AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ventilate: to open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.-to provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket.-to change or renew, as the air of a room.-to winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.-to sift and examine; to bring out, and subject to penetrating scrutiny; to expose to examination and discussion; as, to ventilate questions of policy.-to give vent; to utter; to make public.
ventilation: the act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air.-the act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood.-the act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.-the act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure.-the act of giving vent or expression.
ventilative: of or pertaining to ventilation; adapted to secure ventilation; ventilating; as, ventilative apparatus.
ventilator: a contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
ventose: a ventouse.-windy; flatulent.-the sixth month of the calendar adopted by the first french republic. it began february 19, and ended march 20.  see vend/miaire.
ventosity: quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.
ventrad: toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.
ventral: of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.-of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.-of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant.  opposed to dorsal.
ventricle: a cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart.  see heart.-the stomach.-fig.: any cavity, or hollow place, in which any function may be conceived of as operating.
ventricous: swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla.
ventriculite: any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the cretaceous period.
ventriculus: one of the stomachs of certain insects.-the body cavity of a sponge.
ventriloquism: the act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.
ventriloquize: to practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
ventriloquous: of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
ventro-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the abdomen; also, connection with, relation to, or direction toward, the ventral side; as, ventrolateral; ventro-inguinal.
ventro-inguinal: pertaining both to the abdomen and groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal; as, ventro-inguinal hernia.
venture: an undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.-an event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.-the thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.-to hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.-to make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.-to expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.-to put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the west indies.-to confide in; to rely on; to trust.
venturer: one who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.-a strumpet; a prostitute.
venturesome: inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.
venturous: daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adveturous; as, a venturous soldier.
venue: a neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.-a bout; a hit; a turn.  see venew.
venule: a small vein; a veinlet; specifically (zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
venus: the goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.-one of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of mercury and that of the earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. as the morning star, it was called by the ancients lucifer; as the evening star, hesperus.-the metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet venus.-any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus venus or family veneridae. many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
veracious: observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian.-characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative.
veracity: the quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
veranda: an open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room.  see loggia.
veratralbine: a yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of veratrum album.
veratrine: a poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. it is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. called also veratria, and veratrina.
veratrol: a liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
verb: a word; a vocable.-a word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
verbal: expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.-consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.-having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.-abounding with words; verbose.-of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.-a noun derived from a verb.
verbalist: a literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.
verbatim: word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.
verbena: a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
verbenaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order (verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which verbena is the type. the order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
verbenate: to strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
verberation: the act of verberating; a beating or striking.-the impulse of a body; which causes sound.
verbiage: the use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
verbose: abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
verbosity: the quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage.
verd: the privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.-the right of pasturing animals in a forest.-greenness; freshness.
verd antique: a mottled-green serpentine marble.-a green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
verdant: covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.-unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth.
verderor: an officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.
verdict: the answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.-decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.
verdigris: a green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.-the green rust formed on copper.-to cover, or coat, with verdigris.
verdin: a small yellow-headed bird (auriparus flaviceps) of lower california, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.
verditer: verdigris.-either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) they consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
verdure: green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in june.
verdurous: covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures.
veretillum: any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound alcyonaria belonging to veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe pennatulacea. the whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal.
verfication: the act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication.-confirmation by evidence.-a formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
verge: a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.-the stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. such tenants were called tenants by the verge.-the compass of the court of marshalsea and the palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.-a virgate; a yardland.-a border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.-a circumference; a circle; a ring.-the shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.-the edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.-the spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.  see under escapement.-the edge or outside of a bed or border.-a slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.-the penis.-the external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.  see illustration in appendix.-to border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.-to tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
vergeboard: the ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. it was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. called also bargeboard.
vergency: the act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.-the reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
verger: one who carries a verge, or emblem of office.-an attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.-the official who takes care of the interior of a church building.-a garden or orchard.
verify: to make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.-to prove to be true or correct; to establish the truth of; to confirm; to substantiate.-to confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.-to maintain; to affirm; to support.
verine: an alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.
verisimilitude: the quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
verity: the quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.-that which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
verjuice: the sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.-tartness; sourness, as of disposition.
vermeil: vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.-silver gilt or gilt bronze.-a liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.
vermeology: a discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
vermes: an extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. by some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. the name was used in a still wider sense by linnaeus and his followers.-a more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
vermetus: any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to vermetus and allied genera, of the family vermetidae. their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
vermicelli: the flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the italian name. when the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
vermicular: of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines.  see peristaltic.
vermiculate: to form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.-wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.-crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
vermiculated: of vermiculate-made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
vermiculation: the act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.-the act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm.-penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten.-a very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
vermicule: a small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
vermiculite: a group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. they are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. so called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
vermiform: resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
vermifugal: tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
vermifuge: a medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
vermilinguia: a tribe of edentates comprising the south american ant-eaters. the tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.-a tribe of old world lizards which comprises the chameleon. they have long, flexible tongues.
vermilion: a bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. it has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.-hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.-to color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
vermin: an animal, in general.-a noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.-hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
verminous: tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.-caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease.
vermivorous: devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
vermuth: a liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.
vernacular: belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, english is our vernacular language.-the vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
vernacularization: the act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular.
vernal: of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.-fig.: belonging to youth, the spring of life.
vernation: the arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
vernier: a short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. it is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
vernine: an alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
vernonin: a glucoside extracted from the root of a south african plant of the genus vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
veronese: of or pertaining to verona, in italy.-a native of verona; collectively, the people of verona.
veronica: a portrait or representation of the face of our savior on the alleged handkerchief of saint veronica, preserved at rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the savior. formerly called also vernacle, and vernicle.-a genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell.  see speedwell.
verriculate: having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.
verrucose: covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.
verruculose: minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.
versant: familiar; conversant.-the slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.
versatile: capable of being turned round.-liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; inconstant; as versatile disposition.-turning with ease from one thing to another; readily applied to a new task, or to various subjects; many-sided; as, versatile genius; a versatile politician.-capable of turning; freely movable; as, a versatile anther, which is fixed at one point to the filament, and hence is very easily turned around; a versatile toe of a bird.
verse: a line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.-metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.-a short division of any composition.-a stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.-one of the short divisions of the chapters in the old and new testaments.-a portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.-a piece of poetry.-to tell in verse, or poetry.-to make verses; to versify.
versed: of verse-acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced.-turned.
versemonger: a writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
versicle: a little verse; especially, a short verse or text said or sung in public worship by the priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people.
versification: the act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.
versifier: one who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet.-one who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, dr. watts was a versifier of the psalms.
versify: to make verses.-to relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.-to turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the psalms.
version: a change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.-a condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself.  see anteversion, and retroversion.-the act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.-a translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the common, or authorized, version of the scriptures (see under authorized); the septuagint version of the old testament.-an account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair.
verso: the reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
versus: against; as, john doe versus richard roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
vert: everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.-the right or privilege of cutting growing wood.-the color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.
vertebra: one of the serial segments of the spinal column.-one of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.
vertebral: of or pertaining to a vertebrae, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.-vertebrate.-a vertebrate.
vertebrally: at or within a vertebra or vertebrae; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
vertebrarterial: of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.
vertebrata: one of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. the vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. the subdivisions or classes of vertebrata are mammalia, aves, reptilia, amphibia, pisces, marsipobranchia, and leptocardia.