AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
turmoil: harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.-to harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.-to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
turn-buckle: a loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc.-a gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.
turn-out: the act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.-a short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch.-that which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage; as, a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out.-the aggregate number of persons who have come out, as from their houses, for a special purpose.-net quantity of produce yielded.
turn-sick: giddy.-a disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. see gid.
turnbull's blue: the double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc.  cf. prussian blue, under prussian.
turncoat: one who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
turner: one who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.-a variety of pigeon; a tumbler.-a person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.
turnery: the art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.-things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.
turnicimorphae: a division of birds including turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
turning: of turn-the act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.-the place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.-deviation from the way or proper course.-turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.-the pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.-a maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.
turnip: the edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (brassica campestris, var. napus); also, the plant itself.
turnip-shell: any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
turnix: any one of numerous species of birds belonging to turnix or hemipodius and allied genera of the family turnicidae. these birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. the hind toe is usually lacking. they are found in asia, africa, southern europe, the east indian islands, and esp. in australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see quail, n., 3.). see turnicimorphae.
turnkey: a person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.-an instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.
turnover: the act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.-a semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.-an apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.-admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.
turnpike: a frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. see turnstile, 1.-a gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.-a turnpike road.-a winding stairway.-a beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.-to form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
turnsole: a plant of the genus heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.-the sunflower.-a kind of spurge (euphorbia helioscopia).-the euphorbiaceous plant chrozophora tinctoria.-litmus.-a purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. see def. 1 (d).
turnspit: one who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.-a small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. these dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.
turnstile: a revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. see turnpike, n., 1.-a similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
turnstone: any species of limicoline birds of the genera strepsilas and arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common american and european species (strepsilas interpres). they are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake.
turntable: a large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
turnus: a common, large, handsome, american swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of papilio, / jasoniades, glaucus. the wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. called also tiger swallowtail. see illust. under swallowtail.
turnwrest: designating a cumbersome style of plow used in england, esp. in kent.-designating a kind of hillside plow.
turonian: one of the subdivisions into which the upper cretaceous formation of europe is divided.
turpentine: a semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (pistacia terebinthus), a native of the mediterranean region. it is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.
turpeth: the root of ipom/a turpethum, a plant of ceylon, malabar, and australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.-a heavy yellow powder, hg3o2so4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.
turpitude: inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity.
turquois: a hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. it has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.
turquoise: alt. of turquois-having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.
turret: a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.-a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.-a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.-the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
turreted: furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.-formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp.
turriculated: furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.
turrilite: any fossil ammonite of the genus turrilites. the shell forms an open spiral with the later whorls separate.
turritella: any spiral marine gastropod belonging to turritella and allied genera. these mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. they have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.
turritelloid: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas.
turtle: the turtledove.-any one of the numerous species of testudinata, especially a sea turtle, or chelonian.-the curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
turtledove: any one of numerous species of pigeons belonging to turtur and allied genera, native of various parts of the old world; especially, the common european species (turtur vulgaris), which is noted for its plaintive note, affectionate disposition, and devotion to its mate.-any one of several species of pigeons more or less resembling the true turtledoves, as the american mourning dove (see under dove), and the australian turtledove (stictopelia cuneata).
turtlehead: an american perennial herb (chelone glabra) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. called also snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.
tuscan: of or pertaining to tuscany in italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. the original of this order was not used by the greeks, but by the romans under the empire. see order, and illust. of capital.-a native or inhabitant of tuscany.
tuscaroras: a tribe of north american indians formerly living on the neuse and tar rivers in north carolina. they were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the five nations, thus forming the six nations. see six nations, under six.
tush: an exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.-a long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.
tusk: same as torsk.-one of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.-a toothshell, or dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.-a projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.-to bare or gnash the teeth.
tussah silk: a silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in bengal and china.-the silk fiber itself.
tussle: to struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.-a struggle; a scuffle.
tussock: a tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.-same as tussock grass, below.-a caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. the body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. called also tussock caterpillar. see orgyia.
