AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sane: being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.-mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
sang-froid: freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness.
sangu: the abyssinian ox (bos / bibos, africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. it has a hump on its back.
sanguiferous: conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.
sanguification: the production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.
sanguinaria: a genus of plants of the poppy family.-the rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
sanguinary: attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.-bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.-the yarrow.-the sanguinaria.
sanguine: having the color of blood; red.-characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.-warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.-anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.-blood color; red.-anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.-bloodstone.-red crayon. see the note under crayon, 1.-to stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
sanguineous: abounding with blood; sanguine.-of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood.-blood-red; crimson.
sanguinolent: tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.
sanguivorous: subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. see vampire.
sanhedrim: the great council of the jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. it had jurisdiction of religious matters.
sanhita: a collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each veda.
sanicle: any plant of the umbelliferous genus sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.
sanidine: a variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.
sanies: a thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
sanious: pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.-discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer.
sanitarian: of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.-an advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
sanitary: of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. see the note under sanatory.
sanitation: the act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
sanity: the condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
sankha: a chank shell (turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in india from the chank shell.
sankhya: a hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness.
sans-culotte: a fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first french revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.-hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a jacobin.
sans-culottic: pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; jacobinical.
sans-culottism: extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
sanskrit: the ancient language of the hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of india. it is nearly allied to the persian, and to the principal languages of europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. cf. prakrit, and veda.-of or pertaining to sanskrit; written in sanskrit; as, a sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
santal: a colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. it is extracted from sandalwood.
santalaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (santalaceae), of which the genus santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other north american plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.
santalic: of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.
santalum: a genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. there are less than a dozen species, occurring from india to australia and the pacific islands. see sandalwood.
santees: one of the seven confederated tribes of indians belonging to the sioux, or dakotas.
santon: a turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.
santonic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.
santonin: a white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. it occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.
santoninic: of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.
sao: any marine annelid of the genus hyalinaecia, especially h. tubicola of europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
sap: the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.-the sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.-a simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.-to subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.-to pierce with saps.-to make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.-to proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.-a narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
sapajou: any one of several species of south american monkeys of the genus cebus, having long and prehensile tails. some of the species are called also capuchins. the bonnet sapajou (c. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (c. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (c. hypoleucus) are well known species. see capuchin.
sapan wood: a dyewood yielded by caesalpinia sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of southern asia and the neighboring islands. it is the original brazil wood.
saphenous: manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man.-of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes.
sapid: having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.
sapidity: the quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.
sapindaceous: of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera.
sapindus: a genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. the fruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.
sapless: destitute of sap; not juicy.-fig.: dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.
sapodilla: a tall, evergeen, tropical american tree (achras sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum.
saponification: the act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.
saponify: to convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.
saponin: a poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (quillaia), etc. it is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. by extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
saponite: a hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. it occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.
saponul: a soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
saporific: having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish.
sapotaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order (sapotaceae) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (isonandra), and the india mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.
sapper: one who saps; specifically (mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
sapphic: of or pertaining to sappho, the grecian poetess; as, sapphic odes; sapphic verse.-belonging to, or in the manner of, sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.-a sapphic verse.
sapphire: native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, al2o3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.-the color of the gem; bright blue.-any humming bird of the genus hylocharis, native of south america. the throat and breast are usually bright blue.-of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
sapphirine: resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.
sappho: any one of several species of brilliant south american humming birds of the genus sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
sappy: abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.-hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.-weak in intellect.-abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.-musty; tainted.
saprophagan: one of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
saprophyte: any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the indian pipe.
saprophytic: feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
sapsago: a kind of swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
sapwood: the alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
saraband: a slow spanish dance of saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.
saracen: anciently, an arab; later, a mussulman; in the middle ages, the common term among christians in europe for a mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
saracenical: of or pertaining to the saracens; as, saracenic architecture.
saraswati: the sakti or wife of brahma; the hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.
sarcasm: a keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
sarcastical: expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
sarcel: one of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
sarcina: a genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. the individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group.
sarco-: a combining form from gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology.
sarcobasis: a fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
sarcoblast: a minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.
sarcocarp: the fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. see illust. of endocarp.
sarcocolla: a gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of africa (penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.
sarcode: a name applied by dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
sarcoderma: a fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.-a sarcocarp.
sarcolactic: relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. see lactic acid, under lactic.
sarcolemma: the very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
sarcology: that part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. it includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.
sarcoma: a tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.
sarcophaga: a suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.-a genus of diptera, including the flesh flies.
sarcophagan: any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.-any fly of the genus sarcophaga.
sarcophagus: a species of limestone used among the greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. it is otherwise called lapis assius, or assian stone, and is said to have been found at assos, a city of lycia.-a coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.-a stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
sarcophile: a flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.
sarcoptid: any species of the genus sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites.-of or pertaining to the itch mites.
sarcosin: a crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.
sarcous: fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.
sard: a variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. see the note under chalcedony.
sardine: any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or european sardine (clupea pilchardus). the california sardine (clupea sagax) is similar. the american sardines of the atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.-see sardius.
sardinian: of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of sardinia.-a native or inhabitant of sardinia.
sardius: a precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in aaron's breastplate.
sardonic: forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at colchis.
sardonyx: a variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
saree: the principal garment of a hindoo woman. it consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.
sargo: any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to sargus, pomadasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.
sarigue: a small south american opossum (didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.
sarking: thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
sarmatic: of or pertaining to sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the russians and the poles.
sarment: a prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. see runner.
sarmentose: long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.-bearing sarments; sarmentaceous.
sarong: a sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in java and the malay archipelago.
saros: a chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.
sarplar: a large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.
sarplier: a coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc.
sarpo: a large toadfish of the southern united states and the gulf of mexico (batrachus tau, var. pardus).
sarracenia: a genus of american perennial herbs growing in bogs; the american pitcher plant.
sarsaparilla: any plant of several tropical american species of smilax.-the bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.
sarsen: one of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the english chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and druid stone.
sartorial: of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.-of or pertaining to the sartorius muscle.
sartorius: a muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. so named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.
sarum use: a liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by st. osmund, bishop of sarum, based on anglo-saxon and norman customs.
sash: a scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.-to adorn with a sash or scarf.-the framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.-in a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.-to furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.
sasin: the indian antelope (antilope bezoartica, / cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. it has long, spiral, divergent horns.
sassabye: a large african antelope (alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.
sassafras: an american tree of the laurel family (sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.
sasse: a sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
sassoline: native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near sasso, in the territory of florence.
sassy bark: the bark of a west african leguminous tree (erythrophlaeum guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark.
satan: the grand adversary of man; the devil, or prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.
satanical: of or pertaining to satan; having the qualities of satan; resembling satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal.
satchel: a little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.
sate: to satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.-imp. of sit.-of sit
sateen: a kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.
satellite: an attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.-a secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. see solar system, under solar.-situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.
satiate: filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.-to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.-to full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.-to saturate.
satiety: the state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.
satin: a silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.
satinet: a thin kind of satin.-a kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.
satinwood: the hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an east indian tree (chloroxylon swietenia). it takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. the name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (xanthoxylum caribaeum) growing in florida and the west indies.
satiny: like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.
satire: a composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the satires of juvenal.-keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
satirical: of or pertaining to satire; of the nature of satire; as, a satiric style.-censorious; severe in language; sarcastic; insulting.
satirize: to make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
satisfaction: the act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands.-settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation.-that which satisfies or gratifies; atonement.
satisfactory: giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.-making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.
satisfy: in general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.-to pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.-to answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.-to free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.-to give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.-to make payment or atonement; to atone.
satrap: the governor of a province in ancient persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.