AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
prime: first in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.-first in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.-first in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.-early; blooming; being in the first stage.-lecherous; lustful; lewd.-marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.-the first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.-the spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.-that which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.-the morning; specifically (r. c. ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.-the first of the chief guards.-any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.-a prime number. see under prime, a.-an inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. see 2d inch, n., 1.-to apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.-to lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.-to prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.-to trim or prune, as trees.-to mark with a prime mark.-to be renewed, or as at first.-to serve as priming for the charge of a gun.-to work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.
primeness: the quality or state of being first.-the quality or state of being prime, or excellent.
primer: one who, or that which, primes-an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.-first; original; primary.-originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the virgin mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.-a small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.-a kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
primeval: belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
primigenial: first born, or first of all; original; primary. see primogenial.
priming: of prime-the powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.-the first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.-the carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
primipilar: of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a roman army.
primitive: of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.-of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.-original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.-an original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
primitively: originally; at first.-primarily; not derivatively.-according to the original rule or ancient practice; in the ancient style.
primness: the quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.
primogenial: first born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light.
primogeniture: the state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.-the exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. thus in england the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. in exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue.
primordial: first in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.-of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the silurian age, corresponding to the acadian and potsdam periods in american geology. it is called also cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the silurian.-originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.-a first principle or element.
primordian: a name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.
primrose: an early flowering plant of the genus primula (p. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. there are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. formerly called also primerole, primerolles.-any plant of the genus primula.-of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.
primulaceous: of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (primulaceae), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.
primum mobile: in the ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. see crystalline heavens, under crystalline.
primus: one of the bishops of the episcopal church of scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
prince: the one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female.-the son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood.-a title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. in england it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. in italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in spain he is always one of the royal family.-the chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players.-to play the prince.
princeliness: the quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.
princely: of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.-suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.-in a princely manner.
princess: a female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.-the daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family.-the consort of a prince; as, the princess of wales.
princesse: a term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
princewood: the wood of two small tropical american trees (hamelia ventricosa, and cordia gerascanthoides). it is brownish, veined with lighter color.
principal: highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.-of or pertaining to a prince; princely.-a leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.-the chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.-a chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.-one who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.-a thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.-a capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.-the construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.-in english organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. on the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. in germany this term corresponds to the english open diapason.-a heirloom; a mortuary.-the first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.-one of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.-a principal or essential point or rule; a principle.
principality: sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station.-a prince; one invested with sovereignty.-the territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of wales.
principle: beginning; commencement.-a source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.-an original faculty or endowment.-a fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.-a settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.-any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.-to equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
prink: to dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.-to prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.
print: to fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.-to stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.-to strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.-to stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.-to take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.-to use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.-to publish a book or an article.-a mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.-a stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.-that which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.-printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.-that which is produced by printing.-an impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.-a printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.-a printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.-a photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.-a core print. see under core.
printer: one who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.
printing: of print-the act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
prior: preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.-the superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
prioress: a lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
priority: the quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.-precedence; superior rank.
priory: a religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. see cell, 2.
prisage: a right belonging to the crown of england, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. by charter of edward i. butlerage was substituted for this.-the share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
priscillianist: a follower of priscillian, bishop of avila in spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of gnosticism and manicheism with christianity.
prise: an enterprise.-see prize, n., 5. also prize, v. t.
prism: a solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.-a transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.-a form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. see form, n., 13.
prismatical: resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.-separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.-same as orthorhombic.
prismatically: in the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
prismoidal: having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
prison: a place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.-specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.-to imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.-to bind (together); to enchain.
prisoner: one who is confined in a prison.-a person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
pristine: belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
pritch: a sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.-pique; offense.
pritchel: a tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
prithee: a corruption of pray thee; as, i prithee; generally used without i.
prittle-prattle: empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
privacy: the state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.-a place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.-concealment of what is said or done.-a private matter; a secret.-see privity, 2.
private: belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.-sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.-not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.-not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.-having secret or private knowledge; privy.-a secret message; a personal unofficial communication.-personal interest; particular business.-privacy; retirement.-one not invested with a public office.-a common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.-the private parts; the genitals.
privateer: an armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. see letters of marque, under marque.-the commander of a privateer.-to cruise in a privateer.
privately: in a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.-in a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
privateness: seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.-the state of one not invested with public office.
privation: the act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.-the state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.-the condition of being absent; absence; negation.
privative: causing privation; depriving.-consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.-implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (gr. /), un-, non-, -less.-that of which the essence is the absence of something.-a term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.-a privative prefix or suffix. see privative, a., 3.
privet: an ornamental european shrub (ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim.
privilege: a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.-see call, put, spread, etc.-to grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.-to bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
privileged: of privilege-invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.
privity: privacy; secrecy; confidence.-private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.-a private matter or business; a secret.-the genitals; the privates.-a connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
privy: of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.-secret; clandestine.-appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.-admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.-a partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. the term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.-a necessary house or place; a backhouse.
prize: that which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.-anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.-an honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.-that which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.-anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.-a contest for a reward; competition.-a lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.-to move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.-to set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.-to value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.-estimation; valuation.
prizer: one who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.-one who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
prizing: of prize-the application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. see prize, n., 5.
pro: a latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.-for, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
pro rata: in proportion; proportionately; according to the share, interest, or liability of each.
pro thyalosoma: the investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.
pro-: a prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.
proa: a sailing canoe of the ladrone islands and malay archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. the ends are alike. the canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. it has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.
probabiliorist: one who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.
probabilist: one who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.-one who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.
probability: the quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.-that which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth.-likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. see 1st chance, n., 5.
probable: capable of being proved.-having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.-rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption.
probang: a slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.
probate: proof.-official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the court of probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.-the right or jurisdiction of proving wills.-of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.-to obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.