AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
victuals: food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
vicugna: a south american mammal (auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the andes, allied to the llama but smaller. it has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. it is hunted for its wool and flesh.
vidame: one of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
vide: imperative sing. of l. videre, to see; -- used to direct attention to something; as, vide supra, see above.
vidonia: a dry white wine, of a tart flavor, produced in teneriffe; -- called also teneriffe.
viduage: the state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively.
vie: to stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek.  see revie.-to strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.-to stake; to wager.-to do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.-a contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
vielle: an old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
vienna paste: a caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; -- called also vienna caustic.
viennese: of or pertaining to vienna, or people of vienna.-an inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of vienna.
view: the act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.-mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.-power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.-that which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.-the pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of lake george.-mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.-that which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.-appearance; show; aspect.-to see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.-to survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.
viewer: one who views or examines.-a person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.-the superintendent of a coal mine.
viewy: having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.-spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination.
vifda: in the orkney and shetland islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted.
vigesimo-quarto: having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.-a book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24¡.
vigil: abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.-hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.-originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.-later, the day and the night preceding a feast.-a religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
vigilance: the quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.-watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection.-guard; watch.
vigilant: attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
vigintivirate: the office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri.
vignette: a running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in gothic architecture.-a decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.-to make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
vigonia: of or pertaining to the vicu/a; characterizing the vicu/a; -- said of the wool of that animal, used in felting hats, and for other purposes.
vigor: active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.-strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.-strength; efficacy; potency.-to invigorate.
vigoroso: vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
vigorous: possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.-exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.
viinage: the place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; as, a jury must be of the vicinage.
viking: one belonging to the pirate crews from among the northmen, who plundered the coasts of europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
vilayet: one of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the ottoman empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
vile: low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.-morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of god and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
vilify: to make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.-to degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.-to treat as vile; to despise.
villain: one who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.-a baseborn or clownish person; a boor.-a vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.-villainous.-to debase; to degrade.
villainous: base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.-proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action.-sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense.
villainy: the quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer.-abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk.-the act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.
villanage: the state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord.-baseness; infamy; villainy.
villanelle: of villanella-a poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
villanize: to make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
villiform: having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
villosity: state of being villous.-a coating of long, slender hairs.-a villus.
villous: abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.-furnished or clothed with villi.
villus: one of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.-fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.
viminal: of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.
vimineous: of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs.-producing long, slender twigs or shoots.
vinaceous: belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.-of the color of wine, especially of red wine.
vinagrous: resembling vinegar; sour.-fig.: unamiable; morose.
vinaigrette: a sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats.-a small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette.-a small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man.
vinasse: the waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.
vinatico: madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the persea indica.
vincentian: of or pertaining to saint vincent de paul, or founded by him.-same as lazarist.-a member of certain charitable sisterhoods.
vincetoxin: a glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.
vinculum: a bond of union; a tie.-a straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 - x + y.-a band or bundle of fibers; a fraenum.-a commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.
vindicate: to lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.-to maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.-to support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify.-to maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.-to liberate; to set free; to deliver.-to avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity.
vindication: the act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete.-the claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing.
vindicative: tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.-revengeful; vindictive.
vindicatory: tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.-inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.
vindictive: disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.-punitive.
vine: any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.-hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
vinedresser: one who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard.
vinegar: a sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.-hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.-to convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
vinery: a vineyard.-a structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.
vineyard: an inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
vingt et un: a game at cards, played by two or more persons. the fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near to it.
vinous: of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.
vintage: the produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.-the act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.
viny: of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines.
vinyl: the hypothetical radical c2h3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.
viol: a stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.-a large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.
viola: a genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.-an instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.
violaceous: resembling violets in color; bluish purple.-of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. it contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
violaniline: a dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.
violantin: a complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid.
violaquercitrin: a yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.
violate: to treat in a violent manner; to abuse.-to do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.-to disturb; to interrupt.-to commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.
violation: the act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.-infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.-an act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.-interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.-ravishment; rape; outrage.
violence: the quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.-injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.-ravishment; rape; constupration.-to assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
violent: moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.-acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.-produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.-an assailant.-to urge with violence.-to be violent; to act violently.
violet: any plant or flower of the genus viola, of many species.  the violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (viola tricolor).-the color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. it is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.-in art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.-any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to lycaena, or rusticus, and allied genera.-dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
violet-tip: a very handsome american butterfly (polygonia interrogationis).  its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
violine: a pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (viola).-mauve aniline.  see under mauve.
violoncello: a stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.
violone: the largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
violuric: of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. it is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.
viper: any one of numerous species of old world venomous makes belonging to vipera, clotho, daboia, and other genera of the family viperidae.-a dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
viperine: of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper.
viperoides: a division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the old world and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of america; -- called also viperina.
viperous: having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.
viraginian: of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago.
virago: a woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.-hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.
vire: an arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.  cf. vireton.
virelay: an ancient french song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
vireo: any one of numerous species of american singing birds belonging to vireo and allied genera of the family vireonidae. in many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored.  called also greenlet.
vireton: an arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
virgalieu: a valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; -- more properly called white doyenne.
virgate: having the form of a straight rod; wand-shaped; straight and slender.-a yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.
virgilian: of or pertaining to virgil, the roman poet; resembling the style of virgil.
virgin: a woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.-a person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.-see virgo.-any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family lycaenidae.-a female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.-being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.-pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold.-not yet pregnant; impregnant.-to act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it.  see it, 5.
virginal: of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.-an instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. it had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. the instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. it was sometimes called a pair of virginals.-to play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
virginia: one of the states of the united states of america.-of or pertaining to the state of virginia.
virginity: the quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.-the unmarried life; celibacy.
virgo: a sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of august, marked thus [/] in almanacs.-a constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign libra, and containing the bright star spica.
virgularian: any one of numerous species of long, slender alcyonaria belonging to virgularia and allied genera of the family virgularidae. these corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. the polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
virial: a certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
viridine: a greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, c12h19n7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
viridite: a greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
viridity: greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.-freshness; soundness.
virile: having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
virility: the quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.
viripotent: developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.
viroled: furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
virtual: having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.-being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
virtuality: the quality or state of being virtual.-potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.
virtually: in a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
virtue: manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.-active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.-energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.-excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.-specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.-a particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.-specifically: chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.-one of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
virtuosity: the quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.-virtuosos, collectively.-an art or study affected by virtuosos.
virtuoso: one devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.-a performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
virtuous: possessing or exhibiting virtue.-exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.-having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.-having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.-chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
virulency: the quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.-extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.
virulent: extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.-very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
virus: contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.-the special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.-fig.: any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.
vis-a-vis: one who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.-a carriage in which two persons sit face to face.  also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.-face to face.
visa: see vis/.-to indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.