AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
slight: sleight.-to overthrow; to demolish.-to make even or level.-to throw heedlessly.-not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.-not stout or heavy; slender.-foolish; silly; weak in intellect.-to disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.-the act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.-slightly.
slightness: the quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
slim: worthless; bad.-weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.-of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
slime: soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.-any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.-bitumen.-mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.-a mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.-to smear with slime.
slimly: in a state of slimness; in a slim manner; slenderly.
slimy: of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
sling: an instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. the missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.-the act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.-a contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension-a kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.-a loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.-a strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.-a band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.-to throw with a sling.-to throw; to hurl; to cast.-to hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.-to pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.-a drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
slink: to creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.-to miscarry; -- said of female beasts.-to cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.-produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.-thin; lean.-the young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.-a thievish fellow; a sneak.
slip: to move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.-to slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.-to move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.-to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work.-to err; to fall into error or fault.-to cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.-to omit; to loose by negligence.-to cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper.-to let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound.-to cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.-to bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.-the act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice.-an unintentional error or fault; a false step.-a twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine.-a slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper.-a leash or string by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.-an escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip.-a portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.-any covering easily slipped on.-a loose garment worn by a woman.-a child's pinafore.-an outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip.-the slip or sheath of a sword, and the like.-a counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver.-matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.-potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handles and other applied parts.-a particular quantity of yarn.-an inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair.-an opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, peck slip.-a narrow passage between buildings.-a long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.-a dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.-the motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.-a fish, the sole.-a fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. there are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.
slip-on: a kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.
slipknot: knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.
slipper: one who, or that which, slips.-a kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.-a kind of apron or pinafore for children.-a kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.-a piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.-slippery.
slippery: having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.-not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.-not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.-liable to slip; not standing firm.-unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.-uncertain in effect.-wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
slipshod: wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.-figuratively: careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.
slipslop: weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.
slit: 3d. pers. sing. pres. of slide.-of slit-to cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.-to cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.-to cut; to sever; to divide.-a long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
slit-shell: any species of pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
sliver: to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.-a long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.-a strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.-bait made of pieces of small fish.  cf. kibblings.
sloakan: a species of seaweed. [spelled also slowcawn.] see 3d laver.
sloat: a narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.
slobber: see slabber.-see slabber.-a jellyfish.-salivation.
sloe: a small, bitter, wild european plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
slogan: the war cry, or gathering word, of a highland clan in scotland; hence, any rallying cry.
sloop: a vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. the typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. the sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. the two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. one radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. see cutter, and illustration in appendix.
slop: water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.-mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.-dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.-to cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.-to spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.-to overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.-any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.-a loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.-ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
slope: an oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.-any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.-sloping.-in a sloping manner.-to form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.-to take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.-to depart; to disappear suddenly.
sloping: of slope-inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.
sloppy: wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
slopseller: one who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. see 4th slop, 3.
slopwork: the manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
slot: a broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.-a bolt or bar for fastening a door.-a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.-to shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door.-the track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind.
sloth: slowness; tardiness.-disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.-any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family bradypodidae, and the suborder tardigrada. they have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws.  both jaws are furnished with teeth (see illust. of edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. they inhabit south and central america and mexico.-to be idle.
slothful: addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.
slouch: a hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.-an awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.-to droop, as the head.-to walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.-to cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
slouching: of slouch-hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
slough: slow.-a place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.-a wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.-imp. of slee, to slay. slew.-the skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.-the dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.-to form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.-to cast off; to discard as refuse.
sloughing: of slough-the act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
sloughy: full of sloughs, miry.-resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
sloven: a man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.
slow: imp. of slee, to slay. slew.-moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.-not happening in a short time; gradual; late.-not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.-not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.-behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.-not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.-heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.-slowly.-to render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.-to go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.-a moth.
slowenly: having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress.-characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
slowly: in a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
slub: a roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.-to draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.
slubber: to do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.-to daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.-a slubbing machine.
sludge: mud; mire; soft mud; slush.-small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.-see slime,  4.
slue: a slough; a run or wet place. see 2d slough, 2.-to turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.-in general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round.-to turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.-see sloough, 2.
slug: a drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.-a hindrance; an obstruction.-any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. they are closely allied to the land snails.-any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.-a ship that sails slowly.-an irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.-a thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.-to move slowly; to lie idle.-to make sluggish.-to load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.-to strike heavily.-to become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
slug-horn: an erroneous form of the scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
sluggard: a person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.-sluggish; lazy.
sluggardy: the state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
sluggish: habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.-slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.-having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.-characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
slugworm: any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.
sluice: an artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.-hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.-the stream flowing through a flood gate.-a long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.-to emit by, or as by, flood gates.-to wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.-to wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
sluiceway: an artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
slum: a foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, westminster slums are haunts for theives.-same as slimes.
slumber: to sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.-to be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.-to lay to sleep.-to stun; to stupefy.-sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
slumberous: inviting slumber; soporiferous.-being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.
slump: the gross amount; the mass; the lump.-to lump; to throw into a mess.-to fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.-a boggy place.-the noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
slung: of sling-of sling-imp. & p. p. of sling.
slunk: of slink-of slink-imp. & p. p. of slink.
slur: to soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.-to disparage; to traduce.-to cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.-to cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.-to pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.-to sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.-to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.-a mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.-a trick played upon a person; an imposition.-a mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.-in knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
slurred: of slur-marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
slush: soft mud.-a mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.-a soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.-the refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.-a mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.-to smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.-to paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
slushy: abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.
slut: an untidy woman; a slattern.-a servant girl; a drudge.-a female dog; a bitch.
sluttery: the qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.
sluttish: like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
sly: dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.-artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.-done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.-light or delicate; slight; thin.-slyly.
slyboots: a humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
slype: a narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.
smack: a small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.-taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. also used figuratively.-a small quantity; a taste.-a loud kiss; a buss.-a quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.-a quick, smart blow; a slap.-as if with a smack or slap.-to have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.-to have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.-to kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.-to make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.-to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.-to open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.-to make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
smacking: of smack-a sharp, quick noise; a smack.-making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.
small: having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.-being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.-envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.-not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.-weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.-in or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.-not loudly; faintly; timidly.-the small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.-smallclothes.-same as little go. see under little, a.-to make little or less.
smallage: a biennial umbelliferous plant (apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of europe and asia. when deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
smallclothes: a man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. see breeches.
smallpox: a contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. the cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
smallsword: a light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
smalt: a deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. it is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.
smaltite: a tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. it is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. called also speiskobalt.
smaragdine: of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
smaragdite: a green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.