English Dictionary: Sangraal | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Marsh \Marsh\, n. [OE. mersch, AS. mersc, fr. mere lake. See {Mere} pool, and cf. {Marish}, {Morass}.] A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. [Written also {marish}.] {Marsh asphodel} (Bot.), a plant ({Nartheeium ossifragum}) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also {bog asphodel}. {Marsh cinquefoil} (Bot.), a plant ({Potentilla palustris}) having purple flowers, and found growing in marshy places; marsh five-finger. {Marsh elder}. (Bot.) (a) The guelder-rose or cranberry tree ({Viburnum Opulus}). (b) In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes ({Iva frutescens}). {Marsh five-finger}. (Bot.) See {Marsh cinquefoil} (above). {Marsh gas}. (Chem.) See under {Gas}. {Marsh grass} (Bot.), a genus ({Spartina}) of coarse grasses growing in marshes; -- called also {cord grass}. The tall {S. cynosuroides} is not good for hay unless cut very young. The low {S. juncea} is a common component of salt hay. {Marsh harrier} (Zo[94]l.), a European hawk or harrier ({Circus [91]ruginosus}); -- called also {marsh hawk}, {moor hawk}, {moor buzzard}, {puttock}. {Marsh hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A hawk or harrier ({Circus cyaneus}), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above, with a white rump. Called also {hen harrier}, and {mouse hawk}. (b) The marsh harrier. {Marsh hen} (Zo[94]l.), a rail; esp., {Rallus elegans} of fresh-water marshes, and {R. longirostris} of salt-water marshes. {Marsh mallow} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Alth[91]a} ( {A. officinalis}) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. {Marsh marigold}. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. {Marsh pennywort} (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus {Hydrocotyle}; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; -- called also {water pennywort}. {Marsh quail} (Zo[94]l.), the meadow lark. {Marsh rosemary} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Statice} ({S. Limonium}), common in salt marshes. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also {sea lavender}. {Marsh samphire} (Bot.), a plant ({Salicornia herbacea}) found along seacoasts. See {Glasswort}. {Marsh St. John's-wort} (Bot.), an American herb ({Elodes Virginica}) with small opposite leaves and flesh-colored flowers. {Marsh tea}. (Bot.). Same as {Labrador tea}. {Marsh trefoil}. (Bot.) Same as {Buckbean}. {Marsh wren} (Zo[94]l.), any species of small American wrens of the genus {Cistothorus}, and allied genera. They chiefly inhabit salt marshes. | |
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Squirrel \Squir"rel\ (skw[etil]r"r[etil]l or skw[icr]r"-; 277), n. [OE. squirel, OF. esquirel, escurel, F. [82]cureuil, LL. squirelus, squirolus, scuriolus, dim. of L. sciurus, Gr. si`oyros; skia` shade + o'yra` tail. Cf. {Shine}, v. i.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus {Sciurus} and several allied genera of the family {Sciurid[91]}. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows. Note: Among the common North American squirrels are the gray squirrel ({Scirius Carolinensis}) and its black variety; the fox, or cat, sqirrel ({S. cinereus}, or {S. niger}) which is a large species, and variable in color, the southern variety being frequently black, while the northern and western varieties are usually gray or rusty brown; the red squirrel (see {Chickaree}); the striped, or chipping, squirrel (see {Chipmunk}); and the California gray squirrel ({S. fossor}). Several other species inhabit Mexico and Central America. The common European species ({Sciurus vulgaris}) has a long tuft of hair on each ear. the so-called Australian squirrels are marsupials. See {Petaurist}, and {Phalanger}. 2. One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. {Barking squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the prairie dog. {Federation squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the striped gopher. See {Gopher}, 2. {Flying squirrel} (Zo[94]l.). See {Flying squirrel}, in the Vocabulary. {Java squirrel} (Zo[94]l.). See {Jelerang}. {Squirrel corn} (Bot.), a North American herb ({Dicantra Canadensis}) bearing little yellow tubers. {Squirrel cup} (Bot.), the blossom of the {Hepatica triloba}, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring. {Squirrel fish} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A sea bass ({Serranus fascicularis}) of the Southern United States. (b) The sailor's choice ({Diplodus rhomboides}). (c) The redmouth, or grunt. (d) A market fish of Bermuda ({Holocentrum Ascensione}). {Squirrel grass} (Bot.), a pestiferous grass ({Hordeum murinum}) related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and into the throat, flesh, and eyes of animals, sometimes even producing death. {Squirrel hake} (Zo[94]l.), a common American hake ({Phycis tenuis}); -- called also {white hake}. {Squirrel hawk} (Zo[94]l.), any rough-legged hawk; especially, the California species {Archibuteo ferrugineus}. {Squirrel monkey}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of small, soft-haired South American monkeys of the genus {Calithrix}. They are noted for their graceful form and agility. See {Teetee}. (b) A marmoset. {Squirrel petaurus} (Zo[94]l.), a flying phalanger of Australia. See {Phalanger}, {Petaurist}, and {Flying phalanger} under {Flying}. {Squirrel shrew} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus {Tupaia}. They are allied to the shrews, but have a bushy tail, like that of a squirrel. {Squirrel-tail grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Hordeum jubatum}) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns. | |
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Pomfret \Pom"fret\, n. [Perhaps corrupt. fr. Pg. pampano a kind of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus {Stromateus} ({S. niger}, {S. argenteus}) native of Southern Europe and Asia. (b) A marine food fish of Bermuda ({Brama Raji}). | |
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Elder \El"der\, n. [OE. ellern, eller, AS. ellen, cf. LG. elloorn; perh. akin to OHG. holantar, holuntar, G. holunder; or perh. to E. alder, n.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs ({Sambucus}) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries. Note: The common North American species is {Sambucus Canadensis}; the common European species ({S. nigra}) forms a small tree. The red-berried elder is {S. pubens}. The berries are diaphoretic and aperient. {Box elder}. See under 1st {Box}. {Dwarf elder}. See {Danewort}. {Elder tree}. (Bot.) Same as {Elder}. --Shak. {Marsh elder}, the cranberry tree {Viburnum Opulus}). | |
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Sangaree \San`ga*ree"\, n. [Sp. sangria, lit., bleeding, from sangre, blood, L. sanguis.] Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink. | |
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Sangraal \San`graal"\, Sangreal \San"gre*al\, n. [See {Saint}, and {Grail}.] See {Holy Grail}, under {Grail}. | |
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Sangraal \San`graal"\, Sangreal \San"gre*al\, n. [See {Saint}, and {Grail}.] See {Holy Grail}, under {Grail}. | |
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Sanscrit \San"scrit\, n. See {Sanskrit}. | |
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Sanskrit \San"skrit\, n. [Skr. Samsk[rsdot]ta the Sanskrit language, literally, the perfect, polished, or classical language, fr. samsk[rsdot]ta prepared, wrought, made, excellent, perfect; sam together (akin to E. same) + k[rsdot]ta made. See {Same}, {Create}.] [Written also {Sanscrit}.] The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. {Prakrit}, and {Veda}. | |
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Sanskrit \San"skrit\, n. [Skr. Samsk[rsdot]ta the Sanskrit language, literally, the perfect, polished, or classical language, fr. samsk[rsdot]ta prepared, wrought, made, excellent, perfect; sam together (akin to E. same) + k[rsdot]ta made. See {Same}, {Create}.] [Written also {Sanscrit}.] The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. {Prakrit}, and {Veda}. | |
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Sanskrit \San"skrit\, a. Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription. | |
