AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
surprise: the act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.-the state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.-anything that causes such a state or emotion.-a dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.-to come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.-to strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me.-to lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state; -- with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity.-to hold possession of; to hold.
surprising: of surprise-exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger.
surquedrous: having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent.
surquidry: overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence.
surrender: to yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.-to give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.-to yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.-to yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.-to give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.-the act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.-the yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.-the giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.-the delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. see extradition.
surreption: the act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.-a coming unperceived or suddenly.
surreptitious: done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods.
surrey: a four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.
surrogate: a deputy; a delegate; a substitute.-the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.-in some states of the united states, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.-to put in the place of another; to substitute.
surround: to inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.-to lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.-to pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.-to inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.-a method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
surrounding: of surround-inclosing; encircling.-an encompassing.-the things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.
surroyal: one of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
sursolid: the fifth power of a number; as, a/ is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2.
surtout: a man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.
surveillant: one who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.-overseeing; watchful.
survey: to inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.-to view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.-to examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.-to determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.-to examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.-the act of surveying; a general view, as from above.-a particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.-the operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it.
surveying: of survey-that branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
surveyor: one placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.-one who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.-one who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.-an officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.-in the united states, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
survival: a living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.-any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.
survive: to live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.-to remain alive; to continue to live.
surviving: of survive-remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
survivor: one who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.-the longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything.
survivorship: the state of being a survivor.-the right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other.
susceptibility: the state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.-specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
susceptible: capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.-capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
susceptor: one who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
suslik: a ground squirrel (spermophilus citillus) of europe and asia. it has large cheek pouches.
suspect: suspicious; inspiring distrust.-suspected; distrusted.-suspicion.-one who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.-to imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.-to imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.-to hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.-to look up to; to respect.-to imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
suspectful: apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others.
suspectless: not suspecting; having no suspicion.-not suspected; not mistrusted.
suspend: to attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.-to make to depend; as, god hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.-to cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.-to hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.-to debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.-to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.-to support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.-to cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
suspender: one who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
suspensation: the act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.
suspense: held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.-expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.-the state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.-cessation for a time; stop; pause.-a temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
suspension: the act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.-especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation-of labor, study, pain, etc.-of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.-of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.-of punishment, or sentence of punishment.-of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.-of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.-a conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.-the state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.-a keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.-a stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.-the prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.  cf. retardation.
suspensive: tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.
suspensor: a suspensory.-the cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
suspensorium: anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
suspensory: suspended; hanging; depending.-fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.-of or pertaining to a suspensorium.-that which suspends, or holds up, as a truss-a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.
suspicion: the act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.-slight degree; suggestion; hint.-to view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.
suspicious: inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.-indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.-liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
suspiral: a breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.-a spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
suspiration: the act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.
suspire: to fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.-a long, deep breath; a sigh.
sustain: to keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.-hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.-to maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.-to aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.-to endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.-to suffer; to bear; to undergo.-to allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.-to prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.-one who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.
sustained: of sustain-held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.
sustaltic: mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient greeks.
sustenance: the act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.-that which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.
sustentation: the act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.-the aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
sustentative: adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations.
sutler: a person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.
sutor: a kind of sirup made by the indians of arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the cereus giganteus).
sutra: a precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.-a collection of such aphorisms.-a body of hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the vedic and later sanscrit literature.
suttee: a hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.-the act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.
sutteeism: the practice of self-immolation of widows in hindostan.
suttle: the weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.-to act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.
sutural: of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.-taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.
suturated: sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.
suture: the act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.-the uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.-the stitch by which the parts are united.-the line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. see harmonic suture, under harmonic.-the line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.-a line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.-the line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.-a seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
suwarrow: the giant cactus (cereus giganteus); -- so named by the indians of arizona.  called also saguaro.
suzerain: a superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.
swab: to clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.-a kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.-a bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.-an epaulet.-a cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.-a sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
swabber: to swab.-one who swabs a floor or desk.-formerly, an interior officer on board of british ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.-same as swobber, 2.
swad: a cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.-a clown; a country bumpkin.-a lump of mass; also, a crowd.-a thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
swaddle: anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.-to bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.-to beat; to cudgel.
swaddling: of swaddle-a. & n. from swaddle, v.
swag: to hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.-to sink down by its weight; to sag.-a swaying, irregular motion.-a burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.
swagbelly: a prominent, overhanging belly.-any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous.
swage: see assuage.-a tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.-to shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
swagger: to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.-to boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.-to bully.-the act or manner of a swaggerer.
swaggerer: one who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.
swaggy: inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.
swain: a servant.-a young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.
swainish: pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.
swainmote: a court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury.
swale: a valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.-to melt and waste away; to singe. see sweal, v.-a gutter in a candle.
swallow: any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. they have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.-any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common american chimney swallow, or swift.-the aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.-to take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.-to draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.-to receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.-to engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.-to occupy; to take up; to employ.-to seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.-to retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.-to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.-to perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.-the act of swallowing.-the gullet, or esophagus; the throat.-taste; relish; inclination; liking.-capacity for swallowing; voracity.-as much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.-that which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
swallow-tailed: having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.-united by dovetailing; dovetailed.
swallowfish: the european sapphirine gurnard (trigla hirundo). it has large pectoral fins.
swallowtail: a kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. see dovetail.-a species of willow.-an outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form.  called also priestcap.-a swallow-tailed coat.-an arrow.-any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
swallowwort: see celandine.-a poisonous plant (vincetoxicum officinale) of the milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.
swamp: wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.-to plunge or sink into a swamp.-to cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.-fig.: to plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.-to sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.-to become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
swampy: consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
swan: any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to cygnus, olor, and allied genera of the subfamily cygninae. they have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. most of the northern species are white. in literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.-fig.: an appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as shakespeare is called the swan of avon.-the constellation cygnus.
swan-upping: a yearly expedition on the thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by companies of dyers and vintners; -- called also swan-hopping.
swanherd: one who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of england.
swans-down: the down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.-a fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin.