AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
soundness: the quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
soup: a liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.-to sup or swallow.-to breathe out.-to sweep. see sweep, and swoop.
soupe-maigre: soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
sour: having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.-changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.-disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.-afflictive; painful.-cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.-a sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.-to cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.-to make cold and unproductive, as soil.-to make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.-to cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.-to macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.-to become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
source: the act of rising; a rise; an ascent.-the rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.-that from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
sourish: somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.
soursop: the large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (anona muricata) of the west indies; also, the tree itself. it is closely allied to the custard apple.
sourt: a sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.-a shoot; a bud.-fig.: a sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.
souse: a corrupt form of sou.-pickle made with salt.-something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.-the ear; especially, a hog's ear.-the act of sousing; a plunging into water.-to steep in pickle; to pickle.-to plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.-to drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.-to swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.-to pounce upon.-the act of sousing, or swooping.-with a sudden swoop; violently.
soutache: a kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as russian braid.
soutane: a close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in france and italy as their daily dress; a cassock.
souterly: of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
south: that one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.-a country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.-specifically: that part of the united states which is south of mason and dixon's line. see under line.-the wind from the south.-lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.-toward the south; southward.-from the south; as, the wind blows south.-to turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.-to come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
south southerly: the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. called also southerly, and southerland. see under old.
southcottian: a follower of joanna southcott (1750-1814), an englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
southdown: of or pertaining to the south downs, a range of pasture hills south of the thames, in england.-a southdown sheep.
southeast: the point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.-of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind.
southeaster: a storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.-toward the southeast.
southern: of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.-a southerner.
southerner: an inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the southern states of north america; opposed to northerner.
southernwood: a shrubby species of wormwood (artemisia abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. it is sometimes used in making beer.
southing: of south-tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun.-the time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place.-distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.-distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing.
southron: an inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in scotland to any englishman.
southward: alt. of southwards-toward the south.-the southern regions or countries; the south.
southwards: toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.
southwest: the point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.-pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
southwester: a storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.-a hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.
southwesterly: to ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
southwestern: of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.
souvenir: that which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
sovereign: supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.-independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.-princely; royal.-predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.-efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.-the person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.-a gold coin of great britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.-any butterfly of the tribe nymphalidi, or genus basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
sovereignty: the quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.
sow: to sew. see sew.-the female of swine, or of the hog kind.-a sow bug.-a channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.-the bar of metal which remains in such a runner.-a mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.-a kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.-to scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. also used figuratively: to spread abroad; to propagate.-to scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. also used figuratively: to scatter over; to besprinkle.-to scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
sowbane: the red goosefoot (chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.
sowens: a nutritious article of food, much used in scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in england.
soy: a chinese and japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.-the soja, a kind of bean. see soja.
soyle: to solve, to clear up; as, to soyl all other texts.-prey.
sozzle: to splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water.-to heap up in confusion.-one who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman.-a mass, or heap, confusedly mingled.
space: extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.-place, having more or less extension; room.-a quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.-quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.-a short time; a while.-walk; track; path; course.-a small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.-the distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.-one of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.-to walk; to rove; to roam.-to arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
spacelate: to die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
spacious: extending far and wide; vast in extent.-inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.
spade: a hart or stag three years old.-a castrated man or beast.-an implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.-one of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.-a cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.-to dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
spadefish: an american market fish (chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
spadefoot: any species of burrowing toads of the genus scaphiopus, esp. s. holbrookii, of the eastern united states; -- called also spade toad.
spadiceous: of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.-bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.
spadix: a fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.-a special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.
spadroon: a sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.
spagyrist: a chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits.-one of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means.  the spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists.
spahee: formerly, one of the turkish cavalry.-an algerian cavalryman in the french army.
spale: a lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.-a strengthening cross timber.
spall: the shoulder.-a chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.-to break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.-to reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.-to give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
spalpeen: a scamp; an irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.
