AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sincerity: the quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness.
sinch: a saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass.-to gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.
sincipital: of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.
sinciput: the fore part of the head.-the part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.
sindon: a wrapper.-a small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.
sine: the length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.-the perpendicular itself. see sine of angle, below.-without.
sinecural: of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.
sinecure: an ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.-any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.-to put or place in a sinecure.
sinew: a tendon or tendonous tissue. see tendon.-muscle; nerve.-fig.: that which supplies strength or power.-to knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
sinewed: of sinew-furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.-fig.: equipped; strengthened.
sinewy: pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.-well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy ajax.
sinful: tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.
sing: to utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.-to utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.-to make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.-to tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.-ti cry out; to complain.-to utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.-to celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.-to influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.-to accompany, or attend on, with singing.
singe: to burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.-to remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.-to remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.-a burning of the surface; a slight burn.
singer: one who, or that which, singes.-one employed to singe cloth.-a machine for singeing cloth.-one who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.
single: one only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.-alone; having no companion.-hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.-not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.-performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.-uncompounded; pure; unmixed.-not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.-simple; not wise; weak; silly.-to select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.-to sequester; to withdraw; to retire.-to take alone, or one by one.-to take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. see single-foot.-a unit; one; as, to score a single.-the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.-a handful of gleaned grain.-a game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.-a hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
single-acting: having simplicity of action; especially (mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
single-breasted: lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
single-foot: an irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. see single, v. i.
single-handed: having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
single-minded: having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
singleness: the quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.-freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
singlestick: in england and scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.-the game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
singlet: an unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
singleton: in certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
singletree: the pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
singly: individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.-only; by one's self; alone.-without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.-honestly; sincerely; simply.-singularly; peculiarly.
singsong: bad singing or poetry.-a drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.-drawling; monotonous.-to write poor poetry.
singular: separate or apart from others; single; distinct.-engaged in by only one on a side; single.-existing by itself; single; individual.-each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.-denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.-standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.-distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.-departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.-being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.-an individual instance; a particular.-the singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
singularity: the quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.-anything singular, rare, or curious.-possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.-celibacy.
singularly: in a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others.-strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.-so as to express one, or the singular number.
siniate: having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.
sinical: of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.
sinigrin: a glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (brassica nigra, formerly sinapis nigra) it resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.
sinister: on the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.-unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.-wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.-indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
sinistral: of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.-having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
sinistrin: a mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory.
sinistrorsal: rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.
sinistrorse: turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. see dextrorse.
sinistrous: being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.-wrong; absurd; perverse.
sinistrously: in a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.-with a tendency to use the left hand.
sink: to fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.-to enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.-hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.-to be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.-to decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.-to cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.-figuratively: to cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.-to make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.-to bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.-to conseal and appropriate.-to keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.-to reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.-a drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.-a shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.-a hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
sinker: one who, or that which, sinks.-a weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.-in knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
sinner: one who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of god.-to act as a sinner.
sinologue: a student of chinese; one versed in the chinese language, literature, and history.
sinology: that branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the chinese, their language, literature, etc.
sinopite: a brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.
sinople: ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.-the tincture vert; green.
sinter: dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.
sintoc: a kind of spice used in the east indies, consisting of the bark of a species of cinnamomum.
sinuate: to bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.
sinuosity: quality or state of being sinuous.-a bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.
sinuous: bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
sinus: of sinus-an opening; a hollow; a bending.-a bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.-a cavity; a depression.-a cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.-a dilated vessel or canal.-a narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.-a depression between adjoining lobes.
sinusoid: the curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. it is also called the curve of sines.
sinusoidal: of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.
sip: to drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.-to draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.-to taste the liquor of; to drink out of.-to drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.-the act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.-a small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.-see seep.
sipage: water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.-see seepage.
sipe: to run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
siphon: a device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. the flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.-one of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. see illust. under mya, and lamellibranchiata.-the anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.-the tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. it serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. called also siphuncle. see illust. under loligo, and dibranchiata.-the siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.-the sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.-a sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.-a tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.-a siphon bottle.-to convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
siphonal: of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
siphonarid: any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus siphonaria. they cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.
siphonata: a tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. called also siphoniata. see siphon, 2 (a), and quahaug.
siphonate: having a siphon or siphons.-belonging to the siphonata.
siphonet: one of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. they give exit to the honeydew. see illust. under aphis.
siphonia: a former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (hevea) of south american trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.-of siphonium
siphoniferous: siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.
siphonium: a bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.
siphonobranchiata: a tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. the shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.
siphonobranchiate: having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the siphonobranchiata.-one of the siphonobranchiata.
siphonophora: an order of pelagic hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. see illust. under physallia, and porpita.
siphonophoran: belonging to the siphonophora.-one of the siphonophora.
siphonopoda: a division of scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.
siphonostomata: a tribe of parasitic copepod crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. they have a mouth adapted to suck blood.-an artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.
siphonostomatous: having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.-pertaining to the siphonostomata.
siphonostome: any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe siphonostomata.-a siphonostomatous shell.
siphuncle: the tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
sippet: a small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.
sipunculacea: a suborder of gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.
sipunculoid: pertaining to the sipunculoidea.-one of the sipunculoidea.
sipunculoidea: same as gephyrea.-in a restricted sense, same as sipunculacea.
sir: a man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.-a title prefixed to the christian name of a knight or a baronet.-an english rendering of the latin dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.-a respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.
sircar: a hindoo clerk or accountant.-a district or province; a circar.-the government; the supreme authority of the state.
sire: a lord, master, or other person in authority. see sir.-a tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.-a father; the head of a family; the husband.-a creator; a maker; an author; an originator.-the male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.-to beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.
siredon: the larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (amblystoma mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. see also axolotl.
siren: one of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.-an enticing, dangerous woman.-something which is insidious or deceptive.-a mermaid.-any long, slender amphibian of the genus siren or family sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. they inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the southern united states. the more common species (siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.-an instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. the sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. a form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.-of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
sirenia: an order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.
sirenize: to use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.
siriasis: a sunstroke.-the act of exposing to a sun bath. [obs.] cf. insolation.
sirkeer: any one of several species of asiatic cuckoos of the genus taccocua, as the bengal sirkeer (t. sirkee).
sirocco: an oppressive, relaxing wind from the libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in italy, malta, and sicily.
sirrah: a term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. in sililoquies often preceded by ah. not used in the plural.
sirvente: a peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the middle ages.
sisal hemp: the prepared fiber of the agave americana, or american aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from sisal, a port in yucatan. see sisal hemp, under hemp.
siscowet: a large, fat variety of the namaycush found in lake superior; -- called also siskawet, siskiwit.
sise: an assize.-six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice.
siskin: a small green and yellow european finch (spinus spinus, or carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.-the american pinefinch (s. pinus); -- called also pine siskin. see pinefinch.
siss: to make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.-a hissing noise.
sissoo: a leguminous tree (dalbergia sissoo) of the northern parts of india; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. it is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.
sist: to stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.-to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court.-a stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.
sister: a female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. in the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. the correlative of brother.-a woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.-one of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.-to be sister to; to resemble closely.
sister-in-law: the sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.
sisterhood: the state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.-a society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.
sisterly: like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse.
sistrum: an instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. it was peculiarly egyptian, and used especially in the worship of isis. it is still used in nubia.
sisyphean: relating to sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, sisyphean labors.
sisyphus: a king of corinth, son of aeolus, famed for his cunning. he was killed by theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.