AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
mortar: a strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.-a short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.-a building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.-to plaster or make fast with mortar.-a chamber lamp or light.
mortgage: a conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.-state of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.-to grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.-hence: to pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.
mortgagee: the person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
mortiferous: bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb.
mortification: the act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified-the death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.-destruction of active qualities; neutralization.-subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.-hence: deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.-that which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.-a gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
mortifiedness: the state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions.
mortify: to destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.-to destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.-to deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.-to affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.-to lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.-to practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.-to be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
mortifying: of mortify-tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.-subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.-tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
mortise: a cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.-to cut or make a mortisein.-to join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
mortling: an animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling.-wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
mortmain: possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
mortpay: dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
mortrew: a dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida.
mortuary: a sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. it seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.-a burial place; a place for the dead.-a place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.-of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
morula: the sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. see segmentation.
morulation: the process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
morus: a genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. see mulberry.
mosaic: a surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.-a picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.-of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.-of or pertaining to moses, the leader of the israelites, or established through his agency; as, the mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
mosaism: attachment to the system or doctrines of moses; that which is peculiar to the mosaic system or doctrines.
mosasauria: an order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the cretaceous rocks, especially in america. they were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. some of them were over fifty feet long. they are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. called also pythonomarpha, and mosasauria.
mosasaurian: one of an extinct order of reptiles, including mosasaurus and allied genera. see mosasauria.
mosasaurus: a genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. the first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in cretaceous beds near maestricht, in the netherlands.
moschatel: a plant of the genus adoxa (a. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. it is found in woods in all parts of europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot.
moslem: of moslem-a mussulman; an orthodox mohammedan. [written also muslim.]-of or pertaining to the mohammedans; mohammedan; as, moslem lands; the moslem faith.
mosquito: any one of various species of gnats of the genus culex and allied genera. the females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. these bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. the larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
moss: a cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. the fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. there are many species, collectively termed musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.-a bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the scottish border.-to cover or overgrow with moss.
mossback: a veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
mosstrooper: one of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between england and scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
mossy: overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.-resembling moss; as, mossy green.
most: consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.-greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.-highest in rank; greatest.-in the greatest or highest degree.
mot: of mot-of mot-may; must; might.-a word; hence, a motto; a device.-a pithy or witty saying; a witticism.-a note or brief strain on a bugle.
mote: of mot-of mot-of mot-see 1st mot.-a meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of london.-a body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.-a place of meeting for discussion.-the flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. see mot, n., 3, and mort.-a small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
motet: a composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
moth: a mote.-any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; io moth; hawk moth.-any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. see these terms under clothes, grain, etc.-any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera dermestes and anthrenus. carpet moths are often the larvae of anthrenus. see carpet beetle, under carpet, dermestes, anthrenus.-anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
mother: a female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.-that which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.-an old woman or matron.-the female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.-hysterical passion; hysteria.-received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.-to adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.-a film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.-to become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
mother-of-pearl: the hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. see pearl.
mother-of-thyme: an aromatic plant (thymus serphyllum); -- called also wild thyme.
mothering: of mother-a rural custom in england, of visiting one's parents on midlent sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
motherless: destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
motherly: of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.-in a manner of a mother.
motherwort: a labiate herb (leonurus cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.-the mugwort. see mugwort.
motile: having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.-producing motion; as, motile powers.
motion: the act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.-power of, or capacity for, motion.-direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.-change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.-movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.-a proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.-an application made to a court or judge orally in open court. its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.-change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.-a puppet show or puppet.-to make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.-to make proposal; to offer plans.-to direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.-to propose; to move.
motive: that which moves; a mover.-that which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.-the theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. see also leading motive, under leading.-that which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.-causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.-to prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
motley: variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.-wearing motley or party-colored clothing. see motley, n., 1.-composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.-a combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.-hence, a jester, a fool.
motmot: any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus momotus, having a strong serrated beak. in most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. the bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. they feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from mexico to brazil. the name is derived from its note.
moto: movement; manner of movement; particularly, movement with increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto, directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a little more rapidly than andante, etc.
moton: a small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.
motor: one who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.-a prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.-alt. of motorial
motorial: causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.
mottle: to mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.-a mottled appearance.
mottled: of mottle-marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood.
motto: a sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment.-a sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
mouflon: a wild sheep (ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of sardinia, corsica, etc. its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. it is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. called also musimon or musmon.
mouille: applied to certain consonants having a "liquid" or softened sound; e.g., in french, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in italian, gl and gn; in spanish, ll and ; in portuguese, lh and nh.
mould: crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.-earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.-to cover with mold or soil.-a growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups hyphomycetes, and physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.-to cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.-to become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.-the matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.-that on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.-cast; form; shape; character.-a group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.-a fontanel.-a frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.-to form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.-to ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.-to knead; as, to mold dough or bread.-to form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.-alt. of mouldy
mouldboard: a curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.-a follow board.
moulder: one who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.-to crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away.-to turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away.-alt. of mouldy
mouldery: covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.
moulding: of mould-the act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.-anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.-a plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. see cable, n., 3, and crenelated molding, under crenelate, v. t.-used in making a mold or moldings; used in shaping anything according to a pattern.
mouldy: overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.-see mold, molder, moldy, etc.
moulinet: the drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.-a machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up.-in sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weapon.
moult: to shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.-to cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.-the act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.-see molt.
mound: a ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. it is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.-an artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.-to fortify or inclose with a mound.
mount: a mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, mount washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.-a bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.-a bank; a fund.-to rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.-to get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.-to attain in value; to amount.-to get upon; to ascend; to climb.-to place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.-to cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.-hence: to put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.-to raise aloft; to lift on high.-that upon which a person or thing is mounted-a horse.-the cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
mountain: a large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.-a range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the white mountains.-a mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.-of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.-like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
mountaineer: an inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.-a rude, fierce person.-to lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.
mountainous: full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the swiss.-inhabiting mountains.-large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap.
mountebank: one who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.-any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.-to cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.-to play the mountebank.
mountebankery: the practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
mounted: of mount-seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry.-placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.
mounting: of mount-the act of one that mounts.-that by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
mourn: to express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.-to wear the customary garb of a mourner.-to grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.-to utter in a mournful manner or voice.
mourne: the armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached.
mourner: one who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.-one who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
mournful: full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.
mourning: of mourn-the act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.-garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.-grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.-employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.
mouse: any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus mus and various related genera of the family muridae.  the common house mouse (mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. the american white-footed, or deer, mouse (hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. see dormouse, meadow mouse, under meadow, and harvest mouse, under harvest.-a knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.-same as 2d mousing, 2.-a familiar term of endearment.-a dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.-a match used in firing guns or blasting.-to watch for and catch mice.-to watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.-to tear, as a cat devours a mouse.-to furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. see mouse, n., 2.
mouse-ear: the forget-me-not (myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.-a european species of hawkweed (hieracium pilosella).