AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
running: of run-moving or advancing by running.-having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.-trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.-successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.-flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.-continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.-extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.-discharging pus; as, a running sore.-the act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.-that which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.-the discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
runt: any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.-a variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.-a dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.-the dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
runway: the channel of a stream.-the beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.
rupert's drop: a kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. it is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from prince rupert, nephew of charles i., by whom they were first brought to england. called also rupert's ball, and glass tear.
rupia: an eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
rupicola: a genus of beautiful south american passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.
rupture: the act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.-breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.-hernia. see hernia.-a bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. see explosion.-to part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.-to produce a hernia in.-to suffer a breach or disruption.
rupturewort: same as burstwort.-a west indian plant (alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.
rural: of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.-of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
rurales: the gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
ruralism: the quality or state of being rural; ruralness.-a rural idiom or expression.
ruralize: to render rural; to give a rural appearance to.-to become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.
ruridecanal: of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.
rush: a name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of juncus and scirpus.-the merest trifle; a straw.-to move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.-to enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.-to push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.-to recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.-a moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.-great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.-a perfect recitation.-a rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.-the act of running with the ball.
rush-bearing: a kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church.
rushbuckler: a bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
rusher: one who rushes.-one who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.
rushlight: a rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.
rusine: of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus rusa, which includes the sambur deer (rusa aristotelis) of india.
rusk: a kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.-a kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.-bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.
rusma: a depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the turks. see rhusma.
russ: a russian, or the russians.-the language of the russians.-of or pertaining to the russians.
russet: of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.-coarse; homespun; rustic.-a russet color; a pigment of a russet color.-cloth or clothing of a russet color.-a country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.-an apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the english russet, and the roxbury russet.
russian: of or pertaining to russia, its inhabitants, or language.-a native or inhabitant of russia; the language of russia.
russianize: to make russian, or more or less like the russians; as, to russianize the poles.
russophilist: one who, not being a russian, favors russian policy and aggrandizement.
rust: the reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.-a minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (trichobasis rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (puccinia graminis). as rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.-that which resembles rust in appearance or effects.-a composition used in making a rust joint. see rust joint, below.-foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.-corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.-to contract rust; to be or become oxidized.-to be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.-to degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.-to cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.-to impair by time and inactivity.
rustic: of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.-rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.-coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.-simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.-an inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.-a rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
rusticate: to go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.-to require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
rusticated: of rusticate-resembling rustic work. see rustic work (a), under rustic.
rustication: the act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.-rustic work.
rusticity: the quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
rustle: to make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.-to stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.-to cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.-a quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
rustler: one who, or that which, rustles.-a bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person.
rusty: covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.-impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.-discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.-surly; morose; crusty; sullen.-rust-colored; dark.-discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.-resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
rut: sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.-roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. see rote.-to have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.-to cover in copulation.-a track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. also used figuratively.-to make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
ruta-baga: a kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a swedish turnip. see turnip.
rutaceous: of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.
ruth: sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.-that which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.
ruthenic: pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.
ruthenious: pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in  which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.
ruthenium: a rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible.  symbol ru.  atomic weight 103.5. specific gravity 12.26. see platinum metals, under platinum.
ruthful: full of ruth-pitiful; tender.-full of sorrow; woeful.-causing sorrow.
rutic: pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.
rutile: a mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. in composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.
rutilian: any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (pelidnota punctata).
rutin: a glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.
ruttish: inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.
rutty: ruttish; lustful.-full of ruts; as, a rutty road.-rooty.
rutylene: a liquid hydrocarbon, c10h18, of the acetylene series. it is produced artificially.
ryder: a clause added to a document; a rider. see rider.-a gold coin of zealand [netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.
rye: a grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself.  rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.-a disease in a hawk.
rynd: a piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
rytina: a genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (r. stelleri); -- called also steller's sea cow.
s: the nineteenth letter of the english alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. it has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. it generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. in a few words it is silent, as in isle, debris.  with the letter h it forms the digraph sh.  see guide to pronunciation, // 255-261.
