AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
wean: to accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.-hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.-a weanling; a young child.
weanling: a. & n. from wean, v.-a child or animal newly weaned; a wean.-recently weaned.
weapon: an instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.-fig.: the means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.-a thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
wear: same as weir.-to cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.-to carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.-to have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.-to use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.-to impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.-to cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.-to form or shape by, or as by, attrition.-to endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.-to be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.-the act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.-the thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.-a dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.-a fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.-a long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
wearer: one who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.-that which wastes or diminishes.
weariness: the quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
wearing: of wear-the act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.-that which is worn; clothes; garments.-pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.
wearish: weak; withered; shrunk.-insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
wearisome: causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
weary: having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.-causing weariness; tiresome.-having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.-to reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.-to make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.-to harass by anything irksome.-to grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.
weasel: any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus putorius, as the ermine and ferret. they have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc.  the ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.
weasiness: quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
weather: the state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.-vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.-storm; tempest.-a light rain; a shower.-to expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.-hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.-to sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.-to place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.-to undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.-being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
weather-beaten: beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.
weather-bit: a turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
weather-board: to nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.
weather-bound: kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
weatherboard: that side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.-a piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.-a board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.-a clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.
weatherboarding: the covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.-boards adapted or intended for such use.
weathercock: a vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.-hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.-to supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
weathered: of weather-made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.-having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
weatherglass: an instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.
weathering: of weather-the action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
weatherly: working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship.
weave: to unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.-to form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.-to practice weaving; to work with a loom.-to become woven or interwoven.-a particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.
weaver: one who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.-a weaver bird.-an aquatic beetle of the genus gyrinus.  see whirling.
weaving: of weave-the act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.-an incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle.
weazen: thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.
web: a weaver.-that which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.-a whole piece of linen cloth as woven.-the texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.-fig.: tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.-a band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.-a thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.-the blade of a sword.-the blade of a saw.-the thin, sharp part of a colter.-the bit of a key.-a plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.-the thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.-a disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.-the arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.-the part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.-pterygium; -- called also webeye.-the membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.-the series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.  see feather.-to unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
web-footed: having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.
web-toed: having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
webbed: of web-provided with a web.-having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
webbing: of web-a woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
webby: of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.
weber: the standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current.  see coulomb, and amp/re.
webfoot: a foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.-any web-footed bird.
webform: any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.
wed: a pledge; a pawn.-of wed-to take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.-to join in marriage; to give in wedlock.-fig.: to unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.-to take to one's self and support; to espouse.-to contact matrimony; to marry.
wedded: of wed-of wed-joined in wedlock; married.-of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.
wedding: of wed-nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
wedge: a piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. it is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers.  see illust. of mechanical powers, under mechanical.-a solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.-a mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.-anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.-the person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.-to cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.-to force or drive as a wedge is driven.-to force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.-to press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.-to fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.-to cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
wedge-shaped: having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.-broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
wedge-shell: any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
wedge-tailed: having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds.  see illust. of wood hoopoe, under wood.
wedgebill: an australian crested insessorial bird (sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
wedgwood ware: a kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
wedlock: the ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.-a wife; a married woman.-to marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
wee: a little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.-very small; little.
weed: a garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.-an article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.-a sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.-underbrush; low shrubs.-any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.-fig.: something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.-an animal unfit to breed from.-tobacco, or a cigar.-to free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.-to take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.-to free from anything hurtful or offensive.-to reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
weeder: one who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
weedery: weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.
weeding-rhim: a kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.
weedy: of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.-abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.-scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.-dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
week: a period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one sabbath or sunday to the next.
weekly: of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.-coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.-a publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.-once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.
weep: the lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.-imp. of weep, for wept.-formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.-to lament; to complain.-to flow in drops; to run in drops.-to drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.-to hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.-to lament; to bewail; to bemoan.-to shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
weeper: one who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.-a white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.-the capuchin.  see capuchin, 3 (a).
weeping: of weep-the act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.-grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.-discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.-having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.-pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
weever: any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus trachinus, of the family trachinidae. they have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. the long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.
weevil: any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. the larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under plum, nut, and grain). the larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under pine).  see also pea weevil, rice weevil, seed weevil, under pea, rice, and seed.
weft: imp. & p. p. of wave.-a thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.-the woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.-a web; a thing woven.
weigelia: a hardy garden shrub (diervilla japonica) belonging to the honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. it was introduced from china.
weigh: a corruption of way, used only in the phrase under weigh.-to bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.-to examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.-to be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.-to pay, allot, take, or give by weight.-to examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.-to consider as worthy of notice; to regard.-to have weight; to be heavy.-to be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.-to bear heavily; to press hard.-to judge; to estimate.-a certain quantity estimated by weight; an english measure of weight.  see wey.
weigh-house: a building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
weighbeam: a kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.
weigher: one who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
weighlock: a lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
weighmaster: one whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
weight: the quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.-the quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.-hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.-importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.-a scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.-a ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.-a definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.-the resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.-to load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.-to assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation.  see weight of observations, under weight.
weightiness: the quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
weighty: having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.-adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.-rigorous; severe; afflictive.
weird: fate; destiny; one of the fates, or norns; also, a prediction.-a spell or charm.-of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.-of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.-to foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
weka: a new zealand rail (ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.
wekau: a small new zealand owl (sceloglaux albifacies). it has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.
welcome: received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.-producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.-free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.-salutation to a newcomer.-kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome.-to salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.
welcomeness: the quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
welcomer: one who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer.
weld: to wield.-an herb (reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in europe, and to some extent in america; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. it is used by dyers to give a yellow color.-coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.-to press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.-fig.: to unite closely or intimately.-the state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
welder: one who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.-one who welds, or wields.-a manager; an actual occupant.
weldon's process: a process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
welfare: well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
welk: to wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.-to cause to wither; to wilt.-to contract; to shorten.-to soak; also, to beat severely.-a pustule.  see 2d whelk.-a whelk.