AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pentecosty: a troop of fifty soldiers in the spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.
pentelican: of or pertaining to mount pentelicus, near athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from mount pentelicus; as, the pentelic marble of which the parthenon is built.
penthouse: a shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. also figuratively.-leaning; overhanging.
pentine: an unsaturated hydrocarbon, c5h8, of the acetylene series. same as valerylene.
pentoic: pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also valeric acid) derived from pentane.
pentoxide: an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, p2o5.
pentremites: a genus of crinoids belonging to the blastoidea. they have five petal-like ambulacra.
pentyl: the hypothetical radical, c5h11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. same as amyl.
pentylic: pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as, pentylic alcohol
penult: the last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.
penultimate: last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.-the penult.
penumbra: an incomplete or partial shadow.-the shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light.-the part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.
penumbrala: of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra; partially illuminated.
penurious: excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.-not bountiful or liberal; scanty.-destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
penury: absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.-penuriousness; miserliness.
penwiper: a cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.
peon: see poon.-a foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.-a day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the spanish american countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.-see 2d pawn.
peony: a plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus paeonia. of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
people: the body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.-persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in french, and man in german; as, people in adversity.-the mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.-one's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were english.-one's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.-to stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
peorias: an algonquin tribe of indians who formerly inhabited a part of illinois.
peperino: a volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.
peplus: an upper garment worn by grecian and roman women.-a kind of kerchief formerly worn by englishwomen.
pepo: any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. see gourd.
pepper: a well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the piper nigrum.-the plant which yields pepper, an east indian woody climber (piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. the berries are red when ripe. also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.-any plant of the genus capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.-to sprinkle or season with pepper.-figuratively: to shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.-to fire numerous shots (at).
pepper dulse: a variety of edible seaweed (laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency.
peppercorn: a dried berry of the black pepper (piper nigrum).-anything insignificant; a particle.
peppergrass: any herb of the cruciferous genus lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, lepidium sativum; -- called also pepperwort. all the species have a pungent flavor.-the common pillwort of europe (pilularia globulifera). see pillwort.
pepperidge: a north american tree (nyssa multiflora) with very tough wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries, -- the sour gum, or common tupelo. see tupelo.
peppermint: an aromatic and pungent plant of the genus mentha (m. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.-a volatile oil (oil of peppermint) distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit (essence of peppermint) obtained from it.-a lozenge of sugar flavored with peppermint.
peppery: of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.-fig.: hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.
pepsin: an unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. in the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. it is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.
pepsinogen: the antecedent of the ferment pepsin. a substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. it is readily convertible into pepsin. also called propepsin.
peptic: relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.-able to digest.-pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.-an agent that promotes digestion.-the digestive organs.
peptohydrochloric: designating a hypothetical acid (called peptohydrochloric acid, pepsinhydrochloric acid, and chloropeptic acid) which is supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute (0.1-0.4 per cent) hydrochloric acid are mixed together.
peptone: the soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.-collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. in this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. also termed albuminose.
peptonize: to convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.
peptonuria: the presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the urine.
peptotoxine: a toxic alkaloid found occasionally associated with the peptones formed from fibrin by pepsinhydrochloric acid.
per: through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself.  per is also sometimes used with english words.
per-: a prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much.-originally, denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed in the respective compounds exercised its highest valence; now, only that the element has a higher valence than in other similar compounds; thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium; while nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides of those elements.
peradventure: by chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.-chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure.
peraeopod: one of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. see illust. of crustacea.
peragration: the act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution.
perambulate: to walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.-to walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.
perambulation: the act of perambulating; traversing.-an annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.-a district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.
perambulator: one who perambulates.-a surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. it consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. see odometer.-a low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.
perameles: any marsupial of the genus perameles, which includes numerous species found in australia. they somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. see illust. under bandicoot.
perbromic: pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, hbro4, of bromine.
perbromide: a bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series.
percale: a fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.
perceive: to obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.-to take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.-to be affected of influented by.
percentage: a certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
perceptibility: the quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.-perception.
perception: the act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.-the faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.-the quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.-an idea; a notion.
perceptive: of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.
