English Dictionary: sea spider | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scarab \Scar"ab\, Scarabee \Scar"a*bee\, n. [L. scarabaeus; cf. F. scarab[82]e.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus {Scarab[91]us}, or family {Scarab[91]id[91]}, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species ({Scarab[91]us sacer}, and {S. Egyptiorum}). | |
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Sackbut \Sack"but\, n. [F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier, sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to put into a bag or take out from a bag; see {Sack} a bag) + bouter to push (see {Butt} to thrust). The name was given to the musical instrument from its being lengthened and shortened.] (Mus.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also {sagbut}.] --Moore (Encyc. of Music). Note: The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument. | |
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Sackbut \Sack"but\, n. [F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier, sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to put into a bag or take out from a bag; see {Sack} a bag) + bouter to push (see {Butt} to thrust). The name was given to the musical instrument from its being lengthened and shortened.] (Mus.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also {sagbut}.] --Moore (Encyc. of Music). Note: The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument. | |
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d8Schizomycetes \[d8]Schiz`o*my*ce"tes\, n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. [?] to split + [?], -[?], a fungus.] (Biol.) An order of {Schizophyta}, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See {Schizophyta}, in the Supplement. | |
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Schizophyte \Schiz"o*phyte\, n. [Schizo- + Gr. [?] a plant.] (Biol.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not. | |
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Schizopod \Schiz"o*pod\ (?; 277), n. (Zo[94]l.) one of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively. | |
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Schizopod \Schiz"o*pod\ (?; 277), Schizopodous \Schi*zop"o*dous\, a. Of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda. | |
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Schizopod \Schiz"o*pod\ (?; 277), Schizopodous \Schi*zop"o*dous\, a. Of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda. | |
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Sea captain \Sea" cap"tain\ The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea. | |
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Sea spider \Sea" spi"der\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See {Maioid}, and {Spider crab}, under {Spider}. (b) Any pycnogonid. | |
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Sesquipedal \Ses*quip"e*dal\, Sesquipedalian \Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an\, a. [Sesqui- + pedal: cf. F. sesquip[82]dal, L. sesquipedalis.] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. | |
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Sesquipedal \Ses*quip"e*dal\, Sesquipedalian \Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an\, a. [Sesqui- + pedal: cf. F. sesquip[82]dal, L. sesquipedalis.] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. | |
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Sesquipedalianism \Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an*ism\, Sesquipedalism \Ses*quip"e*dal*ism\, n. Sesquipedality. | |
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Sesquipedalianism \Ses`qui*pe*da"li*an*ism\, Sesquipedalism \Ses*quip"e*dal*ism\, n. Sesquipedality. | |
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Sesqyipedality \Ses`qyi*pe*dal"i*ty\, n. 1. The quality or condition of being sesquipedal. --Sterne. 2. The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipedalism. | |
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Sexfid \Sex"fid\, Sexifid \Sex"i*fid\, a. [Sex- + root of L. findere to split: cf. F. sexfide.] (Bot.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary. | |
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Sexfid \Sex"fid\, Sexifid \Sex"i*fid\, a. [Sex- + root of L. findere to split: cf. F. sexfide.] (Bot.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary. | |
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Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se[a2]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj[?]kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under {Illness}. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. --Fuller. {Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. {Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick. {Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. {Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. {Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick. {Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.] Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. | |
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Six-footer \Six"-foot`er\, n. One who is six feet tall. [Colloq. U.S.] | |
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Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus {Cucurbita}, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called {Cucurbita verrucosa}, the Barbary or China squash, {C. moschata}, and the great winter squash, {C. maxima}, but the distinctions are not clear. {Squash beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica, [or] Galeruca vittata}) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. {Squash bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect ({Coreus, [or] Anasa, tristis}) injurious to squash vines. | |
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Susceptibility \Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Susceptibilities}. [Cf. F. susceptibilit[82].] 1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected. 2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness. {Magnetic susceptibility} (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength. --Sir W. Thomson. Syn: Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion. | |
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Susceptibility \Sus*cep`ti*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Susceptibilities}. [Cf. F. susceptibilit[82].] 1. The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected. 2. Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness. {Magnetic susceptibility} (Physics), the intensity of magnetization of a body placed in a uniform megnetic field of unit strength. --Sir W. Thomson. Syn: Capability; sensibility; feeling; emotion. | |
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Susceptible \Sus*cep"ti*ble\, a. [F., from L. suscipere, susceptum, to take up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus (see {Sub-}) + capere to take. See {Capable}.] 1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. --Young. 2. Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart. | |
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Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. --Cowper. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. --Lamb. -- {Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sus*cep"ti*bly}, adv. | |
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Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. --Cowper. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. --Lamb. -- {Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sus*cep"ti*bly}, adv. | |
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Susception \Sus*cep"tion\, n. [L. susceptio: cf. F. susception. See {Susceptible}.] The act of taking; reception. | |
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Susceptive \Sus*cep"tive\, a. Susceptible. --I. Watts. -- {Sus*cep"tive*ness}, n. | |
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Susceptive \Sus*cep"tive\, a. Susceptible. --I. Watts. -- {Sus*cep"tive*ness}, n. | |
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Susceptivity \Sus`cep*tiv"i*ty\, n. Capacity for receiving; susceptibility. [R.] --Wollaston. | |
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Susceptor \Sus*cep"tor\, n. [L. See {Susceptible}.] One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian. --Puller. Shipley. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sackbut (Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument. | |
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Sosipater (See {SOPATER}.) |