English Dictionary: Staublawinen | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scathful \Scath"ful\, a. Harmful; doing damage; pernicious. --Shak. -- {Scath"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Scathful \Scath"ful\, a. Harmful; doing damage; pernicious. --Shak. -- {Scath"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Galapee tree \Gal"a*pee` tree"\, (Bot.) The West Indian {Sciadophyllum Brownei}, a tree with very large digitate leaves. | |
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Harlequin \Har"le*quin\, n. [F. arlequin,formerly written also harlequin (cf. It, arlecchino), prob. fr. OF. hierlekin, hellequin, goblin, elf, which is prob. of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. hel hell. Cf. {Hell}, {Kin}.] A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. --Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. --Johnson. {Harlequin bat} (Zo[94]l.), an Indian bat ({Scotophilus ornatus}), curiously variegated with white spots. {Harlequin beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a very large South American beetle ({Acrocinus longimanus}) having very long legs and antenn[91]. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. {Harlequin cabbage bug}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Calicoback}. {Harlequin caterpillar}. (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American bombycid moth {(Euch[91]tes egle)} which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair. {Harlequin duck} (Zo[94]l.), a North American duck ({Histrionicus histrionicus}). The male is dark ash, curiously streaked with white. {Harlequin moth}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Magpie Moth}. {Harlequin opal}. See {Opal}. {Harlequin snake} (Zo[94]l.), a small, poisonous snake ({Elaps fulvius}), ringed with red and black, found in the Southern United States. | |
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Sea devil \Sea" dev`il\(Zo[94]l.) (a) Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus {Manta} or {Cepholoptera}, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also {Ox ray}, under {Ox}. (b) Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid ({Architeuthis}). See {Devilfish}. (c) The angler. | |
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Ox \Ox\ ([ocr]ks), n.; pl. {Oxen}. [AS. oxa; akin to D. os. G. ochs, ochse, OHG. ohso, Icel. oxi, Sw. & Dan. oxe, Goth. a[a3]hsa, Skr. ukshan ox, bull; cf. Skr. uksh to sprinkle. [root]214. Cf. {Humid}, {Aurochs}.] (Zo[94]l.) The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field. --Ps. viii. 7. Note: The castrated male is called a steer until it attains its full growth, and then, an ox; but if castrated somewhat late in life, it is called a stag. The male, not castrated, is called a bull. These distinctions are well established in regard to domestic animals of this genus. When wild animals of this kind are spoken of, ox is often applied both to the male and the female. The name ox is never applied to the individual cow, or female, of the domestic kind. Oxen may comprehend both the male and the female. {Grunting ox} (Zo[94]l.), the yak. {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu. {Javan ox} (Zo[94]l.), the banteng. {Musk ox}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Musk}. {Ox bile}. See {Ox gall}, below. {Ox gall}, the fresh gall of the domestic ox; -- used in the arts and in medicine. {Ox pith}, ox marrow. [Obs.] --Marston. {Ox ray} (Zo[94]l.), a very large ray ({Dicerobatis Giorn[91]}) of Southern Europe. It has a hornlike organ projecting forward from each pectoral fin. It sometimes becomes twenty feet long and twenty-eight feet broad, and weighs over a ton. Called also {sea devil}. {To have the black ox tread on one's foot}, to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). --Leigh Hunt. | |
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d8Cephaloptera \[d8]Ceph`a*lop"te*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] head + [?] wing.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray ({Manta birostris}), known as {devilfish} and {sea devil}. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton. | |
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Sea devil \Sea" dev`il\(Zo[94]l.) (a) Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus {Manta} or {Cepholoptera}, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also {Ox ray}, under {Ox}. (b) Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid ({Architeuthis}). See {Devilfish}. (c) The angler. | |
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Ox \Ox\ ([ocr]ks), n.; pl. {Oxen}. [AS. oxa; akin to D. os. G. ochs, ochse, OHG. ohso, Icel. oxi, Sw. & Dan. oxe, Goth. a[a3]hsa, Skr. ukshan ox, bull; cf. Skr. uksh to sprinkle. [root]214. Cf. {Humid}, {Aurochs}.] (Zo[94]l.) The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field. --Ps. viii. 7. Note: The castrated male is called a steer until it attains its full growth, and then, an ox; but if castrated somewhat late in life, it is called a stag. The male, not castrated, is called a bull. These distinctions are well established in regard to domestic animals of this genus. When wild animals of this kind are spoken of, ox is often applied both to the male and the female. The name ox is never applied to the individual cow, or female, of the domestic kind. Oxen may comprehend both the male and the female. {Grunting ox} (Zo[94]l.), the yak. {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu. {Javan ox} (Zo[94]l.), the banteng. {Musk ox}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Musk}. {Ox bile}. See {Ox gall}, below. {Ox gall}, the fresh gall of the domestic ox; -- used in the arts and in medicine. {Ox pith}, ox marrow. [Obs.] --Marston. {Ox ray} (Zo[94]l.), a very large ray ({Dicerobatis Giorn[91]}) of Southern Europe. It has a hornlike organ projecting forward from each pectoral fin. It sometimes becomes twenty feet long and twenty-eight feet broad, and weighs over a ton. Called also {sea devil}. {To have the black ox tread on one's foot}, to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). --Leigh Hunt. | |
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d8Cephaloptera \[d8]Ceph`a*lop"te*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] head + [?] wing.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray ({Manta birostris}), known as {devilfish} and {sea devil}. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton. | |
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Seed \Seed\, n.; pl. {Seed} or {Seeds}. [OE. seed, sed, AS. s[?]d, fr. s[be]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. s[be][?], s[?][?]i, Goth. manas[?]ps seed of men. world. See {Sow} to scatter seed, and cf. {Colza}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant. (b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. --Gen. i. 11. Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle. 2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural. 3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice. 4. The principle of production. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. --Waller. 5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural. 6. Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. --Waller. {Seed bag} (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. {Seed bud} (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. {Seed coat} (Bot.), the covering of a seed. {Seed corn}, [or] {Seed grain} (Bot.), corn or grain for seed. {Seed down} (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed. {Seed drill}. See 6th {Drill}, 2 (a) . {Seed eater} (Zo[94]l.), any finch of the genera {Sporophila}, and {Crithagra}. They feed mainly on seeds. {Seed gall} (Zo[94]l.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. {Seed leaf} (Bot.), a cotyledon. {Seed lobe} (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. {Seed oil}, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. {Seed oyster}, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. {Seed pearl}, a small pearl of little value. {Seed plat}, [or] {Seed plot}, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. {Seed stalk} (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. {Seed tick} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. {Seed vessel} (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp. {Seed weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small weevels, especially those of the genus {Apion}, which live in the seeds of various plants. {Seed wool}, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.] | |
