AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ninescore: nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty.-the product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
nineteen: nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.-the number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.-a symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.
nineteenth: following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.-constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.-the next in order after the eighteenth.-an interval of two octaves and a fifth.
ninetieth: next in order after the eighty-ninth.-constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.-the quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.-the next in order after the eighty-ninth.
ninety: nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.-the sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.-a symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.
ninth: following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.-constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.-an interval containing an octave and a second.-a chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
niobe: the daughter of tantalus, and wife of amphion, king of thebes. her pride in her children provoked apollo and diana, who slew them all. niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.
niopo: a kind of snuff prepared by the natives of venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.
nip: a sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.-to catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.-to remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.-hence: to blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.-to vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.-a seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.-a pinch with the nails or teeth.-a small cut, or a cutting off the end.-a blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.-a biting sarcasm; a taunt.-a short turn in a rope.
nipper: one who, or that which, nips.-a fore tooth of a horse. the nippers are four in number.-a satirist.-a pickpocket; a young or petty thief.-the cunner.-a european crab (polybius henslowii).
nippers: small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.-a device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.-a number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
nipping: of nip-biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
nipple: the protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.-the orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.-any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.-a pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
nipplewort: a yellow-flowered composite herb (lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.
nirvana: in the buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. see buddhism.
nisan: the first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of april, now to march, of the christian calendar. see abib.
niteosaccharin: an explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.
nitid: bright; lustrous; shining.-gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons.
nitranilic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.
nitraniline: any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. in general they are yellow crystalline substances.
nitrated: combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.-prepared with nitrate of silver.
nitratine: a mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. it is used in making nitric acid and for manure. called also soda niter.
nitre: a white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. see saltpeter.-native sodium carbonate; natron.-see niter.
nitriary: an artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. see nitrification, 2.
nitric: of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.
nitride: a binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.
nitrification: the act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.-the act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.-a process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.
nitrify: to combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.
nitrile: any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.
nitro-: a combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.-a combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical no2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene.
nitrobenzene: a yellow aromatic liquid (c6h5.no2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. it is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. fornerly called also nitrobenzol.
nitrocalcite: nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.
nitroform: a nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, ch.(no2)3, quite explosive, and having well-defined acid properties.
nitrogelatin: an explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
nitrogen: a colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. it is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by french chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. symbol n. atomic weight 14. it was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by cailletet of paris, and pictet of geneva.
nitrogenous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, nitrogen; as, a nitrogenous principle; nitrogenous compounds.
nitroglycerin: a liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. it is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. it is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. a very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.
nitrohydrochloric: of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric and hydrochloric acids.
nitrol: any one of a series of hydrocarbons containing the nitro and the nitroso or isonitroso group united to the same carbon atom.
nitrolic: of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid.
nitromagnesite: nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.
nitrometer: an apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.
nitromethane: a nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
nitromuriatic: of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. see nitrohydrochloric.
nitrophnol: any one of a series of nitro derivatives of phenol. they are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.
nitroprussic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. it forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.
nitroquinol: a hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives.
nitrosalicylic: of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid.
nitroso-: (/ / /). (chem.) a prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical no, called the nitroso group, or its compounds.
nitrosyl: the radical no, called also the nitroso group.  the term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. used also adjectively.
nitrosylic: of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrosyl; as, nitrosylic acid.
nitrous: of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.-of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.
nivose: the fourth month of the french republican calendar [1792-1806]. it commenced december 21, and ended january 19. see vendemiaire.
nix: one of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
nizam: the title of the native sovereigns of hyderabad, in india, since 1719.
no: not any; not one; none.-nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; -- a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. before or after another negative, no is emphatic.-a refusal by use of the wordd no; a denial.-a negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it.
no-man's land: a space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.-fig.: an unclaimed space or time.
nobby: stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.
nobility: the quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.-the state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.-those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the english nobility.
noble: possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.-grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.-of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.-a person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.-an english money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.-a european fish; the lyrie.-to make noble; to ennoble.
