English Dictionary: Sojasoenbasis | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Schizogenesis \Schiz`o*gen"e*sis\, n. [Schizo- + genesis.] (Biol.) Reproduction by fission. --Haeckel. | |
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Schizognath \Schiz"og*nath\, n. [See {Schizognathous}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any bird with a schizognathous palate. | |
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Schizognathism \Schi*zog"na*thism\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The condition of having a schizognathous palate. | |
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Schizognathous \Schi*zog"na*thous\, a. [Schizo- + Gr. [?] the jaw.] (Zo[94]l.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds. | |
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Sea cucumber \Sea" cu"cum*ber\ (Zo[94]l.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus {Pentacta}, or {Cucumaria}, as the common American and European species. ({P. frondosa}). | |
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Trepang \Tre*pang"\, n. [Malay tr[c6]pang.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also {b[88]che de mer}, {sea cucumber}, and {sea slug}. [Written also {tripang}.] Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of {Holothuria}, especially {H. edulis}. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup. | |
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Sea cucumber \Sea" cu"cum*ber\ (Zo[94]l.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus {Pentacta}, or {Cucumaria}, as the common American and European species. ({P. frondosa}). | |
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Trepang \Tre*pang"\, n. [Malay tr[c6]pang.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also {b[88]che de mer}, {sea cucumber}, and {sea slug}. [Written also {tripang}.] Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of {Holothuria}, especially {H. edulis}. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup. | |
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Holothurian \Hol`o*thu"ri*an\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea. Note: Some of the species of Holothurians are called {sea cucumbers}, {sea slugs}, {trepang}, and {b[88]che de m[8a]r}. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See {Trepang}. | |
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Seasickness \Sea"sick`ness\, n. The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel. | |
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Secession \Se*ces"sion\, n. [L. secessio: cf. F. s[82]cession. See {Secede}.] 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal. 2. (U.S. Hist.) The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. {Secession Church} (in Scotland). See {Seceder}. | |
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Secession \Se*ces"sion\, n. [L. secessio: cf. F. s[82]cession. See {Secede}.] 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal. 2. (U.S. Hist.) The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. {Secession Church} (in Scotland). See {Seceder}. | |
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Secessionism \Se*ces"sion*ism\, n. The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists. | |
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Secessionist \Se*ces"sion*ist\, n. 1. One who upholds secession. 2. (U.S. Hist.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will. | |
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Redwood \Red"wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree ({Sequoia sempervirens}) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See {Sequoia}. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from {Pterocarpus santalinus}, {C[91]salpinia Sappan}, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman is {Pterocarpus dalbergioides}; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of {Erythoxylum}; that of Brazil, the species of {Humirium}. | |
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Sequoia \Se*quoi"a\, n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, {Sequoia Washingtoniana}, syn. {S. gigantea}, the [bd]big tree[b8] of California, and {S. sempervirens}, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height. | |
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Sexagenarian \Sex`a*ge*na"ri*an\, n. [See {Sexagenary}.] A person who is sixty years old. | |
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Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexag[82]naire. See {Six}.] Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. {Sexagenary arithmetic}. See under {Sexagesimal}. {Sexagenary}, [or] {Sexagesimal}, {scale} (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle. | |
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Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, n. 1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions. 2. A sexagenarian. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. sexag[82]simal.] Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. {Sexagesimal fractions} [or] {numbers} (Arith. & Alg.), those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, [frac1x60], [frac1x3600], [frac1x216000]; -- called also {astronomical fractions}, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations. {Sexagesimal}, [or] {Sexagenary}, {arithmetic}, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties. {Sexagesimal scale} (Math.), the sexagenary scale. | |
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Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexag[82]naire. See {Six}.] Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. {Sexagenary arithmetic}. See under {Sexagesimal}. {Sexagenary}, [or] {Sexagesimal}, {scale} (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle. | |
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Sickish \Sick"ish\, a. 1. Somewhat sick or diseased. 2. Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste. -- {Sick"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Sick"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Cucumber \Cu"cum*ber\ (k?`k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r), n.[OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen. cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus {Cucumis}, esp. {Cucumis sativus}, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. {Bitter cucumber} (Bot.), the {Citrullus [or] Cucumis Colocynthis}. See {Colocynth}. {Cucumber beetle.} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle ({Crepidodera cucumeris}), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. {Cucumber tree}. (a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus {Magnolia} {(M. acuminata)}, so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant ({Averrhoa Bilimbi}) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi. {Jamaica cucumber}, {Jerusalem cucumber}, the prickly-fruited gherkin ({Cucumis Anguria}). {Snake cucumber}, a species ({Cucumis flexuosus}) remarkable for its long, curiously-shaped fruit. {Squirting cucumber}, a plant ({Ecbalium Elaterium}) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See {Elaterium}. {Star cucumber}, a climbing weed ({Sicyos angulatus}) with prickly fruit. | |
