AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
peak: a point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.-the top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the peak of teneriffe.-the upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.-the narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.-the extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.-to rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.-to acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky.-to pry; to peep slyly.-to raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.
peaked: of peak-pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.-sickly; not robust.
peaking: of peak-mean; sneaking.-pining; sickly; peakish.
peakish: of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.-having peaks; peaked.-having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly.
peal: a small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.-to appeal.-a loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.-a set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.-to utter or give out loud sounds.-to resound; to echo.-to utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.-to assail with noise or loud sounds.-to pour out.
pean: one of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.-a song of praise and triumph. see paean.
peanut: the fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
pear: the fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. see pear family, below.
pearl: a fringe or border.-to fringe; to border.-a shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. it is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.-hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.-nacre, or mother-of-pearl.-a fish allied to the turbot; the brill.-a light-colored tern.-one of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.-a whitish speck or film on the eye.-a capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.-a size of type, between agate and diamond.-of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.-to set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. used also figuratively.-to cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.-to resemble pearl or pearls.-to give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
pearl-eyed: having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
pearlaceous: resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
pearlash: a white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. it is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. it is used in making soap, glass, etc.
pearlfish: any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
pearlstone: a glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. see illust. under perlitic.
pearlwort: a name given to several species of sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the chickweed family.
pearly: containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.-resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
pearmain: the name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
peart: active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
peasant: a countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in european countries.-rustic, rural.
peasantry: peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.-rusticity; coarseness.
peascod: the legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
pease: of pea-a pea.-a plural form of pea. see the note under pea.
peat: a small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.-a substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. it is often dried and used for fuel.
peba: an armadillo (tatusia novemcincta) which is found from texas to paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.
pebble: a small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.-transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.-to grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
pebrine: an epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.
pecan: a species of hickory (carya olivaeformis), growing in north america, chiefly in the mississippi valley and in texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.
peccant: sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.-morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.-wrong; defective; faulty.-an offender.
peccavi: i have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.
peck: the fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.-a great deal; a large or excessive quantity.-to strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.-hence: to strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.-to seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.-to make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.-to make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.-to pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.-a quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
pecker: one who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.-an instrument for pecking; a pick.
pecopteris: an extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
pecora: an extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.
pecten: a vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.-the pubic bone.-any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus pecten, and numerous allied genera (family pectinidae); a scallop. see scallop.-the comb of a scorpion. see comb, 4 (b).
pectic: of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.
pectin: one of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. it is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.
pectinal: of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.-a fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.
pectinated: resembling the teeth of a comb.-having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles.  see illust. (e) of antennae.-interlaced, like two combs.
pectination: the state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.-the act of combing; the combing of the head.-comblike toothing.
pectineal: of or pertaining to the pecten.-relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone.
pectinibranch: one of the pectinibranchiata. also used adjectively.
pectinibranchiata: a division of gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.
pectolite: a whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. it is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.
pectoral: of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.-relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.-having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.-a covering or protecting for the breast.-a breastplate, esp. that worn by the jewish high person.-a clasp or a cross worn on the breast.-a medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
pectoriloquial: pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.
pectoriloquy: the distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. it usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.
pectose: an amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. it is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.
pectosic: of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.
pectostraca: a degenerate order of crustacea, including the rhizocephala and cirripedia.
peculate: to appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
peculation: the act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.
peculiar: one's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.-particular; individual; special; appropriate.-unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.-that which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.-a particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
peculiarity: the quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.-that which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.-exclusive possession or right.
peculiarize: to make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
peculiarly: in a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
peculium: the saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.-a special fund for private and personal uses.
pecuniary: relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.
pedage: a toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection.
pedagogical: of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.
pedagogue: a slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.-a teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.-one who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.-to play the pedagogue toward.
pedal: of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.-of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.-a lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.-a pedal curve or surface.
pedant: a schoolmaster; a pedagogue.-one who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
pedantical: of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.
pedantry: the act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
pedarian: one of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.
pedata: an order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.
pedate: palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf.
pedatifid: cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.
peddle: to travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.-to do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.-to sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
peddler: one who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
peddlery: the trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.-trifling; trickery.
peddling: of peddle-hawking; acting as a peddler.-petty; insignificant.
pedestal: the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. it consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. see illust. of column.-a casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.-a pillow block; a low housing.-an iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
pedestaled: placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.
pedestrian: going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.-a walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
pedestrianism: the act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
pedicel: a stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. see peduncle, and illust. of flower.-a slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.-a slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. see illust. of aphis lion.-the ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.-an outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
pedicellaria: a peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. see illustration in appendix.
pedicellina: a genus of bryozoa, of the order entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. see illust. under entoprocta.
pedicular: of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.
pediculati: an order of fishes including the anglers. see illust. of angler and batfish.
pediculina: a division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. see illust. in appendix.
pediculus: a genus of wingless parasitic hemiptera, including the common lice of man. see louse.
pedigree: a line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.-a record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
pedimanous: having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.
pediment: originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. see temple.
pedipalpi: a division of arachnida, including the whip scorpions (thelyphonus) and allied forms. sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.-of pedipalpus
pedipalpus: one of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. in some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.
pedo-: combining forms from l. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.
pedometer: an instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. it is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.
pedomotive: moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
peduncle: the stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.-a sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. see illust. of barnacle.-a band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.
peduncled: having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.
peduncular: of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
pedunculata: a division of cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.
pedunculated: having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.
pee: see 1st pea.-bill of an anchor. see peak, 3 (c).
peek: to look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
peel: a small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.-a spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a t-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. also, the blade of an oar.-to plunder; to pillage; to rob.-to strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.-to strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.-to lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.-the skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
peele: a graceful and swift south african antelope (pelea capreola). the hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. the horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
peeler: one who peels or strips.-a pillager.-a nickname for a policeman; -- so called from sir robert peel.
peen: a round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.-the sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.-to draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.
peep: to cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.-to begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.-to look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.-the cry of a young chicken; a chirp.-first outlook or appearance.-a sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.-any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (trigna minutilla).-the european meadow pipit (anthus pratensis).
peeper: a chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.-one who peeps; a prying person; a spy.-the eye; as, to close the peepers.
peephole: a hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
peepul tree: a sacred tree (ficus religiosa) of the buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. see bo tree.
peer: to come in sight; to appear.-to look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.-one of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.-a comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.-a nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the british nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.-to make equal in rank.-to be, or to assume to be, equal.
peerage: the rank or dignity of a peer.-the body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
peeress: the wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
peevish: habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.-expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.-silly; childish; trifling.
peevishness: the quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
peg: a small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.-a wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. hence, colloquially and figuratively: a support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.-one of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.-one of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.-a step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "to take one down peg."-to put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.-to score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.-to work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
pegasus: a winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of medusa when she was slain. he is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the muses, to spring from mount helicon. on this account he is, in modern times, associated with the muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.-a northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of andromeda, form the square of pegasus.-a genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. several species are known from the east indies and china.
pegmatite: graphic granite. see under granite.-more generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.
pegmatitic: of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.
pehlevi: an ancient persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their semitic equivalents. it was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings.
peirameter: a dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.
pejorative: implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.
pelage: the covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.
pelagian: of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagian shells.-a follower of pelagius, a british monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.-of or pertaining to pelagius, or to his doctrines.