AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
satsuma ware: a kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at satsuma in kiushu, one of the japanese islands.
saturant: impregnating to the full; saturating.-a substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.-an antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach.
saturate: to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.-to satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.-filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
saturated: of saturate-filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.-having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. contrasted with unsaturated.
saturation: the act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.-the act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.-freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors.
saturn: one of the elder and principal deities, the son of coelus and terra (heaven and earth), and the father of jupiter. the corresponding greek divinity was kro`nos, later chro`nos, time.-one of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to jupiter, but more remote from the sun. its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. it is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.-the metal lead.
saturnalia: the festival of saturn, celebrated in december, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.-hence: a period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
saturnalian: of or pertaining to the saturnalia.-of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
saturnian: of or pertaining to saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.-hence: resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.-of or pertaining to the planet saturn; as, the saturnian year.-any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to saturnia and allied genera. the luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. they belong to the silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. see polyphemus.
saturnicentric: appearing as if seen from the center of the planet saturn; relating or referred to saturn as a center.
saturnine: born under, or influenced by, the planet saturn.-heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper.-of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called saturn.
satyr: a sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.-any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family nymphalidae. their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. called also meadow browns.-the orang-outang.
satyrical: of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy.
sauba ant: a south american ant (oecodoma cephalotes) remarkable for having two large kinds of workers besides the ordinary ones, and for the immense size of its formicaries. the sauba ant cuts off leaves of plants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus often does great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants.
sauce: a composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.-any garden vegetables eaten with meat.-stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.-sauciness; impertinence.-to accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.-to cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.-to make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.-to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.-a soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
saucebox: a saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.
saucepan: a small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
saucer: a small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.-a small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.-something resembling a saucer in shape.-a flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.-a shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
saucily: in a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.
sauciness: the quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.
saucisse: a long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.-a fascine of more than ordinary length.
saucy: showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.-expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks.
sauerkraut: cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a german dish.
sauger: an american fresh-water food fish (stizostedion canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
saunders-blue: a kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper.
saunter: to wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.-a sauntering, or a sauntering place.
saurel: any carangoid fish of the genus trachurus, especially t. trachurus, or t. saurus, of europe and america, and t. picturatus of california. called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.
sauria: a division of reptilia formerly established to include the lacertilia, crocodilia, dinosauria, and other groups. by some writers the name is restricted to the lacertilia.
saurian: of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the sauria.-one of the sauria.
saurognathous: having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (pici).
sauroid: like or pertaining to the saurians.-resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.
sauropoda: an extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. it includes the largest known land animals, belonging to brontosaurus, camarasaurus, and allied genera. see illustration in appendix.
saururae: an extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. archaeopteryx is the type. see archaeopteryx, and odontornithes.
saury: a slender marine fish (scomberesox saurus) of europe and america. it has long, thin, beaklike jaws. called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and egypt herring.
sausage: an article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.-a saucisson. see saucisson.
saussurite: a tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. it is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.
sauter: to fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.-psalter.
savage: of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.-wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.-uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.-characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.-a human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.-a man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.-to make savage.
savagery: the state of being savage; savageness; savagism.-an act of cruelty; barbarity.-wild growth, as of plants.
savagism: the state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
savanna: a tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
savant: a man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
save: the herb sage, or salvia.-to make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.-specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.-to keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.-to rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.-to hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.-to hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.-to avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.-except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.-except; unless.
save-all: anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.-a device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.-a small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
savine: a coniferous shrub (juniperus sabina) of western asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the united states and in british america. it is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc.-the north american red cedar (juniperus virginiana.)
saving: of save-preserving; rescuing.-avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.-bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.-making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.-with the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.-something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.-exception; reservation.
savingly: in a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.-so as to be finally saved from eternal death.
savingness: the quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.-tendency to promote salvation.
savior: one who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.-specifically: the (or our, your, etc.) savior, he who brings salvation to men; jesus christ, the redeemer.
