AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
trisulcate: having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved.
trisyllabical: of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word.
trisyllable: a word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
trite: worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
triternate: three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
tritheism: the opinion or doctrine that the father, son, and holy spirit are three distinct gods.
trithionic: of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, h2s3o6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
triticin: a carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (agropyrum, formerly triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance.
triton: a fabled sea demigod, the son of neptune and amphitrite, and the trumpeter of neptune. he is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. he often has a trumpet made of a shell.-any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.-any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. the common european species are hemisalamandra cristata, molge palmata, and m. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in switzerland. the most common species of the united states is diemyctylus viridescens. see illust. under salamander.
tritovum: an embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.
triturate: to rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.-to rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.
trituration: the act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc.
triumph: a magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.-hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.-a state of joy or exultation for success.-success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.-a trump card; also, an old game at cards.-to celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.-to obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.-to be prosperous; to flourish.-to play a trump card.-to obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. also, to cause to triumph.
triumphal: of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.-a token of victory.
triumpher: one who was honored with a triumph; a victor.-one who triumphs or rejoices for victory.
triumplant: rejoicing for victory; triumphing; exultant.-celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as, a triumphant song or ode.-graced with conquest; victorious.-of or pertaining to triumph; triumphal.
triumvirate: government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.-a coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the roman empire.
triune: being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the godhead.
triungulus: the active young larva of any oil beetle. it has feet armed with three claws, and is parasitic on bees. see illust. of oil beetle, under oil.
trivalent: having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.
triverbial: pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. they were called dies fasti.
trivet: a tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.-a weaver's knife. see trevat.
trivial: found anywhere; common.-ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.-of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.-of or pertaining to the trivium.-one of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
triviality: the quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.-that which is trivial; a trifle.
trivium: the three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.-the three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
triweekly: occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper.-three times a week.-a triweekly publication.
troat: to cry, as a buck in rutting time.-the cry of a buck in rutting time.
trocar: a stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
trochaical: of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.
trochanter: one of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.-the third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.
trochantine: the second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.
trochee: a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the english word motion; a choreus.
trochilic: of or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round.
trochilidist: one who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the trochilidae.
trochilus: a genus of humming birds. it formerly included all the known species.-any one of several species of wrens and kinglets.-the crocodile bird.-an annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.
trochlea: a pulley.-a pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.
trochlear: shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.
trochleary: pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.
trochoid: the curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.-admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.-top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.-of or pertaining to the genus trochus or family trochidae.
trochoidal: of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.-see trochoid, a.
trochometer: a contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.
trochosphere: a young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.
trochus: any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to trochus and many allied genera of the family trochidae. some of the species are called also topshells.
trod: of tread-of tread-imp. & p. p. of tread.
troglodyte: one of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.-an anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.-the wren.
troglodytes: a genus of apes including the chimpanzee.-a genus of singing birds including the common wrens.
troglodytical: of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.
trogon: any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family trogonidae. they are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.
troilite: native iron protosulphide, fes. it is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.
troilus: a large, handsome american butterfly (euph/ades, / papilio, troilus). it is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings.
trojan: of or pertaining to ancient troy or its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of troy.
troll: a supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.-to move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.-to send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.-to sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.-to angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.-to fish in; to seek to catch fish from.-to roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.-to move rapidly; to wag.-to take part in trolling a song.-to fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.-the act of moving round; routine; repetition.-a song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.-a trolley.
trollop: a stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
trolly: a form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like.-a narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal.-a truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.-a truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
trombone: a powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. the middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. it is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.-the common european bittern.
trommel: a revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores.
tromp: a blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.-alt. of trompe
trona: a native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, na2co3.2hnaco3.2h2o, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum.
tronage: a toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.
trones: a steelyard.-a form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. it is now mostly disused.
troop: a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.-soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.-specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.-a company of stageplayers; a troupe.-a particular roll of the drum; a quick march.-to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.-to march on; to go forward in haste.
trooper: a soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
tropaeolin: a name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (tropaeolum).
trope: the use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.-the word or expression so used.
tropeine: any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
trophi: the mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
trophic: of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
trophonian: of or pertaining to trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.
trophosome: the nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
trophy: a sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.-the representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.-anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.-any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.
tropic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.-one of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the tropic of cancer, and the southern the tropic of capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.-one of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.-the region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.-of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
tropical: of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.-rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
tropidine: an alkaloid, c8h13n, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
tropilidene: a liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. it is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.
tropine: a white crystalline alkaloid, c8h15no, produced by decomposing atropine.
tropist: one who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
tropologize: to use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
tropology: a rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
trot: to proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. see trot, n.-fig.: to run; to jog; to hurry.-to cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.-the pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.-fig.: a jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.-one who trots; a child; a woman.
troth: belief; faith; fidelity.-truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.-betrothal.
trothplight: to betroth.-betrothed; espoused; affianced.-the act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.
trotter: one that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.-the foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.
trou-de-loup: a pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. the pits are called also trapholes.
troubadour: one of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in provence, in the south of france, and also in the north of italy. they invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
trouble: to put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.-to disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.-to give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, i will not trouble you to deliver the letter.-troubled; dark; gloomy.-the state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.-that which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.-a fault or interruption in a stratum.
troubler: one who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.
troublesome: giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
trough: a long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.-any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
trounce: to punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
troupe: a company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
troupial: any one of numerous species of bright-colored american birds belonging to icterus and allied genera, especially icterus icterus, a native of the west indies and south america. many of the species are called orioles in america.
trousers: a garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.
trousseau: the collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
trout: any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to salmo, salvelinus, and allied genera of the family salmonidae. they are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. all the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.-any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the california rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. see squeteague, and rock trout under rock.
trout-colored: white, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.
trouveur: one of a school of poets who flourished in northern france from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
trover: the gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.-an action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. in this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.
trow: a boat with an open well amidships. it is used in spearing fish.-to believe; to trust; to think or suppose.
trowel: a mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.-a gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.-a tool used for smoothing a mold.
troweled: formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint.
trowelful: as much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.
troyounce: see troy ounce, under troy weight, above, and under ounce.
truage: a pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax.-a tax or impost; tribute.
truancy: the act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
truant: one who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.-wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.-to idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.-to idle away; to waste.
truantship: the conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.
trubu: an east india herring (clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.
truce: a suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.-hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.
truck: a small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.-a low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.-a swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in england. trucks usually have four or six wheels.-a small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.-a small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.-a freight car.-a frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.-to transport on a truck or trucks.-to exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.-to exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.-exchange of commodities; barter.-commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the united states, garden vegetables raised for the market.-the practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
truckage: the practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.-money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.
truckle: a small wheel or caster.-to yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.-to roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
truckle-bed: a low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.
truckler: one who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
truckman: one who does business in the way of barter or exchange.-one who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
truculency: the quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
truculent: fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of scythia.-cruel; destructive; ruthless.