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Marsh \Marsh\, n. [OE. mersch, AS. mersc, fr. mere lake. See {Mere} pool, and cf. {Marish}, {Morass}.] A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. [Written also {marish}.] {Marsh asphodel} (Bot.), a plant ({Nartheeium ossifragum}) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also {bog asphodel}. {Marsh cinquefoil} (Bot.), a plant ({Potentilla palustris}) having purple flowers, and found growing in marshy places; marsh five-finger. {Marsh elder}. (Bot.) (a) The guelder-rose or cranberry tree ({Viburnum Opulus}). (b) In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes ({Iva frutescens}). {Marsh five-finger}. (Bot.) See {Marsh cinquefoil} (above). {Marsh gas}. (Chem.) See under {Gas}. {Marsh grass} (Bot.), a genus ({Spartina}) of coarse grasses growing in marshes; -- called also {cord grass}. The tall {S. cynosuroides} is not good for hay unless cut very young. The low {S. juncea} is a common component of salt hay. {Marsh harrier} (Zo[94]l.), a European hawk or harrier ({Circus [91]ruginosus}); -- called also {marsh hawk}, {moor hawk}, {moor buzzard}, {puttock}. {Marsh hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A hawk or harrier ({Circus cyaneus}), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above, with a white rump. Called also {hen harrier}, and {mouse hawk}. (b) The marsh harrier. {Marsh hen} (Zo[94]l.), a rail; esp., {Rallus elegans} of fresh-water marshes, and {R. longirostris} of salt-water marshes. {Marsh mallow} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Alth[91]a} ( {A. officinalis}) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. {Marsh marigold}. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. {Marsh pennywort} (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus {Hydrocotyle}; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; -- called also {water pennywort}. {Marsh quail} (Zo[94]l.), the meadow lark. {Marsh rosemary} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Statice} ({S. Limonium}), common in salt marshes. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also {sea lavender}. {Marsh samphire} (Bot.), a plant ({Salicornia herbacea}) found along seacoasts. See {Glasswort}. {Marsh St. John's-wort} (Bot.), an American herb ({Elodes Virginica}) with small opposite leaves and flesh-colored flowers. {Marsh tea}. (Bot.). Same as {Labrador tea}. {Marsh trefoil}. (Bot.) Same as {Buckbean}. {Marsh wren} (Zo[94]l.), any species of small American wrens of the genus {Cistothorus}, and allied genera. They chiefly inhabit salt marshes. | |
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Somaj \So"maj"\, Samaj \Sa*maj"\, n. A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [India] | |
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d8Samshoo \[d8]Sam"shoo\, Samshu \Sam"shu\, n. [Chinese san-shao thrice fired.] A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure. --S. W. Williams. | |
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Sancho \San"cho\, n. [Sp., a proper name.] (Card Playing) The nine of trumps in sancho pedro. | |
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Sang \Sang\, imp. of {Sing}. | |
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Sing \Sing\, v. i. [imp. {Sung}or {Sang}; p. p. {Sung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singing}.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. [?][?][?] voice. Cf. {Singe}, {Song}.] 1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii. 18. 2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer. Singing birds, in silver cages hung. --Dryden. 3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope. 4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. --Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. --Prior. | |
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d8Sanga \[d8]San"ga\, Sangu \San"gu\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The Abyssinian ox ({Bos [or] Bibos, Africanus}), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back. | |
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Sanious \Sa"ni*ous\, a. [L. saniosus, fr. sanies: cf. F. sanieux.] 1. (Med.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer. 2. (med.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer. | |
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Sank \Sank\, imp. of {Sink}. | |
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Sink \Sink\, v. i. [imp. {Sunk}, or ({Sank}); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinking}.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s[94]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. {Silt}.] 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. 4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen. | |
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Saw \Saw\, v. t. [imp. {Sawed}; p. p. {Sawed} [or] {Sawn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sawing}.] 1. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble. 2. To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel. 3. Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air. | |
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Saying \Say"ing\, n. That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. --Milton. Syn: Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm; saw; proverb; byword. | |
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Say \Say\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Said} (s[ecr]d), contracted from sayed; p. pr. & vb. n. {Saying}.] [OE. seggen, seyen, siggen, sayen, sayn, AS. secgan; akin to OS. seggian, D. zeggen, LG. seggen, OHG. sag[c7]n, G. sagen, Icel. segja, Sw. s[84]ga, Dan. sige, Lith. sakyti; cf. OL. insece tell, relate, Gr. 'e`nnepe (for 'en-sepe), 'e`spete. Cf. {Saga}, {Saw} a saying.] 1. To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things. Arise, and say how thou camest here. --Shak. 2. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson. Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say? --Shak. After which shall be said or sung the following hymn. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. 3. To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to. But what it is, hard is to say. --Milton. 4. To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles. Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? --Shak. {It is said}, [or] {They say}, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain. {That is to say}, that is; in other words; otherwise. | |
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Scenic \Scen"ic\, Scenical \Scen"ic*al\, a. [L. scaenicus, scenicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. sc[82]nique. See {Scene}.] Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical. All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. --De Quincey. | |
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d8Schema \[d8]Sche"ma\, n.; pl. {Schemata}, E. {Schemas}. [G. See {Scheme}.] (Kantian Philos.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect. | |
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Sciamachy \Sci*am"a*chy\, n. See {Sciomachy}. | |
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Science \Sci"ence\, n. [F., fr. L. scientia, fr. sciens, -entis, p. pr. of scire to know. Cf. {Conscience}, {Conscious}, {Nice}.] 1. Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass. --Hammond. Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. --Coleridge. 2. Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge. All this new science that men lere [teach]. --Chaucer. Science is . . . a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter, the character of real truth. --Sir W. Hamilton. 3. Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also {natural science}, and {physical science}. Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy. --J. Morley. 4. Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind. Note: The ancients reckoned seven sciences, namely, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- the first three being included in the Trivium, the remaining four in the Quadrivium. Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. --Pope. 5. Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles. His science, coolness, and great strength. --G. A. Lawrence. Note: Science is applied or pure. Applied science is a knowledge of facts, events, or phenomena, as explained, accounted for, or produced, by means of powers, causes, or laws. Pure science is the knowledge of these powers, causes, or laws, considered apart, or as pure from all applications. Both these terms have a similar and special signification when applied to the science of quantity; as, the applied and pure mathematics. Exact science is knowledge so systematized that prediction and verification, by measurement, experiment, observation, etc., are possible. The mathematical and physical sciences are called the exact sciences. {Comparative sciences}, {Inductive sciences}. See under {Comparative}, and {Inductive}. Syn: Literature; art; knowledge. Usage: {Science}, {Literature}, {Art}. Science is literally knowledge, but more usually denotes a systematic and orderly arrangement of knowledge. In a more distinctive sense, science embraces those branches of knowledge of which the subject-matter is either ultimate principles, or facts as explained by principles or laws thus arranged in natural order. The term literature sometimes denotes all compositions not embraced under science, but usually confined to the belles-lettres. [See {Literature}.] Art is that which depends on practice and skill in performance. [bd]In science, scimus ut sciamus; in art, scimus ut producamus. And, therefore, science and art may be said to be investigations of truth; but one, science, inquires for the sake of knowledge; the other, art, for the sake of production; and hence science is more concerned with the higher truths, art with the lower; and science never is engaged, as art is, in productive application. And the most perfect state of science, therefore, will be the most high and accurate inquiry; the perfection of art will be the most apt and efficient system of rules; art always throwing itself into the form of rules.[b8] --Karslake. | |
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Science \Sci"ence\, v. t. To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct. [R.] --Francis. | |
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Sciomachy \Sci*om"a*chy\, n. [Gr. [?], [?]; [?] a shadow + [?] battle: cf. F. sciomachie, sciamachie.] A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also {scimachy}.] --Cowley. | |
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Scink \Scink\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A skink. | |
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Scink \Scink\, n. A slunk calf. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] | |
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Skink \Skink\, n. [L. scincus, Gr. [?][?][?][?].] [Written also {scink}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family {Scincid[91]}, common in the warmer parts of all the continents. Note: The officinal skink ({Scincus officinalis}) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species ({Seps tridactylus}) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus {Eumeces}, as the blue-tailed skink ({E. fasciatus}) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard ({Oligosoma laterale}) inhabits the Southern United States. | |
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Scink \Scink\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A skink. | |
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Scink \Scink\, n. A slunk calf. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] | |