nobleman: one of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
nobleness: the quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.
noblesse: dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.-the nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.
nobly: of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.-in a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.-splendidly; magnificently.
nobody: no person; no one; not anybody.-a person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.
nocake: indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the northern american indians.
nocent: doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities.-guilty; -- the opposite of innocent.-a criminal.
nock: a notch.-the upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.-to notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.
noctilionid: a south american bat of the genus noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth.
noctiluca: that which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus.-a genus of marine flagellate infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. the brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of noctilucae.
noctilucin: a fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.
noctograph: a kind of writing frame for the blind.-an instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.
noctuary: a record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary.
noctuid: any one of numerous moths of the family noctuidae, or noctuaelitae, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; -- so called because they fly at night.-of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family noctuidae.
noctule: a large european bat (vespertilio, / noctulina, altivolans).
nocturn: an office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.-one of the portions into which the psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.
nocturnal: of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to diurnal.-having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.-an instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea.
nocturne: a night piece, or serenade. the name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in mendelsohn's "midsummer-night's dream" music.
nod: to bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.-to incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one.-to be drowsy or dull; to be careless.-to incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head.-to signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.-to cause to bend.-a dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.-a quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command.
nodal: of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.
nodding: of nod-curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
noddle: the head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.-the back part of the head or neck.
noddy: a simpleton; a fool.-any tern of the genus anous, as a. stolidus.-the arctic fulmar (fulmarus glacialis). sometimes also applied to other sea birds.-an old game at cards.-a small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.-an inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
node: a knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.-one of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.-the joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.-a hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.-the point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. see crunode, and acnode.-the point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.-the knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.-a hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.-one of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.-a swelling.
nodical: of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.
nodosarine: resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus nodosaria.-a foraminifer of the genus nodosaria or of an allied genus.
nodose: knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.-having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects.
nodosity: the quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.-a knot; a node.
nodular: of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.
noematachograph: an instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind.
noetian: one of the followers of noetus, who lived in the third century. he denied the distinct personality of the father, son, and holy ghost.
nog: a noggin.-a kind of strong ale.-a wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.-one of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.-a treenail to fasten the shores.-to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.-to fasten, as shores, with treenails.
nogging: rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.
noise: sound of any kind.-especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.-loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report.-music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.-to sound; to make a noise.-to spread by rumor or report.-to disturb with noise.
noiseless: making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time.
noisette: a hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a french gardener, noisette, of charleston, south carolina, from the china rose and the musk rose. it has given rise to many fine varieties, as the lamarque, the marechal (or marshal) niel, and the cloth of gold. most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.
noisome: noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.-offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
noisy: making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.-full of noise.
nol-pros: to discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
noli-me-tangere: any plant of a genus of herbs (impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- see impatiens.-the squirting cucumber. see under cucumber.-a name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.
nolle prosequi: will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.
nolo contendere: a plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
nomad: one of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.-roving; nomadic.
nomadic: of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.
nomadize: to lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.
nomancy: the art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.
nomarchy: a province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern greece; a nome.
nombril: a point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. see escutcheon.
nome: of nim-a province or political division, as of modern greece or ancient egypt; a nomarchy.-any melody determined by inviolable rules.-see term.-alt. of nomen
nomenclator: one who calls persons or things by their names.-one who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names.
nomenclature: a name.-a vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.-the technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of lavoisier and his associates.
nomic: customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual english spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.-nomic spelling.
nominal: of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.-existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.-a nominalist.-a verb formed from a noun.-a name; an appellation.
nominalist: one of a sect of philosophers in the middle ages, who adopted the opinion of roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.
nominate: to mention by name; to name.-to call; to entitle; to denominate.-to set down in express terms; to state.-to name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.
nomination: the act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.-the denomination, or name.
nominative: giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.-the nominative case.
nominee: a person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.
nomology: the science of law; legislation.-the science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.
nomopelmous: having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.
non compos mentis: not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or from accident.
non est inventus: the return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.
non liquet: it is not clear; -- a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial.