AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
smart: to feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.-to feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.-to cause a smart in.-quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.-severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.-a fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.-smart money (see below).-causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.-keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.-vigorous; sharp; severe.-accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.-efficient; vigorous; brilliant.-marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.-pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.-brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
smartweed: an acrid plant of the genus polygonum (p. hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
smash: to break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.-to break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.-a breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.-hence, bankruptcy.
smasher: one who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.-anything very large or extraordinary.-one who passes counterfeit coin.
smatter: to talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.-to have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.-to talk superficially about.-to gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack.-superficial knowledge; a smattering.
smear: to overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.-to soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.-a fat, oily substance; oinment.-hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
smeared: of smear-having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (apatela oblinita).
smectite: a hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.
smee: the pintail duck.-the widgeon.-the poachard.-the smew.
smeeth: to smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.-to smooth.
smegma: the matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands.-the soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.-the cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.
smegmatic: being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.
smeir: a salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.
smell: to perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.-to detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.-to give heed to.-to affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.-to have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.-to exercise the sense of smell.-to exercise sagacity.-the sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. see sense.-the quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
smell-feast: one who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.-a feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
smeller: one who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.-the nose.
smelling: of smell-the act of one who smells.-the sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell.
smelt: of smell-imp. & p. p. of smell.-any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. they are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.-a gull; a simpleton.-to melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
smew: small european merganser (mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.-the hooded merganser.
smicker: to look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.-amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.
smift: a match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
smilax: a genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. the rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.-a delicate trailing plant (myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. it is a native of the cape of good hope.
smile: to express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.-to express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.-to look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty.-to be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors.-to express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.-to affect in a certain way with a smile.-the act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.-a somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.-favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of providence.-gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.
smilodon: an extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. see mach/rodus.
sminthurid: any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family sminthuridae, -- usually found on flowers. see illust. under collembola.
smirch: to smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.-a smutch; a dirty stain.
smirk: to smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.-a forced or affected smile; a simper.-nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.
smit: imp. & p. p. of smite.-3d. pers. sing. pres. of smite.-of smite-of smite
smite: to strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.-to cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.-to destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.-to put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.-to blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.-to afflict; to chasten; to punish.-to strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.-to strike; to collide; to beat.-the act of smiting; a blow.
smith: one who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.-one who makes or effects anything.-to beat into shape; to forge.
smithery: the workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.-work done by a smith; smithing.
smithing: the act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape.
smithsonian: of or pertaining to the englishman j. l. m. smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at washington, d. c.; as, the smithsonian institution; smithsonian reports.-the smithsonian institution.
smithsonite: native zinc carbonate. it generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. see note under calamine.
smithy: the workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.
smock: a woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.-a blouse; a smoock frock.-of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.-to provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
smock frock: a coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers.
smock-faced: having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.
smokable: capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.
smoke: the visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.-that which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.-anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.-the act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.-to emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.-hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.-to raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.-to draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.-to suffer severely; to be punished.-to apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.-to fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.-to smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.-to ridicule to the face; to quiz.-to inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.-to subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.
smokehouse: a building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
smokejack: a contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
smoker: one who dries or preserves by smoke.-one who smokes tobacco or the like.-a smoking car or compartment.
smokestack: a chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
smoky: emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.-having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.-filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.-subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.-tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.-suspicious; open to suspicion.
smolder: alt. of smoulder-alt. of smoulder-alt. of smoulder
smolt: a young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.
smooth: having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.-evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.-gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.-flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.-bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.-causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.-smoothly.-the act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.-that which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.-to make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.-to free from obstruction; to make easy.-to free from harshness; to make flowing.-to palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.-to give a smooth or calm appearance to.-to ease; to regulate.-to flatter; to use blandishment.
smoothbore: having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled.-a smoothbore firearm.
smote: of smite-of smite-imp. (/ rare p. p.) of smite.
