AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
paragnathous: having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.
paragnathus: one of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of crustacea.-one of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids.
paragoge: the addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.-coaptation.
paragogical: of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.
paragon: a companion; a match; an equal.-emulation; rivalry; competition.-a model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.-a size of type between great primer and double pica. see the note under type.-to compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.-to compare with; to equal; to rival.-to serve as a model for; to surpass.-to be equal; to hold comparison.
paragonite: a kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. it is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the alps.
paragrandine: an instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. see paragr/le.
paragraph: originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.-a distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. the division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin.-a brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.-to divide into paragraphs; to mark with the character /.-to express in the compass of a paragraph; as, to paragraph an article.-to mention in a paragraph or paragraphs
paragrele: a lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms.
parakeet: same as parrakeet.-any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.
paralactic: designating an acid called paralactic acid. see lactic acid, under lactic.
paralbumin: a proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. it is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
paraldehyde: a polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
paraleipsis: a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "i do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice."
parallax: the apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.-the apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
parallel: extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.-having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.-continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.-a line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.-direction conformable to that of another line,-conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.-a comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, johnson's parallel between dryden and pope.-anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.-one of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.-one of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. they are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.-a character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.-to place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.-fig.: to make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.-to equal; to match; to correspond to.-to produce or adduce as a parallel.-to be parallel; to correspond; to be like.
parallelism: the quality or state of being parallel.-resemblance; correspondence; similarity.-similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//at her feet he bowed, he fell:/where he bowed, there he fell down dead. judg. v. 27.
parallelogram: a right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
parallelopiped: a solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
paralogism: a reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
paralysis: abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. see hemiplegia, and paraplegia. also used figuratively.
paralytic: of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.-affected with paralysis, or palsy.-inclined or tending to paralysis.-a person affected with paralysis.
paralyzation: the act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.
paralyze: to affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.-fig.: to unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
param: a white crystalline nitrogenous substance (c2h4n4); -- called also dicyandiamide.
paramaleic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid.
paramalic: pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid.
paramastoid: situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
paramatta: a light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino.
parament: ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.
paramere: one of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
parameter: a term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.-specifically (conic sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.-the ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
paramo: a high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the andes, in south america.
paramorph: a kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.
paramorphism: the change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.
paramount: having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.-the highest or chief.
paramour: a lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.-love; gallantry.-alt. of paramours
paramours: by or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words.
paramylum: a substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.
paranymph: a friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride.-the bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom.-an ally; a supporter or abettor.
parapegm: an engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.
parapeptone: an albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. it can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
parapet: a low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.-a wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. see illust. of casemate.
paraph: a flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. in the middle ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery.-to add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.
paraphagma: one of the outer divisions of an endosternite of crustacea.
parapherna: the property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.
paraphernal: of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property.
paraphernalia: something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.-appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments.
paraphimosis: a condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.
paraphrase: a restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase.-to express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.-to make a paraphrase.
paraphrastical: paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.
paraphysis: a minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
paraplegy: palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord.
parapleura: a chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
parapodium: one of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.
parapophysis: the ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. see vertebra.
parapterum: a special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.
parasang: a persian measure of length, which, according to herodotus and xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. the measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four english miles.
parascenium: one of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.
paraschematic: of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
paraselene: a mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos.  cf. parhelion.
parasita: an artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.-a division of copepod crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. they are mostly parasites on fishes. called also siphonostomata.
parasite: one who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.-a plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.-a plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus torrubia.-an animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.-an animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.-an animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the european cuckoo.
parasitical: of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.-of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. see parasite, 2 & 3.
parasitism: the state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.-the state of being parasitic.
parasol: a kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.-to shade as with a parasol.
parasphenoid: near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.-the parasphenoid bone.
parastichy: a secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
parataxis: the mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.
parathesis: the placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.-a parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded.-the matter contained within brackets.-a commendatory prayer.
parauque: a bird (nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from texas to south america. it is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
paravant: alt. of paravant-in front; publicly.-beforehand; first.
paraxanthin: a crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
paraxylene: a hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. it is one of the three metamers of xylene.  cf. metamer, and xylene.
parboil: to boil or cook thoroughly.-to boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
parbuckle: a kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. the middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.-a double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.-to hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
parcel: a portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.-a part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.-an indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.-a number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.-to divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.-to add a parcel or item to; to itemize.-to make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.-part or half; in part; partially. shak. [sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
parceling: of parcel-the act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.-long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.
parcenary: the holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
parcener: a coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.
parch: to burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.-to dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.-to become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.
parchesi: a game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in india.-see pachisi.
parchment: the skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. see vellum.-the envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
pardo: a money of account in goa, india, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.
pardon: the act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.-an official warrant of remission of penalty.-the state of being forgiven.-a release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.-to absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.-to remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.-to refrain from exacting as a penalty.-to give leave (of departure) to.
pardonable: admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
pardonableness: the quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.
pardoning: of pardon-relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning god.
pare: to cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.-to remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.-fig.: to diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
paregoric: mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.-a medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
parelcon: the addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.
parelectronomic: of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.
parelectronomy: a condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.
parelle: a name for two kinds of dock (rumex patientia and r. hydrolapathum).-a kind of lichen (lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.
parenchyma: the soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.
parenchymous: of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.
parent: one who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.-that which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
parentage: descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.
parental: of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.-becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.
parenthesis: a word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. it is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.-one of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
parenthetical: of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark.-using or containing parentheses.
parenthetically: in a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.
parentticide: the act of one who kills one's own parent.-one who kills one's own parent; a parricide.
parepididymis: a small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the wolffian body.
parethmoid: near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.-a parethmoid bone.
pargasite: a dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.
parget: to coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.-to paint; to cover over.-to lay on plaster.-to paint, as the face.-gypsum or plaster stone.-plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.-paint, especially for the face.
pargeting: of parget-plasterwork; esp.: (a) a kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses. (b) in modern architecture, the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.
parhelion: a mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. the latter is usually called an anthelion. often several mock suns appear at the same time.  cf. paraselene.
pari-: a combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.
pariah: one of an aboriginal people of southern india, regarded by the four castes of the hindoos as of very low grade. they are usually the serfs of the sudra agriculturalists. see caste.-an outcast; one despised by society.
parian: of or pertaining to paros, an island in the aegean sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, parian marble.-a native or inhabitant of paros.-a ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
parietal: of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.-resident within the walls or buildings of a college.-of pertaining to the parietes.-of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.-attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.-one of the parietal bones.-one of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
parietary: see parietal, 2.-any one of several species of parietaria. see 1st pellitory.
parietes: of paries-the walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.-the sides of an ovary or of a capsule.
parietic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.
parieto-: a combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture.
parillin: a glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.
paring: of pare-the act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.-that which is pared off.
paripinnate: pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
paris: a plant common in europe (paris quadrifolia); herb paris; truelove. it has been used as a narcotic.-the chief city of france.