AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
wren: any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to troglodytes and numerous allied of the family troglodytidae.-any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
wrench: trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.-a violent twist, or a pull with twisting.-a sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.-means; contrivance.-an instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.-the system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.-to pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.-to strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
wrest: to turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.-to turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.-to tune with a wrest, or key.-the act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.-active or moving power.-a key to tune a stringed instrument of music.-a partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
wrestle: to contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.-hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.-to wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.-a struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
wretch: a miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.-one sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
wretched: very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.-worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.-hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
wretchedness: the quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.-a wretched object; anything despicably.
wriggle: to move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.-to move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.-wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
wright: one who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
wrightine: a rare alkaloid found in the bark of an east indian apocynaceous tree (wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. it was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. called also conessine, and neriine.
wring: to twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.-hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.-to distort; to pervert; to wrest.-to extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.-to subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.-to bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.-to writhe; to twist, as with anguish.-a writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
wringbolt: a bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.
wringer: one who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.-a machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
wrinkle: a winkle.-a small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.-hence, any roughness; unevenness.-a notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.-to contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.-hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.-to shrink into furrows and ridges.
wrinkly: full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
wrist: the joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus.  see carpus.-a stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
wristband: the band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.
wristlet: an elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.
writ: 3d pers. sing. pres. of write, for writeth.-imp. & p. p. of write.-that which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the scriptures, or the books of the old and new testaments; as, sacred writ.-an instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.-of write
write: to set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.-to set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.-hence, to compose or produce, as an author.-to impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.-to make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.-to form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.-to be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.-to frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.-to compose or send letters.
writer: one who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.-one who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.-a clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late east india company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
writhe: to twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.-to wrest; to distort; to pervert.-to extort; to wring; to wrest.-to twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. also used figuratively.
writing: of write-the act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.-anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters-any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.-any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of addison.-an inscription.-handwriting; chirography.
wrong: imp. of wring. wrung.-twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.-not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.-not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.-not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.-designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.-in a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.-that which is not right.-nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.-deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.-whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.-to treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.-to impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
wrongdoer: one who injures another, or who does wrong.-one who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.
wrongful: full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.
wrongly: in a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.
wrongous: constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.-not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment.
wrote: of write-to root with the snout.  see 1st root.-imp. & archaic p. p. of write.
wroth: full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
wrought: of work-imp. & p. p. of work.-worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.
wry: to cover.-turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.-hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.-wrested; perverted.-to twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.-to deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.-to twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.
wrymouth: any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus cryptacanthodes, especially c. maculatus of the american coast. a whitish variety is called ghostfish.
wryneck: a twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.-any one of several species of old world birds of the genus jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common european species (j. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.
wrynecked: having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
wulfenite: native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore.
wurbagool: a fruit bat (pteropus medius) native of india. it is similar to the flying fox, but smaller.
wurraluh: the australian white-quilled honey eater (entomyza albipennis).
wych-elm: a species of elm (ulmus montana) found in northern and western europe; scotch elm.
wych-hazel: the wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.
wycliffite: a follower of wyclif, the english reformer; a lollard.
wye: the letter y.-a kind of crotch.  see y, n. (a).
wyla: a helmeted australian cockatoo (calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.
x: x, the twenty-fourth letter of the english alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic.  see guide to pronunciation, // 217, 270, 271.
xanthamide: an amido derivative of xanthic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, c2h5o.cs.nh2; -- called also xanthogen amide.
xanthian: of or pertaining to xanthus, an ancient town on asia minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and now in the british museum.
xanthic: tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc.-possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as, xanthic acid.-of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.-of or pertaining to xanthin.
xanthidium: a genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. these algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.
xanthin: a crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. it is also present in guano. so called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates).-a yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.-one of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.
xanthinine: a complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.
xanthium: a genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
xantho-: a combining form from gr. xanqo`s yellow; as in xanthocobaltic salts. used also adjectively in chemistry.
xanthochroi: a division of the caucasian races, comprising the lighter-colored members.
xanthochroic: having a yellowish or fair complexion; of or pertaining to the xanthochroi.
xanthogen: the hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid.-persulphocyanogen.
xanthogenic: producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic.  see xanthic acid, under xanthic.
xanthoma: a skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called also xanthelasma.
xanthophane: the yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals.  see chromophane.
xanthophyll: a yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll; -- formerly called also phylloxanthin.
xanthoproteic: pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein; showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the xanthoproteic reaction for albumin.
xanthoprotein: a yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. it is changed to a deep orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.
