AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
throttler: one who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.-see flasher, 3 (b).
through: from end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.-between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue.-by means of; by the agency of.-over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.-among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.-from the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.-from one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.-from beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.-to the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.-going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train.  also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.
throughout: quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house.-in every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
throw: pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.-time; while; space of time; moment; trice.-to fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.-to fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.-to drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.-to cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.-to overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.-to cast, as dice; to venture at dice.-to put on hastily; to spread carelessly.-to divest or strip one's self of; to put off.-to form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.-to give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.-to bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.-to twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.-to perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.-the act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.-a stroke; a blow.-the distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.-a cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.-an effort; a violent sally.-the extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.-a potter's wheel or table; a jigger. see 2d jigger, 2 (a).-a turner's lathe; a throwe.-the amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
thrower: one who throws. specifically: (a) one who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) one who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
thrum: one of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.-any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.-a threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.-a shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.-a mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.-to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.-to insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.-to play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.-hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.-to play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.-hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
thrum-eyed: having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.
thrush: any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to turdus and allied genera. they are noted for the sweetness of their songs.-any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the american brown thrush (or thrasher). see brown thrush.-an affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. see aphthae.-an inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. in the horse it is in the frog.
thrust: thrist.-of thrust-to push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.-to stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.-to make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.-to enter by pushing; to squeeze in.-to push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.-a violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.-an attack; an assault.-the force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.-the breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
thrusting: of thrust-the act of pushing with force.-the act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey.-the white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
thud: a dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
thug: one of an association of robbers and murderers in india who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. they have been nearly exterminated by the british government.
thuja: a genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
thule: the name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. according to some, this land was norway, according to others, iceland, or more probably mainland, the largest of the shetland islands; hence, the latin phrase ultima thule, farthest thule.
thulium: a rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.
thumb: the short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. see pollex.-to handle awkwardly.-to play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.-to soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.-to play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
thumbscrew: a screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.-an old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
thummim: a mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the jewish high priest. see the note under urim.
thump: the sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.-a blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.-to strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.-to give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
thunder: the sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.-the discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.-any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.-an alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.-to produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.-fig.: to make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.-to utter violent denunciation.-to emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
thunderbird: an australian insectivorous singing bird (pachycephala gutturalis). the male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.
thunderbolt: a shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.-something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.-vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.-a belemnite, or thunderstone.
thunderer: one who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of l. tonans, an epithet applied by the romans to several of their gods, esp. to jupiter.
thunderhead: a rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.
thundering: of thunder-emitting thunder.-very great; -- often adverbially.-thunder.
thunderous: producing thunder.-making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous.
thunderstone: a thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone.-a belemnite. see belemnite.
thunderstrike: to strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning.-to astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
thunderworm: a small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (rhineura floridana) allied to amphisbaena, native of florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.
thurible: a censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.
thuringian: of or pertaining to thuringia, a country in germany, or its people.-a native, or inhabitant of thuringia.
thuringite: a mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green color and pearly luster. it is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron.
thurl: a hole; an aperture.-a short communication between adits in a mine.-a long adit in a coalpit.-to cut through; to pierce.-to cut through, as a partition between one working and another.
thurst: the ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.
thus: the commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.-in this or that manner; on this wise.-to this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold.
thuyin: a substance extracted from trees of the genus thuja, or thuya, and probably identical with quercitrin.
thwack: to strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.-to fill to overflow.-a heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.
thwaite: the twaite.-forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.
thwart: situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.-fig.: perverse; crossgrained.-thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.-across; athwart.-a seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.-to move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.-to cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.-to move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.-hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
thwarter: a disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.
thwartingly: in a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.
thwartness: the quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.
thy: of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. see thine.
thyine wood: the fragrant and beautiful wood of a north african tree (callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called thuja articulata. the tree is of the cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach.
thymate: a compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.
thyme: any plant of the labiate genus thymus. the garden thyme (thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic, much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
thymic: of or pertaining to the thymus gland.-pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid.
thymol: a phenol derivative of cymene, c10h13.oh, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; -- called also hydroxy cymene.
thymus: of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland.-the thymus gland.
thyro-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.
thyroarytenoid: of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
thyrohyal: one of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.
thyrohyoid: of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
thyroid: shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.-of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.
thyrsus: a staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. it is an attribute of bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in bacchic rites.-a species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
thysanoptera: a division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the hemiptera. they are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. called also physopoda.  see thrips.
thysanura: an order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. it comprises the cinura, or bristletails, and the collembola, or springtails. called also thysanoura. see lepisma, and podura.
thyself: an emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. it is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative as well as in the objective case.
tiara: a form of headdress worn by the ancient persians. according to xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.-the pope's triple crown. it was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. fig.: the papal dignity.
tibia: the inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.-the fourth joint of the leg of an insect. see illust. under coleoptera, and under hexapoda.-a musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
tibial: of or pertaining to a tibia.-of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.-a tibial bone; a tibiale.
tibiale: the bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.
tibio-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.
tibiotarsal: of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation.-of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.
tibiotarsus: the large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. it is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.
tic: a local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
tical: a bean-shaped coin of siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.-a money of account in china, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.
tice: to entice.-a ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
tichorrhine: a fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
tick: credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.-to go on trust, or credit.-to give tick; to trust.-any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. when filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. the young are active and have at first but six legs.-any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under bird) and sheep tick (see under sheep).-the cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.-ticking. see ticking, n.-to make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.-to strike gently; to pat.-a quick, audible beat, as of a clock.-any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.-the whinchat; -- so called from its note.-to check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
ticker: one who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
ticket: a small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.-a little note or notice.-a tradesman's bill or account.-a certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.-a label to show the character or price of goods.-a certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.-a printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.-to distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.-to furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to california.
ticketing: of ticket-a periodical sale of ore in the english mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
ticking: of tick-a strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. it is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.
tickle: to touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.-to please; to gratify; to make joyous.-to feel titillation.-to excite the sensation of titillation.-ticklish; easily tickled.-liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.-wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
ticklenburg: a coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the west indies.
tickler: one who, or that which, tickles.-something puzzling or difficult.-a book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.-a prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
ticklish: sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.-standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.-difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
tickseed: a seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.-same as coreopsis.-any plant of the genus corispermum, plants of the goosefoot family.
ticktack: a noise like that made by a clock or a watch.-a kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.-with a ticking noise, like that of a watch.
ticpolonga: a very venomous viper (daboia russellii), native of ceylon and india; -- called also cobra monil.
tidal: of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters.
tide: time; period; season.-the alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. the tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. it is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. a high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. when the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.-a stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.-tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.-violent confluence.-the period of twelve hours.-to cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.-to betide; to happen.-to pour a tide or flood.-to work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
tidesman: a customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
tidewaiter: a customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.
tidology: a discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.
tidy: the wren; -- called also tiddy.-being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather.-arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.-a cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.-a child's pinafore.-to put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.-to make things tidy.
tidytips: a california composite plant (layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.