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Seed \Seed\, n.; pl. {Seed} or {Seeds}. [OE. seed, sed, AS. s[?]d, fr. s[be]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. s[be][?], s[?][?]i, Goth. manas[?]ps seed of men. world. See {Sow} to scatter seed, and cf. {Colza}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant. (b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. --Gen. i. 11. Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle. 2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural. 3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice. 4. The principle of production. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. --Waller. 5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural. 6. Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. --Waller. {Seed bag} (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. {Seed bud} (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. {Seed coat} (Bot.), the covering of a seed. {Seed corn}, [or] {Seed grain} (Bot.), corn or grain for seed. {Seed down} (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed. {Seed drill}. See 6th {Drill}, 2 (a) . {Seed eater} (Zo[94]l.), any finch of the genera {Sporophila}, and {Crithagra}. They feed mainly on seeds. {Seed gall} (Zo[94]l.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. {Seed leaf} (Bot.), a cotyledon. {Seed lobe} (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. {Seed oil}, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. {Seed oyster}, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. {Seed pearl}, a small pearl of little value. {Seed plat}, [or] {Seed plot}, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. {Seed stalk} (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. {Seed tick} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. {Seed vessel} (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp. {Seed weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small weevels, especially those of the genus {Apion}, which live in the seeds of various plants. {Seed wool}, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.] | |
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Seed \Seed\, n.; pl. {Seed} or {Seeds}. [OE. seed, sed, AS. s[?]d, fr. s[be]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. s[be][?], s[?][?]i, Goth. manas[?]ps seed of men. world. See {Sow} to scatter seed, and cf. {Colza}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant. (b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. --Gen. i. 11. Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle. 2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural. 3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice. 4. The principle of production. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. --Waller. 5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural. 6. Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. --Waller. {Seed bag} (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. {Seed bud} (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. {Seed coat} (Bot.), the covering of a seed. {Seed corn}, [or] {Seed grain} (Bot.), corn or grain for seed. {Seed down} (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed. {Seed drill}. See 6th {Drill}, 2 (a) . {Seed eater} (Zo[94]l.), any finch of the genera {Sporophila}, and {Crithagra}. They feed mainly on seeds. {Seed gall} (Zo[94]l.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. {Seed leaf} (Bot.), a cotyledon. {Seed lobe} (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. {Seed oil}, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. {Seed oyster}, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. {Seed pearl}, a small pearl of little value. {Seed plat}, [or] {Seed plot}, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. {Seed stalk} (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. {Seed tick} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. {Seed vessel} (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp. {Seed weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small weevels, especially those of the genus {Apion}, which live in the seeds of various plants. {Seed wool}, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.] | |
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Setbolt \Set"bolt`\, n. (Shipbuilding) 1. An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. --Craig. 2. A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole. | |
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Setfoil \Set"foil`\, n. See {Septfoil}. | |
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Shadeful \Shade"ful\, a. Full of shade; shady. | |
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Sheathbill \Sheath"bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus {Chionis}, and family {Chionid[91]}, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas. Note: They are related to the gulls and the plovers, but more nearly to the latter. The base of the bill is covered with a saddle-shaped horny sheath, and the toes are only slightly webbed. The plumage of both species is white. | |
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Sheet \Sheet\, n. [OE. shete, schete, AS. sc[emac]te, sc[ymac]te, fr. sce[a0]t a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to D. schoot sheet, bosom, lap, G. schoss bosom, lap, flap of a coat, Icel. skaut, Goth. skauts the hem of a garment); originally, that which shoots out, from the root of AS. sce[a2]tan to shoot. [root]159. See {Shoot}, v. t.] In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically: (a) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. --Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. --Shak. (b) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc. (c) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; in pl., the book itself. To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer. --Waterland. (d) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf. (e) A broad expanse of water, or the like. [bd]The two beautiful sheets of water.[b8] --Macaulay. (f) A sail. --Dryden. (g) (Geol.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. 2. [AS. sce[a0]ta. See the Etymology above.] (Naut.) (a) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom. (b) pl. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets. Note: Sheet is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets, or thin plates or leaves; as, sheet brass, or sheet-brass; sheet glass, or sheet-glass; sheet gold, or sheet-gold; sheet iron, or sheet-iron, etc. {A sheet in the wind}, half drunk. [Sailors' Slang] {Both sheets in the wind}, very drunk. [Sailors' Slang] {In sheets}, lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; -- said especially of printed sheets. {Sheet bend} (Naut.), a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye. {Sheet lightning}, {Sheet piling}, etc. See under {Lightning}, {Piling}, etc. | |
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Piling \Pil"ing\, n. [See {Pile} a stake.] A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge. {Pug piling}, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. {Sheet piling}, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc. | |
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Sheetful \Sheet"ful\, n.; pl. {Sheetfuls}. Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold. | |
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Sheetful \Sheet"ful\, n.; pl. {Sheetfuls}. Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold. | |
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Shot \Shot\, n.; pl. {Shot}or {Shots}. [OE. shot, schot, AS. gesceot a missile; akin to D. schot a shot, shoot, G. schuss, geschoss a missile, Icel. skot a throwing, a javelin, and E. shoot, v.t. [root]159. See {Shoot}, and cf. {Shot} a share.] 1. The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile. He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army. --Clarendon. 2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive. Note: Shot used in war is of various kinds, classified according to the material of which it is composed, into lead, wrought-iron, and cast-iron; according to form, into spherical and oblong; according to structure and modes of operation, into solid, hollow, and case. See {Bar shot}, {Chain shot}, etc., under {Bar}, {Chain}, etc. 3. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot. 4. The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot. 5. A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot. {Shot belt}, a belt having a pouch or compartment for carrying shot. {Shot cartridge}, a cartridge containing powder and small shot, forming a charge for a shotgun. {Shot garland} (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot, secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of a ship. {Shot gauge}, an instrument for measuring the diameter of round shot. --Totten. {shot hole}, a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged. {Shot locker} (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the hold of a vessel, for containing shot. {Shot of a cable} (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables together, or the whole length of the cables thus united. {Shot prop} (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side. {Shot tower}, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other liquid. {Shot window}, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them. | |
