AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
towards: in the direction of; to.-with direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.-tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.-near; about; approaching to.-near; at hand; in state of preparation.-see toward.
towboat: a vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.-a steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
towel: a cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.-to beat with a stick.
toweling: cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
tower: a mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.-a projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.-a structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.-a citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.-a headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.-high flight; elevation.-to rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.-to soar into.
towering: very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.-hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
town: formerly: (a) an inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [obs.] (b) the whole of the land which constituted the domain. [obs.] (c) a collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.-any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.-any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.-the body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.-a township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.-the court end of london;-- commonly with the.-the metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.-a farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
town-crier: a town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
townhall: a public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.
townpeople: the inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
townsfolk: the people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
township: the district or territory of a town.-in surveys of the public land of the united states, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.-in canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
townsman: an inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.-a selectman, in new england. see selectman.
towpath: a path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.
toxicant: a poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.
toxicologist: one versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.
toxicology: the science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.
toxicomania: toxiphobia.-an insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium.
toxine: a poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.
toxodon: a gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from south america, having teeth bent like a bow. it is the type of the order toxodonta.
toxodonta: an extinct order of mammalia found in the south american tertiary formation. the incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. they are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. called also toxodontia.
toxoglossa: a division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. the cone shells (conus), pleurotoma, and terebra, are examples. see illust. of cone, n., 4, pleurotoma, and terebra.
toy: a plaything for children; a bawble.-a thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.-a wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.-amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.-an old story; a silly tale.-a headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.-to dally amorously; to trifle; to play.-to treat foolishly.
toyer: one who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.
trabea: a toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
trabecula: a small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.
trabecular: of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.
trace: one of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.-a mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.-a very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.-a mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.-the intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.-the ground plan of a work or works.-to mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.-to follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.-hence, to follow the trace or track of.-to copy; to imitate.-to walk over; to pass through; to traverse.-to walk; to go; to travel.
tracer/y: ornamental work with rambled lines.-the decorative head of a gothic window.-a similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
trachea: the windpipe. see illust. of lung.-one of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.-one of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
trachearia: a division of arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. it includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
tracheary: tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.-one of the trachearia.
tracheata: an extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae.
tracheate: breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the tracheata.-any arthropod having tracheae; one of the tracheata.
tracheid: a wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.
trachelidan: any one of a tribe of beetles (trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. the oil beetles and the cantharides are examples.
trachelipoda: an extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
trachelipodous: having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the trachelipoda.
trachelobranchiate: having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.
trachelorrhaphy: the operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
tracheobranchia: one of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. they contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
tracheobronchial: pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
tracheocele: goiter.-a tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea.
tracheophonae: a group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
trachinoid: of, pertaining to, or like, trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers. see weever.
trachymedusae: a division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.
trachystomata: an order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including siren and pseudobranchus. they have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. the external gills are persistent through life.
trachyte: an igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. it consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.
trachytoid: resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.
tracing: the act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.-a regular path or track; a course.
track: a mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.-a mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.-the entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.-a road; a beaten path.-course; way; as, the track of a comet.-a path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.-the permanent way; the rails.-a tract or area, as of land.-to follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.-to draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
tracker: one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.-in the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
trackless: having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.
tract: a written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.-something drawn out or extended; expanse.-a region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.-traits; features; lineaments.-the footprint of a wild beast.-track; trace.-treatment; exposition.-continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.-continued or protracted duration; length; extent.-verses of scripture sung at mass, instead of the alleluia, from septuagesima sunday till the saturday befor easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.-to trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
tractability: the quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
tractable: capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.-capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.
tractarian: one of the writers of the oxford tracts, called "tracts for the times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. also, a member of the high church party, holding generally the principles of the tractarian writers; a puseyite.-of or pertaining to the tractarians, or their principles.
tractarianism: the principles of the tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "tracts for the times."
traction: the act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.-specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.-attraction; a drawing toward.-the adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like.
tractor: that which draws, or is used for drawing.-two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called perkinism.
tractrix: a curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
trade: a track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.-course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.-business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.-specifically: the act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.-the business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.-instruments of any occupation.-a company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.-the trade winds.-refuse or rubbish from a mine.-to barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.-to buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.-to have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.-to sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.-imp. of tread.
trade union: an organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
trade-mark: a peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
trader: one engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the east indies; a country trader.-a vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
tradesman: one who trades; a shopkeeper.-a mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands.
trading: of trade-carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.-frequented by traders.-venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
tradition: the act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.-the unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.-hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.-an unwritten code of law represented to have been given by god to moses on sinai.-that body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.-to transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
traditional: of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the scriptures.-observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
traditionary: traditional.-one, among the jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the scriptures by them.
traditionlism: a system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.
traditive: transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional.
traditor: a deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to christians who delivered the scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
traduce: to transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.-to translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.-to increase or distribute by propagation.-to draw away; to seduce.-to represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.-to expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
traducement: the act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny.
traducer: one who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.-one who derives or deduces.
traducianism: the doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.
traducible: capable of being derived or propagated.-capable of being traduced or calumniated.
traduct: to derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer.-that which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation.
traduction: transmission from one to another.-translation from one language to another.-derivation by descent; propagation.-the act of transferring; conveyance; transportation.-transition.-a process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to.
traffic: to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.-to trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.-to exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.-commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.-commodities of the market.-the business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
tragacanth: a kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (astragalus gummifer) of western asia, and other species of astragalus. it comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. called also gum tragacanth.
tragedy: a dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.-a fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
tragi-comedy: a kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
tragi-comi-pastoral: partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry.
tragi-comical: of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.
tragical: of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.-fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the french revolution.-mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
tragopan: any one of several species of asiatic pheasants of the genus ceriornis. they are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. the crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (c. satyra), of india is one of the best-known species.
tragus: the prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. see illust. under ear.
trail: to hunt by the track; to track.-to draw or drag, as along the ground.-to carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.-to tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.-to take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.-to be drawn out in length; to follow after.-to grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.-a track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.-a footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an indian trail over the plains.-anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.-anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.-anything drawn along, as a vehicle.-a frame for trailing plants; a trellis.-the entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.-that part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. see illust. of gun carriage, under gun.-the act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
trailer: one who, or that which, trails.-a part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant.
train: to draw along; to trail; to drag.-to draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.-to teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.-to break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.-to lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.-to trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.-to be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.-to prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.-that which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.-hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.-that which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.-that part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.-the after part of a gun carriage; the trail.-the tail of a bird.-a number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.-a consecution or succession of connected things; a series.-regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.-the number of beats of a watch in any certain time.-a line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.-a connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.-a heavy, long sleigh used in canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.-a roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
train oil: oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
trainband: a band or company of an organized military force instituted by james i. and dissolved by charles ii.; -- afterwards applied to the london militia.
trainer: one who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.-a militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline.
training: of train-the act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
traipse: to walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.