AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
rhapsody: a recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the iliad or the odyssey; -- called also a book.-a disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.-a composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, liszt's "hungarian rhapsodies."
rhatanhy: the powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby peruvian plant (krameria triandra). it is used in medicine and to color port wine.
rhea: the ramie or grass-cloth plant. see grass-cloth plant, under grass.-any one of three species of large south american ostrichlike birds of the genera rhea and pterocnemia. called also the american ostrich.
rheic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (rheum).
rheinberry: one of the berries or drupes of the european buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
rhematic: having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives.-the doctrine of propositions or sentences.
rhenish: of or pertaining to the river rhine; as, rhenish wine.-rhine wine.
rheochord: a metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
rheometer: an instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.-an instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
rheometry: the measurement of the force or intensity of currents.-the calculus; fluxions.
rheophore: a connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.-one of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
rheostat: a contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
rhetian: pertaining to the ancient rhaeti, or rhaetians, or to rhaetia, their country; as, the rhetian alps, now the country of tyrol and the grisons.
rhetoric: the art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.-oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.-hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.-fig. : the power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
rhetorical: of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
rhetorician: one well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.-a teacher of rhetoric.-an orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.-suitable to a master of rhetoric.
rhetorize: to play the orator.-to represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
rheum: a genus of plants. see rhubarb.-a serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.
rheumatic: derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.-of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.-one affected with rheumatism.
rheumatism: a general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
rheumides: the class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. see under dartrous.
rheumy: of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
rhigolene: a mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. it is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.
rhinencephalon: the division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
rhinestone: a colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. it is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
rhinitis: infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.
rhino-: a combining form from greek //, ///, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.
rhinocerical: of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn.
rhinoceros: any pachyderm belonging to the genera rhinoceros, atelodus, and several allied genera of the family rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. they are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
rhinolophid: any species of the genus rhinilophus, or family rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.
rhinolophine: like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
rhinophore: one of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. they are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. called also dorsal tentacles. see illust.  under pygobranchia, and opisthobranchia.
rhinoplastic: of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.
rhinoplasty: plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
rhinopome: any old-world bat of the genus rhinopoma. the rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.
rhinoscleroma: a rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.
rhinoscopy: the examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.
rhipidoglossa: a division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. it includes the scutibranchs. see illustration in appendix.
rhipipter: one of the rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.
rhizine: a rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
rhizocarpous: having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.
rhizocephala: a division of pectostraca including saclike parasites of crustacea. they adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. see illusration in appendix.
rhizodont: a reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.
rhizogen: one of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.
rhizopoda: an extensive class of protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. the principal groups are lobosa (or am/bea), helizoa, radiolaria, and foraminifera (or reticularia). see protozoa.
rhizostomata: a suborder of medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. see illust. in appendix.
rhodammonium: pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.
rhodanic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.
rhodian: of or pertaining to rhodes, an island of the mediterranean.-a native or inhabitant of rhodes.
rhodium: a rare element of the light platinum group. it is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. symbol rh. atomic weight 104.1.  specific gravity 12.
rhodizonic: pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. it forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.
rhodochrosite: manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.
rhododendron: a genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.
rhodonite: manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. it is often used as an ornamental stone.
rhodophane: the red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. see chromophane.
rhomb: an equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. the angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.-a rhombohedron.
rhomboganoid: a ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the rhomboganoidei.
rhombogene: a dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. see dicyemata.
rhombohedral: related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.
rhombohedron: a solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
rhomboid: an oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.-same as rhomboidal.
rhomboid-ovate: between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.
rhonchial: of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.
rhonchus: an adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. by some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. see rale.
rhopalic: applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.
rhopalium: one of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the discophora.
rhopalocera: a division of lepidoptera including all the butterflies. they differ from other lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.
rhotacism: an oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the indo-european languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.
rhubarb: the name of several large perennial herbs of the genus rheum and order polygonaceae.-the large and fleshy leafstalks of rheum rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. they are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. called also pieplant.-the root of several species of rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.
rhumb: a line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. see loxodromic.
rhusma: a mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.
rhyme: an expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.-correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. the words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. the vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.-verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.-a word answering in sound to another word.-to make rhymes, or verses.-to accord in rhyme or sound.-to put into rhyme.-to influence by rhyme.
rhymer: one who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.
rhymery: the art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
rhynchobdellea: a suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. clepsine is the type.
rhynchocephala: an order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. see hatteria. called also rhynchocephalia.
rhynchonella: a genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil.
rhynchophora: a group of coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.
rhyolite: a quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.
rhysimeter: an instrument, acting on the principle of pitot's tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc.
rhythm: in the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.-movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.-a division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.-the harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
rial: a spanish coin. see real.-royal.-a gold coin formerly current in england, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of henry vi., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of elizabeth.
riant: laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
rib: one of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.-that which resembles a rib in form or use.-one of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.-a ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.-one of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.-a prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.-a longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.-the chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.-any longitudinal ridge in a plant.-in gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. these are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.-a projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.-solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.-an elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.-a wife; -- in allusion to eve, as made out of adam's rib.-to furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.-to inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
ribald: a low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.-low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.
ribaldry: the talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.
ribaudequin: an engine of war used in the middle ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. it was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.-a huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.
ribband: a ribbon.-a long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework.
ribbed: of rib-furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.-intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.
ribbing: of rib-an assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.
ribbon: a fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.-a narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.-same as rib-band.-driving reins.-a bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.-a silver.-to adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
ribbonism: the principles and practices of the ribbonmen.  see ribbon society, under ribbon.
ribbonwood: a malvaceous tree (hoheria populnea) of new zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.
ribibe: a sort of stringed instrument; a rebec.-an old woman; -- in contempt.-a bawd; a prostitute.
ribwort: a species of plantain (plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.
rice: a well-known cereal grass (oryza sativa) and its seed.  this plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. in america it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.
rice-shell: any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus olivella.
rich: having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.-hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.-yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.-composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.-abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.-not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.-full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.-abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.-abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.-to enrich.
riches: that which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.-that which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.
richweed: an herb (pilea pumila) of the nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.
ricinelaidic: pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric modification of ricinoleic acid obtained as a white crystalline solid.
ricinelaidin: the glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.
ricinic: pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
ricinine: a bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.
ricinoleic: pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, c/h/o/ with a harsh taste. formerly written ricinolic.
ricinolein: the glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.
ricinus: a genus of plants of the spurge family, containing but one species (r. communis), the castor-oil plant. the fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. see palma christi.
rick: a stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.-to heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
ricker: a stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
rickets: a disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. the essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. called also rachitis.
rickety: affected with rickets.-feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
ricochet: a rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.-to operate upon by ricochet firing. see ricochet, n.-to skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. see ricochet, n.
rictus: the gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth.
rid: imp. & p. p. of ride, v. i.-of rid-to save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.-to free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.-to drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.-to get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.-of ride-of ride
riddance: the act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.-the state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
riddle: a sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.-a board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.-to separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.-to perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.-something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.-to explain; to solve; to unriddle.-to speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
riddler: one who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).-one who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
riddling: of riddle-speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
ride: to be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.-to be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. see synonym, below.-to be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.-to be supported in motion; to rest.-to manage a horse, as an equestrian.-to support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.-to sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.-to manage insolently at will; to domineer over.-to convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.-to overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.-the act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.-a saddle horse.-a road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
rider: one who, or that which, rides.-formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.-one who breaks or manages a horse.-an addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.-a problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.-a dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.-rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.-an interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.-the second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.-a small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.-a robber.