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Dogfish \Dog"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera {Mustelus}, {Scyllium}, {Spinax}, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes ({Scyllium catudus}, and {S. canicula}) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is {Mustelus canis}; the common picked, or horned dogfish ({Squalus acanthias}) abundant on both sides of the Atlantic. 2. The bowfin ({Amia calva}). See {Bowfin}. 3. The burbot of Lake Erie. | |
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Jackass \Jack"ass`\, n. [2d jack + ass.] 1. The male ass; a donkey. 2. A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. {Jackass bark} (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. {Jackass deer} (Zo[94]l.), the koba. {Jackass hare}, {Jackass rabbit} (Zo[94]l.). See {Jack rabbit}, under 2d {Jack}, n. {Jackass penguin} (Zo[94]l.), any species of penguin of the genus {Spheniscus}, of which several are known. One species ({S. demersus}) inhabits the islands near the Cape of Good Hope; another ({S. Magellanicus}) is found at the Falkland Islands. They make a noise like the braying of an ass; -- hence the name. {Laughing jackass}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Laughing}. | |
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Sanicle \San"i*cle\, n. [F., from L. sanare to heal.] (Bot.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus {Sanicula}, reputed to have healing powers. | |
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Snakeroot \Snake"root`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these. Note: The Virginia snakeroot is {Aristolochia Serpentaria}; black snakeroot is {Sanicula}, esp. {S. Marilandica}, also {Cimicifuga racemosa}; Seneca snakeroot is {Polygala Senega}; button snakeroot is {Liatris}, also {Eryngium}; white snakeroot is {Eupatorium ageratoides}. The name is also applied to some others besides these. | |
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Sans-culottic \Sans`-cu*lot"tic\, a. Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. --Carlyle. | |
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Sans-culottism \Sans`-cu*lot"tism\, n. [F. sans-culottisme.] Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes. | |
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Scenic \Scen"ic\, Scenical \Scen"ic*al\, a. [L. scaenicus, scenicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. sc[82]nique. See {Scene}.] Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical. All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. --De Quincey. | |
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Note: The common drumfish ({Pogonias chromis}) is a large species, common south of New Jersey. The southern red drum or red horse ({Sci[91]na ocellata}), and the fresh-water drum or croaker ({Aplodionotus grunniens}), are related species. | |
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Bass \Bass\, n.; pl. {Bass}, and sometimes {Basses}. [A corruption of barse.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera {Roccus}, {Labrax}, and related genera. There are many species. Note: The common European bass is {Labrax lupus}. American species are: the striped bass ({Roccus lineatus}); white or silver bass of the lakes. ({R. chrysops}); brass or yellow bass ({R. interruptus}). 2. The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus {Micropterus}). See {Black bass}. 3. Species of {Serranus}, the sea bass and rock bass. See {Sea bass}. 4. The southern, red, or channel bass ({Sci[91]na ocellata}). See {Redfish}. Note: The name is also applied to many other fishes. See {Calico bass}, under {Calico}. | |
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-- {Se*ma`si*o*log"ic*al}, a. | |
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Semasiology \Se*ma`si*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. [?] signification + -logy.] (Philol.) The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words. | |
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Semicalcareous \Sem`i*cal*ca"re*ous\, a. Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant. | |
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Semicalcined \Sem`i*cal*cined"\, a. Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron. | |
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Semicolon \Sem"i*co`lon\, n. The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma. | |
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Semicolumn \Sem"i*col`umn\, n. A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis. | |
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Semicolumnar \Sem`i*co*lum"nar\, a. Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar. | |
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Semicylindric \Sem`i*cy*lin"dric\, Semicylyndrical \Sem`i*cy*lyn"dric*al\a. Half cylindrical. | |
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Semicylindric \Sem`i*cy*lin"dric\, Semicylyndrical \Sem`i*cy*lyn"dric*al\a. Half cylindrical. | |
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Semiglutin \Sem`i*glu"tin\, n. (Physiol. Chem.) A peptonelike body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol. | |
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Semisolid \Sem`i*sol"id\, a. Partially solid. | |
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Semiweekly \Sem`i*week"ly\, a. Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- n. That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical. -- adv. At intervals of half a week each. | |
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Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. {Seneca}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. {Seneca grass}(Bot.), holy grass. See under {Holy}. {Seneca eil}, petroleum or naphtha. {Seneca root}, [or] {Seneca snakeroot} (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ({Polygala Senega}) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also {Senega root}, and {Seneka root}.] | |
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Butterweed \But"ter*weed`\, n. (Bot.) An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley ({Senecio lobatus}). | |
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Senegal \Sen"e*gal\, n. Gum senegal. See under {Gum}. | |
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Seneschal \Sen"es*chal\, n. [OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS. scealc. Cf. {Senior}, {Marshal}.] An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. --Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. --Hallam. | |
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Seneschalship \Sen"es*chal*ship\, n. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal. | |
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Senocular \Se*noc"u*lar\, a. [L. seni six each (fr. sex six) + oculus eye.] Having six eyes. [R.] --Derham. | |
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Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. --Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. --- {Sense"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sense"less*ness}, n. | |
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Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. --Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. --- {Sense"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sense"less*ness}, n. | |
