AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
mise: the issue in a writ of right.-expense; cost; disbursement.-a tax or tallage; in wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of chester, england, at the change of the owner of the earldom.
misemploy: to employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.
miser: a wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.-a despicable person; a wretch.-a covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.-a kind of large earth auger.
miserable: very unhappy; wretched.-causing unhappiness or misery.-worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.-avaricious; niggardly; miserly.-a miserable person.
miserably: in a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.
miserere: the psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the latin version. it commences with the word miserere.-a musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.-a small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see stall). it was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. called also misericordia.-same as ileus.
misericorde: compassion; pity; mercy.-same as misericordia, 2.
misericordia: an amercement.-a thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the middle ages, because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.-an indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
miserly: like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
misery: great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.-cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.-covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
misfeasance: a trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.
misfit: the act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.-something that fits badly, as a garment.
misfortune: bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.-to happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
misgive: to give or grant amiss.-specifically: to give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.-to suspect; to dread.-to give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.
misguide: to guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.-misguidance; error.
mishap: evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.-to happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.
mishna: a collection or digest of jewish traditions and explanations of scripture, forming the text of the talmud.
misimprove: to use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc.
misinform: to give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.-to give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.
misinterpret: to interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
misinterpretable: capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
misjoinder: an incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.
misjudge: to judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
miskindle: to kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
mislay: to lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.-to lay in a place not recollected; to lose.
misle: to rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.-a fine rain; a thick mist; mizzle.
mislead: to lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
misled: of misle-of mislead-imp. & p. p. of mislead.
mislike: to dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man.-dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
mismanage: to manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
mismate: to mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.
misnomer: the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.-to misname.
misnurture: to nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.
misorder: to order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly.-irregularity; disorder.
misplace: to put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
misprint: to print wrong.-a mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.
misprision: the act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.-neglect; undervaluing; contempt.-a neglect, negligence, or contempt.
misprofess: to make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.-to make a false profession of.
misrecollect: to have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.
misreport: to report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.-an erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.
misrepresent: to represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.-to make an incorrect or untrue representation.
misrepresentation: untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
misrule: to rule badly; to misgovern.-the act, or the result, of misruling.-disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
miss: a title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. see mistress, 5.-a young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.-a kept mistress. see mistress, 4.-in the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.-to fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.-to omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.-to discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.-to fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.-to fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.-to go wrong; to err.-to be absent, deficient, or wanting.-the act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.-loss; want; felt absence.-mistake; error; fault.-harm from mistake.
missal: the book containing the service of the mass for the entire year; a mass book.-of or pertaining to the mass, or to a missal or mass book.
missay: to say wrongly.-to speak evil of; to slander.-to speak ill.
misshape: to shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
missheathed: sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.
missile: capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.-a weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
missing: of miss-absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
mission: the act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.-that with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.-persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.-an assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.-an organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.-a course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.-dismission; discharge from service.-to send on a mission.
missionary: one who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.-of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
missioner: a missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. see mission, n., 6.
missive: specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.-missile.-that which is sent; a writing containing a message.-one who is sent; a messenger.
misspend: to spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.
misspent: of misspend-imp. & p. p. of misspend.
misstep: a wrong step; an error of conduct.-to take a wrong step; to go astray.
missy: see misy.-an affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.-like a miss, or girl.
mist: visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.-coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, scotch mist.-hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.-to cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.-to rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.
mistake: to make or form amiss; to spoil in making.-to take or choose wrongly.-to take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.-to substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.-to have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.-to err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.-an apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.-misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
mistaken: of mistake-being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.-erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
mistemper: to temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head.
mister: a title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. it is usually written in the abbreviated form mr.-to address or mention by the title mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.-a trade, art, or occupation.-manner; kind; sort.-need; necessity.-to be needful or of use.
misthink: to think wrongly.-to have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of.
mistico: a kind of small sailing vessel used in the mediterranean. it is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.
mistigri: a variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.
mistletoe: a parasitic evergreen plant of europe (viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. when found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the druids. a bird lime is prepared from its fruit.
mistress: a woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.-a woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.-a woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.-a woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.-a title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, mrs., for a married, and miss, for an unmarried, woman.-a married woman; a wife.-the old name of the jack at bowls.-to wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
mistressship: female rule or dominion.-ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun.
mistrust: want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.-to regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.-to forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.
mistura: a mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. see mixture, n., 4.-sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops.
misty: accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.-obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.
misunderstand: to misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
misunderstanding: of misunderstand-mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.-disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
misuse: to treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.-to abuse; to treat ill.-wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.-violence, or its effects.
misuser: one who misuses.-unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right.
miswander: to wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
misween: to ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.
misword: to word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.-a word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
misy: an impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
mite: a minute arachnid, of the order acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. see acarina.-a small coin formerly circulated in england, rated at about a third of a farthing. the name is also applied to a small coin used in palestine in the time of christ.-a small weight; one twentieth of a grain.-anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
miterwort: any plant of the genus mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.
mithridate: an antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from king mithridates, its reputed inventor.
mithridatic: of or pertaining to king mithridates, or to a mithridate.
mitigate: to make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.-to make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
mitigation: the act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
mitrailleuse: a breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
mitral: pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.
mitre: a covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. it has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.-the surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.-a sort of base money or coin.-to place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.-to match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.-to meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.-see miter.
mitriform: having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra.
mitt: a mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.
mitten: a covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. it differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.-a cover for the wrist and forearm.
mitter's green: a pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.
mittimus: a precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.-a writ for removing records from one court to another.
mix: to cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.-to unite with in company; to join; to associate.-to form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.-to become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.-to associate; to mingle.
mixed: of mix-formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. see mix, v. t. & i.
mixogamous: pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.
mixtilinear: containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
mixtion: mixture.-a kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
mixture: the act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.-that which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.-an ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.-a kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.-a mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.-an organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. it consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
mizzen: hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.-the hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
mizzenmast: the hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
mizzle: to rain in very fine drops.-to take one's self off; to go.-mist; fine rain.
mnemonics: the art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
moa: any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder dinornithes, found in new zealand. they are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. they were probably exterminated by the natives before new zealand was discovered by europeans. some species were much larger than the ostrich.
moabite: one of the posterity of moab, the son of lot. (gen. xix. 37.) also used adjectively.
moan: to make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.-to emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.-to bewail audibly; to lament.-to afflict; to distress.-a low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.-a low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
moat: a deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.-to surround with a moat.
mob: a mobcap.-to wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.-the lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.-a throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.-to crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
mobbish: like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.
mobcap: a plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.
mobile: capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.-characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.-easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.-changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.-capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.-the mob; the populace.
mobility: the quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.-the mob; the lower classes.
mobilize: to put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
mobocracy: a condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
mobocrat: one who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
moccasin: a shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. it is the customary shoe worn by the american indians.-a poisonous snake of the southern united states. the water moccasin (ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. the upland moccasin is ancistrodon atrofuscus. they resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles.
moccasined: covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.
mocha: a seaport town of arabia, on the red sea.-a variety of coffee brought from mocha.-an abyssinian weight, equivalent to a troy grain.
mock: to imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.-to treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.-to disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.-to make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.-an act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.-imitation; mimicry.-imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
mockado: a stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet.
mocker: one who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.-a deceiver; an impostor.-a mocking bird.
mockery: the act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.-insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.-subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
mocking: of mock-imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
moco: a south american rodent (cavia rupestris), allied to the guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.
modal: of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.-indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.
modalist: one who regards father, son, and spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the trinity.
modality: the quality or state of being modal.-a modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. according to kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.