smother: to destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.-to affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.-hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.-to be suffocated or stifled.-to burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.-stifling smoke; thick dust.-a state of suppression.
smouch: to kiss closely.-to smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.-a dark soil or stain; a smutch.
smoulder: to burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.-to exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.-to smother; to suffocate; to choke.-smoke; smother.-see smolder.
smouldering: of smoulder-being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
smouldry: smoldering; suffocating; smothery.-see smoldry.
smudge: a suffocating smoke.-a heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.-that which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.-to stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.-to smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
smudginess: the quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.
smug: studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.-to make smug, or spruce.
smuggle: to import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.-fig.: to convey or introduce clandestinely.-to import or export in violation of the customs laws.
smut: foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.-bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.-an affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. it is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus ustilago. ustilago segetum, or u. carbo, is the commonest kind; that of indian corn is ustilago maydis.-obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.-to stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.-to taint with mildew, as grain.-to blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.-to clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.-to gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.-to give off smut; to crock.
smutch: a stain; a dirty spot.-to blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.
smutty: soiled with smut; smutted.-tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.-obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying.
smyrniot: of or pertaining to smyrna.-a native or inhabitant of smyrna.
snack: a share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.-a slight, hasty repast.
snacot: a pipefish of the genus syngnathus. see pipefish.
snaffle: a kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.-to put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
snag: a stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.-a tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.-a tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.-one of the secondary branches of an antler.-to cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.-to injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
snaggy: full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.-snappish; cross; ill-tempered.
snail: any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus helix and many allied genera of the family helicidae. they are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.-any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. see pond snail, under pond, and sea snail.-hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.-a spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.-a tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.-the pod of the sanil clover.
snail-like: like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.-in the manner of a snail; slowly.
snake: any species of the order ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. see ophidia, and serpent.-to drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.-to wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.-to crawl like a snake.
snake's-head: the guinea-hen flower; -- so called in england because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
snakebird: any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus anhinga or plotus. they are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills.-the wryneck.
snakehead: a loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on american railroads. it was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.-the turtlehead.-the guinea-hen flower. see snake's-head, and under guinea.
snakeroot: any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.
snakestone: a kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in scotland.-an ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.
snakeweed: a kind of knotweed (polygonum bistorta).-the virginia snakeroot. see snakeroot.
snakewood: an east indian climbing plant (strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.-an east indian climbing shrub (ophioxylon serpentinum) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents.-same as trumpetwood.-a tropical american shrub (plumieria rubra) which has very fragrant red blossoms.-same as letterwood.
snaky: of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.-sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.-covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand.
snap: to break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.-to strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.-to bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.-to break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.-to crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.-to project with a snap.-to break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.-to give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.-to make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.-to utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.-to miss fire; as, the gun snapped.-a sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.-a sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.-a sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.-a sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.-a greedy fellow.-that which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.-a sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.-a small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.-a snap beetle.-a thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.-briskness; vigor; energy; decision.-any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
snapdragon: any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus antirrhinum, especially the cultivated a. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.-a west indian herb (ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.-a play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. see flapdragon.
snaphance: a spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.-a trifling or second-rate thing or person.
snaphead: a hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.
snapper: one who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.-any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the united states and on both coasts of tropical america.-a snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.-the green woodpecker, or yaffle.-a snap beetle.
snappish: apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.-sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
snare: a contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.-hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.-the gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.-an instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.-to catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.
snarl: to form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.-to entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.-to embarrass; to insnare.-a knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.-to growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.-to speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.-the act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
snarler: one who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.-one who makes use of a snarling iron.
snarling: of snarl-a. & n. from snarl, v.
snary: resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.
snatch: to take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.-to seize and transport away; to rap.-to attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.-a hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.-a short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.-a small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.-the handle of a scythe; a snead.
snatch block: a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
sneak: to creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.-to act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.-to hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.-a mean, sneaking fellow.-a ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.