English Dictionary: Szkelyfld | by the DICT Development Group |
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Sail \Sail\, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil, OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root] 153.] 1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. --Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing; a van. [Poetic] Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. --Spenser. 4. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill. 5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Note: In this sense, the plural has usually the same form as the singular; as, twenty sail were in sight. 6. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water. Note: Sails are of two general kinds, {fore-and-aft sails}, and {square sails}. Square sails are always bent to yards, with their foot lying across the line of the vessel. Fore-and-aft sails are set upon stays or gaffs with their foot in line with the keel. A fore-and-aft sail is triangular, or quadrilateral with the after leech longer than the fore leech. Square sails are quadrilateral, but not necessarily square. See Phrases under {Fore}, a., and {Square}, a.; also, {Bark}, {Brig}, {Schooner}, {Ship}, {Stay}. {Sail burton} (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft for bending. {Sail fluke} (Zo[94]l.), the whiff. {Sail hook}, a small hook used in making sails, to hold the seams square. {Sail loft}, a loft or room where sails are cut out and made. {Sail room} (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are stowed when not in use. {Sail yard} (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is extended. {Shoulder-of-mutton sail} (Naut.), a triangular sail of peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast. {To crowd sail}. (Naut.) See under {Crowd}. {To loose sails} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails. {To make sail} (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of sail. {To set a sail} (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the wind. {To set sail} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence, to begin a voyage. {To shorten sail} (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part. {To strike sail} (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension. {Under sail}, having the sails spread. | |
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Sailable \Sail"a*ble\, a. Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river. | |
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Sal \Sal\ (s[acr]l), n. [L. See {Salt}.] (Chem. & Pharm.) Salt. {Sal absinthii} [NL.] (Old Chem.), an impure potassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood ({Artemisia Absinthium}). {Sal acetosell[91]} [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt of sorrel. {Sal alembroth}. (Old Chem.) See {Alembroth}. {Sal ammoniac} (Chem.), ammonium chloride, {NH4Cl}, a white crystalline volatile substance having a sharp salty taste, obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also {muriate of ammonia}. {Sal catharticus} [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), Epsom salts. {Sal culinarius} [L.] (Old Chem.), common salt, or sodium chloride. {Sal Cyrenaicus}. [NL.] (Old Chem.) See {Sal ammoniac} above. {Sal de duobus}, {Sal duplicatum} [NL.] (Old Chem.), potassium sulphate; -- so called because erroneously supposed to be composed of two salts, one acid and one alkaline. {Sal diureticus} [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), potassium acetate. {Sal enixum} [NL.] (Old Chem.), acid potassium sulphate. {Sal gemm[91]} [NL.] (Old Min.), common salt occuring native. {Sal Jovis} [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt tin, or stannic chloride; -- the alchemical name of tin being Jove. {Sal Martis} [NL.] (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or ferrous sulphate; -- the alchemical name of iron being Mars. {Sal microcosmicum} [NL.] (Old Chem.) See {Microcosmic salt}, under {Microcosmic}. {Sal plumbi} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead. {Sal prunella}. (Old Chem.) See {Prunella salt}, under 1st {Prunella}. {Sal Saturni} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead, or lead acetate; -- the alchemical name of lead being Saturn. {Sal sedativus} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sedative salt, or boric acid. {Sal Seignette} [F. seignette, sel de seignette] (Chem.), Rochelle salt. {Sal soda} (Chem.), sodium carbonate. See under {Sodium}. {Sal vitrioli} [NL.] (Old Chem.), white vitriol; zinc sulphate. {Sal volatile}. [NL.] (a) (Chem.) See {Sal ammoniac}, above. (b) Spirits of ammonia. | |
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Sal \Sal\ (s[acr]l), n. [L. See {Salt}.] (Chem. & Pharm.) Salt. {Sal absinthii} [NL.] (Old Chem.), an impure potassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood ({Artemisia Absinthium}). {Sal acetosell[91]} [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt of sorrel. {Sal alembroth}. (Old Chem.) See {Alembroth}. {Sal ammoniac} (Chem.), ammonium chloride, {NH4Cl}, a white crystalline volatile substance having a sharp salty taste, obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also {muriate of ammonia}. {Sal catharticus} [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), Epsom salts. {Sal culinarius} [L.] (Old Chem.), common salt, or sodium chloride. {Sal Cyrenaicus}. [NL.] (Old Chem.) See {Sal ammoniac} above. {Sal de duobus}, {Sal duplicatum} [NL.] (Old Chem.), potassium sulphate; -- so called because erroneously supposed to be composed of two salts, one acid and one alkaline. {Sal diureticus} [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), potassium acetate. {Sal enixum} [NL.] (Old Chem.), acid potassium sulphate. {Sal gemm[91]} [NL.] (Old Min.), common salt occuring native. {Sal