AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ramble: to walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.-to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.-to extend or grow at random.-a going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.-a bed of shale over the seam.
rambling: of ramble-roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
rambooze: a beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.
rambutan: a malayan fruit produced by the tree nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. it is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. called also ramboostan.
ramed: having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
ramenta: thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
ramequin: a mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.
ramie: the grass-cloth plant (b/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also china grass, and rhea. see grass-cloth plant, under grass.
ramification: the process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.-a small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.-a division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.-the production of branchlike figures.
ramify: to divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.-to shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.-to be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
ramist: a follower of pierre rame, better known as ramus, a celebrated french scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at paris in the reign of henry ii., and opposed the aristotelians.
ramline: a line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.
rammer: one who, or that which, rams or drives.-an instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity-a rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod-an implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
ramoon: a small west indian tree (trophis americana) of the mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.
ramose: branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.
ramp: to spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.-to move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.-to climb, as a plant; to creep up.-a leap; a spring; a hostile advance.-a highwayman; a robber.-a romping woman; a prostitute.-any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.-a short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.-an inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
rampage: violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.-to leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.
rampancy: the quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.
rampant: ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.-ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.-rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. the right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.
rampart: that which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.-a broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. it forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.-to surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
rampion: a plant (campanula rapunculus) of the bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.
rampire: a rampart.-to fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.
ramrod: the rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
ramshackle: loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.-to search or ransack; to rummage.
ramson: a broad-leaved species of garlic (allium ursinum), common in european gardens; -- called also buckram.
ramsted: a yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a mr. ramsted who introduced it into pennsylvania. see toad flax. called also ramsted weed.
ramulus: a small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
ran: imp. of run.-open robbery.-yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.-of run
ranch: to wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.-a tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. see rancho, 2.
ranchero: a herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.-the owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.
ranchman: an owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.
rancho: a rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.-a large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
rancid: having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
rancidity: the quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.
rancor: the deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
rancorous: full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
rand: a border; edge; margin.-a long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.-a thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.-to rant; to storm.
randall grass: the meadow fescue (festuca elatior). see under grass.
randan: the product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.-a boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
randing: the act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.-a kind of basket work used in gabions.
random: force; violence.-a roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.-distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.-the direction of a rake-vein.-going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.
range: to set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.-to place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.-to separate into parts; to sift.-to dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.-to rove over or through; as, to range the fields.-to sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.-to be native to, or to live in; to frequent.-to rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.-to have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.-to be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.-to have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.-to be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from texas to paraguay.-a series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.-an aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.-the step of a ladder; a rung.-a kitchen grate.-an extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.-a bolting sieve to sift meal.-a wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.-that which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.-extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.-the region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.-the horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.-sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.-a place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.-in the public land system of the united states, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.-see range of cable, below.
ranger: one who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.-that which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.-a dog that beats the ground in search of game.-one of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.-the keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc.
ranine: of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.-pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
rank: luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.-raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.-causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.-strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.-strong to the taste.-inflamed with venereal appetite.-rankly; stoutly; violently.-a row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.-a line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. see 1st file, 1 (a).-grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.-an aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.-degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.-elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.-to place abreast, or in a line.-to range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.-to take rank of; to outrank.-to be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.-to have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
rankle: to become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.-to produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.-to cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.
rankly: with rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.
ransack: to search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.-to plunder; to pillage completely.-to violate; to ravish; to defiour.-to make a thorough search.-the act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
ransom: the release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.-the money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.-a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.-to redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.-to exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
rant: to rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.-high-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
ranter: a noisy talker; a raving declaimer.-one of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also seekers. see seeker.-one of the primitive methodists, who seceded from the wesleyan methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
rantipole: a wild, romping young person.-wild; roving; rakish.-to act like a rantipole.
ranula: a cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.
ranunculaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
ranunculus: a genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (r. asiaticus, r. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.
ranz des vaches: the name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
rap: a lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.-to strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.-to strike with a quick blow; to knock on.-to free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.-a quick, smart blow; a knock.-to snatch away; to seize and hurry off.-to hasten.-to seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.-to exchange; to truck.-a popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
rapacious: given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.-accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.-avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
rapacity: the quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.-the act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
rape: fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.-the refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.-a filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.-the act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.-sexual connection with a woman without her consent. see age of consent, under consent, n.-that which is snatched away.-movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.-to commit rape upon; to ravish.-to rob; to pillage.-one of six divisions of the county of sussex, england, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.-a name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. the seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
raphany: a convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in sweden and germany. it was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
raphe: a line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.-same as rhaphe.
rapid: very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.-advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.-quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.-the part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the lachine rapids in the st. lawrence.
rapidity: the quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
rapier: a straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
rapine: the act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.-ravishment; rape.-to plunder.
rapparee: a wild irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.
rapped: of rap-of rap-imp. & p. p. of rap, to strike.-imp. & p. p. of rap, to snatch away.
rappee: a pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
rapper: one who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.-a forcible oath or lie.
rapt: of rap-imp. & p. p. of rap, to snatch away.-snatched away; hurried away or along.-transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.-wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.-an ecstasy; a trance.-rapidity.-to transport or ravish.-to carry away by force.
raptorial: rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.-adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.-of or pertaining to the raptores. see illust. (f) of aves.
rapture: a seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.-the state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.-a spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.-to transport with excitement; to enrapture.
rapturous: ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.
rare: early.-nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.-not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.-of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.-thinly scattered; dispersed.-characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
rarebit: a dainty morsel; a welsh rabbit. see welsh rabbit, under rabbit.
rarefaction: the act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.
rarefy: to make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.-to become less dense; to become thin and porous.
rarely: in a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.-finely; excellently; with rare skill. see 3d rare, 2.
rareripe: early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.-an early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
rarity: the quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.-that which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
rasante: sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.
rascal: one of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.-a mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.-of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
rascaldom: state of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively.
rascality: the quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.-the poorer and lower classes of people.
rascally: like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.
rase: to rub along the surface of; to graze.-to rub or scratch out; to erase.-to level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.-to be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.-a scratching out, or erasure.-a slight wound; a scratch.-a way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
rash: to pull off or pluck violently.-to slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.-a fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.-an inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.-sudden in action; quick; hasty.-requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.-esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.-uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.-so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.-to prepare with haste.
rasher: a thin slice of bacon.-a california rockfish (sebastichthys miniatus).
raskolnik: one of the separatists or dissenters from the established or greek church in russia.
rasorial: of or pertaining to the rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.
rasp: to rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.-hence, figuratively: to grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.-a coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.-the raspberry.
raspberry: the thimble-shaped fruit of the rubus idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.-the shrub bearing this fruit.
rasse: a carnivore (viverricula mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of china and the east indies. it furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the javanese. called also malacca weasel, and lesser civet.