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{Side cut}, a canal or road branching out from the main one. [U.S.] {Side dish}, one of the dishes subordinate to the main course. {Side glance}, a glance or brief look to one side. {Side hook} (Carp.), a notched piece of wood for clamping a board to something, as a bench. {Side lever}, a working beam of a side-lever engine. {Side-lever engine}, a marine steam engine having a working beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above them. {Side pipe} (Steam Engine), a steam or exhaust pipe connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine. {Side plane}, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock. {Side posts} (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hanging the tiebeam, etc. {Side rod}. (a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead with the side levers, in a side-lever engine. (b) See {Parallel rod}, under {Parallel}. {Side screw} (Firearms), one of the screws by which the lock is secured to the side of a firearm stock. {Side table}, a table placed either against the wall or aside from the principal table. {Side tool} (Mach.), a cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point. {Side wind}, a wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack, or indirect means. --Wright. | |
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Sideflash \Side"flash`\, n. (Elec.) A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor. | |
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Valentine \Val"en*tine\, n. 1. A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day. 2. A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day. {St. Valentine's Day}, a day sacred to St. Valentine; the 14th of February. It was a very old notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to mate. Hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending love tokens at that time. | |
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Stabiliment \Sta*bil"i*ment\, n. [L. stabilimentum, fr. stabilire to make firm ir stable, fr. stabilis. See {Stable}, a.] The act of making firm; firm support; establishment. [R.] --Jer. taylor. They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade. --Derham. | |
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Stabilitate \Sta*bil"i*tate\, v. t. [LL. stabilitatus, p. p. of stabilitare to make stable.] To make stable; to establish. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. | |
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Stability \Sta*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. stabilitas; cf. F. stabilit[82]. See {Stable}, a.] 1. The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution. 2. Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to {fickleness}, {irresolution}, or {inconstancy}; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability. 3. Fixedness; -- as opposed to {fluidity}. Since fluidness and stability are contary qualities. --Boyle. Syn: Steadiness; stableness; constancy; immovability; firmness. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, a. (Physics) So placed as to resist forces tending to cause motion; of such structure as to resist distortion or molecular or chemical disturbance; -- said of any body or substance. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stabling}.] To put or keep in a stable. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, v. i. To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel. --Milton. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, a. [OE. estable, F. stable, fr. L. stabilis, fr. stare to stand. See {Stand}, v. i. and cf. {Establish}.] 1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. --Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character. And to her husband ever meek and stable. --Chaucer. 3. Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position. {Stable equibrium} (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that if disturbed it returns to its former position, as in the case when the center of gravity is below the point or axis of support; -- opposed to {unstable equilibrium}, in which the body if disturbed does not tend to return to its former position, but to move farther away from it, as in the case of a body supported at a point below the center of gravity. Cf. {Neutral equilibrium}, under {Neutral}. Syn: Fixed; steady; constant; abiding; strong; durable; firm. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, v. t. To fix; to establish. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, n. [OF. estable, F. [82]table, from L. stabulum, fr. stare to stand. See {Stand}, v. i.] A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable. --Milton. {Stable fly} (Zo[94]l.), a common dipterous fly ({Stomoxys calcitrans}) which is abundant about stables and often enters dwellings, especially in autumn. These files, unlike the common house files, which they resemble, bite severely, and are troublesome to horses and cattle. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, a. [OE. estable, F. stable, fr. L. stabilis, fr. stare to stand. See {Stand}, v. i. and cf. {Establish}.] 1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. --Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character. And to her husband ever meek and stable. --Chaucer. 3. Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position. {Stable equibrium} (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that if disturbed it returns to its former position, as in the case when the center of gravity is below the point or axis of support; -- opposed to {unstable equilibrium}, in which the body if disturbed does not tend to return to its former position, but to move farther away from it, as in the case of a body supported at a point below the center of gravity. Cf. {Neutral equilibrium}, under {Neutral}. Syn: Fixed; steady; constant; abiding; strong; durable; firm. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, n. [OF. estable, F. [82]table, from L. stabulum, fr. stare to stand. See {Stand}, v. i.] A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable. --Milton. {Stable fly} (Zo[94]l.), a common dipterous fly ({Stomoxys calcitrans}) which is abundant about stables and often enters dwellings, especially in autumn. These files, unlike the common house files, which they resemble, bite severely, and are troublesome to horses and cattle. | |
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Stable stand \Sta"ble stand`\ (O.Eng. Law) The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. --Wharton. | |
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Stableboy \Sta"ble*boy`\, Stableman \Sta"ble*man\, n. A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stabling}.] To put or keep in a stable. | |
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Stableboy \Sta"ble*boy`\, Stableman \Sta"ble*man\, n. A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. | |
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Stableness \Sta"ble*ness\, n. The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability. | |
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Stabler \Sta"bler\, n. A stable keeper. --De Foe. | |
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Stable \Sta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stabling}.] To put or keep in a stable. | |
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Stabling \Sta"bling\, n. 1. The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable. 2. A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle. | |