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Sanskritic \San*skrit"ic\, a. Sanskrit. | |
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Sanskritist \San"skrit*ist\, n. One versed in Sanskrit. | |
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Scansorial \Scan*so"ri*al\, a. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under {Aves}. {Scansorial tail} (Zo[94]l.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers. | |
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Scansorial \Scan*so"ri*al\, a. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot. (b) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under {Aves}. {Scansorial tail} (Zo[94]l.), a tail in which the feathers are stiff and sharp at the tip, as in the woodpeckers. | |
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Scenograph \Scen"o*graph\, n. [See {Scenography}.] A perspective representation or general view of an object. | |
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Scenographic \Scen`o*graph"ic\, Scenographical \Scen`o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. sc[82]nographique, Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective. -- {Scen`o*graph"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Scenographic \Scen`o*graph"ic\, Scenographical \Scen`o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. sc[82]nographique, Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective. -- {Scen`o*graph"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Scenographic \Scen`o*graph"ic\, Scenographical \Scen`o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. sc[82]nographique, Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective. -- {Scen`o*graph"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Scenography \Sce*nog"ra*phy\, n. [L. scaenographia, Gr. [?]; [?] scene, stage + gra`fein to write: cf. F. sc[82]nographie.] The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye. --Greenhill. | |
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d8Mademoiselle \[d8]Ma`de*moi`selle"\, n.; pl. {Mesdemoiselles}. [F., fr. ma my, f. of mon + demoiselle young lady. See {Damsel}.] 1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. --Goldsmith. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A marine food fish ({Sci[91]na chrysura}), of the Southern United States; -- called also {yellowtail}, and {silver perch}. | |
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Sea anchor \Sea" an"chor\ (Naut.) See {Drag sail}, under 4th {Drag}. | |
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Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and 1st {Dredge}.] 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] --Thackeray. 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See {Drag sail} (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. --J. D. Forbes. 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. [bd]Had a drag in his walk.[b8] -- Hazlitt. 8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under {Drag}, v. i., 3. {Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor}, {sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc. {Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes. | |
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Sea anchor \Sea" an"chor\ (Naut.) See {Drag sail}, under 4th {Drag}. | |
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Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and 1st {Dredge}.] 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] --Thackeray. 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See {Drag sail} (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. --J. D. Forbes. 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. [bd]Had a drag in his walk.[b8] -- Hazlitt. 8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under {Drag}, v. i., 3. {Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor}, {sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc. {Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes. | |
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Narwhal \Nar"whal\, n. [Sw. or Dan. narvhal; akin to Icel. n[be]hvalr, and E. whale. the first syllable is perh. from Icel. n[be]r corpse, dead body, in allusion to the whitish color its skin. See {Whale}.] [Written also {narwhale}.] (Zo[94]l.) An arctic cetacean ({Monodon monocerous}), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also {sea unicorn}, {unicorn fish}, and {unicorn whale}. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side. | |
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Sea unicorn \Sea" u"ni*corn\ (Zo[94]l.) The narwhal. | |
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Narwhal \Nar"whal\, n. [Sw. or Dan. narvhal; akin to Icel. n[be]hvalr, and E. whale. the first syllable is perh. from Icel. n[be]r corpse, dead body, in allusion to the whitish color its skin. See {Whale}.] [Written also {narwhale}.] (Zo[94]l.) An arctic cetacean ({Monodon monocerous}), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also {sea unicorn}, {unicorn fish}, and {unicorn whale}. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side. | |
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Sea unicorn \Sea" u"ni*corn\ (Zo[94]l.) The narwhal. | |
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Marking \Mark"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage. {Marking ink}, indelible ink, because used in marking linen. {Marking nut} (Bot.), the nut of the {Semecarpus Anacardium}, an East Indian tree. The shell of the nut yields a blackish resinous juice used for marking cotton cloth, and an oil prepared from it is used for rheumatism. | |
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Semeiography \Se`mei*og"ra*phy\, [or] Semiography \Se`mi*og"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. shmei^on sign + -graphy.] (Med.) A description of the signs of disease. | |
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Semi circumference \Sem`i cir*cum"fer*ence\, n. Half of a circumference. | |
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Semi crustaceous \Sem`i crus*ta"ceous\, a. Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous. | |
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Semichorus \Sem"i*cho`rus\, n. (Mus.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir. | |
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Semi-Christianized \Sem`i-Chris"tian*ized\, a. Half Christianized. | |
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Semicircle \Sem"i*cir`cle\, n. 1. (a) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. (b) A semicircumference. 2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference. 3. An instrument for measuring angles. | |
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Semicircled \Sem"i*cir`cled\, a. Semicircular. --Shak. | |
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Semicircular \Sem`i*cir"cu*lar\, a. Having the form of half of a circle. --Addison. {Semicircular canals} (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under {Ear}. | |
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Semicircular \Sem`i*cir"cu*lar\, a. Having the form of half of a circle. --Addison. {Semicircular canals} (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under {Ear}. | |
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Semicirque \Sem"i*cirque\, n. A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills. --Wordsworth. | |
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Semicrystalline \Sem`i*crys"tal*line\, a. (Min.) Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. | |
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Semeiography \Se`mei*og"ra*phy\, [or] Semiography \Se`mi*og"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. shmei^on sign + -graphy.] (Med.) A description of the signs of disease. | |
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Semiography \Se`mi*og"ra*phy\, Semiology \Se`mi*ol"o*gy\, Semiological \Se`mi*o*log"ic*al\ Same as {Semeiography}, {Semeiology}, {Semeiological}. | |
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Semiquadrate \Sem"i*quad`rate\, Semiquartile \Sem"i*quar"tile\, n. (Astrol.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half. --Hutton. | |