tussocky: having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.
tut: be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.-an imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.-a hassock.
tut-work: work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.
tutelage: the act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.-the state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.
tutelary: having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.
tutor: one who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.-a treasurer; a keeper.-one who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.-a private or public teacher.-an officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.-an instructor of a lower rank than a professor.-to have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.-to play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.
tutorial: of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
tutorship: the office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.
tutsan: a plant of the genus hypericum (h. androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in spain; -- called also parkleaves.
tutty: a yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.
tuyere: a nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
twaddle: to talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.-silly talk; gabble; fustian.
twaddler: one who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
twain: two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
twaite: a european shad; -- called also twaite shad. see shad.-a piece of cleared ground. see thwaite.
twang: a tang. see tang a state.-to sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.-to make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.-a harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.-an affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.
twank: to cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle.
twattle: to prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.-to make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.-act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.
twayblade: any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of listera and of liparis.
tweak: to pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.-a sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.-trouble; distress; tweag.-a prostitute.
tweed: a soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.
tweedle: to handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.-to twist.
twelfth: next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.-consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.-the quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.-the next in order after the eleventh.-an interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
twelfth-cake: an ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of twelfth-night.
twelfth-night: the evening of epiphany, or the twelfth day after christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.
twelfth-second: a unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.
twelfthtide: the twelfth day after christmas; epiphany; -- called also twelfth-day.
twelve: one more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.-the number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.-a symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.
twentieth: next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.-consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.-the next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others.-the quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.
twenty: one more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.-an indefinite number more or less that twenty.-the number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.-a symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
twenty-fourmo: having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo 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 whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 24mo, or 24¡.
twibil: a kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.-a tool for making mortises.-a reaping hook.
twice: two times; once and again.-doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.
twiddle: to touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.-to play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.-a slight twist with the fingers.-a pimple.
twifallow: to plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).
twig: to twitch; to pull; to tweak.-to understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?-to observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.-a small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.-to beat with twigs.
twiggy: of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.
twilight: the light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.-faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.-seen or done by twilight.-imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.
twill: to weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.-an appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.-a fabric women with a twill.-a quill, or spool, for yarn.
twilly: a machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. see devil, n., 6, and willy.
twin: being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.-being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.-double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.-composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. see twin, n., 4.-one of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.-a sign and constellation of the zodiac; gemini. see gemini.-a person or thing that closely resembles another.-a compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.-to bring forth twins.-to be born at the same birth.-to cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.-to separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.-to depart from a place or thing.
twine: a twist; a convolution.-a strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.-the act of twining or winding round.-to twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen.-to wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.-to wind about; to embrace; to entwine.-to change the direction of.-to mingle; to mix.-to mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.-to wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.-to turn round; to revolve.-to ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.
twinge: to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.-to affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.-to have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.-a pinch; a tweak; a twitch.-a sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
twining: of twine-winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.-the act of one who, or that which, twines; (bot.) the act of climbing spirally.
twink: to twinkle.-a wink; a twinkling.-the chaffinch.
twinkle: to open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.-to shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.-a closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.-a brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.-the time of a wink; a twinkling.
twinkler: one who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.
twinkling: of twinkle-the act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.-a shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.-the time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
twinned: of twin-composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. see twin, n., 4.
twinning: of twin-the assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.
twire: a twisted filament; a thread.-to peep; to glance obliquely; to leer.-to twinkle; to glance; to gleam.-to sing, or twitter.
twirl: to move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers.-to revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.-the act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.-a twist; a convolution.
twist: to contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.-hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.-to distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.-to wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.-to wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.-to unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.-hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.-to form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.-to be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.-to follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.-the act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.-the form given in twisting.-that which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.-a cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.-a kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.-a kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.-a roll of twisted dough, baked.-a little twisted roll of tobacco.-one of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.-a material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, damascus twist.-the spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.-a beverage made of brandy and gin.-a twig.
twisted: of twist-contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.