English Dictionary: sheikha | by the DICT Development Group |
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Scops owl \Scops" owl`\ [NL. scops, fr. Gr. [?] the little horned owl.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus {Scops} having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the European scops owl ({Scops giu}), and the American screech owl ({S. asio}). | |
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Sac \Sac\ (s[add]k), n. (Ethnol.) See {Sacs}. | |
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Sac \Sac\, n. [See {Sake}, {Soc}.] (O.Eng. Law) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. --Cowell. | |
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Sac \Sac\ (s[acr]k), n. [F., fr. L. saccus a sack. See {Sack} a bag.] 1. See 2d {Sack}. 2. (Biol.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack. | |
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Sacs \Sacs\ (s[add]ks), n. pl.; sing. {Sac}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Written also {Sauks}.] | |
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d8Saccus \[d8]Sac"cus\, n.; pl. {Sacci}. [L., a sack.] (Biol.) A sac. | |
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Sack \Sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sacking}.] [See {Sack} pillage.] To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. --Addison. | |
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Sack \Sack\ (s[scr]k), n. [OE. seck, F. sec dry (cf. Sp. seco, It. secco), from L. siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to Gr. 'ischno`s, Skr. sikata sand, Ir. sesc dry, W. hysp. Cf. {Desiccate}.] A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. [bd]Sherris sack.[b8] --Shak. {Sack posset}, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients. | |
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Sack \Sack\, v. t. 1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. --L. Wallace. 2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [Colloq.] | |
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Sack \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, s[91]cc, L. saccus, Gr. sa`kkos from Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. {Sac}, {Satchel}, {Sack} to plunder.] 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch. 2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. --McElrath. 3. [Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also {sacque}.] 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. 5. (Biol.) See 2d {Sac}, 2. | |
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Sack \Sack\, n. [F. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack, packet, booty packed up, fr. L. saccus. See {Sack} a bag.] The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. --Prescott. | |
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Sack \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, s[91]cc, L. saccus, Gr. sa`kkos from Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. {Sac}, {Satchel}, {Sack} to plunder.] 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch. 2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. --McElrath. 3. [Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also {sacque}.] 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. 5. (Biol.) See 2d {Sac}, 2. | |
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Sacque \Sacque\, n. [Formed after the analogy of the French. See 2d {Sack}.] Same as 2d {Sack}, 3. | |
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Sack \Sack\, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, s[91]cc, L. saccus, Gr. sa`kkos from Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. {Sac}, {Satchel}, {Sack} to plunder.] 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch. 2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. --McElrath. 3. [Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also {sacque}.] 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. 5. (Biol.) See 2d {Sac}, 2. | |
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Sacque \Sacque\, n. [Formed after the analogy of the French. See 2d {Sack}.] Same as 2d {Sack}, 3. | |
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Sacs \Sacs\ (s[add]ks), n. pl.; sing. {Sac}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Written also {Sauks}.] | |
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Sag \Sag\, v. t. To cause to bend or give way; to load. | |
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Sag \Sag\, n. State of sinking or bending; sagging. | |
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Sag \Sag\ (s[acr]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sagging}.] [Akin to Sw. sacka to settle, sink down, LG. sacken, D. zakken. Cf. {Sink}, v. i.] 1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges. 2. Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. [R.] The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. --Shak. 3. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily. {To sag to leeward} (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel. --Totten. | |
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Saga \Sa"ga\ (s[amac]"g[adot]), n.; pl. {Sagas} (-g[adot]z). [Icel., akin to E. saw a saying. See {Say}, and cf. {Saw}.] A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time. And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. --Longfellow. | |
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d8Sagum \[d8]Sa"gum\, n.; pl. {Saga}. [L. sagum, sagus; cf. Gr. [?]. Cf. {Say} a kind of serge.] (Rom. Antiq.) The military cloak of the Roman soldiers. | |
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Sage \Sage\, n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See {Safe}.] (Bot.) (a) A suffruticose labiate plant ({Salvia officinalis}) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. (b) The sagebrush. {Meadow sage} (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia ({S. pratensis}) growing in meadows in Europe. {Sage cheese}, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which are added to the milk. {Sage cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse. {Sage green}, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage. {Sage grouse} (Zo[94]l.), a very large American grouse ({Centrocercus urophasianus}), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also {cock of the plains}. The male is called {sage cock}, and the female {sage hen}. {Sage hare}, or {Sage rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), a species of hare ({Lepus Nuttalli, [or] artemisia}) which inhabits the arid regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit. {Sage hen} (Zo[94]l.), the female of the sage grouse. {Sage sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a small sparrow ({Amphispiza Belli}, var. {Nevadensis}) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush. {Sage thrasher} (Zo[94]l.), a singing bird ({Oroscoptes montanus}) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America. {Sage willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix tristis}) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves. | |
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Sage \Sage\, a. [Compar. {Sager}; superl. {Sagest}.] [F., fr. L. sapius (only in nesapius unwise, foolish), fr. sapere to be wise; perhaps akin to E. sap. Cf. {Savor}, {Sapient}, {Insipid}.] 1. Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious. All you sage counselors, hence! --Shak. 2. Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose. Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counseled the general to retreat. --Milton. 3. Grave; serious; solemn. [R.] [bd][Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Sage \Sage\, n. A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher. At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come, And guides the Eastern sages. --Milton. | |
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Sago \Sa"go\ (s[amac]"g[osl]), n. [Malay. s[amac]gu.] A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the {Metroxylon Sagu}; also from several cycadaceous plants ({Cycas revoluta}, {Zamia integrifolia}, etc.). {Portland sago}, a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum}). {Sago palm}. (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago. (b) A species of Cycas ({Cycas revoluta}). {Sago spleen} (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago. | |
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Sagy \Sa"gy\, a. Full of sage; seasoned with sage. | |
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Saic \Sa"ic\, n. [F. sa[8b]que, Turk. sha[8b]ka.] (Naut.) A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail. | |
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Sajou \Sa"jou\ (?; F. [?]), n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Sapajou}. | |
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Capuchin \Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See {Capoch}.] 1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus capucinus}), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also {capucine monkey}, {weeper}, {sajou}, {sapajou}, and {sai}. (b) Other species of {Cabus}, as {C. fatuellus} (the brown or {horned capucine}.), {C. albifrons} (the {cararara}), and {C. apella}. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. {Capuchin nun}, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. | |
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Sajou \Sa"jou\ (?; F. [?]), n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Sapajou}. | |
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Capuchin \Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See {Capoch}.] 1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus capucinus}), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also {capucine monkey}, {weeper}, {sajou}, {sapajou}, and {sai}. (b) Other species of {Cabus}, as {C. fatuellus} (the brown or {horned capucine}.), {C. albifrons} (the {cararara}), and {C. apella}. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. {Capuchin nun}, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. | |
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Sake \Sake\ (s[amac]k), n. [OE. sake cause, also, lawsuit, fault, AS. sacu strife, a cause or suit at law; akin to D. zaak cause, thing, affair, G. sache thing, cause in law, OHG. sahha, Icel. s[94]k, Sw. sak, Dan. sag, Goth. sakj[d3] strife, AS. sacan to contend, strive, Goth. sakam, Icel. saka to contend, strive, blame, OHG. sahhan, MHG. sachen, to contend, strive, defend one's right, accuse, charge in a lawsuit, and also to E. seek. Cf. {Seek}.] Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. Moved with wrath and shame and ladies' sake. --Spenser. I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. --Gen. viii. 21. Will he draw out, For anger's sake, finite to infinite? --Milton. Knowledge is for the sake of man, and not man for the sake of knowledge. --Sir W. Hamilton. Note: The -s of the possessive case preceding sake is sometimes omitted for euphony; as, for goodness sake. [bd]For conscience sake.[b8] --1 Cor. x. 28. The plural sakes is often used with a possessive plural. [bd]For both our sakes.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Saki \Sa"ki\ (s[amac]"k[icr]), n. [Cf. F. & Pg. saki; probably from the native name.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus {Pithecia}. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile. Note: The black saki ({Pithecia satanas}), the white-headed ({P. leucocephala}), and the red-backed, or hand-drinking, saki ({P. chiropotes}), are among the best-known. | |
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Saki \Sa"ki\ (s[aum]"k[esl]), n. The alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice. | |
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Sakieh \Sak"i*eh\, Sakiyeh \Sak"i*yeh\, n.] [Ar. s[be]q[c6]ah canal, trench.] A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope. | |
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Sakieh \Sak"i*eh\, Sakiyeh \Sak"i*yeh\, n.] [Ar. s[be]q[c6]ah canal, trench.] A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope. | |
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Sash \Sash\, n. [Pers. shast a sort of girdle.] A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc. | |
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Sash \Sash\, v. t. To adorn with a sash or scarf. --Burke. | |
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Sash \Sash\, n. [F. ch[acir]ssis a frame, sash, fr. ch[acir]sse a shrine, reliquary, frame, L. capsa. See {Case} a box.] 1. The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes. 2. In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called {gate}. {French sash}, a casement swinging on hinges; -- in distinction from a vertical sash sliding up and down. | |
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Sash \Sash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sashing}.] To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window. | |
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Sasse \Sasse\, n. [D. sas, fr. F. sas the basin of a waterfall.] A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable. [Obs.] --Pepys. | |
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Sauce \Sauce\ (s[add]s), v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. {Sauced} (s[add]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Saucing} (s[add]"s[icr]ng).] 1. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor. 2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.] Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! --Shak. 3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. --Sir P. Sidney. Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings. --Shak. 4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low] I'll sauce her with bitter words. --Shak. | |
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Sauce \Sauce\, n. [F., fr. OF. sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p. p. of salire to salt, fr. sal salt. See {Salt}, and cf. {Saucer}, {Souse} pickle, {Souse} to plunge.] 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. [bd]Poignant sauce.[b8] --Chaucer. High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. --Sir S. Baker. 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett. Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. --Beverly. 3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] [bd]Stewed apple sauce.[b8] --Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book). 4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell. {To serve one the same sauce}, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar] | |
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Saucy \Sau"cy\, a. [Compar. {Saucier}; superl. {Sauciest}.] [From {Sauce}.] 1. Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. Am I not protector, saucy priest? --Shak. 2. Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks. We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs. --Shak. Syn: Impudent; insolent; impertinent; rude. | |
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Saugh \Saugh\, Sauh \Sauh\, obs. imp. sing. of {See}. --Chaucer. | |
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Sacs \Sacs\ (s[add]ks), n. pl.; sing. {Sac}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Written also {Sauks}.] | |