Jovis} [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt tin, or stannic chloride; -- the alchemical name of tin being Jove. {Sal Martis} [NL.] (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or ferrous sulphate; -- the alchemical name of iron being Mars. {Sal microcosmicum} [NL.] (Old Chem.) See {Microcosmic salt}, under {Microcosmic}. {Sal plumbi} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead. {Sal prunella}. (Old Chem.) See {Prunella salt}, under 1st {Prunella}. {Sal Saturni} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead, or lead acetate; -- the alchemical name of lead being Saturn. {Sal sedativus} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sedative salt, or boric acid. {Sal Seignette} [F. seignette, sel de seignette] (Chem.), Rochelle salt. {Sal soda} (Chem.), sodium carbonate. See under {Sodium}. {Sal vitrioli} [NL.] (Old Chem.), white vitriol; zinc sulphate. {Sal volatile}. [NL.] (a) (Chem.) See {Sal ammoniac}, above. (b) Spirits of ammonia. | |
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Salability \Sal`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or condition of being salable; salableness. --Duke of Argyll. | |
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Salable \Sal"a*ble\, a. [From {Sale}.] Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. -- {Sal"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sal"a*bly}, adv. | |
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Salable \Sal"a*ble\, a. [From {Sale}.] Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. -- {Sal"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sal"a*bly}, adv. | |
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Salable \Sal"a*ble\, a. [From {Sale}.] Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. -- {Sal"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sal"a*bly}, adv. | |
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Saleable \Sale"a*ble\, a., Saleably \Sale"a*bly\, adv., etc. See {Salable}, {Salably}, etc. | |
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Saleable \Sale"a*ble\, a., Saleably \Sale"a*bly\, adv., etc. See {Salable}, {Salably}, etc. | |
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Salival \Sa*li"val\ (?; 277), a. Salivary. | |
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d8Saibling \[d8]Sai"bling\, n. [Dial. G.] (Zo[94]l.) A European mountain trout ({Salvelinus alpinus}); -- called also {Bavarian charr}. | |
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Note: The most important European species are the river, or brown, trout ({Salmo fario}), the salmon trout, and the sewen. The most important American species are the brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout ({Salvelinus fontinalis}) of the Northern United States and Canada; the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see {Malma}); the lake trout (see {Namaycush}); the black-spotted, mountain, or silver, trout ({Salmo purpuratus}); the golden, or rainbow, trout (see under {Rainbow}); the blueback trout (see {Oquassa}); and the salmon trout (see under {Salmon}.) The European trout has been introduced into America. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also {salt-water trout}, {sea trout}, {shad trout}, and {gray trout}. See {Squeteague}, and {Rock trout} under {Rock}. {Trout perch} (Zo[94]l.), a small fresh-water American fish ({Percopsis guttatus}), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth. | |
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Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus {Salvelinus}, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout ({Salvelinus fontinalis}) is sometimes called a char. | |
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Malma \Mal"ma\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A spotted trout ({Salvelinus malma}), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also {Dolly Varden trout}, {bull trout}, {red-spotted trout}, and {golet}. | |
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Bull trout \Bull" trout`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as {Salmo trutta} and {S. Cambricus}, which ascend rivers; -- called also {sea trout}. (b) {Salvelinus malma} of California and Oregon; -- called also {Dolly Varden trout} and {red-spotted trout}. (c) The huso or salmon of the Danube. | |
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Lake \Lake\, n. [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. l[94]gr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. [?] pond, tank. Cf. {Loch}, {Lough}.] A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean. {Lake dwellers} (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland. {Lake dwellings} (Arch[91]ol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also {lacustrine dwellings}. See {Crannog}. {Lake fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus {Chironomus}. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larv[91] live in lakes. {Lake herring} (Zo[94]l.), the cisco ({Coregonus Artedii}). {Lake poets}, {Lake school}, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also {lakers} and {lakists}. {Lake sturgeon} (Zo[94]l.), a sturgeon ({Acipenser rubicundus}), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. {Lake trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. {Salmo fario}; in the United States, esp. {Salvelinus namaycush} of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout ({S. fontinalis}), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See {Namaycush}. {Lake whitefish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Whitefish}. {Lake whiting} (Zo[94]l.), an American whitefish ({Coregonus Labradoricus}), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish. | |
