AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
shrug: to draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.-to raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.-a drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
shuck: a shock of grain.-a shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.-the shell of an oyster or clam.-to deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, indian corn, oysters, etc.
shudder: to tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.-the act of shuddering, as with fear.
shude: the husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.
shuffle: to shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.-to mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.-to remove or introduce by artificial confusion.-to change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.-to change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.-to use arts or expedients; to make shift.-to move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.-the act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.-a trick; an artifice; an evasion.
shuffler: one who shuffles.-either one of the three common american scaup ducks. see scaup duck, under scaup.
shuffling: of shuffle-moving with a dragging, scraping step.-evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.-in a shuffling manner.
shug: to writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.-hence, to crawl; to sneak.
shun: to avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
shunt: to shun; to move from.-to cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.-to turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.-to provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.-to go aside; to turn off.-a turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.-a conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.-the shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
shut: of shut-to close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.-to forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.-to preclude; to exclude; to bar out.-to fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.-to close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.-closed or fastened; as, a shut door.-rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.-formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.-cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the english short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.-the act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.-a door or cover; a shutter.-the line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
shutter: one who shuts or closes.-a movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.-a removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.
shuttle: an instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.-the sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.-a shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.-to move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
shuttlecock: a cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.-to send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.
shy: easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.-reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.-cautious; wary; suspicious.-to start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.-to throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.-a sudden start aside, as by a horse.-a side throw; a throw; a fling.
shyster: a trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
si: a syllable applied, in solmization, to the note b; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. it was added to guido's scale by le maire about the end of the 17th century.
si quis: a notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.
siamang: a gibbon (hylobates syndactylus), native of sumatra. it has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
siamese: of or pertaining to siam, its native people, or their language.-a native or inhabitant of siam; pl., the people of siam.-the language of the siamese.
sibbens: a contagious disease, endemic in scotland, resembling the yaws. it is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. in the orkneys the name is applied to the itch.
siberian: of or pertaining to siberia, a region comprising all northern asia and belonging to russia; as, a siberian winter.-a native or inhabitant of siberia.
sibilant: making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.-a sibiliant letter.
sibilate: to pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
sibilation: utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.
sibyl: a woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.-a female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.
sibylline: pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
sicca: a seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the mogul emperors, or the indian rupee of 192 grains.
sicilian: of or pertaining to sicily or its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of sicily.
siciliano: a sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.
sick: affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. see the synonym under illness.-affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.-having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.-corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.-sickness.-to fall sick; to sicken.
sicken: to make sick; to disease.-to make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.-to impair; to weaken.-to become sick; to fall into disease.-to be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.-to become disgusting or tedious.-to become weak; to decay; to languish.
sickening: of sicken-causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.
sicker: to percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.-alt. of siker-alt. of siker
sickish: somewhat sick or diseased.-somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.
sickle: a reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. the sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge.  cf. reaping hook, under reap.-a group of stars in the constellation leo. see illust. of leo.
sicklebill: any one of three species of humming birds of the genus eutoxeres, native of central and south america. they have a long and strongly curved bill. called also the sickle-billed hummer.-a curlew.-a bird of the genus epimachus and allied genera.
sickler: one who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
sicklewort: a plant of the genus coronilla (c. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.-the healall (brunella vulgaris).
sickly: somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.-producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.-appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.-tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.-in a sick manner or condition; ill.-to make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
sickness: the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.-nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
sida: a genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. all the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.
side: the margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.-any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.-one of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.-the right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.-a slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.-the position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.-a line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.-fig.: aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.-of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.-hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.-long; large; extensive.-to lean on one side.-to embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.-to be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.-to suit; to pair; to match.-to work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.-to furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.
side-wheel: having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
sideboard: a piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
sidebone: a morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
sided: of side-having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.
sideling: sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.-inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.
sidelong: laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.-on the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.-lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
sidepiece: the jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
sideral: relating to the stars.-affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.
sideration: the state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.
sidereal: relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.-measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
siderealize: to elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.
siderite: carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. it is of a light yellowish brown color. called also sparry iron, spathic iron.-a meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.-an indigo-blue variety of quartz.-formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.-any plant of the genus sideritis; ironwort.
siderographical: of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
siderography: the art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. the process has been superseded by electrotypy.
sideromancy: divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
sideroscope: an instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.
siderosis: a sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.
siderostat: an apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
sideroxylon: a genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
sidesaddle: a saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
sidesman: a party man; a partisan.-an assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
sidewalk: a walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
sidewinder: see horned rattler, under horned.-a heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
siding: of side-attaching one's self to a party.-a side track, as a railroad; a turnout.-the covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.-the thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.
sidle: to go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
siege: a seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.-hence, place or situation; seat.-rank; grade; station; estimation.-passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.-the sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. see the note under blockade.-hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.-the floor of a glass-furnace.-a workman's bench.-to besiege; to beset.
sienna: clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. it is used either in the raw state or burnt.
sierra: a ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the sierra nevada.
siesta: a short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.
sieve: a utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. it consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.-a kind of coarse basket.
sifflement: the act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.
sifilet: the six-shafted bird of paradise. see paradise bird, under paradise.
sift: to separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.-to separate or part as if with a sieve.-to examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
sifter: one who, or that which, sifts.-any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.
sigaultian: pertaining to sigault, a french physician. see symphyseotomy.
sigh: to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.-hence, to lament; to grieve.-to make a sound like sighing.-to exhale (the breath) in sighs.-to utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.-to express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.-a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.-figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
sight: the act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.-the power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.-the state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.-a spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.-the instrument of seeing; the eye.-inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.-mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.-a small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.-a small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.-in a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. in a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.-a great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.-to get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.-to look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.-to apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.-to take aim by a sight.
sight-seeing: engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.-the act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
sight-seer: one given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
sighted: of sight-having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.
sightless: wanting sight; without sight; blind.-that can not be seen; invisible.-offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.
sightliness: the state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
sightly: pleasing to the sight; comely.-open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
sigillaria: little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the saturnalia.-a genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.
sigillarid: one of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus sigillaria and its allies.
sigla: the signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.
sigma: the greek letter /, /, or / (english s, or s). it originally had the form of the english c.
sigmodont: any one of a tribe (sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of america. so called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. also used adjectively.
sign: that by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.-a remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.-an event considered by the jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.-something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.-any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.-a word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.-a motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.-hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the north american indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.-a military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.-a lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.-the twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.-a character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division ö, and the like.-an objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.-any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.-that which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the church of england in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.-to represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.-to make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.-to affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.-to assign or convey formally; -- used with away.-to mark; to make distinguishable.-to be a sign or omen.-to make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.-to write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.
signable: suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.
signal: a sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.-a token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.-noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.-of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.-to communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.-to notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.
signalize: to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.-to communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.-to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.
signalman: a man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.