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Stablish \Stab"lish\, v. t. [Aphetic form of establish.] To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix. [Obs.] --2 Sam. vii. 13. | |
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Stablishment \Stab"lish*ment\, n. Establishment. [Obs.] | |
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Stably \Sta"bly\, adv. In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled. | |
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Stabulation \Stab`u*la"tion\, n. [L. stabulatio, fr. stabulari to stable cattle, fr. stabulum. See {Stable}, n.] 1. The act of stabling or housing beasts. 2. A place for lodging beasts; a stable. [Obs.] | |
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Bladder \Blad"der\, n. [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl[?]dre, bl[?]ddre; akin to Icel. bla[?]ra, SW. bl[84]ddra, Dan. bl[91]re, D. blaar, OHG. bl[be]tara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. bl[be]wan, E. blow, to puff. See {Blow} to puff.] 1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. 3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp. 4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. [bd]To swim with bladders of philosophy.[b8] --Rochester. {Bladder nut}, [or] {Bladder tree} (Bot.), a genus of plants ({Staphylea}) with bladderlike seed pods. {Bladder pod} (Bot.), a genus of low herbs ({Vesicaria}) with inflated seed pods. {Bladdor senna} (Bot.), a genus of shrubs ({Colutea}), with membranaceous, inflated pods. {Bladder worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any species of tapeworm ({T[91]nia}), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See {Measle}, {Cysticercus}. {Bladder wrack} (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast ({Fucus nodosus} and {F. vesiculosus}) -- called also {bladder tangle}. See {Wrack}. | |
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Staphyline \Staph"y*line\, a. [Gr. [?] botryodial, from [?] a bunch of grapes.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate. | |
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Staphylinid \Staph`y*li"nid\, n. [Gr. [?] a kind of insect.] (Zo[94]l.) Any rove beetle. | |
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Staphylomatous \Staph`y*lo"ma*tous\, a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to staphyloma; affected with staphyloma. | |
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Staphyloplasty \Staph"y*lo*plas`ty\, n. [Gr. [?] a bunch of grapes, also, the uvula when swollen at the lower end + -plasty.] (Surg.) The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. --Dunglison. -- {Staph`y*lo*plas"tic}, a. | |
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Staphyloplasty \Staph"y*lo*plas`ty\, n. [Gr. [?] a bunch of grapes, also, the uvula when swollen at the lower end + -plasty.] (Surg.) The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. --Dunglison. -- {Staph`y*lo*plas"tic}, a. | |
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Staphyloraphy \Staph`y*lor"a*phy\, Staphylorrhaphy \Staph`y*lor"rha*phy\, n. [Gr. [?] the uvula when swollen + [?] to sew: cf. F. staphylorraphie.] The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- {Staph`y*lo*raph"ic}, {Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic}, a. | |
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Staphyloraphy \Staph`y*lor"a*phy\, Staphylorrhaphy \Staph`y*lor"rha*phy\, n. [Gr. [?] the uvula when swollen + [?] to sew: cf. F. staphylorraphie.] The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- {Staph`y*lo*raph"ic}, {Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic}, a. | |
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Staphyloraphy \Staph`y*lor"a*phy\, Staphylorrhaphy \Staph`y*lor"rha*phy\, n. [Gr. [?] the uvula when swollen + [?] to sew: cf. F. staphylorraphie.] The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- {Staph`y*lo*raph"ic}, {Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic}, a. | |
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Staphyloraphy \Staph`y*lor"a*phy\, Staphylorrhaphy \Staph`y*lor"rha*phy\, n. [Gr. [?] the uvula when swollen + [?] to sew: cf. F. staphylorraphie.] The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- {Staph`y*lo*raph"ic}, {Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic}, a. | |
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Staphylotomy \Staph`y*lot"o*my\, n. [Gr. [?] the uvula when swollen + [?] to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting. | |
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Staple \Sta"ple\, a. 1. Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town. [R.] 2. Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade. --Dryden. 3. Fit to be sold; marketable. [R.] --Swift. 4. Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief. Wool, the great staple commodity of England. --H[?][?][?]om. | |
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Staple \Sta"ple\, n. [AS. stapul, stapol, stapel, a step, a prop, post, table, fr. stapan to step, go, raise; akin to D. stapel a pile, stocks, emporium, G. stapela heap, mart, stake, staffel step of a ladder, Sw. stapel, Dan. stabel, and E. step cf. OF. estaple a mart, F. [82]tape. See {Step}.] 1. A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic. The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade. --Arbuthnot. For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was minded to erect the town into a staple for wool. --Sir W. Scott. Note: In England, formerly, the king's staple was established in certain ports or towns, and certain goods could not be exported without being first brought to these places to be rated and charged with the duty payable of the king or the public. The principal commodities on which customs were lived were wool, skins, and leather; and these were originally the staple commodities. 2. Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head. Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. Whenever there was a rumor that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head. --Macaulay. 3. The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States. We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester. --Trench. 4. The principal constituent in anything; chief item. 5. Unmanufactured material; raw material. 6. The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple. 7. A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like. 8. (Mining) (a) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels. (b) A small pit. 9. A district granted to an abbey. [Obs.] --Camden. | |
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Staple \Sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {stapled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {stapling}.] To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton. | |
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Staple \Sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {stapled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {stapling}.] To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton. | |
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Stapler \Sta"pler\, n. 1. A dealer in staple goods. 2. One employed to assort wool according to its staple. | |
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Staple \Sta"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {stapled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {stapling}.] To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton. | |
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Stay \Stay\, n. [Cf. OF. estai, F. [82]tai support, and E. stay a rope to support a mast.] 1. That which serves as a prop; a support. [bd]My only strength and stay.[b8] --Milton. Trees serve as so many stays for their vines. --Addison. Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry. --Coleridge. 2. pl. A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. --Gay. 3. Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city. Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. --Dryden. Embrace the hero and his stay implore. --Waller. 4. Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop. Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his revolution was at stay. --Milton. Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay. --Hayward. 5. Hindrance; let; check. [Obs.] They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false. --Robynson (more's Utopia). 6. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. [Obs.] [bd]Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays.[b8] --Herbert. The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king. --Bacon. With prudent stay he long deferred The rough contention. --Philips. 7. (Engin.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. {Stay bolt} (Mech.), a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler. {Stay busk}, a stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for the front support of a woman's stays. Cf. {Busk}. {Stay rod}, a rod which acts as a stay, particularly in a steam boiler. | |
