AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sit: obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of sit, for sitteth.-to rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.-to perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.-to remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.-to lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.-to be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.-to suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.-to cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.-to have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.-to occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in congress.-to hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in january; the aldermen sit to-night.-to take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.-to sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.-to cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.-to suit (well / ill); to become.
site: the place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.-a place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.-the posture or position of a thing.
sitfast: fixed; stationary; immovable.-a callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.
sithe: time.-to sigh.-a scythe.-to cut with a scythe; to scythe.
sitter: one who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.-a bird that sits or incubates.
sitting: of sit-being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.-the state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.-a seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.-the act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.-the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the king's bench, or of a commission.-the time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.-a brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
situated: having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.-placed; residing.
situation: manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.-position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.-relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.-permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.
situs: the method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.
sitz bath: a tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.
siva: one of the triad of hindoo gods. he is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.
sivan: the third month of the jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of june.
sivatherium: a genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the tertiary formation of india. the snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. the male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. it was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.
six: one more than five; twice three; as, six yards.-the number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.-a symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or vi.
six-shooter: a pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.
sixpence: an english silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
sixpenny: of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.
sixteen: six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.-the number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.-a symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
sixteenth: sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.-constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.-the next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.-an interval comprising two octaves and a second.
sixth: first after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.-constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.-the next in order after the fifth.-the interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
sixtieth: next in order after the fifty-ninth.-constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.-the next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.
sixty: six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.-the sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.-a symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or lx.
sixty-fourth: constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.
sizable: of considerable size or bulk.-being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.
sizar: one of a body of students in the universities of cambridge (eng.) and dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. a sizar corresponded to a servitor at oxford.
size: six.-a thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.-any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.-to cover with size; to prepare with size.-a settled quantity or allowance. see assize.-an allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at oxford.-extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.-figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.-a conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.-an instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.-to fix the standard of.-to adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.-to take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.-to sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.-to swell; to increase the bulk of.-to bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.-to take greater size; to increase in size.-to order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
sized: of size-adjusted according to size.-having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
sizer: see sizar.-an instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.-an instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
sizing: of size-act of covering or treating with size.-a weak glue used in various trades; size.-the act of sorting with respect to size.-the act of bringing anything to a certain size.-food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
sizzle: to make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.-a hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.
skag: an additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. see skeg.
skate: a metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.-to move on skates.-any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. the pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. the skin is more or less spinose.
skater: one who skates.-any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to gerris, pyrrhocoris, prostemma, and allied genera. they have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
skatol: a constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. it is also found in reduced indigo.  chemically it is methyl indol, c9h9n.
skean: a knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the highlanders of scotland. [variously spelt.]
skedaddle: to betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.
skee: a long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding.
skeet: a scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
skeg: a sort of wild plum.-a kind of oats.-the after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
skein: a quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.-a metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.-a flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
skelder: to deceive; to cheat; to trick.-a vagrant; a cheat.
skeletology: that part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.
skeleton: the bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.-the more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.-a very thin or lean person.-the framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.-the heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.-consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
skeletonize: to prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.
skeletonizer: any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
skelp: a blow; a smart stroke.-a squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.-to strike; to slap.-a wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
skelter: to run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
skeptic: one who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.-a doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.-a person who doubts the existence and perfections of god, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the christian religion.-alt. of skeptical
skeptical: of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.-doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred scriptures.
skepticism: an undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.-the doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.-a doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of god.
sketch: an outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.-to draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.-to plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.-to make sketches, as of landscapes.
sketchiness: the quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
sketchy: containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.
skew: awry; obliquely; askew.-turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.-a stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.-to walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.-to start aside; to shy, as a horse.-to look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.-to shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.-to throw or hurl obliquely.
skewbald: marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. said of horses.
skewer: a pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.-to fasten with skewers.
skid: a shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.-a piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.-large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.-one of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.-one of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.-to protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.-to check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
skiffling: rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
skill: discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.-knowledge; understanding.-the familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.-display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.-any particular art.-to know; to understand.-to be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.-to make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.
skilled: having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
skillet: a small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.
skillful: discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.-possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.
skilligalee: a kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in england; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the english navy or army.
skilling: a bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage.-a money od account in sweden, norwey, denmark, and north germany, and also a coin. it had various values, from three fourths of a cent in norway to more than two cents in lubeck.
skim: to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.-to take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.-to pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.-fig.: to read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.-to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.-to hasten along with superficial attention.-to put on the finishing coat of plaster.-contraction of skimming and skimmed.
skimmer: one who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.-any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. these birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. the american species (r. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the united states. called also scissorbill, and shearbill.-any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
skimming: of skim-the act of one who skims.-that which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.
skimmington: a word employed in the phrase, to ride skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. the custom was in vogue in parts of england.
skimp: to slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.-to make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.-to save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.-scanty.
skin: the external membranous integument of an animal.-the hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.-a vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. see bottle, 1.-the bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.-that part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.-the covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.-to strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.-to cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.-to strip of money or property; to cheat.-to become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.-to produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
skinch: to give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
skink: any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.-to draw or serve, as drink.-to serve or draw liquor.-drink; also, pottage.
skinner: one who skins.-one who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
skip: a basket. see skep.-a basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.-an iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.-a charge of sirup in the pans.-a beehive; a skep.-to leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.-fig.: to leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.-to leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.-to pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.-to cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.-a light leap or bound.-the act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.-a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
skipjack: an upstart.-an elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.-a name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.-a shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or v-shaped cross section.
skipper: one who, or that which, skips.-a young, thoughtless person.-the saury (scomberesox saurus).-the cheese maggot. see cheese fly, under cheese.-any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.-the master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.-a ship boy.
skirl: to utter in a shrill tone; to scream.-a shrill cry or sound.
skirling: a shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.-a small trout or salmon; -- a name used loosely.
skirmish: to fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.-a slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.-a slight contest.
skirmisher: one who skirmishes.-soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
skirr: to ramble over in order to clear; to scour.-to scour; to scud; to run.-a tern.
skirret: an umbelliferous plant (sium, / pimpinella, sisarum). it is a native of asia, but has been long cultivated in europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.
skirt: the lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.-a loose edging to any part of a dress.-border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything-a petticoat.-the diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.-to cover with a skirt; to surround.-to border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.-to be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
skirting: of skirt-a skirting board.-skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts.
skit: to cast reflections on; to asperse.-a reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.-a wanton girl; a light wench.
skittish: easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.-wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.
skittles: an english game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
skitty: a rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.
skive: the iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.-to pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
skiver: an inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. it is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.-the cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.
skiving: the act of paring or splitting leather or skins.-a piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
skua: any jager gull; especially, the megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
skulk: to hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk.-a number of foxes together.-alt. of skulker