AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ritualism: a system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.-specifically :(a) the principles and practices of those in the church of england, who in the development of the oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of edward vi., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. schaff-herzog encyc. (b) also, the principles and practices of those in the protestant episcopal church who sympathize with this party in the church of england.
ritualist: one skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
ritualistic: pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
rivage: a bank, shore, or coast.-a duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
rival: a person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.-one who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.-having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.-to stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.-to strive to equal or exel; to emulate.-to be in rivalry.
rive: to rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.-to be split or rent asunder.-a place torn; a rent; a rift.
rivel: to contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.-a wrinkle; a rimple.
river: one who rives or splits.-a large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.-fig.: a large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.-to hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
rivet: a metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.-to fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.-to spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.-hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
riveting: of rivet-the act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.-the whole set of rivets, collectively.
rix-dollar: a name given to several different silver coins of denmark, holland, sweden,, norway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a british coin worth about 36 cents, used in ceylon and at the cape of good hope. see rigsdaler, riksdaler, and rixdaler.
ro-setta stone: a stone found at rosetta, in egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient egypt.
roach: a cockroach.-a european fresh-water fish of the carp family (leuciscus rutilus). it is silver-white, with a greenish back.-an american chub (semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.-the redfin, or shiner.-a convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.-to cause to arch.-to cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
roach-backed: having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.
road: a journey, or stage of a journey.-an inroad; an invasion; a raid.-a place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.-a place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, hampton roads.
roadbed: in railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
roadside: land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. also used ajectively.
roadster: a clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.-a horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.-a bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.-one who drives much; a coach driver.-a hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
roam: to go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.-to range or wander over.-the act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.
roan: having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.-made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.-the color of a roan horse; a roan color.-a roan horse.-a kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
roar: to cry with a full, loud, continued sound.-to bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.-to cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.-to make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.-to be boisterous; to be disorderly.-to laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.-to make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. see roaring, 2.-to cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.-the sound of roaring.-the deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.-the cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.-a loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.-a boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
roarer: one who, or that which, roars.-a riotous fellow; a roaring boy.-a horse subject to roaring. see roaring, 2.-the barn owl.
roaring: of roar-a loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.-an affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. see roar, v. i., 5.
roast: to cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.-to cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.-to dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.-hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.-to dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.-to banter severely.-to cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.-to undergo the process of being roasted.-that which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.-roasted; as, roast beef.
roaster: one who roasts meat.-a contrivance for roasting.-a pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
rob: the inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. it is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.-to take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.-to take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.-to deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.-to take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
robber: one who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.
robbery: the act or practice of robbing; theft.-the crime of robbing. see rob, v. t., 2.
robbin: a kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the east indies. the robbin of rice in malabar weighs about 84 pounds.-see ropeband.
robe: an outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.-a skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.-to invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.
robertsman: a bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from robin hood.
robin: a small european singing bird (erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.-an american singing bird (merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. the upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.-any one of several species of australian warblers of the genera petroica, melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (petroica mullticolor).-any one of several asiatic birds; as, the indian robins. see indian robin, below.
robinet: the chaffinch; -- called also roberd.-the european robin.-a military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
robinia: a genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of north america (robinia pseudocacia).
robust: evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.-violent; rough; rude.-requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
rocambole: a name of allium scorodoprasum and a. ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.
roccellic: pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance c17h32o4.
roccellin: a red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc.  it consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.
roche alum: a kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called from rocca, in syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum.
rochet: a linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.-a frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.-the red gurnard, or gurnet. see gurnard.
rock: see roc.-a distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.-a large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. see stone.-any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.-that which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.-fig.: anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.-the striped bass. see under bass.-to cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.-to move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.-to move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.-to roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
rock shaft: a shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
rock staff: an oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
rockaway: formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.
rocker: one who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.-one of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.-any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.-a play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.-a chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.-a skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.-same as rock shaft.
rockery: a mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
rocket: a cruciferous plant (eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in europe as a salad.-damewort.-rocket larkspur. see below.-an artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. the rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.-a blunt lance head used in the joust.-to rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
rocketer: a bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
rockfish: any one of several california scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (s. ruber). they are among the most important of california market fishes. called also rock cod, and garrupa.-the striped bass. see bass.-any one of several species of florida and bermuda groupers of the genus epinephelus.-an american fresh-water darter; the log perch.
rocking: of rock-having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
rocking-horse: the figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
rocking-stone: a stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
rockling: any species of small marine fishes of the genera onos and rhinonemus (formerly motella), allied to the cod. they have three or four barbels.
rockrose: a name given to any species of the genus helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the european h. vulgare and the american frostweed, h. canadense.
rockweed: any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially fucus.
rocky: full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.-like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.-fig.: not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
rocoa: the orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant bixa orellana, from which annotto is prepared. see annoto.
rococo: a florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.-of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
rod: a straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).-an instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.-a kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.-a support for a fishing line; a fish pole.-a member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar. -an instrument for measuring.-a measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
rode: of ride-redness; complexion.-imp. of ride.-see rood, the cross.
rodent: gnawing; biting; corroding; (med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.-gnawing.-of or pertaining to the rodentia.-one of the rodentia.
rodentia: an order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. the rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
rodomont: a vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio.-bragging; vainly boasting.
rodomontade: vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.-to boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
rodsman: one who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
roe: a roebuck. see roebuck.-the female of any species of deer.-the ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.-a mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
roebuck: a small european and asiatic deer (capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. this, the smallest european deer, is very nimble and graceful. it always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
rogation: the demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.-litany; supplication.
rogatory: seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.
rogue: a vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.-a deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.-one who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.-an elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.-a worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.-to wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.-to give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.-to destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
roguery: the life of a vargant.-the practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.-arch tricks; mischievousness.
roguish: vagrant.-resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.-pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.
roil: to render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.-to disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.-to wander; to roam.-to romp.
roin: see royne.-a scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
roister: to bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.-see roisterer.
rokee: parched indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage.
role: a part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
roller: one who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.-a bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.-one of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.-a long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.-a cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.-a long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.-a small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.-any insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see tortrix.-any one of numerous species of old world picarian birds of the family coraciadae. the name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.-any species of small ground snakes of the family tortricidae.
rollic: to move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.
rolling: of roll-rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.-moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.-having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.
rolling-pin: a cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
rolly-poly: a kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed.-shaped like a rolly-poly; short and stout.
rolly-pooly: a game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.
romaic: of or relating to modern greece, and especially to its language.-the modern greek language, now usually called by the greeks hellenic or neo-hellenic.
roman: of or pertaining to rome, or the roman people; like or characteristic of rome, the roman people, or things done by romans; as, roman fortitude; a roman aqueduct; roman art.-of or pertaining to the roman catholic religion; professing that religion.-upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from italic characters.-expressed in letters, not in figures, as i., iv., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.-a native, or permanent resident, of rome; a citizen of rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a roman citizen were conferred.-roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from italics.
romance: a species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of arthur, and of amadis of gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.-an adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.-a dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.-the languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar latin, and have now developed into italian. spanish, french, etc. (called the romanic languages).-a short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.-of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as romance.-to write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
romanesque: somewhat resembling the roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.-of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.-romanesque style.
romanic: of or pertaining to rome or its people.-of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the middle ages, sprung out of the old roman, or popular form of latin, as the italian, spanish, portuguese, french, provencal, etc.-related to the roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the romanic tongues.
romanize: to latinize; to fill with latin words or idioms.-to convert to the roman catholic religion.-to use latin words and idioms.-to conform to roman catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.