AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
micrological: of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination.
micrology: that part of science which treats of microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation.-attention to petty items or differences.
micromere: one of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.
micrometer: an instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. the measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.
micron: a measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
micronesian: of or pertaining to micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the pacific ocean, embracing the marshall and gilbert groups, the ladrones, the carolines, etc.
micronesians: a dark race inhabiting the micronesian islands. they are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from polynesians and papuans.
microorganism: any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
micropegmatite: a rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).
microphone: an instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. it produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
microphonics: the science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.
microphotograph: a microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.-an enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.
microphthalmy: an unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.
microphyte: a very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
micropyle: an opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.-an opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule.
microscope: an optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
microscopical: of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.-able to see extremely minute objects.-very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope; as, a microscopic insect.
microseme: having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to megaseme.
microspectroscope: a spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
microsporangium: a sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores.  cf. macrosporangium.
microspore: one of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as selaginella and isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other.  cf. macrospore.
microsthene: one of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. it includes the lower orders, as the insectivora, cheiroptera, rodentia, and edentata.
microtasimeter: a tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. see tasimeter.
microtomy: the art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.
microvolt: a measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.
microzoospore: a small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.
microzyme: a microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
micturition: the act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.
mid: denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.-occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.-made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). see guide to pronunciation, // 10, 11.-middle.-see amid.
midas: a genus of longeared south american monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. see marmoset.
midas's ear: a pulmonate mollusk (auricula, / ellobium, aurismidae); -- so called from resemblance to a human ear.
midday: the middle part of the day; noon.-of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.
midden: a dunghill.-an accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the baltic sea and in many other places. see kitchen middens.
middest: situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost.-midst; middle.
middle: equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.-intermediate; intervening.-the point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion-the waist.
middle-aged: being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
middleman: an agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.-a person of intermediate rank; a commoner.-the man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.
middling: of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
middlings: a combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.-in the southern and western parts of the united states, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles.
midfeather: a vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.-a support for the center of a tunnel.
midgard: the middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.
midge: any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. their larvae are usually aquatic.-a very small fly, abundant in many parts of the united states and canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite.
midgut: the middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.
midheaven: the midst or middle of heaven or the sky.-the meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian.
midland: being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.-surrounded by the land; mediterranean.-the interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.
midnight: the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.-being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.
midrash: a talmudic exposition of the hebrew law, or of some part of it.
midrib: a continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
midshipman: formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.-in the english naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.-in the united states navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the naval academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.-an american marine fish of the genus porichthys, allied to the toadfish.
midships: in the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.-the timbers at the broadest part of the vessel.
midst: the interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.-hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.-in the midst of; amidst.-in the middle.
midway: the middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.-being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air.-in the middle of the way or distance; half way.
midwife: a woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.-to assist in childbirth.-to perform the office of midwife.
midwifery: the art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.-assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.
miff: a petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.-to offend slightly.
might: of may-imp. of may.-force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.
mightily: in a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.-to a great degree; very much.
mightiness: the quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.-highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.
mighty: possessing might; having great power or authority.-accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.-denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.-a warrior of great force and courage.-in a great degree; very.
mignonette: a plant (reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. in africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
migrate: to remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the moors who migrated from africa into spain; to migrate to the west.-to pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.
migratory: removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.-hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life.
milanese: of or pertaining to milan in italy, or to its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of milan; people of milan.
milch: giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.-tender; pitiful; weeping.
mild: gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
mildew: a growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.-to taint with mildew.-to become tainted with mildew.
mildness: the quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
mile: a certain measure of distance, being equivalent in england and the united states to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
mileage: an allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.-aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.
milepost: a post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.
milesian: of or pertaining to miletus, a city of asia minor, or to its inhabitants.-descended from king milesius of spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of king milesius; hence, irish.-a native or inhabitant of miletus.-a native or inhabitant of ireland.
milfoil: a common composite herb (achillea millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
miliaria: a fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
miliary: like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.-accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.-small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of echini.-one of the small tubercles of echini.
miliola: a genus of foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
miliolite: a fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus miliola.-the same milliolitic.
militancy: the state of being militant; warfare.-a military spirit or system; militarism.
militarism: a military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.-the spirit and traditions of military life.
military: of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.-performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.-the whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
militate: to make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.
militia: in the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies.-military service; warfare.
milk: a white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.-a kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. see latex.-an emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.-the ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.-to draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.-to draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.-to draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.-to draw or to yield milk.
milk vetch: a leguminous herb (astragalus glycyphyllos) of europe and asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
milker: one who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.-a cow or other animal that gives milk.
milksop: a piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
milkweed: any plant of the genera asclepias and acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. the name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
milkwort: a genus of plants (polygala) of many species. the common european p. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
milky: consisting of, or containing, milk.-like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "milky juice."-yielding milk.-mild; tame; spiritless.
mill: a money of account of the united states, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.-a machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.-a machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.-a machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.-a common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.-a building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.-a hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.-an excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.-a passage underground through which ore is shot.-a milling cutter. see illust. under milling.-a pugilistic.-to reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.-to shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.-to make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.-to pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.-to beat with the fists.-to roll into bars, as steel.-to swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
mill-cake: the incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
mill-sixpence: a milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first english coins milled (1561).
milldam: a dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
millefiore glass: slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.
millenarian: consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the millenarians.-one who believes that christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a chiliast.
millenary: consisting of a thousand; millennial.-the space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a millenarian.
millennial: of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
millennialist: one who believes that christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of christianity for a long period.
millennium: a thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. some believe that, during this period, christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.
milleped: a myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
millepore: any coral of the genus millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. the animals are hydroids, not anthozoa. see hydrocorallia.
miller: one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.-a milling machine.-a moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. called also moth miller.-the eagle ray.-the hen harrier.
millerite: a believer in the doctrine of william miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of christ were at hand.-a sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
millesimal: thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
millet: the name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. the common millets of germany and southern europe are panicum miliaceum, and setaria italica.
milli-: a prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.
milliary: of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.-a milestone.
milligramme: a measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
millilitre: a measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. it is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an english cubic inch, or to .0338 of an american fluid ounce.
millimetre: a lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. see 3d meter.
milliner: formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.-a person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
millinery: the articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.-the business of work of a milliner.
milling: of mill-the act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. see mill.
million: the number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. see the note under hundred.-a very great number; an indefinitely large number.-the mass of common people; -- with the article the.
millionaire: one whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.
millionairess: a woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.
millionary: of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits.
millionth: being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.-the quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.
millrynd: a figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.
millwork: the shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.-the business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.
milreis: a portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the united states at one dollar and eight cents; also, a brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.
milt: the spleen.-the spermatic fluid of fishes.-the testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.-to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
miltonic: of, pertaining to, or resembling, milton, or his writings; as, miltonic prose.
miltwaste: a small european fern (asplenium ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
milvine: of or resembling birds of the kite kind.-a bird related to the kite.
mime: a kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.-an actor in such representations.-to mimic.
mimetical: apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.-characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. see mimicry.
mimetite: a mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. it is an arseniate of lead.