AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pia mater: the delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
piacular: expiatory; atoning.-requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
pianissimo: very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (abbrev. pp.)
piano: soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (abbrev. p.)-alt. of pianoforte
pianoforte: a well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
piarist: one of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the scuole pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at rome in the last years of the 16th century.
piassava: a fibrous product of two brazilian palm trees (attalea funifera and leopoldinia piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. called also piacaba and piasaba.
piaster: a silver coin of spain and various other countries. see peso. the spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the american dollar. the italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. the turkish and egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.
piazza: an open square in a european town, especially an italian town; hence (arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. in the united states the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
pibcorn: a wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in wales.
pibroch: a highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the highlanders when they go out to battle.
pica: the genus that includes the magpies.-a vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.-a service-book. see pie.-a size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than english.
picador: a horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
picamar: an oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. it consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
picard: one of a sect of adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one picard of flanders. see adamite.
picaresque: applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
picariae: an extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. by some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
picaroon: one who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
picayune: a small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. see fippenny bit.
picayunish: petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
piccadilly: a high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.
piccalilli: a pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the east indies.
piccolo: a small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.-a small upright piano.-an organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.
picea: a genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the norway spruce and the american black and white spruces. these trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.
picene: a hydrocarbon (c/h/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.
piceous: of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
pichey: a brazilian armadillo (dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
pichiciago: a small, burrowing, south american edentate (chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. the shell is attached only along the back.
pichurim bean: the seed of a brazilian lauraceous tree (nectandra puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. called also sassafras nut.
pici: a division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.-of picus
piciformes: a group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
picine: of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (pici), or to the piciformes.
pick: to throw; to pitch.-to peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.-to separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.-to open (a lock) as by a wire.-to pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.-to remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.-to choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.-to take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.-to trim.-to eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.-to do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.-to steal; to pilfer.-a sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.-a heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.-a pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.-choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.-that which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.-a particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.-that which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.-the blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
pickaxe: a pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
picked: of pick-pointed; sharp.-having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.-carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.-fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
pickedness: the state of being sharpened; pointedness.-fineness; spruceness; smartness.
pickeer: to make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. see picaroon.
picker: one who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.-a machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.-the piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.-a priming wire for cleaning the vent.
pickerel: a young or small pike.-any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus esox, esp. the smaller species.-the glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. see wall-eye.
picket: a stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.-a pointed pale, used in marking fences.-a detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.-by extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.-a military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.-a game at cards. see piquet.-to fortify with pointed stakes.-to inclose or fence with pickets or pales.-to tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.-to guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.-to torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
picking: of pick-the act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.-the act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.-that which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.-pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.-the pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.-rough sorting of ore.-overburned bricks.-done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.-nice; careful.
pickle: see picle.-a solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.-vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.-any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.-a bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.-a troublesome child; as, a little pickle.-to preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.-to give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
pickle-herring: a herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.-a merry-andrew; a buffoon.
pickthank: one who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. used also adjectively.
picnic: formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).-to go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
picoline: any one of three isometric bases (c6h7n) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.
picotine: a variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
picra: the powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
picric: pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
picrite: a dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.
picrotoxin: a bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. it is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.
pictorial: of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.
picture: the art of painting; representation by painting.-a representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. by extension, a figure; a model.-an image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.-to draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
pictured: of picture-furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
picturesque: forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
picul: a commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. in borneo it is 135/ lbs.; in china and sumatra, 133/ lbs.; in japan, 133/ lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. called also, by the chinese, tan.
piculet: any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus picumnus and allied genera. their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.
picus: a genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common american and european species.
piddle: to deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.-to be squeamishly nice about one's food.-to urinate; -- child's word.
piddling: of piddle-trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
pie: an article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.-see camp, n., 5.-a magpie.-any other species of the genus pica, and of several allied genera.-the service book.-type confusedly mixed. see pi.-see pi.
piebald: having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.-fig.: mixed.
piece: a fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.-a definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.-any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance-a literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.-a musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.-a coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an english gold coin worth 22 shillings.-a fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.-an individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.-one of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.-a castle; a fortified building.-to make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.-to unite; to join; to combine.-to unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
piecemeal: in pieces; in parts or fragments.-piece by piece; by little and little in succession.-made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.-a fragment; a scrap.
piecener: one who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.-same as piecer, 2.
piecer: one who pieces; a patcher.-a child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
piecework: work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
pied: of pi-imp. & p. p. of pi, or pie, v.-variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.
piedmontite: a manganesian kind of epidote, from piedmont. see epidote.
piedouche: a pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.
pieplant: a plant (rheum rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
piepowder: an ancient court of record in england, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge.
pier: any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.-any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. see buttress.-a projecting wharf or landing place.
pierce: to thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.-to penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.-fig.: to penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery.-to enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.
piercel: a kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
piercer: one who, or that which, pierces or perforates-an instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto.-a piercel.-the ovipositor, or sting, of an insect.-an insect provided with an ovipositor.
piercing: of pierce-forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.
pierid: any butterfly of the genus pieris and related genera. see cabbage butterfly, under cabbage.
pieta: a representation of the dead christ, attended by the virgin mary or by holy women and angels.
pietism: the principle or practice of the pietists.-strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.
pietist: one of a class of religious reformers in germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. also used adjectively.
pietistical: of or pertaining to the pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious.
pietra dura: hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.
piety: veneration or reverence of the supreme being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of god, and earnest devotion to his service.-duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion; affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives, benefactors, country, etc.
piezometer: an instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.-a gauge connected with a water main to show the pressure at that point.
piffara: a fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
pig: a piggin.-the young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.-any wild species of the genus sus and related genera.-an oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. see mine pig, under mine.-one who is hoggish; a greedy person.-to bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.-to huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
pig-headed: having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
pig-jawed: having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.
pigeon: any bird of the order columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.-an unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.-to pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.
pigeon-breasted: having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
pigeonhole: a small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.-to place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.
pigfish: any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.-a sculpin. the name is also applied locally to several other fishes.
pigfoot: a marine fish (scorpaena porcus), native of europe. it is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.
piggin: a small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.
pigment: any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.-any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.-wine flavored with species and honey.
pigmentation: a deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.
pigmented: colored; specifically (biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.
pignerate: to pledge or pawn.-to receive in pawn, as a pawnbroker does.
pignoration: the act of pledging or pawning.-the taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made.
pignut: see groundnut (d).-the bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (carya glabra, / porcina); also, the tree itself.
pigpecker: the european garden warbler (sylvia, / currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
pigskin: the skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.
pigtail: the tail of a pig.-a cue, or queue.-a kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
pigtailed: having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon.
pigweed: a name of several annual weeds. see goosefoot, and lamb's-quarters.
pigwidgeon: a cant word for anything petty or small. it is used by drayton as the name of a fairy.
pika: any one of several species of rodents of the genus lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. they inhabit the high mountains of asia and america. called also calling hare, and crying hare. see chief hare.
pike: a foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. it is now superseded by the bayonet.-a pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.-a hayfork.-a pick.-a pointed or peaked hill.-a large haycock.-a turnpike; a toll bar.-a large fresh-water fish (esox lucius), found in europe and america, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
pikeman: of pikeman-a soldier armed with a pike.-a miner who works with a pick.-a keeper of a turnpike gate.
pikestaff: the staff, or shaft, of a pike.-a staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
pilaster: an upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (see pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. in most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
pilchard: a small european food fish (clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. it is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of england.
pile: a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.-a covering of hair or fur.-the head of an arrow or spear.-a large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.-one of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.-to drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.-a mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.-a mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.-a funeral pile; a pyre.-a large building, or mass of buildings.-same as fagot, n., 2.-a vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.-the reverse of a coin. see reverse.-to lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.-to cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
pileated: having the form of a cap for the head.-having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.
piled: of pile-having a pile or point; pointed.-having a pile or nap.-formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.