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Sauks \Sauks\, n. pl. (Ethnol.) Same as {Sacs}. | |
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Nerka \Ner"ka\, n. [Russ. niarka, prob. fr. native name.] (Zo[94]l.) The most important salmon of Alaska ({Oncorhinchus nerka}), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also {red salmon}, {redfish}, {blueback}, and {sawqui}. | |
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Zax \Zax\ (z[acr]ks), n. A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates. [Written also {sax}.] | |
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Sax \Sax\, n. [AS. seax a knife.] A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates. | |
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Zax \Zax\ (z[acr]ks), n. A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates. [Written also {sax}.] | |
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Sax \Sax\, n. [AS. seax a knife.] A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates. | |
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Scheik \Scheik\ (sh[emac]k [or] sh[amac]k), n. See {Sheik}. | |
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d8Sheik \[d8]Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[be]kha to grow or be old.] The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also {scheik}, {shaik}, {sheikh}.] | |
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Scheik \Scheik\ (sh[emac]k [or] sh[amac]k), n. See {Sheik}. | |
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d8Sheik \[d8]Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[be]kha to grow or be old.] The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also {scheik}, {shaik}, {sheikh}.] | |
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Schizo- \Schiz"o-\ [Gr. [?] to split, cleave.] A combining form denoting division or cleavage; as, schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or cell division. | |
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Scious \Sci"ous\, a. [L. scius.] Knowing; having knowledge. [bd]Brutes may be and are scious.[b8] --Coleridge. | |
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Scise \Scise\, v. i. [L. scindere, scissum, to cut, split.] To cut; to penetrate. [Obs.] The wicked steel scised deep in his right side. --Fairfax. | |
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Scoke \Scoke\, n. (Bot.) Poke ({Phytolacca decandra}). | |
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Scouse \Scouse\ (skous), n. (Naut.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See {Lobscouse}. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Scug \Scug\, v. i. [Cf. Dan. skugge to darken, a shade, SW. skugga to shade, a shade, Icel. skuggja to shade, skuggi a shade.] To hide. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Scug \Scug\, n. A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Sea cow \Sea" cow`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The mantee. (b) The dugong. (c) The walrus. | |
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Manatee \Man`a*tee"\, n. [Sp. manat[a1], from the native name in Hayti. Cf. {Lamantin}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species of {Trichechus}, a genus of sirenians; -- called also{sea cow}. [Written also {manaty}, {manati}.] Note: One species ({Trichechus Senegalensis}) inhabits the west coast of Africa; another ({T. Americanus}) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee ({T. latirostris}) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of {T. Americanus}. It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It is hunted for its oil and flesh. | |
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Sea cow \Sea" cow`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The mantee. (b) The dugong. (c) The walrus. | |
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Manatee \Man`a*tee"\, n. [Sp. manat[a1], from the native name in Hayti. Cf. {Lamantin}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species of {Trichechus}, a genus of sirenians; -- called also{sea cow}. [Written also {manaty}, {manati}.] Note: One species ({Trichechus Senegalensis}) inhabits the west coast of Africa; another ({T. Americanus}) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee ({T. latirostris}) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of {T. Americanus}. It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It is hunted for its oil and flesh. | |
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Sea egg \Sea" egg`\ (Zo[94]l.) A sea urchin. | |
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Sea hawk \Sea" hawk`\ (Zo[94]l.) A jager gull. | |
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Sea hog \Sea" hog`\ (Zo[94]l.) The porpoise. | |
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Sea mud \Sea" mud`\ A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also {sea ooze}. | |
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Sea ooze \Sea" ooze`\ Same as {Sea mud}. --Mortimer. | |
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Sea mud \Sea" mud`\ A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also {sea ooze}. | |
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Sea ooze \Sea" ooze`\ Same as {Sea mud}. --Mortimer. | |
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Seak \Seak\, n. Soap prepared for use in milling cloth. | |
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Seche \Seche\, v. t. & i. To seek. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Seck \Seck\, a. [F. sec, properly, dry, L. siccua.] Barren; unprofitable. See {Rent seck}, under {Rent}. | |
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Seek \Seek\, a. Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeking}.] [OE, seken, AS. s[?]can, s[?]cean; akin to OS. s[?]kian, LG. s[94]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. s[?]kja, Sw. s[94]ka, Dan. s[94]ge, Goth. s[?]kjan, and E. sake. Cf. {Beseech}, {Ransack}, {Sagacious}, {Sake}, {Soc}.] 1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. --Gen. xxxvii. 15,16. 2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech. Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke xi. 16. 3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. 4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5. Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. --Pope. | |
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Seek \Seek\, v. i. To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa. xxxiv. 16. {To seek}, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated. [bd]Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek.[b8] --Milton. [Obs] {To seek after}, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. {To seek for}, to endeavor to find. {To seek to}, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.] [bd]All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.[b8] --1. Kings x. 24. {To seek upon}, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.] To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest. --Chaucer. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, n. [Probably a reduplication of saw, to express the alternate motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing.] 1. A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down. 2. A plank or board adjusted for this play. 3. A vibratory or reciprocating motion. He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact. --Sir W. Hamilton. 4. (Whist.) Same as {Crossruff}. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Seesawad}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seesawing}.] To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. He seesaws himself to and fro. --Ld. Lytton. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, a. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion. | |
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Crossruff \Cross"ruff`\ (-r?f`), n. (Whist) The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also {seesaw}. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, n. [Probably a reduplication of saw, to express the alternate motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing.] 1. A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down. 2. A plank or board adjusted for this play. 3. A vibratory or reciprocating motion. He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact. --Sir W. Hamilton. 4. (Whist.) Same as {Crossruff}. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Seesawad}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seesawing}.] To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. He seesaws himself to and fro. --Ld. Lytton. | |
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Seesaw \See"saw`\, a. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion. | |
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Crossruff \Cross"ruff`\ (-r?f`), n. (Whist) The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also {seesaw}. | |
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Seg \Seg\, n. [See {Sedge}.] (Bot.) 1. Sedge. [Obs.] 2. The gladen, and other species of Iris. --Prior. | |
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Seg \Seg\, n. [Probably from the root of L. secare to cut.] A castrated bull. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell. | |
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Segge \Segge\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Sego \Se"go\, n. (Bot.) A liliaceous plant ({Calochortus Nuttallii}) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons. | |
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Seigh \Seigh\, obs. imp. sing. of {See}. {Saw}. --Chaucer. | |
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Seise \Seise\, v. t. See {Seize}. --Spenser. Note: This is the common spelling in the law phrase to be seised of (an estate). | |
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Seize \Seize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seizing}.] [OE. seisen, saisen, OF. seisir, saisir, F. saisir, of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. set. The meaning is properly, to set, put, place, hence, to put in possession of. See {Set}, v. t.] 1. To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp. For by no means the high bank he could seize. --Spenser. Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford? --Shak. | |
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Seke \Seke\, a. Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Seke \Seke\, v. t. & i. To seek. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sequoia \Se*quoi"a\, n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, {Sequoia Washingtoniana}, syn. {S. gigantea}, the [bd]big tree[b8] of California, and {S. sempervirens}, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height. | |
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d8Apophysis \[d8]A*poph"y*sis\, n.; pl. {-ses}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] offshoot, process of a bone, fr. [?] to grow from; [?] from + [?], [?], to grow.] 1. (Anat.) A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone. 2. (Bot.) An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. --Gray. | |
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Sess \Sess\, v. t. [Aphetic form of assess. See {Assess}, {Cess}.] To lay a tax upon; to assess. [Obs.] | |
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Sess \Sess\, n. A tax; an assessment. See {Cess}. [Obs.] | |
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Sessa \Ses"sa\, interj. Hurry; run. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Sewage \Sew"age\, n. 1. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers 2. Sewerage, 2. | |
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Sewerage \Sew"er*age\, n. 1. The construction of a sewer or sewers. 2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers. 3. The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense {sewage} is preferable and common.] | |
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Sewage \Sew"age\, n. 1. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers 2. Sewerage, 2. | |
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Sewerage \Sew"er*age\, n. 1. The construction of a sewer or sewers. 2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers. 3. The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense {sewage} is preferable and common.] | |
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Sex- \Sex-\ [L. sex six. See {Six}.] A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial. | |
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Sex \Sex\, n. [L. sexus: cf. F. sexe.] 1. The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female. 2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. 3. (Bot.) (a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes. (b) One of the groups founded on this distinction. {The sex}, the female sex; women, in general. | |
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Sex- \Sex-\ [L. sex six. See {Six}.] A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial. | |
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Sex \Sex\, n. [L. sexus: cf. F. sexe.] 1. The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female. 2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. 3. (Bot.) (a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes. (b) One of the groups founded on this distinction. {The sex}, the female sex; women, in general. | |
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Shack \Shack\, v. t. [Prov. E., to shake, to shed. See {Shake}.] 1. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose. 2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.] 3. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.] | |
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Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.] 1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. --H. W. Beecher. {Common of shack} (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. --Cowell. | |
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Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. {Shack}, v. i.] A hut; a shanty; a cabin. [Colloq.] These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect. --D. C. Worcester. | |
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Shag \Shag\, n. [AS. sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg the beard, Sw. sk[84]gg, Dan. skj[?]g. Cf. {Schock} of hair.] 1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. --Gay. 2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap. 3. (Com.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Any species of cormorant. | |
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Shag \Shag\, a. Hairy; shaggy. --Shak. | |
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Shag \Shag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shagging}.] To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. --J. Barlow. | |
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Shaggy \Shag"gy\, a. [Compar. {Shaggier}; superl. {Shaggiest}.] [From {Shag}, n.] Rough with long hair or wool. About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. --Dryden. 2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. --Milton. [A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. --Keble. | |