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Steeple \Stee"ple\, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[c7]pel, st[?]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See {Spire}. [bd]A weathercock on a steeple.[b8] --Shak. {Rood steeple}. See {Rood tower}, under {Rood}. {Steeple bush} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Spir[91]a tomentosa}) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. {Steeple chase}, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. {Steeple chaser}, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. {Steeple engine}, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. {Steeple house}, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Steeple \Stee"ple\, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[c7]pel, st[?]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See {Spire}. [bd]A weathercock on a steeple.[b8] --Shak. {Rood steeple}. See {Rood tower}, under {Rood}. {Steeple bush} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Spir[91]a tomentosa}) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. {Steeple chase}, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. {Steeple chaser}, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. {Steeple engine}, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. {Steeple house}, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Steeple \Stee"ple\, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[c7]pel, st[?]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See {Spire}. [bd]A weathercock on a steeple.[b8] --Shak. {Rood steeple}. See {Rood tower}, under {Rood}. {Steeple bush} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Spir[91]a tomentosa}) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. {Steeple chase}, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. {Steeple chaser}, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. {Steeple engine}, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. {Steeple house}, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Steeple \Stee"ple\, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[c7]pel, st[?]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See {Spire}. [bd]A weathercock on a steeple.[b8] --Shak. {Rood steeple}. See {Rood tower}, under {Rood}. {Steeple bush} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Spir[91]a tomentosa}) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. {Steeple chase}, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. {Steeple chaser}, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. {Steeple engine}, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. {Steeple house}, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Steeple \Stee"ple\, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[c7]pel, st[?]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See {Spire}. [bd]A weathercock on a steeple.[b8] --Shak. {Rood steeple}. See {Rood tower}, under {Rood}. {Steeple bush} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Spir[91]a tomentosa}) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. {Steeple chase}, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. {Steeple chaser}, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. {Steeple engine}, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. {Steeple house}, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Steeple \Stee"ple\, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[c7]pel, st[?]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See {Spire}. [bd]A weathercock on a steeple.[b8] --Shak. {Rood steeple}. See {Rood tower}, under {Rood}. {Steeple bush} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Spir[91]a tomentosa}) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. {Steeple chase}, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. {Steeple chaser}, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. {Steeple engine}, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. {Steeple house}, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Steeplechasing \Stee"ple*chas`ing\, n. The act of riding steeple chases. | |
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Steeple-crowned \Stee"ple-crowned`\, a. 1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. --Hawthorne. | |
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Steepled \Stee"pled\, a. Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples. --Fairfax. | |
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Steeply \Steep"ly\, adv. In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. | |
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Fault \Fault\, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the {fault plane}. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a {vertical fault}; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a {normal}, [or] {gravity}, {fault}. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a {reverse} (or {reversed}), {thrust}, or {overthrust}, {fault}. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a {horizontal fault}. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the {displacement}; the vertical displacement is the {throw}; the horizontal displacement is the {heave}. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the {trend} of the fault. A fault is a {strike fault} when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a {dip fault} when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an {oblique fault} when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called {cross faults}. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called {step faults} and sometimes {distributive faults}. | |
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Stepladder \Step"lad`der\, n. A portable set of steps. | |
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Stibial \Stib"i*al\, a. [See {Stibium}.] Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial. | |
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Stibialism \Stib"i*al*ism\, n. (Med.) Antimonial intoxication or poisoning. --Dunglison. | |
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Stiffly \Stiff"ly\, adv. In a stiff manner. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. i. To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration. You shall stifle in your own report. --Shak. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, n. [From {Stiff}.] (Far.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also {stifle joint}. See Illust. under {Horse}. {Stifle bone}, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stifled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stifling}.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[c6]fla to dam up.] 1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. --Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. --Swift. 2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame. Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. --Sir I. Newton. 3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion. I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. --Waterland. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, n. [From {Stiff}.] (Far.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also {stifle joint}. See Illust. under {Horse}. {Stifle bone}, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, n. [From {Stiff}.] (Far.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also {stifle joint}. See Illust. under {Horse}. {Stifle bone}, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stifled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stifling}.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[c6]fla to dam up.] 1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. --Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. --Swift. 2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame. Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. --Sir I. Newton. 3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion. I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. --Waterland. | |
