AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
paternity: the relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.-derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.-origin; authorship.
paternoster: the lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the latin version.-a beadlike ornament in moldings.-a line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.
path: a trodden way; a footway.-a way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.-to make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).-to walk or go.
pathetic: expressing or showing anger; passionate.-affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
pathfinder: one who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
pathic: a male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.-passive; suffering.
pathless: having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
pathogene: one of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.
pathogenic: of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
pathogeny: the generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.-that branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
pathognomonic: specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
pathognomy: expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.
pathologist: one skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
pathology: the science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
pathos: that quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
patience: the state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.-the act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.-constancy in labor or application; perseverance.-sufferance; permission.-a kind of dock (rumex patientia), less common in america than in europe; monk's rhubarb.-solitaire.
patient: having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.-undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.-constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.-expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.-forbearing; long-suffering.-one who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.-a person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.-to compose, to calm.
patina: a dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.-the color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.
patio: a paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
patonce: having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. see illust. 9 of cross.
patrial: derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun.-a patrial noun. thus romanus, a roman, and troas, a woman of troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.
patriarch: the father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in biblical and jewish history to those who lived before the time of moses.-a dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of constantinople, of alexandria, or of antioch.-a venerable old man; an elder. also used figuratively.
patriarchal: of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.-characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.-having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
patriarchate: the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.-the residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.-a patriarchal form of government or society. see patriarchal, a., 3.
patriarchy: the jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.-government by a patriarch; patriarchism.
patrician: of or pertaining to the roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.-of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.-originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus romanus, or body of roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.-a person of high birth; a nobleman.-one familiar with the works of the christian fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
patricide: the murderer of his father.-the crime of one who murders his father. same as parricide.
patrimonial: of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.
patrimony: a right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.-formerly, a church estate or endowment.
patriot: one who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.-becoming to a patriot; patriotic.
patriotic: inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.
patriotism: love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
patripassian: one of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of christ, and who, accordingly, held that the father suffered in the son; a monarchian.
patristics: that departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the fathers of the church.
patrol: to go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.-t to go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.-a going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.-a movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.-the guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.-any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
patrolman: one who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.
patron: one who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.-a master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.-a man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.-an advocate or pleader.-one who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.-one who has gift and disposition of a benefice.-a guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.-see padrone, 2.-to be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.-doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
patronage: special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.-business custom.-guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.-the right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.-the right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.-to act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
patronize: to act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.-to trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer.-to assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to patronize one's equals.
patronizing: of patronize-showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.
patronomayology: that branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.
patronymic: derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.-a modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, pelides, the son of peleus; johnson, the son of john; macdonald, the son of donald; paulowitz, the son of paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.
patroon: one of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old dutch governments of new york and new jersey.
pattee: narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. see illust. (8) of cross.
patten: a clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.-a stilt.
patter: to strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.-to mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.-to talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.-to spatter; to sprinkle.-to mutter; as prayers.-a quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.-glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.-the cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
patterer: one who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.
pattern: anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.-a part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.-stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.-figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.-something made after a model; a copy.-anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.-a full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. it is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.-to make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.-to serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
patulous: open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
paucispiral: having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.
paucity: fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.-smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
pauldron: a piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
paulianist: a follower of paul of samosata, a bishop of antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of christ.
paulician: one of a sect of christian dualists originating in armenia in the seventh century. they rejected the old testament and the part of the new.
pauline: of or pertaining to the apostle paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of paul; as, the pauline epistles; pauline doctrine.
paulist: a member of the institute of the missionary priests of st. paul the apostle, founded in 1858 by the rev. i. t. hecker of new york. the majority of the members were formerly protestants.
paulownia: a genus of trees of the order scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, paulownia imperialis.
paunch: the belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. see rumen.-a paunch mat; -- called also panch.-the thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.-to pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.-to stuff with food.
pauper: a poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
pauperism: the state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.
pauperize: to reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
pauropoda: an order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
pause: a temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.-temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.-in speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.-in writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.-a break or paragraph in writing.-a hold. see 4th hold, 7.-to make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.-to be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.-to hesitate; to hold back; to delay.-to stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.-to cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
pauxi: a curassow (ourax pauxi), which, in south america, is often domesticated.
pavan: a stately and formal spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
pave: the pavement.-to lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.-fig.: to make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
pavement: that with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.-to furnish with a pavement; to pave.
pavesade: a canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
paviin: a glucoside found in species of the genus pavia of the horse-chestnut family.
pavilion: a temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.-a single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.-a flag, colors, ensign, or banner.-same as tent (her.)-that part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. see illust. of brilliant.-the auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the fallopian tube.-a covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.-to furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
paving: of pave-the act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.-a pavement.
pavior: one who paves; a paver.-a rammer for driving paving stones.-a brick or slab used for paving.
pavise: a large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.
pavo: a genus of birds, including the peacocks.-the peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
pavon: a small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
pavonine: like, or pertaining to, the genus pavo.-characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent.
paw: the foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.-the hand.-to draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.-to pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.-to scrape or beat with the forefoot.
pawl: a pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. see illust. of ratchet wheel.-to stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
pawn: see pan, the masticatory.-a man or piece of the lowest rank.-anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. see pledge, n., 1.-state of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.-a stake hazarded in a wager.-to give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.-to pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
pawnbroker: one who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
pawnee: one or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
pawnees: a tribe of indians (called also loups) who formerly occupied the region of the platte river, but now live mostly in the indian territory. the term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of rickarees and wichitas. called also pani.
pawnor: one who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
pax: the kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at high mass in roman catholic churches.-a tablet or board, on which is a representation of christ, of the virgin mary, or of some saint and which, in the mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. it is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.
paxillus: one of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. they are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. see illustration in appendix.
paxwax: the strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. it connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. called also paxywaxy and packwax.
pay: to cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.-to satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.-hence, figuratively: to compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.-to discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).-to discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.-to give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.-to give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.-hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.-satisfaction; content.-an equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
payable: that may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.-that may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.-matured; now due.
payee: the person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. see bill of exchange, under bill.
payer: one who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
paymaster: one who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
payment: the act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.-that which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.-punishment; chastisement.
payndemain: the finest and whitest bread made in the middle ages; -- called also paynemain, payman.
paynize: to treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
paytine: an alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from payta, in peru.
pea: the sliding weight on a steelyard.-see peak, n., 3.-a plant, and its fruit, of the genus pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. it has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.-a name given, especially in the southern states, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of dolichos, cicer, abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
pea-jacket: a thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.
peabody bird: an american sparrow (zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat. the name is imitative of its note. called also white-throated sparrow.
peace: a state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose-exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.-public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.-exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.-reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.-to make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.
peaceable: begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.
peaceful: possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.-not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.
peach: to accuse of crime; to inform against.-to turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.-a well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (prunus, / amygdalus persica). in the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
peacock: the male of any pheasant of the genus pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of southern asia and the east indies.-in common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.