AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
swinger: one who swings or whirls.-one who swinges.-anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.-a person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.-a person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
swingle: to dangle; to wave hanging.-to swing for pleasure.-to clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.-to beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.-a wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
swingletree: a whiffletree, or whippletree. see singletree.
swingling: of swingle-a. & n. from swingle, v. t.
swingtree: the bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
swinish: of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
swink: to labor; to toil; to salve.-to cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.-to acquire by labor.-labor; toil; drudgery.
swipe: a swape or sweep. see sweep.-a strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.-poor, weak beer; small beer.-to give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.-to pluck; to snatch; to steal.
swiple: that part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
swirl: to whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.-a whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
swish: to flourish, so as to make the sound swish.-to flog; to lash.-to dash; to swash.-a sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.-light driven spray.
swiss: a native or inhabitant of switzerland; a switzer; the people of switzerland.-of or pertaining to switzerland, or the people of switzerland.
switch: a small, flexible twig or rod.-a movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.-a separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.-a mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.-to strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.-to swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.-to trim, as, a hedge.-to turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.-to shift to another circuit.-to walk with a jerk.
switchel: a beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
swivel: a piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.-a small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun.-to swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
swizzle: to drink; to swill.-ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.
swobber: see swabber.-four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist.
swollen: of swell-p. p. of swell.-enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
swoon: to sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.-a fainting fit; syncope.
swoop: to fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.-to seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.-to descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.-to pass with pomp; to sweep.-a falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
sword: an offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. it is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.-hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.-destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.-the military power of a country.-one of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
sword-shaped: shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the iris, cattail, and the like.
swordbill: a humming bird (docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
sworder: one who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
swordfish: a very large oceanic fish (xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family xiphiidae. it is highly valued as a food fish. the bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. the adult is destitute of teeth. it becomes sixteen feet or more long.-the gar pike.-the cutlass fish.-a southern constellation. see dorado, 1.
swordplayer: a fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
swordsman: a soldier; a fighting man.-one skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
swordsmanship: the state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.
swordtail: the limulus.-any hemipterous insect of the genus uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
swough: a sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.-a swoon.
sybaritical: of or pertaining to the sybarites; resembling the sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate.
sybaritism: luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
sycamore: a large tree (ficus sycomorus) allied to the common fig.  it is found in egypt and syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of scripture.-the american plane tree, or buttonwood.-a large european species of maple (acer pseudo-platanus).
sycee: silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. the most common weight is about one pound troy.
sychnocarpous: having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.
sycite: a nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
sycoceric: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.
sycoceryl: a radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an australian species of fig.
syconus: a collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
sycophancy: the character or characteristic of a sycophant.-false accusation; calumniation; talebearing.-obsequious flattery; servility.
sycophant: an informer; a talebearer.-a base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.-to inform against; hence, to calumniate.-to play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.-to play the sycophant.
sycophantical: of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.
sycosis: a pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.
syderolite: a kind of bohemian earthenware resembling the wedgwood ware.
syenite: orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at syene, in upper egypt, and now called granite.-a granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.
syenitic: relating to syene; as, syenitic inscriptions.-relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.
syllabary: a table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the japanese and cherokee, instead of letters.
syllabical: of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.-consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment.
syllabication: the act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. see guide to pron., /275.
syllabism: the expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.
syllabist: one who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.
syllable: an elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. in other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. one of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. see guide to pronunciation, /275.-in writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. it may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.-a small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.-to pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
syllabus: a compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
syllepsis: a figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.-the agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
syllogism: the regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration
syllogistical: of or pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.
sylph: an imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.-fig.: a slender, graceful woman.-any one of several species of very brilliant south american humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (cynanthus cyanurus).
sylvan: of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.-abounding in forests or in trees; woody.-a fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.-a liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
sylvanite: a mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. it often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium.
sylvic: of, pertaining to, or resembling, pine or its products; specifically, designating an acid called also abeitic acid, which is the chief ingredient of common resin (obtained from pinus sylvestris, and other species).
sylvicoline: of or pertaining to the family of warblers (sylvicolidae). see warbler.
sylviculture: the cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.
symbol: a visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.-any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.-an abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.-that which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.-share; allotment.-an abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the latin or new latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, c for carbon, na for sodium (natrium), fe for iron (ferrum), sn for tin (stannum), sb for antimony (stibium), etc.  see the list of names and symbols under element.-to symbolize.
symbolical: of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.
symbolics: the study of ancient symbols-that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.
symbolism: the act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.-a system of symbols or representations.-the practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby.-a combining together of parts or ingredients.-the science of creeds; symbolics.
symbolize: to have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.-to hold the same faith; to agree.-to use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.-to make to agree in properties or qualities.-to make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.-to represent by a symbol or symbols.
symbological: pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterized by, symbology.
symbranchii: an order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. the pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. called also symbranchia.
symmetrical: involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.-having the organs or parts of one side corresponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry.  see symmetry, 2.-having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.-having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.-having a common measure; commensurable.-having corresponding parts or relations.
symmetry: a due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.-the law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.-equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.-likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.
sympathetic: inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.-produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.-produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. see sympathy.-of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.
sympathize: to have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.-to feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.-to agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.-to experience together.-to ansew to; to correspond to.
sympathy: feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.-an agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.-kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.-the reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.-that relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. this is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.-a tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.-similarity of function, use office, or the like.
symphonic: symphonious.-relating to, or in the manner of, symphony; as, the symphonic form or style of composition.
symphony: a consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.-a stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.-an elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. the term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of liszt. the term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.-an instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
symphyla: an order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. they are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
symphyseotomy: the operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the sigualtian section.
symphysis: an articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.-the union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw.  cf. articulation.
sympiesometer: a sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.
symplectic: plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.-the symplectic bone.
symploce: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, justice came down from heaven to view the earth; justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
sympodial: composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.
sympodium: an axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.
symposiac: of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.-a conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.
symposium: a drinking together; a merry feast.-a collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the greeks.
symptom: any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.-a sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.
symptomatical: of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.-according to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.
symptomatology: the doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
syn-: a prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l.
synagogue: a congregation or assembly of jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.-the building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the jews.-the council of, probably, 120 members among the jews, first appointed after the return from the babylonish captivity; -- called also the great synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the sanhedrin.-a congregation in the early christian church.-any assembly of men.
synalepha: a contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.
synallagmatic: imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract.
synallaxine: having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.
synangium: the divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
synantherous: having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.
synanthesis: the simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.
synanthous: having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.
synanthrose: a variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the jerusalem artichoke (helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other compositae.
synapta: a genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. see illustration in appendix.
synaptase: a ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds.  cf. amygdalin, and emulsin.
synapticula: one of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.
synartesis: a fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.
synarthrosis: immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. it sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. see the note under articulation, n., 1.
synastry: concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.
syncarp: a kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.
syncategorematic: not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.
synchondrosis: an immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.
synchronal: happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous.-a synchronal thing or event.
synchronism: the concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.-the tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates.-a representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.
synchronistic: of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.
synchronize: to agree in time; to be simultaneous.-to assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of greek and roman history.-to cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.
synchysis: a derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.
synclastic: curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.