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Skink \Skink\, n. [L. scincus, Gr. [?][?][?][?].] [Written also {scink}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family {Scincid[91]}, common in the warmer parts of all the continents. Note: The officinal skink ({Scincus officinalis}) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species ({Seps tridactylus}) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus {Eumeces}, as the blue-tailed skink ({E. fasciatus}) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard ({Oligosoma laterale}) inhabits the Southern United States. | |
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Sciomachy \Sci*om"a*chy\, n. [Gr. [?], [?]; [?] a shadow + [?] battle: cf. F. sciomachie, sciamachie.] A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also {scimachy}.] --Cowley. | |
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Sconce \Sconce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sconced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sconcing}.] 1. To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. [Obs.] Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. --Marston. 2. To mulct; to fine. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Sconce \Sconce\, n. [D. schans, OD. schantse, perhaps from OF. esconse a hiding place, akin to esconser to hide, L. absconsus, p. p. of abscondere. See {Abscond}, and cf. {Ensconce}, {Sconce} a candlestick.] 1. A fortification, or work for defense; a fort. No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. --Milton. 2. A hut for protection and shelter; a stall. One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. --Beau. & Fl. 3. A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet. I must get a sconce for my head. --Shak. 4. Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. --Shak. 5. A poll tax; a mulct or fine. --Johnson. 6. [OF. esconse a dark lantern, properly, a hiding place. See Etymol. above.] A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick. Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. --Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. --Dryden. 7. Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted. 8. (Arch.) A squinch. 9. A fragment of a floe of ice. --Kane. 10. [Perhaps a different word.] A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Squinch \Squinch\, n. [Corrupted fr. sconce.] (Arch.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also {sconce}, and {sconcheon}. | |
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Sconce \Sconce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sconced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sconcing}.] 1. To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. [Obs.] Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. --Marston. 2. To mulct; to fine. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Sconce \Sconce\, n. [D. schans, OD. schantse, perhaps from OF. esconse a hiding place, akin to esconser to hide, L. absconsus, p. p. of abscondere. See {Abscond}, and cf. {Ensconce}, {Sconce} a candlestick.] 1. A fortification, or work for defense; a fort. No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. --Milton. 2. A hut for protection and shelter; a stall. One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. --Beau. & Fl. 3. A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet. I must get a sconce for my head. --Shak. 4. Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. --Shak. 5. A poll tax; a mulct or fine. --Johnson. 6. [OF. esconse a dark lantern, properly, a hiding place. See Etymol. above.] A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick. Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. --Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. --Dryden. 7. Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted. 8. (Arch.) A squinch. 9. A fragment of a floe of ice. --Kane. 10. [Perhaps a different word.] A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Squinch \Squinch\, n. [Corrupted fr. sconce.] (Arch.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also {sconce}, and {sconcheon}. | |
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Sea moss \Sea" moss`\ (?; 115). (Zo[94]l.) Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss. | |
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Sea mouse \Sea" mouse`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to {Aphrodite} and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike set[91] on the sides. (b) The dunlin. | |
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Sea wing \Sea" wing`\ (Zo[94]l.) A wing shell ({Avicula}). | |
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Seannachie \Sean"na*chie\, n. [Gael. seanachaidh.] A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also {senachy}.] [Scot.] | |
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See \See\, v. t. [imp. {Saw}; p. p. {Seen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeing}.] [OE. seen, sen, seon, As. se[a2]n; akin to OFries. s[c6]a, D. zien, OS. & OHG. sehan, G. sehen, Icel. sj[be], Sw. se, Dan. see, Goth. sa[a1]hwan, and probably to L. sequi to follow (and so originally meaning, to follow with the eyes). Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?], Skr. sac. Cf. {Sight}, {Sun} to follow.] 1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view. I will new turn aside, and see this great sight. --Ex. iii. 3. 2. To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain. Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. --Gen. xxxvii. 14. Jesus saw that he answered discreetly. --Mark xii. 34. Who 's so gross That seeth not this palpable device? --Shak. 3. To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after. --Shak. I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for centradicting him. --Addison. 4. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend. And Samuel came no more to see Saul untill the day of his death. --1 Sam. xv. 35. 5. To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. --Ps. xc. 15. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. --John viii. 51. Improvement in visdom and prudence by seeing men. --Locke. 6. To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars. {God you} ({him, [or] me}, etc.) {see}, God keep you (him, me, etc.) in his sight; God protect you. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To see} (anything) {out}, to see (it) to the end; to be present at, or attend, to the end. {To see stars}, to see flashes of light, like stars; -- sometimes the result of concussion of the head. [Colloq.] {To see (one) through}, to help, watch, or guard (one) to the end of a course or an undertaking. | |
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Seeing \See"ing\, conj. (but originally a present participle). In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young. Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me? --Gen. xxvi. 27. | |
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Semious \Sem"i*ous\, a.[L. simia an ape.] (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Sim[?]; monkeylike. That strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others. --Sydney Smith. | |
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Seannachie \Sean"na*chie\, n. [Gael. seanachaidh.] A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also {senachy}.] [Scot.] | |
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Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. {Seneca}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. {Seneca grass}(Bot.), holy grass. See under {Holy}. {Seneca eil}, petroleum or naphtha. {Seneca root}, [or] {Seneca snakeroot} (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ({Polygala Senega}) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also {Senega root}, and {Seneka root}.] | |
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Senega \Sen"e*ga\, n. (Med.) Seneca root. | |
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Senge \Senge\, v. t. To singe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sennachy \Sen"na*chy\, n. See {Seannachie}. | |
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Sens \Sens\, adv. [See {Since}.] Since. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
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Sense \Sense\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sensed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sensing}.] To perceive by the senses; to recognize. [Obs. or Colloq.] Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him? --Glanvill. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
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Sense \Sense\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sensed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sensing}.] To perceive by the senses; to recognize. [Obs. or Colloq.] Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him? --Glanvill. | |
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Sense \Sense\, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t. See {Send}, and cf. {Assent}, {Consent}, {Scent}, v. t., {Sentence}, {Sentient}.] 1. (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See {Muscular sense}, under {Muscular}, and {Temperature sense}, under {Temperature}. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. --Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. --Keble. 2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. --Bacon. 3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. High disdain from sense of injured merit. --Milton. 4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. [bd]He speaks sense.[b8] --Shak. He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. --Dryden. 5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. --Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. --Macaulay. 6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8. I think 't was in another sense. --Shak. 7. Moral perception or appreciation. Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --L' Estrange. 8. (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. {Common sense}, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) [bd]The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.[b8] (b) [bd]The faculty of first principles.[b8] These two are the philosophical significations. (c) [bd]Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.[b8] (d) When the substantive is emphasized: [bd]Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.[b8] {Moral sense}. See under {Moral}, (a) . {The inner}, [or] {internal}, {sense}, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. [bd]This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.[b8] --Locke. {Sense capsule} (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. {Sense organ} (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. {Sense organule} (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate. Syn: Understanding; reason. Usage: {Sense}, {Understanding}, {Reason}. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense. Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day. | |
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Sense \Sense\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sensed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sensing}.] To perceive by the senses; to recognize. [Obs. or Colloq.] Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him? --Glanvill. | |
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Sew \Sew\, v. t. [imp. {Sewed}; p. p. {Sewed}, rarely {Sewn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sewing}.] [OE. sewen, sowen, AS. si[a2]wian, s[c6]wian; akin to OHG. siuwan, Icel. s[?]ja, Sw. sy, Dan. sye, Goth. siujan, Lith. siuti, Russ, shite, L. ssuere, Gr. [?][?][?][?], Skr. siv. [root]156. Cf. {Seam} a suture, {Suture}.] 1. To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. --Mark ii. 21. 2. To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip. 3. To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag. | |