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Stifled \Sti"fled\, a. Stifling. The close and stifled study. --Hawthorne. | |
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Stifler \Sti"fler\, n. 1. One who, or that which, stifles. 2. (Mil.) See {Camouflet}. | |
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Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stifled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stifling}.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[c6]fla to dam up.] 1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. --Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room. --Swift. 2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame. Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. --Sir I. Newton. 3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion. I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. --Waterland. | |
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Stipel \Sti"pel\, n. [See {Stipule}.] (Bot.) The stipule of a leaflet. --Gray. | |
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Stipellate \Sti*pel"late\, a. (Bot.) Having stipels. | |
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Stipple \Stip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stippling}.] [D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.] 1. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. --Milman. 2. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface. | |
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Stipple \Stip"ple\, Stippling \Stip"pling\, n. (Engraving) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines. 2. (Paint.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches. | |
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Stipple \Stip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stippling}.] [D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.] 1. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. --Milman. 2. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface. | |
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Stipple \Stip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stippling}.] [D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.] 1. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. --Milman. 2. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface. | |
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Stipple \Stip"ple\, Stippling \Stip"pling\, n. (Engraving) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines. 2. (Paint.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches. | |
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d8Stipula \[d8]Stip"u*la\, n.; pl. E. {Stipulas}, L. {Stipul[91]}. [L., a stalk, stem.] 1. (Bot.) A stipule. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A newly sprouted feather. | |
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Stipulaceous \Stip`u*la"ceous\, Stipular \Stip"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. stipulac[82], stipulaire. See {Stipula}.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils. | |
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Stipulaceous \Stip`u*la"ceous\, Stipular \Stip"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. stipulac[82], stipulaire. See {Stipula}.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils. | |
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Stipulary \Stip"u*la*ry\, a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular. | |
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d8Stipula \[d8]Stip"u*la\, n.; pl. E. {Stipulas}, L. {Stipul[91]}. [L., a stalk, stem.] 1. (Bot.) A stipule. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A newly sprouted feather. | |
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Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stipulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stipulating}.] [L. stipulatus, p. p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post. Cf. {Stiff}.] To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France. | |
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Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, a. (Bot.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. | |
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Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stipulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stipulating}.] [L. stipulatus, p. p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post. Cf. {Stiff}.] To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France. | |
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Stipulate \Stip"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stipulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stipulating}.] [L. stipulatus, p. p. of stipulari to stipulate, fr. OL. stipulus firm, fast; probably akin to L. stipes a post. Cf. {Stiff}.] To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France. | |
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Stipulation \Stip`u*la"tion\, n. [L. stipulatio: cf. F. stipulation.] 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement. 2. That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops. 3. (Law) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. --Bouvier. Wharton. Syn: Agreement; contract; engagement. See {Covenant}. | |
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Stipulation \Stip`u*la"tion\, n. [See {Stipule}.] (Bot.) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules. | |
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Stipulator \Stip"u*la`tor\, n. [L.] One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants. | |
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Stipule \Stip"ule\, n. [L. stipula a stalk, stem, straw: cf. F. stipule. Cf. {Stubble}.] (Bot.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance. | |
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Stipuled \Stip"uled\, a. (Bot.) Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages. | |
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Stop \Stop\, n. 1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. --De Foe. Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. --Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. --Locke. 2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction. A fatal stop traversed their headlong course. --Daniel. So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. --Rogers. 3. (Mach.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. 4. (Mus.) (a) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated. The organ sound a time survives the stop. --Daniel. (b) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop. 5. (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. 6. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See {Punctuation}. 7. (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. 8. (Zo[94]l.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. 9. (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. --H. Sweet. {Stop bead} (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide. {Stop motion} (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. {Stop plank}, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. {Stop valve}, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains. {Stop watch}, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See {Independent seconds watch}, under {Independent}, a. Syn: Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption. | |
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Stop \Stop\, n. 1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. --De Foe. Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. --Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. --Locke. 2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction. A fatal stop traversed their headlong course. --Daniel. So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. --Rogers. 3. (Mach.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. 4. (Mus.) (a) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated. The organ sound a time survives the stop. --Daniel. (b) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop. 5. (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. 6. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See {Punctuation}. 7. (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. 8. (Zo[94]l.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. 9. (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. --H. Sweet. {Stop bead} (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide. {Stop motion} (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. {Stop plank}, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. {Stop valve}, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains. {Stop watch}, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See {Independent seconds watch}, under {Independent}, a. Syn: Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption. | |
