AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
well: an issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.-a pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in.-a shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine.-fig.: a source of supply; fountain; wellspring.-an inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection.-a compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market.-a vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.-a depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit.-a hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.-an opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.-the lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.-to issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.-to pour forth, as from a well.-in a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly.-suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly.-fully or about; -- used with numbers.-in such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently.-considerably; not a little; far.-good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered.-being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well.-being in favor; favored; fortunate.-safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place.
well-being: the state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.
well-spoken: speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly.-spoken with propriety; as, well-spoken words.
welldoer: one who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.
welldrain: to drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
wellhole: the open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.-the open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.-a cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes.
wellingtonia: a name given to the "big trees" (sequoia gigantea) of california, and still used in england.  see sequoia.
wellwisher: one who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or friendlily inclined.
welsh: of or pertaining to wales, or its inhabitants.-the language of wales, or of the welsh people.-the natives or inhabitants of wales.
welsher: one who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.
welshman: a native or inhabitant of wales; one of the welsh.-a squirrel fish.-the large-mouthed black bass.  see black bass.
welt: that which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it- a small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.-a hem, border, or fringe.-in shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.-in steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.-in carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.-in machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.-a narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.-to furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.-to wilt.
welter: to roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.-to rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.-to wither; to wilt.-of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.-that in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.-a rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
welwitschia: an african plant (welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order gnetaceae. it consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments.
wem: the abdomen; the uterus; the womb.-spot; blemish; harm; hurt.-to stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.-an indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.
wench: a young woman; a girl; a maiden.-a low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.-a colored woman; a negress.-to frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.
wend: p. p. of wene.-to go; to pass; to betake one's self.-to turn round.-to direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. also used reflexively.-a large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
wends: a slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of germany, of which a small remnant exists.
wenlock group: the middle subdivision of the upper silurian in great britain; -- so named from the typical locality in shropshire.
wenny: having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence.
wenona: a sand snake (charina plumbea) of western north america, of the family erycidae.
went: of go-of wend-imp. & p. p. of wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection.  see go.-course; way; path; journey; direction.
wentletrap: any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus scalaria, especially scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell.  see scalaria.
were: to wear.  see 3d wear.-a weir.  see weir.-to guard; to protect.-the imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be.  see be.-a man.-a fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
weregild: the price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. it was paid by the murderer.
werewolf: a person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
wernerian: of or pertaining to a. g. werner, the german mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, werner's system.
weroole: an australian lorikeet (ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.
wert: the second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. it is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. now used only in solemn or poetic style.-a wart.
wesleyan: of or pertaining to wesley or wesleyanism.-one who adopts the principles of wesleyanism; a methodist.
wesleyanism: the system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by john wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called methodist; methodism.  see methodist, n., 2.
west: the point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.-a country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.-the westen hemisphere, or the new world so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from europe; the occident.-formerly, that part of the  united states west of the alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the indian territory, new mexico, etc. usually with the definite article.-lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.-westward.-to pass to the west; to set, as the sun.-to turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
west indian: belonging or relating to the west indies.-a native of, or a dweller in, the west indies.
westerly: of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.-toward the west; westward.
western: of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of france; the western ocean.-moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
westing: the distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north.
westness: the quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.-a watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.
westward: alt. of westwards-lying toward the west.-the western region or countries; the west.
wet: containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.-very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.-employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.-refreshed with liquor; drunk.-water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.-rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.-a dram; a drink.-of wet-to fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
wet nurse: a nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman.  cf. dry nurse.
whaap: the european curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.-the whimbrel; -- called also may whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.
whack: to strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.-to strike anything with a smart blow.-a smart resounding blow.
whacker: one who whacks.-anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whapper.
whala: to lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub.
whale: any aquatic mammal of the order cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
whaleboat: a long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
whalebone: a firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. it is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes.  see baleen.
whaler: a vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.-one who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
whaling: of whala-the hunting of whales.-pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.
wharf: a structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.-the bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.-to guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.-to place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
wharfage: the fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.-a wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
wharfing: of wharf-wharfs, collectively.-a mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
wharling: a guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr.  see burr, n., 6.
wharp: a kind of fine sand from the banks of the trent, used as a polishing powder.
what: as an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?-as an exclamatory word: -- (a) used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.-used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!-sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!-as a relative pronoun-used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.-used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.-used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.-whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.-used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.-something; thing; stuff.-why? for what purpose? on what account?
whatever: anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
whatnot: a kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.
wheal: a pustule; a whelk.-a more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.-specifically (med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.-a mine.
whealworm: the harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.
wheat: a cereal grass (triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
wheatear: a small european singing bird (saxicola /nanthe). the male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. the tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
wheatworm: a small nematode worm (anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. it is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
wheedle: to entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.-to grain, or get away, by flattery.-to flatter; to coax; to cajole.
wheel: a circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.-any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel.-a spinning wheel.  see under spinning.-an instrument of torture formerly used.-a circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.-a potter's wheel.  see under potter.-a firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.-the burden or refrain of a song.-a bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.-a rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.-a turn revolution; rotation; compass.-to convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.-to put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.-to turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate.-to change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.-to go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.-to roll forward.
wheel-shaped: shaped like a wheel.-expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.
wheelbarrow: a light vehicle for conveying small loads. it has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
wheeled: of wheel-having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage.
wheeler: one who wheels, or turns.-a maker of wheels; a wheelwright.-a wheel horse.  see under wheel.-a steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.-a worker on sewed muslin.-the european goatsucker.
wheelhouse: a small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.- a paddle box.  see under paddle.
wheeling: of wheel-the act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.-the act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.-condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.-a turning, or circular movement.
wheelwright: a man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
wheeze: to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.-a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.-an ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the  "stage whisper." it is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
wheezy: breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. used also figuratively.
whelk: any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to buccinum and allied genera; especially, buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of europe and north america, and much used as food in europe.-a papule; a pustule; acne.-a stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
whelked: having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
whelky: having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.-shelly.
whelm: to cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.-fig.: to cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.-to throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
whelp: one of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.-a child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.-one of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.-one of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.-to bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.-to bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
when: at what time; -- used interrogatively.-at what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.-while; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.-which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.
whence: from what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.-from what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.
where: whether.-at or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.-at or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively.-to what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?-whereas.-place; situation.
whereabouts: about where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?-concerning which; about which.-the place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts.
whereas: at which place; where.-considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.-when in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent.
whereat: at which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively.-at what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended?
wherefore: for which reason; so; -- used relatively.-for what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.-the reason why.
wherein: in which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively.-in what; -- used interrogatively.
wheremaster: a man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.-one keeps or procures whores for others; a pimp; a procurer.
whereof: of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively.-of what; -- used interrogatively.
whereon: on which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live.-on what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereon do we stand?
whereret: to hurry; to trouble; to tease.-to box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child.
whereto: to which; -- used relatively.-to what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
wherewith: with which; -- used relatively.-with what; -- used interrogatively.-the necessary means or instrument.
wherry: a passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.-a long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.-a liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.
whet: to rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.-to make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage.-the act of whetting.-that which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.
whether: which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively.-in case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. when the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first.
whetstone: a piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.