AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
put: a pit.-3d pers. sing. pres. of put, contracted from putteth.-a rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.-of put-to move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).-to bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.-to attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.-to lay down; to give up; to surrender.-to set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.-to incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.-to throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.-to convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.-to go or move; as, when the air first puts up.-to steer; to direct one's course; to go.-to play a card or a hand in the game called put.-the act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.-a certain game at cards.-a privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.-a prostitute.
put-off: a shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.
put-up: arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
putamen: the shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. see endocarp.
putative: commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.
puteal: an inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.
putid: rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. jer. taylor.
putlog: one of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.
putredinous: proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.
putrefaction: the act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.-the condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.
putrefactive: of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.-causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.
putrefy: to render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.-to corrupt; to make foul.-to make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.-to become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.
putrescent: becoming putrid or rotten.-of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.
putrescible: capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.-a substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.
putrescin: a nontoxic diamine, c4h12n2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.
putrid: tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. see putrefaction.-indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
putter: one who puts or plates.-specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.-to act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
putting: of put-the throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a scottish game.
puttock: the european kite.-the buzzard.-the marsh harrier.-see futtock.
putty: a kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.-to cement, or stop, with putty.
puttyroot: an american orchidaceous plant (aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. called also adam-and-eve.
puzzle: something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.-the state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.-to perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.-to make intricate; to entangle.-to solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.-to be bewildered, or perplexed.-to work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
pyaemia: a form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. it is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
pyaemic: of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia.
pycnaspidean: having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.
pycnidium: in certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
pycnodont: any fossil fish belonging to the pycnodontini. they have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.
pycnodontini: an extinct order of ganoid fishes. they had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.
pycnogonida: a class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also pantopoda.
pycnometer: a specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.
pygal: situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
pygargus: a quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.-the female of the hen harrier.-the sea eagle.
pygidium: the caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. see illust. of limulus and trilobite.
pygmean: of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.
pygmy: alt. of pygmean-one of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.-hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.
pygobranchia: a division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus doris.
pygopod: one of the pygopodes.-any species of serpentiform lizards of the family pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs.
pygostyle: the plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. it is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebrae, and supports the uropigium.
pygropodes: a division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back.
pyin: an albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.
pyjama: in india and persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in europe and america, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs.
pylangium: the first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
pylon: a low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient egyptian gateway.-an egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
pyloric: of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.
pylorus: the opening from the stomach into the intestine.-a posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
pyocyanin: a blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (bacillus pyocyaneus).
pyoid: of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.
pyopneumothorax: accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
pyoxanthose: a greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
pyr-: combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (chem.), used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.
pyracanth: the evergreen thorn (crataegus pyracantha), a shrub native of europe.
pyralid: any moth of the family pyralidae. the species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.
pyramid: a solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.-a solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.-the game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
pyramidal: of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.-same as tetragonal.-one of the carpal bones. see cuneiform, n., 2 (b).
pyramidical: of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.
pyrargyrite: ruby silver; dark red silver ore. it is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.
pyre: a funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
pyrene: one of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, c16h10.-same as pyrena.
pyrenean: of or pertaining to the pyrenees, a range of mountains separating france and spain.-the pyrenees.
pyrethrin: a substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also pyrethrum camphor.
pyrethrine: an alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of spain (anacyclus pyrethrum).
pyridic: related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as, the pyridic bases.
pyridine: a nitrogenous base, c5h5n, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. it is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned. see lutidine.
pyridyl: a hypothetical radical, c5h4n, regarded as the essential residue of pyridine, and analogous to phenyl.
pyrite: a common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites; iron disulphide.
pyrites: of pyrite-a name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color.
pyritical: of or pertaining to pyrites; consisting of, or resembling, pyrites.
pyritohedron: the pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.
pyroacetic: pertaining to, and designating, a substance (acetone) obtained by the distillation of the acetates. it is now called also pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.
pyroacid: an acid obtained by sybjecting another acid to the action of heat.  cf. pyro-.
pyroantimonic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid of antimony analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
pyroarsenic: pertaining to or designating, an acid of arsenic analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
pyroboric: pertaining to derived from, or designating, an acid, h2b4o7 (called also tetraboric acid), which is the acid ingredient of ordinary borax, and is obtained by heating boric acid.
pyrocatechin: a white crystalline substance, c6h4(oh)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.
pyrochlore: a niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe.
pyrocitric: pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.
pyroelectric: pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.-a substance which becomes electrically polar when heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.
pyroelectricity: electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
pyrogallate: a salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.
pyrogallic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid called pyrogallol. see pyrogallol.
