AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
punch: a beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.-the buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.-a short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.-one of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the suffolk punch.-to thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.-a thrust or blow.-a tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.-an extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.-a prop, as for the roof of a mine.-to perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
puncheon: a figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.-a short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.-a split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons.-a cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.
punchinello: a punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.
punctated: alt. of punctated-pointed; ending in a point or points.-dotted with small spots of color, or with minute depressions or pits.
punctator: one who marks with points. specifically, one who writes hebrew with points; -- applied to a masorite.
punctilio: a nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of a public ceremony.
punctilious: attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
puncto: a nice point of form or ceremony.-a term applied to the point in fencing.
punctual: consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.-observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.-appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment.
punctuality: the quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.
punctuate: to mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.
punctuation: the act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.
puncture: the act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.-a small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.-to pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.
punctured: of puncture-having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.-produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound.
pundit: a learned man; a teacher; esp., a brahman versed in the sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the hindoos; in cashmere, any clerk or native official.
pung: a kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.
pungency: the quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.
pungent: causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.-sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.-prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.
pungled: shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or trips (thrips cerealium).
punic: of or pertaining to the ancient carthaginians.-characteristic of the ancient carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, punic faith.
puniness: the quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.
punish: to impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.-to inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.-to injure, as by beating; to pommel.
punishable: deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses.
punishment: the act of punishing.-any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.-a penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.
punitive: of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
punk: wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.-a fungus (polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.-an artificial tinder. see amadou, and spunk.-a prostitute; a strumpet.
punka: a machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. it is kept in motion by pulling a cord.
punster: one who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit.
punt: to play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.-act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.-a flat-bottomed boat with square ends. it is adapted for use in shallow waters.-to propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.-to kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.-the act of punting the ball.
punter: one who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.-one who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
puny: imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.-a youth; a novice.
pup: a young dog; a puppy.-a young seal.-to bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
pupa: any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.-a genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
pupigerous: bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
pupil: the aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. see the note under eye, and iris.-a youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.-a person under a guardian; a ward.-a boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
pupillarity: the period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.
pupillary: of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.-of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
pupillometer: an instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.
pupipara: a division of diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. it includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. called also homaloptera.
pupiparous: bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvae, or larval skins, of certain diptera.-of or pertaining to the pupipara.
pupivora: a group of parasitic hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.
puppet: a small image in the human form; a doll.-a similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.-one controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.-the upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
puppetry: action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.
puppy: the young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.-a name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.-to bring forth whelps; to pup.
puppyhood: the time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.
pur: to utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.-to signify or express by purring.-the low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.
purana: one of a class of sacred hindoo poetical works in the sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the manus, and the transactions of their descendants. the principal puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called upa puranas.
purbeck beds: the strata of the purbeck stone, or purbeck limestone, belonging to the oolitic group. see the chart of geology.
purblind: wholly blind.-nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
purchasable: capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.
purchase: to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.-to obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.-to obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.-to expiate by a fine or forfeit.-to acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.-to buy for a price.-to apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.-to put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.-to acquire wealth or property.-the act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.-the act of seeking and acquiring property.-the acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.-that which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.-that which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.-any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.-acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
purchaser: one who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.-one who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance.
purdah: a curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.
pure: separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.-free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.-free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.-ritually clean; fitted for holy services.-of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
puree: a dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
purely: in a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).-nicely; prettily.
purfile: a sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.
purfle: to decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.-to ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.-alt. of purflew
purflew: a hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.-a border of any heraldic fur.
purfling: ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
purgament: that which is excreted; excretion.-a cathartic; a purgative.
purgation: the act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.-the clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. it was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. see ordeal.
purgative: having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.-a purging medicine; a cathartic.
purgatorian: of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.-one who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.
purgatory: tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.-a state or place of purification after death; according to the roman catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of god for sins that have been forgiven. after this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
purge: to cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.-to operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.-to clarify; to defecate, as liquors.-to clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.-to clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.-to clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.-to remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.-to become pure, as by clarification.-to have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.-the act of purging.-that which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
purger: one who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
purgery: the part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
purging: of purge-that purges; cleansing.-the act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.
purification: the act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.-the act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.-a cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
purifier: one who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.
purify: to make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.-hence, in figurative uses: (a) to free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.-to free from ceremonial or legal defilement.-to free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.-to grow or become pure or clear.
purim: a jewish festival, called also the feast of lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the jews from the machinations of haman.
purism: rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.
purist: one who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.-one who maintains that the new testament was written in pure greek.
puritan: one who, in the time of queen elizabeth and the first two stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. the puritans formed the bulk of the early population of new england.-one who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.-of or pertaining to the puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the puritans.
puritanical: of or pertaining to the puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.-precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt.
puritanize: to agree with, or teach, the doctrines of puritans; to conform to the practice of puritans.
purity: the condition of being pure.-freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.-cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.-freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.-freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.-freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.
purkinje's cells: large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.
purl: to decorate with fringe or embroidery.-an embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.-an inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.-to run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.-to rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.-a circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.-a gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.-malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.-a tern.
purlieu: originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.-hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
purline: in root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.
purling: of purl-the motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing.
purloin: to take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.-to practice theft; to steal.
purocoll: a yellow crystalline substance allied to pyrrol, obtained by the distillation of gelatin.
purparty: a share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.
purple: a color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.-cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.-hence: imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.-a cardinalate. see cardinal.-any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus basilarchia (formerly limenitis) as, the banded purple (b. arthemis). see illust. under ursula.-any shell of the genus purpura.-see purpura.-a disease of wheat. same as earcockle.-exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.-imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.-blood-red; bloody.-to make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.
purpleheart: a strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical american leguminous trees of the genus copaifera (c. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). used for decorative veneering. see copaiba.
purport: design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.-disguise; covering.-to intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
purpose: that which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.-proposal to another; discourse.-instance; example.-to set forth; to bring forward.-to propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.-to have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
purposer: one who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.-one who forms a purpose; one who intends.
purpresture: wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc.
purpura: a disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.-a genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. some species yield a purple dye.
purpurate: of or pertaining to purpura.-a salt of purpuric acid.
purpure: purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).
purpureo-: a combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color. specif. (chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. see cobaltic.
purpuric: of or pertaining to purpura.-pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. it is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
purpurin: a dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.
purpuriparous: producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
purpurogenous: having the power to produce a purple color; as, the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. see visual purple, under visual.
purr: to murmur as a cat. see pur.-the low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. see pur.
purse: a small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.-hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.-a sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.-a specific sum of money-in turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.-in persia, the sum of 50 tomans.-to put into a purse.-to draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.-to steal purses; to rob.
purse-proud: affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
purseful: all that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
purser: a commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.-a clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.-colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.