AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
washing: of wash-the act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.-the clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.
washingtonian: pertaining to, or characteristic of, george washington; as, a washingtonian policy.-designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.-a member of the washingtonian society.
washout: the washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
washpot: a pot or vessel in which anything is washed.-a pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
washstand: a piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
washy: watery; damp; soft.-lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.-not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.
wasium: a rare element supposed by bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
wasp: any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
waspish: resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.-quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
wassail: an ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.-an occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.-the liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in england at christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.-a festive or drinking song or glee.-of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.-to hold a wassail; to carouse.
wassailer: one who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
wast: the second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style.  see was.
wastage: loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
waste: desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.-lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.-lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.-to bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.-to wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.-to spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.-to damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.-to be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.-to procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.-the act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.-that which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.-that which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. specifically: remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.-spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.-old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
wastebasket: a basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
wastebook: a book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
wasteful: full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.-expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.-waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
wastel: a kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.
wasteness: the quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.-that which is waste; a desert; a waste.
waster: one who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.-an imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.-a kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
wasteweir: an overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
wasting: of waste-causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
wastrel: any waste thing or substance-waste land or common land.-a profligate.-a neglected child; a street arab.-anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
watch: the act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.-one who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.-the post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.-the period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.-a small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.-an allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty.   cf. dogwatch.-that part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. the watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.-to be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.-to be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.-to be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.-to remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.-to serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.-to give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.-to tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
watchdog: a dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
watcher: one who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
watchful: full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.
watchhouse: a house in which a watch or guard is placed.-a place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
watchman: one set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.-specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
watchtower: a tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
watchword: a word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.-a sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action.
water: the fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.-a body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.-any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.-a solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.-the limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.-a wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.  see water, v. t., 3, damask, v. t., and damaskeen.-an addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."-to wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.-to supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.-to wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk.  cf. water, n., 6.-to add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.-to shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.-to get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
water adder: the water moccasin.-the common, harmless american water snake (tropidonotus sipedon).  see illust. under water snake.
water agrimony: a kind of bur marigold (bidens tripartita) found in wet places in europe.
water arum: an aroid herb (calla palustris) having a white spathe. it is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.
water ballast: water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
water barometer: a barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. it requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
water bath: a device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
water battery: a voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.-a battery nearly on a level with the water.
water bear: any species of tardigrada, 2.  see illust. of tardigrada.
water bed: a kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. it is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
water beetle: any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to dytiscus and allied genera of the family dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family hydrophilidae.  these beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.
water buck: a large, heavy antelope (kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of central africa. it frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. it has a white ring around the rump. called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok.
water bug: the croton bug.-any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to belostoma, benacus, zaitha, and other genera of the family belostomatidae. their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing hemiptera. many of them come out of the water and fly about at night.
water butt: a large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
water can: any one of several species of nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel.  see nuphar, and cf. candock.
water carriage: transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.-a vessel or boat.
water cart: a cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
water celery: a very acrid herb (ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
water cell: a cell containing water; specifically (zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
water chestnut: the fruit of trapa natans and trapa bicornis, old world water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
water chevrotain: a large west african chevrotain (hyaemoschus aquaticus). it has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. called also water deerlet.
water chickweed: a small annual plant (montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
water chinquapin: the american lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins.   cf. yoncopin.
water clock: an instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
water cock: a large gallinule (gallicrex cristatus) native of australia, india, and the east indies. in the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. called also kora.
water color: a color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.-a picture painted with such colors.
water course: a stream of water; a river or brook.-a natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.-a running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course.  a water course may be sometimes dry.
water crake: the dipper.-the spotted crake (porzana maruetta).  see illust. of crake.-the swamp hen, or crake, of australia.
water crane: a goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
water cress: a perennial cruciferous herb (nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. the leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
water crowfoot: an aquatic kind of buttercup (ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of england.
water deer: a small chinese deer (hydropotes inermis). both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.-the water chevrotain.
water devil: the rapacious larva of a large water beetle (hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species.  see illust. of water beetle.
water dock: a tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. the american water dock is rumex orbiculatus, the european is r. hydrolapathum.
water doctor: one who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.-a physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
water dog: a dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. retrievers, waters spaniels, and newfoundland dogs are so trained.-the menobranchus.-a small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.-a sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt.
water dressing: the treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
water dropwort: a european poisonous umbelliferous plant (enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
water engine: an engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
water feather-foil: the water violet (hottonia palustris); also, the less showy american plant h. inflata.
water flannel: a floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a european fresh-water alga (cladophora crispata).
water flea: any one of numerous species of small aquatic entomostraca belonging to the genera cyclops, daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
water furrow: a deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
water gall: a cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.-a watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.
water gang: a passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
water gate: a gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
water gauge: a wall or bank to hold water back.-an instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine.  see gauge.
water gavel: a gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
water germander: a labiate plant (teucrium scordium) found in marshy places in europe.
water gilding: the act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.
water god: a fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
water gruel: a liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
water hammer: a vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. when reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.-a concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.
water hare: a small american hare or rabbit (lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the united states; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
water hemlock: a poisonous umbelliferous plant (cicuta virosa) of europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.-a poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.
water hyacinth: either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
water ice: water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
water joint: a joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. the raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
water lemon: the edible fruit of two species of passion flower (passiflora laurifolia, and p. maliformis); -- so called in the west indies.
water lettuce: a plant (pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
water level: the level formed by the surface of still water.-a kind of leveling instrument.  see under level, n.
water lily: a blossom or plant of any species of the genus nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers.  see nymphaea.
water line: any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.-any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. the lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.
water lizard: any aquatic lizard of the genus varanus, as the monitor of the nile.  see monitor, n., 3.
water locust: a thorny leguminous tree (gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the mississippi valley.
water meadow: a meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
water measure: a measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. the water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the winchester bushel.
water measurer: any one of numerous species of water; the skater.  see skater, n., 2.
water meter: a contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.
water milfoil: any plant of the genus myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
water mill: a mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
water mint: a kind of mint (mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
water mite: any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to hydrachna and allied genera of the family hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. they are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels.  called also water tick, and water spider.
water moccasin: a venomous north american snake (ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. it lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
water mole: the shrew mole.  see under shrew.-the duck mole.  see under duck.
water monitor: a very large lizard (varanaus salvator) native of india. it frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. it becomes five or six feet long. called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. the name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.
water motor: a water engine.-a water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main.
water mouse: any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus hydromys, native of australia and tasmania. their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. they live on the borders of streams, and swim well. they are remarkable as being the only rodents found in australia.
water nymph: a goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the naiads, nereids, or oceanides.-a water lily (nymphaea).
water ordeal: same as ordeal by water.  see the note under ordeal, n., 1.
water ouzel: any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus cinclus (or hydrobates), especially the european water ousel (c. aquaticus), and the american water ousel (c. mexicanus). these birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.
water parsnip: any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
water pheasant: the pintail.  see pintail, n., 1.-the goosander.-the hooded merganser.
water pitcher: a pitcher for water.-one of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. the sidesaddle flower (sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
water plantain: a kind of plant with acrid leaves.  see under 2d plantain.
water pore: a pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.-one of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. they are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata.
water power: the power of water employed to move machinery, etc.-a fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.
water privilege: the advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used.  see under privilege.
water radish: a coarse yellow-flowered plant (nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.