AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
studbook: a genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.
studdery: a stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.
studding: of stud-material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
studding sail: a light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. see illust. of sail.
student: a person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.-one who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.
studfish: any one of several species of small american minnows of the genus fundulus, as f. catenatus.
studied: closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.-well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.-premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult.-intent; inclined.-of study
studious: given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.-given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.-earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.-planned with study; deliberate; studied.-favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.
study: a setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.-mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.-any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.-a building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.-a representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.-a piece for special practice. see etude.-to fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.-to apply the mind to books or learning.-to endeavor diligently; to be zealous.-to apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.-to consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.-to form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.-to make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.
stuff: material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.-the fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.-woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.-furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.-a medicine or mixture; a potion.-refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.-a melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.-paper stock ground ready for use.-to fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.-to thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.-to fill by being pressed or packed into.-to fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.-to obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.-to fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.-to form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.-to crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.-to put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).-to feed gluttonously; to cram.
stuffing: of stuff-that which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.-any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.-a mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
stuffy: stout; mettlesome; resolute.-angry and obstinate; sulky.-ill-ventilated; close.
stull: a framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
stulp: a short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.
stultify: to make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.-to regard as a fool, or as foolish.-to allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
stum: unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.-wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.-to renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
stumble: to trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.-to walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.-to fall into a crime or an error; to err.-to strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.-to cause to stumble or trip.-fig.: to mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.-a trip in walking or running.-a blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
stump: the part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.-the part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.-the legs; as, to stir one's stumps.-one of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.-a short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.-a pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.-to cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.-to strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.-to challenge; also, to nonplus.-to travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a state, or a district. see to go on the stump, under stump, n.-to put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.-to bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.-to walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
stumpage: timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.-a tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.
stumper: one who stumps.-a boastful person.-a puzzling or incredible story.
stun: to make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.-to dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.-to astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.-the condition of being stunned.
stunner: one who, or that which, stuns.-something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.
stunning: of stun-overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.-striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
stunt: to hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.-a check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.-specifically: a whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
stupe: cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.-to foment with a stupe.-a stupid person.
stupefacient: producing stupefaction; stupefactive.-anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.
stupefier: one who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.
stupefy: to make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.-to deprive of material mobility.
stupendous: astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.
stupeous: resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.
stupid: very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.-resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
stupidity: the quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.-stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.
stupor: great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.-intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
stupose: composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.
sturdy: foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.-resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.-characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.-stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.-a disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
sturgeon: any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to acipenser and allied genera of the family acipenseridae. they run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of north america, europe, and asia. caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.
sturt: to vex; to annoy; to startle.-disturbance; annoyance; care.-a bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
stutter: to hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.-the act of stuttering; a stammer. see stammer, and stuttering.-one who stutters; a stammerer.
stuttering: of stutter-the act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.-apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering.
sty: a pen or inclosure for swine.-a place of bestial debauchery.-to shut up in, or as in, a sty.-to soar; to ascend; to mount. see stirrup.-an inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
styca: an anglo-saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.
stycerin: a triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
stygian: of or pertaining to the river styx; hence, hellish; infernal. see styx.
stylagalmaic: performing the office of columns; as, atlantes and caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images.
stylaster: any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus stylaster.
style: an instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.-hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.-a pen; an author's pen.-a sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.-a kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.-a long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.-the pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. see gnomon.-the elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. see illust. of stamen, and of pistil.-mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.-mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.-conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.-mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of majesty.-a mode of reckoning time, with regard to the julian and gregorian calendars.-to entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
stylet: a small poniard; a stiletto.-an instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.-a stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.-any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain infusoria.
styliform: having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.
stylish: having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.
stylist: one who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.
stylite: one of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.
stylo-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.
stylobate: the uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. see sub-base.
stylographic: of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.-pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.
stylography: a mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.
stylohyal: a segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.
styloid: styliform; as, the styloid process.-of or pertaining to the styloid process.
stylomastoid: of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
stylommatophora: a division of pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. it includes the common land snails and slugs. see illust. under snail.
stylopodium: an expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
stylops: a genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. it is the typical genus of the group strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the coleoptera. see strepsiptera.
stylus: an instrument for writing. see style, n., 1.-that needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle.  the stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.-the needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.-a pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
styphnic: pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (no2)3.c6h.(oh)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. it acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.
styptic: producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.-a styptic medicine.
styracin: a white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
styrax: a genus of shrubs and trees, mostly american or asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. styrax officinalis yields storax, and s. benzoin yields benzoin.-same as storax.
styrolene: an unsaturated hydrocarbon, c8h8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.
styrone: a white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol.
styryl: a hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.
styx: the principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
suasion: the act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.
suave: sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
suavity: sweetness to the taste.-the quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
sub-: a prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. sub- in latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).-a prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc.  prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate.
sub-base: the lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.
sub-bass: the deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.
subacid: moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.-a substance moderately acid.
subaerial: beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.
subagent: a person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.
subalpine: inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.
subaltern: ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.-asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.-a person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.-a subaltern proposition.
subalternate: succeeding by turns; successive.-subordinate; subaltern; inferior.-a particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. see subaltern, 2.
subalternation: the state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
subapennine: under, or at the foot of, the apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of tertiary strata of the older pliocene period.
subapical: being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.
subaqueous: being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.-formed in or under water; as, subaqueous deposits.
subarcuated: having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.
subarration: the ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.
subarytenoid: situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
subash: a province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.
subashdar: a viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the british native army.
subatom: a hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.
subaudition: the act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.
subaxillary: situated under the axilla, or armpit.-placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch.
subbrachiales: a division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.
subbreed: a race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.
subbronchial: situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
subcarboniferous: of or pertaining to the lowest division of the carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. it was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone.-the subcarboniferous period or formation.
subcartilaginous: situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.-partially cartilaginous.
subcaudal: situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.
subchanter: an underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.
subclass: one of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.
subclavian: situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.
subconscious: occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.-partially conscious; feebly conscious.
subcontractor: one who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
subcontrary: contrary in an inferior degree.-having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.-denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. of these both may be true and only one can be false.-a subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.
subcoracoid: situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.
subcostal: situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles.-a subcostal muscle.-one of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. it is situated next beneath or behind the costal. see nervure.
subcranial: situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.
subcrustaceous: occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.
subcultrated: having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.