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d8Sheik \[d8]Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[be]kha to grow or be old.] The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also {scheik}, {shaik}, {sheikh}.] | |
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Shaik \Shaik\, n. See {Sheik}. | |
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d8Sheik \[d8]Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[be]kha to grow or be old.] The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also {scheik}, {shaik}, {sheikh}.] | |
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Shaik \Shaik\, n. See {Sheik}. | |
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Shake \Shake\, obs. p. p. of {Shake}. --Chaucer. | |
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Shake \Shake\, v. t. [imp. {Shook}; p. p. {Shaken}, ({Shook}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shaking}.] [OE. shaken, schaken, AS. scacan, sceacan; akin to Icel. & Sw. skaka, OS. skakan, to depart, to flee. [root]161. Cf. {Shock}, v.] 1. To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. As a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. --Rev. vi. 13. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis. --Milton. 2. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation. --Atterbury. Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced. --Milton. 3. (Mus.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. 4. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. --Shak. 'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age. --Shak. I could scarcely shake him out of my company. --Bunyan. {To shake a cask} (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves. {To shake hands}, to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. {To shake out a reef} (Naut.), to untile the reef points and spread more canvas. {To shake the bells}. See under {Bell}. {To shake the sails} (Naut.), to luff up in the wind, causing the sails to shiver. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Shake \Shake\, v. i. To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. --Milton. What danger? Who 's that that shakes behind there? --Beau. & Fl. {Shaking piece}, a name given by butchers to the piece of beef cut from the under side of the neck. See Illust. of {Beef}. | |
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Shake \Shake\, n. 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. The great soldier's honor was composed Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake. --Herbert. Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, consisting of many kind shakes of the hand. --Addison. 2. A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. --Gwilt. 3. A fissure in rock or earth. 4. (Mus.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. 5. (Naut.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. --Totten. 6. A shook of staves and headings. --Knight. 7. (Zo[94]l.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. [Prov. Eng.] {No great shakes}, of no great importance. [Slang] --Byron. {The shakes}, the fever and ague. [Colloq. U.S.] | |
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Shako \Shak"o\, n. [Hung. cs[a0]k[a2]: cf. F. shako, schako.] A kind of military cap or headdress. | |
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Shaky \Shak"y\, a. [Compar. {Shakier}; superl. {Shakiest}.] 1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. --Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. --Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit. [Colloq.] | |
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Shash \Shash\, n. [See {Sash}.] 1. The scarf of a turban. [Obs.] --Fuller. 2. A sash. [Obs.] | |
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d8Sheik \[d8]Sheik\, n. [Ar. sheikh, shaykh, a venerable old man, a chief, fr. sh[be]kha to grow or be old.] The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also {scheik}, {shaik}, {sheikh}.] | |
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Shock \Shock\, n. [OE. schokke; cf. OD schocke, G. schock a heap, quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap of hay, Lith. kugis.] 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook. And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. --Tusser. Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks. --Thomson. 2. [G. schock.] (Com.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. | |
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Shock \Shock\, v. t. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. | |
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Shock \Shock\, v. i. To be occupied with making shocks. Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace. --Tusser. | |
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Shock \Shock\, n. [Cf. D. schok a bounce, jolt, or leap, OHG. scoc a swing, MHG. schoc, Icel. skykkjun tremuously, F. choc a shock, collision, a dashing or striking against, Sp. choque, It. ciocco a log. [root]161. Cf. {Shock} to shake.] 1. A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset. These strong, unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous. --Blackmore. He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. --Addison. 2. A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event. [bd]A shock of pleasure.[b8] --Talfourd. 3. (Med.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like. 4. (Elec.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body. Syn: {Concussion}, {Shock}. Usage: Both words signify a sudden violent shaking caused by impact or colision; but concussion is restricted in use to matter, while shock is used also of mental states. | |
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Shock \Shock\, a. Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair. His red shock peruke . . . was laid aside. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Shock \Shock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shocking}.] [OE. schokken; cf. D. schokken, F. choquer, Sp. chocar. [root]161. Cf. {Chuck} to strike, {Jog}, {Shake}, {Shock} a striking, {Shog}, n. & v.] 1. To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. --Shak. I shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. Advise him not to shock a father's will. --Dryden. | |
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Shock \Shock\, v. i. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. [bd]They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.[b8] --De Quincey. | |
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Shock \Shock\, n. [Cf. {Shag}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also {shockdog}. 2. A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair. | |
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Shock \Shock\, v. t. (Physiol.) To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system. | |
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Shoe \Shoe\, n.; pl. {Shoes}, formerly {Shoon}, now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[?]h, sce[a2]h; akin to OFries. sk[?], OS. sk[?]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk[?]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk[?]hs; of unknown origin.] 1. A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. --Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. --Shak. 2. Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically: (a) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury. (b) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow. (c) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill. (d) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. (e) (Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building. (f) (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. (g) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. (h) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. (i) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile. (j) (Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also {slipper}, and {gib}. Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring. {Shoe of an anchor}. (Naut.) (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered. (b) A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground. {Shoe block} (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other. {Shoe bolt}, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners. {Shoe pac}, a kind of moccasin. See {Pac}. {Shoe stone}, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather. | |
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Ammunition \Am`mu*ni"tion\, n. [F. amunition, for munition, prob. caused by taking la munition as l'amunition. See {Munition}.] 1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.] 2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc. 3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. {Ammunition bread}, {shoes}, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.] | |
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Shoe \Shoe\, n.; pl. {Shoes}, formerly {Shoon}, now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[?]h, sce[a2]h; akin to OFries. sk[?], OS. sk[?]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk[?]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk[?]hs; of unknown origin.] 1. A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. --Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. --Shak. 2. Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically: (a) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury. (b) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow. (c) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill. (d) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. (e) (Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building. (f) (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. (g) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. (h) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. (i) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile. (j) (Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also {slipper}, and {gib}. Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring. {Shoe of an anchor}. (Naut.) (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered. (b) A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground. {Shoe block} (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other. {Shoe bolt}, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners. {Shoe pac}, a kind of moccasin. See {Pac}. {Shoe stone}, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather. | |
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Ammunition \Am`mu*ni"tion\, n. [F. amunition, for munition, prob. caused by taking la munition as l'amunition. See {Munition}.] 1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.] 2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc. 3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. {Ammunition bread}, {shoes}, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.] | |
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Shog \Shog\, n. [See {Shock} a striking.] A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse. [R. or Scot.] | |
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Shog \Shog\, v. t. To shake; to shock. [R. or Scot.] | |
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Shog \Shog\, v. i. [Cf. W. ysgogi to wag, to stir. Cf. {Jog}.] To jog; to move on. [R. or Scot.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Shook \Shook\, n. [Cf. {Shock} a bundle of sheaves.] (Com.) (a) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form. (b) A set of boards for a sugar box. (c) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together. | |
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Shook \Shook\, imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of {Shake}. | |
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Shook \Shook\, v. t. To pack, as staves, in a shook. | |
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Shake \Shake\, v. t. [imp. {Shook}; p. p. {Shaken}, ({Shook}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shaking}.] [OE. shaken, schaken, AS. scacan, sceacan; akin to Icel. & Sw. skaka, OS. skakan, to depart, to flee. [root]161. Cf. {Shock}, v.] 1. To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. As a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. --Rev. vi. 13. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis. --Milton. 2. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation. --Atterbury. Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced. --Milton. 3. (Mus.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. 4. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. --Shak. 'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age. --Shak. I could scarcely shake him out of my company. --Bunyan. {To shake a cask} (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves. {To shake hands}, to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. {To shake out a reef} (Naut.), to untile the reef points and spread more canvas. {To shake the bells}. See under {Bell}. {To shake the sails} (Naut.), to luff up in the wind, causing the sails to shiver. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Shough \Shough\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A shockdog. | |
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Shough \Shough\, interj. See {Shoo}. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Showish \Show"ish\, a. Showy; ostentatious. --Swift. | |
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Shuck \Shuck\, n. A shock of grain. [Prev.Eng.] | |
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Shuck \Shuck\, n. [Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell.] 1. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. 2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [U. S.] | |
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Shuck \Shuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shucking}.] To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. | |
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Shuck \Shuck\, v. t. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. [Colloq.] [bd]Shucking[b8] his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water. --F. A. Ober. He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony. --Pall Mall Mag. | |
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Shug \Shug\, v. i. [Cf. {Shrug}.] 1. To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. Hence, to crawl; to sneak. [Obs.] There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance. --Ford. | |
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Carborundum \Car`bo*run"dum\, [Carbon + corundum.] A beautiful crystalline compound, {SiC}, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive. | |
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Sic \Sic\, a. Such. [Scot.] | |
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Carborundum \Car`bo*run"dum\, [Carbon + corundum.] A beautiful crystalline compound, {SiC}, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive. | |
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Sic \Sic\, a. Such. [Scot.] | |
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Sice \Sice\, n. [F. six, fr. L. sex six. See {Six}.] The number six at dice. | |
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Sich \Sich\, a. Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Spenser. | |
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Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se[a2]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj[?]kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under {Illness}. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. --Fuller. {Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. {Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick. {Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. {Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. {Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick. {Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.] Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. | |
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Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Sick \Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Siege \Siege\, n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. si[8a]ge a seat, a siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assi[82]ger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See {Sit}, and cf. {See}, n.] 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. [Obs.] [bd]Upon the very siege of justice.[b8] --Shak. A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. --Spenser. In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it [bd]The siege perilous.[b8] --Tennyson. 2. Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.] Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. --Painter (Palace of Pleasure). 3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.] I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. --Shak. 4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.] The siege of this mooncalf. --Shak. 5. The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under {Blockade}. 6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. --Dryden. 7. The floor of a glass-furnace. 8. A workman's bench. --Knught. {Siege gun}, a heavy gun for siege operations. {Siege train}, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places. | |
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Siege \Siege\, v. t. To besiege; to beset. [R.] Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man. --Buron. | |
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Sig \Sig\, n. [Akin to AS. s[c6]gan to fall. [root]151a. See {Sink}, v. t.] Urine. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Sigh \Sigh\, v. t. 1. To exhale (the breath) in sighs. Never man sighed truer breath. --Shak. 2. To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate. --Pior. 3. To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs. They . . . sighed forth proverbs. --Shak. The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief. --Hoole. | |
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Sigh \Sigh\, n. [OE. sigh; cf. OE. sik. See {Sigh}, v. i.] 1. A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing. I could drive the boat with my sighs. --Shak. 2. Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan[?]ent. With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite. --Milton. | |
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Sigh \Sigh\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sighed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sighing}.] [OE. sighen, si[?]en; cf. also OE. siken, AS. s[c6]can, and OE. sighten, si[?]ten, sichten, AS. siccettan; all, perhaps, of imitative origin.] 1. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like. 2. Hence, to lament; to grieve. He sighed deeply in his spirit. --Mark viii. 12. 3. To make a sound like sighing. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge. --Coleridge. The winter winds are wearily sighing. --Tennyson. Note: An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as s[c6]th is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States. | |
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Sik \Sik\, Sike \Sike\, a. Such. See {Such}. [Obs.] [bd]Sike fancies weren foolerie.[b8] --Spenser. | |
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Sik \Sik\, Sike \Sike\, a. Such. See {Such}. [Obs.] [bd]Sike fancies weren foolerie.[b8] --Spenser. | |
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Sike \Sike\, n. [AS. s[c6]c. Cf. {Sig}.] A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Sike \Sike\, n. [See {Sick}.] A sick person. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Sike \Sike\, v. i. To sigh. [Obs.] That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore. --Chaucer. | |
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Sike \Sike\, n. A sigh. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sikhs \Sikhs\, n. pl.; sing. {Sikh}. [Hind. Sikh, properly, a disciple.] A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century. | |
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Sioux \Sioux\, n. sing. & pl. (Ethnol.) See {Dakotas}. | |
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Dakotas \Da*ko"tas\, n. pl.; sing. {Dacota}. (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called {Sioux}. [Written also {Dacotahs}.] | |
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Sis \Sis\, n. A colloquial abbreviation of {Sister}. | |
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Sis \Sis\, n. Six. See {Sise}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sise \Sise\, n. [From {Assize}.] An assize. [Obs.] | |
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Sise \Sise\, n. [See {Sice}.] Six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice. In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom. --Fuller. | |
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Siss \Siss\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. D. sissen, G. zischen.] To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger. [Colloq. U. S.; Local, Eng.] | |
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Siss \Siss\, n. A hissing noise. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Sissoo \Sis*soo"\, n. [Hind. s[c6]s[?].] (Bot.) A leguminous tree ({Dalbergia Sissoo}) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc. | |
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Six \Six\, a. [AS. six, seox, siex; akin to OFries. sex, D. zes, OS. & OHG. sehs, G. sechs, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sex, Goth. sa[a1]hs, Lith. szeszi, Russ. sheste, Gael. & Ir. se, W. chwech, L. sex, Gr. [?][?], Per. shesh, Skr. shash. [root]304. Cf. {Hexagon}, {Hexameter}, {Samite}, {Senary}, {Sextant}, {Sice}.] One more than five; twice three; as, six yards. {Six Nations} (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations. {Six points circle}. (Geom.) See {Nine points circle}, under {Nine}. | |
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Six \Six\, n. 1. The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects. 2. A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI. {To be at six and seven} [or] {at sixes and sevens}, to be in disorder. --Bacon. Shak. Swift. | |
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Size \Size\, v. i. 1. To take greater size; to increase in size. Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow. --Donne. 2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. | |
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Size \Size\, n. [See {Sice}, and {Sise}.] Six. | |
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Size \Size\, n. [OIt. sisa glue used by painters, shortened fr. assisa, fr. assidere, p. p. assiso, to make to sit, to seat, to place, L. assidere to sit down; ad + sidere to sit down, akin to sedere to sit. See {Sit}, v. i., and cf. {Assize}, {Size} bulk.] 1. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. 2. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. | |
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Size \Size\, v. t. 1. To fix the standard of. [bd]To size weights and measures.[b8] [R.] --Bacon. 2. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically: (a) (Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature. (b) (Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts. 3. To swell; to increase the bulk of. --Beau. & Fl. 4. (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. {To size up}, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th {Size}, 4. [Slang, U.S.] We had to size up our fellow legislators. --The Century. | |
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Size \Size\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sizing}.] To cover with size; to prepare with size. | |
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Size \Size\, n. [Abbrev. from assize. See {Assize}, and cf. {Size} glue.] 1. A settled quantity or allowance. See {Assize}. [Obs.] [bd]To scant my sizes.[b8] --Shak. 2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford. 3. Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. 4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. Men of a less size and quality. --L'Estrange. The middling or lower size of people. --Swift. 5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. 6. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. --Knight. {Size roll}, a small piese of parchment added to a roll. {Size stick}, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot. Syn: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude. | |
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Assize \As*size"\, n. [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid[?]re to sit by; ad + sed[emac]re to sit. See {Sit}, {Size}, and cf. {Excise}, {Assess}.] 1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.] 2. (Law) (a) A special kind of jury or inquest. (b) A kind of writ or real action. (c) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ. (d) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. (e) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. --Glanvill. --Spelman. --Cowell. --Blackstone. --Tomlins. --Burrill. Note: [This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases. --Stephen. --Burrill. --Erskine.] (f) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. --Blackstone. --Wharton. --Encyc. Brit. (g) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. --Brande. --Wharton. --Craig. --Burrill. (h) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes. 3. Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into {size}.] An hundred cubits high by just assize. --Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, {assise}.] | |
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Size \Size\, v. i. 1. To take greater size; to increase in size. Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow. --Donne. 2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. | |
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Size \Size\, n. [See {Sice}, and {Sise}.] Six. | |
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Size \Size\, n. [OIt. sisa glue used by painters, shortened fr. assisa, fr. assidere, p. p. assiso, to make to sit, to seat, to place, L. assidere to sit down; ad + sidere to sit down, akin to sedere to sit. See {Sit}, v. i., and cf. {Assize}, {Size} bulk.] 1. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. 2. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. | |
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Size \Size\, v. t. 1. To fix the standard of. [bd]To size weights and measures.[b8] [R.] --Bacon. 2. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically: (a) (Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature. (b) (Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts. 3. To swell; to increase the bulk of. --Beau. & Fl. 4. (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. {To size up}, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th {Size}, 4. [Slang, U.S.] We had to size up our fellow legislators. --The Century. | |
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Size \Size\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sizing}.] To cover with size; to prepare with size. | |
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Size \Size\, n. [Abbrev. from assize. See {Assize}, and cf. {Size} glue.] 1. A settled quantity or allowance. See {Assize}. [Obs.] [bd]To scant my sizes.[b8] --Shak. 2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford. 3. Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. 4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. Men of a less size and quality. --L'Estrange. The middling or lower size of people. --Swift. 5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. 6. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. --Knight. {Size roll}, a small piese of parchment added to a roll. {Size stick}, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot. Syn: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude. | |
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Assize \As*size"\, n. [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid[?]re to sit by; ad + sed[emac]re to sit. See {Sit}, {Size}, and cf. {Excise}, {Assess}.] 1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.] 2. (Law) (a) A special kind of jury or inquest. (b) A kind of writ or real action. (c) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ. (d) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. (e) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. --Glanvill. --Spelman. --Cowell. --Blackstone. --Tomlins. --Burrill. Note: [This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases. --Stephen. --Burrill. --Erskine.] (f) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. --Blackstone. --Wharton. --Encyc. Brit. (g) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. --Brande. --Wharton. --Craig. --Burrill. (h) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes. 3. Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into {size}.] An hundred cubits high by just assize. --Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, {assise}.] | |
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Sizy \Siz"y\, a. [From 2d {Size}.] Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Skag \Skag\, n. (Naut.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See {Skeg}. | |
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Skeg \Skeg\, n. [Prov. E., also a stump of a branch, a wooden peg; cf. Icel. sk[?]gr a wood, Sw. skog. Cf. {Shaw}.] 1. A sort of wild plum. [Obs.] --Holland. 2. pl. A kind of oats. --Farm. Encyc. 3. (Naut.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached. | |
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Sky \Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. {Skies} (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a cloud, Icel. sk[ymac]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[umac]a, sc[umac]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root as E. scum. [root]158. See {Scum}, and cf. {Hide} skin, {Obscure}.] 1. A cloud. [Obs.] [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. --Chaucer. 2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.] She passeth as it were a sky. --Gower. 3. The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural. The Norweyan banners flout the sky. --Shak. 4. The wheather; the climate. Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. --Shak. Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight, sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc. {Sky blue}, an azure color. {Sky scraper} (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form. --Totten. {Under open sky}, out of doors. [bd]Under open sky adored.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Sky-high \Sky"-high`\, adv. & a. Very high. [Colloq.] | |
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Skyish \Sky"ish\, a. Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [R.] --Shak. | |
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As \As\ ([acr]z), adv. & conj. [OE. as, als, alse, also, al swa, AS. eal sw[be], lit. all so; hence, quite so, quite as: cf. G. als as, than, also so, then. See {Also}.] 1. Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. --Macaulay. Note: As is often preceded by one of the antecedent or correlative words such, same, so, or as, in expressing an equality or comparison; as, give us such things as you please, and so long as you please, or as long as you please; he is not so brave as Cato; she is as amiable as she is handsome; come as quickly as possible. [bd]Bees appear fortunately to prefer the same colors as we do.[b8] --Lubbock. As, in a preceding part of a sentence, has such or so to answer correlatively to it; as with the people, so with the priest. 2. In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. --Dewey. 3. While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke. As I return I will fetch off these justices. --Shak. 4. Because; since; it being the case that. As the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms . . . they were not indifferently prepared. --Sir W. Scott. [See Synonym under {Because}.] 5. Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. --Macaulay. 6. That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such. [Obs.] I can place thee in such abject state, as help shall never find thee. --Rowe. {So as}, so that. [Obs.] The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination. --Bacon. 7. As if; as though. [Obs. or Poetic] He lies, as he his bliss did know. --Waller. 8. For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations. 9. Than. [Obs. & R.] The king was not more forward to bestow favors on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. --Fuller. 10. Expressing a wish. [Obs.] [bd]As have,[b8] Note: i. e., may he have. --Chaucer. {As . . as}. See {So . . as}, under {So}. {As far as}, to the extent or degree. [bd]As far as can be ascertained.[b8] --Macaulay. {As far forth as}, as far as. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {As for}, [or] {As to}, in regard to; with respect to. {As good as}, not less than; not falling short of. {As good as one's word}, faithful to a promise. {As if}, or {As though}, of the same kind, or in the same condition or manner, that it would be if. {As it were} (as if it were), a qualifying phrase used to apologize for or to relieve some expression which might be regarded as inappropriate or incongruous; in a manner. {As now}, just now. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {As swythe}, as quickly as possible. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {As well}, also; too; besides. --Addison. {As well as}, equally with, no less than. [bd]I have understanding as well as you.[b8] --Job xii. 3. {As yet}, until now; up to or at the present time; still; now. | |
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A week or so will probably reconcile us. --Gay. Note: See the Note under {Ill}, adv. {So} . . . {as}. So is now commonly used as a demonstrative correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By Shakespeare and others so . . . as was much used where as . . . as is now common. See the Note under {As}, 1. So do, as thou hast said. --Gen. xviii. 5. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. --Ps. ciii. 15. Had woman been so strong as men. --Shak. No country suffered so much as England. --Macaulay. {So far}, to that point or extent; in that particular. [bd]The song was moral, and so far was right.[b8] --Cowper. {So far forth}, as far; to such a degree. --Shak. --Bacon. {So forth}, further in the same or similar manner; more of the same or a similar kind. See {And so forth}, under {And}. {So, so}, well, well. [bd]So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit you fast.[b8] --Dryden. Also, moderately or tolerably well; passably; as, he succeeded but so so. [bd]His leg is but so so.[b8] --Shak. {So that}, to the end that; in order that; with the effect or result that. {So then}, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is. | |
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Soak \Soak\, v. i. 1. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak. 2. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter. 3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang] | |
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Soak \Soak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Soaking}.] [OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s[?]can, s[?]gan, to suck. See {Suck}.] 1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like. 2. To drench; to wet thoroughly. Their land shall be soaked with blood. --Isa. xxiv. 7. 3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture. 4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through. The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. --Sir W. Scott. 5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. | |
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Soaky \Soak"y\, a. Full of moisture; wet; soppy. | |
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Soc \Soc\ (s[ocr]k), n. [AS. s[omac]c the power of holding court, sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf. {Sac}, and {Soke}.] [Written also {sock}, and {soke}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] {Soc and sac} (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship. | |
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Socialism \Socialism\, n. {Socialism of the chair} [G. katheder socialismus], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes. Sock \Sock\, v. t. [Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.] To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. [Prov. or Vulgar] --Kipling. | |
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Sock \Sock\, n. [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.] A plowshare. --Edin. Encyc. | |
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Sock \Sock\, n. [OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of low-heeled, light shoe. Cf. {Sucket}.] 1. The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the {buskin}. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. --Dryden. 2. A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg. 3. A warm inner sole for a shoe. --Simmonds. | |
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Soc \Soc\ (s[ocr]k), n. [AS. s[omac]c the power of holding court, sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf. {Sac}, and {Soke}.] [Written also {sock}, and {soke}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] {Soc and sac} (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship. | |
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Socialism \Socialism\, n. {Socialism of the chair} [G. katheder socialismus], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes. Sock \Sock\, v. t. [Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.] To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. [Prov. or Vulgar] --Kipling. | |
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Sock \Sock\, n. [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.] A plowshare. --Edin. Encyc. | |
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Sock \Sock\, n. [OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of low-heeled, light shoe. Cf. {Sucket}.] 1. The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the {buskin}. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. --Dryden. 2. A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg. 3. A warm inner sole for a shoe. --Simmonds. | |
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Soc \Soc\ (s[ocr]k), n. [AS. s[omac]c the power of holding court, sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf. {Sac}, and {Soke}.] [Written also {sock}, and {soke}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] {Soc and sac} (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship. | |
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Socky \Sock"y\, a. Wet; soaky. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Soggy \Sog"gy\, a. [Compar. {Soggier}; superl. {Soggiest}.] [Cf. Icel. s[94]ggr damp, wet, or E. soak.] Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber. | |
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Soja \So"ja\ (s[omac]"j[adot] [or] s[omac]"y[adot]), n. (Bot.) An Asiatic leguminous herb ({Glycine Soja}) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy. | |
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Soke \Soke\, n. 1. (Eng. Law) See {Soc}. | |
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Soc \Soc\ (s[ocr]k), n. [AS. s[omac]c the power of holding court, sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf. {Sac}, and {Soke}.] [Written also {sock}, and {soke}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] {Soc and sac} (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship. | |
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Soke \Soke\, n. 1. (Eng. Law) See {Soc}. | |
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Soc \Soc\ (s[ocr]k), n. [AS. s[omac]c the power of holding court, sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf. {Sac}, and {Soke}.] [Written also {sock}, and {soke}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] {Soc and sac} (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship. | |
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Soko \So"ko\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee. | |
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Soojee \Soo"jee\, n. Same as {Suji}. | |
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d8Suji \[d8]Su"ji\, n. [Hind. s[?]f[c6].] Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina. [Written also {soojee}.] | |
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Soojee \Soo"jee\, n. Same as {Suji}. | |
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d8Suji \[d8]Su"ji\, n. [Hind. s[?]f[c6].] Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina. [Written also {soojee}.] | |
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Soosoo \Soo"soo\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A kind of dolphin ({Platanista Gangeticus}) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak. [Written also {susu}.] | |
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SOS \SOS\ The letters signified by the signal ( . . . --- . . . ) prescribed by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912 for use by ships in distress. | |
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So-so \So"-so`\, a. [So + so.] Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent. In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. --Goldsmith. He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. --Prof. Wilson. | |
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So-so \So"-so`\, adv. Tolerably; passably. --H. James. | |
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Soss \Soss\, n. 1. A lazy fellow. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. A heavy fall. [Prov. Eng.] --Hallowell. | |
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Soss \Soss\, n. [See {Sesspol}.] Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Soss \Soss\ (?; 115), v. i. [Cf. {Souse}.] To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. [Obs.] --Swift. | |
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Soss \Soss\, v. t. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. [Obs.] --Swift. | |
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Souce \Souce\, v. t. & i. See {Souse}. [Obs.] --penser. | |
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Souce \Souce\, n. See 1st {Souse}. | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Souce \Souce\, v. t. & i. See {Souse}. [Obs.] --penser. | |
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Souce \Souce\, n. See 1st {Souse}. | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Sough \Sough\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A small drain; an adit. [Prov. Eng.] --W. M. Buchanan. | |
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Sough \Sough\, n. A sow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sough \Sough\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. Icel. s[?]gr (in comp.) a rushing sound, or OE. swough, swogh, a sound, AS. sw[?]gan to rustle. Cf. {Surf}, {Swoon}, v. i.] 1. The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. --W. Howitt. 2. Hence, a vague rumor or flying report. [Scot.] 3. A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying. [Scot.] --Jamieson. | |
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Sough \Sough\, v. i. To whistle or sigh, as the wind. | |
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Souke \Souke\, v. t. & i. To suck. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sou \Sou\, n.; pl. {Sous}or. [F. sou, OF. sol, from L. solidus a gold coin, in LL., a coin of less value. See {Sold}, n., {Solid}, and and cf. {Sol}, {Soldo}.] An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece ([frac1x20] of a franc), which is popularly called a sou. | |
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Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[oomac]; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder. | |
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Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[oomac]; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder. | |
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Souse \Souse\, v. t. To pounce upon. [R.] [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak. | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. The act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. --Spenser. | |
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Souse \Souse\, adv. With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young. | |
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Souse \Souse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sousing}.] [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See {Souse} pickle.] 1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. [bd]A soused gurnet.[b8] --Shak. 2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. They soused me over head and ears in water. --Addison. 3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. --Gascoigne. | |
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Souse \Souse\, v. i. [Probably fr. OF. sors, p. p. of sordre to rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in general, but also confused with {Souse}, v. t. See {Source}.] To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. --Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J. Dryden. Jr. | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Sowce \Sowce\, n. & v. See {Souse}. [Obs.] | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Sowce \Sowce\, n. & v. See {Souse}. [Obs.] | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Sowse \Sowse\, n. & v. See {Souse}. [Obs.] --ryden. | |
