AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
matter: that of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.-that of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.-that with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme.-that which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business.-affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.-inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble.-amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite.-substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.-that which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form.-written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.-to be of importance; to import; to signify.-to form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.-to regard as important; to take account of; to care for.
matter-of-fact: adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
matterless: not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.-unimportant; immaterial.
matting: of mat-the act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.-mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.-materials for mats.-an ornamental border. see 3d mat, 4.-a dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
mattock: an implement for digging and grubbing. the head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
mattowacca: an american clupeoid fish (clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
mattress: a quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.-a mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
maturate: to bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.-to promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).-to ripen; to become mature; specif/cally, to suppurate.
maturation: the process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
maturative: conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.-a remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
mature: brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.-completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.-of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.-come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.-to bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.-to advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.-hence, to become due, as a note.
maturely: in a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.-with caution; deliberately.-early; soon.
maturing: of mature-approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.
maturity: the state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.-arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.
matweed: a name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (ammophila arundinacea) which is used in holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see beach grass, under beach); also, the lygeum spartum, a mediterranean grass of similar habit.
matzoth: a cake of unleavened bread eaten by the jews at the feast of the passover.
maucaco: a lemur; -- applied to several species, as the white-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.
maudeline: an aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the south european achillea ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
maudlin: tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.-drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.-alt. of maudeline
maugre: in spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.-to defy.
maul: a heavy wooden hammer or beetle.-to beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.-to injure greatly; to do much harm to.
mauling: of maul-a severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.
maund: a hand basket.-an east indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.-alt. of maunder
maunder: to beg.-to mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.-to utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.-a beggar.
maurist: a member of the congregation of saint maur, an offshoot of the benedictines, originating in france in the early part of the seventeenth century. the maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.
mauveine: an artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.
maverick: in the southwestern part of the united states, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from maverick, the name of a cattle owner in texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
maw: a gull.-a stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt.-appetite; inclination.-an old game at cards.
mawkish: apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.-easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
mawmet: a puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the middle ages it was generally believed that the mohammedans worshiped images representing mohammed.
mawmetry: the religion of mohammed; also, idolatry. see mawmet.
mawworm: any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.-one of the larvae of botflies of horses; a bot.
maxilla: the bone of either the upper or the under jaw.-the bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.-one of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.
maxillary: pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.-the principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.-of or pertaining to a maxilla.
maxilliped: one of the mouth appendages of crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower crustacea have but one pair of them. called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.
maxillo-mandibular: pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.
maxillo-palatine: pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. also used as n.
maxilloturbinal: pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.-the maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.
maxim: an established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.-the longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
maximilian: a gold coin of bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
maximum: the greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.-greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
may: an auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.-a maiden.-the fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.-the early part or springtime of life.-the flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.-the merrymaking of may day.
maya: the name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in english, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
maybe: perhaps; possibly; peradventure.-possible; probable, but not sure.-possibility; uncertainty.
maybird: the whimbrel; -- called also may fowl, may curlew, and may whaap.-the knot.-the bobolink.
mayflower: in england, the hawthorn; in new england, the trailing arbutus (see arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.
mayhem: the maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. see maim.
mayonnaise: a sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. also, a dish dressed with this sauce.
mayor: the chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. in some american cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
maypole: a tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic may-day sports were had.
maypop: the edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the north american passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.
mayweed: a composite plant (anthemis cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. it is a native of europe, now common by the roadsides in the united states.-the feverfew.
mazame: a goatlike antelope (haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the rocky mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.
mazard: a kind of small black cherry.-the jaw; the head or skull.-to knock on the head.
mazarine: of or pertaining to cardinal mazarin, prime minister of france, 1643-1661.-mazarine blue.
mazdean: of or pertaining to ahura-mazda, or ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, zoroastrian.
maze: a wild fancy; a confused notion.-confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.-a confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.-to perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.-to be bewildered.
mazurka: a polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.
mazy: perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
me: one. see men, pron.-the person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum i; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me.
mead: a fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.-a drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. it is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.-a meadow.
meadow: a tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.-low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near newark bay.-of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
meadowwort: the name of several plants of the genus spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered s. salicifolia, a low european and american shrub, and the herbaceous s. ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
meadowy: of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.
meagre: destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.-destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.-dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.-to make lean.-a large european sciaenoid fish (sciaena umbra or s. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. it is valued as a food fish.
meagreness: the state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
meaking: the process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
meal: a part; a fragment; a portion.-the portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.-grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.-any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.-to sprinkle with, or as with, meal.-to pulverize; as, mealed powder.
mealy: having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.-overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
mealy-mouthed: using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
mean: to have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?-to signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.-to have a purpose or intention.-destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.-wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.-of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.-of poor quality; as, mean fare.-penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.-occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.-intermediate in excellence of any kind.-average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.-that which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.-a quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. a geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.-that through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.-hence: resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.-a part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.-meantime; meanwhile.-a mediator; a go-between.
meander: a winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.-a tortuous or intricate movement.-fretwork. see fret.-to wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.-to wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
meandrina: a genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
meaning: of mean-that which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.-that which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.-sense; power of thinking.
meanly: moderately.-in a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.
meanness: the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.-a mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
meanwhile: the intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).-in the intervening time; during the interval.
measle: a leper.-a tapeworm larva. see 2d measles, 4.
measles: leprosy; also, a leper.-a contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola.-a disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.-a disease of trees.-the larvae of any tapeworm (taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. called also bladder worms.
measly: infected with measles.-containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
measurable: capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.-moderate; temperate; not excessive.
measure: a standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.-an instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.-the dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.-the contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.-extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.-determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.-the quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.-undefined quantity; extent; degree.-regulated division of movement-a regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet.-the group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.-the space between two bars.-the manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.-a number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers.-a step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.-the act of measuring; measurement.-beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.-to ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.-to serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.-to pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.-to adjust by a rule or standard.-to allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.-to make a measurement or measurements.-to result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.-to be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.
measured: of measure-regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.
measurement: the act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.-the extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
measurer: one who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
measuring: of measure-used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.
meat: food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.-the flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.-specifically, dinner; the chief meal.-to supply with food.
meated: fed; fattened.-having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick-meated.
meatotome: an instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.
meatus: a natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. see illust. of ear.
mecate: a rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.
meccawee: of or pertaining to mecca, in arabia.-a native or inhabitant of mecca.
mechanic: the art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.-a mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.-having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.-of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.-base.
mechanical: pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.-of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.-done as if by a machine; uninfluenced by will or emotion; proceeding automatically, or by habit, without special intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing; mechanical verses; mechanical service.-made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.-obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. see the 2d note under geometric.-a mechanic.
mechanico-chemical: pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
mechanics: that science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.