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Namaycush \Nam"ay*cush\, n. [Indian name.] (Zool.) A large North American lake trout ({Salvelinus namaycush}). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also {Mackinaw trout}, {lake trout}, {lake salmon}, {salmon trout}, {togue}, and {tuladi}. | |
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Oquassa \O*quas"sa\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small, handsome trout ({Salvelinus oquassa}), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also {blueback trout}. | |
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Scalable \Scal"a*ble\, a. Capable of being scaled. | |
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Scalp \Scalp\, n. [Perhaps akin to D. schelp shell. Cf. {Scallop}.] 1. That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair. By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction! --Shak. 2. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory. 3. Fig.: The top; the summit. --Macaulay. {Scalp lock}, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians. | |
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Scalpel \Scal"pel\ (sk[acr]l"p[ecr]l), n. [L. scalpellum, dim. of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. scalpel.] (Surg.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting. | |
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Schoolfellow \School"fel`low\, n. One bred at the same school; an associate in school. | |
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Sea level \Sea" lev"el\ The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea. | |
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Self-elective \Self`-e*lect"ive\, a. Having the right of electing one's self, or, as a body, of electing its own members. | |
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Self-heal \Self`-heal"\, n. (Bot.) A blue-flowered labiate plant ({Brunella vulgaris}); the healall. | |
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Self-healing \Self`-heal"ing\, a. Having the power or property of healing itself. | |
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Self-help \Self`-help"\, n. The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others. | |
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Self-help \Self`-help"\, n. (Law) The right or fact of redressing or preventing wrongs by one's own action without recourse to legal proceedings, as in self-defense, distress, abatement of a nuisance, etc. | |
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Selfless \Self"less\, a. Having no regard to self; unselfish. Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood. --Tennyson. | |
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Selflessness \Self"less*ness\, n. Quality or state of being selfless. | |
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Self-life \Self"-life`\, n. Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good. | |
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Self-love \Self`-love`\, n. The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. --Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. --Pope. Syn: Selfishness. Usage: {Self-love}, {Selfishness}. The term self-love is used in a twofold sense: 1. It denotes that longing for good or for well-being which actuates the breasts of all, entering into and characterizing every special desire. In this sense it has no moral quality, being, from the nature of the case, neither good nor evil. 2. It is applied to a voluntary regard for the gratification of special desires. In this sense it is morally good or bad according as these desires are conformed to duty or opposed to it. Selfishness is always voluntary and always wrong, being that regard to our own interests, gratification, etc., which is sought or indulged at the expense, and to the injury, of others. [bd]So long as self-love does not degenerate into selfishness, it is quite compatible with true benevolence.[b8] --Fleming. [bd]Not only is the phrase self-love used as synonymous with the desire of happiness, but it is often confounded with the word selfishness, which certainly, in strict propriety, denotes a very different disposition of mind.[b8] --Slewart. | |
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Self-luminous \Self`-lu"mi*nous\, a. Possessing in itself the property of emitting light. --Sir D. Brewster. | |
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Self-will \Self`-will"\, n. [AS. selfwill.] One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy. | |
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Self-willed \Self`-willed"\, a. Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate. | |
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Self-willedness \Self`-willed"ness\, n. Obstinacy. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Shell \Shell\, n. [OE. shelle, schelle, AS. scell, scyll; akin to D. shel, Icel. skel, Goth. skalja a tile, and E. skill. Cf. {Scale} of fishes, {Shale}, {Skill}.] 1. A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. Specifically: (a) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell. (b) A pod. (c) The hard covering of an egg. Think him as a serpent's egg, . . . And kill him in the shell. --Shak. (d) (Zo[94]l.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like. (e) (Zo[94]l.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering. 2. (Mil.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See {Bomb}. 3. The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms. 4. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house. 5. A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. --Knight. 6. An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. --Dryden. 7. An engraved copper roller used in print works. 8. pl. The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc. 9. (Naut.