AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
volcanic: of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.-produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.-changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
volcanist: one versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.-one who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist.  cf. neptunist.
volcanization: the act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.
volcanize: to subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.
volcano: a mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -- often popularly called a burning mountain.
vole: a deal at cards that draws all the tricks.-to win all the tricks by a vole.-any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily arvicolinae. they have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.
volitient: exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will.
volition: the act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.-the result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.-the power of willing or determining; will.
volitive: of or pertaining to the will; originating in the will; having the power to will.-used in expressing a wish or permission as, volitive proposition.
volley: a flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.-a burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.-a return of the ball before it touches the ground.-a sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.-to discharge with, or as with, a volley.-to be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.-to return the ball before it touches the ground.-to send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
volleyed: of volley-discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.
volt: a circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.-a sudden movement to avoid a thrust.-the unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the international electrical congress in 1893 and by united states statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. it is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ c.
volta: a turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once.  seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
voltagraphy: in electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
voltaic: of or pertaining to alessandro volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by volta; as, voltaic electricity.-of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
voltaism: that form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
voltameter: an instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
voltaplast: a form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping.
voltigeur: a tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.-one of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the french infantry.
voltmeter: an instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
voltzite: an oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.
volubility: the quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).
voluble: easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.-moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.-changeable; unstable; fickle.-having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
volume: a roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.-hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.-anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.-dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.-amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
volumed: having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist.-having volume, or bulk; massive; great.
volumenometer: an instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
volumescope: an instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
volumeter: an instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
voluminous: of or pertaining to volume or volumes.-consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.-of great volume, or bulk; large.-having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.
voluntariness: the quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
voluntary: proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.-unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.-done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.-of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.-endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.-free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.-of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.-one who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.-a piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.-one who advocates voluntaryism.
voluntaryism: the principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.
volunteer: one who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.-one who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.-a grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made.-of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.-to offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.-to enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
voluptuary: a voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.-voluptuous; luxurious.
voluptuous: full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.-given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
voluta: any one of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to voluta and allied genera.
volute: a spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the corinthian and composite capitals.  see illust. of capital, also helix, and stale.-a spiral turn, as in certain shells.-any voluta.
volvox: a genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. it has been considered as belonging to the flagellate infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. the commonest species is volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
volvulus: the spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.-any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus.  see ileus.
vomer: a bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.-the pygostyle.
vomica: an abscess cavity in the lungs.-an abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.
vomit: to eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.-to throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.-hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.-matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.-that which excites vomiting; an emetic.
vomiting: of vomit-the spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
vomito: the yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit.  see black vomit.
vomitory: causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.-an emetic; a vomit.-a principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
vomiturition: an ineffectual attempt to vomit.-the vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.
voodoo: see voodooism.-one who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.-of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
voodooism: a degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. it is prevalent among the negroes of hayti, and to some extent in the united states, and is regarded as a relic of african barbarism.
voracious: greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
voraginous: pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
vortex: a mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.-a supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.-any one of numerous species of small turbellaria belonging to vortex and allied genera.  see illustration in appendix.
vortical: of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
vorticella: any one of numerous species of ciliated infusoria belonging to vorticella and many other genera of the family vorticellidae.  they have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
votary: consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.-one devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
vote: an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.-a wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.-that by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.-expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.-votes, collectively; as, the tory vote; the labor vote.-to express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.-to choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.-to enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.-to declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.-to condemn; to devote; to doom.
voter: one who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, an independent voter.
votive: given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.
vouch: to call; to summon.-to call upon to witness; to obtest.-to warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.-to back; to support; to confirm; to establish.-to call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.-to bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.-to assert; to aver; to declare.-warrant; attestation.
vouchee: the person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
voucher: one who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.-a book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.-the act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.-the tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. in common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers.
vouchsafe: to condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.-to receive or accept in condescension.-to condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
vouchsafement: the act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension.
vow: a solemn promise made to god, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty.-specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow.-to give, consecrate, or dedicate to god, or to some deity, by a solemn promise; to devote; to promise solemnly.-to assert solemnly; to asseverate.-to make a vow, or solemn promise.
vowel: a vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. also, a letter or character which represents such a sound.  see guide to pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.-of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
voyage: formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.-the act or practice of traveling.-course; way.-to take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.-to travel; to pass over; to traverse.
voyageur: a traveler; -- applied in canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the northwest.
vulcan: the god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the greek hephaestus.
vulcanian: of or pertaining to vulcan; made by vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals.-volcanic.
vulcanic: of or pertaining to vulcan; made by vulcan; vulcanian.-of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the vulcanists, or plutonists.
vulcanization: the act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.
vulcanize: to change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or india rubber, by the process of vulcanization.
vulcanizer: one who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.
vulcanology: the science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
vulgar: of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.-belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.-hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.-one of the common people; a vulgar person.-the vernacular, or common language.
vulgarian: a vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. used also adjectively.
vulgarism: grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.-a vulgar phrase or expression.
vulgarity: the quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.-grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
vulgate: an ancient latin version of the scripture, and the only version which the roman church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the latin church.-of or pertaining to the vulgate, or the old latin version of the scriptures.
vulnerable: capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.-liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation.
vulnerary: useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions.-a vulnerary remedy.
vulpic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained from a lichen (cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.
vulpicide: one who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox.
vulpine: of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful.
vulpinite: a scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.
vultern: the brush turkey (talegallus lathami) of australia.  see brush turkey.
vulture: any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to vultur, cathartes, catharista, and various other genera of the family vulturidae.
vulturine: of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (gypohierax angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
vulva: the external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.-the orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate.
vyce: a kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
w: the twenty-third letter of the english alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. it takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a v, this being the original form of the roman capital letter which we call u. etymologically it is most related to v and u.  see v, and u. some of the uneducated classes in england, especially in london, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc.  see guide to pronunciation, // 266-268.
waahoo: the burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
wabble: to move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.-a hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
wacky: a soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
wad: woad.-a little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.-specifically: a little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.-a soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.-to form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.-to insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.-alt. of wadd
wadd: an earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. there are several varieties.-plumbago, or black lead.
wadding: of wad-a wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.-any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.