AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
vertebrated: having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.-contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.-having movable joints resembling vertebrae; -- said of the arms ophiurans.-of or pertaining to the vertebrata; -- used only in the form vertebrate.
vertebro-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebrae, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
vertex: a turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.-the top, or crown, of the head.-the zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.-the point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
vertical: of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.-perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.-vertical position; zenith.-a vertical line, plane, or circle.
vertically: in a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.
verticil: a circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
verticillaster: a whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint.  see illust. of whorl.
verticillated: arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
vertiginous: turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.-affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
vertigo: dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.-any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
verumontanum: an elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
verve: excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
vervet: a south african monkey (cercopithecus pygerythrus, / lelandii). the upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. the cheeks and belly are reddish white.
very: true; real; actual; veritable.-in a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.
vesbium: a rare metallic element of which little is known. it is said by scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
vesicate: to raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
vesicatory: tending, or having power, to raise a blister.-a blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
vesicle: a bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.-a small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.-a small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.-a cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle.-a small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.-a small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. they are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass.
vesico-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the bladder; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.
vesicular: of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.-containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.-having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.
vesicularia: any one of numerous species of marine bryozoa belonging to vesicularia and allied genera. they have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
vesiculate: bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.-to form vesicles in, as lava.
vesiculation: the state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed.
vesiculous: bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.
vesper: the evening star; hesper; venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.-of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers; as, a vesper hymn; vesper bells.
vespertilio: a genus of bats including some of the common small insectivorous species of north america and europe.
vespertiliones: a tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of america and europe, belonging to vespertilio and allied genera. they lack a nose membrane.
vespertine: of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.-blossoming in the evening.
vessel: a hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.-a general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.-fig.: a person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.-any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.-a continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.-to put into a vessel.
vest: an article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.-any outer covering; array; garb.-specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.-to clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.-to clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.-to place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.-to invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.-to clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.-to come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
vesta: one of the great divinities of the ancient romans, identical with the greek hestia. she was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.-an asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by olbers in 1807.-a wax friction match.
vestal: of or pertaining to vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.-a virgin consecrated to vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.-a virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
vestales: a group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
vested: of vest-clothed; robed; wearing vestments.-not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
vestiary: a wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.-pertaining to clothes, or vestments.
vestibule: the porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.
vestibulum: a cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
vestige: the mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in palmyra; vestiges of former population.
vestigial: of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
vestlet: any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus cerianthus. these animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. they form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
vestment: a covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress-any priestly garment.
vestry: a room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.-a parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.-a body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
vestryman: a member of a vestry; especially (prot. epis. ch.), a member other than a warden.  see vestry.
vesture: a garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.-the corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.-seizin; possession.
vesuvian: of or pertaining to vesuvius, a volcano near naples.-vesuvianite.
vesuvianite: a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. it is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at vesuvius. also called idocrase.
vesuvine: a trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; -- called also bismarck brown, manchester brown, etc.
vetch: any leguminous plant of the genus vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. the common species is v. sativa.
vetchling: any small leguminous plant of the genus lathyrus, especially l. nissolia.
veteran: long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.-one who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had.
veterinary: of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school.
vetiver: an east indian grass (andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens.  also called kuskus, and khuskhus.
veto: an authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.-a power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the tribunes of the people in ancient rome, or limited, as in the case of the president of the united states. called also the veto power.-the exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.-a document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.-to prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
vettura: an italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach.
vex: to to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.-to make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.-to twist; to weave.-to be irritated; to fret.
vexation: the act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.-the cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.-a harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.
vexatious: causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.-full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
vexed: of vex-annoyed; harassed; troubled.-much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
vexillary: of or pertaining to an ensign or standard.-of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.-a standard bearer.
vexillum: a flag or standard.-a company of troops serving under one standard.-a banner.-the sign of the cross.-the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.-the rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.
vexingly: in a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.
via: a road way.-by the way of; as, to send a letter via queenstown to london.
viability: the quality or state of being viable.-the capacity of living after birth.-the capacity of living, or being distributed, over wide geographical limits; as, the viability of a species.
viable: capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
viaduct: a structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge.  cf. trestlework.
vial: a small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.-to put in a vial or vials.
viand: an article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.
viander: a feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.
viatecture: the art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
viaticum: an allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.-provisions for a journey.-the communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.
vibraculum: one of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. they are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as avicularia.
vibrate: of vibrate-to brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.-to mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.-to affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.-to move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.-to have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.-to produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.-to pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
vibratile: adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects.
vibratility: the quality or state of being vibratile; disposition to vibration or oscillation.
vibration: the act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.-a limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. the path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
vibratory: consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
vibrio: a genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
vibrissa: one of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.-the bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.
vibroscope: an instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.-an instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
viburnum: a genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.
vicar: one deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.-the incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
vicarage: the benefice of a vicar.-the house or residence of a vicar.
vicarial: of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.-delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.
vicariate: having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.-delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.
vicarious: of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.-acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.-performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.-acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
vice: a defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.-a moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.-the buffoon of the old english moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of vice itself; -- called also iniquity.-a kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. same as vise.-a tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.-a gripe or grasp.-to hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.-in the place of; in the stead; as, a. b. was appointed postmaster vice c. d. resigned.-denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
vicegerent: having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.-having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.-an officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar.
vicennial: lasting or comprising twenty years.-happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.
viceroy: the governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of india.-a large and handsome american butterfly (basilarchia, / limenitis, archippus). its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. the larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
vichy water: a mineral water found at vichy, france. it is essentially an effervescent solution of sodium, calcium, and magnetism carbonates, with sodium and potassium chlorides; also, by extension, any artificial or natural water resembling in composition the vichy water proper. called also, colloquially, vichy.
vicine: near; neighboring; vicinal.-an alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
vicinity: the quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.-that which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.
vicious: characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.-addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.-wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.-not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.-not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.-bitter; spiteful; malignant.
vicissitude: regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.-irregular change; revolution; mutation.
vicontiels: things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
victim: a living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.-a person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.-a person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.-hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
victimize: to make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
victor: the winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.-a destroyer.-victorious.
victoria: a genus of aquatic plants named in honor of queen victoria.  the victoria regia is a native of guiana and brazil. its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.-a kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.-an asteroid discovered by hind in 1850; -- called also clio.
victorian: of or pertaining to the reign of queen victoria of england; as, the victorian poets.
victorious: of or pertaining to victory, or a victor' being a victor; bringing or causing a victory; conquering; winning; triumphant; as, a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious day.
victory: the defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat.
victual: food; -- now used chiefly in the plural.  see victuals.-grain of any kind.-to supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
victualer: one who furnishes victuals.-one who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.-a vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship.-one who deals in grain; a corn factor.
victualing: of victual-of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.