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Sewing \Sew"ing\, n. 1. The act or occupation of one who sews. 2. That which is sewed with the needle. {Sewing horse} (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. {Sewing machine}, a machine for sewing or stitching. {Sewing press}, [or] {Sewing table} (Bookbinding), a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to which the back edges of folded sheets are sewed to form a book. | |
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Shammy \Sham"my\, n. [F. chamious a chamois, shammy leather. See {Chamois}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The chamois. 2. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See {Shamoying}. [Written also {chamois}, {shamoy}, and {shamois}.] | |
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Shamois \Sham"ois\, Shamoy \Sham"oy\, n. See {Shammy}. | |
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Shammy \Sham"my\, n. [F. chamious a chamois, shammy leather. See {Chamois}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The chamois. 2. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See {Shamoying}. [Written also {chamois}, {shamoy}, and {shamois}.] | |
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Shamois \Sham"ois\, Shamoy \Sham"oy\, n. See {Shammy}. | |
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Shanghai \Shang`hai"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shanghaied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shanghaiing}.] To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition. [Written also {shanghae}.] [Slang, U.S.] | |
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Shanghai \Shang`hai"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl. | |
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Shanghai \Shang`hai"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shanghaied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shanghaiing}.] To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition. [Written also {shanghae}.] [Slang, U.S.] | |
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Shank \Shank\, v. i. To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. --Darwin. | |
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Shank \Shank\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Chank}. | |
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Shank \Shank\, n. [OE. shanke, schanke, schonke, AS. scanca, sceanca, sconca, sceonca; akin to D. schonk a bone, G. schenkel thigh, shank, schinken ham, OHG. scincha shank, Dan. & Sw. skank. [root]161. Cf. {Skink}, v.] 1. The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. --Shak. 2. Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. Specifically: (a) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. (b) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. See Illustr. of {Anchor}. (c) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. (d) A loop forming an eye to a button. 3. (Arch.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. --Gwilt. 4. (Founding) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. 5. (Print.) The body of a type. 6. (Shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. 7. (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also {shanks}. 8. pl. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. {Shank painter} (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. {To ride shank's mare}, to go on foot; to walk. | |
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Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf. {Canonical}.] 1. A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak. 2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. --Hock. 3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical books}, under {Canonical}, a. 4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. 5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. 7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}. 8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. 9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also {ear} and {shank}. Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight. 10. (Billiards) See {Carom}. {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}. {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under {Augustinian}. {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). {Canon law}. See under {Law}. {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. | |
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Shank \Shank\, v. i. To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. --Darwin. | |
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Shank \Shank\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Chank}. | |
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Shank \Shank\, n. [OE. shanke, schanke, schonke, AS. scanca, sceanca, sconca, sceonca; akin to D. schonk a bone, G. schenkel thigh, shank, schinken ham, OHG. scincha shank, Dan. & Sw. skank. [root]161. Cf. {Skink}, v.] 1. The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. --Shak. 2. Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. Specifically: (a) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. (b) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. See Illustr. of {Anchor}. (c) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. (d) A loop forming an eye to a button. 3. (Arch.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. --Gwilt. 4. (Founding) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. 5. (Print.) The body of a type. 6. (Shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. 7. (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also {shanks}. 8. pl. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. {Shank painter} (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. {To ride shank's mare}, to go on foot; to walk. | |
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Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf. {Canonical}.] 1. A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak. 2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. --Hock. 3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical books}, under {Canonical}, a. 4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. 5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. 7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}. 8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. 9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also {ear} and {shank}. Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight. 10. (Billiards) See {Carom}. {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}. {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under {Augustinian}. {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). {Canon law}. See under {Law}. {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours. | |
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Shank \Shank\, n. [OE. shanke, schanke, schonke, AS. scanca, sceanca, sconca, sceonca; akin to D. schonk a bone, G. schenkel thigh, shank, schinken ham, OHG. scincha shank, Dan. & Sw. skank. [root]161. Cf. {Skink}, v.] 1. The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. --Shak. 2. Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. Specifically: (a) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. (b) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. See Illustr. of {Anchor}. (c) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. (d) A loop forming an eye to a button. 3. (Arch.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. --Gwilt. 4. (Founding) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. 5. (Print.) The body of a type. 6. (Shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. 7. (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also {shanks}. 8. pl. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. {Shank painter} (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. {To ride shank's mare}, to go on foot; to walk. | |
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Shanny \Shan"ny\, n.; pl. {Shannies}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) The European smooth blenny ({Blennius pholis}). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head. | |
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Shawnees \Shaw`nees"\, n. pl.; sing. {Shawnee}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois. | |
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Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. {Showed}; p. p. {Shown}or {Showed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Showing}. It is sometimes written {shew}, {shewed}, {shewn}, {shewing}.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce[a0]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw[?]n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw[?]n, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk[?]da, Icel. sko[?]a, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. [?][?][?] to mark, perceive, hear, Skr. kavi wise. Cf. {Caution}, {Scavenger}, {Sheen}.] 1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. --Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? --Milton. 2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs. Shew them the way wherein they must walk. --Ex. xviii. 20. If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away. --1 Sam. xx. 13. 3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door. 4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event. I 'll show my duty by my timely care. --Dryden. 5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me. --Ex. xx. 6. {To show forth}, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim. {To show his paces}, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse. {To show off}, to exhibit ostentatiously. {To show up}, to expose. [Colloq.] | |
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Shiness \Shi"ness\, n. See {Shyness}. | |
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Shyness \Shy"ness\, n. The quality or state of being shy. [Written also {shiness}.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. --Baxter. Syn: Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See {Bashfulness}. | |
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Shiness \Shi"ness\, n. See {Shyness}. | |
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Shyness \Shy"ness\, n. The quality or state of being shy. [Written also {shiness}.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. --Baxter. Syn: Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See {Bashfulness}. | |
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Shoe \Shoe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shod}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoeing}.] [AS. sc[?]ian, sce[?]ian. See {Shoe}, n.] 1. To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor. 2. To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip. The sharp and small end of the billiard stick, which is shod with brass or silver. --Evelyn. | |
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Showiness \Show"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation. | |
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Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. {Showed}; p. p. {Shown}or {Showed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Showing}. It is sometimes written {shew}, {shewed}, {shewn}, {shewing}.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce[a0]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw[?]n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw[?]n, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk[?]da, Icel. sko[?]a, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. [?][?][?] to mark, perceive, hear, Skr. kavi wise. Cf. {Caution}, {Scavenger}, {Sheen}.] 1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. --Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? --Milton. 2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs. Shew them the way wherein they must walk. --Ex. xviii. 20. If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away. --1 Sam. xx. 13. 3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door. 4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event. I 'll show my duty by my timely care. --Dryden. 5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me. --Ex. xx. 6. {To show forth}, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim. {To show his paces}, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse. {To show off}, to exhibit ostentatiously. {To show up}, to expose. [Colloq.] | |