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Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. {Seneca}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. {Seneca grass}(Bot.), holy grass. See under {Holy}. {Seneca eil}, petroleum or naphtha. {Seneca root}, [or] {Seneca snakeroot} (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ({Polygala Senega}) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also {Senega root}, and {Seneka root}.] | |
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Ragwort \Rag"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several species of the composite genus {Senecio}. Note: {Senecio aureus} is the golden ragwort of the United States: {S. elegans} is the purple ragwort of South Africa. | |
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Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. {Seneca}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. {Seneca grass}(Bot.), holy grass. See under {Holy}. {Seneca eil}, petroleum or naphtha. {Seneca root}, [or] {Seneca snakeroot} (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ({Polygala Senega}) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also {Senega root}, and {Seneka root}.] | |
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Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. {Seneca}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. {Seneca grass}(Bot.), holy grass. See under {Holy}. {Seneca eil}, petroleum or naphtha. {Seneca root}, [or] {Seneca snakeroot} (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ({Polygala Senega}) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also {Senega root}, and {Seneka root}.] | |
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Sengreen \Sen"green\, n.[AS. singr[?]ne, properly, evergreen, fr. sin (in composition) always + gr[89]ne green; akin to OHG. sin- ever, L. semper.] (Bot.) The houseleek. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
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Sensery \Sen"se*ry\, n.; pl. {Sensories}. (Physiol.) Same as {Sensorium}. | |
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Sensor \Sen"sor\, a. Sensory; as, the sensor nerves. | |
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Sensorium \Sen*so"ri*um\, n.; pl. E. {Sensoriums}, L. {Sensoria}. [L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations. | |
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Sensorial \Sen*so"ri*al\, a. [Cf. F. sensorial. See {Sensorium}.] Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. --A. Tucker. | |
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Sensery \Sen"se*ry\, n.; pl. {Sensories}. (Physiol.) Same as {Sensorium}. | |
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Sensorium \Sen*so"ri*um\, n.; pl. E. {Sensoriums}, L. {Sensoria}. [L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations. | |
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Sensorium \Sen*so"ri*um\, n.; pl. E. {Sensoriums}, L. {Sensoria}. [L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations. | |
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Sensori-volitional \Sen*so`ri-vo*li"tion*al\, a. (Physiol.) Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. --Dunglison. | |
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Sensory \Sen"so*ry\, a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center. | |
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Sewing \Sew"ing\, n. 1. The act or occupation of one who sews. 2. That which is sewed with the needle. {Sewing horse} (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. {Sewing machine}, a machine for sewing or stitching. {Sewing press}, [or] {Sewing table} (Bookbinding), a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to which the back edges of folded sheets are sewed to form a book. | |
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Shanker \Shank"er\, n. (Med.) See {Chancre}. | |
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Shoehorn \Shoe"horn`\, Shoeing-horn \Shoe"ing-horn`\, n. 1. A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe. 2. Figuratively: (a) Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt. --Spectator. (b) Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. [Low] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. 10. (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. 11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. 12. (Zo[94]l.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus}) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also {skipjack}, {shoemaker}, and {yellowtail}. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. 13. (Zo[94]l.) Any cursorial bird. 14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. | |
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Shoemaker \Shoe"mak`er\, n. 1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The threadfish. (b) The runner, 12. | |
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9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. 10. (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. 11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. 12. (Zo[94]l.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus}) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also {skipjack}, {shoemaker}, and {yellowtail}. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. 13. (Zo[94]l.) Any cursorial bird. 14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. | |
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Shoemaker \Shoe"mak`er\, n. 1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The threadfish. (b) The runner, 12. | |
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Simagre \Sim"a*gre\, n. [F. simagr[82]e.] A grimace. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Sincere \Sin*cere"\, a. [Compar. {Sincerer}; superl. {Sincerest}.] [L. sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli (see {Single}), and the second to cernere to separate (cf. {Discern}): cf. F. sinc[8a]re.] 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. --Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere till now. --Dryden. 2. Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. [Obs.] The inviolable body stood sincere. --Dryden. 3. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. --Law. 4. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person. The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account. --Waterland. Syn: Honest; unfeigned; unvarnished; real; true; unaffected; inartificial; frank; upright. See {Hearty}. | |
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Sincerely \Sin*cere"ly\, adv. In a sincere manner. Specifically: (a) Purely; without alloy. --Milton. (b) Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely. | |
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Sincereness \Sin*cere"ness\, n. Same as {Sincerity}. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Sincere \Sin*cere"\, a. [Compar. {Sincerer}; superl. {Sincerest}.] [L. sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli (see {Single}), and the second to cernere to separate (cf. {Discern}): cf. F. sinc[8a]re.] 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. --Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere till now. --Dryden. 2. Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. [Obs.] The inviolable body stood sincere. --Dryden. 3. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. --Law. 4. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person. The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account. --Waterland. Syn: Honest; unfeigned; unvarnished; real; true; unaffected; inartificial; frank; upright. See {Hearty}. | |
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Sincere \Sin*cere"\, a. [Compar. {Sincerer}; superl. {Sincerest}.] [L. sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli (see {Single}), and the second to cernere to separate (cf. {Discern}): cf. F. sinc[8a]re.] 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. --Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere till now. --Dryden. 2. Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. [Obs.] The inviolable body stood sincere. --Dryden. 3. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. --Law. 4. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person. The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account. --Waterland. Syn: Honest; unfeigned; unvarnished; real; true; unaffected; inartificial; frank; upright. See {Hearty}. | |
