AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
spruce: any coniferous tree of the genus picea, as the norway spruce (p. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of america (p. alba and p. nigra), besides several others in the far northwest. see picea.-the wood or timber of the spruce tree.-prussia leather; pruce.-neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.-sprightly; dashing.-to dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.-to dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
sprue: strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.-the waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.-same as sprew.
sprung: of spring-of spring-imp. & p. p. of spring.-said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
sprunt: to spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.-anything short and stiff.-a leap; a spring.-a steep ascent in a road.-active; lively; vigorous.
spruntly: in a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.
spud: a sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.-a dagger.-anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
spuller: one employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.
spume: frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.-to froth; to foam.
spumy: consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy.
spunk: wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.-an inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.
spur: a sparrow.-a tern.-an implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. spurs were the badge of knighthood.-that which goads to action; an incitement.-something that projects; a snag.-one of the large or principal roots of a tree.-any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.-a mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.-a spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.-a brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.-the short wooden buttress of a post.-a projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. it is generally carved in leafage.-any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.-ergotized rye or other grain.-a wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.-a piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.-a curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.-to prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.-to urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.-to put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.-to spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
spur-royal: a gold coin, first made in the reign of edward iv., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. in the reigns of elizabeth and of james i., its value was fifteen shillings.
spur-shell: any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus trochus, or imperator. the shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
spurgall: a place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.-to gall or wound with a spur.
spurge: to emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.-any plant of the genus euphorbia. see euphorbia.
spurious: not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.-not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.
spurling-line: the line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.
spurn: to drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.-to reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.-to kick or toss up the heels.-to manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.-a kick; a blow with the foot.-disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.-a body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
spurred: of spur-wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.-affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
spurry: an annual herb (spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in europe for fodder.
spurt: to gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.-to throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.-a sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.-to make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
sputter: to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.-to utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.-to throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.-to spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.-moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
sputum: that which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.
spy: to gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.-to discover by close search or examination.-to explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country; -- usually with out.-to search narrowly; to scrutinize.-one who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.-a person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.
squab: fat; thick; plump; bulky.-unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.-a neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.-a person of a short, fat figure.-a thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.-with a heavy fall; plump.-to fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
squabble: to contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.-to debate peevishly; to dispute.-to disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.-a scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.
squacco: a heron (ardea comata) found in asia, northern africa, and southern europe.
squad: a small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.-hence, any small party.-sloppy mud.
squadron: primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.-a body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.-a detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the north atlantic squadron.
squail: to throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.
squalidity: the quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
squall: a sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.-to cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.-a loud scream; a harsh cry.
squally: abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.-interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.-not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
squalodon: a genus of fossil whales belonging to the phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.
squalor: squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
squama: a scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.
squamata: a division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. it includes the pangolins.
squame: a scale.-the scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
squamella: a diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
squamipen: any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.
squamosal: scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.-of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.-the squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under temporal.
squamous: covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.-of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.
squamozygomatic: of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls.-a squamozygomatic bone.
squamula: one of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
squander: to scatter; to disperse.-to spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.-to spend lavishly; to be wasteful.-to wander at random; to scatter.-the act of squandering; waste.
square: the corner, or angle, of a figure.-a parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.-hence, anything which is square, or nearly so-a square piece or fragment.-a pane of glass.-a certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.-one hundred superficial feet.-an area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.-an instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. it is of several forms, as the t square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.-hence, a pattern or rule.-the product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.-exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.-a body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.-fig.: the relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.-the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.-the act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.-the front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.-having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.-forming a right angle; as, a square corner.-having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.-exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.-rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.-even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.-leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.-at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.-to form with four sides and four right angles.-to form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.-to compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.-to adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.-to make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.-to multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.-to hold a quartile position respecting.-to place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.-to accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.-to go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.-to take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
square-rigged: having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
squareness: the quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
squarer: one who, or that which, squares.-one who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow.
squarrose: ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged-consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem.-divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.-having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.
squarroso-dentate: having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.
squash: an american animal allied to the weasel.-a plant and its fruit of the genus cucurbita, or gourd kind.-to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.-something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.-hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.-a sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
squat: the angel fish (squatina angelus).-to sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.-to sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.-to settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.-to bruise or make flat by a fall.-sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.-short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.-the posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.-a sudden or crushing fall.-a small vein of ore.-a mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
squatter: one who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. in the united states and australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.-see squat snipe, under squat.
squaw: a female; a woman; -- in the language of indian tribes of the algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
squawberry: a local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.
squawk: to utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.-act of squawking; a harsh squeak.-the american night heron. see under night.
squawroot: a scaly parasitic plant (conopholis americana) found in oak woods in the united states; -- called also cancer root.
squeak: to utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.-to break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.-a sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.
squeaker: one who, or that which, squeaks.-the australian gray crow shrile (strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.
squeal: to cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.-to turn informer; to betray a secret.-a shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.
squealer: one who, or that which, squeals.-the european swift.-the harlequin duck.-the american golden plover.
squeamish: having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
squeeze: to press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.-fig.: to oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.-to force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.-to press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.-the act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.-a facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.
squeezer: one who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.-a machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural.-a machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.
squeezing: of squeeze-the act of pressing; compression; oppression.-that which is forced out by pressure; dregs.-same as squeeze, n., 2.
squelch: to quell; to crush; to silence or put down.-a heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.
squeteague: an american sciaenoid fish (cynoscion regalis), abundant on the atlantic coast of the united states, and much valued as a food fish. it is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. the spotted squeteague (c. nebulosus) of the southern united states is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. it is called also spotted weakfish, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon.
squib: a little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.-a kind of slow match or safety fuse.-a sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.-a writer of lampoons.-a paltry fellow.-to throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
squid: any one of numerous species of ten-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of loligo, ommastrephes, and related genera. see calamary, decacerata, dibranchiata.-a fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
squiggle: to shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.-to move about like an eel; to squirm.
squilgee: formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.
squill: a european bulbous liliaceous plant (urginea, formerly scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. called also sea onion.-any bulbous plant of the genus scilla; as, the bluebell squill (s. mutans).-a squilla.-a mantis.
squilla: any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus squilla and allied genera. they make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. called also mantis shrimp. see illust. under stomapoda.
squinancy: the quinsy. see quinsy.-a european perennial herb (asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. also called quincewort.
squinch: a small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
squint: looking obliquely. specifically (med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. see squint, n., 2.-fig.: looking askance.-to see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.-to have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.-to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.-to turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.-to cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.-the act or habit of squinting.-a want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.-same as hagioscope.
squint-eyed: having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.-looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant; as, squint-eyed praise; squint-eyed jealousy.
squire: a square; a measure; a rule.-a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.-a title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. see esquire.-a male attendant on a great personage; also (colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.-a title of office and courtesy. see under esquire.-to attend as a squire.-to attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.
squirm: to twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
squirrel: any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus sciurus and several allied genera of the family sciuridae. squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. they are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows.-one of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
squirt: to drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.-to be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.-hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.-an instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.-a small, quick stream; a jet.
ssociable: capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.-inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social.-ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or reserved.-affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party.-no longer hostile; friendly.
stab: to pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.-fig.: to injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.-to give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.-to wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.-the thrust of a pointed weapon.-a wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.-fig.: an injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
stabat mater: a celebrated latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our lord at the foot of the cross. it is read in the mass of the sorrows of the virgin mary, and is sung by catholics when making "the way of the cross" (via crucis). see station, 7 (c).
stabber: one who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.-a small marline spike; a pricker.
stability: the state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.-steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.-fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.