pyrogallol: a phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. it is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.
pyrogen: electricity.-a poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria.
pyrogenic: producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.
pyrognostic: of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.
pyrognostics: the characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.
pyrography: a process of printing, ornamenting, or carving, by burning with heated instruments.
pyrolignic: pertaining to, or designating, the acid liquid obtained in the distillation of wood, consisting essentially of impure acetic acid.
pyrology: that branch of physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.
pyrolusite: manganese dioxide, a mineral of an iron-black or dark steel-gray color and metallic luster, usually soft.  pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).
pyromagnetic: acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents.
pyromalic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called maleic acid.
pyromantic: of or pertaining to pyromancy.-one who pretends to divine by fire.
pyrometer: an instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.-an instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those indicated by the mercurial thermometer.
pyrometrical: pertaining to, or obtained by, the pyrometer; as, pyrometrical instruments; pyrometrical measurements.
pyromorphite: native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.
pyromucic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of mucic acid, or by the oxidation of furfurol.
pyrope: a variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. it is used as a gem. see the note under garnet.
pyrophane: a mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.
pyrophone: a musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.
pyrophorus: any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead.
pyrophosphoric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid, h4p2o7, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. its salts are obtained by heating the phosphates.
pyrophyllite: a mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.
pyroscope: an instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. it is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf.
pyrosmalite: a mineral, usually of a pale brown or of a gray or grayish green color, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron and manganese; -- so called from the odor given off before the blowpipe.
pyrosome: any compound ascidian of the genus pyrosoma. the pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.
pyrosulphuric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also disulphuric acid) obtained by distillation of certain sulphates, as a colorless, thick, oily liquid, h2s2o7 resembling sulphuric acid. it is used in the solution of indigo, in the manufacture of alizarin, and in dehydration.
pyrotartaric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.
pyrotechnics: the art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.
pyrotechny: the use and application of fire in science and the arts.-same as pyrotechnics.
pyrothonide: a kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent.
pyrouric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called cyanuric acid. see cyanuric.
pyrovanadic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid of vanadium, analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
pyroxanthin: a yellow crystalline hydrocardon extracted from crude wood spirit; -- called also eblanin.
pyroxene: a common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. it varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. they are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.
pyroxylic: derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in designating crude wood spirit.
pyroxylin: a substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; -- called also pyroxyle.
pyrrhic: of or pertaining to an ancient greek martial dance.-of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.-an ancient greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.-a foot consisting of two short syllables.
pyrrhotite: a bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. it is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. called also magnetic pyrites.
pyrrol: a nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, c4h5n, having on odor like that of chloroform. it is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. so called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.
pyrroline: a nitrogenous base, c4h7n, obtained as a colorless liquid by the reduction of pyrrol.
pyrula: a genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. it includes the fig-shells. see illust. in appendix.
pyrus: a genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. it includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.
pyruvic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also pyroracemic acid) obtained, as a liquid having a pungent odor, by the distillation of racemic acid.
pyruvil: a complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating together pyruvic acid and urea.
pythagorean: of or pertaining to pythagoras (a greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy.-a follower of pythagoras; one of the school of philosophers founded by pythagoras.
pythian: of or pertaining to delphi, to the temple of apollo, or to the priestess of apollo, who delivered oracles at delphi.
pythocenic: producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.
python: any species of very large snakes of the genus python, and allied genera, of the family pythonidae. they are nearly allied to the boas. called also rock snake.-a diviner by spirits.
pythoness: the priestess who gave oracular answers at delphi in greece.-any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.
pythonism: the art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of apollo at delphi; equivocal prophesying.
pyx: the box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.-a box used in the british mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.-the box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.-same as pyxis.-to test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
pyxidium: a pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.-the theca of mosses.
pyxis: a box; a pyx.-a pyxidium.-the acetabulum. see acetabulum, 2.
q: the seventeenth letter of the english alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. see guide to pronunciation, / 249. q is not found in anglo-saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. the name (k/) is from the french ku, which is from the latin name of the same letter; its form is from the latin, which derived it, through a greek alphabet, from the ph/nician, the ultimate origin being egyptian.
quab: an unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.-see quob, v. i.
quack: to utter a sound like the cry of a duck.-to make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.-to act the part of a quack, or pretender.-the cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.-a boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.-hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.-pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
quackery: the acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
quacksalver: one who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
quad: alt. of quade-a quadrat.-a quadrangle; hence, a prison.
quadra: the plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.-a fillet, or listel.
quadrable: that may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
quadragene: an indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
quadragesimals: offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on mid-lent sunday.