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve. 10. A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell. {Message shell}, a bombshell inside of which papers may be put, in order to convey messages. {Shell bit}, a tool shaped like a gouge, used with a brace in boring wood. See {Bit}, n., 3. {Shell button}. (a) A button made of shell. (b) A hollow button made of two pieces, as of metal, one for the front and the other for the back, -- often covered with cloth, silk, etc. {Shell cameo}, a cameo cut in shell instead of stone. {Shell flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Turtlehead}. {Shell gland}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A glandular organ in which the rudimentary shell is formed in embryonic mollusks. (b) A glandular organ which secretes the eggshells of various worms, crustacea, mollusks, etc. {Shell gun}, a cannon suitable for throwing shells. {Shell ibis} (Zo[94]l.), the openbill of India. {Shell jacket}, an undress military jacket. {Shell lime}, lime made by burning the shells of shellfish. {Shell marl} (Min.), a kind of marl characterized by an abundance of shells, or fragments of shells. {Shell meat}, food consisting of shellfish, or testaceous mollusks. --Fuller. {Shell mound}. See under {Mound}. {Shell of a boiler}, the exterior of a steam boiler, forming a case to contain the water and steam, often inclosing also flues and the furnace; the barrel of a cylindrical, or locomotive, boiler. {Shell road}, a road of which the surface or bed is made of shells, as oyster shells. {Shell sand}, minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seabeach in some places. | |
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Turtlehead \Tur"tle*head`\, n. (Bot.) An American perennial herb ({Chelone glabra}) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also {snakehead}, {shell flower}, and {balmony}. | |
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Shell \Shell\, n. [OE. shelle, schelle, AS. scell, scyll; akin to D. shel, Icel. skel, Goth. skalja a tile, and E. skill. Cf. {Scale} of fishes, {Shale}, {Skill}.] 1. A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. Specifically: (a) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell. (b) A pod. (c) The hard covering of an egg. Think him as a serpent's egg, . . . And kill him in the shell. --Shak. (d) (Zo[94]l.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like. (e) (Zo[94]l.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering. 2. (Mil.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See {Bomb}. 3. The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms. 4. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house. 5. A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. --Knight. 6. An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. --Dryden. 7. An engraved copper roller used in print works. 8. pl. The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc. 9. (Naut.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve. 10. A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell. {Message shell}, a bombshell inside of which papers may be put, in order to convey messages. {Shell bit}, a tool shaped like a gouge, used with a brace in boring wood. See {Bit}, n., 3. {Shell button}. (a) A button made of shell. (b) A hollow button made of two pieces, as of metal, one for the front and the other for the back, -- often covered with cloth, silk, etc. {Shell cameo}, a cameo cut in shell instead of stone. {Shell flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Turtlehead}. {Shell gland}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A glandular organ in which the rudimentary shell is formed in embryonic mollusks. (b) A glandular organ which secretes the eggshells of various worms, crustacea, mollusks, etc. {Shell gun}, a cannon suitable for throwing shells. {Shell ibis} (Zo[94]l.), the openbill of India. {Shell jacket}, an undress military jacket. {Shell lime}, lime made by burning the shells of shellfish. {Shell marl} (Min.), a kind of marl characterized by an abundance of shells, or fragments of shells. {Shell meat}, food consisting of shellfish, or testaceous mollusks. --Fuller. {Shell mound}. See under {Mound}. {Shell of a boiler}, the exterior of a steam boiler, forming a case to contain the water and steam, often inclosing also flues and the furnace; the barrel of a cylindrical, or locomotive, boiler. {Shell road}, a road of which the surface or bed is made of shells, as oyster shells. {Shell sand}, minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seabeach in some places. | |
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Turtlehead \Tur"tle*head`\, n. (Bot.) An American perennial herb ({Chelone glabra}) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also {snakehead}, {shell flower}, and {balmony}. | |
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Sheldafle \Sheld"a*fle\, Sheldaple \Sheld"a*ple\, n. [Perhaps for sheld dapple. Cf. {Sheldrake}.] (Zo[94]l.) A chaffinch. [Written also {sheldapple}, and {shellapple}.] | |
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Shellapple \Shell"ap`ple\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sheldafle}. | |
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Sheldafle \Sheld"a*fle\, Sheldaple \Sheld"a*ple\, n. [Perhaps for sheld dapple. Cf. {Sheldrake}.] (Zo[94]l.) A chaffinch. [Written also {sheldapple}, and {shellapple}.] | |
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Shellapple \Shell"ap`ple\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sheldafle}. | |
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d8Chelone \[d8]Che*lo"ne\, n. [Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper lip of the corolla.] (Bot.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order {Scrophulariace[91]}, natives of North America; -- called also {snakehead}, {turtlehead}, {shellflower}, etc. | |
