AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sneaking: of sneak-marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.
sneap: to check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.-to nip; to blast; to blight.-a reprimand; a rebuke.
sneck: to fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.-a door latch.
sneer: to show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.-to inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.-to show mirth awkwardly.-to utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.-to treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.-the act of sneering.-a smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.
sneeze: to emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.-a sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.
sneezeweed: a yellow-flowered composite plant (helenium autumnale) the odor of which is said to cause sneezing.
sneezewort: a european herbaceous plant (achillea ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.
sneezing: of sneeze-the act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
snell: active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.-a short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.
snib: to check; to sneap; to sneb.-a reprimand; a snub.
snick: a small cut or mark.-a slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.-a knot or irregularity in yarn.-a snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.-to cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.-to hit (a ball) lightly.-see sneck.
snicker: to laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.-to laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.-a half suppressed, broken laugh.
snide: tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods.
sniff: to draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.-to draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.-to perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.-the act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
sniffing: of sniff-a rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.
snift: of sniff-to snort.-to sniff; to snuff; to smell.-a moment.-slight snow; sleet.
snig: to chop off; to cut.-to sneak.-alt. of snigg
sniggle: to fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.-to catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.
snip: to cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.-a single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.-a small shred; a bit cut off.-a share; a snack.-a tailor.-small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
snip-snap: a tart dialogue with quick replies.-quick; short; sharp; smart.
snipe: any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.-a fool; a blockhead.
snipebill: a plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.-a bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
snipefish: the bellows fish.-a long, slender deep-sea fish (nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.
snite: a snipe.-to blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle.
snivel: to run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.-to cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.-mucus from the nose; snot.
snob: a vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.-a townsman.-a journeyman shoemaker.-a workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
snobbish: of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.
snobbishness: vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.
snod: a fillet; a headband; a snood.-trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure.
snood: the fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.-a short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.-to bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.
snook: to lurk; to lie in ambush.-a large perchlike marine food fish (centropomus undecimalis) found both on the atlantic and pacific coasts of tropical america; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.-the cobia.-the garfish.
snooze: a short sleep; a nap.-to doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.
snore: to breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.-a harsh nasal noise made in sleep.
snoring: of snore-the act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. it is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.
snort: to force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.-to snore.-to laugh out loudly.-the act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.-to expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
snot: mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.-a mean, insignificant fellow.-to blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.
snotter: to snivel; to cry or whine.-a rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
snout: the long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.-the nose of a man; -- in contempt.-the nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.-the anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.-the anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.-to furnish with a nozzle or point.
snow: a square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.-watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.-fig.: something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.-to fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.-to scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.
snow-broth: snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor.
snow-capped: having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains.
snowball: a round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.-the guelder-rose.-to pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.-to throw snowballs.
snowberry: a name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the symphoricarpus racemosus of the northern united states, and the chiococca racemosa of florida and tropical america.
snowbird: an arctic finch (plectrophenax, / plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in europe and the united states, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. it is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.-any finch of the genus junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially j. hyemalis in the eastern united states; -- called also blue snowbird. see junco.-the fieldfare.
snowcap: a very small humming bird (microchaera albocoronata) native of new grenada.
snowdrop: a bulbous plant (galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. it is cultivated in gardens for its beauty.
snowflake: a flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.-see snowbird, 1.-a name given to several bulbous plants of the genus leucoium (l. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.
snowplough: an implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
snowshed: a shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.
snowshoe: a slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
snowshoer: one who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.
snowslip: a large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.
snowy: white like snow.-abounding with snow; covered with snow.-fig.: pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.
snub: to sob with convulsions.-to clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.-to check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.-to treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.-a knot; a protuberance; a song.-a check or rebuke; an intended slight.
snub-nosed: having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.
snuff: the part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.-to crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.-to draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.-to perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.-to inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.-to turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.-the act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.-pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.-resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
snuffle: to speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.-the act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.-an affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.-obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
snug: close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.-close; concealed; not exposed to notice.-compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.-same as lug, n., 3.-to lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.-to place snugly.-to rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.
snuggle: to move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.
snying: a curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.
so: in that manner or degree; as, indicated (in any way), or as implied, or as supposed to be known.-in like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; -- used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as.-in such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape.-very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely.-in the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; -- with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate.-the case being such; therefore; on this account; for this reason; on these terms; -- used both as an adverb and a conjuction.-it is well; let it be as it is, or let it come to pass; -- used to express assent.-well; the fact being as stated; -- used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it?-is it thus? do you mean what you say? -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? so?-about the number, time, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, i will spend a week or so in the country; i have read only a page or so.-provided that; on condition that; in case that; if.-be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.
so-called: so named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).
so-so: neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.-tolerably; passably.
soak: to cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.-to drench; to wet thoroughly.-to draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.-to make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.-fig.: to absorb; to drain.-to lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.-to enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.-to drink intemperately or gluttonously.
soakage: the act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
soaking: of soak-wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.
soap: a substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). see the note below, and cf. saponification. by extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.-to rub or wash over with soap.-to flatter; to wheedle.
soapberry tree: any tree of the genus sapindus, esp. sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
soapfish: any serranoid fish of the genus rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.
soaproot: a perennial herb (gypsophila struthium) the root of which is used in spain as a substitute for soap.
soapwort: a common plant (saponaria officinalis) of the pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. called also bouncing bet.
soapy: resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.-smeared with soap; covered with soap.
soar: to fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.-fig.: to rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.-the act of soaring; upward flight.-see 3d sore.-see sore, reddish brown.
sob: to soak.-to sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.-the act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.-any sorrowful cry or sound.
sobbing: of sob-a series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
sober: temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.-not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.-not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.-not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.-serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.-to make sober.-to become sober; -- often with down.
soberly: in a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.-grave; serious; solemn; sad.
soboles: a shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.-a sucker, as of tree or shrub.
sobriety: habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.-habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.
sobriquet: an assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
soc: the lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.-liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.-an exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
socage: a tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. the service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.
sociable: a gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.-a carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.
social: of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.-ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.-consisting in union or mutual intercourse.-naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.-living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.-forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
socialism: a theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. in popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. see communism, fourierism, saint-simonianism, forms of socialism.
society: the relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.-connection; participation; partnership.-a number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.-the persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.-specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
socinian: of or pertaining to socinus, or the socinians.-one of the followers of socinus; a believer in socinianism.
socinianism: the tenets or doctrines of faustus socinus, an italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the trinity, the deity of christ, the personality of the devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. his theory was, that christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the virgin mary; that human sin was the imitation of adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of christ's virtue; that the bible was to be interpreted by human reason; and that its language was metaphorical, and not to be taken literally.
socinianize: to cause to conform to socinianism; to regulate by, or imbue with, the principles of socinianism.
sociology: that branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.
sock: a plowshare.-the shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient greece and rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.-a knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.-a warm inner sole for a shoe.
sockdolager: that which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.-a combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.
socket: an opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.-especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
socle: a plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. see plinth.-a plain face or plinth at the lower part of a wall.
socotrine: of or pertaining to socotra, an island in the indian ocean, on the east coast of africa.-a native or inhabitant of socotra.
socratical: of or pertaining to socrates, the grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.
sod: of seethe-the rock dove.-imp. of seethe.-that stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.-to cover with sod; to turf.
sodalite: a mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive.  it is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.
sodality: a fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.-specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.
sodamide: a greenish or reddish crystalline substance, nanh2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.
sodden: of seethe-of sod-boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.-to be seethed; to become sodden.-to soak; to make heavy with water.
sodio-: a combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sodium or one of its compounds.
sodium: a common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. it is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. symbol na  (natrium). atomic weight 23. specific gravity 0.97.
soever: a word compounded of so and ever, used in composition with who, what, where, when, how, etc., and indicating any out of all possible or supposable persons, things, places, times, ways, etc. it is sometimes used separate from the pronoun or adverb.
sofa: a long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
soffit: the under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. see illust. of lintel.