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Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. | |
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Sowse \Sowse\, n. & v. See {Souse}. [Obs.] --ryden. | |
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Squacco \Squac"co\, n.; pl. {Squaccos}. (Zo[94]l.) A heron ({Ardea comata}) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe. | |
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Squash \Squash\, n. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets. | |
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Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squashing}.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier, esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. [82]cacher, perhaps from (assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. {Cogent}, {Squat}, v. i.] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. | |
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Squash \Squash\, n. 1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak. 2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. [bd]This squash, this gentleman.[b8] --Shak. 3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. --Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift. | |
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Squash \Squash\, n. [Cf. {Musquash}.] (Zo[94]l.) An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith. | |
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Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus {Cucurbita}, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called {Cucurbita verrucosa}, the Barbary or China squash, {C. moschata}, and the great winter squash, {C. maxima}, but the distinctions are not clear. {Squash beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica, [or] Galeruca vittata}) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. {Squash bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect ({Coreus, [or] Anasa, tristis}) injurious to squash vines. | |
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Squashy \Squash"y\, a. Easily squashed; soft. | |
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Night \Night\, n. [OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht; akin to D. nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[?]tt, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. [?], [?], Skr. nakta, nakti. [root] 265. Cf. {Equinox}, {Nocturnal}.] 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. --Gen. i. 5. 2. Hence: (a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. --Pope. (b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. (c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow. (d) The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. --Dryden. (e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. [bd]Sad winter's night[b8]. --Spenser. Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc. {Night by night}, {Night after night}, nightly; many nights. So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. --Shak. {Night bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The moor hen ({Gallinula chloropus}). (b) The Manx shearwater ({Puffinus Anglorum}). {Night blindness}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Night cart}, a cart used to remove the contents of privies by night. {Night churr}, (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar. {Night crow}, a bird that cries in the night. {Night dog}, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers. {Night fire}. (a) Fire burning in the night. (b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern. {Night flyer} (Zo[94]l.), any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects. {night glass}, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night. --Totten. {Night green}, iodine green. {Night hag}, a witch supposed to wander in the night. {Night hawk} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Chordeiles Virginianus}), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is called also {bull bat}. {Night heron} ({Zo[94]l}.), any one of several species of herons of the genus {Nycticorax}, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is {Nycticorax griseus}, or {N. nycticorax}, of Europe, and the American variety (var. n[91]vius). The yellow-crowned night heron ({Nycticorax violaceus}) inhabits the Southern States. Called also {qua-bird}, and {squawk}. {Night house}, a public house, or inn, which is open at night. {Night key}, a key for unfastening a night latch. {Night latch}, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated from the outside by a key. {Night monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an owl monkey. {night moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of the noctuids. {Night parrot} (Zo[94]l.), the kakapo. {Night piece}, a painting representing some night scene, as a moonlight effect, or the like. {Night rail}, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness. [Obs.] {Night raven} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. {Night rule}. (a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a corruption, of night revel. [Obs.] (b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at night. What night rule now about this haunted grove? --Shak. {Night sight}. (Med.) See {Nyctolopia}. {Night snap}, a night thief. [Cant] --Beau. & Fl. {Night soil}, human excrement; -- so called because in cities it is collected by night and carried away for manure. {Night spell}, a charm against accidents at night. {Night swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar. {Night walk}, a walk in the evening or night. {Night walker}. (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist. (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets. {Night walking}. (a) Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism; noctambulism. (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs. {Night warbler} (Zo[94]l.), the sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus phragmitis}); -- called also {night singer}. [prov. Eng.] {Night watch}. (a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of watch. (b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night. {Night watcher}, one who watches in the night; especially, one who watches with evil designs. {Night witch}. Same as {Night hag}, above. | |
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Squawk \Squawk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squawked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squawking}.] [See {Squeak}.] To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly. {Squawking thrush} (Zo[94]l.), the missel turush; -- so called from its note when alarmed. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Squawk \Squawk\, n. 1. Act of squawking; a harsh squeak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The American night heron. See under {Night}. {Squawk duck} (Zo[94]l.), the bimaculate duck ({Anas glocitans}). It has patches of reddish brown behind, and in front of, each eye. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Night \Night\, n. [OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht; akin to D. nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[?]tt, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. [?], [?], Skr. nakta, nakti. [root] 265. Cf. {Equinox}, {Nocturnal}.] 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. --Gen. i. 5. 2. Hence: (a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. --Pope. (b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. (c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow. (d) The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. --Dryden. (e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. [bd]Sad winter's night[b8]. --Spenser. Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc. {Night by night}, {Night after night}, nightly; many nights. So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. --Shak. {Night bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The moor hen ({Gallinula chloropus}). (b) The Manx shearwater ({Puffinus Anglorum}). {Night blindness}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Night cart}, a cart used to remove the contents of privies by night. {Night churr}, (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar. {Night crow}, a bird that cries in the night. {Night dog}, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers. {Night fire}. (a) Fire burning in the night. (b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern. {Night flyer} (Zo[94]l.), any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects. {night glass}, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night. --Totten. {Night green}, iodine green. {Night hag}, a witch supposed to wander in the night. {Night hawk} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Chordeiles Virginianus}), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is called also {bull bat}. {Night heron} ({Zo[94]l}.), any one of several species of herons of the genus {Nycticorax}, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is {Nycticorax griseus}, or {N. nycticorax}, of Europe, and the American variety (var. n[91]vius). The yellow-crowned night heron ({Nycticorax violaceus}) inhabits the Southern States. Called also {qua-bird}, and {squawk}. {Night house}, a public house, or inn, which is open at night. {Night key}, a key for unfastening a night latch. {Night latch}, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated from the outside by a key. {Night monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an owl monkey. {night moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of the noctuids. {Night parrot} (Zo[94]l.), the kakapo. {Night piece}, a painting representing some night scene, as a moonlight effect, or the like. {Night rail}, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness. [Obs.] {Night raven} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. {Night rule}. (a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a corruption, of night revel. [Obs.] (b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at night. What night rule now about this haunted grove? --Shak. {Night sight}. (Med.) See {Nyctolopia}. {Night snap}, a night thief. [Cant] --Beau. & Fl. {Night soil}, human excrement; -- so called because in cities it is collected by night and carried away for manure. {Night spell}, a charm against accidents at night. {Night swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar. {Night walk}, a walk in the evening or night. {Night walker}. (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist. (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets. {Night walking}. (a) Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism; noctambulism. (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs. {Night warbler} (Zo[94]l.), the sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus phragmitis}); -- called also {night singer}. [prov. Eng.] {Night watch}. (a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of watch. (b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night. {Night watcher}, one who watches in the night; especially, one who watches with evil designs. {Night witch}. Same as {Night hag}, above. | |
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Squawk \Squawk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squawked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squawking}.] [See {Squeak}.] To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly. {Squawking thrush} (Zo[94]l.), the missel turush; -- so called from its note when alarmed. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Squawk \Squawk\, n. 1. Act of squawking; a harsh squeak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The American night heron. See under {Night}. {Squawk duck} (Zo[94]l.), the bimaculate duck ({Anas glocitans}). It has patches of reddish brown behind, and in front of, each eye. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Squeak \Squeak\, n. A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed. | |
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Squeak \Squeak\, v. i. [imp.& p. p. {Squaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squeaking}.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. sqv[84]ka to croak, Icel. skvakka to give a sound as of water shaken in a bottle.] 1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch? --Addison. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the [bd]squeaking pigs[b8] of Homer. --Pope. 2. To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess. [Colloq.] | |
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Squeegee \Squee"gee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squeegeed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squeegeeing}.] To smooth, press, or treat with a squeegee; to squilgee. | |
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Squeegee \Squee"gee\, n. Same as {Squilgee}. | |
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Squilgee \Squil"gee\, n. Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [Written also {squillgee}, {squillagee}, {squeegee.}] | |
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Squeegee \Squee"gee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squeegeed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squeegeeing}.] To smooth, press, or treat with a squeegee; to squilgee. | |
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Squeegee \Squee"gee\, n. Same as {Squilgee}. | |
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Squilgee \Squil"gee\, n. Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [Written also {squillgee}, {squillagee}, {squeegee.}] | |
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Squeeze \Squeeze\, n. 1. (Mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata. 2. Pressure or constraint used to force the making of a gift, concession, or the like; exaction; extortion. [Colloq.] One of the many [bd]squeezes[b8] imposed by the mandarins. --A. R. Colquhoun. | |
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Squeeze \Squeeze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squeezed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squeezing}.] [OE. queisen, AS. cw[emac]san, cw[ymac]san, cw[c6]san, of uncertain origin. The s- was probably prefixed through the influence of squash, v.t.] 1. To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship. 2. Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush. In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden. --L'Estrange. 3. To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt. Syn: To compress; hug; pinch; gripe; crowd. | |
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Squeeze \Squeeze\, v. i. To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd. | |
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Squeeze \Squeeze\, n. 1. The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure. 2. A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone. | |
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Squesy \Sque"sy\, a. Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous. [Obs.] --Bp. Earle. | |