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Showing \Show"ing\, n. 1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. --J. S. Mill. | |
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Shumac \Shu"mac\, n. (Bot.) Sumac. | |
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Sumac \Su"mac\, Sumach \Su"mach\, n. [F. sumac, formerly sumach (cf. Sp. zumaque), fr. Ar. summ[be]q.] [Written also {shumac}.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Rhus}, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese {Rhus vernicifera}, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer. 2. The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. {Poison sumac}. (Bot.) See under {Poison}. | |
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Shumac \Shu"mac\, n. (Bot.) Sumac. | |
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Sumac \Su"mac\, Sumach \Su"mach\, n. [F. sumac, formerly sumach (cf. Sp. zumaque), fr. Ar. summ[be]q.] [Written also {shumac}.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Rhus}, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese {Rhus vernicifera}, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer. 2. The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. {Poison sumac}. (Bot.) See under {Poison}. | |
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Shy \Shy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shying}.] [From {Shy}, a.] To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses. | |
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Shyness \Shy"ness\, n. The quality or state of being shy. [Written also {shiness}.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. --Baxter. Syn: Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See {Bashfulness}. | |
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Siamese \Si`a*mese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language. | |
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Siamese \Si`a*mese`\, n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam. 2. sing. The language of the Siamese. | |
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Siennese \Si`en*nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy. | |
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Simous \Si"mous\, a.[L. simus, Gr. [?][?][?].] Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up. | |
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Sinaic \Si*na"ic\, Sinaitic \Si`na*it"ic\, a. [From Mount Sinai.] Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law. {Sinaitic manuscript}, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also {Codex Sinaiticus}. | |
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Since \Since\ (s[icr]ns), adv. [For sins, contr. fr. OE. sithens, sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. {Besides}) from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si[edh][edh]an, sy[edh][edh]an, seo[edh][edh]an, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. s[c6][edh] after, later, adv. and prep. (originally a comparative adv., akin to OS. s[c6][edh] afterward, since, OHG. s[c6]d, G. seit since, Goth. sei[thorn]us late, ni [thorn]anasei[thorn]s no longer) + [edh]on instrumental of the demonstrative and article. See {That}.] 1. From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. [1913 Webster] We since become the slaves to one man's lust. --B. Jonson. 2. In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago. How many ages since has Virgil writ? --Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. When or that. [Obs.] Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field? --Shak. | |
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Since \Since\, prep. From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object. The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming. --Gen. xxx. 30. I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients. --Dryden. | |
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Since \Since\, conj. Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that. Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon. --Shak. Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obeyed. --Granville. Syn: Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See {Because}. | |
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Sinch \Sinch\, n. [See {Cinch}.] A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass. [Western U.S.] | |
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Sinch \Sinch\, v. t. To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle. [Western U.S.] | |
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Sinewish \Sin"ew*ish\, a. Sinewy. [Obs.] --Holinshed. | |
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Sinewous \Sin"ew*ous\, a. Sinewy. [Obs.] --Holinshed. | |
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Sing \Sing\, v. i. [imp. {Sung}or {Sang}; p. p. {Sung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singing}.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. [?][?][?] voice. Cf. {Singe}, {Song}.] 1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii. 18. 2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer. Singing birds, in silver cages hung. --Dryden. 3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope. 4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. --Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. --Prior. | |
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Sing \Sing\, v. t. 1. To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. --Rev. xv. 3. And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. --Keble. 2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. --Milton. Arms and the man I sing. --Dryden. The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing. --Addison. 3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep. 4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing. I heard them singing home the bride. --Longfellow. | |
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Singe \Singe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singeing}.] [OE. sengen, AS. sengan in besengan (akin to D. zengen, G. sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See {Sing}.] 1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin. You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head! --Shak. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. --L'Estrange. 2. (a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. (b) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame. | |
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Singe \Singe\, n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn. | |
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Sinic \Sin"ic\, a. [See {Sinologue}.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese. | |
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Sink \Sink\, n. 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. 2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. 3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also {sink hole}. [U. S.] {Sink hole}. (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as {Sink}, n., 3. | |
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Sink \Sink\, v. i. [imp. {Sunk}, or ({Sank}); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinking}.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s[94]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. {Silt}.] 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. 4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen. | |
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Sink \Sink\, v. t. 1. To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. [The Athenians] fell upon the wings and sank a single ship. --Jowett (Thucyd.). 2. Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. I raise of sink, imprison or set free. --Prior. If I have a conscience, let it sink me. --Shak. Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years. --Rowe. 3. To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. 4. To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. You sunk the river repeated draughts. --Addison. 5. To conseal and appropriate. [Slang] If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account. --Swift. 6. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths. --Robertson. 7. To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. | |
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Sink \Sink\ (s[icr][nsm]k), n. The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. [Western U. S.] | |
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Sinque \Sinque\, n. See {Cinque}. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s[81]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. {Authentic}, {Sooth}.] 1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. --John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. --1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. --Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. --Milton. 2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners. I grant that poetry's a crying sin. --Pope. 3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. --2 Cor. v. 21. 4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.] Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. --Shak. Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. {Actual sin}, {Canonical sins}, {Original sin}, {Venial sin}. See under {Actual}, {Canonical}, etc. {Deadly}, [or] {Mortal}, {sins} (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. {Sin eater}, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. {Sin offering}, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See {Crime}. | |
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Sinuose \Sin"u*ose`\, a. Sinuous. --Loudon. | |
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Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface, a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See {Sinus}.] Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. -- {Sin"u*ous*ly}, adv. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge. | |
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Sinus \Si"nus\, n.; pl. L. {Sinus}, E. {Sinuses}. [L., a bent surface, a curve, the folds or bosom of a garment, etc., a bay. Cf. {Sine}, n.] 1. An opening; a hollow; a bending. 2. A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore. 3. (Anat. & Zo[94]l.) A cavity; a depression. Specifically: (a) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening. (b) A dilated vessel or canal. 4. (Med.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice. 5. (Bot.) A depression between adjoining lobes. Note: A sinus may be rounded, as in the leaf of the white oak, or acute, as in that of the red maple. {Pallial sinus}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Pallial}. {Sinus venosus}. [L., venous dilatation.] (Anat.) (a) The main part of the cavity of the right auricle of the heart in the higher vertebrates. (b) In the lower vertebrates, a distinct chamber of the heart formed by the union of the large systematic veins and opening into the auricle. | |
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Skew \Skew\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skewing}.] 1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. Child, you must walk straight, without skewing. --L'Estrange. 2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.] 3. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Skinch \Skinch\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Skinched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skinching}.] [Cf. {Scant}.] To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. [Prev. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] | |
