AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
orgasm: eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.
orgeat: a sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.
orgies: a sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the greeks and romans in the worship of dionysus, or bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.-drunken revelry; a carouse.-of orgy
orgue: any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.-a piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
orgyia: a genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. the female is wingless. called also vaporer moth.
orichalceous: pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass.
orichalch: a metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.
oriel: a gallery for minstrels.-a small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.-a bay window. see bay window.
orient: rising, as the sun.-eastern; oriental.-bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the east.-the part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.-the countries of asia or the east.-a pearl of great luster.-to define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.-fig.: to correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.
oriental: of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the east or orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, oriental countries.-a native or inhabitant of the orient or some eastern part of the world; an asiatic.-eastern christians of the greek rite.
orientalism: any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to oriental people.-knowledge or use of oriental languages, history, literature, etc.
orientalist: an inhabitant of the eastern parts of the world; an oriental.-one versed in eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the paris congress of orientalists.
orientate: to place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.-to arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.-to move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
orientation: the act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.-the tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.-an aspect or fronting to the east; especially (arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.-fig.: a return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
orifice: a mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.
oriflamme: the ancient royal standard of france.-a standard or ensign, in battle.
origanum: a genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (o. marjorana) and the wild marjoram (o. vulgare).
origenism: the opinions of origen of alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the greek fathers. prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including satan, will ultimately be saved.
origin: the first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.-that from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.-the point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
original: pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.-not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of scripture.-having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.-before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.-origin; commencement; source.-that which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.-an original thinker or writer; an originator.-a person of marked eccentricity.-the natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
originally: in the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.-at first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand.
originate: to give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.-to take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.
origination: the act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.-mode of production, or bringing into being.
originative: having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.
orillon: a semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.
oriole: any one of various species of old world singing birds of the family oriolidae. they are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. the european or golden oriole (oriolus galbula, or o. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note. -in america, any one of several species of the genus icterus, belonging to the family icteridae. see baltimore oriole, and orchard oriole, under orchard.
orion: a large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars aldebaran and sirius. it contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.
oriskany: designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the silurian age.
orle: a bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.-the wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
orleans: a cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.-a variety of the plum. see under plum.
orlop: the lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.
ormolu: a variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. called also mosaic gold.
ormuzd: the good principle, or being, of the ancient persian religion. see ahriman.
ornament: that which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.-to adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
ornamentation: the act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.-that which ornaments; ornament.
ornate: adorned; decorated; beautiful.-finely finished, as a style of composition.-to adorn; to honor.
ornitholite: the fossil remains of a bird.-a stone of various colors bearing the figures of birds.
ornithologist: one skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.
ornithology: that branch of zoology which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.-a treatise or book on this science.
ornithopoda: an order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in iguanodon. see illust. in appendix.
ornithoscelida: a group of extinct reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds.
orography: that branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of western europe.
orohippus: a genus of american eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.
oroide: an alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy.
orotund: characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.-the orotund voice or utterance
orphan: a child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.-bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.-to cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
orphanage: the state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.-an institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
orphean: of or pertaining to orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, orphean strains.
orpheus: the famous mythic thracian poet, son of the muse calliope, and husband of eurydice. he is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
orphrey: a band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics.
orpiment: arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. it is used in king's yellow, in white indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing.
orpin: a yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.-the orpine.
orpine: a low plant with fleshy leaves (sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. it is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in england, and has become naturalized in america. called also stonecrop, and live-forever.
orrery: an apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
orris: a plant of the genus iris (i. florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.-a sort of gold or silver lace.-a peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
orsellic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid.
orsellinic: pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.
ort: a morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural.
ortalidian: any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family ortalidae. the larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.
orthid: a brachiopod shell of the genus orthis, and allied genera, of the family orthidae.
ortho-: a combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.-a combining form (also used adjectively)-the one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid.  cf. normal.-connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as, an ortho compound.
orthocarbonic: designating a complex ether, c.(oc2h5)4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, c.(oh)4.
orthocenter: that point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
orthoceras: an extinct genus of paleozoic cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. the interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.
orthoceratite: an orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to orthoceras.
orthoclase: common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. see feldspar.
orthoclastic: breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.
orthodiagonal: the diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.
orthodox: sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox christian.-according or congruous with the doctrines of scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.-approved; conventional.
orthodoxy: soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.-consonance to genuine scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.-by extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.
orthodromics: the art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.
orthoepy: the art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.
orthogamy: direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.
orthognathous: having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. see gnathic index, under gnathic.
orthogonal: right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another.
orthogonally: perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.
orthographical: of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.-of or pertaining to right lines or angles.
orthographically: in an orthographical manner-according to the rules of proper spelling-according to orthographic projection.
orthography: the art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.-the part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.-a drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.
orthometric: having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.
orthopedical: pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.
orthopedist: one who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.
orthopedy: the art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.
orthopinacoid: a name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
orthopny: specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.
orthopoda: an extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts.
orthoptera: an order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. see illust. under insect.
orthorhombic: noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. see crystallization.
orthoscopic: giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.
orthosilicic: designating the form of silicic acid having the normal or highest number of hydroxyl groups.
orthospermous: having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous.
orthostade: a chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds.
orthotone: retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.
orthotropous: having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.
orthoxylene: that variety of xylene in which the two methyl groups are in the ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon resembling benzene.
ortive: of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.
ortolan: a european singing bird (emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. it is esteemed delicious food when fattened. called also bunting.-in england, the wheatear (saxicola oenanthe).-in america, the sora, or carolina rail (porzana carolina). see sora.
ortygan: one of several species of east indian birds of the genera ortygis and hemipodius.  they resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. see turnix.
orvietan: a kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.
oryctology: an old name for paleontology.-an old name for mineralogy and geology.
oryx: a genus of african antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (o. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (o. beatrix) of arabia.
os: a bone.-a mouth; an opening; an entrance.-one of the ridges of sand or gravel found in sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. the osar are similar to the kames of scotland and the eschars of ireland. see eschar.
osage orange: an ornamental tree of the genus maclura (m. aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (morus); also, its fruit. the tree was first found in the country of the osage indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. see bois d'arc.
oscan: of or pertaining to the osci, a primitive people of campania, a province of ancient italy.-the language of the osci.
oscillaria: a genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. called also oscillatoria.
oscillate: to move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.-to vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth.
oscillation: the act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.-fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
oscillatory: moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.
oscines: singing birds; a group of the passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
oscinian: one of the oscines, or singing birds.-any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family oscinidae.
oscitancy: the act of gaping or yawning.-drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness.
oscitant: yawning; gaping.-sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.
osculant: kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.-adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.-intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
osculate: to kiss.-to touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. see osculation, 2.-to kiss one another; to kiss.-to touch closely.  see osculation, 2.-to have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. see osculant.
osculation: the act of kissing; a kiss.-the contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve.
osculatory: of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.-pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.-same as pax, 2.
osculatrix: a curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
osier: a kind of willow (salix viminalis) growing in wet places in europe and asia, and introduced into north america. it is considered the best of the willows for basket work. the name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.-one of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.-made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
osiris: one of the principal divinities of egypt, the brother and husband of isis. he was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of upper egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called apis.  cf. serapis.
osmanli: a turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of turks; loosely, any turk.
osmaterium: one of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.
osmazome: a substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.
osmiamic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, h2n2os2o5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.
osmic: pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.
osmious: denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride.
osmium: a rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. it is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. symbol os. atomic weight 191.1.  specific gravity 22.477.
osmose: the tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. it was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. the more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. both are, however, results of the same force. osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.-the action produced by this tendency.
osmotic: pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.