AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pneumatograph: an instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.
pneumatology: the doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. see pneumatics, 1.-the science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.
pneumatometer: an instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.
pneumo-: a combining form from gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.
pneumococcus: a form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
pneumogastric: of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.-the pneumogastric nerve.
pneumonic: of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.-of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.-a medicine for affections of the lungs.
pneumonophora: the division of siphonophora which includes the physalia and allied genera; -- called also pneumatophorae.
pneumothorax: a condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.
pnyx: the place at athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.
poa: a genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, kentucky blue grass, june grass, and spear grass (which see).
poach: to cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.-to rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.-to steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.-to stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.-to force, drive, or plunge into anything.-to make soft or muddy by trampling-to begin and not complete.-to become soft or muddy.
poachard: a common european duck (aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.-the american redhead, which is closely allied to the european poachard.
poacher: one who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.-the american widgeon.
poachy: wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land
poake: waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.
pocan: the poke (phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.
pock: a pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
pock-broken: broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
pock-pudding: a bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the scotch to the english.
pocket: a bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.-one of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.-a large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.-a hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.-a cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.-a hole containing water.-a strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.-same as pouch.-to put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.-to take clandestinely or fraudulently.
pocketbook: a small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
pocketful: as much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
pocketknife: a knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
poco: a little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.
pod: a bag; a pouch.-a capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. see illust. of angiospermous.-a considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.-to swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
podagra: gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body.
podagrical: pertaining to the gout; gouty; caused by gout.-afflicted with gout.
podalgia: pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.
podarthrum: the foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.
podesta: one of the chief magistrates of the italian republics in the middle ages.-a mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of italy.
podetium: a stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
podium: a low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.-the dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.-the masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.-the foot.
podo-: a combining form or prefix from gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, podocarp, podocephalous, podology.
podobranch: one of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in crustacea.
podocephalous: having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.
podophthalmia: the stalk-eyed crustacea, -- an order of crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. it includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. called also podophthalmata, and decapoda.
podophthalmous: having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.-of or pertaining to the podophthalmia.
podophyllin: a brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the may apple (podophyllum peltatum). it is a complex mixture of several substances.
podophyllous: having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.-pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminae, beneath a horse's hoof.
podophyllum: a genus of herbs of the barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. there are two species, the american podohyllum peltatum, or may apple, the himalayan p. emodi.-the rhizome and rootlet of the may apple (podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.
podoscaph: a canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.
podostomata: an order of bryozoa of which rhabdopleura is the type. see rhabdopleura.
podrida: a miscellaneous dish of meats. see olla-podrida.
podura: any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus podura and related genera; a springtail.
poecile: same as poicile.-the frescoed porch or gallery in athens where zeno taught.
poecilitic: mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.-specifically: of or pertaining to, or characterizing, triassic and permian sandstones of red and other colors.
poecilopoda: originally, an artificial group including many parasitic entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (limuloidea).-by some recent writers applied to the merostomata.
poem: a metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of homer or of milton.-a composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of ossian.
poenamu: a variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in new zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.
poephaga: a group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies.
poesy: the art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.-poetry; metrical composition; poems.-a short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.
poet: one skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
poetaster: an inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.
poetical: of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.-expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.
poetry: the art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.-imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. specifically: metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or pindaric poetry.
poi: a national food of the hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.
poignancy: the quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.
poignant: pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.-fig.: pointed; keen; satirical.
poikilocyte: an irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.
poinciana: a prickly tropical shrub (caesalpinia, formerly poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
poinder: the keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.-one who distrains property.
poinsettia: a mexican shrub (euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
point-blank: the white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.-with all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.-with artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal.-directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed directly toward the mark.-hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion.-in a point-blank manner.
pointal: the pistil of a plant.-a kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the middle ages.-see poyntel.
pointed: of point-sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.-characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.
pointer: one who, or that which, points.-the hand of a timepiece.-one of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.-the two stars (merak and dubhe) in the great bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.-diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.
pointing: of point-the act of sharpening.-the act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.-the act or art of punctuating; punctuation.-the act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.-the rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.-the act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
pointless: having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.
poise: weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.-the weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.-the state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.-that which causes a balance; a counterweight.-to balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.-to hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.-to counterpoise; to counterbalance.-to ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.-to weigh (down); to oppress.-to hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
poison: any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.-that which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.-to put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.-to injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.-to taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.-to act as, or convey, a poison.
poisonous: having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.
poke: a large north american herb of the genus phytolacca (p. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. the root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. the young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in europe to color wine.-a bag; a sack; a pocket.-a long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.-to thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.-to thrust with the horns; to gore.-to put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.-to search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.-the act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.-a lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.-a contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. it consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
pokebag: the european long-tailed titmouse; -- called also poke-pudding.
poker: one who pokes.-that which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.-a poking-stick.-the poachard.-a game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the southwestern united states.-any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
pokerish: infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place.-stiff like a poker.
poking-stick: a small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs.
polacca: a vessel with two or three masts, used in the mediterranean. the masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees.-see polonaise.
polar: of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.-of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed.-pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates.-the right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. the given point is called the pole of the line. if the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. there are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.
polarimeter: an instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.
polariscope: an instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.
polariscopic: of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.
polaristic: pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.
polarity: that quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.-a property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. see polar, n.
polarization: the act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.-a peculiar affection or condition of the rays of light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different properties in different directions.-an effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. it is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell.
polarizer: that which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. it is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.
polatouche: a flying squirrel (sciuropterus volans) native of northern europe and siberia; -- called also minene.
pole: a native or inhabitant of poland; a polander.-a long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) a carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) a flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) a maypole. see maypole. (d) a barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) a pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.-a measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.-to furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.-to convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.-to impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.-to stir, as molten glass, with a pole.-either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.-a point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.-one of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.-the firmament; the sky.-see polarity, and polar, n.
poleaxe: anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.
polecat: a small european carnivore of the weasel family (putorius foetidus). its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. called also fitchet, foulmart, and european ferret.-the zorilla. the name is also applied to other allied species.
polemarch: in athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. in other grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
polemic: of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.-engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.-one who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.-a polemic argument or controversy.
polemics: the art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.
polemoniaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (polemoniaceae), which includes polemonium, phlox, gilia, and a few other genera.
polemonium: a genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the jacob's ladder and the greek valerian.
polemoscope: an opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, / side, opera glass.
polenta: pudding made of indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.
polestar: polaris, or the north star. see north star, under north.-a guide or director.
polewig: the european spotted goby (gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait.
polianite: manganese dioxide, occurring in tetragonal crystals nearly as hard as quartz.
police: a judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.-that which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.-the organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.-military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.-the cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.-to keep in order by police.-to make clean; as, to police a camp.
policed: of police-regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration.
policy: civil polity.-the settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.-the method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.-management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.-prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.-motive; object; inducement.-to regulate by laws; to reduce to order.-a ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.-the writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. see insurance.-a method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
poling: of pole-the act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.-the operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles.-one of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
polish: of or pertaining to poland or its inhabitants.-the language of the poles.-to make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.-hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.-to become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.-a smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.-anything used to produce a gloss.-fig.: refinement; elegance of manners.
polished: of polish-made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.