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Skink \Skink\, v. i. To serve or draw liquor. [Obs.] | |
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Skink \Skink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skinking}.] [Icel. skenja; akin to Sw. sk[84]ka, Dan. skienke, AS. scencan, D. & G. schenken. As. scencan is usually derived from sceonc, sceanc, shank, a hollow bone being supposed to have been used to draw off liquor from a cask. [root]161. See {Shank}, and cf. {Nunchion}.] To draw or serve, as drink. [Obs.] Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about. --Chaucer. Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. --Shirley. | |
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Skink \Skink\, n. [L. scincus, Gr. [?][?][?][?].] [Written also {scink}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family {Scincid[91]}, common in the warmer parts of all the continents. Note: The officinal skink ({Scincus officinalis}) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species ({Seps tridactylus}) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus {Eumeces}, as the blue-tailed skink ({E. fasciatus}) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard ({Oligosoma laterale}) inhabits the Southern United States. | |
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Skink \Skink\, n. Drink; also, pottage. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Skonce \Skonce\, n. See {Sconce}. | |
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Skunk \Skunk\, v. t. In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Skunk \Skunk\, n. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian) seganku.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus {Mephitis} and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense. Note: The common species of the Eastern United States ({Mephitis mephitica}) is black with more or less white on the body and tail. The spotted skunk ({Spilogale putorius}), native of the Southwestern United States and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is variously marked with black and white. {Skunk bird}, {Skunk blackbird} (Zo[94]l.), the bobolink; -- so called because the male, in the breeding season, is black and white, like a skunk. {Skunk cabbage} (Bot.), an American aroid herb ({Symplocarpus f[oe]tidus}>) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called {swamp cabbage}. {Skunk porpoise}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Porpoise}. | |
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Sky \Sky\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skied}or {Skyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skying}.] 1. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. [Colloq.] Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. --The Century. 2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloq.] | |
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Smack \Smack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smacking}.] [OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG. smechen to taste, smach[?]n to have a taste (and, derived from the same source, G. schmatzen to smack the lips, to kiss with a sharp noise, MHG. smatzen, smackzeen), Icel smakka to taste, Sw. smaka, Dan. smage. See 2d {Smack}, n.] 1. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste. 2. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality. All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. --Shak. 3. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss. 4. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything. | |
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Smack \Smack\, n. [D. smak; akin to LG. smack, smak, Dan. smakke, G. schmacke, F. semaque.] (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. | |
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Smack \Smack\, n. [OE. smak, AS. ssm[?]c taste, savor; akin to D. smaak, G. geschmack, OHG. smac; cf. Lith. smagus pleasant. Cf. {Smack}, v. i.] 1. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. --Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. --Latimer. 2. A small quantity; a taste. --Dryden. 3. A loud kiss; a buss. [bd]A clamorous smack.[b8] --Shak. 4. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip. 5. A quick, smart blow; a slap. --Johnson. | |
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Smack \Smack\, adv. As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.] | |
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Smack \Smack\, v. t. 1. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss. 2. To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting. Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish. --Sir W. Scott. 3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. [bd]She smacks the silken thong.[b8] --Young. | |
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Smash \Smash\, v. t. (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke. | |
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Smash \Smash\ (sm[acr]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smashed} (sm[acr]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Smashing}.] [Cf. Sw. smisk a blow, stroke, smiska to strike, dial. Sw. smaske to kiss with a noise, and E. smack a loud kiss, a slap.] To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. --Burke. | |
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Smash \Smash\, v. i. To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure. | |
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Smash \Smash\, n. 1. A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck. 2. Hence, bankruptcy. [Colloq.] | |
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Smock \Smock\ (sm[ocr]k), n. [AS. smocc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm[umac]gan to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close, MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj[umac]ga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. {Smug}, {Smuggle}.] 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. --Chaucer. 2. A blouse; a smoock frock. --Carlyle. | |
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Smock \Smock\, a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. {Smock mill}, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. {Smock race}, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Smock \Smock\, v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. --Tennyson. | |
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Smoke \Smoke\, v. t. 1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation. 2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. [bd]Smoking the temple.[b8] --Chaucer. 3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. --Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. --Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. --Addison. 4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang] 5. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar. 6. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow. | |
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Smoke \Smoke\, n. [AS. smoca, fr. sme[a2]can to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm[94]g, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. [?][?][?] to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. smaugti to choke.] 1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like. Note: The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot. 2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist. 3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak. 4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.] Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc. {Smoke arch}, the smoke box of a locomotive. {Smoke ball} (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke. {Smoke black}, lampblack. [Obs.] {Smoke board}, a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room. {Smoke box}, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney. {Smoke sail} (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck. {Smoke tree} (Bot.), a shrub ({Rhus Cotinus}) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke. {To end in smoke}, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. | |
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Smoke \Smoke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smoked}; p. pr. & vb n. {Smoking}.] [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. sm[94]ge. See {Smoke}, n.] 1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton. 2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man. --Deut. xxix. 20. 3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. --Dryden. 4. To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner. 5. To suffer severely; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak. | |
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Smoky \Smok"y\, a. [Compar. {Smokier}; superl. {Smokiest}.] 1. Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires. 2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog. [bd]Unlustrous as the smoky light.[b8] --Shak. 3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere. 4. Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house. 5. Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells. 6. Suspicious; open to suspicion. [Obs.] --Foote. {Smoky quartz} (Min.), a variety of quartz crystal of a pale to dark smoky-brown color. See {Quartz}. | |
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Smooch \Smooch\, v. t. See {Smutch}. | |
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Smutch \Smutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smutched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smutching}.] To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. [Written also {smooch}.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Smooch \Smooch\, v. t. See {Smutch}. | |
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Smutch \Smutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smutched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smutching}.] To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. [Written also {smooch}.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Smouch \Smouch\, v. t. [Akin to smack.] To kiss closely. [Obs.] --P. Stubbes. | |
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Smouch \Smouch\, v. t. [See {Smutch}.] To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face. | |
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Smouch \Smouch\, n. A dark soil or stain; a smutch. | |
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Smug \Smug\, a. [Of. Scand. or Low German origin; cf. LG. smuck, G. schmuck, Dan. smuk, OSw. smuck, sm[94]ck, and E. smock, smuggle; cf. G. schmuck ornament. See {Smock}.] Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. --Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. --De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Smug \Smug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smugging}.] To make smug, or spruce. [Obs.] Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair. --Dryton. | |
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Snack \Snack\, n. [See {Snatch}, v. t.] 1. A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, {to go snacks}, i. e., to share. At last he whispers, [bd]Do, and we go snacks.[b8] --Pope. 2. A slight, hasty repast. [Colloq.] | |