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Suage \Suage\, v. t. To assuage. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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d8Succus \[d8]Suc"cus\, n.; pl. {Succi}. (Med.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use. {[d8]Succus entericus}. [NL., literally, juice of the intestines.] (Physiol.) A fluid secreted in small by certain glands (probably the glands of Lieberk[81]hn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is somewhat doubtful. | |
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Such \Such\, a. [OE. such, sich, sech, sik, swich, swilch, swulch, swilc, swulc, AS. swelc, swilc, swylc; akin to OFries. selik, D. zulk, OS. sulic, OHG. sulih, solih, G. solch, Icel. sl[c6]kr, OSw. salik, Sw. slik, Dan. slig, Goth. swaleiks; originally meaning, so shaped. [fb]192. See {So}, {Like}, a., and cf. {Which}.] 1. Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better. And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. --Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. --Macaulay. Note: The indefinite article a or an never precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some, several, one, few, many, all, etc., precede such; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held. 2. Having the particular quality or character specified. That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself. --Milton. 3. The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. [bd][It] hath such senses as we have.[b8] --Shak. 4. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived. --Daniel. To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. --James iv. 13. Note: Such is used pronominally. [bd]He was the father of such as dwell in tents.[b8] --Gen. iv. 20. [bd]Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. [bd]Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed.[b8] --De Foe. Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc. --Macaulay. Such is used emphatically, without the correlative. Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life. --Shak. Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many; as, such ten, or ten times as many. {Such and such}, [or] {Such or such}, certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. [bd]In such and such a place shall be my camp.[b8] --2 Kings vi. 8. [bd]Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action.[b8] --South. {Such like} [or] {character}, of the like kind. And many other such like things ye do. --Mark vii. 8. | |
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Suck \Suck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sucking}.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. s[?]can, s[?]gan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s[?]gan, Icel. s[?]ga, sj[?]ga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. {Honeysuckle}, {Soak}, {Succulent}, {Suction}.] 1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air. 2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast. 3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground. 4. To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. --Thomson. 5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. --Dryden. {To suck in}, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. {To suck out}, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. {To suck up}, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption. | |
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Suck \Suck\, n. 1. The act of drawing with the mouth. 2. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. --Shak. 3. A small draught. [Colloq.] --Massinger. 4. Juice; succulence. [Obs.] | |
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Suck \Suck\, v. i. 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. Where the bee sucks, there suck I. --Shak. 2. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking. 3. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. | |
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Sug \Sug\, n. A kind of worm or larva. --Walton. | |
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Soosoo \Soo"soo\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A kind of dolphin ({Platanista Gangeticus}) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak. [Written also {susu}.] | |
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Susu \Su"su\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Soosoo}. | |
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Soosoo \Soo"soo\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A kind of dolphin ({Platanista Gangeticus}) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak. [Written also {susu}.] | |
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Susu \Su"su\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Soosoo}. | |
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Swag \Swag\, v. i. To tramp carrying a swag. [Australia] | |
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Swag \Swag\, n. [Australia] (a) A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a {bluey}, or a {drum}. (b) Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general. He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself. --Lawson. | |
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Swag \Swag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swagging}.] [Cf. Icel. sveggja, sveigja to bend, to sway, Norw. svaga to sway. See {Sway}.] 1. To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing. [Prov. Eng.] 2. To sink down by its weight; to sag. --Sir H. Wotton. I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth. --Palsgrave. | |
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Swag \Swag\, n. 1. A swaying, irregular motion. 2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang] --Charles Reade. | |
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Swage \Swage\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Swaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swaging}.] [Equiv. to suage, abbrev. fr. assuage.] See {Assuage}. [Obs.] | |
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Swage \Swage\, n. A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge. {Swage block}, a perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size. | |
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Swage \Swage\, v. t. To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape. | |
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Swagman \Swag"man\, n. A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also {swagsman}, {swagger}, and {swaggie}. | |
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Swaggie \Swag"gie\, n. A swagman. [Australia] | |
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Swagman \Swag"man\, n. A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also {swagsman}, {swagger}, and {swaggie}. | |
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Swaggie \Swag"gie\, n. A swagman. [Australia] | |
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Swaggy \Swag"gy\, a. Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Swash \Swash\, n. 1. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. 2. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes. 3. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.] 4. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.] 5. A swaggering fellow; a swasher. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swash \Swash\, n. [Cf. {Swash}, v. i., {Squash}, v. t.] (Arch.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. --Moxon. {Swash plate} (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swash \Swash\, a. [Cf. {Swash}, v. i., {Squash}, v. t.] Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swash \Swash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swashing}.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to rodomontade.] 1. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place. 2. To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] --Holinshed. 3. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swashway \Swash"way`\, n. Same as 4th {Swash}, 2. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swashy \Swash"y\, a. Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sweigh \Sweigh\, n. Sway; movement. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swich \Swich\, a. [See {Such}.] Such. [Obs.] Swich things as that I know I will declare. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swig \Swig\, v. t. [Cf. D. zwelgen to swallow, E. swallow, v.t.] 1. To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider. [Colloq.] 2. To suck. [Obs. or Archaic] The lambkins swig the teat. --Creech. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swig \Swig\, n. 1. A long draught. [Colloq.] --Marryat. 2. (Naut.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel. 3. A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swig \Swig\, v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. swig to leak out, AS. sw[c6]jian to be silent, sw[c6]can to evade, escape.] 1. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.] 2. (Naut.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swish \Swish\, n. 1. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. [Colloq.] 2. (Naut.) Light driven spray. [Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swish \Swish\, v. t. [From the sound. Cf. {Swash}.] 1. To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. --Coleridge. 2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] --Thackeray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swish \Swish\, v. i. To dash; to swash. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swiss \Swiss\, n.sing. & pl. [F. Suisse, of German origin. Cf. {Switzer}.] A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swiss \Swiss\, a. Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Swough \Swough\, n. [See {Swoon}.] 1. A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough. [Obs.] He sigheth with full many a sorry swough. --Chaucer. 2. A swoon. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syce \Syce\, n. [Ar. s[be][8b]s.] A groom. [India] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sycee \Sy*cee"\, n. [Said to be from a Chinese word, se-tze or se-sze, meaning, fine silk, and to be so called because if pure it may be drawn out into fine threads.] Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China] --McElrath. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Syke \Syke\, n. & v. See {Sike}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Saco, ME (city, FIPS 64675) Location: 43.53714 N, 70.45468 W Population (1990): 15181 (6826 housing units) Area: 99.7 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 04072 Saco, MT (town, FIPS 65050) Location: 48.45705 N, 107.34038 W Population (1990): 261 (145 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59261 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Sage, AR Zip code(s): 72573 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Saks, AL (CDP, FIPS 67608) Location: 33.71129 N, 85.85376 W Population (1990): 11138 (4390 housing units) Area: 31.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Saxe, VA Zip code(s): 23967 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Seco, KY Zip code(s): 41849 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Sekiu, WA Zip code(s): 98381 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Shock, WV Zip code(s): 26638 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Shook, MO Zip code(s): 63963 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Sias, WV Zip code(s): 25563 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Skagway, AK (city, FIPS 70760) Location: 59.52037 N, 135.33570 W Population (1990): 692 (404 housing units) Area: 1177.6 sq km (land), 28.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99840 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Skokie, IL (village, FIPS 70122) Location: 42.03705 N, 87.73995 W Population (1990): 59432 (23170 housing units) Area: 26.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60076, 60077 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Soso, MS (town, FIPS 69160) Location: 31.75457 N, 89.27636 W Population (1990): 366 (163 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39480 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Swayzee, IN (town, FIPS 74510) Location: 40.50684 N, 85.82408 W Population (1990): 1059 (415 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46986 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Swiss, WV Zip code(s): 26690 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
saga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L. Steele: Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard P. Gabriel (RPG; see {gabriel}). RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to Palo Alto (going {logical} south on route 101, parallel to {El Camino Bignum}). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a `health food' restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake -- the waitress claimed the flavor of the day was "lalaberry". I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the color of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant. After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavors. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's -- MOVE!" Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in Berkeley, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavor, ginger honey. Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth -- indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit -- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!" "Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some _ginger_ on it for dinner?!" "Right! With a lalaberry shake!" And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humor, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream. Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today." RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any _ginger_!") We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's! Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley. RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue". I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's. Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all. JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks _just like_ the one back in Palo Alto!" RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one _I_ always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain." JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant -- he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto. JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavor, as not too many people like it. JONL said, "I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone." The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. "Some people think it tastes like soap." JONL insisted, "Look, I _love_ ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I _know_ I like that flavor!" At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully. RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time. At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?" JONL said, "Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?" Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?" JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!" G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're _in_ Palo Alto!" JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!" [My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an `ollalieberry' --ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the {meme} about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of medieval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. --ESR] | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
