AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
spawn: to produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.-to bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.-to deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.-to issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.-the ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.-any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.-the buds or branches produced from underground stems.-the white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
spay: to remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).-the male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.
speak: to utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.-to express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.-to utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.-to discourse; to make mention; to tell.-to give sound; to sound.-to convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.-to utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.-to utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.-to declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.-to talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak latin.-to address; to accost; to speak to.
speaker: one who speaks.-one who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.-one who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the speaker of the house of commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the house to address the king; the speaker of a house of representatives.-a book of selections for declamation.
speakership: the office of speaker; as, the speakership of the house of representatives.
speaking: of speak-uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.-seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.
spear: a long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.-fig.: a spearman.-a sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.-a shoot, as of grass; a spire.-the feather of a horse. see feather, n., 4.-the rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.-to pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.-to shoot into a long stem, as some plants. see spire.
spearfish: a large and powerful fish (tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. it is found on the american coast and the mediterranean.-the carp sucker.
spearmint: a species of mint (mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. it vields an aromatic oil. see mint, and mentha.
spearwood: an australian tree (acacia doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
spearwort: a name given to several species of crowfoot (ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves.
special: of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.-particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.-appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of parliament or of congress; a special sermon.-limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.-chief in excellence.-a particular.-one appointed for a special service or occasion.
specialism: devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
specialist: one who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
speciality: a particular or peculiar case; a particularity.-see specialty, 3.-the special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty.-an attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
specialization: the act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.-the setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function.
specialize: to mention specially; to particularize.-to apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge.-to supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions.
specially: in a special manner; particularly; especially.-for a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.
specialty: particularity.-a particular or peculiar case.-a contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.-that for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
specie: abl. of l. species sort, kind. used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.-coin; hard money.
species: visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.-a group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to european, american, or the like, as species.-in science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.-a sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.-coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.-a public spectacle or exhibition.-a component part of compound medicine; a simple.-an officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.-the form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.
specific: of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.-specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.-exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.-a specific remedy. see specific, a., 3.-anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
specificate: to show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.
specification: the act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.-the designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.-a written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.
specify: to mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.
specimen: a part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.
speciosity: the quality or state of being specious; speciousness.-that which is specious.
specious: presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.-apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
speck: the blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.-a small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.-a very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.-a small etheostomoid fish (ulocentra stigmaea) common in the eastern united states.-to cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
speckle: a little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.-to mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
speckled: of speckle-marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.
speckled-bill: the american white-fronted goose (anser albifrons).
specksioneer: the chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.
spectacle: something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.-a spy-glass; a looking-glass.-an optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.-fig.: an aid to the intellectual sight.
spectacled: furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.-having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.
spectacular: of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.-adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.-pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
spectator: one who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.
spectral: of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.-of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.
spectre: something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.-the tarsius.-a stick insect.-see specter.
spectrological: of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.
spectrometer: a spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.
spectrophotometer: an instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.
spectroscope: an optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.
spectroscopist: one who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.
spectrum: an apparition; a specter.-the several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. see illust. of light, and spectroscope.-a luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. when the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. called also ocular spectrum.
specular: having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.-of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.-assisting sight, as a lens or the like.-affording view.
speculate: to consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.-to view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.-to purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.-to consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
speculation: the act of speculating.-examination by the eye; view.-mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.-the act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.-the act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.-any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.-a conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.-power of sight.-a game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
speculatist: one who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist.
speculative: given to speculation; contemplative.-involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.-of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.-of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
speculator: one who speculates. specifically: (a) an observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.-one who forms theories; a theorist.-one who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
speculatory: intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.-exercising speculation; speculative.
speculum: of speculum-a mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in greek and roman archaeology.-a reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. see speculum metal, below.-an instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations.-a bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. it is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
speech: the faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.-he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.-a particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.-talk; mention; common saying.-formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.-ny declaration of thoughts.-to make a speech; to harangue.
speechless: destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.-not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
speed: prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.-the act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.-one who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.-to go; to fare.-to experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.-to fare well; to have success; to prosper.-to make haste; to move with celerity.-to be expedient.-to cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.-to cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.-to hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.-to hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.-to wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
speeder: one who, or that which, speeds.-a machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
speedwell: any plant of the genus veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
speedy: not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
speiss: a regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.
spekboom: the purslane tree of south africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.
spelding: a haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.
spelk: a small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
spell: a spelk, or splinter.-to supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.-the relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.-the time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.-one of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.-a gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.-a story; a tale.-a stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.-to tell; to relate; to teach.-to put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.-to constitute; to measure.-to tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.-to discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the bible.-to form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.-to study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
spelling: of spell-of spell-the act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.-of or pertaining to spelling.
spellwork: power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment.
spelt: of spell-imp. & p. p. of spell. spelled.-a species of grain (triticum spelta) much cultivated for food in germany and switzerland; -- called also german wheat.-spelter.-to split; to break; to spalt.
spence: a place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.-the inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
spencer: one who has the care of the spence, or buttery.-a short jacket worn by men and by women.-a fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, knight spencer, of england [1802].
spend: to weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.-to bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.-to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.-to pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.-to exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.-to expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.-to waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.-to be diffused; to spread.-to break ground; to continue working.
spender: one who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
spendthrift: one who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. also used figuratively.-prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
spenserian: of or pertaining to the english poet spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "the faerie queene."
spent: of spend-exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.-exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
sperm: the male fecundating fluid; semen. see semen.-spermaceti.
sperm whale: a very large toothed whale (physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. the upper jaw is destitute of teeth. in the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. this whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. it is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
spermaceti: a white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. it consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases.  the substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin.
spermaphore: that part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.
spermary: an organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
spermatheca: a small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.
spermatic: of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.
spermatin: a substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.
spermatium: one of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
spermatogenetic: relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.
spermatogonium: a primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. it divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.
spermatophore: same as spermospore.-a capsule or pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. they are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. in cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex.
spermatophorous: producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.
spermatorrhoea: abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.
spermatozoid: the male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. in animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. called also spermatozoon. in plants the more usual term is antherozoid.
spermist: a believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
spermo-: combining forms from gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.