AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
supervise: to oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.-to look over so as to read; to peruse.-supervision; inspection.
supervisor: one who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.-a spectator; a looker-on.
supervolute: having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.
supination: the act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.-the act or state of lying with the face upward. opposed to pronation.
supine: lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.-leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.-negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.-a verbal noun; or (according to c.f.becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
supper: a meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.-to take supper; to sup.-to supply with supper.
supperless: having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed.
supping: of sup-the act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.-that which is supped; broth.
supplant: to trip up.-to remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.-to overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
supple: pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.-yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.-bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.-to make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.-to make compliant, submissive, or obedient.-to become soft and pliant.
supple-jack: a climbing shrub (berchemia volubilus) of the southern united states, having a tough and pliable stem.-a somewhat similar tropical american plant (paullinia curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem.
supplement: that which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.-that which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.-the number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.-to fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
supplementary: added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
suppleness: the quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
suppletory: supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.-that which is to supply what is wanted.
suppliance: that which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction.-supplication; entreaty.
suppliant: asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.-manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.-one who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
supplicant: entreating; asking submissively.-one who supplicates; a suppliant.
supplicat: a petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
supplicate: to entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on christian efforts to spread the gospel.-to address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the deity.-to make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
supplication: the act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.-a humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.-a religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
supply: to fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.-to serve instead of; to take the place of.-to fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.-to give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.-the act of supplying; supplial.-that which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.-auxiliary troops or reenforcements.-the food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.-an amount of money provided, as by parliament or congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.-a person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.-serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
support: to bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.-to endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.-to keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.-to assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of king lear.-to furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.-to carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.-to verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.-to vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.-to uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.-a attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; o'connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.-the act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.-that which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.-that which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.
supporter: one who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.-especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.-a knee placed under the cathead.-a figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.-a broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.
supposable: capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case.
supposal: the act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.
suppose: to represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?-to imagine; to believe; to receive as true.-to require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.-to put by fraud in the place of another.-to make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.-supposition.
supposition: the act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.-that which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence.
supposititious: fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.-suppositional; hypothetical.
suppositive: including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.-a word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.
suppository: a pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.
suppress: to overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.-to keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.-to retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.-to stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
suppression: the act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.-complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.-omission; as, the suppression of a word.
suppurate: to generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.-to cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.
suppuration: the act or process of suppurating.-the matter produced by suppuration; pus.
suppurative: tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.-a suppurative medicine.
supra: over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
supra-auricular: situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.-a supra-auricular feather.
supra-axillary: growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. see suprafoliaceous.
supra-esophageal: situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of crustacea.
supra-ethmoid: above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
supra-ilium: the cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.
suprabranchial: situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.
suprachoroidal: situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.
supraclavicle: a bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.
supraclavicular: situated above the clavicle.-of or pertaining to the supraclavicle.
suprafoliaceous: inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.
supraglotic: situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.
suprahepatic: situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.
supralapsarian: one of that class of calvinists who believed that god's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall.  cf. infralapsarian.-of or pertaining to the supralapsarians, or their doctrine.
supraloral: situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird.-a supraloral feather.
supramaxillary: situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.-of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
supranaturalism: the state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.
supraoccipital: situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone.-the supraoccipital bone.
supraocular: above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.
suprapedal: situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.
supraprotest: an acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee.
suprarenal: situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys.-a suprarenal capsule.
suprascalpulary: situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula.
suprasphenoidal: situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.
supraspinal: situated above the vertebral column.-situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.
supraspinous: situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
suprastapedial: of, pertaining to, or designating, that part of the columella of the ear which projects above the connection with the stapes, as in many animals.-the suprastapedial part of the columella.
supratemporal: situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa.-a supratemporal bone.
supratrochlear: situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
supremacy: the state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
supreme: highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.-highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.-situated at the highest part or point.
sura: one of the sections or chapters of the koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.
suradanni: a valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the demerara river in south america, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.
surah: a soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.
sural: of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.
surangular: above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.-the surangular bone.
surbase: a cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. see illust. of column.-a board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.
surbased: having a surbase, or molding above the base.-having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased.
surbate: to make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.-to harass; to fatigue.
surbed: to set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
surcease: cessation; stop; end.-to cause to cease; to end.-to cease.
surcharge: to overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.-to overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. blackstone.-to show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.-an overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.-the putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.-the showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
surcingle: a belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.-the girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist.
surcoat: a coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer.-a name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the middle ages.
surd: net having the sense of hearing; deaf.-unheard.-involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.-uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. see guide to pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.-a quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, ã2 is a surd.-a surd element of speech. see surd, a., 4.
sure: certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive.-certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.-fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring.-betrothed; engaged to marry.-free from danger; safe; secure.-in a sure manner; safely; certainly.
sure-footed: not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.
surely: in a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly.-without danger; firmly; steadly; securely.
surety: the state of being sure; certainty; security.-that which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.-security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.-one who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.-hence, a substitute; a hostage.-evidence; confirmation; warrant.-to act as surety for.
suretyship: the state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.
surf: the swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.-the bottom of a drain.
surface: the exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.-hence, outward or external appearance.-a magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.-that part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.-to give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.-to work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
surfacer: a form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
surfboat: a boat intended for use in heavy surf. it is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.
surfeit: excess in eating and drinking.-fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.-disgust caused by excess; satiety.-to load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.-to indulge to satiety in any gratification.-to feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.-to fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
surfle: to wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur.
surfy: consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore.
surge: a spring; a fountain.-a large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.-the motion of, or produced by, a great wave.-the tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.-to swell; to rise hifg and roll.-to slip along a windlass.-to let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
surgeon: one whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.-any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family teuthidae, or acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
surgery: the art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.-a surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
surgical: of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
surgy: rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
surloin: a loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. see sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.
surly: arrogant; haughty.-gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.-rough; dark; tempestuous.
surmark: a mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.
surmisable: capable of being surmised; as, a surmisable result.
surmise: a thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.-reflection; thought.-to imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
surmising: of surmise-a. & n. from surmise, v.
surmount: to rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.-to conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.-to surpass; to exceed.
surmounted: of surmount-having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch.-partly covered by another charge; -- said of an ordinary or other bearing.
surmullet: any one of various species of mullets of the family millidae, esp. the european species (millus surmulletus), which is highly prized as a food fish. see mullet.
surname: a name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or christian name, and becomes a family name.-an appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.-to name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
surplice: a white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the roman catholic, episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.
surplus: that which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.-specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.-being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
surplusage: surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.-matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.-a greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.