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Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. --Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. --Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. --Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. --Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. --Clarendon. --- {Sense"less*ly}, adv. -- {Sense"less*ness}, n. | |
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Sensual \Sen"su*al\, a. [L. sensualis, from sensus sense: cf. F. sensuel.] 1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. --Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. --Pope. 2. Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. --Jude 19. The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine. --Hooker. 3. Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous. No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity. --Atterbury. 4. Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism. | |
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Sensualism \Sen"su*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. sensualisme.] 1. The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality. 2. (Philos.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. 3. (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming. | |
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Sensualist \Sen"su*al*ist\, n. [CF. F. sensualiste.] 1. One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness. 2. One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism. | |
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Sensualistic \Sen`su*al*is"tic\, a. 1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. | |
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Sensuality \Sen`su*al"i*ty\, n. [CF. F. sensualit[82], L. sensualitas sensibility, capacity for sensation.] The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. --Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. --Addison. | |
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Sensualization \Sen`su*al*i*za"tion\, n. The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized. | |
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Sensualize \Sen"su*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sensualized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sensualizing}.] To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. --Pope. By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized. --T. H. Skinner. | |
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Sensualize \Sen"su*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sensualized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sensualizing}.] To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. --Pope. By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized. --T. H. Skinner. | |
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Sensualize \Sen"su*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sensualized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sensualizing}.] To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. --Pope. By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized. --T. H. Skinner. | |
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Sensually \Sen"su*al*ly\, adv. In a sensual manner. | |
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Sensualness \Sen"su*al*ness\, n. Sensuality; fleshliness. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr. [?][?][?], [?][?][?], shingle, [?][?][?] to slit.] 1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. --Ray. 2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.] {Shingle oak} (Bot.), a kind of oak ({Quercus imbricaria}) used in the Western States for making shingles. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. {Shingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shingling}.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr. [?][?][?], [?][?][?], shingle, [?][?][?] to slit.] 1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. --Ray. 2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.] {Shingle oak} (Bot.), a kind of oak ({Quercus imbricaria}) used in the Western States for making shingles. | |
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Oak \Oak\ ([omac]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [be]c; akin to D. eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Quercus}. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an {acorn}, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain. 2. The strong wood or timber of the oak. Note: Among the true oaks in America are: {Barren oak}, or {Black-jack}, {Q. nigra}. {Basket oak}, {Q. Michauxii}. {Black oak}, {Q. tinctoria}; -- called also {yellow} or {quercitron oak}. {Bur oak} (see under {Bur}.), {Q. macrocarpa}; -- called also {over-cup} or {mossy-cup oak}. {Chestnut oak}, {Q. Prinus} and {Q. densiflora}. {Chinquapin oak} (see under {Chinquapin}), {Q. prinoides}. {Coast live oak}, {Q. agrifolia}, of California; -- also called {enceno}. {Live oak} (see under {Live}), {Q. virens}, the best of all for shipbuilding; also, {Q. Chrysolepis}, of California. {Pin oak}. Same as {Swamp oak}. {Post oak}, {Q. obtusifolia}. {Red oak}, {Q. rubra}. {Scarlet oak}, {Q. coccinea}. {Scrub oak}, {Q. ilicifolia}, {Q. undulata}, etc. {Shingle oak}, {Q. imbricaria}. {Spanish oak}, {Q. falcata}. {Swamp Spanish oak}, or {Pin oak}, {Q. palustris}. {Swamp white oak}, {Q. bicolor}. {Water oak}, {Q. aguatica}. {Water white oak}, {Q. lyrata}. {Willow oak}, {Q. Phellos}. Among the true oaks in Europe are: {Bitter oak}, [or] {Turkey oak}, {Q. Cerris} (see {Cerris}). {Cork oak}, {Q. Suber}. {English white oak}, {Q. Robur}. {Evergreen oak}, {Holly oak}, [or] {Holm oak}, {Q. Ilex}. {Kermes oak}, {Q. coccifera}. {Nutgall oak}, {Q. infectoria}. Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus {Quercus}, are: {African oak}, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia Africana}). {Australian, [or] She}, {oak}, any tree of the genus {Casuarina} (see {Casuarina}). {Indian oak}, the teak tree (see {Teak}). {Jerusalem oak}. See under {Jerusalem}. {New Zealand oak}, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon excelsum}). {Poison oak}, the poison ivy. See under {Poison}. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. {Shingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shingling}.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. | |
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Shingler \Shin"gler\, n. 1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron. | |
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Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see {Lap}, n.); cf. also OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.] 1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth. 2. To wrap or wind around something. About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk. --Sir I. Newton. 3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds. --Dryden. 4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one. 5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. {To lap boards}, {shingles}, etc., to lay one partly over another. {To lap timbers}, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. --Weale. | |