percesoces: an order of fishes including the gray mullets (mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. so called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.
perch: any fresh-water fish of the genus perca and of several other allied genera of the family percidae, as the common american or yellow perch (perca flavescens, / americana), and the european perch (p. fluviatilis).-any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the percidae, serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.-a pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.-a measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.-in land or square measure: a square rod; the 160th part of an acre.-in solid measure: a mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.-a pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.-to alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.-to place or to set on, or as on, a perch.-to occupy as a perch.
perchant: a bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
percher: one who, or that which, perches.-one of the insessores.-a paris candle anciently used in england; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar.
percheron: one of a breed of draught horses originating in perche, an old district of france; -- called also percheron-norman.
perchloric: pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (hclo4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.
perchloride: a chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
perchromic: pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
perciformes: an extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (percidae); the pondfishes (centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (sciaenidae); the sparoids (sparidae); the serranoids (serranidae), and some other related families.
percipient: having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.-one who, or that which, is percipient.
percoid: belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family percidae.-any fish of the genus perca, or allied genera of the family percidae.
percolate: to cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.-to pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
percolation: the act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. specifically (pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.
percuss: to strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.-to strike or tap in an examination by percussion. see percussion, 3.
percussion: the act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.-hence: the effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.-the act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.
percutient: striking; having the power of striking.-that which strikes, or has power to strike.
perdition: entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.-loss of diminution.
perdix: a genus of birds including the common european partridge. formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.
perdu: one placed on watch, or in ambush.-a soldier sent on a forlorn hope.-alt. of perdue
perdue: lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.-accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless.
peregrinate: to travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.-having traveled; foreign.
peregrination: a traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
peregrine: foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.-the peregrine falcon.
peremptory: precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.-positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical.-firmly determined; unawed.
perennial: ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.-continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.-continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.-a perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
perennibranchiata: those batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.
perennibranchiate: having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain amphibia, like the menobranchus. opposed to caducibranchiate.-belonging to the perennibranchiata.
perfect: brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.-well informed; certain; sure.-hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.-the perfect tense, or a form in that tense.-to make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
perfection: the quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.-a quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.-to perfect.
perfectionist: one pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
perfectionment: the act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection.
perfective: tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of.
perfectly: in a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.
perficient: making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual.-one who performs or perfects a work; especially, one who endows a charity.
perfidious: guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.-involving, or characterized by, perfidy.
perfidy: the act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
perfoliate: having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.-surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind.
perforata: a division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as porites and madrepora; -- opposed to aporosa.-a division of foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
perforate: to bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.-alt. of perforated
perforated: of perforate-pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
perforation: the act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.-a hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.
perforator: one who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.
perform: to carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.-to discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.-to represent; to act; to play; as in drama.-to do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.
performance: the act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.-that which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.
performer: one who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
perfume: to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.-the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.-a substance that emits an agreeable odor.
perfumer: one who, oe that which, perfumes.-one whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
perfunctory: done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.-hence: mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.
peri: an imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
peri-: a prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.
perianth: the leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.-a saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. see illust. of hepatica.
periapt: a charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.
periastron: that point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.
periblast: the protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.
peribranchial: surrounding the branchiae; as, a peribranchial cavity.-around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics.
pericambium: a layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.
pericarp: the ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. see illusts. of capsule, drupe, and legume.
pericellular: surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.
perichaeth: the leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.
perichaetous: surrounded by setae; -- said of certain earthworms (genus perichaetus).
perichondrial: of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.
perichondrium: the membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.
perichordal: around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. see epichordal.
periclasite: a grayish or dark green mineral, consisting essentially of magnesia (magnesium oxide), occurring in granular forms or in isometric crystals.
pericope: a selection or extract from a book; especially (theol.), a selection from the bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
pericranium: the periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
periculum: danger; risk.-in a narrower, judicial sense: accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.
periderm: the outer layer of bark.-the hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine animals; the perisarc.
peridiastole: the almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
peridium: the envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.
peridotite: an eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). it also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. it is often altered to serpentine.
peridrome: the space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a greek or a roman temple.
periganglionic: surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.
perigastric: surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of bryozoa and various other invertebrata.