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Sincerity \Sin*cer"i*ty\, n. [L. sinceritas: cf. F. sinc[82]rit[82].] The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. --Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. --Knox. | |
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Sinecural \Si"ne*cu`ral\, a. Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure. | |
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Sinecure \Si`ne*cure\, n. [L. sine without + cura care, LL., a cure. See {Cure}.] 1. An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls. --Ayliffe. 2. Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service. A lucrative sinecure in the Excise. --Macaulay. | |
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Sinecure \Si"ne*cure\, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure. | |
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Sinecurism \Si"ne*cu*rism\, n. The state of having a sinecure. | |
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Sinecurist \Si"ne*cu*rist\, n. One who has a sinecure. | |
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Sinew-shrunk \Sin"ew-shrunk`\, a. (Far.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue. | |
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Singer \Sin"ger\, n. [From {Singe}.] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for singeing cloth. | |
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Singer \Sing"er\, n. [From {Sing}.] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing. | |
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Singeress \Sing"er*ess\, n. A songstress. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Sinigrin \Sin"i*grin\, n. [From NL. Sinapis nigra.] (Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard ({Brassica nigra}, formerly {Sinapis nigra}) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid. | |
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Sinker \Sink"er\, n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: (a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. (b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. {Dividing sinker}, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. {Jack sinker}. See under {Jack}, n. {Sinker bar}. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars. | |
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Sinker \Sink"er\, n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: (a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. (b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. {Dividing sinker}, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. {Jack sinker}. See under {Jack}, n. {Sinker bar}. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars. | |
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Sinsring \Sins"ring\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Banxring}. | |
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Skin \Skin\, n. [Icel. skinn; akin to Sw. skinn, Dan. skind, AS. scinn, G. schined to skin.] 1. (Anat.) The external membranous integument of an animal. Note: In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells which are constantly growing and multiplying in the deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial, layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis, cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of connective tissue. 2. The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat. 3. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See {Bottle}, 1. [bd]Skins of wine.[b8] --Tennyson. 4. The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants. 5. (Naut.) (a) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. --Totten. (b) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing. {Skin friction}, {Skin resistance} (Naut.), the friction, or resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel. {Skin graft} (Surg.), a small portion of skin used in the process of grafting. See {Graft}, v. t., 2. {Skin moth} (Zo[94]l.), any insect which destroys the prepared skins of animals, especially the larva of Dermestes and Anthrenus. {Skin of the teeth}, nothing, or next to nothing; the least possible hold or advantage. --Job xix. 20. {Skin wool}, wool taken from dead sheep. | |
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Grafting \Graft"ing\ n. 1. (Hort.) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts. 2. (Naut.) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc. 3. (Surg.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty. 4. (Carp.) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another. {Cleft grafting} (Hort.) a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manaer that its bark evenly joins that of the stock. {Crown, [or] Rind, grafting}, a method of grafting which the alburnum and inner bark are separated, and between them is inserted the lower end of the scion cut slantwise. {Saddle grafting}, a mode of grafting in which a deep cleft is made in the end of the scion by two sloping cuts, and the end of the stock is made wedge-shaped to fit the cleft in the scion, which is placed upon it saddlewise. {Side grafting}, a mode of grafting in which the scion, cut quite across very obliquely, so as to give it the form of a slender wedge, is thrust down inside of the bark of the stock or stem into which it is inserted, the cut side of the scion being next the wood of the stock. {Skin grafting}. (Surg.) See {Autoplasty.} {Splice grafting} (Hort.), a method of grafting by cutting the ends of the scion and stock completely across and obliquely, in such a manner that the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise. {Whip grafting}, tongue grafting, the same as splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both scion and stock, in the direction of the grain and in the middle of the sloping surface, forming a kind of tongue, so that when put together, the tongue of each is inserted in the slit of the other. {Grafting scissors}, a surgeon's scissors, used in rhinoplastic operations, etc. {Grafting tool}. (a) Any tool used in grafting. (b) A very strong curved spade used in digging canals. {Grafting wax}, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees. | |
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Skinker \Skink"er\, n. One who serves liquor; a tapster. | |
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Smasher \Smash"er\ (-[etil]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces. 2. Anything very large or extraordinary. [Slang] 3. One who passes counterfeit coin. [Cant, Eng.] | |
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Smicker \Smick"er\, v. i. [Akin to Sw. smickra to flatter, Dan. smigre, and perhaps to G. schmeicheln, and E. smile. Cf. {Smicker}, a.] To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk. | |
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Smicker \Smick"er\, a. [AS. smicere tasteful, trim. See {Smicker}, v.] Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce. [Obs.] | |
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Smickering \Smick"er*ing\, n. Amorous glance or inclination. [Obs.] [bd]A smickering to our young lady.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Smock \Smock\, a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. {Smock mill}, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. {Smock race}, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Smoke \Smoke\, n. [AS. smoca, fr. sme[a2]can to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm[94]g, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. [?][?][?] to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. smaugti to choke.] 1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like. Note: The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot. 2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist. 3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak. 4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.] Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc. {Smoke arch}, the smoke box of a locomotive. {Smoke ball} (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke. {Smoke black}, lampblack. [Obs.] {Smoke board}, a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room. {Smoke box}, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney. {Smoke sail} (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck. {Smoke tree} (Bot.), a shrub ({Rhus Cotinus}) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke. {To end in smoke}, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. | |
