AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
nefandous: unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.
nefarious: wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
nefasch: any fish of the genus distichodus. several large species inhabit the nile.
negation: the act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation.-description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.
negative: denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.-not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.-asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.-of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.-metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.-a proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.-a word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.-the refusal or withholding of assents; veto.-that side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.-a picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.-the negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.-to prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.-to reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the senate negatived the bill.-to neutralize the force of; to counteract.
negatively: in a negative manner; with or by denial.-in the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
neglect: not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.-to omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.-omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.-omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.-habitual carelessness; negligence.-the state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
neglectful: full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent.
negligee: an easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.
negligence: the quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.-an act or instance of negligence or carelessness.-the omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the roman culpa. a specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
negligent: apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.
negotiable: capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
negotiate: to transact business; to carry on trade.-to treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.-to hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.-to intrigue; to scheme.-to carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.-to transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
negotiation: the act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.-hence, mercantile business; trading.-the transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at ghent.
negotiator: one who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.
negrita: a blackish fish (hypoplectrus nigricans), of the sea-bass family. it is a native of the west indies and florida.
negritos: a degraded papuan race, inhabiting luzon and some of the other east indian islands. they resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. they are mostly nomads.
negro: a black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed african blood, wherever found.-of or pertaining to negroes; black.
negroid: characteristic of the negro.-resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
negus: a beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, colonel negus.
nehiloth: a term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.
nehushtan: a thing of brass; -- the name under which the israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by moses.
neigh: to utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.-to scoff or sneer; to jeer.-the cry of a horse; a whinny.
neighbor: a person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.-one who is near in sympathy or confidence.-one entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.-near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.-to dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
neighborhood: the quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.-a place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.-the inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.-the disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
neighborly: apropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly.-in a neigborly manner.
neishout: the mahogany-like wood of the south african tree pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). also called sneezewood.
neither: not either; not the one or the other.-not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.
nelumbo: a genus of great water lilies. the north american species is nelumbo lutea, the asiatic is the sacred lotus, n. speciosa.
nematelminthes: an ordr of helminths, including the nematoidea and gordiacea; the roundworms.
nemathecium: a peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.
nemato-: a combining form from gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread.
nematocalyx: one of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family plumularidae. they contain nematocysts. see plumularia.
nematocera: a suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennae, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also nemocera.
nematocyst: a lasso cell, or thread cell. see lasso cell, under lasso.
nematogene: one of the dimorphic forms of the species of dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene.
nematognathi: an order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. it includes the catfishes, or siluroids. see siluroid.
nematoid: of or pertaining to the nematoidea.-one of the nematoidea. see illustration in appendix.
nematoidea: an order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. called also nematodea, and nematoda.
nemean: of or pertaining to nemea, in argolis, where the ancient greeks celebrated games, and hercules killed a lion.
nemertina: an order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also nemertea, nemertida, and rhynchocoela.
nemesis: the goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.
nemetean: of or pertaining to the nemertina.-one of the nemertina.
nemophilist: one who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
neo-: a prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. also used adjectively.
neocarida: the modern, or true, crustacea, as distinguished from the merostomata.
neocene: more recent than the eocene, that is, including both the miocene and pliocene divisions of the tertiary.
neocomian: a term applied to the lowest deposits of the cretaceous or chalk formation of europe, being the lower greensand.-of or pertaining to the lower greensand.
neocosmic: of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history.
neocracy: government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.
neodamode: in ancient sparta, one of those helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service.
neodymium: an elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. symbol nd. atomic weight 140.8.
neogen: an alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.
neolithic: of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.
neological: of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines.
neologism: the introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.-a new word, phrase, or expression.-a new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.
neologist: one who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.-an innovator in any doctrine or system of belief, especially in theology; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversive of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called.
neologize: to introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words.-to introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine.
neology: the introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.-a new doctrine; esp. (theol.), a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.
neomenia: the time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.
neomenoidea: a division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the isopleura.
neomorph: a structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.
neonomian: one who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.-of or pertaining to the neonomians, or in accordance with their doctrines.