spalt: spelter.-liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.-heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.-to split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.
span: imp. & p. p. of spin.-the space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.-hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.-the spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.-a rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.-a pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.-to measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.-to reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.-to fetter, as a horse; to hobble.-to be matched, as horses.-of spin
spanaemia: a condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.
spancel: a rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow.-to tie or hobble with a spancel.
spandrel: the irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.-a narrow mat or passe partout for a picture.
spang: to spangle.-to spring; to bound; to leap.-a bound or spring.-a spangle or shining ornament.
spangle: a small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.-figuratively, any little thing that sparkless.-to set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.-to show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.
spangly: resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
spaniel: one of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. the legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. see illust. under clumber, and cocker.-a cringing, fawning person.-cringing; fawning.-to fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.-to follow like a spaniel.
spank: to strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.-a blow with the open hand; a slap.-to move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
spanker: one who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.-the after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. see illust. under sail.-one who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.-something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.-a small coin.
spanking: of spank-moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.-large; considerable.
spanner: one who, or that which, spans.-the lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.-an iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.-a contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
spanworm: the larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.
spar: an old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc.  it was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.-a general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.-formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.-the bar of a gate or door.-to bolt; to bar.-to to supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.-to strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.-to use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.-to contest in words; to wrangle.-a contest at sparring or boxing.-a movement of offense or defense in boxing.
sparada: a small california surf fish (micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.
spare: to use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.-to keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.-to preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.-to save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.-to deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.-to be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.-to refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.-to desist; to stop; to refrain.-scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.-sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.-being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, i have no spare time.-held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.-lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.-slow.-the act of sparing; moderation; restraint.-parsimony; frugal use.-an opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.-that which has not been used or expended.-the right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. if all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
sparge: to sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.
sparger: a vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.
spark: a small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.-a small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.-that which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle.-a brisk, showy, gay man.-a lover; a gallant; a beau.-to sparkle.-to play the spark, beau, or lover.
sparkish: like a spark; airy; gay.-showy; well-dresed; fine.
sparkle: a little spark; a scintillation.-brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.-to emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.-to manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.-to emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.-to emit in the form or likeness of sparks.-to disperse.-to scatter on or over.
sparkler: one who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.-one who, or that which, sparkles.-a tiger beetle.
sparkling: of sparkle-emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes.
sparling: the european smelt (osmerus eperlanus).-a young salmon.-a tern.
sparoid: of or pertaining to the sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream.-one of the sparidae.
sparrow: one of many species of small singing birds of the family fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. the common sparrow, or house sparrow, of europe (passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. see house sparrow, under house.-any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the european hedge sparrow. see under hedge.
sparrowwort: an evergreen shrub of the genus erica (e. passerina).
sparry: resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose.
sparse: thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.-placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.-to scatter; to disperse.
spartan: of or pertaining to sparta, especially to ancient sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, spartan souls; spartan bravey.-a native or inhabitant of sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.
sparteine: a narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (cytisus scoparius, formerly spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.
spasm: an involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.-a sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
spasmodic: of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.-soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.-a medicine for spasm.
spastic: of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
spasticity: a state of spasm.-the tendency to, or capability of suffering, spasm.
spat: imp. of spit.-a young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.-to emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.-a light blow with something flat.-hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.-to dispute.-to slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.-of spit
spatangoid: of or pertaining to the spatangoidea.-one of the spatangoidea.
spatangoidea: an order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. the mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.
spatangus: a genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the spatangoidea.
spathe: a special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. see the note under bract, and illust. of spadix.
spathose: see spathic.-having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.
spatter: to sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.-to distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.-fig.: to injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.-to throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
spatterdashes: coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
spattle: spawl; spittle.-a spatula.-a tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter
spattling-poppy: a kind of catchfly (silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.
spatula: an implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc.  cf. palette knife, under palette.
spatulate: shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
spavin: a disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. the resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.
spawl: a splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. see spall.-scattered or ejected spittle.-to scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.