AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sea orange: a large american holothurian (lophothuria fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. its expanded tentacles are bright red.
sea otter: an aquatic carnivore (enhydris lutris, / marina) found in the north pacific ocean.  its fur is highly valued, especially by the chinese. it is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed.
sea partridge: the gilthead (crenilabrus melops), a fish of the british coasts.
sea pass: a document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. see passport.
sea peach: a beautiful american ascidian (cynthia, / halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.
sea perch: the european bass (roccus, / labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.-the cunner.-the sea bass.-the name is applied also to other species of fishes.
sea pie: the oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus haematopus.-a dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.
sea pike: the garfish.-a large serranoid food fish (centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of america; -- called also robalo.-the merluce.
sea porcupine: any fish of the genus diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. see illust. under diodon.
sea pork: an american compound ascidian (amoraecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.
sea raven: an american cottoid fish (hemitripterus americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren atlantic coasts.-the cormorant.
sea room: room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground.
sea rover: one that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
sea saurian: any marine saurian; esp. (paleon.) the large extinct species of mosasaurus, icthyosaurus, plesiosaurus, and related genera.
sea scorpion: a european sculpin (cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines.-the scorpene.
sea scurf: any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.
sea serpent: any marine snake. see sea snake.-a large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.
sea snail: a small fish of the genus liparis, having a ventral sucker. it lives among stones and seaweeds.-any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of littorina, natica, etc.
sea snake: any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the indian and pacific oceans. they feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
sea snipe: a sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.-the bellows fish.
sea spider: any maioid crab; a spider crab. see maioid, and spider crab, under spider.-any pycnogonid.
sea swallow: the common tern.-the storm petrel.-the gannet.-see cornish chough, under chough.
sea thongs: a kind of blackish seaweed (himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the atlantic. it has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
sea trout: any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the european bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern american spotted trout.-the common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.-a california fish of the family chiridae, especially hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. see rock trout, under rock.-a california sciaenoid fish (cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
sea trumpet: a great blackish seaweed of the southern ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.-any large marine univalve shell of the genus triton. see triton.
sea turtle: any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. they inhabit all warm seas.-the sea pigeon, or guillemot.
sea urchin: any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order echinoidea.
sea wall: a wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
sea withwind: a kind of bindweed (convolvulus soldanella) growing on the seacoast of europe.
sea wolf: the wolf fish.-the european sea perch.-the sea elephant.-a sea lion.
sea wormwood: a european species of wormwood (artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
sea-ear: any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus haliotis. see abalone.
sea-island: of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of south carolina and georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.
sea-walled: surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.
seabeard: a green seaweed (cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.
seaboard: the seashore; seacoast.-bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.-toward the sea.
seaboat: a boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.-a chitin.
seacoast: the shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. also used adjectively.
seagirt: surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.
seagoing: going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
seal: any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families phocidae and otariidae.-an engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.-wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.-that which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.-that which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.-an arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.-to set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.-to mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.-to fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.-hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.-to fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.-to close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. see 2d seal, 5.-among the mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.-to affix one's seal, or a seal.
seal-brown: of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
sealer: one who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.-a mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
sealing wax: a compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.
seam: grease; tallow; lard.-the fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.-hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.-a thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.-a line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.-to form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.-to mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.-to make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.-to become ridgy; to crack open.-a denomination of weight or measure.-the quantity of eight bushels of grain.-the quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
seaman: a merman; the male of the mermaid.-one whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. opposed to landman, or landsman.
seamanship: the skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.
seamark: any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.
seamed: of seam-out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.
seaming: of seam-the act or process of forming a seam or joint.-the cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
seance: a session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.
seannachie: a bard among the highlanders of scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.
seaport: a port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.
sear: alt. of sere-to wither; to dry up.-to burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. also used figuratively.-the catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
search: to look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.-to inquire after; to look for; to seek.-to examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.-to examine; to try; to put to the test.-to seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.-the act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
searcher: one who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.-formerly, an officer in london appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.-an officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.-an inspector of leather.-an instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.-an implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.-an instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
searching: of search-exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye.
searcloth: cerecloth.-to cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.
seared: of sear-scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.
seashore: the coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.-all the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks.
seasickness: the peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
seaside: the land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. also used adjectively.
season: one of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. in the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.-hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.-a period of time not very long; a while; a time.-that which gives relish; seasoning.-to render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.-to fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.-hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.-to fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.-hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agrecable.-to qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.-to imbue; to tinge or taint.-to copulate with; to impregnate.-to become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.-to become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.-to give token; to savor.
seasonable: occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.
seasoner: one who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
seasoning: of season-the act or process by which anything is seasoned.-that which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.-hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation.
seat: the place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.-the place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.-that part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.-a sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.-posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.-a part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.-to place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.-to cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.-to assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.-to fix; to set firm.-to settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.-to put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.-to rest; to lie down.
seating: of seat-the act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.-the act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
seawant: the name used by the algonquin indians for the shell beads which passed among the indians as money.
seaware: seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. see ware, and sea girdles.
seaweed: popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.-any marine plant of the class algae, as kelp, dulse, fucus, ulva, etc.
seaworthiness: the state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.
seaworthy: fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
sebaceous: pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
sebacic: of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.
sebesten: the mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two east indian trees (cordia myxa, and c. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
sebiferous: producing vegetable tallow.-producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands.
seborrhea: a morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
secancy: a cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.
secant: cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line.-a line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.-a right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. see trigonometrical function, under function.
secede: to withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
seceder: one who secedes.-one of a numerous body of presbyterians in scotland who seceded from the communion of the established church, about the year 1733, and formed the secession church, so called.
secern: to separate; to distinguish.-to secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.
secernent: secreting; secretory.-that which promotes secretion.-a vessel in, or by means of, which the process of secretion takes place; a secreting vessel.
secession: the act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.-the withdrawal of a state from the national union.
secessionism: the doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
secessionist: one who upholds secession.-one who holds to the belief that a state has the right to separate from the union at its will.
sechium: the edible fruit of a west indian plant (sechium edule) of the gourd family. it is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. the root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.
seckel: a small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. it originated on a farm near philadelphia, afterwards owned by a mr. seckel.
seclude: to shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.-to shut or keep out; to exclude.
seclusion: the act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
seclusive: tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.
second: immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.-next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.-being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second cato; a second troy; a second deluge.-one who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.-one who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.-aid; assistance; help.-an article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.-the sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 english feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.-in the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. see inch, and prime, n., 8.-the interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.-the second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.-to follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.-to follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage.-specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.
second-class: of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
second-rate: of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.
second-sight: the power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
secondary: suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.-acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.-possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. cf. primary.-subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.-pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.-dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.-one who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of london.-a secondary circle.-a satellite.-a secondary quill.
seconder: one who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
secondhand: not original or primary; received from another.-not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment.
secrecy: the state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.-that which is concealed; a secret.-seclusion; privacy; retirement.-the quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
secret: hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.-withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.-faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.-separate; distinct.-something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.-a thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.-the parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.-to keep secret.
secretage: a process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
secretariate: the office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
secretary: one who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.-a person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.-an officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.-a piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.-the secretary bird.
secrete: to deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.-to separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. see secretion.
secrete-metory: causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.