages.-same as pallium.-a figure resembling the roman catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter y.-a large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.-a piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.-to cloak.-to become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.-to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.-to satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.-nausea.
pall-mall: a game formerly common in england, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. the name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in london, still called pall mall.
palla: an oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
palladian: of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of andrea palladio, an italian architect of the 16th century.
palladic: of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.
palladious: of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.
palladium: any statue of the goddess pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient troy.-hence: that which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.-a rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. it is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. it is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy pd2h. it is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. it was so named in 1804 by wollaston from the asteroid pallas, which was discovered in 1802. symbol pd. atomic weight, 106.2.
pallah: a large south african antelope (aepyceros melampus). the male has long lyrate and annulated horns. the general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. called also roodebok.
pallas: pallas athene, the grecian goddess of wisdom, called also athene, and identified, at a later period, with the roman minerva.
pallbearer: one of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
pallet: a small and mean bed; a bed of straw.-same as palette.-a wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. it is oval, round, and of other forms.-a potter's wheel.-an instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.-a tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.-a board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.-a click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.-one of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.-one of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.-in the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.-one of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the teredo. see illust. of teredo.-a cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
pallial: of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. see illust. of bivalve.
palliard: a born beggar; a vagabond.-a lecher; a lewd person.
palliate: covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.-eased; mitigated; alleviated.-to cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.-to cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.-to reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
palliation: the act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.-mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.-that which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
palliative: serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.-that which palliates; a palliative agent.
pallid: deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
pallidness: the quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
palliobranchiate: having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
pallium: a large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the greeks and by certain romans. it is the roman name of a greek garment.-a band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.-the mantle of a bivalve. see mantle.-the mantle of a bird.
pallor: paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
palm: the inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.-a lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.-a metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.-the broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.-the flat inner face of an anchor fluke.-any endogenous tree of the order palmae or palmaceae; a palm tree.-a branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.-any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.-to handle.-to manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle.-to impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off.
palm sunday: the sunday next before easter; -- so called in commemoration of our savior's triumphal entry into jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.
palma christi: a plant (ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant.
palmaceous: of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
palmar: pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.-of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
palmarium: one of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
palmary: palmar.-worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.
palmate: a salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.-alt. of palmated
palmated: having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.-spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.-having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.-having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
palmatifid: palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
palmatisected: divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
palmcrist: the palma christi. (jonah iv. 6, margin, and douay version, note.)
palmer: one who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.-a wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the holy land and its sacred places.-a palmerworm.-short for palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
palmerworm: any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. the name is applied also to other voracious insects.-in america, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
palmette: a floral ornament, common in greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
palmetto: a name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the west indies and the southern united states. in the united states, the name is applied especially to the chamaerops, / sabal, palmetto, the cabbage tree of florida and the carolinas. see cabbage tree, under cabbage.
palmic: of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (ricinus communis, or palma christi); -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
palmidactyles: a group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.
palmin: a white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.-ricinolein.
palmiped: web-footed, as a water fowl.-a swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
palmistry: the art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.-a dexterous use or trick of the hand.
palmite: a south african plant (prionium palmita) of the rush family, having long serrated leaves. the stems have been used for making brushes.
palmitic: pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. it is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ c.
palmitin: a solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. it occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.
palmitolic: pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
palmy: bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.-worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
palmyra: a species of palm (borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. it is found native along the entire northern shores of the indian ocean, from the mouth of the tigris to new guinea. more than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
palola: an annelid (palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the pacific islands, where it is collected for food.
palp: same as palpus.-to have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
palpable: capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.-easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
palpator: one of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
palpi: pl. of palpus. (zool.) see palpus.-of palpus
palpicorn: one of a group of aquatic beetles (palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
palpitate: to beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
palpitation: a rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
palpocil: a minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
palpus: a feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. the palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. called also palp. see illust. of arthrogastra and orthoptera.
palsgrave: a count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in germany.
palstave: a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric europe about the middle of the bronze age.
palsy: paralysis, complete or partial. see paralysis.-to affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
palsywort: the cowslip (primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers.
palter: to haggle.-to act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.-to babble; to chatter.-to trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.
paltry: mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
paludina: any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to paludina, melantho, and allied genera. they have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. see illust. of pond snail, under pond.
paludinous: paludinal. (b) like or pertaining to the genus paludina.-of or pertaining to a marsh or fen.
paludism: the morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.
palus: one of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
palustrine: of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.
paly: pale; wanting color; dim.-divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.
pampas: vast plains in the central and southern part of the argentine republic in south america. the term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from bolivia to southern patagonia.
pamper: to feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.-to gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
pampered: of pamper-fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant.
pampero: a violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of south america and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
pamphlet: a writing; a book.-a small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.-to write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
pamphleteer: a writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.-to write or publish pamphlets.
pampiniform: in the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
pampre: an ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
pan: a part; a portion.-the distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.-a leaf of gold or silver.-to join or fit together; to unite.-the betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. see /etel.-the god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. he is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.-a shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.-a closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. see vacuum pan, under vacuum.-the part of a flintlock which holds the priming.-the skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.-a recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.-the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. see hard pan, under hard.-a natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.-to separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.-to yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.-to turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
pan-anglican: belonging to, or representing, the whole church of england; used less strictly, to include the protestant episcopal church of the united states; as, the pan-anglican conference at lambeth, in 1888.
panacea: a remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.-the herb allheal.
panache: a plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
panade: bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.-a dagger.
panama hat: a fine plaited hat, made in central america of the young leaves of a plant (carludovica palmata).
pancake: a thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
pancratic: having all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power.-alt. of pancratical
pancratium: an athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.-a genus of old world amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. the american species are now placed in the related genus hymenocallis.
pancreas: the sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. it is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. see illust. of digestive apparatus.
pancreatic: of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
pancreatin: one of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
panda: a small asiatic mammal (ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. it is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of northern india.
pandect: a treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.-the digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the roman civil law.
pandemonium: the great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.-an utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
pander: a male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.-hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.-to play the pander for.-to act the part of a pander.
pandiculation: a stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
pandora: a beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom jupiter caused vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. jupiter gave pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. hope alone remained in the box. another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when pandora opened it.-a genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
pandour: one of a class of hungarian mountaineers serving in the austrian army; -- so called from pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.
pandowdy: a deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
panduriform: obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.
pane: the narrow edge of a hammer head. see peen.-a division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.-one of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.-a compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.-especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.-in irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.-one of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.-one of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
paned: having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash.-having flat sides or surfaces; as, a six/paned nut.
panegyric: an oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. see synonym of eulogy.-alt. of panegyrical
panegyrist: one who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.
panegyrize: to praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.-to indulge in panegyrics.