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Snag \Snag\, n. [Prov. E., n., a lump on a tree where a branch has been cut off; v., to cut off the twigs and small branches from a tree, of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. snaigh, snaidh, to cut down, to prune, to sharpen, p. p. snaighte, snaidhte, cut off, lopped, Ir. snaigh a hewing, cutting.] 1. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. --Dryden. 2. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. --Prior. 3. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of the secondary branches of an antler. | |
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Snag \Snag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snagging}.] 1. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.] | |
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Snaggy \Snag"gy\, a. 1. Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots. [bd]Upon a snaggy oak.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Snappish; cross; ill-tempered. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Snake \Snake\, n. [AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel. sn[be]kr, sn[?]kr, Dan. snog, Sw. snok; of uncertain origin.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See {Ophidia}, and {Serpent}. Note: Snakes are abundant in all warm countries, and much the larger number are harmless to man. {Blind snake}, {Garter snake}, {Green snake}, {King snake}, {Milk snake}, {Rock snake}, {Water snake}, etc. See under {Blind}, {Garter}, etc. {Fetich snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large African snake ({Python Seb[91]}) used by the natives as a fetich. {Ringed snake} (Zo[94]l.), a common European columbrine snake ({Tropidonotus natrix}). {Snake eater}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The markhoor. (b) The secretary bird. {Snake fence}, a worm fence (which see). [U.S.] {Snake fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus {Rhaphidia}; -- so called because of their large head and elongated neck and prothorax. {Snake gourd} (Bot.), a cucurbitaceous plant ({Trichosanthes anguina}) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than that of the serpent cucumber. {Snake killer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The secretary bird. (b) The chaparral cock. {Snake moss} (Bot.), the common club moss ({Lycopodium clavatum}). See {Lycopodium}. {Snake nut} (Bot.), the fruit of a sapindaceous tree ({Ophiocaryon paradoxum}) of Guiana, the embryo of which resembles a snake coiled up. {Tree snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees, especially those of the genus {Dendrophis} and allied genera. | |
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Snake \Snake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snaking}.] 1. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett. 2. (Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm. | |
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Snake \Snake\, v. i. To crawl like a snake. | |
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Snaky \Snak"y\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding. The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life. --L. Wallace. 2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful. So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. --Milton. 3. Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand. --Dryden. That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield. --Milton. | |
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Sneak \Sneak\ (sn[emac]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneaked} (sn[emac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sneaking}.] [OE. sniken, AS. sn[c6]can to creep; akin to Dan. snige sig; cf. Icel. sn[c6]kja to hanker after.] 1. To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. | |
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Sneak \Sneak\, v. t. To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. [Obs.] [bd][Slander] sneaks its head.[b8] --Wake. | |
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Sneak \Sneak\, n. 1. A mean, sneaking fellow. A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks. --Glanvill. 2. (Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also {grub}. [Cant] --R. A. Proctor. | |
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Sneaky \Sneak"y\, n. Like a sneak; sneaking. | |
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Sneck \Sneck\, v. t. [See {Snatch}.] To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] {Sneck up}, be silent; shut up; hold your peace. | |
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Sneck \Sneck\, n. A door latch. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] {Sneck band}, a latchstring. --Burns. {Sneck drawer}, a latch lifter; a bolt drawer; hence, a sly person; a cozener; a cheat; -- called also {sneckdraw}. {Sneck drawing}, lifting the latch. | |
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Sneeze \Sneeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneezed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sneezing}.] [OE. snesen; of uncertain origin; cf. D. snuse to sniff, E. neese, and AS. fne[a2]san.] To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose. {Not to be sneezed at}, not to be despised or contemned; not to be treated lightly. [Colloq.] [bd]He had to do with old women who were not to be sneezed at.[b8] --Prof. Wilson. | |
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Sneeze \Sneeze\, n. A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose. | |
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Snick \Snick\, n. [Prov. E. snick a notch; cf. Icel. snikka nick, cut.] 1. A small cut or mark. 2. (Cricket) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional. 3. (Fiber) A knot or irregularity in yarn. --Knight. 4. (Furriery) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast. {Snick and snee} [cf. D. snee, snede, a cut], a combat with knives. [Obs.] --Wiseman. | |
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Snick \Snick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snicked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snicking}.] 1. To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. --H. Kingsley. 2. (Cricket) To hit (a ball) lightly. --R. A. Proctor. | |
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Snick \Snick\, n. & v. t. See {Sneck}. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] {Snick up}, shut up; silenced. See Sneck up, under {Sneck}. Give him money, George, and let him go snick up. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Snig \Snig\, Snigg \Snigg\, n. [Cf. {Sneak}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small eel. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Snig \Snig\, v. t. [See {Snick} a small cut.] To chop off; to cut. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Snig \Snig\, v. i. [See {Sneak}.] To sneak. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Snig \Snig\, Snigg \Snigg\, n. [Cf. {Sneak}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small eel. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r[a2]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[91], esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis}), a valuable food fish called also {snook}, the smaller species being called | |
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Snook \Snook\ (sn[oomac]k), v. i. [Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. sn[94]ggen, snuckern, sn[94]kern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for.] To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Obs.] | |
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Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also {ravallia}, and {robalo}. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. | |
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Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r[a2]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[91], esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis}), a valuable food fish called also {snook}, the smaller species being called | |
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Snook \Snook\ (sn[oomac]k), v. i. [Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. sn[94]ggen, snuckern, sn[94]kern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for.] To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Obs.] | |
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Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also {ravallia}, and {robalo}. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. | |
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Snooze \Snooze\ (sn[oomac]z), n. [Scot. snooze to sleep; cf. Dan. & Sw. snus snuff.] A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.] | |
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Snooze \Snooze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snoozed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snoozing}.] To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber. [Colloq.] | |
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Snowshoe \Snow"shoe`\, n. A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow. | |
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Mosaic \Mo*sa"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison. {Florentine mosaic}. See under {Florentine}. {Mosaic gold}. (a) See {Ormolu}. (b) Stannic sulphide, {SnS2}, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists {aurum musivum}, or {aurum mosaicum}. Called also {bronze powder}. {Mosaic work}. See {Mosaic}, n. | |
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Snug \Snug\, v. t. 1. To place snugly. [R.] --Goldsmith. 2. To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish. | |
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Snug \Snug\, a. [Compar. {Snugger}; superl. {Snuggest}.] [Prov. E. snug tight, handsome; cf. Icel. sn[94]ggr smooth, ODan. sn[94]g neat, Sw. snugg.] 1. Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug. 2. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice. Lie snug, and hear what critics say. --Swift. 3. Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property. | |
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Snug \Snug\, n. (Mach.) Same as {Lug}, n., 3. | |
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Snug \Snug\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Snugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snugging}.] To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother. | |
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Somaj \So"maj"\, Samaj \Sa*maj"\, n. A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [India] | |
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Soncy \Son"cy\, Sonsy \Son"sy\, a. [Scot. sonce, sons, prosperity, happiness, fr. Gael. & Ir. sonas.] Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Song \Song\ (?; 115), n. [AS. song, sang, fr. singan to sing; akin to D. zang, G. sang, Icel. s[94]ngr, Goeth. sagws. See {Sing}.] 1. That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. [bd]That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.[b8] --Hawthorne. 2. A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad. 3. More generally, any poetical strain; a poem. The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song. --Dryden. 4. Poetical composition; poetry; verse. This subject for heroic song. --Milton. 5. An object of derision; a laughingstock. And now am I their song. yea, I am their byword. --Job xxx. 9. 6. A trifle. [bd]The soldier's pay is a song.[b8] --Silliman. {Old song}, a trifle; nothing of value. [bd]I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song.[b8] --Dr. H. More. {Song bird} (Zo[94]l.), any singing bird; one of the Oscines. {Song sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a very common North American sparrow ({Melospiza fasciata}, or {M. melodia}) noted for the sweetness of its song in early spring. Its breast is covered with dusky brown streaks which form a blotch in the center. {Song thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a common European thrush ({Turdus musicus}), noted for its melodius song; -- called also {mavis}, {throsite}, and {thrasher}. Syn: Sonnet; ballad; canticle; carol; canzonet; ditty; hymn; descant; lay; strain; poesy; verse. | |
