AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pressure: the act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.-a contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.-affliction; distress; grievance.-urgency; as, the pressure of business.-impression; stamp; character impressed.-the action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.
presswork: the art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
prest: imp. & p. p. of press.-ready; prompt; prepared.-neat; tidy; proper.-ready money; a loan of money.-a duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.-to give as a loan; to lend.
prestation: a payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service.
prester: a meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.-one of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.-a priest or presbyter; as, prester john.
prestidigital: nimble-fingered; having fingers fit for prestidigitation, or juggling.
prestidigitator: one skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.
prestige: delusion; illusion; trick.-weight or influence derived from past success; expectation of future achievements founded on those already accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or reputation.
prestimony: a fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. the patron in the collator.
presto: quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.-quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.
presumable: such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.
presume: to assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.-to take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose.-to suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.-to venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence.
presumption: the act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.-ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place.-that which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive.-the act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery.
presumptive: based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.-presumptuous; arrogant.
presumptuous: full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.-founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea.-done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful.
presuppose: to suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
presupposition: the act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.-that which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
presystolic: preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.
pretence: alt. of pretenceless-the act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.-the act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging caesar's death.-that which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.-intention; design.
pretend: to lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.-to hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.-to hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.-to intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.-to hold before one; to extend.-to put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.-to hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.
pretended: of pretend-making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.
pretender: one who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.-the pretender (eng. hist.), the son or the grandson of james ii., the heir of the royal family of stuart, who laid claim to the throne of great britain, from which the house was excluded by law.-one who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
pretension: the act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.-a claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
pretentious: full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
preter-: a prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural.
preterient: passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.
preterist: one whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.-one who believes the prophecies of the apocalypse to have been already fulfilled.
preterit: past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.-belonging wholly to the past; passed by.-the preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
preterition: the act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.-a figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "i will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just."  called also paraleipsis.-the omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
preteritive: used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
pretermission: the act of passing by or omitting; omission.-see preterition.
preternatural: beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor.
pretex: to frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely.
pretext: ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
pretor: a civil officer or magistrate among the ancient romans.-hence, a mayor or magistrate.
pretorian: of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority.-a soldier of the pretorian guard.
pretorium: the general's tent in a roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent.-the official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat.
pretty: pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.-moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.-affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.-mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.-stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.-in some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, i am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
pretzel: a kind of german biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
prevail: to overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.-to be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.-to persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, i prevailedon him to wait.
prevailing: of prevail-having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.-predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.
prevalence: the quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
prevalent: gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.-most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
prevaricate: to shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.-to collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.-to undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.-to evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
prevarication: the act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.-a secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.-the collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.-a false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
prevaricator: one who prevaricates.-a sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.-one who betrays or abuses a trust.
prevenancy: the act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.
prevent: to go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.-to be beforehand with; to anticipate.-to intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.-to come before the usual time.
preventer: one who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.-one who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.-an auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
prevention: the act of going, or state of being, before.-anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought.-the act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.-prejudice; prepossession.
preventive: going before; preceding.-tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.-that which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
prevertebral: situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.
previous: going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.
prey: anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.-that which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.-the act of devouring other creatures; ravage.-to take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
preyer: one who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.
prian: a fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles.
priapean: a species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.
priapism: more or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.
priapulacea: a suborder of gephyraea, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.
price: the sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.-value; estimation; excellence; worth.-reward; recompense; as, the price of industry.-to pay the price of.-to set a price on; to value. see prize.-to ask the price of; as, to price eggs.
priced: of price-rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.
priceless: too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.-of no value; worthless.
prick: that which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.-the act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.-a mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.-a point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.-the point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.-a mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.-a mathematical point; -- regularly used in old english translations of euclid.-the footprint of a hare.-a small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.-to pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.-to fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.-to mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.-to mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.-to ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.-to affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.-to make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.-to render acid or pungent.-to dress; to prink; -- usually with up.-to run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.-to trace on a chart, as a ship's course.-to drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.-to nick.-to be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.-to spur onward; to ride on horseback.-to become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.-to aim at a point or mark.
pricker: one who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.-one who spurs forward; a light horseman.-a priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.-a small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking.
pricking: of prick-the act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.-the driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.-same as nicking.-a sensation of being pricked.-the mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.-dressing one's self for show; prinking.
pricking-up: the first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. in the united states called scratch coat.
prickle: a little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.-a kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.-a sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.-to prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.
prickliness: the quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
prickly: full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
prickmadam: a name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. see stonecrop.
pricksong: music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.
prickwood: a shrub (euonymus europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. called also spindle tree.
pride: a small european lamprey (petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.-the quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.-a sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.-proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.-that of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.-show; ostentation; glory.-highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.-consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.-to indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.-to be proud; to glory.
prier: one who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive.
priest: a presbyter elder; a minister-one who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.-a presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. he is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.-one who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, buddhist priests.-to ordain as priest.
priest-ridden: controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people.
priestcap: a form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
priestcraft: priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others.
priesthood: the office or character of a priest; the priestly function.-priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
priestism: the influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
priestly: of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.
prig: to haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.-to cheapen.-to filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.-a pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.-a thief; a filcher.
priggism: the quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig.-roguery; thievery.
prigidity: the condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.-want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.-want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.
prill: the brill.-to flow.-a stream.-a nugget of virgin metal.-ore selected for excellence.-the button of metal from an assay.
prim: the privet.-formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.-to deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.-to dress or act smartly.
primacy: the state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.-the office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of england.
primage: a charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.
primarily: in a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
primariness: the quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention.
primary: first in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.-first in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.-first in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.-earliest formed; fundamental.-illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.-that which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.-a primary meeting; a caucus.-one of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. see plumage, and illust. of bird.-a primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. see under planet.
primate: the chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.-one of the primates.
primates: the highest order of mammals. it includes man, together with the apes and monkeys.  cf. pitheci.