AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
partition: the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.-that which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.-a part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.-the servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. it may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.-a score.-to divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.-to divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.
partitive: denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.-a word expressing partition, or denoting a part.
partlet: a covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.-a hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers.
partner: one who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "partner of his fortune." shak. hence: (a) a husband or a wife. (b) either one of a couple who dance together. (c) one who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.-an associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. see partnership.-a framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.-to associate, to join.
partnership: the state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.-a division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.-an alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.-a contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure.-see fellowship, n., 6.
partridge: any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus perdix and several related genera of the family perdicidae, of the old world. the partridge is noted as a game bird.-any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to colinus, and allied genera.-the ruffed grouse (bonasa umbellus).
parturifacient: a medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.
parturition: the act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.-that which is brought forth; a birth.
party: a part or portion.-a number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.-a part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.-a number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.-one concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.-the plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.-hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.-cause; side; interest.-a person; as, he is a queer party.-parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.-partial; favoring one party.-partly.
parumbilical: near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
parusia: a figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.
parvanimity: the state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity.
parvise: a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers.
parvolin: a nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.
parvoline: a liquid base, c/h/n, of the pyridine group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isometric substances of which it is the type.
pas: a pace; a step, as in a dance.-right of going foremost; precedence.
paschal: of or pertaining to the passover, or to easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs.
pash: to strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.-the head; the poll.-a crushing blow.-a heavy fall of rain or snow.
pasha: an honorary title given to officers of high rank in turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. the earlier form was bashaw.
pasigraphy: a system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.
paspy: a kind of minuet, in triple time, of french origin, popular in the reign of queen elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure.
pasquin: a lampooner; also, a lampoon. see pasquinade.-to lampoon; to satiraze.
pasquinade: a lampoon or satirical writing.-to lampoon, to satirize.
passable: capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.-capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.-such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
passacaglio: an old italian or spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.
passado: a pass or thrust.-a turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
passage: the act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.-transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.-price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.-removal from life; decease; departure; death.-way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.-a continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.-a separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.-a particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.-reception; currency.-a pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.-a movement or an evacuation of the bowels.-in parliamentary proceedings: (a) the course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through congress the bill was amended in both houses. (b) the advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
passant: passing from one to another; in circulation; current.-curs/ry, careless.-surpassing; excelling.-walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
passe partout: that by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.-a master key; a latchkey.-a light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
passee: past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle.
passegarde: a ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
passenger: a passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.-a traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.
passeres: an order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. it embraces all singing birds (oscines), together with many other small perching birds.
passibility: the quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
passiflora: a genus of plants, including the passion flower. it is the type of the order passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
passing: of pass-the act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.-relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.-exceeding; surpassing, eminent.-exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.
passion: a suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.-the state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.-capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.-the state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.-disorder of the mind; madness.-passion week. see passion week, below.-to give a passionate character to.-to suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
passional: of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions.-a passionary.
passionate: capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature.-characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship.-suffering; sorrowful.-to affect with passion; to impassion.-to express feelingly or sorrowfully.
passionately: in a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.-angrily; irascibly.
passionist: a member of a religious order founded in italy in 1737, and introduced into the united states in 1852. the members of the order unite the austerities of the trappists with the activity and zeal of the jesuits and lazarists. called also barefooted clerks of the most holy cross.
passive: not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.-receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.-inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.-designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
passively: in a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.-as a passive verb; in the passive voice.
passivity: passiveness; -- opposed to activity.-the tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.-the quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
passover: a feast of the jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the hebrews in egypt, when god, smiting the firstborn of the egyptians, passed over the houses of the israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.-the sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.
passport: permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.-a document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.-a license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.-figuratively: anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.
passus: of passus-a division or part; a canto; as, the passus of piers plowman. see 2d fit.
password: a word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
past: of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.-a former time or state; a state of things gone by.-beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.-beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.-above; exceeding; more than.-by; beyond; as, he ran past.
paste: a soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.-specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.-a kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.-a highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. see strass.-a soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.-the mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.-to unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
pasteboard: a stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.-a board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding board.
pastel: a crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.-a plant affording a blue dye; the woad (isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.
paster: one who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.-a slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.
pastern: the part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. see illust. of horse.-a shackle for horses while pasturing.-a patten.
pasteurism: a method of treatment, devised by pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.-pasteurization.
pasteurization: a process devised by pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ f., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.
pasticcio: a medley; an olio.-a work of art imitating directly the work of another artist, or of more artists than one.-a falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.
pastille: a small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.-an aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.-see pastel, a crayon.
pastime: that which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.-to sport; to amuse one's self.
pastor: a shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.-a guardian; a keeper; specifically (eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.-a species of starling (pastor roseus), native of the plains of western asia and eastern europe.  its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. it feeds largely upon locusts.
pastoral: of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.-relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.-a poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.-a cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.-a letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (prot. epis. ch.), a letter of the house of bishops, to be read in each parish.
pastorale: a composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.-a kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
pastry: the place where pastry is made.-articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.
pasturage: grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.-grass growing for feed; grazing.-the business of feeding or grazing cattle.
pasture: food; nourishment.-specifically: grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.-grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.-to feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.-to feed on growing grass; to graze.
pasty: like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.-a pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
pat: to strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.-a light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.-a small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.-exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.-in a pat manner.
patache: a tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.
patagium: in bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.-one of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. see illust. of butterfly.
patamar: a vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of bombay and ceylon.
patas: a west african long-tailed monkey (cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
patavinity: the use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of livy, the roman historian; -- so called from patavium, now padua, the place of livy's nativity.
patch: a piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.-a small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.-a small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.-a piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.-fig.: anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.-a block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.-a paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.-to mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.-to mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.-to adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.-to make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
patchery: botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.
patchouly: a mintlike plant (pogostemon patchouli) of the east indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.-the perfume made from this plant.
patchwork: work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up.
pate: see patte.-a pie. see patty.-a kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.-the head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.-the skin of a calf's head.
pated: having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.
patela: a large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river ganges; -- called also puteli.
patella: a small dish, pan, or vase.-the kneepan; the cap of the knee.-a genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. the shell has the form of a flattened cone. the common european limpet (patella vulgata) is largely used for food.-a kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
patelliform: having the form of a patella.-resembling a limpet of the genus patella.
paten: a plate.-the place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the mass. it is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.
patency: the condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.-the state of being patent or evident.
patent: open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.-open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. see letters patent, under 3d letter.-appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.-spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.-a letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.-a writing securing to an invention.-a document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.-the right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.-to grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
patent-hammered: having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
patera: a saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the greeks and romans in libations and sacrificies.-a circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
paterfamilias: the head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
paternal: of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.-received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
paternalism: the theory or practice of paternal government. see paternal government, under paternal.