AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
sharp: having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.-terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded; somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp features.-affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.-high in pitch; acute; as, a sharp note or tone.-raised a semitone in pitch; as, c sharp (c/), which is a half step, or semitone, higher than c.-so high as to be out of tune, or above true pitch; as, the tone is sharp; that instrument is sharp. opposed in all these senses to flat.-very trying to the feelings; piercing; keen; severe; painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air.-cutting in language or import; biting; sarcastic; cruel; harsh; rigorous; severe; as, a sharp rebuke.-of keen perception; quick to discern or distinguish; having nice discrimination; acute; penetrating; sagacious; clever; as, a sharp eye; sharp sight, hearing, or judgment.-eager in pursuit; keen in quest; impatient for gratification; keen; as, a sharp appetite.-fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.-keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact in dealing; shrewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer.-composed of hard, angular grains; gritty; as, sharp sand.-steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve.-uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal; aspirated.-to a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.-precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp.-a sharp tool or weapon.-the character [/] used to indicate that the note before which it is placed is to be raised a half step, or semitone, in pitch.-a sharp tone or note.-a portion of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.-a sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.-same as middlings, 1.-an expert.-to sharpen.-to raise above the proper pitch; to elevate the tone of; especially, to raise a half step, or semitone, above the natural tone.-to play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.-to sing above the proper pitch.
sharp-cut: cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
sharp-set: eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.
sharpen: to make sharp.-to give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.-to render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.-to make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.-to make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.-to make biting, sarcastic, or severe.-to render more shrill or piercing.-to make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.-to raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.-to grow or become sharp.
sharper: a person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
sharpie: a long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. they are often called fair haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of connecticut where they originated.
sharpshooter: one skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
sharpshooting: a shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
shastra: a treatise for authoritative instruction among the hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the vedas.
shatter: to break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.-to disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.-to scatter about.-to be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.-a fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
shatter-pated: disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild.
shattery: easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
shave: obs. p. p. of shave.-to cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.-to make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.-to cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.-to skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.-to strip; to plunder; to fleece.-to use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.-a thin slice; a shaving.-a cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.-an exorbitant discount on a note.-a premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.-a hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.-the act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.
shaveling: a man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.
shaver: one who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.-one who is close in bargains; a sharper.-one who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.-a boy; a lad; a little fellow.-a tool or machine for shaving.
shaving: of shave-the act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.-that which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.
shaw: a thicket; a small wood or grove.-the leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
shawfowl: the representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.
shawl: a square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.-to wrap in a shawl.
shawm: a wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
shawnees: a tribe of north american indians who occupied western new york and part of ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the iroquois.
she: this or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.-a woman; a female; -- used substantively.
shea tree: an african sapotaceous tree (bassia, / butyrospermum, parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the african butter tree.
sheading: a tithing, or division, in the isle of man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. the island is divided into six sheadings.
sheaf: a sheave.-a quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.-any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.-to gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.-to collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
sheafy: pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
sheal: same as sheeling.-to put under a sheal or shelter.-to take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.-a shell or pod.
shealing: the outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.-same as sheeling.
shear: to cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.-to separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.-to reap, as grain.-fig.: to deprive of property; to fleece.-to produce a change of shape in by a shear. see shear, n., 4.-a pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. see shears.-a shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.-an action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.-a strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.-to deviate. see sheer.-to become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
shearing: of shear-the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.-the product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.-same as shearling.-the act or operation of reaping.-the act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.-the process of preparing shear steel; tilting.-the process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
shears: a cutting instrument.-an instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.-a similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.-a shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.-anything in the form of shears.-a pair of wings.-an apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. it consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.-the bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. see illust. under lathe.
sheartail: the common tern.-any one of several species of humming birds of the genus thaumastura having a long forked tail.
shearwater: any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus puffinus and related genera. they are allied to the petrels, but are larger. the manx shearwater (p. anglorum), the dusky shearwater (p. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (p. major), are well-known species of the north atlantic. see hagdon.
