AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
uraemia: accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.
uraemic: of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.
ural: pertaining to, or designating, the urals, a mountain range between europe and asia.
ural-altaic: of or pertaining to the urals and the altai; as the ural-altaic, or turanian, languages.
uralite: amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. it is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.
uran-ochre: a yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.
urania: one of the nine muses, daughter of zeus by mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.-a genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the west indies and south america. their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
uranic: of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.-pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.
uranin: an alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. see fluorescein.
uraninite: a mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.
uraniscorrhaphy: suture of the palate. see staphyloraphy.
uranite: a general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
uranium: an element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. symbol u. atomic weight 239.
uranography: a description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
uranology: a discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
uranoso-: a combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.
uranous: pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.
uranus: the son or husband of gaia (earth), and father of chronos (time) and the titans.-one of the primary planets. it is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
uranyl: the radical uo2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.
urate: a salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.
urban: of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.-belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.
urbanity: the quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement.-polite wit; facetiousness.
urbicolae: an extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (hesperiadae).
urcelate: shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
urceole: a vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.
urchin: a hedgehog.-a sea urchin. see sea urchin.-a mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.-a pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.-one of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.-rough; pricking; piercing.
ure: the urus.-use; practice; exercise.-to use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
urea: a very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. it is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.
ureal: of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.
ureameter: an apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.
urechitin: a glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.
urechitoxin: a poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.
uredo: one of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. it is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. see uredinales, in the supplement.-nettle rash. see urticaria.
uredospore: the thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called uredo stage of certain rusts. see (in the supplement) uredinales, heter/cious, etc.
ureide: any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides.
ureter: the duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. there are two ureters, one for each kidney.
urethane: a white crystalline substance, nh2.co.oc2h5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. it is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. by extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.
urethra: the canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.
urethroplasty: an operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra.
urethrotomy: an incision of the urethra, esp. incision for relief of urethral stricture.
uretic: of or pertaining to the urine; diuretic; urinary; as, uretic medicine.
urge: to press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.-to press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.-to provoke; to exasperate.-to press hard upon; to follow closely-to present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.-to treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.-to press onward or forward.-to be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
urgency: the quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
urgent: urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
uric: of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid.
urim: a part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient jews, by which jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures.
urinal: a vessel for holding urine; especially, a bottle or tube for holding urine for inspection.-a place or convenience for urinating purposes.
urinary: of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.-resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.-a urinarium; also, a urinal.
urinator: one who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
urine: in mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.-to urinate.
uriniferous: bearing or conveying urine; as, uriniferous tubules.
uriniparous: producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney.
urinogenital: pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.
urinous: of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine.
urite: one of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.
urn: a vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.-fig.: any place of burial; the grave.-a measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. it was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.-a hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.-a tea urn. see under tea.-to inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
urn-shaped: having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.
urnal: of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns.
uro-: a combining form fr. gr. o'y^ron, urine.-a combining form from gr. o'yra`, the tail, the caudal extremity.
urobilin: a yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. see urochrome.
urocele: a morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.
urocerata: a division of boring hymenoptera, including tremex and allied genera. see illust. of horntail.
urochord: the central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.
urochrome: a yellow urinary pigment, considered by thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine. it is regarded by maly as identical with urobilin.
urodela: an order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. it comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.
uroerythrin: a reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. it also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.
urogastric: behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
uroglaucin: a body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. it is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.
urohaematin: urinary haematin; -- applied to the normal coloring matter of the urine, on the supposition that it is formed either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the haematin of the blood. see urochrome, and urobilin.
urohyal: of or pertaining to one or more median and posterior elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes.-a urohyal bone or cartilage.
uropod: any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. see illust. of crustacea, and stomapoda.
uropoetic: producing, or favoring the production of, urine.-of, pertaining to, or designating, a system of organs which eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates.
uropygial: of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds.
uropygium: the prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump; -- sometimes called pope's nose.
urosacral: of or pertaining to both the caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column; as, the urosacral vertebrae of birds.
urosteon: a median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.
urosternite: the sternal, or under piece, of any one of the uromeres of insects and other arthropods.
urostyle: a styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.
uroxanic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid, c5h8n4o6, which is obtained, as a white crystalline substance, by the slow oxidation of uric acid in alkaline solution.
urrhodin: indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. it is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. it is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. also called indigrubin.
ursula: a beautiful north american butterfly (basilarchia, / limenitis, astyanax). its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. called also red-spotted purple.
ursuline: one of an order of nuns founded by st. angela merici, at brescia, in italy, about the year 1537, and so called from st. ursula, under whose protection it was placed. the order was introduced into canada as early as 1639, and into the united states in 1727. the members are devoted entirely to education.-of or pertaining to st. ursula, or the order of ursulines; as, the ursuline nuns.
urticaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order (urticaceae) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. the order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.
urtical: resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.
urticaria: the nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
urticate: to sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
urtication: the act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
urubu: the black vulture (catharista atrata). it ranges from the southern united states to south america. see vulture.
urus: a very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in europe. it appears to have still existed in the time of julius caesar. it had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. called also, ur, ure, and tur.
urva: the crab-eating ichneumon (herpestes urva), native of india. the fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder.
us: of i-the persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of we. see we.
usage: the act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.-manners; conduct; behavior.-long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.-customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.-experience.
usance: use; usage; employment.-custom; practice; usage.-interest paid for money; usury.-the time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on london at one usance, or at double usance.
usbeks: a turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of asia now called turkestan.
use: the act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.-occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.-yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.-continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.-common occurrence; ordinary experience.-the special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the sarum, or canterbury, use; the hereford use; the york use; the roman use; etc.-the premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.-the benefit or profit of lands and tenements. use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. he to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. an estate is granted and limited to a for the use of b.-a stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.-to make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.-to behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.-to practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.-to accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.-to be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."-to be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
useful: full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
useless: having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
usher: an officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.-an under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.-to introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
usherance: the act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in.
usherdom: the office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
usnea: a genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.
usnic: pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens  (usnea, parmelia, etc.).
usquebaugh: a compound distilled spirit made in ireland and scotland; whisky.-a liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.
ustulation: the act of burning or searing.-the operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.-the roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.-the burning of wine.-lascivious passion; concupiscence.
usual: such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
usucaption: the acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.
usufruct: the right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance.
usufructuary: a person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it.-of or pertaining to a usufruct; having the nature of a usufruct.
usurer: one who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.-one who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
usurious: practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.-partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.
usurp: to seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.-to commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.
usurpation: the act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.-use; usage; custom.
usurper: one who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
usury: a premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.-the practice of taking interest.-interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
ut: the first note in guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. see solmization.
utas: the eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of st. michael.-hence, festivity; merriment.
utensil: that which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.
uterine: of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.-born of the same mother, but by a different father.
uterus: the organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.-a receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. see illust. of hermaphrodite in append.
utes: an extensive tribe of north american indians of the shoshone stock, inhabiting colorado, utah, new mexico, arizona, and adjacent regions. they are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of north american indians.
uti possidetis: the basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.-a species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor.
utia: any species of large west indian rodents of the genus capromys, or utia. in general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.
utica: of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the trenton period of the lower silurian, characterized in the state of new york by beds of shale.
utilitarian: of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.-of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the utilitarian society.-one who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
utilitarianism: the doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.-the doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe.-the doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
utility: the quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.-adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. see note under value, 2.-happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
utilize: to make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.