AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
signalment: the act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.
signatory: relating to a seal; used in sealing.-signing; joining or sharing in a signature; as, signatory powers.-a signer; one who signs or subscribes; as, a conference of signatories.
signature: a sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.-especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.-an outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.-a resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.-the designation of the key (when not c major, or its relative, a minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.-a letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.-the printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.-that part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. it is usually prefaced by s or sig. (an abbreviation for the latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).-to mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
signaturist: one who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.
signboard: a board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.
signer: one who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.
signet: a seal; especially, in england, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.
significancy: the quality or state of being significant.-that which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.-importance; moment; weight; consequence.
significant: fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.-deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event.-that which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
signification: the act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.-that which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.
significative: betokening or representing by an external sign.-having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant.
significavit: formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.
signify: to show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.-to mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.
signior: sir; mr. the english form and pronunciation for the italian signor and the spanish seor.
signiorize: to exercise dominion over; to lord it over.-to exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
signore: sir; mr.; -- a title of address or respect among the italians. before a noun the form is signor.
signpost: a post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.
sike: such. see such.-a gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.-a sick person.-to sigh.-a sigh.
sikerness: the quality or state of being sicker, or certain.-see 2d sicker, sickerly, etc.
sikhs: a religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the punjab at the end of the 15th century.
sile: to strain, as fresh milk.-to drop; to flow; to fall.-a sieve with fine meshes.-filth; sediment.-a young or small herring.
silence: the state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.-forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.-secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.-the cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.-absence of mention; oblivion.-be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.-to compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.-to put to rest; to quiet.-to restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.-to cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
silene: a genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.
silent: free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.-not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.-keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.-not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."-having no effect; not operating; inefficient.-that which is silent; a time of silence.
silentiary: one appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.
silesia: a kind of linen cloth, originally made in silesia, a province of prussia.-a twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.
silex: silica, sio2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. see silica, and silicic.
silhouette: a representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.-to represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
silica: silicon dioxide, sio/. it constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.
silicated: combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks.
siliceous: of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.
silicic: pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.
silicification: thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood.
silicified: combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.-of silicify
silicify: to convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.-to become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.
silicle: a seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. see silique.
silico-: a combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.
silicofluoric: containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides.
silicofluoride: a fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.
silicoidea: an extensive order of porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.
silicon: a nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. it always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. symbol si. atomic weight 28. called also silicium.
silicotungstic: of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).
siliculose: bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.-full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.
siliqua: same as silique.-a weight of four grains; a carat; -- a term used by jewelers, and refiners of gold.
silique: an oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. the seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.
siliquous: bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules.
silk: the fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of bombyx mori.-hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.-that which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
silken: of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.-fig.: soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.-dressed in silk.-to render silken or silklike.
silkiness: the quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.-fig.: effeminacy; weakness.
silkweed: any plant of the genera asclepias and acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
silkworm: the larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
silky: of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.-hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.-covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
sill: the basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.-the timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.-the timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.-the floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.-a piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.-the shaft or thill of a carriage.-a young herring.
sillabub: a dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.
silly: happy; fortunate; blessed.-harmless; innocent; inoffensive.-weak; helpless; frail.-rustic; plain; simple; humble.-weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.-proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
silo: a pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. see ensilage.
silt: mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.-to choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.-to flow through crevices; to percolate.
silure: a fish of the genus silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
silurian: of or pertaining to the country of the ancient silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.-the silurian age.
siluridan: any fish of the family siluridae or of the order siluroidei.
siluroid: belonging to the siluroidei, or nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the american catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the old world, as the sheatfish (silurus glanis) of europe.-a siluroid fish.
silurus: a genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order siluroidei. they inhabit the inland waters of europe and asia.
silva: the forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.-a description or history of the forest trees of a country.
silvan: of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.-see sylvanium.
silver: a soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. it is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc.  silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. symbol ag (argentum). atomic weight 107.7. specific gravity 10.5.-coin made of silver; silver money.-anything having the luster or appearance of silver.-the color of silver.-of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.-resembling silver.-bright; resplendent; white.-precious; costly.-giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.-sweet; gentle; peaceful.-to cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.-to polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.-to make hoary, or white, like silver.-to acquire a silvery color.
silver-gray: having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
silverberry: a tree or shrub (elaeagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.
silverbill: an old world finch of the genus minia, as the m. malabarica of india, and m. cantans of africa.
silverfin: a small north american fresh-water cyprinoid fish (notropis whipplei).
silvering: of silver-the art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.
silversides: any one of several species of small fishes of the family atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. the common species of the american coast (menidia notata) is very abundant. called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.
silversmith: one whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
silverspot: any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. see illust. under aphrodite.
silverware: dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.
silverweed: a perennial rosaceous herb (potentilla anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
silvery: resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.-besprinkled or covered with silver.-having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.
simia: a linnaean genus of quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. by modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.
simian: of or pertaining to the family simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the old world apes and monkeys; also, apelike.-any old world monkey or ape.
similar: exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.-nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.-homogenous; uniform.-that which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
similarity: the quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.
simile: a word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
similiter: the technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- called sometimes a joinder in issue.
similitude: the quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.-the act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.-that which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
similize: to liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.
similor: an alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.
simmer: to boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.-to cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.
simnel: a kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.-a kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on mid-lent sunday.
simoniac: one who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.
simoniacal: of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony.
simonian: one of the followers of simon magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early christian church.
simony: the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.
simoon: a hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in arabia, syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
simpai: a long-tailed monkey (semnopitchecus melalophus) native of sumatra. it has a crest of black hair. the forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.
simper: to smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.-to glimmer; to twinkle.-a constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.
simple: single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.-plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.-mere; not other than; being only.-not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.-artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.-direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.-weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.-not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.-humble; lowly; undistinguished.-without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.-not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies.  cf. ultimate, a.-homogenous.-consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.-something not mixed or compounded.-a medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.-a drawloom.-a part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.-a feast which is not a double or a semidouble.-to gather simples, or medicinal plants.
simple-minded: artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.
simpler: one who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.
simplicity: the quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.-the quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.-artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.-freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.-freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.-weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
simplify: to make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
simply: in a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.-plainly; without art or subtlety.-weakly; foolishly.
simulacrum: a likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
simular: one who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.-false; specious; counterfeit.
simulate: feigned; pretended.-to assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
simulation: the act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.
simultaneous: existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events.
sin: old form of since.-transgression of the law of god; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of god's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.-an offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.-a sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.-an embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.-to depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by god to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.-to violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
sinaitic: of or pertaining to mount sinai; given or made at mount sinai; as, the sinaitic law.
sinalbin: a glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (brassica alba, formerly sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
sinamine: a bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.
sinapic: of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (c11h12o5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.
sinapine: an alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. it is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste.  when sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.
sinapism: a plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. it is a powerful irritant.
sinapoleic: of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.
sinapoline: a nitrogenous base, co.(nh.c3h5)2, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diallyl urea.
since: from a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and i have not seen him since.-in the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.-when or that.-from the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object.-seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.
sincere: pure; unmixed; unadulterated.-whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured.-being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness.-honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person.
sincerely: in a sincere manner.-purely; without alloy.-honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.