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Shingles \Shin"gles\, n. [OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L. cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf. {Cincture}, {Cingle}, {Surcingle}.] (Med.) A kind of herpes ({Herpes zoster}) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain. | |
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Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see {Lap}, n.); cf. also OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.] 1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth. 2. To wrap or wind around something. About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk. --Sir I. Newton. 3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds. --Dryden. 4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one. 5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. {To lap boards}, {shingles}, etc., to lay one partly over another. {To lap timbers}, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. --Weale. | |
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Shingles \Shin"gles\, n. [OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L. cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf. {Cincture}, {Cingle}, {Surcingle}.] (Med.) A kind of herpes ({Herpes zoster}) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain. | |
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Shingling \Shin"gling\, n. 1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles. 2. (Metal) The process of expelling scori[91] and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. {Shingling hammer}, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. {Shingling mill}, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled. | |
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Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. {Shingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shingling}.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. | |
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Shingling \Shin"gling\, n. 1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles. 2. (Metal) The process of expelling scori[91] and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. {Shingling hammer}, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. {Shingling mill}, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled. | |
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Shingling \Shin"gling\, n. 1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles. 2. (Metal) The process of expelling scori[91] and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. {Shingling hammer}, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. {Shingling mill}, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled. | |
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Shingly \Shin"gly\, a. Abounding with shingle, or gravel. | |
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Sincaline \Sin"ca*line\, n. [So called because obtained by the action of alkalies on sinapine.] (Chem.) Choline. [Written also {sinkaline}.] | |
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Galvanometer \Gal`va*nom"e*ter\, n. [Galvanic + -meter: cf. F. galvanom[8a]tre.] (Elec.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. {Differential galvanometer}. See under {Differental}, a. {Sine galvanometer}, {Cosine galvanometer}, {Tangent galvanometer} (Elec.), a galvanometer in which the sine, cosine, or tangent respectively, of the angle through which the needle is deflected, is proportional to the strength of the current passed through the instrument. | |
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Singhalese \Sin`gha*lese"\, n. & a. [Skr. Si[?]hala Ceylon.] (Ethnol.) Same as {Cingalese}. | |
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Cingalese \Cin`ga*lese"\, n. sing. & pl. [Cf. F. Cingalais.] A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants; also (sing.), the language of the Cingalese. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Cingalese. [Written also {Singhalese}.] Note: Ceylonese is applied to the inhabitants of the island in general. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, n. 1. A unit; one; as, to score a single. 2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. 3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural. 5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singling}.] 1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. --Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. --More. 2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. --Hooker. 3. To take alone, or one by one. Men . . . commendable when they are singled. --Hooker. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See {Single-foot}. Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. --W. S. Clark. | |
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Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called {double adultery}; between a married and an unmarried person, {single adultery}. 2. Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 3. (Script.) (a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. (b) Faithlessness in religion. --Jer. iii. 9. 4. (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. 5. (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. 6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. --B. Jonson. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Blessedness \Bless"ed*ness\, n. The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. --Tillotson. {Single blessedness}, the unmarried state. [bd]Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.[b8] --Shak. Syn: Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See {Happiness}. | |
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Combat \Com"bat\, n. [Cf. F. combat.] 1. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy. My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st. --Shak. The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina. --Shak. 2. (Mil.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies. {Single combat}, one in which a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also, a duel. Syn: A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention; struggle; fight, strife. See {Battle}, {Contest}. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Entry \En"try\, n.; pl. {Entries}. [OE. entree, entre, F. entr[82]e, fr. entrer to enter. See {Enter}, and cf. {Entr[82]e}.] 1. The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking. 2. The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item. A notary made an entry of this act. --Bacon. 3. That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. A straight, long entry to the temple led. --Dryden. 4. (Com.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See {Enter}, v. t., 8, and {Entrance}, n., 5. 5. (Law) (a) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. (b) A putting upon record in proper form and order. (c) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. --Burrill. {Bill of entry}. See under {Bill}. {Double entry}, {Single entry}. See {Bookkeeping}. {Entry clerk} (Com.), a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business. {Writ of entry} (Law), a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. --Bouvier. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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2. Course of thought; thread of narration. [Obs.] Let me resume the file of my narration. --Sir H. Wotton. {File firing}, the act of firing by file, or each file independently of others. {File leader}, the soldier at the front of any file, who covers and leads those in rear of him. {File marching}, the marching of a line two deep, when faced to the right or left, so that the front and rear rank march side by side. --Brande & C. {Indian file}, [or] {Single file}, a line of men marching one behind another; a single row. {On file}, preserved in an orderly collection. {Rank and file}. (a) The body of soldiers constituing the mass of an army, including corporals and privates. --Wilhelm. (b) Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Position \Po*si"tion\, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. [?]) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v., {Depone}, {Deposit}, {Expound}, {Impostor}, {Opposite}, {Propound}, {Pose}, v., {Posit}, {Post}, n.] 1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. --Locke. 2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position. 3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position. Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before. --I. Watts. 4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position. 5. (Arith.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the {rule of trial and error}. {Angle of position} (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. {Double position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. {Guns of position} (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements. {Position finder} (Mil.), a range finder. See under {Range}. {Position micrometer}, a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. {Single position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. {Strategic position} (Mil.), a position taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force. Syn: Situation; station; place; condition; attitude; posture; proposition; assertion; thesis. | |
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Single tax \Sin"gle tax`\ (Pol. Econ.) A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform. --A. T. Hadley. | |
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Tonguing \Tongu"ing\, vb. n. (Music) Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In {single tonguing} only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid [bd]t;[b8] in {double tonguing}, two strokes, as for [bd]t[b8] and [bd]k,[b8] are alternated; in {triple tonguing}, [bd]t, k, t,[b8] etc. | |
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Carbon process \Car"bon process\ (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called {carbon paper} or {carbon tissue}. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called {single transfer}; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called {double transfer}. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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Single-acting \Sin"gle-act`ing\, a. Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc. | |
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Single-breasted \Sin"gle-breast`ed\, a. Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See {Simple}, and cf. {Singular}.] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. 2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. {Single ale}, {beer}, [or] {drink}, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares. {Single bill} (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril. {Single court} (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. {Single-cut file}. See the Note under 4th {File}. {Single entry}. See under {Bookkeeping}. {Single file}. See under 1st {File}. {Single flower} (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. {Single knot}. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Single whip} (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. | |
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File \File\, n. [AS. fe[a2]l; akin to D. viji, OHG. f[c6]la, f[c6]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. [?][?]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[?] to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.] 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. --Akenside. 3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding. Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. --Thackeray. {Bastard file}, {Cross file}, etc. See under {Bastard}, {Cross}, etc. {Cross-cut file}, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. {File blank}, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. {File cutter}, a maker of files. {Second-cut file}, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. {Single-cut file}, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. {Smooth file}, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singling}.] 1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. --Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. --More. 2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. --Hooker. 3. To take alone, or one by one. Men . . . commendable when they are singled. --Hooker. | |
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Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, n. An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also {single-footed pace}. See {Single}, v. i. Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot. --Stillman (The Horse in Motion.) | |
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Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- {Sin"gle-foot`er}, n. | |
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Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, n. An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also {single-footed pace}. See {Single}, v. i. Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot. --Stillman (The Horse in Motion.) | |
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Single-foot \Sin"gle-foot`\, v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- {Sin"gle-foot`er}, n. | |
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Single-handed \Sin"gle-hand"ed\, a. Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. | |
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Single-hearted \Sin"gle-heart"ed\, a. Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- {Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly}, adv. | |
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Single-hearted \Sin"gle-heart"ed\, a. Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- {Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly}, adv. | |
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Single-minded \Sin"gle-mind"ed\, a. Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted. | |
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Singleness \Sin"gle*ness\, n. 1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart. | |
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Singles \Sin"gles\, n. pl. See {Single}, n., 2. | |