sabadilla: a mexican liliaceous plant (schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. it was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
sabbat: in mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
sabbatarian: one who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the decalogue.-a strict observer of the sabbath.-of or pertaining to the sabbath, or the tenets of sabbatarians.
sabbath: a season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the jews in the decalogue, and has been continued by the christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also lord's day.-the seventh year, observed among the israelites as one of rest and festival.-fig.: a time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
sabbathless: without sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest.
sabbatical: of or pertaining to the sabbath; resembling the sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
sabbaton: a round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
sabella: a genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
sabellian: pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of sabellius. see sabellian, n.-a follower of sabellius, a presbyter of ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the godhead, and that the son and holy spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one god the father.
sabellianism: the doctrines or tenets of sabellius. see sabellian, n.
sabian: of or pertaining to saba in arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.-relating to the religion of saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies.-an adherent of the sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
sabianism: the doctrine of the sabians; the sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry.
sabicu: the very hard wood of a leguminous west indian tree (lysiloma sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.
sabine: of or pertaining to the ancient sabines, a people of italy.-one of the sabine people.-see savin.
sable: a carnivorous animal of the weasel family (mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of europe, asia, and america, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.-the fur of the sable.-a mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.-the tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.-of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.-to render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
sabot: a kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in france, belgium, sweden, and some other european countries.-a thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
sabre: a sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.-to strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.-see saber.
sabretasche: a leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.
sac: see sacs.-the privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.-see 2d sack.-a cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
saccade: a sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
saccate: having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.-of or pertaining to the saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.
saccharate: a salt of saccharic acid.-in a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.
saccharic: of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.
saccharimeter: an instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.
saccharimetrical: of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.
saccharimetry: the act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.
saccharin: a bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
saccharine: of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.-a trade name for benzoic sulphinide.
saccharinic: of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.
saccharoidal: resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.
saccharomyces: a genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. they are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. also called torula.
saccharomycetes: a family of fungi consisting of the one genus saccharomyces.
saccharone: a white crystalline substance, c6h8o6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid.-an oily liquid, c6h10o2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.
saccharonic: of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.
saccharose: cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. see sucrose.
saccholactate: a salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate.
saccholactic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic.
sacchulmic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. it resembles humic acid.
sacchulmin: an amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.
sacculo-utricular: pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.
sacculus: a little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
sacellum: an unroofed space consecrated to a divinity.-a small monumental chapel in a church.
sacerdotal: of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions.
sacerdotalism: the system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
sachet: a scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.
sack: a name formerly given to various dry spanish wines.-a bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.-a measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. the american sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.-originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.-a sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.-see 2d sac, 2.-bed.-to put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.-to bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.-the pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.-to plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
sack-winged: having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus saccopteryx.
sackbut: a brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.
sackcloth: linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
sacker: one who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.
sacking: of sack-stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
sacrament: the oath of allegiance taken by roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.-the pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.-one of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by christ, the head of the christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the lord's supper.-to bind by an oath.
sacramental: of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; of the nature of a sacrament; sacredly or solemnly binding; as, sacramental rites or elements.-bound by a sacrament.-that which relates to a sacrament.
sacramentalism: the doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments.
sacramentalist: one who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of christ's body and blood in the holy eucharist.
sacramentarian: a name given in the sixteenth century to those german reformers who rejected both the roman and the lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.-one who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.-of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.-of or pertaining to the sacramentarians.
sacramentary: of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental.-of or pertaining to the sacramentarians.-an ancient book of the roman catholic church, written by pope gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by st. gregory, in which were contained the rites for mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. there are several ancient books of the same kind in france and germany.-same as sacramentarian, n., 1.
sacrarium: a sort of family chapel in the houses of the romans, devoted to a special divinity.-the adytum of a temple.-in a christian church, the sanctuary.
sacred: set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.-relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.-designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.-hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.-consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.-solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.