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Stopless \Stop"less\, a. Not to be stopped. --Davenant. | |
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Stopple \Stop"ple\, n. [Cf. G. st[94]pfel, st[94]psel. See {Stop}, n. & v. t.] That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple. | |
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Stopple \Stop"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoppled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stoppling}.] To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple. --Cowper. | |
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Stopple \Stop"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoppled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stoppling}.] To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple. --Cowper. | |
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Stopple \Stop"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stoppled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stoppling}.] To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple. --Cowper. | |
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Stubble \Stub"ble\, n. [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. [82]tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. {Stipule}.] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. [bd]After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.[b8] --Mortimer. {Stubble goose} (Zo[94]l.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. {Stubble rake}, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. | |
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Stubble \Stub"ble\, n. [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. [82]tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. {Stipule}.] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. [bd]After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.[b8] --Mortimer. {Stubble goose} (Zo[94]l.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. {Stubble rake}, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. | |
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Stubble \Stub"ble\, n. [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. [82]tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. {Stipule}.] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. [bd]After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.[b8] --Mortimer. {Stubble goose} (Zo[94]l.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. {Stubble rake}, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. | |
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Stubbled \Stub"bled\, a. 1. Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. --Gay. 2. Stubbed; as, stubbled legs. [Obs.] --Skelton. | |
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Stubbly \Stub"bly\, a. Covered with stubble; stubbled. | |
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Suadible \Suad"i*ble\, a. [L. suadibilis.] Suasible. [Obs.] --Wyclif (James iii. 17). | |
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Suitability \Suit`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. | |
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Suitable \Suit"a*ble\, a. Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- {Suit"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Suit"a*bly}, adv. Syn: Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent. | |
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Suitable \Suit"a*ble\, a. Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- {Suit"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Suit"a*bly}, adv. Syn: Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent. | |
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Suitable \Suit"a*ble\, a. Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- {Suit"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Suit"a*bly}, adv. Syn: Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent. | |
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Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te, OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr, s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.] 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}. {Sweet apple}. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See {Sweet-top}. {Sweet bay}. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}). (b) Swamp sassafras. {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora} ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray. (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing in England. {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet flag}, below. {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum}) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}. {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata}) found in Western North America. {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under {Corn}. {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus}) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See {Calamus}, 2. {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}. {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}. {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}. {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}. {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten. {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum}) allied to milfoil. {Sweet oil}, olive oil. {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}. {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}. {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag. {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous ether}, under {Spirit}. {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); -- called also {sultan flower}. {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] {Sweet William}. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many varieties. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.] {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale. {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}. {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. | |
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Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te, OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr, s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.] 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}. {Sweet apple}. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See {Sweet-top}. {Sweet bay}. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}). (b) Swamp sassafras. {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora} ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray. (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing in England. {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet flag}, below. {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum}) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}. {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata}) found in Western North America. {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under {Corn}. {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus}) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See {Calamus}, 2. {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}. {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}. {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}. {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}. {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten. {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum}) allied to milfoil. {Sweet oil}, olive oil. {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}. {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}. {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag. {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous ether}, under {Spirit}. {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); -- called also {sultan flower}. {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] {Sweet William}. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many varieties. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.] {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale. {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}. {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. | |
