AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
will: the power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.-the choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.-the choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.-strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.-that which is strongly wished or desired.-arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine.-the legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise.  see the note under testament, 1.-to wish; to desire; to incline to have.-as an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. thus, in first person, "i will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, i will go if you wish; i will go at all hazards. in the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "you will go," or "he will go," describes a future event as a fact only. to emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.-to be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.-to form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.-to enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order.-to give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.-to exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
willemite: a silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.
willet: a large north american snipe (symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.
willful: of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.-governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse.
willing: of will-free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready.-received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired.-spontaneous; self-moved.
willingness: the quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.
willow: any tree or shrub of the genus salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "a wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." sir w. scott. hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.-a machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.-to open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow.  see willow, n., 2.
willow-herb: a perennial herb (epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. the name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus.
willow-thorn: a thorny european shrub (hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.
willow-weed: a european species of loosestrife (lysimachia vulgaris).-any kind of polygonum with willowlike foliage.
willow-wort: same as willow-weed.-any plant of the order salicaceae, or the willow family.
willowed: abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.
willowish: having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.
willowy: abounding with willows.-resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
willsome: willful; obstinate.-fat; indolent.-doubtful; uncertain.
willy nilly: see will i, nill i, etc., under 3d will.
willying: the process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow.
willywaw: a whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the straits of magellan.
wilt: 2d pers. sing. of will.-to begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither.-to cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant.-hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.
wilton carpet: a kind of carpet woven with loops like the brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at wilton, england.
wily: full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.
wimble: an instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.-a gimlet.-a stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.-an auger used for boring in earth.-to bore or pierce, as with a wimble.-active; nimble.
wimple: a covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.-a flag or streamer.-to clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.-to draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.-to cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.-to lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
win: to gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country.-to allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.-to gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury.-to come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.-to extract, as ore or coal.-to gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.
wince: to shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.-to kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.-the act of one who winces.-a reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. it is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
winch: to wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.-a kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.-a crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.-an instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.-an axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.-a wince.
wincing: of wince-the act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.
wincopipe: a little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day.  see pimpernel.
wind: to turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.-to entwist; to infold; to encircle.-to have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.-to introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.-to cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.-to turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.-to have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.-to go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.-the act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.-air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.-air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.-breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.-power of respiration; breath.-air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.-air impregnated with an odor or scent.-a direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.-a disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. it occurs immediately after shearing.-mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.-the dotterel.-to expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.-to perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.-to drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.-to rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.-to blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
wind-break: to break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.-a clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
wind-broken: having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.
wind-fertilized: anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
wind-rode: caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
wind-sucking: a vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing.  see cribbing, 4.
windage: the difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.-the sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
windbore: the lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
winder: one who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.-an apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.-one in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.-to fan; to clean grain with a fan.-a blow taking away the breath.-to wither; to fail.
windfall: anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.-an unexpected legacy, or other gain.
windflower: the anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing.  see anemone.
windgall: a soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
windhover: the kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
windiness: the quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.-fullness of wind; flatulence.-tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.-tumor; puffiness.
winding: of wind-of wind-of wind-a call by the boatswain's whistle.-twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.-a turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.-a line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
windlass: a winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.-to take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.-a machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. in vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. it is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.-an apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.-to raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
windle: a spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.-the redwing.
windlestraw: a grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. agrostis spica-ventis.
windmill: a mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.
window: an opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.-the shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.-a figure formed of lines crossing each other.-to furnish with windows.-to place at or in a window.
windowpane: see pane, n., (3) b.-a thin, spotted american turbot (pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. it is not valued as a food fish. called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
windpipe: the passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand.  see illust. under lung.
windrow: a row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.-sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.-the green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.-to arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.
windward: the point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.-situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the windward islands.-toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
windy: consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.-next the wind; windward.-tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.-serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.-attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.-fig.: empty; airy.
wine: the expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.-a liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.-the effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
wineberry: the red currant.-the bilberry.-a peculiar new zealand shrub (coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. the plant also grows in chili.
wineglassful: as much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. it is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
wing: one of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. they correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.-any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.-one of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects.  they are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.-one of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.-passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.-motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.-anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.-an ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.-any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.-one of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.-any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.-either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.-one of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.-a side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.-the longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.-a side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.-the right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.-that part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides.  in a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.-one of the sides of the stags in a theater.-to furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.-to supply with wings or sidepieces.-to transport by flight; to cause to fly.-to move through in flight; to fly through.-to cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
wing-footed: having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.-having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.-having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.
wing-handed: having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
wing-shell: any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.-any marine gastropod shell of the genus strombus.  see strombus.-any pteropod shell.
winged: of wing-furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.-soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.-swift; rapid.-wounded or hurt in the wing.-furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.-represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.-fanned with wings; swarming with birds.
winger: one of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
wingfish: a sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins.  see sea robin, under robin.
winglet: a little wing; a very small wing.-a bastard wing, or alula.
wingy: having wings; rapid.-soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy.
wink: to nod; to sleep; to nap.-to shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.-to close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.-to give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.-to avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.-to be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.-to cause (the eyes) to wink.-the act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.-a hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
winkle: any periwinkle.-any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the united states, either of two species of fulgar (f. canaliculata, and f. carica).
winkle-hawk: a rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.
winnebagoes: a tribe of north american indians who originally occupied the region about green bay, lake michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the iilinnois.
winnew: to separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.-to sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good.-to beat with wings, or as with wings.
winning: of win-attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address.-the act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.-the money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural.-a new opening.-the portion of a coal field out for working.
winsome: cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.-causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.
winter: the season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.-the period of decay, old age, death, or the like.-to pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in florida.-to keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
winter's bark: the aromatic bark of tree (drimys, / drymis, winteri) of the magnolia family, which is found in southern chili. it was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, captain john winter, vice admiral to sir francis drake, in 1577.
winter-ground: to coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.
winterkill: to kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
winterly: like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
winterweed: a kind of speedwell (veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
wintry: suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
winy: having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.
winze: a small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation.
wipe: the lapwing.-to rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.-to remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. also used figuratively.-to cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.-act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.-a blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.-a gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.-a handkerchief.-stain; brand.
wiper: one who, or that which, wipes.-something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.-a piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.-a rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.
wire: a thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.-a telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.-to bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.-to put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.-to snare by means of a wire or wires.-to send (a message) by telegraph.-to pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.-to send a telegraphic message.
wire-puller: one who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.
wire-pulling: the act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
wire-tailed: having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.