neophyte: a new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early christians, and still given by the roman catholics, to such as have recently embraced the christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or judaism.-a novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything.
neoplasty: restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.
neoplatonic: of, pertaining to, or resembling, neoplatonism or the neoplatonists.
neoplatonism: a pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which plotinus was the chief (a. d. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the platonic and aristotelian systems with oriental theosophy. it tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of greek philosophy.
neoplatonist: one who held to neoplatonism; a member of the neoplatonic school.
neotropical: belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of south america, the antilles, and tropical north america.
neozoic: more recent than the paleozoic, -- that is, including the mesozoic and cenozoic.
nepa: a genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. the species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
nepaulese: of or pertaining to nepaul, a kingdom in northern hindostan.-a native or natives of nepaul.
nepenthe: a drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. hence, anything soothing and comforting.
nepenthes: same as nepenthe.-a genus of climbing plants found in india, malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. there are about thirty species, of which the best known is nepenthes distillatoria. see pitcher plant.
nephelite: a mineral occuring at vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. it is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.
nephew: a grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.-a cousin.-the son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
nephralgy: neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter.
nephridium: a segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. see illust. under loeven's larva.
nephrite: a hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. see jade.
nephritic: alt. of nephritical-a medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.
nephritical: of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.-affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient.-relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine.
nephrology: a treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.
nephrostome: the funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.
nepotism: undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
neptune: the son of saturn and ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea.  he is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.-the remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of leverrier, of paris -- by galle, of berlin, september 23, 1846. its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
neptunian: of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.-formed by water or aqueous solution; as, neptunian rocks.-alt. of neptunist
neptunicentric: as seen from neptune, or having neptune as a center; as, neptunicentric longitude or force.
neptunium: a new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
nereid: a sea nymph, one of the daughters of nereus, who were attendants upon neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.-any species of nereis. the word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
nereidian: any annelid resembling nereis, or of the family lycoridae or allied families.
nereis: a nereid. see nereid.-a genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.
neritina: a genus including numerous species of shells resembling nerita in form. they mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.
nero: a roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.
neroli: an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. it has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.
nerve: one of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.-a sinew or a tendon.-physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.-steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.-audacity; assurance.-one of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.-one of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.-to give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
nerve-shaken: affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
nerved: of nerve-having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.-having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.
nerveless: destitute of nerves.-destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
nervimotion: the movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.
nervine: having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.-a nervine agent.
nervomuscular: of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
nervous: possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.-possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.-of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.-having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.-sensitive; excitable; timid.
nervure: one of the nerves of leaves.-one of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.
nesslerize: to treat or test, as a liquid, with a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide, which is called nessler's solution or nessler's test, and is used to detect the presence of ammonia.
nest: the bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.-hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.-a snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.-an aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.-a collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.-a compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.-to build and occupy a nest.-to put into a nest; to form a nest for.
nestle: to make and occupy a nest; to nest.-to lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter.-to move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles.-to house, as in a nest.-to cherish, as a bird her young.
nestling: of nestle-a young bird which has not abandoned the nest.-a nest; a receptacle.-newly hatched; being yet in the nest.
nestor: a genus of parrots with gray heads. of new zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. see kaka.
nestorian: an adherent of nestorius, patriarch of constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in christ (who was god in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call mary the mother of christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of nestorius in persia, india, and other oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to eutychian.-of or relating to the nestorians.-relating to, or resembling, nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, nestorian caution.
nestorianism: the doctrines of the nestorian christians, or of nestorius.
net: to make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.-to take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.-to inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.-to form network or netting; to knit.-without spot; pure; shining.-free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc.-not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc.-to produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.
net-veined: having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf.
nether: situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
nethinim: servants of the priests and levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.
netting: of net-of net-the act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.-a piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.-a network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.-urine.
nettle: a plant of the genus urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. urtica gracitis is common in the northern, and u. chamaedryoides in the southern, united states. the common european species, u. urens and u. dioica, are also found in the eastern united states. u. pilulifera is the roman nettle of england.-to fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
nettles: the halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.-small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.-reef points.
nettling: of nettle-a process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.-the process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.-stinging; irritating.