scag vt. To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage. "That last power hit scagged the system disk." Compare {scrog}, {roach}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
seggie /seg'ee/ n. [Unix] Shorthand for {segmentation fault} reported from Britain. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but unprotected SEX can propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and SuperElf personal computers had a `SEt X register' SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. The Data General instruction set also had `SEX'. {DEC}'s engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the `SEX' mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a `SEX' instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed `CBW' and `CWD' (depending on what was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight `SEX' but has logical-or and logical-and instructions `ORL' and `ANL'. The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in U.K.'s `Dragon 32' personal computer, actually had an official `SEX' instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
SIG /sig/ n. (also common as a prefix in combining forms) A Special Interest Group, in one of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery; well-known ones include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics). Hackers, not surprisingly, like to overextend this naming convention to less formal associations like SIGBEER (at ACM conferences) and SIGFOOD (at University of Illinois). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
SOS /S-O-S/ n.,obs. An infamously {losing} text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones came along. SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion `Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap' has been proposed). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAC 1. An early system on the {Datatron 200} series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1995-04-12) 2. {Service Access Controller}. (2002-12-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAC-1 written in {Fortran} by G.E. Collins. [Proc 2nd Symp Symb Alg Manip pp.144-152 (1971)]. (1995-04-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAC2 compiles to {Fortran} or {Common Lisp}. E-mail: (1995-04-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
saga {random} broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by {Guy Steele} (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at {MIT} for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at {Stanford}, particularly our mutual friend {Richard Gabriel} (RPG). RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to {Palo Alto} (going {logical} south on route 101, parallel to {El Camino Bignum}). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a "health food" restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake - the waitress claimed the flavour of the day was "lalaberry". I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the colour of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant. After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's - MOVE!" Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in {Berkeley}, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey. Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!" "Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some *ginger* on it for dinner?!" "Right! With a lalaberry shake!" And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream. Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today." RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!") We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's! Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley. RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue". I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's. Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all. JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!" RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain." JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto. JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it. JONL said, "I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone." The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. "Some people think it tastes like soap." JONL insisted, "Look, I *love* ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!" At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully. RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time. At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?" JONL said, "Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?" Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?" JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!" G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're *in* Palo Alto!" JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!" [My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an "ollalieberry" - ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the {meme} about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR] [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAGE 1. {Systems Administrators Guild}. 2. (2001-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAIC {Home (http://www.saic.com)}. (1996-03-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAS 1. 2. (1998-11-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SASE {Specific Application Service Element}. Opposite: {CASE}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SASI {Small Computer System Interface} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
scag To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage. Compare {scrog}, {roach}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
scuzzy The usual pronunciation of {SCSI}. | |
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SEC {Single Edge Contact Cartridge} | |
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SECC {Single Edge Contact Cartridge} | |
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seek 1. i.e., to move from one {track} to another. 2. 3. to be read from or written to a {file}. (1997-07-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SEESAW [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-12-15) | |
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SEGA software. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:rec.games.video.sega}. (1995-03-01) | |
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seggie /seg'ee/ British shorthand for a {Unix} {segmentation fault}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Seque "Seque: A Programming Language for Manipulating Sequences", R.E. Griswold et al, Comp Langs 13(1):13-22 (1988). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SEUS R. Weyrauch et al. Language allowing functions to return multiple values. Implemented but never published. Mentioned in "Evolution of Lisp", G.L. Steele et al, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3):231-270 (March 1993). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a {Good Thing}, but unprotected SEX can propagate a {virus}. See also {pubic directory}. 2. The {mnemonic} often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the {PDP-11} and many other architectures. The {RCA 1802} chip used in the early {Elf} and SuperElf {personal computers} had a "SEt X register" SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. DEC's engineers nearly got a {PDP-11} {assembler} that used the "SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the {Intel 8086}, noted that there was originally a "SEX" instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on what was being extended). The {Intel 8048} (the {microcontroller} used in {IBM PC} keyboards) is also missing straight "SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions "ORL" and "ANL". The {Motorola 6809}, used in the UK's "{Dragon 32}" {personal computer}, actually had an official "SEX" instruction; the {6502} in the {Apple II} with which it competed did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple. [{Jargon File}] (1998-03-03) | |
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SEXI {SNOBOL} | |
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SHACO An early system on the {IBM 701}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):1959-05-16]. (1995-10-25) | |
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SHUG {Scottish Hypermedia Users' Group} | |
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SICS {Swedish Institute for Computer Science} | |
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SIG {Special Interest Group} | |
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Sig Signal Processing, Analysis, and Display program. An environment with an associated programming language by Jan Carter of {Argonne National Lab}. Telephone +1 (312) 972 7250. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sig {signature} | |
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SIG {Special Interest Group} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sig Signal Processing, Analysis, and Display program. An environment with an associated programming language by Jan Carter of {Argonne National Lab}. Telephone +1 (312) 972 7250. [{Jargon File}] | |
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sig {signature} | |
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SIG {Special Interest Group} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sig Signal Processing, Analysis, and Display program. An environment with an associated programming language by Jan Carter of {Argonne National Lab}. Telephone +1 (312) 972 7250. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sig {signature} | |
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SOCKS {firewall} to use {finger}, {FTP}, {telnet}, {Gopher}, and {Mosaic} to access resources outside the firewall while maintaining the security requirements. [The Security FAQ, {Usenet} newsgroups {news:comp.security.misc}, {news:comp.security.unix}, {news:alt.security}]. (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SOJ {Small Outline J} | |
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SOS 1. {Scheme Object System}. 2. An infamously {losing} text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the {PDP-6}, a hacker crufted together a {quick-and-dirty} "stopgap editor" to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones (in particular, {TECO}) came along. SOS is a descendant ("Son of Stopgap") of that editor, and many {PDP-10} users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS /bye'lohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap (the alternate expansion "Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap" has been proposed). 3. The {PDP-10} instruction to decrease a value. Oppose {AOS}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Squeak ["Squeak: A Language for Communicating with Mice", L. Cardelli et al, Comp Graphics 19(3):199-204, July 1985]. See {Newsqueak}. 2. A {Smalltalk} implementation and a media {authoring} tool by members of the original {Xerox PARC} team which created Smalltalk ({Alan Kay}, Dan Ingalls, et al). Squeak is an {open-source} implementation, with a highly portable {virtual machine} implemented in a subset of Smalltalk (translated into {C} and compiled by a C {compiler} of the target {platform}). {Squeak Home (http://www.squeak.org/)}. {SqueakCentral (http://www.squeakland.org/)}. (2002-11-03) | |
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SWAG technical teams when establishing high level sizings for large projects. (2000-08-09) | |
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SYSKEY {encrpyts} the {hashed} {password} information in a {SAM} database using a 128-bit {encryption key}. SYSKEY was an optional feature added in {Windows NT} 4.0 SP3. It was meant to protect against {offline} password {cracking} attacks so that the SAM database would still be secure even if someone had a copy of it. However, in December 1999, a security team from {BindView (http://www.bindview.com/)} found a security hole in SYSKEY which indicates that a certain form of {cryptoanalytic} attack is possible offline. A {brute-force attack} then appeared to be possible. Microsoft later collaborated with BindView to issue a fix (dubbed the 'Syskey Bug') which appears to have been settled and SYSKEY pronounced secure enough to resist brute-force attack. According to Todd Sabin of the BindView team RAZOR, the pre-RC3 versions of {Windows 2000} were also affected. {BindView Security Advisory (http://packetstorm.securify.com/9912-exploits/bindview.syskey.txt)}. {BindView press release (http://www.bindview.com/news/99/1222.html)}. {Microsoft bulletin (http://www.microsoft.com/Security/Bulletins/ms99-056.asp)}. (2000-07-16) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sechu a hill or watch-tower, a place between Gibeah and Ramah noted for its "great well" (1 Sam. 19:22); probably the modern Suweikeh, south of Beeroth. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sheshai whitish, one of the sons of Anak (Num. 13:22). When the Israelites obtained possession of the country the sons of Anak were expelled and slain (Josh. 15:14; Judg. 1:10). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Shocho (2 Chr. 28:18) = Shochoh (1 Sam. 17:1) = Shoco (2 Chr. 11:7). See {SOCOH}. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Socho a fence; hedge, (1 Chr. 4:18; R.V., Soco)=So'choh (1 Kings 4:10; R.V., Socoh), Sho'choh (1 Sam. 17:1; R.V., Socoh), Sho'co (2 Chr. 11:7; R.V., Soco), Sho'cho (2 Chr. 28:18; R.V., Soco), a city in the plain or lowland of Judah, where the Philistines encamped when they invaded Judah after their defeat at Michmash. It lay on the northern side of the valley of Elah (Wady es-Sunt). It has been identified with the modern Khurbet Shuweikeh, about 14 miles south-west of Jerusalem. In this campaign Goliath was slain, and the Philistines were completely routed. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Susi the father of Gaddi, who was one of the twelve spies (Num. 13:11). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Sechu, defense; bough | |
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Shachia, protection of the Lord | |
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Shage, touching softly; multiplying much | |
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Shashai, rejoicing; mercy; linen | |
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Sheshai, six; mercy; flax | |
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Shisha, of marble; pleasant | |
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Shiza, this gift | |
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Shochoh, defense; a bough | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Socoh, tents; tabernacles | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Susi, horse; swallow; moth |