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Sonnish \Son"nish\, a. Like the sun; sunny; golden. [Obs.] [bd]Her sonnish hairs.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Soncy \Son"cy\, Sonsy \Son"sy\, a. [Scot. sonce, sons, prosperity, happiness, fr. Gael. & Ir. sonas.] Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Sonsy \Son"sy\, a. See {Soncy}. [Scot.] --Burns. | |
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Sowans \Sow"ans\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. See {Sowens}. | |
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Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se[a0]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called {flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | |
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Sowans \Sow"ans\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. See {Sowens}. | |
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Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se[a0]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called {flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | |
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Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se[a0]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called {flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | |
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Sow \Sow\, v. t. [imp. {Sowed}; p. p. {Sown}or {Sowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sowing}.] [OE. sowen, sawen, AS. s[be]wan; akin to OFries. s[?]a, D. zaaijen, OS. & HG. s[be]jan, G. s[84]en, Icel. s[be], Sw. s[86], Dan. saae, Goth. saian, Lith. s[emac]ti, Russ. sieiate, L. serere, sevi. Cf. {Saturday}, {Season}, {Seed}, {Seminary}.] 1. To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate. [bd]He would sow some difficulty.[b8] --Chaucer. A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside. --Matt. xiii. 3, 4. And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers. --Addison. 2. To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle. The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles. --Sir M. Hale. [He] sowed with stars the heaven. --Milton. Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl. --Milton. | |
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Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se[a0]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called {flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | |
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Sowins \Sow"ins\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. See {Sowens}. | |
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Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se[a0]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called {flummery} in England. [Written also {sowans}, and {sowins}.] | |
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Sowins \Sow"ins\ (? [or] ?), n. pl. See {Sowens}. | |
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Squaimous \Squai"mous\, a. Squeamish. [Obs.] | |
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Squamose \Squa*mose"\ (? [or] [?]), Squamous \Squa"mous\, [L. squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux.] 1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal. | |
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Squamose \Squa*mose"\ (? [or] [?]), Squamous \Squa"mous\, [L. squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux.] 1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal. | |
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Squeamish \Squeam"ish\, a. [OE. squaimous, sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf. Icel. svemr a bustle, a stir, Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one, Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS. sw[c6]mi. The word has been perhaps confused witrh qualmish. Cf. {Swim} to be dizzy.] Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish. --Hudibras. His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain. --Southern. So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. --M. Arnold. Syn: Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See {Fastidious}. -- {Squeam"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Squeam"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Squeamous \Squeam"ous\, a. Squeamish. [Obs.] | |
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Squinch \Squinch\, n. [Corrupted fr. sconce.] (Arch.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also {sconce}, and {sconcheon}. | |
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Squinsy \Squin"sy\, n. (Med.) See {Quinsy}. [Obs.] | |
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Squinzey \Squin"zey\, n. (Med.) See {Quinsy}. [Obs.] | |
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Quinsy \Quin"sy\, n. [Contr. fr. squinancy, F. esquinancie, L. cynanche a sort of sore throat, Gr. [?] sore throat, dog quinsy, fr. [?] dog + [?] to choke; cf. also L. synanche sore throat, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Hound}, {Anger}, and {Cynanche}.] (Med.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also {squinancy}, and {squinzey}. | |
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Squinzey \Squin"zey\, n. (Med.) See {Quinsy}. [Obs.] | |
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Quinsy \Quin"sy\, n. [Contr. fr. squinancy, F. esquinancie, L. cynanche a sort of sore throat, Gr. [?] sore throat, dog quinsy, fr. [?] dog + [?] to choke; cf. also L. synanche sore throat, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Hound}, {Anger}, and {Cynanche}.] (Med.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also {squinancy}, and {squinzey}. | |
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Suing \Su"ing\, n. [Cf. F. suer to sweat, L. sudare.] The process of soaking through anything. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Sue \Sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suing}.] [OE. suen, sewen, siwen, OF. sivre (pres.ind. 3d sing. il siut, suit, he follows, nous sevons we follow), LL. sequere, for L. sequi, secutus; akin to Gr. [?], Skr. sac to accompany, and probably to E. see, v.t. See {See}, v. t., and cf. {Consequence}, {Ensue}, {Execute}, {Obsequious}, {Pursue}, {Second}, {Sect} in religion, {Sequence}, {Suit}.] 1. To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo. For yet there was no man that haddle him sued. --Chaucer. I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due. --Spenser. Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me. --Tennyson. 2. (Law) (a) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially. (b) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process. 3. (Falconry) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk. 4. (Naut.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship. --R. H. Dana, Jr. {To sue out} (Law), to petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal. | |
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Sumac \Su"mac\, Sumach \Su"mach\, n. [F. sumac, formerly sumach (cf. Sp. zumaque), fr. Ar. summ[be]q.] [Written also {shumac}.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Rhus}, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese {Rhus vernicifera}, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer. 2. The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. {Poison sumac}. (Bot.) See under {Poison}. | |
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Sumac \Su"mac\, Sumach \Su"mach\, n. [F. sumac, formerly sumach (cf. Sp. zumaque), fr. Ar. summ[be]q.] [Written also {shumac}.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Rhus}, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese {Rhus vernicifera}, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer. 2. The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. {Poison sumac}. (Bot.) See under {Poison}. | |
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Sing \Sing\, v. i. [imp. {Sung}or {Sang}; p. p. {Sung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singing}.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. [?][?][?] voice. Cf. {Singe}, {Song}.] 1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii. 18. 2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer. Singing birds, in silver cages hung. --Dryden. 3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope. 4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. --Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. --Prior. | |
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Sung \Sung\, imp. & p. p. of {Sing}. | |
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Sink \Sink\, v. i. [imp. {Sunk}, or ({Sank}); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinking}.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s[94]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. {Silt}.] 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. 4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen. | |
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Sunk \Sunk\, imp. & p. p. of {Sink}. {Sunk fence}, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha. | |
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Sunwise \Sun"wise`\, adv. In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward. | |
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Swainish \Swain"ish\, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. [bd]An ungentle and swainish beast.[b8] --Milton. -- {Swain"ish*ness}, n. --Emerson. | |
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Swang \Swang\, obs. imp. of {Swing}. | |
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Swang \Swang\, n. [Cf. {Swamp}.] A swamp. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Swing \Swing\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swung}; Archaic imp. {Swang}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinging}.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan to throw, to scourge, to soar, Sw. svinga to swing, to whirl, Dan. svinge. Cf. {Swagger}, {Sway}, {Swinge}, {Swink}.] 1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. --Boyle. 2. To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open. 3. To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See {Swing}, n., 3. 4. (Naut.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide. 5. To be hanged. [Colloq.] --D. Webster. {To swing round the circle}, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.] He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. --A. V. G. Allen. | |
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Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. {Swank}, {Swonk}; p. p. {Swonken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinking}.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See {Swing}.] To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. --Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. --Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant [bd]Ho.[b8] --Sir Samuel Freguson. | |
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Swankie \Swank"ie\, Swanky \Swank"y\, n. [Cf. G. schwank flexible, pliant.] An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Swankie \Swank"ie\, Swanky \Swank"y\, n. [Cf. G. schwank flexible, pliant.] An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Swaying \Sway"ing\, n. An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. --Crabb. | |