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Cricket \Crick"et\ (kr?k"?t), n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See {Creak}.] (Zo[94]l.) An orthopterous insect of the genus {Gryllus}, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. Note: The common European cricket is {Gryllus domesticus}; the common large black crickets of America are {G. niger}, {G. neglectus}, and others. {Balm cricket}. See under {Balm}. {Cricket bird}, a small European bird ({Silvia locustella}); -- called also {grasshopper warbler}. {Cricket frog}, a small American tree frog ({Acris gryllus}); -- so called from its chirping. | |
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Skilful \Skil"ful\, a. See {Skilful}. | |
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Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.] 1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] [bd]Of skillful judgment.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. --Amos v. 16. Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Skill"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.] 1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] [bd]Of skillful judgment.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. --Amos v. 16. Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Skill"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.] 1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] [bd]Of skillful judgment.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. --Amos v. 16. Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. -- {Skill"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Skill"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Slab \Slab\, n. [OE. slabbe, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally meaning, a smooth piece, and akin to slape, Icel. sleipr slippery, and E. slip, v. i.] 1. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. --Gwilt. 2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] 4. (Naut.) The slack part of a sail. {Slab line} (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. --Totten. | |
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Slape \Slape\, a. [Icel. sleipr slippery; akin to E. slip.] Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. [Prov. Eng.] {Slape ale}, plain ale, as opposed to {medicated} or {mixed} ale. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Slaveholder \Slave"hold`er\, n. One who holds slaves. | |
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Slaveholding \Slave"hold`ing\, a. Holding persons in slavery. | |
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Sleepful \Sleep"ful\, a. Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- {Sleep"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Sleepful \Sleep"ful\, a. Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- {Sleep"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Sleepily \Sleep"i*ly\, adv. In a sleepy manner; drowsily. | |
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Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a. 1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. [bd]Biscay's sleepless bay.[b8] --Byron. -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sleep"less*ness}, n. | |
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Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a. 1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. [bd]Biscay's sleepless bay.[b8] --Byron. -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sleep"less*ness}, n. | |
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Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a. 1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. [bd]Biscay's sleepless bay.[b8] --Byron. -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sleep"less*ness}, n. | |
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Sleepwalker \Sleep"walk`er\, n. One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist. | |
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Sleepwalking \Sleep"walk`ing\, n. Walking in one's sleep. | |
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Sleeve \Sleeve\, n. [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. sl[?]fe, sl[?]fe; akin to sl[?]fan to put on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove the turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves, sleve a sleeve, G. schlaube a husk, pod.] 1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. --Chaucer. 2. A narrow channel of water. [R.] The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. --Drayton. 3. (Mach.) (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts. (b) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. (c) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes. {Sleeve button}, a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff. {Sleeve links}, two bars or buttons linked together, and used to fasten a cuff or wristband. {To laugh in the sleeve}, to laugh privately or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times. {To pin}, [or] {hang}, {on the sleeve of}, to be, or make, dependent upon. | |
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Sleeveless \Sleeve"less\, a. [AS. sl[?]fle[a0]s.] 1. Having no sleeves. 2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] --Shak. The vexation of a sleeveless errand. --Bp. Warburton. | |
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{To give one the slip}, to slip away from one; to elude one. {Slip dock}. See under {Dock}. {Slip link} (Mach.), a connecting link so arranged as to allow some play of the parts, to avoid concussion. {Slip rope} (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured preparatory to slipping. --Totten. {Slip stopper} (Naut.), an arrangement for letting go the anchor suddenly. | |