sheatfish: a european siluroid fish (silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. it is the largest fresh-water fish of europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. see siluroid.
sheath: a case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.-any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.-the base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.-one of the elytra of an insect.
sheathbill: either one of two species of birds composing the genus chionis, and family chionidae, native of the islands of the antarctic seas.
sheathe: to put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.-to fit or furnish, as with a sheath.-to case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.-to obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
sheathed: of sheathe-povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.-invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
sheathing: inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.-that which sheathes.-the casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.-the first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
sheave: a wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.-to gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
shebeen: a low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
shed: a slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.-of shed-to separate; to divide.-to part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.-to let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.-to cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.-to sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.-to divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.-to fall in drops; to pour.-to let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.-a parting; a separation; a division.-the act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.-that which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.-the passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
shedder: one who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.-a crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.
shedding: of shed-the act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.-that which is shed, or cast off.
sheeling: a hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed.
sheen: bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.-to shine; to glisten.-brightness; splendor; glitter.
sheep: any one of several species of ruminants of the genus ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in asia.-a weak, bashful, silly fellow.-fig.: the people of god, as being under the government and protection of christ, the great shepherd.
sheep's-eye: a modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
sheep's-foot: a printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
sheep-shearing: act of shearing sheep.-a feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
sheepback: a rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
sheepberry: the edible fruit of a small north american tree of the genus viburnum (v. lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. called also nannyberry.
sheepbite: to bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
sheepfold: a fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.
sheephook: a hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook.
sheepish: of or pertaining to sheep.-like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
sheepshead: a large and valuable sparoid food fish (archosargus, / diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the atlantic coast of the united states. it often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
sheepskin: the skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.-a diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
sheepsplit: a split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
sheer: bright; clear; pure; unmixed.-very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.-being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.-stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.-clean; quite; at once.-to shear.-to decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.-the longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.-the position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.-a turn or change in a course.-shears see shear.
sheet: in general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.-a broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.-a broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.-a single signature of a book or a pamphlet;-the book itself.-a broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.-a broad expanse of water, or the like.-a sail.-an extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.-a rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.-the space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.-to furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.-to expand, as a sheet.
sheet anchor: a large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. see the note under anchor.-anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.
sheeting: of sheet-cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. it is sometimes made of double width.-a lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.-the act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.
sheik: the head of an arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an arab village. the name is also applied to mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade.
shekel: an ancient weight and coin used by the jews and by other nations of the same stock.-a jocose term for money.
shekinah: the visible majesty of the divine presence, especially when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the tabernacle, or in the temple of solomon; -- a term used in the targums and by the later jews, and adopted by christians.
sheldrake: any one of several species of large old world ducks of the genus tadorna and allied genera, especially the european and asiatic species. (t. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.-any one of the american mergansers.
shelf: a flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.-a sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.-a stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.-a piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
shelfy: abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.-full of strata of rock.
shell: a hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.-the covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.-a pod.-the hard covering of an egg.-the hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. in some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.-hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.-a hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. see bomb.-the case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.-any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.-a coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.-an instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.-an engraved copper roller used in print works.-the husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.-the outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.-a light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.-to strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.-to separate the kernels of (an ear of indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.-to throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.-to fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.-to cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.-to be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
shellbark: a species of hickory (carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
sheller: one who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
shellfish: any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
shelter: that which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.-one who protects; a guardian; a defender.-the state of being covered and protected; protection; security.-to be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.-to screen or cover from notice; to disguise.-to betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.-to take shelter.
shelve: to furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.-to place on a shelf. hence: to lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.-to incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
shelving: of shelve-sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.-the act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.-the act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.-material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
shemitish: of or pertaining to shem, the son of noah, or his descendants. see semitic.
shend: to injure, mar, spoil, or harm.-to blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.
shent: of shend-obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of shend, for shendeth.-to shend.