xanthopuccine: one of three alkaloids found in the root of the yellow puccoon (hydrastis canadensis). it is a yellow crystalline substance, and resembles berberine.
xanthorhamnin: a glucoside extracted from persian berries as a yellow crystalline powder, used as a dyestuff.
xanthorhiza: a genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of north america, including only the species xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. the bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic.
xanthorhoea: a genus of endogenous plants, native to australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves.  see grass tree.
xanthous: yellow; specifically (ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
xanthoxylene: a liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a japanese prickly ash (xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.
xanthoxylum: a genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.
xebec: a small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. it carries large square sails, or both. xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs.
xenelasia: a spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.
xenodochium: a house for the reception of strangers.-in the middle ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [called also xenodocheion.]
xenogenesis: same as heterogenesis.-the fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.
xenogenetic: of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes.
xenomania: a mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.
xenomi: a suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of alaska (dallia pectoralis) is the type.
xenopterygii: a suborder of fishes including gobiesox and allied genera. these fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. they are destitute of scales.
xenotime: a native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.
xenylic: pertaining to, derived from, designating, certain amido compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.
xeraphim: an old money of account in bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee.
xeriff: a gold coin formerly current in egypt and turkey, of the value of about  9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in morocco, a ducat.
xeroderma: ichthyosis.-a skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin.
xeronic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid, c8h12o4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride.
xerophagy: among the primitive christians, the living on a diet of dry food in lent and on other fasts.
xerophthalmia: an abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.
xiphias: a genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.-the constellation dorado.-a comet shaped like a sword
xiphidium: a genus of plants of the order haemodraceae, having two-ranked, sword-shaped leaves.
xiphioid: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cetacean of the genus xiphius or family xiphiidae.
xiphiplastron: the posterior, or fourth, lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also xiphisternum.
xiphisternum: the posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process.-the xiphiplastron.
xiphius: a genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw.
xiphodon: an extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the european tertiary formations. it had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.
xiphoid: like a sword; ensiform.-of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.
xylamide: an acid amide derivative of xylic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
xylanthrax: wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal.
xylem: that portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloem.
xylene: any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. they are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, c6h4.(ch3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. called also xylol.
xylenol: any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene, obtained as crystalline substances, (ch3)2.c6h3.oh.
xyletic: pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid related to mesitylenic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of sodium and carbon dioxide on crude xylenol.
xylic: pertaining to, derived from, or related to, xylene; specifically, designating any one of several metameric acids produced by the partial oxidation of mesitylene and pseudo-cumene.
xylidic: pertaining to, or designating, either one of two distinct acids which are derived from xylic acid and related compounds, and are metameric with uvitic acid.
xylidine: any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (ch3)2.c6h3.nh2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. they are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. they are called the amido xylenes.
xylindein: a green or blue pigment produced by peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo.
xylitone: a yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.
xylo-: a combining form from gr. xy`lon wood; as in xylogen, xylograph.
xylobalsamum: the dried twigs of a syrian tree (balsamodendron gileadense).
xylocopa: a genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter.  see carpenter bee, under carpenter.
xylograph: an engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.
xylography: the art of engraving on wood.-the art of making prints from the natural grain of wood.-a method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes of house decoration.
xyloidin: a substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch; -- called also nitramidin.
xylophaga: a genus of marine bivalves which bore holes in wood. they are allied to pholas.
xylophagan: one of a tribe of beetles whose larvae bore or live in wood.-any species of xylophaga.-any one of the xylophagides.
xylophagides: a tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvae live in decayed wood. some of the tropical species are very large.
xylophagous: eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.-of or pertaining to the genus xylophaga.
xylophilan: one of a tribe of beetles (xylophili) whose larvae live on decayed wood.
xylophone: an instrument common among the russians, poles, and tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. called in germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.-an instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.
xyloplastic: formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.
xylopyrography: the art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting.  see poker picture, under poker.
xyloquinone: any one of a group of quinone compounds obtained respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds. in general they are yellow crystalline substances.
xylorcin: a derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also betaorcin.
xylostein: a glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species of honeysuckle (lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
xylotrya: a genus of marine bivalves closely allied to teredo, and equally destructive to timber. one species (xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the atlantic coast of the united states.
xylyl: any one of three metameric radicals which are characteristic respectively of the three xylenes.
xylylene: any one of three metameric radicals, ch2.c6h4.ch2, derived respectively from the three xylenes. often used adjectively; as, xylylene alcohol.
xyridaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order (xyrideae) of endogenous plants, of which xyris is the type.
xyris: a genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. there are about seventeen species in the atlantic united states.
xystus: a long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.