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Sway \Sway\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swaying}.] [OE. sweyen, Icel. sveigja, akin to E. swing; cf. D. zwaaijen to wield, swing. See {Swing}, and cf. {Swag}, v. i.] 1. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter. As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed. --Spenser. 2. To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. The will of man is by his reason swayed. --Shak. She could not sway her house. --Shak. This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue. --Dryden. 3. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion. As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed. --Hudibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. --Tillotson. 4. (Naut.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards. Syn: To bias; rule; govern; direct; influence; swing; move; wave; wield. | |
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Swinck \Swinck\, v. & n. See {Swink}. [Obs.] | |
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Swing \Swing\, n. 1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. 2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing. 3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise. 4. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion. The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. --Shak. 5. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. 6. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. [bd]Take thy swing.[b8] --Dryden. To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. --Burke. {Full swing}. See under {Full}. {Swing beam} (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it may have an independent lateral motion. {Swing bridge}, a form of drawbridge which swings horizontally, as on a vertical pivot. {Swing plow}, [or] {Swing plough}. (a) A plow without a fore wheel under the beam. (b) A reversible or sidehill plow. {Swing wheel}. (a) The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum. (b) The balance of a watch. | |
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Swing \Swing\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swung}; Archaic imp. {Swang}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinging}.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan to throw, to scourge, to soar, Sw. svinga to swing, to whirl, Dan. svinge. Cf. {Swagger}, {Sway}, {Swinge}, {Swink}.] 1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. --Boyle. 2. To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open. 3. To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See {Swing}, n., 3. 4. (Naut.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide. 5. To be hanged. [Colloq.] --D. Webster. {To swing round the circle}, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.] He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. --A. V. G. Allen. | |
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Swing \Swing\, v. t. 1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. --Dryden. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. --Spectator. 2. To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business. | |
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Swinge \Swinge\ (sw[icr]nj), v. & n. See {Singe}. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Swinge \Swinge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swinged} (sw[icr]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Swingeing} (sw[icr]nj"[icr]ng).] [OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See {Swing}.] 1. To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. --Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. --C. Dryden. 2. To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.] Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. --Milton. | |
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Swinge \Swinge\, n. 1. The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. [Obs.] --Waller. 2. Power; sway; influence. [Obs.] | |
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Swinish \Swin"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. [bd]Swinish gluttony.[b8] --Milton. -- {Swin"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Swin"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. {Swank}, {Swonk}; p. p. {Swonken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinking}.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See {Swing}.] To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. --Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. --Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant [bd]Ho.[b8] --Sir Samuel Freguson. | |
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Swink \Swink\, v. t. 1. To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor. [Obs.] And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. --Milton. 2. To acquire by labor. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. To devour all that others swink. --Chaucer. | |
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Swink \Swink\, n. [As. swinc, geswinc.] Labor; toil; drudgery. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swink \Swink\, v. i. [imp. {Swank}, {Swonk}; p. p. {Swonken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinking}.] [AS. swincan, akin to swingan. See {Swing}.] To labor; to toil; to salve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. --Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. --Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant [bd]Ho.[b8] --Sir Samuel Freguson. | |
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Swing \Swing\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swung}; Archaic imp. {Swang}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinging}.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan to throw, to scourge, to soar, Sw. svinga to swing, to whirl, Dan. svinge. Cf. {Swagger}, {Sway}, {Swinge}, {Swink}.] 1. To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. --Boyle. 2. To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open. 3. To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See {Swing}, n., 3. 4. (Naut.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide. 5. To be hanged. [Colloq.] --D. Webster. {To swing round the circle}, to make a complete circuit. [Colloq.] He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. --A. V. G. Allen. | |
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Swung \Swung\, imp. & p. p. of {Swing}. | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
ScumOS /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism for SunOS, the BSD Unix variant supported on Sun Microsystems's Unix workstations (see also {sun-stools}), and compare {AIDX}, {Macintrash}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {HP-SUX}. Despite what this term might suggest, Sun was founded by hackers and still enjoys excellent relations with hackerdom; usage is more often in exasperation than outright loathing. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
smoke vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly. "The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colorful). 2. [from automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast. "That processor really smokes." Compare {magic smoke}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
'Snooze /snooz/ [FidoNet] n. Fidonews, the weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet. As the editorial policy of Fidonews is "anything that arrives, we print", there are often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit {flamage} in subsequent issues. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
sync /sink/ n., vi. (var. `synch') 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization. 2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see {flush}, sense 2. 3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be `safe' if the system were to crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Scheme->C {Scheme-to-C} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ScumOS Unflattering hackerism for {SunOS}, the {Unix} variant once supported on {Sun Microsystems}'s Unix {workstation}s. Despite what this term might suggest, Sun was founded by hackers and still enjoys excellent relations with hackerdom; usage is more often in exasperation than outright loathing. See also {sun-stools}. Compare {AIDX}, {Macintrash}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {HP-SUX}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Seneca {Oberon-V} | |
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SMCC {Sun Microsystems} Computer Corporation. | |
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SMG Screen Management Guidelines. A {VMS} package of run-time library routines providing windows on {DEC} {VT100} terminals. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
smoke 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly. "The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colourful). 2. [Automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast. "That processor really smokes." Compare {magic smoke}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SMS 1. 2. 3. (1999-05-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
snacc by Mike Sample {ASN.1} data structures (including some {macros}) into {C}, {C++} or type tables. The generated {C/C++} includes a .h file with the equivalent data struct and a .c/.C file for the {BER} encode and decode, print and free routines. snacc includes the compiler, run-time BER libraries, and utility programs. snacc is compiled under {GNU} {General Public License}. It requires {yacc} or {bison}, {lex} or {flex}, and {cc} (ANSI or non-ANSI). ITU TS X.208/ISO 8824. Latest version: 1.1, as of 1993-07-12. {Home (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/ovma/freeware/snacc/entry.html)}. E-mail: [Michael Sample and Gerald Neufeld, "Implementing Efficient Encoders and Decoders for Network Data Representations", IEEE INFOCOM '93 Proceedings, Vol 3, pp. 1143-1153, Mar 1993]. [Michael Sample, "How Fast Can ASN.1 Encoding Rules Go?", M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Apr 1993]. (1998-08-09) | |
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snag {bug} | |
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sneck Sam Spade anti-{spam} software. (1999-09-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
'Snooze /snooz/ [FidoNet] Fidonews, the weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet. As the editorial policy of Fidonews is "anything that arrives, we print", there are often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit {flamage} in subsequent issues. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SunOS Sun {workstations}. SunOS is similar to {BSD Unix} with some {SVR4} features and {OpenWindows} 3.0. After version 4, SunOS was integrated into Sun's {Solaris} "operating environment". (1999-03-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sync /sink/ (Or "synch") 1. To synchronise, to bring into synchronisation. 2. disk writes to the disk. 3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be "safe" if the system were to crash, i.e. to {checkpoint} in the {database} sense. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-11) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Samos an island in the AEgean Sea, which Paul passed on his voyage from Assos to Miletus (Acts 20:15), on his third missionary journey. It is about 27 miles long and 20 broad, and lies about 42 miles south-west of Smyrna. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Shimshai the shining one, or sunny, the secretary of Rehum the chancellor, who took part in opposing the rebuilding of the temple after the Captivity (Ezra 4:8, 9, 17-23). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Songs of Moses (Ex. 15; Num. 21:17; Deut. 32; Rev. 15:3), Deborah (Judg. 5), Hannah (1 Sam. 2), David (2 Sam. 22, and Psalms), Mary (Luke 1:46-55), Zacharias (Luke 1:68-79), the angels (Luke 2:13), Simeon (Luke 2:29), the redeemed (Rev. 5:9; 19), Solomon (see SOLOMON, SONGS {OF}). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Samos, full of gravel | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Semachiah, joined to the Lord | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shimshai, my son |