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Slop \Slop\, n. [OE. sloppe a pool; akin to As. sloppe, slyppe, the sloppy droppings of a cow; cf. AS. sl[?]pan to slip, and E. slip, v.i. Cf. {Cowslip}.] 1. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. 2. Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural. 3. pl. Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. {Slop basin}, [or] {Slop bowl}, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. {Slop molding} (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet. | |
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Sole \Sole\, n. [F. sole, L. solea; -- so named from its flat shape. See {Sole} of the foot.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus {Solea} and allied genera of the family {Soleid[91]}, especially the common European species ({Solea vulgaris}), which is a valuable food fish. (b) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole ({Lepidopsetta bilineata}), the long-finned sole ({Glyptocephalus zachirus}), and other species. {Lemon}, [or] {French}, {sole} (Zo[94]l.), a European species of sole ({Solea pegusa}). {Smooth sole} (Zo[94]l.), the megrim. | |
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Soleplate \Sole"plate`\, n. (Mach.) (a) A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine. (b) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket. | |
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Bedpiece \Bed"piece`\, Bedplate \Bed"plate`\, n. (Mach.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also {baseplate} and {soleplate}. | |
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Soleplate \Sole"plate`\, n. (Mach.) (a) A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine. (b) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket. | |
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Bedpiece \Bed"piece`\, Bedplate \Bed"plate`\, n. (Mach.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also {baseplate} and {soleplate}. | |
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Solubility \Sol`u*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. solubilit[82].] 1. The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty. 2. (Bot.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil. | |
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Soluble \Sol"u*ble\, a. [L. solubilis, fr. solvere, solutum, to loosen, to dissolve: cf. F. soluble. See {Solve}, and cf. {Solvable}.] 1. Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water. Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire. --Arbuthnot. 2. Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. [bd]More soluble is this knot.[b8] --Tennyson. 3. Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] [bd]The bowels must be kept soluble.[b8] --Dunglison. {Soluble glass}. (Chem.) See under {Glass}. | |
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Soluble \Sol"u*ble\, a. [L. solubilis, fr. solvere, solutum, to loosen, to dissolve: cf. F. soluble. See {Solve}, and cf. {Solvable}.] 1. Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water. Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire. --Arbuthnot. 2. Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. [bd]More soluble is this knot.[b8] --Tennyson. 3. Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] [bd]The bowels must be kept soluble.[b8] --Dunglison. {Soluble glass}. (Chem.) See under {Glass}. | |
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Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.] 1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament. Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow. 2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: (a) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand. She would not live The running of one glass. --Shak. (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. (e) A weatherglass; a barometer. Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc. {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian}, {Cut}, etc. {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing. {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in the Vocabulary. {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened. {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide. {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion glass. {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube. {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers. {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart. Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F. Cooper. {Glass cutter}. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass. {Glass cutting}. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved. {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass. {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like. {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes. {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders. {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam. {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass. {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting. {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}. {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made. {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash. {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}. {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows. {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot. {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}. {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid. {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, {Bastie glass}. {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above. {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows. | |
