AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
powder: the fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.-an explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. see gunpowder.-to reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.-to sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.-to sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.-to be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.-to use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
powder-posted: affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. see dry rot, under dry.
powdered: of powder-reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.-sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.-same as seme.
powderflask: a flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
powdery: easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.-sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.-resembling powder; consisting of powder.
powen: a small british lake whitefish (coregonus clupeoides, or c. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.
power: same as poor, the fish.-ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.-ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.-capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.-the exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.-the agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.-a military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.-a large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.-the rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.-a mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.-applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.-a machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.-the product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.-mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.-the degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.-an authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.-hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
powerable: capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.-capable of exerting power; powerful.
powerful: full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.-large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
powerless: destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
powpow: a priest, or conjurer, among the north american indians.-conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by indians for the cure of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other purposes.-hence: any assembly characterized by noise and confusion; a noisy frolic or gathering.
powwow: to use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the north american indians.-hence: to hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.
pox: strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.-to infect with the pox, or syphilis.
poy: a support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.-a ropedancer's balancing pole.-a long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.
poyntel: paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.
poyou: a south american armadillo (dasypus sexcinctus). called also sixbanded armadillo.
pozzolana: volcanic ashes from pozzuoli, in italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.
praam: a flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in holland and the baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.
practicability: the quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.
practicable: that may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.-capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road.
practical: of or pertaining to practice or action.-capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.-evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.-derived from practice; as, practical skill.
practically: in a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.-by means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.-in practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.-almost.
practice: frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.-customary or constant use; state of being used.-skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.-actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.-systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.-application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.-skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.-a easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.-the form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.-to do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.-to exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.-to exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.-to put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.-to make use of; to employ.-to teach or accustom by practice; to train.-to perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.-to learn by practice; to form a habit.-to try artifices or stratagems.-to apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
practiced: of practice-experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.-used habitually; learned by practice.
practicer: one who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.-one who exercises a profession; a practitioner.-one who uses art or stratagem.
practician: one who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
practitioner: one who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.-one who does anything customarily or habitually.-a sly or artful person.
praecipe: a writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it.-a paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.
praecoces: a division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.
praecognita: this previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.
praecommissure: a transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.
praecordia: the front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.
praemunire: the offense of introducing foreign authority into england, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.-the writ grounded on that offense.-the penalty ascribed for the offense of praemunire.
praenomen: the first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our christian name, as caius, lucius, marcus, etc.
praetexta: a white robe with a purple border, worn by a roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. it was also worn by magistrates and priests.
pragmatic: alt. of pragmatical-one skilled in affairs.-a solemn public ordinance or decree.
pragmatical: of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.-busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome.-philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of literature.
pragmatism: the quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.
pragmatize: to consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.
prairial: the ninth month of the french republican calendar, which dated from september 22, 1792. it began may, 20, and ended june 18. see vendemiaire.
prairie: an extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. they abound throughout the mississippi valley, between the alleghanies and the rocky mountains.-a meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
praise: to commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.-to extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the divine being.-to value; to appraise.-commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.-especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the divine being; the act of glorifying or extolling the creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.-the object, ground, or reason of praise.
praiseworthy: worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.
prakrit: any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, sanskrit; -- in distinction from the sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. pali is one of the prakrit dialects.
prance: to spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.-to ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.-to walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.
prangos: a genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (p. pabularia), found in thibet, cashmere, afghanistan, etc., has been used as fodder for cattle. it has decompound leaves with very long narrow divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover hay.
prank: to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. see prink.-to make ostentatious show.-a gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous trick; a caper; a frolic.-full of gambols or tricks.
praseo-: a combining form signifying green; as, praseocobalt, a green variety of cobalt.
praseodymium: an elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts.  symbol ps.  atomic weight 143.6.
praseolite: a variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.
prate: to talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.-to utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.-talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
pratincole: any bird of the old world genus glareola, or family glareolidae, allied to the plovers. they have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.
pratique: primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of europe.-practice; habits.
prattle: to talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.-to utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.-trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
pravity: deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.
prawn: any one of numerous species of large shrimplike crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. they mostly belong to the genera pandalus, palaemon, palaemonetes, and peneus, and are much used as food. the common english prawn is palaemon serratus.
praxinoscope: an instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
praxis: use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.-an example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
pray: see pry.-to make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the supreme being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.-to address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.-to ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.-to effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
prayer: one who prays; a supplicant.-the act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.-the act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true god; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the supreme being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.-the form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to god; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
pre-: a prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.
preach: to proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of scripture; to deliver a sermon.-to give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.-to proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.-to inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.-to deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.-to teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.-to advise or recommend earnestly.-a religious discourse.
preacher: one who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.-one who inculcates anything with earnestness.
preaching: of preach-the act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice.
preadamite: an inhabitant of the earth before adam.-one who holds that men existed before adam.
preadamitic: existing or occurring before adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.
preamble: a introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.-to make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble.
preambulary: of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained or provided for in a preamble.
preantenultimate: being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.
preaortic: in front, or on the ventral side, of the aorta.
preataxic: occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
preaxial: situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.
prebend: a payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. see note under benefice.-a prebendary.
prebendal: of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall.
prebendary: a clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. see note under benefice, n., 3.-a prebendaryship.
prebendate: to invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend.
prebronchial: situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.
precarious: depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges.-held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes.
precaution: previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.-a measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.-to warn or caution beforehand.-to take precaution against.
precautionary: of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.
precede: to go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.-to go before in place, rank, or importance.-to cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.
precedency: the act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.-the act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners.
precedent: going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.-something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.-a preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.-a rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.-a judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
precedential: of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.
preceding: of precede-going before; -- opposed to following.-in the direction toward which stars appear to move. see following, 2.
precent: any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule.-a command in writing; a species of writ or process.
precentor: a leader of a choir; a directing singer.-the leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir.-the leader of the congregational singing in scottish and other churches.
preceptive: containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the scriptures.
preceptor: one who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.-the head of a preceptory among the knights templars.
preceptory: preceptive.-a religious house of the knights templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in london. see commandery, n., 2.
precessional: of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
precinct: the limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.-a district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.-a parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
precious: of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.-of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.-particular; fastidious; overnice.
preciously: in a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. also used ironically.
precipice: a sudden or headlong fall.-a headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
precipitable: capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. see precipitate, n. (chem.)
precipitancy: the quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.
precipitant: falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.-unexpectedly or foolishly brought on or hastened; rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless.-any force or reagent which causes the formation of a precipitate.