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Singlestick \Sin"gle*stick`\, n. (a) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. (b) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling. | |
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Single-surfaced \Sin"gle-sur"faced\, a. Having one surface; -- said specif. of a[89]roplanes or a[89]rocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side. | |
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Singlet \Sin"glet\, n. An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to {doublet}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Singleton \Sin"gle*ton\, n. In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton. | |
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Singletree \Sin"gle*tree`\, n. [Cf. {Swingletree}.] The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree. Note: When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree. | |
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Single \Sin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Singling}.] 1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. --Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. --More. 2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. --Hooker. 3. To take alone, or one by one. Men . . . commendable when they are singled. --Hooker. | |
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Singly \Sin"gly\, adv. 1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. --Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly. At omber singly to decide their doom. --Pope. 4. Honestly; sincerely; simply. [R.] --Johnson. 5. Singularly; peculiarly. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Singular \Sin"gu*lar\, a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See {Single}, a.] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] --Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. --Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. --Holinshed. 3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. --I. Watts. 4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular. 5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to {dual} and {plural}. 6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. --Denham. 7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments. 8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure. His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash. --Milton. To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. --Tillotson. 9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. --Addison. {Singular point in a curve} (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. {Singular proposition} (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. --Whately. {Singular succession} (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. {Singular term} (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual. Syn: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic. | |
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Singular \Sin"gu*lar\, n. 1. An individual instance; a particular. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. 2. (Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number. | |
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Point \Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L. punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.] 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also {pointer}. 3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line. 4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick. 5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced. 6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge. When time's first point begun Made he all souls. --Sir J. Davies. 7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope. 8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. [bd]A point of precedence.[b8] --Selden. [bd]Creeping on from point to point.[b8] --Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. --Chaucer. 9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. --Chaucer. In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon. Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ? --Milton. 10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. [bd]Here lies the point.[b8] --Shak. They will hardly prove his point. --Arbuthnot. 11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser. 12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; as: (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune. [bd]Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. 13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See {Equinoctial Nodal}. 14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See {Escutcheon}. 15. (Naut.) (a) One of the points of the compass (see {Points of the compass}, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point. (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See {Reef point}, under {Reef}. 16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott. 17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below. 18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.] 19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.] 20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman. 21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See {Pointer}. 22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See {Point system of type}, under {Type}. 23. A tyne or snag of an antler. 24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board. 25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point. Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc. {At all points}, in every particular, completely; perfectly. --Shak. {At point}, {In point}, {At}, {In}, [or] On, {the point}, as near as can be; on the verge; about (see {About}, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. [bd]In point to fall down.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side.[b8] --Milton. {Dead point}. (Mach.) Same as {Dead center}, under {Dead}. {Far point} (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point). {Nine points of the law}, all but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority. {On the point}. See {At point}, above. {Point lace}, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow. {Point net}, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground). {Point of concurrence} (Geom.), a point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base. {Point of contrary flexure}, a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides. {Point of order}, in parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules. {Point of sight} (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator. {Point of view}, the relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered. {Points of the compass} (Naut.), the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under {Compass}. {Point paper}, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design. {Point system of type}. See under {Type}. {Singular point} (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc. {To carry one's point}, to accomplish one's object, as in a controversy. {To make a point of}, to attach special importance to. {To make}, [or] {gain}, {a point}, accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position. {To mark}, [or] {score}, {a point}, as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc. {To strain a point}, to go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience. {Vowel point}, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant. | |