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Ferment \Fer"ment\, n. [L. fermentum ferment (in senses 1 & 2), perh. for fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. ferment. Cf. 1st {Barm}, {Fervent}.] 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: ({a}) Formed or organized ferments. ({b}) Unorganized or structureless ferments. The latter are also called {soluble [or] chemical ferments}, and {enzymes}. Ferments of the first class are as a rule simple microscopic vegetable organisms, and the fermentations which they engender are due to their growth and development; as, the {acetic ferment}, the {butyric ferment}, etc. See {Fermentation}. Ferments of the second class, on the other hand, are chemical substances, as a rule soluble in glycerin and precipitated by alcohol. In action they are catalytic and, mainly, hydrolytic. Good examples are pepsin of the dastric juice, ptyalin of the salvia, and disease of malt. | |
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Phosphoric \Phos*phor"ic\, a. [Cf. F. phosphorique.] 1. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds. 2. Phosphorescent. [bd]A phosphoric sea.[b8] --Byron. {Glacial phosphoric acid}. (Chem.) (a) Metaphosphoric acid in the form of glassy semitransparent masses or sticks. (b) Pure normal phosphoric acid. {Phosphoric acid} (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, {H3PO4}, which is the most highly oxidized acid of phosphorus, and forms an important and extensive series of compounds, viz., the phosphates. {Soluble phosphoric acid}, {Insoluble phosphoric acid} (Agric. Chem.), phosphoric acid combined in acid salts, or in neutral or basic salts, which are respectively soluble and insoluble in water or in plant juices. {Reverted phosphoric acid} (Agric. Chem.), phosphoric acid changed from acid (soluble) salts back to neutral or basic (insoluble) salts. | |
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Solubleness \Sol"u*ble*ness\, n. Quality or state of being soluble. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Soul \Soul\, n. [OE. soule, saule, AS. s[be]wel, s[be]wl; akin to OFries. s[?]le, OS. s[?]ola, D. ziel, G. seele, OHG. s[?]la, s[?]ula, Icel. s[be]la, Sw. sj[84]l, Dan. si[91]l, Goth. saiwala; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to L. saeculum a lifetime, age (cf. {Secular}.)] 1. The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, [bd]an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence.[b8] --Tylor. The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing. --Law. 2. The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part. [bd]The hidden soul of harmony.[b8] --Milton. Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul. --Milton. 3. The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army. He is the very soul of bounty! --Shak. 4. Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness. That he wants algebra he must confess; But not a soul to give our arms success. --Young. 5. A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. --Prov. xxv. 25. God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the aword! --Shak. Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper. 6. A pure or disembodied spirit. That to his only Son . . . every soul in heaven Shall bend the knee. --Milton. Note: Soul is used in the formation of numerous compounds, most of which are of obvious signification; as, soul-betraying, soul-consuming, soul-destroying, soul-distracting, soul-enfeebling, soul-exalting, soul-felt, soul-harrowing, soul-piercing, soul-quickening, soul-reviving, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, soul-withering, etc. Syn: Spirit; life; courage; fire; ardor. {Cure of souls}. See {Cure}, n., 2. {Soul bell}, the passing bell. --Bp. Hall. {Soul foot}. See {Soul scot}, below. [Obs.] {Soul scot} [or] {Soul shot}. [Soul + scot, or shot; cf. AS. s[be]welsceat.] (O. Eccl. Law) A funeral duty paid in former times for a requiem for the soul. --Ayliffe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swallow \Swal"low\, n. [OE. swalowe, AS. swalewe, swealwe; akin to D. zwaluw, OHG. swalawa, G. schwalbe, Icel. & Sw. svala, Dan. svale.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family {Hirundinid[91]}, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note: The most common North American species are the barn swallow (see under {Barn}), the cliff, or eaves, swallow (see under {Cliff}), the white-bellied, or tree, swallow ({Tachycineta bicolor}), and the bank swallow (see under {Bank}). The common European swallow ({Chelidon rustica}), and the window swallow, or martin ({Chelidon urbica}), are familiar species. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. 3. (Naut.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Swallow plover} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus {Glareola}, as {G. orientalis} of India; a pratincole. {Swallow shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family {Artamiid[91]}, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits. The ashy swallow shrike ({Artamus fuscus}) is common in India. {Swallow warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus {Dic[91]um}. They are allied to the honeysuckers. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syllable \Syl"la*ble\, n. [OE. sillable, OF. sillabe, F. syllabe, L. syllaba, Gr. [?] that which is held together, several letters taken together so as to form one sound, a syllable, fr. [?] to take together; [?] with + [?] to take; cf. Skr. labh, rabh. Cf. {Lemma}, {Dilemma}.] 1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or re[89]nforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect]275. 2. In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language. Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter. --Chaucer. 3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. Before any syllable of the law of God was written. --Hooker. Who dare speak One syllable against him? --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syllable \Syl"la*ble\, v. t. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sylphlike \Sylph"like`\, a. Like a sylph; airy; graceful. Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze. --Byron. | |
