AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
tie: a knot; a fastening.-a bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.-a knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.-an equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.-a beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.-a line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.-low shoes fastened with lacings.-to fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.-to form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.-to unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.-to hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.-to unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.-to make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.-to make a tie; to make an equal score.
tiebeam: a beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. see illust. of timbers, under roof.
tier: one who, or that which, ties.-a chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.-a row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.
tierce: a cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.-a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.-the third tone of the scale. see mediant.-a sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.-a position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.-the third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.-divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
tiercelet: the male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.
tiers etat: the third estate, or commonalty, in france, answering to the commons in great britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.
tiewig: a wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.
tiff: liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.-a fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. see tift.-to be in a pet.-to deck out; to dress.
tiffin: a lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a provincial english word, but introduced into india, and brought back to england in a special sense.
tig: a game among children. see tag.-a capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
tigella: that part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.
tiger: a very large and powerful carnivore (felis tigris) native of southern asia and the east indies. its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. when full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. called also royal tiger, and bengal tiger.-fig.: a ferocious, bloodthirsty person.-a servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.-a kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.-a pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
tiger's-foot: a name given to some species of morning-glory (ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
tiger-eye: a siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in south africa and much used for ornament. it is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. see crocidolite.
tight: of tie-p. p. of tie.-firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.-close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.-fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.-not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.-close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.-not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.-handy; adroit; brisk.-somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.-pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market.  cf. easy, 7.-to tighten.
tighten: to draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
tightener: that which tightens; specifically (mach.), a tightening pulley.
tights: close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
tiglic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, c4h7co2h (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from croton tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.
tigrine: of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.-resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (felis tigrina) of south america.
tike: a tick. see 2d tick.-a dog; a cur.-a countryman or clown; a boorish person.
tilbury: a kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
tilde: the accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in spanish words [thus, , /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
tile: to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a masonic lodge.-a plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.-a small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.-a plate of metal used for roofing.-a small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.-a draintile.-a stiff hat.-to cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.-fig.: to cover, as if with tiles.
tilefish: a large, edible, deep-water food fish (lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.
tiler: a man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.-a doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of freemasons.
tilestone: a kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the upper silurian.-a tile of stone.
tiliaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (tiliaceae) of which the linden (tilia) is the type. the order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.
tiling: of tile-a surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.-tiles, collectively.
till: a vetch; a tare.-a drawer.-a tray or drawer in a chest.-a money drawer in a shop or store.-a deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.-a kind of coarse, obdurate land.-to; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in scotland and in parts of england and ireland; as, i worked till four o'clock; i will wait till next week.-as far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.-to plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.-to prepare; to get.-to cultivate land.
tillage: the operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.-a place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
tillandsia: a genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the southern united states and in tropical america. tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, spanish moss, and florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. it is often used for stuffing mattresses.
tiller: one who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.-a shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.-a sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.-a young timber tree.-to put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.-a lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. in small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. see illust. of rudder.  cf. 2d helm, 1.-the stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.-the handle of anything.-a small drawer; a till.
tillet: a bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.
tilley seed: the seeds of a small tree (croton pavana) common in the malay archipelago. these seeds furnish croton oil, like those of croton tiglium.
tillodontia: an extinct group of mammalia found fossil in the eocene formation. the species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. called also tillodonta.
tilly-vally: a word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent.
tilt: a covering overhead; especially, a tent.-the cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.-a cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.-to cover with a tilt, or awning.-to incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.-to point or thrust, as a lance.-to point or thrust a weapon at.-to hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.-to run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.-to lean; to fall partly over; to tip.-a thrust, as with a lance.-a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.-see tilt hammer, in the vocabulary.-inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
tilt hammer: a tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
tilt-mill: a mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.
tilter: one who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.-one who operates a tilt hammer.
tilth: the state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.-that which is tilled; tillage ground.
tilting: of tilt-the act of one who tilts; a tilt.-the process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
timaline: of or pertaining to the genus timalus or family timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.
timber: a certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.-the crest on a coat of arms.-to surmount as a timber does.-that sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing.  cf. lumber, 3.-the body, stem, or trunk of a tree.-fig.: material for any structure.-a single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.-woods or forest; wooden land.-a rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. one timber is composed of several pieces united.-to furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.-to light on a tree.-to make a nest.
timbered: of timber-furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house.-built; formed; contrived.-massive, like timber.-covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.
timberhead: the top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
timbering: of timber-the act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
timbre: see 1st timber.-the crest on a coat of arms.-the quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin.  see tone, and partial tones, under partial.
timbrel: a kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
time: duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.-a particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.-the period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the spanish armada was destroyed in the time of queen elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.-the duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.-a proper time; a season; an opportunity.-hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.-performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.-the present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.-tense.-the measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.-to appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.-to regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.-to ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.-to measure, as in music or harmony.-to keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.-to pass time; to delay.
time-honored: honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
time-table: a tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.-a plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.-a table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.
timekeeper: a clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.-a person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time.-a person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.-one who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.-one who marks the time in musical performances.-one appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
timeless: done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.-done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave.-having no end; interminable; unending.
timely: being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.-keeping time or measure.-early; soon; in good season.
timenoguy: a rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
timepiece: a clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
timepleaser: one who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.
timer: a timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. it is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
timeserver: one who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
timeserving: obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.-an obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
timid: wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
timocracy: a state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.-a state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.
timorous: fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.-indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.
timothy grass: a kind of grass (phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in england, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. it is much prized for fodder. see illustration in appendix.
tin: an elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. it is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. symbol sn (stannum). atomic weight 117.4.-thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.-money.-to cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
tinamou: any one of several species of south american birds belonging to tinamus and allied genera.
tincal: crude native borax, formerly imported from thibet. it was once the chief source of boric compounds.  cf. borax.
tinchel: a circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
tinct: tined; tinged.-color; tinge; tincture; tint.-to color or stain; to imblue; to tint.
tinctorial: of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter.
tincture: a tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.-one of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.-the finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.-a solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.-a slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.-a slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of french manners.-to communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.-to imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
tindal: a petty officer among lascars, or native east indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.-an attendant on an army.
tinder: something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
tine: trouble; distress; teen.-to kindle; to set on fire.-to kindle; to rage; to smart.-to shut in, or inclose.-a tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
tinea: a name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. see ringworm, and sycosis.-a genus of small lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
tinean: any species of tinea, or of the family tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. also used adjectively.
tineman: an officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.
ting: a sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.-to sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle.-the apartment in a chinese temple where the idol is kept.
tinge: to imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.-a degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.
tingis: a genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. see illustration in appendix.
tingle: to feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.-to feel a sharp, thrilling pain.-to have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.
tink: to make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.-a sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
tinker: a mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.-one skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.-a small mortar on the end of a staff.-a young mackerel about two years old.-the chub mackerel.-the silversides.-a skate.-the razor-billed auk.-to mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.-to busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
tinkle: the common guillemot.-to make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.-to hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.-to cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.-a small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
tinkling: of tinkle-a tinkle, or succession of tinkles.-a grackle (quiscalus crassirostris) native of jamaica. it often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.
tinned: of tin-covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron.-packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats.
tinner: one who works in a tin mine.-one who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.
tinning: of tin-the act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.-the covering or lining of tin thus put on.
tinnitus: a ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.
tinsel: a shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.-something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.-showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.-to adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
tinselly: like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.-in a showy and cheap manner.
tint: a slight coloring.-a pale or faint tinge of any color.-a color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.-a shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.-to give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
tintinnabulous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular.
tinto: a red madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.