AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
thirsty: feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.-deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
thirteen: one more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.-the number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.-a symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.
thirteenth: next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.-constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.-the next in order after the twelfth.-the interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
thirtieth: next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.-constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.
thirty: being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of june consists of thirty days.-the sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.-a symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or xxx.
this: as a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned.-as an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town.
thistle: any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera cnicus, craduus, and onopordon. the name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
thistly: overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.-fig.: resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
thither: to that place; -- opposed to hither.-to that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.-being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.-applied to time: on the thither side of, older than; of more years than. see hither, a.
thitsee: the varnish tree of burmah (melanorrhoea usitatissima).-a black varnish obtained from the tree.
thole: a wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.-the pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.-to bear; to endure; to undergo.-to wait.
thomaism: the doctrine of thomas aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.
thomean: a member of the ancient church of christians established on the malabar coast of india, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the apostle thomas.
thomsen's disease: an affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.
thomsenolite: a fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of greenland.
thomsonian: of or pertaining to thomsonianism.-a believer in thomsonianism; one who practices thomsonianism.
thomsonianism: an empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, dr. samuel thomson, of massachusetts.
thomsonite: a zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. it is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. called also mesole, and comptonite.
thooid: of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.
thoracentesis: the operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
thoracic: of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.-one of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
thoracica: a division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. the common barnacles are examples.
thoracoplasty: a remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
thoracostraca: an extensive division of crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. it includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species.
thorax: the part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.-the middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. it is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. see illust. in appendix. and illust. of coleoptera.-the second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. in the case of decapod crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. see illust. in appendix.-a breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient greeks.
thoria: a rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.
thorite: a mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. it is essentially a silicate of thorium.
thorium: a metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. symbol th. atomic weight 232.0.
thorn: a hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.-any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.-fig.: that which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.-the name of the anglo-saxon letter /, capital form /. it was used to represent both of the sounds of english th, as in thin, then. so called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.-to prick, as with a thorn.
thornback: a european skate (raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.-the large european spider crab or king crab (maia squinado).
thornbill: any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored american birds of the genus rhamphomicron. they have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.
thornbird: a small south american bird (anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus furnarius). it builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.
thorntail: a beautiful south american humming bird (gouldia popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. the head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.
thorny: full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.-like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
thorough: through.-passing through; as, thorough lights in a house.-passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.-thoroughly.-through.-a furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
thorough bass: the representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
thorough-brace: a leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. see illust. of chaise.
thorough-lighted: provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building.
thoroughbred: bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like.-a thoroughbred animal, especially a horse.
thoroughfare: a passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.-a passing or going through; passage.
thoroughgoing: going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.-going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
thoroughpaced: perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced tory or whig.
thoroughpin: a disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.
thoroughwax: an umbelliferous plant (bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.-thoroughwort.
thorpe: a group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, althorp, mablethorpe.
thoth: the god of eloquence and letters among the ancient egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. he corresponded to the mercury of the romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.-the egyptian sacred baboon.
thou: the second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.-to address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.-to use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the friends.
though: granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.-however; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.
thought: of think-imp. & p. p. of think.-the act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.-meditation; serious consideration.-that which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.-solicitude; anxious care; concern.-a small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.
thoughtful: full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind.-attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth.-anxious; solicitous; concerned.
thoughtless: lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.-giddy; gay; dissipated.-deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.
thousand: the number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.-hence, indefinitely, a great number.-a symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, m or ci/.-consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.-hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.
thousand legs: a millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
thousandth: next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.-constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.-occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.-the quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.
thracian: of or pertaining to thrace, or its people.-a native or inhabitant of thrace.
thraldom: the condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.
thrall: a slave; a bondman.-slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.-a shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.-of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.-to enslave.
thrall-like: resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish.
thranite: one of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.
thrasonical: of or pertaining to thraso; like, or becoming to, thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.
thrave: twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.-the number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.
thread: a very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.-a filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.-the prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. see screw, n., 1.-fig.: something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.-fig.: composition; quality; fineness.-to pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.-to pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.-to form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
threadbare: worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.-fig.: worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
threader: a device for assisting in threading a needle.-a tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
threadfin: any one of several species of fishes belonging to polynemus and allied genera. they have numerous long pectoral filaments.
threadfish: the cutlass fish.-a carangoid fish (caranx gallus, or c. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
threadworm: any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
thready: like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.-containing, or consisting of, thread.
threap: to call; to name.-to maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.-to beat, or thrash.-to cozen, or cheat.-to contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.-an obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
threat: the expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.-to threaten.
threaten: to utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.-to exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death.-to use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
three: one more than two; two and one.-the number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.-a symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.
three-coat: having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the united states, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
three-cornered: having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.-having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.
three-handed: said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
three-leaved: producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.-consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.
three-pile: an old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
three-piled: having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.-fig.: extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown.-accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth.
three-ply: consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
three-sided: having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
three-square: having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
three-valved: consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
three-way: connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
threefold: consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
threepenny: costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
threnodist: one who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
thresh: to beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.-to beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.-to practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.-hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.-same as thrash.
thresher: one who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.-a large and voracious shark (alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. it is found both upon the american and the european coasts. called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.-a name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. see brown thrush.-same as thrasher.
threshold: the plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.-fig.: the place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.
thrid: third.-to pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.-to make or effect (a way or course) through something; as, to thrid one's way through a wood.-thread; continuous line.
thrift: a thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.-success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.-vigorous growth, as of a plant.-one of several species of flowering plants of the genera statice and armeria.
thrifty: given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.-thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.-growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.-secured by thrift; well husbanded.-well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming.
thrill: a warbling; a trill.-a breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.-to perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.-hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.-to hurl; to throw; to cast.-to pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.-to feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.-a drill. see 3d drill, 1.-a sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.
thrilling: of thrill-causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance.
thrips: any one of numerous small species of thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (thrips cerealium).
thrive: to prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.-to prosper in any business; to have increase or success.-to increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.
throat: the part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.-hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.-a contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.-the part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.-the upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.-that end of a gaff which is next the mast.-the angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.-the inside of a timber knee.-the orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.-to utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.-to mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
throatlatch: a strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
throatwort: a plant (campanula trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.
throb: to beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.-a beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:
throe: extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.-a tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.-to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.-to put in agony.
thrombosis: the obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance.
thrombus: a clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.-a tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
throne: a chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.-hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.-a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.-to place on a royal seat; to enthrone.-to place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.-to be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
throng: of thring-a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.-a great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.-to crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.-to crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.-to crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.-thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
throstle: the song thrush. see under song.-a machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise.
throstling: a disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.
throttle: the windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.-the throttle valve.-to compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.-to utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.-to shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.-to have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.-to breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.