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Scalp Level, PA (borough, FIPS 68104) Location: 40.24928 N, 78.84395 W Population (1990): 1158 (476 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Seelyville, IN (town, FIPS 68652) Location: 39.49400 N, 87.26705 W Population (1990): 1090 (506 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Shell Valley, ND (CDP, FIPS 72250) Location: 48.79792 N, 99.86433 W Population (1990): 343 (90 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Sleepy Hollow, IL (village, FIPS 70161) Location: 42.09345 N, 88.31416 W Population (1990): 3241 (1064 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Sleepy Hollow, WY (CDP, FIPS 71350) Location: 44.24102 N, 105.42156 W Population (1990): 1194 (349 housing units) Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
scalability How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central {server} of some kind with ten {client}s may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it might fail to meet response time requirements. In this case, the average response time probably scales linearly with the number of clients, we say it has a {complexity} of O(N) ("order N") but there are problems with other complexities. E.g. if we want N nodes in a network to be able to communicate with each other, we could connect each one to a central exchange, requiring O(N) wires or we could provide a direct connection between each pair, requiring O(N^2) wires (the exact number or formula is not usually so important as the highest power of N involved). (1995-03-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Scalable Coherent Interface {standard} that defines a point-to-point {interface} and a set of {packet} {protocols}. The SCI protocols use packets with a 16-byte {header} and 16, 64, or 256 data bytes. Each packet is protected by a 16-bit {CRC} code. The standard defines 1 Gbit/second {serial} {fiber-optic} links and 1 Gbyte/second {parallel} copper links. SCI has two unidirectional links that operate concurrently. The SCI protocols support {shared memory} by encapsulating {bus} requests and responses into SCI request and response packets. Packet-based {handshake} protocols guarantee reliable data delivery. A set of {cache coherence} protocols are defined to maintain cache coherence in a {shared memory system}. {Message passing} is supported by a compatible subset of the SCI protocols. This protocol subset does not invoke SCI cache coherency protocols. SCI uses 64-bit {addressing} and the most significant 16 bits are used for addressing up to 64K {nodes}. {http://www.uni-paderborn.de/pc2/systems/sci/}. [Applications?] (1999-03-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Scalable Processor ARChitecture by {Sun Microsystems} for their own use in 1985. Sun was a maker of {680x0}-based {Unix} {workstations}. Research versions of {RISC} processors had promised a major step forward in speed but existing manufacturers were slow to introduce a RISC type processor, so Sun went ahead and developed its own, based on the {University of California at Berkley}'s {RISC I} and {RISC II} 1980-2. In keeping with their open philosophy, they licenced it to other companies, rather than manufacture it themselves. The evolution and standardisation of SPARC is now directed by the non-profit consortium {SPARC International, Inc.} SPARC was not the first {RISC} processor. The {AMD 29000} came before it, as did the {MIPS R2000} (based on {Stanford}'s design) and {Hewlett-Packard} {Precision Architecture} {CPU}, among others. The SPARC design was radical at the time, even omitting multiple cycle multiply and divide instructions (like a few others), while most RISC CPUs are more conventional. SPARC implementations usually contain 128 or 144 {registers}, ({CISC} designs typically had 16 or less). At each time 32 registers are available - 8 are global, the rest are allocated in a "window" from a stack of registers. The window is moved 16 registers down the stack during a function call, so that the upper and lower 8 registers are shared between functions, to pass and return values, and 8 are local. The window is moved up on return, so registers are loaded or saved only at the top or bottom of the register stack. This allows functions to be called in as little as 1 cycle. Like some other RISC processors, reading global register zero always returns zero and writing it has no effect. SPARC is {pipelined} for performance, and like previous processors, a dedicated {condition code register} holds comparison results. SPARC is "scalable" mainly because the register stack can be expanded (up to 512, or 32 windows), to reduce loads and saves between functions, or scaled down to reduce {interrupt} or {context switch} time, when the entire register set has to be saved. Function calls are usually much more frequent, so the large register set is usually a plus. SPARC is not a chip, but a specification, and so there are various implementations of it. It has undergone revisions, and now has multiply and divide instructions. Most versions are 32 bits, but there are designs for 64-bit and {superscalar} versions. SPARC was submitted to the {IEEE} society to be considered for the {P1754} microprocessor standard. SPARC(R) is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. [The SPARC Architecture Manual, v8, ISBN 0-13-825001-4]. (1994-11-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Scalable Sampling Rate AAC SSR}. (2001-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Scalable Vector Graphics graphics}, based on {XML}. {Home (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/)}. (2001-02-06) |