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Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te, OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr, s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.] 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}. {Sweet apple}. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See {Sweet-top}. {Sweet bay}. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}). (b) Swamp sassafras. {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora} ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray. (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing in England. {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet flag}, below. {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum}) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}. {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata}) found in Western North America. {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under {Corn}. {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus}) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See {Calamus}, 2. {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}. {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}. {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}. {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}. {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten. {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum}) allied to milfoil. {Sweet oil}, olive oil. {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}. {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}. {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag. {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous ether}, under {Spirit}. {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); -- called also {sultan flower}. {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] {Sweet William}. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many varieties. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.] {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale. {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}. {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. | |
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Flag \Flag\, n. [From {Flag} to hang loose, to bend down.] (Bot.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera {Iris} and {Acorus}. {Cooper's flag}, the cat-tail ({Typha latifolia}), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. {Corn flag}. See under 2d {Corn}. {Flag broom}, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes. {Flag root}, the root of the sweet flag. {Sweet flag}. See {Calamus}, n., 2. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Calamus \Cal"a*mus\, n.; pl. {Calami}. [L., a reed. See {Halm}.] 1. (Bot.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See {Rattan}, and {Dragon's blood}. 2. (Bot.) A species of {Acorus} ({A. calamus}), commonly called {calamus}, or {sweet flag}. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te, OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr, s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.] 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}. {Sweet apple}. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See {Sweet-top}. {Sweet bay}. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}). (b) Swamp sassafras. {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora} ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray. (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing in England. {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet flag}, below. {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum}) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}. {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata}) found in Western North America. {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under {Corn}. {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus}) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See {Calamus}, 2. {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}. {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}. {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}. {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}. {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten. {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum}) allied to milfoil. {Sweet oil}, olive oil. {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}. {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}. {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag. {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous ether}, under {Spirit}. {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); -- called also {sultan flower}. {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] {Sweet William}. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many varieties. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.] {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale. {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}. {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flag \Flag\, n. [From {Flag} to hang loose, to bend down.] (Bot.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera {Iris} and {Acorus}. {Cooper's flag}, the cat-tail ({Typha latifolia}), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. {Corn flag}. See under 2d {Corn}. {Flag broom}, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes. {Flag root}, the root of the sweet flag. {Sweet flag}. See {Calamus}, n., 2. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Calamus \Cal"a*mus\, n.; pl. {Calami}. [L., a reed. See {Halm}.] 1. (Bot.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See {Rattan}, and {Dragon's blood}. 2. (Bot.) A species of {Acorus} ({A. calamus}), commonly called {calamus}, or {sweet flag}. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill. | |
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Sadieville, KY (city, FIPS 67656) Location: 38.39128 N, 84.53647 W Population (1990): 255 (107 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 40370 | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
suitable win n. See {win}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
suitably small adj. [perverted from mathematical jargon] An expression used ironically to characterize unquantifiable behavior that differs from expected or required behavior. For example, suppose a newly created program came up with a correct full-screen display, and one publicly exclaimed: "It works!" Then, if the program dumped core on the first mouse click, one might add: "Well, for suitably small values of `works'." Compare the characterization of pi under {{random numbers}}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SITBOL ["SITBOL Version 3.0", J.F. Gimpel, TRS4D30b, Bell Labs, 1973]. (1997-09-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
STAPLE (University?) and used at {ICL} in the early 1970s for writing the test suites. STAPLE was based on {Algol 68} and had a very advanced {optimising compiler}. (2003-02-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Staple Saint Andrews Applicative Persistent Language. Language combining functional programming with persistent storage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Tony Davie, | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
STAPLE (University?) and used at {ICL} in the early 1970s for writing the test suites. STAPLE was based on {Algol 68} and had a very advanced {optimising compiler}. (2003-02-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Staple Saint Andrews Applicative Persistent Language. Language combining functional programming with persistent storage, developed at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Tony Davie, | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
suitably small used ironically to characterise unquantifiable behaviour that differs from expected or required behaviour. For example, suppose a newly created program came up with a correct full-screen display, and one publicly exclaimed: "It works!" Then, if the program dumped {core} on the first mouse click, one might add: "Well, for suitably small values of `works'." Compare the characterisation of pi under {for values of}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-09-21) |