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Smoker \Smok"er\, n. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. [Colloq.] That evening A Company had a [bd]smoker[b8] in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp. --Strand Mag. | |
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Smoker \Smok"er\, n. 1. One who dries or preserves by smoke. 2. One who smokes tobacco or the like. 3. A smoking car or compartment. [U. S.] | |
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Smoky \Smok"y\, a. [Compar. {Smokier}; superl. {Smokiest}.] 1. Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires. 2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog. [bd]Unlustrous as the smoky light.[b8] --Shak. 3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere. 4. Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house. 5. Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells. 6. Suspicious; open to suspicion. [Obs.] --Foote. {Smoky quartz} (Min.), a variety of quartz crystal of a pale to dark smoky-brown color. See {Quartz}. | |
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Snakeroot \Snake"root`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these. Note: The Virginia snakeroot is {Aristolochia Serpentaria}; black snakeroot is {Sanicula}, esp. {S. Marilandica}, also {Cimicifuga racemosa}; Seneca snakeroot is {Polygala Senega}; button snakeroot is {Liatris}, also {Eryngium}; white snakeroot is {Eupatorium ageratoides}. The name is also applied to some others besides these. | |
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Sneak current \Sneak current\ (Elec.) A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out. | |
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Sneaker \Sneak"er\, n. 1. [pl.] Shoes with rubber or other soft soles which give no warning of one's approaching, esp. such shoes as are worn in games, as tennis. [Slang, U. S.] 2. A punch bowl. [Obs.] --Spectator. | |
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Sneaker \Sneak"er\, n. 1. One who sneaks. --Lamb. 2. A vessel of drink. [Prov. Eng.] A sneaker of five gallons. --Spectator. | |
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Sneezewort \Sneeze"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A European herbaceous plant ({Achillea Ptarmica}) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snickered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snickering}.] [Cf. D. snikken to sob, to sigh.] [Written also {snigger}.] 1. To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve. 2. To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, n. A half suppressed, broken laugh. [Written also {snigger}.] | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snickered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snickering}.] [Cf. D. snikken to sob, to sigh.] [Written also {snigger}.] 1. To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve. 2. To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snickered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snickering}.] [Cf. D. snikken to sob, to sigh.] [Written also {snigger}.] 1. To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve. 2. To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snickered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snickering}.] [Cf. D. snikken to sob, to sigh.] [Written also {snigger}.] 1. To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve. 2. To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, n. A half suppressed, broken laugh. [Written also {snigger}.] | |
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Snigger \Snig"ger\, n. See {Snicker}. --Dickens. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snickered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snickering}.] [Cf. D. snikken to sob, to sigh.] [Written also {snigger}.] 1. To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve. 2. To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter. | |
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Snicker \Snick"er\, n. A half suppressed, broken laugh. [Written also {snigger}.] | |
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Snigger \Snig"ger\, n. See {Snicker}. --Dickens. | |
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Sniggger \Snigg"ger\, v. i. See {Snicker}. --Thackeray. | |
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Snowshoer \Snow"sho`er\, n. One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes. --W. G. Beers. | |
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Snug \Snug\, a. [Compar. {Snugger}; superl. {Snuggest}.] [Prov. E. snug tight, handsome; cf. Icel. sn[94]ggr smooth, ODan. sn[94]g neat, Sw. snugg.] 1. Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug. 2. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice. Lie snug, and hear what critics say. --Swift. 3. Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property. | |
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Snuggery \Snug"ger*y\, n.; pl. {Snuggeries}. A snug, cozy place. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Snuggery \Snug"ger*y\, n.; pl. {Snuggeries}. A snug, cozy place. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Songcraft \Song"craft`\, n. The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. --Longfellow. | |
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Squamigerous \Squa*mig"er*ous\, a. [L. squamiger; squama a scale + gerere to bear.] (Zo[94]l.) Bearing scales. | |
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Sun \Sun\, n. [OE. sunne, sonne, AS. sunne; akin to OFries. sunne, D. zon, OS. & OHG. sunna, G. sonne, Icel. sunna, Goth. sunna; perh. fr. same root as L. sol. [fb]297. Cf. {Solar}, {South}.] 1. The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000. Note: Its mean apparent diameter as seen from the earth is 32[b7] 4[sec], and it revolves on its own axis once in 25[frac13] days. Its mean density is about one fourth of that of the earth, or 1.41, that of water being unity. Its luminous surface is called the photosphere, above which is an envelope consisting partly of hydrogen, called the chromosphere, which can be seen only through the spectroscope, or at the time of a total solar eclipse. Above the chromosphere, and sometimes extending out millions of miles, are luminous rays or streams of light which are visible only at the time of a total eclipse, forming the solar corona. 2. Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs. 3. The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine. Lambs that did frisk in the sun. --Shak. 4. That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation. For the Lord God is a sun and shield. --Ps. lxxiv. 11. I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity. --Eikon Basilike. {Sun and planet wheels} (Mach.), an ingenious contrivance for converting reciprocating motion, as that of the working beam of a steam engine, into rotatory motion. It consists of a toothed wheel (called the sun wheel), firmly secured to the shaft it is desired to drive, and another wheel (called the planet wheel) secured to the end of a connecting rod. By the motion of the connecting rod, the planet wheel is made to circulate round the central wheel on the shaft, communicating to this latter a velocity of revolution the double of its own. --G. Francis. {Sun angel} (Zo[94]l.), a South American humming bird of the genus {Heliangelos}, noted for its beautiful colors and the brilliant luster of the feathers of its throat. {Sun animalcute}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Heliozoa}. {Sun bath} (Med.), exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; insolation. {Sun bear} (Zo[94]l.), a species of bear ({Helarctos Malayanus}) native of Southern Asia and Borneo. It has a small head and short neck, and fine short glossy fur, mostly black, but brownish on the nose. It is easily tamed. Called also {bruang}, and {Malayan bear}. {Sun beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any