AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
topical: of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.-pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.-resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
topically: in a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.
topknot: a crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.-a small europen flounder (rhoumbus punctatus). the name is also applied to allied species.
topless: having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled.
topmast: the second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.
topmost: highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
topographer: one who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land.
topography: the description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
topology: the art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.
topping: of top-rising above; surpassing.-hence, assuming superiority; proud.-fine; gallant.-the act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.-the act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.-that which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.
toppingly: in a topping or proud manner.-same as topping, a., 3.
topple: to fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.-to throw down; to overturn.
tops-and-bottoms: small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants.
topsail: in a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. this sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. see cutter, schooner, sail, and ship.
topsman: the chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.-the uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman.
topsoiling: the act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.
topsy-turvy: in an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.
toque: a kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.-a variety of the bonnet monkey.
torbernite: a mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure.  it is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.
torch: a light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.-a flashlight.
torchlight: the light of a torch, or of torches.  also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
torchon lace: a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
torchwood: the inflammable wood of certain trees (amyris balsamifera, a. floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
torchwort: the common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. called also torch, and hig-taper.
tore: of tear-imp. of tear.-the dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.-same as torus.-the surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.-the solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.
toret: a turret.-a ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc.
toreumatology: the art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.
toreutic: in relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.
torilto: a species of turnix (turnix sylvatica) native of spain and northen africa.
torinese: of or pertaining to turin.-a native or inhabitant of turin; collectively, the people of turin.
torment: an engine for casting stones.-extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.-that which gives pain, vexation, or misery.-to put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.-to pain; to distress; to afflict.-to tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.-to put into great agitation.
tormenter: one who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.-an executioner.
tormentful: full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating.
tormentil: a rosaceous herb (potentilla tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
tormentor: one who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.-an implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
tornado: a violent whirling wind; specifically (meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
tornaria: the peculiar free swimming larva of balanoglossus. see illust. in append.
torose: cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
torpedinous: of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.
torpedo: any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to torpedo and allied genera. they are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. called also crampfish, and numbfish. see electrical fish, under electrical.-an engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.-a quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.-a kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.-a kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.-a kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.-an explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.-a kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.-to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
torpent: having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.
torpescence: the quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.
torpid: having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.-dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.
torpor: loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.-dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
torque: a collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the gauls, germans, and britons.-that which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.-a turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.
torqued: wreathed; twisted.-twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter s.
torques: a cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.
torrefaction: the act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.
torrefy: to dry by a fire.-to subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.-to dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.
torrent: a violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.-fig.: a violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.-rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
torrentine: of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent .
torricellian: of or pertaining to torricelli, an italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. see barometer.
torrid: parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.-violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
torsibillty: the tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.
torsion: the act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.-that force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
torsional: of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.
torso: the human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of hercules.
tort: mischief; injury; calamity.-any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the united states, for a wrong or injury.-stretched tight; taut.
torta: a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
tortilla: an unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.
tortious: injurious; wrongful.-imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.
tortoise: any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order testudinata.-same as testudo, 2.-having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; --  used mostly to describe cats of that color.-a tortoise-shell cat.
tortrix: any one of numerous species of small moths of the family tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller.-a genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. one species (tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of brazil for a necklace.
tortuous: bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.-fig.: deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.-injurious: tortious.-oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from capricorn to gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
torture: extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.-especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.-the act or process of torturing.-to put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.-to punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.-to wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.-to keep on the stretch, as a bow.
torula: a chain of special bacteria. (b) a genus of budding fungi. same as saccharomyces. also used adjectively.
torulaform: having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
torus: a lage molding used in the bases of columns.  its profile is semicircular. see illust. of molding.-one of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. it usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. see illust. under tubicolae.-the receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.-see 3d tore, 2.
tory: a member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the whig, and is now called the liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.-one who, in the time of the revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of great britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.-of ro pertaining to the tories.
toss: to throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.-to lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.-to cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.-to agitate; to make restless.-hence, to try; to harass.-to keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.-to roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.-to be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.-a throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.-a throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
tossing: of toss-the act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.-a process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in cornwall.-a process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
tossy: tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace.
tot: anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.-a drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.-a foolish fellow.
total: whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.-the whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.
totality: the quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.-the whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge.
tote: to carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the southern states, and used esp. by negroes.-the entire body, or all; as, the whole tote.
totem: a rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the north american indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.
totemism: the system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.-superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship.
totipalmate: having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. see illust. under aves.
totly: to walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple.
totter: to shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.-to shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
tottery: trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.
toty: totty.-a sailor or fisherman; -- so called in some parts of the pacific.
toucan: any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical america belonging to ramphastos, pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family ramphastidae. they have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.-a modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
touch: to come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.-to perceive by the sense of feeling.-to come to; to reach; to attain to.-to try; to prove, as with a touchstone.-to relate to; to concern; to affect.-to handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.-to meddle or interfere with; as, i have not touched the books.-to affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.-to mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.-to infect; to affect slightly.-to make an impression on; to have effect upon.-to strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.-to perform, as a tune; to play.-to influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.-to harm, afflict, or distress.-to affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.-to be tangent to. see tangent, a.-to lay a hand upon for curing disease.-to be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.-to fasten; to take effect; to make impression.-to treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.-to be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.-the act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.-the sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. see tactile sense, under tactile.-act or power of exciting emotion.-an emotion or affection.-personal reference or application.-a stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.-a single stroke on a drawing or a picture.-feature; lineament; trait.-the act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.-a small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.-a hint; a suggestion; slight notice.-a slight and brief essay.-a touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.-hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.-the particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.-the broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see top and but, under top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.-that part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.-a boys' game; tag.
touch-box: a box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
touch-needle: a small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
touch-paper: paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
touchback: the act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
touchhole: the vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
touchiness: the quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
touching: of touch-affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.-concerning; with respect to.-the sense or act of feeling; touch.
touchstone: lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. see basanite.-any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.
touchwood: wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.-dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the polyporus igniarius.
touchy: peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
tough: having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.-not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.-not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.-stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.-severe; violent; as, a tough storm.
tough-pitch: the exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.-copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
toupet: a little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.-a small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
tour: a tower.-a going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of europe; the tour of france or england.-a turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.-anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.-to make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
tourbillion: an ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
tourmaline: a mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. the red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
tournament: a mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.-any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
tourniquet: an instrument for arresting hemorrhage. it consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
tournois: a former french money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. it was thus called in distinction from the paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
tournure: turn; contour; figure.-any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
tous-les-mois: a kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. it is made from the rootstocks of a species of canna, probably c. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
tout: to act as a tout. see 2d tout.-to ply or seek for customers.-one who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.-to toot a horn.-the anus.
tout-ensemble: all together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
touter: one who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
tow: the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.-to draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.-a rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.-the act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.-that which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
tow-head: an urchin who has soft, whitish hair.-the hooded merganser.
toward: alt. of towards-alt. of towards-approaching; coming near.-readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.-ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
towardliness: the quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.