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Siege \Siege\, n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. si[8a]ge a seat, a siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assi[82]ger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See {Sit}, and cf. {See}, n.] 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. [Obs.] [bd]Upon the very siege of justice.[b8] --Shak. A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. --Spenser. In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it [bd]The siege perilous.[b8] --Tennyson. 2. Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.] Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. --Painter (Palace of Pleasure). 3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.] I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. --Shak. 4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.] The siege of this mooncalf. --Shak. 5. The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under {Blockade}. 6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. --Dryden. 7. The floor of a glass-furnace. 8. A workman's bench. --Knught. {Siege gun}, a heavy gun for siege operations. {Siege train}, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places. | |
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Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., {Gael}.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] 1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called {small arms}. Larger guns are called {cannon}, {ordnance}, {fieldpieces}, {carronades}, {howitzers}, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne. --Chaucer. The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. --Selden. 2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. 3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind. Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or manner of loading as {rifled} or {smoothbore}, {breech-loading} or {muzzle-loading}, {cast} or {built-up guns}; or according to their use, as {field}, {mountain}, {prairie}, {seacoast}, and {siege guns}. {Armstrong gun}, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong. {Great gun}, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a person superior in any way. {Gun barrel}, the barrel or tube of a gun. {Gun carriage}, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved. {Gun cotton} (Chem.), a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See {Pyroxylin}, and cf. {Xyloidin}. The gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. See {Celluloid}, and {Collodion}. Gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric acid. {Gun deck}. See under {Deck}. {Gun fire}, the time at which the morning or the evening gun is fired. {Gun metal}, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron. {Gun port} (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing. {Gun tackle} (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from the gun port. {Gun tackle purchase} (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. --Totten. {Krupp gun}, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named after its German inventor, Herr Krupp. {Machine gun}, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim. The {Gatling gun}, {Gardner gun}, {Hotchkiss gun}, and {Nordenfelt gun}, named for their inventors, and the French {mitrailleuse}, are machine guns. {To blow great guns} (Naut.), to blow a gale. See {Gun}, n., 3. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See {Succeed}.] 1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay. 3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. [bd]A long succession must ensue.[b8] --Milton. 4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. --Shak. The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay. 5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. 6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] --Milton. {Apostolical succession}. (Theol.) See under {Apostolical}. {Succession duty}, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. | |
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Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See {Succeed}.] 1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay. 3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. [bd]A long succession must ensue.[b8] --Milton. 4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. --Shak. The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay. 5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. 6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] --Milton. {Apostolical succession}. (Theol.) See under {Apostolical}. {Succession duty}, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. | |
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[Eng.] {Succession of crops}. (Agric.) See {Rotation of crops}, under {Rotation}. | |
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Successional \Suc*ces"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. [bd]Successional teeth.[b8] --Flower. -- {Suc*ces"sion*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Successional \Suc*ces"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. [bd]Successional teeth.[b8] --Flower. -- {Suc*ces"sion*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Successionist \Suc*ces"sion*ist\, n. A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid. | |
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Succision \Suc*ci"sion\, n. [L. succisio, fr. succidere, succisum, to cut away below, sub under + caedere to cut.] The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off. [R.] | |
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Succussion \Suc*cus"sion\, n. [L. succussio, from succutere: cf. F. succussion. See {Succussation}.] The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax. | |
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Sugescent \Su*ges"cent\, a. [L. sugere to suck.] Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] --Paley. | |
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Suicism \Su"i*cism\, n. [L. suus one's own.] Selfishness; egoism. [R.] --Whitlock. | |
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Petworth marble \Pet"worth mar"ble\ A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also {Sussex marble}. | |
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Sequoyah County, OK (county, FIPS 135) Location: 35.49756 N, 94.75479 W Population (1990): 33828 (14314 housing units) Area: 1745.3 sq km (land), 106.3 sq km (water) | |
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Siskiyou County, CA (county, FIPS 93) Location: 41.58921 N, 122.53306 W Population (1990): 43531 (20141 housing units) Area: 16284.0 sq km (land), 156.8 sq km (water) | |
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Sussex County, DE (county, FIPS 5) Location: 38.68327 N, 75.34182 W Population (1990): 113229 (74253 housing units) Area: 2428.5 sq km (land), 668.3 sq km (water) Sussex County, NJ (county, FIPS 37) Location: 41.14184 N, 74.69079 W Population (1990): 130943 (51574 housing units) Area: 1350.0 sq km (land), 38.1 sq km (water) Sussex County, VA (county, FIPS 183) Location: 36.92637 N, 77.25877 W Population (1990): 10248 (4252 housing units) Area: 1271.1 sq km (land), 5.4 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sega Genesis/MegaDrive The Genesis used a {Z80} [or a clone?] for its sound generator. This made the Genesis compatible with {Sega Master System} games through a device called a "Power Base Converter" which basically shut down the Genesis/MegaDrive's {68000} {CPU} and made the Z80 the CPU. (2003-07-29) |