small lustrous beetle of the genus {Amara}. {Sun bittern} (Zo[94]l.), a singular South American bird ({Eurypyga helias}), in some respects related both to the rails and herons. It is beautifully variegated with white, brown, and black. Called also {sunbird}, and {tiger bittern}. {Sun fever} (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sun stroke. {Sun gem} (Zo[94]l.), a Brazilian humming bird ({Heliactin cornutus}). Its head is ornamented by two tufts of bright colored feathers, fiery crimson at the base and greenish yellow at the tip. Called also {Horned hummer}. {Sun grebe} (Zo[94]l.), the finfoot. {Sun picture}, a picture taken by the agency of the sun's rays; a photograph. {Sun spots} (Astron.), dark spots that appear on the sun's disk, consisting commonly of a black central portion with a surrounding border of lighter shade, and usually seen only by the telescope, but sometimes by the naked eye. They are very changeable in their figure and dimensions, and vary in size from mere apparent points to spaces of 50,000 miles in diameter. The term sun spots is often used to include bright spaces (called facul[91]) as well as dark spaces (called macul[91]). Called also {solar spots}. See Illustration in Appendix. {Sun star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of starfishes belonging to {Solaster}, {Crossaster}, and allied genera, having numerous rays. {Sun trout} (Zo[94]l.), the squeteague. {Sun wheel}. (Mach.) See {Sun and planet wheels}, above. {Under the sun}, in the world; on earth. [bd]There is no new thing under the sun.[b8] --Eccl. i. 9. Note: Sun is often used in the formation of compound adjectives of obvious meaning; as, sun-bright, sun-dried, sun-gilt, sunlike, sun-lit, sun-scorched, and the like. | |
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Swine \Swine\, n.sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[c6]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[c6]n, Icel. sv[c6]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See {Hog}. [bd]A great herd of swine.[b8] --Mark v. 11. {Swine grass} (Bot.), knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}); -- so called because eaten by swine. {Swine oat} (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. {Swine's cress} (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus {Senebiera} ({S. Coronopus}). {Swine's head}, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Swine thistle} (Bot.), the sow thistle. | |
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Swinecrue \Swine"crue`\, n. [Swine + Prov. E. crue a coop.] A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Swine \Swine\, n.sing. & pl. [OE. swin, AS. sw[c6]n; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. sw[c6]n, Icel. sv[c6]n, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See {Sow}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See {Hog}. [bd]A great herd of swine.[b8] --Mark v. 11. {Swine grass} (Bot.), knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}); -- so called because eaten by swine. {Swine oat} (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine. {Swine's cress} (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus {Senebiera} ({S. Coronopus}). {Swine's head}, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Swine thistle} (Bot.), the sow thistle. | |
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Swinger \Swing"er\, n. One who swings or whirls. | |
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Swinger \Swin"ger\, n. 1. One who swinges. 2. Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Herrick. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swinker \Swink"er\, n. A laborer. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncarp \Syn"carp\, n. [NL. syncarpium. See {Syncarpous}.] (Bot.) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Syncarpium \[d8]Syn*car"pi*um\, n.; pl. {Syncarpia}. [NL.] (Bot.) Same as {Syncarp}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncarpous \Syn*car"pous\, a. [Pref. syn- + Gr. [?] a fruit.] (Bot.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchoresis \Syn`cho*re"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]; sy`n with + [?] a going.] (Rhet.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronal \Syn"chro*nal\, a. [See {Synchronous}.] Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous. --Dr. H. More. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronal \Syn"chro*nal\, n. A synchronal thing or event. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronical \Syn*chron"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. synchronique.] Happening at the same time; synchronous. --Boyle. -- {Syn*chron"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronical \Syn*chron"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. synchronique.] Happening at the same time; synchronous. --Boyle. -- {Syn*chron"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronism \Syn"chro*nism\, n. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to be contemporary with, from [?] synchronous. See {Synchronous}.] 1. The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness. 2. The tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates. 3. (Paint.) A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronistic \Syn`chro*nis"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronization \Syn`chro*ni*za"tion\, n. The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronize \Syn"chro*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Synchronized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Synchronizing}.] [Gr. [?].] To agree in time; to be simultaneous. The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. --De Quincey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronize \Syn"chro*nize\, v. t. 1. To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history. [bd]Josephus synchronizes Nisan with the Egyptian Pharmus.[b8] --W. L. Bevan. 2. To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronize \Syn"chro*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Synchronized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Synchronizing}.] [Gr. [?].] To agree in time; to be simultaneous. The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. --De Quincey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronize \Syn"chro*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Synchronized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Synchronizing}.] [Gr. [?].] To agree in time; to be simultaneous. The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity. --De Quincey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronology \Syn`chro*nol"o*gy\, n. [Pref. syn- + Gr. [?] time + -logy.] Contemporaneous chronology. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronous \Syn"chro*nous\, a. [Gr. [?]; sy`n with + [?] time. Cf. {Chronicle}.] Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- {Syn"chro*nous*ly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchronous \Syn"chro*nous\, a. [Gr. [?]; sy`n with + [?] time. Cf. {Chronicle}.] Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- {Syn"chro*nous*ly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Synchrony \Syn"chro*ny\, n. The concurrence of events in time; synchronism. [R.] Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony. --Huxley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncretic \Syn*cret"ic\, a. Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. --Smart. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncretism \Syn"cre*tism\, n. (Philol.) The union or fusion into one of two or more originally different inflectional forms, as of two cases. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncretism \Syn"cre*tism\, n. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make two parties join against a third: cf. F. syncr[82]tisme.] Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other. He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial. --Baxter. Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy. --Krauth-Fleming. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncretist \Syn"cre*tist\, n. [Cf. F. syncr[82]tiste.] One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; specifically (Eccl. Hist.), an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syncretistic \Syn`cre*tis"tic\, a. 1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols. 2. Of or pertaining to Syncretists. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syngraph \Syn"graph\, n. [L. syngrapha, Gr. [?]; sy`n with + [?] to write.] (Law) A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