savor: that property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.-hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.-sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.-pleasure; delight; attractiveness.-to have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.-to partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.-to use the sense of taste.-to perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.-to have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.-to taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.
savorless: having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.
savory: pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.-an aromatic labiate plant (satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.
savoy: a variety of the common cabbage (brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.
saw: imp. of see.-something said; speech; discourse.-a saying; a proverb; a maxim.-dictate; command; decree.-an instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.-to cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.-to form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.-also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.-to use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.-to cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.-to be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.-of see
saw-set: an instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest.
saw-whet: a small north american owl (nyctale acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also acadian owl.
saw-wort: any plant of the composite genus serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.
sawdust: dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.
sawfish: any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus pristis. they have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. the flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.
sawfly: any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family tenthredinidae. the female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. the larvae resemble those of lepidoptera.
sawhorse: a kind of rack, shaped like a double st. andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
sawtooth: an arctic seal (lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.
sawyer: one whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.-a tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.-the bowfin.
sax: a kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
sax-tuba: a powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the roman buccina, or tuba.
saxatile: of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.
saxhorn: a name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by antoine joseph adolphe sax (known as adolphe sax), of belgium and paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.
saxicava: any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus saxicava. some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.
saxicavid: of or pertaining to the saxicavas.-a saxicava.
saxicavous: boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. see illust. of lithodomus.
saxicoline: stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.
saxifraga: a genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. see saxifrage.
saxifragaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type. the order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.
saxifragant: breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous.-that which breaks or destroys stones.
saxifrage: any plant of the genus saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.
saxon: one of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of germany, and who, with other teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered england in the fifth and sixth centuries.-also used in the sense of anglo-saxon.-a native or inhabitant of modern saxony.-the language of the saxons; anglo-saxon.-of or pertaining to the saxons, their country, or their language.-anglo-saxon.-of or pertaining to saxony or its inhabitants.
saxophone: a wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
say: saw.-trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack.-tried quality; temper; proof.-essay; trial; attempt.-to try; to assay.-a kind of silk or satin.-a delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth.-to utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things.-to repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson.-to announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to.-to mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.-to speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.-a speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb.
saying: of say-that which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.
scab: an incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.-the itch in man; also, the scurvy.-the mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.-a disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (tiburcinia scabies).-a slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.-a mean, dirty, paltry fellow.-a nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.-to become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
scabbard: the case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.-to put in a scabbard.
scabbed: of scab-abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.-fig.: mean; paltry; vile; worthless.
scabby: affected with scabs; full of scabs.-diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
scabious: consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions.-any plant of the genus scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in europe. they resemble the compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.
scabrous: rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.-fig.: harsh; unmusical.
scad: a small carangoid fish (trachurus saurus) abundant on the european coast, and less common on the american. the name is applied also to several allied species.-the goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. see goggler.-the friar skate.-the cigar fish, or round robin.
scaffold: a temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.-specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.-an accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.-to furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
scaffolding: a scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.-materials for building scaffolds.
scagliola: an imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.
scala: a machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.-a term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.
scalar: in the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
scalaria: any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus scalaria, or family scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. the color is generally white or pale. called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. see ptenoglossa, and wentletrap.
scalariform: resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.-like or pertaining to a scalaria.
scald: to burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.-to expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.-a burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.-affected with the scab; scabby.-scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.-scurf on the head. see scall.-one of the ancient scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient teutonic tribes.
scaldfish: a european flounder (arnoglossus laterna, or psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.
scaldic: of or pertaining to the scalds of the norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.
scale-winged: having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
scaleback: any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. see illust. under chaetopoda.
scalebeam: the lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.-a weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
scaleboard: a thin slip of wood used to justify a page.-a thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.
scaled: of scale-covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.-without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.-having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
scalene: having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.-having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.-designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.-of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.-a triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
scalenohedron: a pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
scaler: one who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
scaling: of scale-adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.-serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.
scall: a scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.-scabby; scurfy.