AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
station: the act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.-a state of standing or rest; equilibrium.-the spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.-a regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.-the headquarters of the police force of any precinct.-the place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.-the particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.-a place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.-a place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.-a place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. wilhelm (mil. dict.).-an enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.-post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.-situation; position; location.-state; rank; condition of life; social status.-the fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, wednesday and friday, in memory of the council which condemned christ, and of his passion.-a church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.-one of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also station of the cross.-to place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of africa.
stationary: not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.-not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.-appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.-one who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
stationer: a bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.-one who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
stationery: the articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.-belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
statistics: the science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.-classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.-the branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
statoblast: one of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.
statocracy: government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.
statuary: one who practices the art of making statues.-the art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.-a collection of statues; statues, collectively.
statue: the likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of hercules, or of a lion.-a portrait.-to place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.
statuesque: partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
statuesquely: in a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.
statuette: a small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like.  cf. figurine.
status quo: the state in which anything is already. the phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.
statutable: made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.-made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.
statute: an act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. see common law, under common, a.-an act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.-an assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
staurolite: a mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. it is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. called also granatite, and grenatite.
staurolitic: of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
stauroscope: an optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
stave: one of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.-one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.-a metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.-the five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.-to break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.-to push, as with a staff; -- with off.-to delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.-to suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.-to furnish with staves or rundles.-to render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.-to burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
stavesacre: a kind of larkspur (delphinium staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. they are used as a parasiticide, and in the east for poisoning fish.
stavewood: a tall tree (simaruba amara) growing in tropical america. it is one of the trees which yields quassia.
staving: of stave-a cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
stay: a large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. see illust. of ship.-to stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.-to support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.-to bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.-to hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.-to hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.-to remain for the purpose of; to wait for.-to cause to cease; to put an end to.-to fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.-to tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.-to remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.-to continue in a state.-to wait; to attend; to forbear to act.-to dwell; to tarry; to linger.-to rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.-to come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.-to hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.-to change tack; as a ship.-that which serves as a prop; a support.-a corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.-continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.-cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.-hindrance; let; check.-restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.-strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
stayed: of stay-staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. see staid.
stayer: one who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.
stayship: a remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
stead: place, or spot, in general.-place or room which another had, has, or might have.-a frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.-a farmhouse and offices.-to help; to support; to benefit; to assist.-to fill place of.
steadfast: firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm.-not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady.
steadfastness: the quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.
steading: the brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.
steady: firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.-constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.-regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.-to make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.-to become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
steak: a slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.
steal: a handle; a stale, or stele.-to take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.-to withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.-to gain by insinuating arts or covert means.-to get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.-to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.-to practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.-to withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
stealer: one who steals; a thief.-the endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
stealing: of steal-the act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.-that which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
stealingly: by stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion.
stealth: the act of stealing; theft.-the thing stolen; stolen property.-the bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
stealthy: done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.
steam: the elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.-the mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.-any exhalation.-to emit steam or vapor.-to rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.-to move or travel by the agency of steam.-to generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.-to exhale.-to expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
steamboat: a boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
steamboating: the occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.-the shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards.
steamer: a vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.-a steam fire engine. see under steam.-a road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.-a vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.-the steamer duck.
steamship: a ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
steamy: consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.
steapsin: an unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. it decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.
stearate: a salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
stearic: pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.
stearin: one of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. it is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.
stearolic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.
stearone: the ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (c17h35)2.co, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
stearoptene: the more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elaeoptene.
steatite: a massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. it forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.
steatitic: pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.
steatopyga: a remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of africans of certain tribes, especially of hottentot women.
steed: a horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
steel: a variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.-an instrument or implement made of steel-a weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.-an instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.-a piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.-fig.: anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.-a chalybeate medicine.-to overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.-to make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.-fig.: to cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.-to cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. the iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
steelbow goods: those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
steelhead: a north pacific salmon (salmo gairdneri) found from northern california to siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.-the ruddy duck.
steeling: of steel-the process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. see steel, v.
steely: made of steel; consisting of steel.-resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.
steelyard: a form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.
steem: see esteem.-see 1st and 2nd stem.-to gleam.-a gleam of light; flame.
steen: a vessel of clay or stone.-a wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.-to line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.
steening: a lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well.
steep: bright; glittering; fiery.-to soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. often used figuratively.-to undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.-something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.-a rennet bag.-making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.-difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.-excessive; as, a steep price.-a precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
steeper: a vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
steeple: a spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. see spire.
steeple-crowned: bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.-having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown.
steepled: furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.
steeply: in a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
steepness: quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.-height; loftiness.
steer: a young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. see the note under ox.-to castrate; -- said of male calves.-to direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.-to direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.-to be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.-to conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.-a rudder or helm.-a helmsman, a pilot.
steerage: the act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.-the effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.-the hinder part of a vessel; the stern.-properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.-direction; regulation; management; guidance.-that by which a course is directed.
steerageway: a rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.
steeve: to project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.-to elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.-to stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. see steeve, n. (b).-the angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving.-a spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.
steeving: of steeve-the act or practice of one who steeves.-see steeve, n. (a).
steganography: the art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.
steganophthalmata: the discophora, or phanerocarpae. called also steganophthalmia.
steganopodes: a division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. it includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.
stegnotic: tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally.-a stegnotic medicine; an astringent.
stegocephala: an extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the mesozoic rocks; called also stegocephali, and labyrinthodonta.
stegosauria: an extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera stegosaurus, omosaurus, and their allies.
stegosaurus: a genus of large jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.
steik: to pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to sew; also, to fix; to fasten.-see steek.
steinbock: the european ibex.-a small south african antelope (nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.
steinkirk: a kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.-same as steenkirk.
stell: to place or fix firmly or permanently.-a prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.-a partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
stellary: of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.-full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.
stellated: resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.-starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.
stellerida: an extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
stellify: to turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.
stellion: a lizard (stellio vulgaris), common about the eastern mediterranean among ruins. in color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. called also hardim, and star lizard.
stellionate: any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
stellular: having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.-marked with starlike spots of color.