San Carlos, AZ (CDP, FIPS 62910) Location: 33.34864 N, 110.46505 W Population (1990): 2918 (875 housing units) Area: 23.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 85550 San Carlos, CA (city, FIPS 65070) Location: 37.49763 N, 122.26736 W Population (1990): 26167 (11338 housing units) Area: 14.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 94070 | |
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San Carlos Park, FL (CDP, FIPS 63425) Location: 26.47604 N, 81.81517 W Population (1990): 11785 (4722 housing units) Area: 15.4 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) | |
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San Cristobal, NM Zip code(s): 87564 | |
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San Germa]n zona, PR (urbana, FIPS 76167) Location: 18.08469 N, 67.04550 W Population (1990): 11977 (4240 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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San Geronimo, CA Zip code(s): 94963 | |
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San Gregorio, CA Zip code(s): 94074 | |
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Sang Run, MD Zip code(s): 21541 | |
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Sanger, CA (city, FIPS 67056) Location: 36.70023 N, 119.55319 W Population (1990): 16839 (4930 housing units) Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93657 Sanger, TX (city, FIPS 65408) Location: 33.36072 N, 97.17680 W Population (1990): 3508 (1388 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76266 | |
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Sangerville, ME Zip code(s): 04479 | |
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Sankertown, PA (borough, FIPS 67920) Location: 40.47062 N, 78.59292 W Population (1990): 770 (281 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Seneca Rocks, WV Zip code(s): 26884 | |
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Shoemakersville, PA (borough, FIPS 70464) Location: 40.49995 N, 75.96939 W Population (1990): 1443 (594 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19555 | |
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Singer, LA Zip code(s): 70660 | |
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Smoke Rise, AL (CDP, FIPS 71201) Location: 33.87987 N, 86.82447 W Population (1990): 1367 (482 housing units) Area: 16.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Swanquarter, NC Zip code(s): 27885 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
sneaker n. An individual hired to break into places in order to test their security; analogous to {tiger team}. Compare {samurai}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
sneakernet /snee'ker-net/ n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or some other media from one machine to another. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magtape, or a 747 filled with CD-ROMs." Also called `Tennis-Net', `Armpit-Net', `Floppy-Net' or `Shoenet'; in the 1990s, `Nike network' after a well-known sneaker brand. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson Bantam, 1992 ISBN 0-553-56261-4 Stephenson's epic, comic cyberpunk novel is deeply knowing about the hacker psychology and its foibles in a way no other author of fiction has ever even approached. His imagination, his grasp of the relevant technical details, and his ability to communicate the excitement of hacking and its results are astonishing, delightful, and (so far) unsurpassed. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sensor quantity such as temperature, pressure or loudness and convert it into an electronic signal of some kind (e.g a voltage). Sensors are normally components of some larger electronic system such as a computer control and/or measurement system. Analog sensors most often produce a voltage proportional to the measured quantity. The signal must be converted to digital form with a {ADC} before the CPU can process it. Digital sensors most often use serial communication such as {EIA-232} to return information directly to the controller or computer through a {serial port}. (1997-04-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SIMSCRIPT A free-form, English-like general-purpose {simulation} language produced by Harry Markowitz et al of {Rand} Corp in 1963. It was implemented as a {Fortran} {preprocessor} on {IBM 7090} and was designed for large discrete simulations. It influenced {Simula}. Later versions included {SIMSCRIPT I.5} and {SIMSCRIPT II.5}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SIMSCRIPT I.5 A version of {SIMSCRIPT} developed at {CACI} in 1965. It produced {assembly language}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SIMSCRIPT II.5 Another version of {SIMSCRIPT} from {CACI}. ["SIMSCRIPT: A Simulation Programming Language", P.J. Kiviat et al, CACI, 1973]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sneakernet /snee'ker-net/ Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or other media from one machine to another. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magtape, or a 747 filled with CD-ROMs." Also called tennis-net, armpit-net, floppy-net, shoe-net, walk-net, foot-net. (2003-07-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sun Microsystems, Inc. manufacturers. They also manufacture in Europe. The Sun-2 and 3 series of {workstations} and {servers} were based on the {Motorola} {680x0} family of {microprocessors} and the Sun-4 series on the {SPARC}. Sun also produce their own version of {Unix}, originally called {SunOS} and now {Solaris}. Their {Network File System} has become the {de facto standard} for sharing files between Unix systems. Quarterly sales $1403M, profits $78M (Aug 1994). {Home (http://www.sun.com/)}. {Sun World Online (http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/)}. Address: 2550 Garcia Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043 -1100 USA. (1995-10-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language A language based on {Extensible Markup Language} (XML), that enables people without programming or scripting backgrounds to author multimedia presentations in a simple {text editor}. SMIL is suitable for use on the {World-Wide Web}. For example, a developer can write SMIL to display an {image} after an {audio} track ends. SMIL uses two main tags: parallel and sequential. It refers to media objects by URLs, allowing them to be shared between presentations and stored on different servers for {load balancing}. The language can also associate different media objects with different bandwidths. SMIL 1.0 became an official recommendation of the {World Wide Web Consortium} W3C in June 1998. {W3C (http://www.w3c.org/audiovideo/)}. (2000-04-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
synchronous that depend upon the occurrences of specific events such as common timing signals. 2. Occurring at the same time or at the same rate or with a regular or predictable time relationship or sequence. Opposite: {asynchronous}. (1996-04-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous Data Link Control A discipline conforming to subsets of the {ADCCP} of {ANSI} and the {HDLC} of the {International Organization for Standardization}. SDLC manages synchronous, code-transparent, bit-serial communication which can be {duplex} or {half-duplex}; switched or non-switched; {point-to-point}, {multipoint}, or loop. Compare {Binary Synchronous Communication}. (1995-03-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy telecommunications network hierarchy which standardises transmission around the bit rate of 51.84 megabits per second, which is also called STS-1. Multiples of this bit rate comprise higher bit rate streams. Thus STS-3 is 3 times STS-1, STS-12 is 12 times STS-1, and so on. STS-3 is the lowest bit rate expected to carry {ATM} traffic, and is also referred to as STM-1 (Synchronous Transport Module-Level 1). The SDH specifies how payload data is framed and transported synchronously across {optical fibre} transmission links without requiring all the links and nodes to have the same synchronized clock for data transmission and recovery (i.e. both the clock frequency and phase are allowed to have variations, or be {plesiochronous}). SDH offers several advantages over the current {multiplexing} technology, which is known as {Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy}. Where PDH lacks built-in facilities for automatic management and routing, and locks users into proprietary methods, SDH can improve network reliability and performance, offers much greater flexibility and lower operating and maintenance costs, and provides for a faster provision of new services. Under SDH, incoming traffic is synchronized and enhanced with {network management} bits before being multiplexed into the STM-1 fixed rate {frame}. The fundamental clock frequency around which the SDH or {SONET} framing is done is 8 KHz or 125 microseconds. SONET ({Synchronous Optical Network}) is the American version of SDH. (1995-03-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous DRAM {Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory adds a separate {clock} signal to the control signals. SDRAM chips can contain more complex {state machines}, allowing them to support "burst" access modes that clock out a series of successive {bits} (similar to the {nibble mode DRAM}). (1996-10-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous Graphics RAM {Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory {Synchronous DRAM} optimised for use in {graphics} hardware. Extra features can include {burst operation}, {block write} and {write per bit}. SGRAMs are designed to provide the very high {throughput} needed for graphics-intensive operations such as 3d {rendering} and {full-motion video}. (1996-11-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous idle [Why?] (1996-06-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
synchronous key encryption interlocking keys where enything encoded using one key may be decoded using the other key. This means if someone makes one of the two keys publicly available (as in {public-key encryption}) and keeps the other private, then anyone may send them a message or data that only they can decode, giving privacy, and furthermore, the sender may also encrypt that same message additionally with their own private key, making it impossible to read without decoding first with *their* _public_ key by the receiver, this gives authenticity. It is a very powerful system. One cannot determine one key from the other, nor can they crack the encryption by computing all combinations, because, depending on the size of the keys (sometimes as large as 1024 bytes, though having grown from smaller versions in popular implementations of the software which does this), the amount of computing power required to crack the code is unavailable, even supercomputers would take more than a hundred years to crack it. {PGP} is a publicly availble software implementation written by Phil Zimmermann. (1994-10-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Synchronous Optical NETwork on point-to-point {optical fibre} networks. SONET will provide a high-bandwidth "pipe" to support {ATM}-based services. The SONET standard will establish a digital {hierarchical network} with a consistent worldwide transport scheme. SONET has been designed to take advantage of fibre, in contrast to the {plain old telephone system} which was designed for copper wires. SONET carries {circuit-switched} data in {frames} at speeds in multiples of 51.84 megabits per second (Mbps) up to 48 * 51.84 Mbps = 2.488 {gigabits} per second. Since SONET uses multiple channels to transmit data, each SONET {frame} can be considered to be a two-dimensional table of bytes that is 9 rows high and 90 columns deep. For every {OC-n} level, SONET can transmit n number of frames at a given time. Groups of frames are called {superframes}. SONET is the American version of {SDH}. [Wulf Losee; Corporate Computing 8.92; STACKS; LAN Magazine 10.93]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
syncronous (1996-12-13) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Samgar-nebo be gracious, O Nebo! or a cup-bearer of Nebo, probably the title of Nergal-sharezer, one of the princes of Babylon (Jer. 39:3). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sennacherib Sin (the god) sends many brothers, son of Sargon, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (B.C. 705), in the 23rd year of Hezekiah. "Like the Persian Xerxes, he was weak and vainglorious, cowardly under reverse, and cruel and boastful in success." He first set himself to break up the powerful combination of princes who were in league against him. Among these was Hezekiah, who had entered into an alliance with Egypt against Assyria. He accordingly led a very powerful army of at least 200,000 men into Judea, and devastated the land on every side, taking and destroying many cities (2 Kings 18:13-16; comp. Isa. 22, 24, 29, and 2 Chr. 32:1-8). His own account of this invasion, as given in the Assyrian annals, is in these words: "Because Hezekiah, king of Judah, would not submit to my yoke, I came up against him, and by force of arms and by the might of my power I took forty-six of his strong fenced cities; and of the smaller towns which were scattered about, I took and plundered a countless number. From these places I took and carried off 200,156 persons, old and young, male and female, together with horses and mules, asses and camels, oxen and sheep, a countless multitude; and Hezekiah himself I shut up in Jerusalem, his capital city, like a bird in a cage, building towers round the city to hem him in, and raising banks of earth against the gates, so as to prevent escape...Then upon Hezekiah there fell the fear of the power of my arms, and he sent out to me the chiefs and the elders of Jerusalem with 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver, and divers treasures, a rich and immense booty...All these things were brought to me at Nineveh, the seat of my government." (Comp. Isa. 22:1-13 for description of the feelings of the inhabitants of Jerusalem at such a crisis.) Hezekiah was not disposed to become an Assyrian feudatory. He accordingly at once sought help from Egypt (2 Kings 18:20-24). Sennacherib, hearing of this, marched a second time into Palestine (2 Kings 18:17, 37; 19; 2 Chr. 32:9-23; Isa. 36:2-22. Isa. 37:25 should be rendered "dried up all the Nile-arms of Matsor," i.e., of Egypt, so called from the "Matsor" or great fortification across the isthmus of Suez, which protected it from invasions from the east). Sennacherib sent envoys to try to persuade Hezekiah to surrender, but in vain. (See {TIRHAKAH}.) He next sent a threatening letter (2 Kings 19:10-14), which Hezekiah carried into the temple and spread before the Lord. Isaiah again brought an encouraging message to the pious king (2 Kings 19:20-34). "In that night" the angel of the Lord went forth and smote the camp of the Assyrians. In the morning, "behold, they were all dead corpses." The Assyrian army was annihilated. This great disaster is not, as was to be expected, taken notice of in the Assyrian annals. Though Sennacherib survived this disaster some twenty years, he never again renewed his attempt against Jerusalem. He was murdered by two of his own sons (Adrammelech and Sharezer), and was succeeded by another son, Esarhaddon (B.C. 681), after a reign of twenty-four years. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Shamgar The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into the Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when one of this name, the son of Anath, otherwise unknown, headed a rising for the purpose of freeing the land from this oppression. He repelled the invasion, slaying 600 men with an "ox goad" (q.v.). The goad was a formidable sharpointed instrument, sometimes ten feet long. He was probably contemporary for a time with Deborah and Barak (Judg. 3:31; 5:6). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Sennacherib, bramble of destruction | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shamgar, named a stranger; he is here a stranger | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shamsherai, there a singer or conqueror | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shenazar, treasurer of a tooth |