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Singular \Sin"gu*lar\, a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See {Single}, a.] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] --Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. --Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. --Holinshed. 3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. --I. Watts. 4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular. 5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to {dual} and {plural}. 6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. --Denham. 7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments. 8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure. His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash. --Milton. To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. --Tillotson. 9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. --Addison. {Singular point in a curve} (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. {Singular proposition} (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. --Whately. {Singular succession} (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. {Singular term} (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual. Syn: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic. | |
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Singular \Sin"gu*lar\, a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See {Single}, a.] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] --Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. --Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. --Holinshed. 3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. --I. Watts. 4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular. 5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to {dual} and {plural}. 6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. --Denham. 7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments. 8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure. His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash. --Milton. To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. --Tillotson. 9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. --Addison. {Singular point in a curve} (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. {Singular proposition} (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. --Whately. {Singular succession} (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. {Singular term} (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual. Syn: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic. | |
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Singular \Sin"gu*lar\, a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See {Single}, a.] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] --Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. --Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. --Holinshed. 3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. --I. Watts. 4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular. 5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to {dual} and {plural}. 6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. --Denham. 7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments. 8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure. His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash. --Milton. To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. --Tillotson. 9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. --Addison. {Singular point in a curve} (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. {Singular proposition} (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. --Whately. {Singular succession} (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. {Singular term} (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual. Syn: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic. | |
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Singular \Sin"gu*lar\, a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See {Single}, a.] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] --Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. --Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. --Holinshed. 3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. --I. Watts. 4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular. 5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to {dual} and {plural}. 6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. --Denham. 7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments. 8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure. His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash. --Milton. To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. --Tillotson. 9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. --Addison. {Singular point in a curve} (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. {Singular proposition} (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. --Whately. {Singular succession} (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. {Singular term} (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual. Syn: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic. | |
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Singularist \Sin"gu*lar*ist\, n. One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. --Borrow. | |
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Singularity \Sin`gu*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Singularities}. [L. singularitas: cf. F. singularit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. --Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. --Addison. 2. Anything singular, rare, or curious. Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities. --Shak. 3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. --Hooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. --Bp. Pearson. 4. Celibacy. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Singularity \Sin`gu*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Singularities}. [L. singularitas: cf. F. singularit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. --Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. --Addison. 2. Anything singular, rare, or curious. Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities. --Shak. 3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. --Hooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. --Bp. Pearson. 4. Celibacy. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Singularize \Sin"gu*lar*ize\, v. t. To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.] | |
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Singularly \Sin"gu*lar*ly\, adv. 1. In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. [bd]Singularly handsome.[b8] --Milman. 2. Strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly. 3. So as to express one, or the singular number. | |
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Singult \Sin"gult\, n.[L. singultus.] A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] --Spenser. W. Browne. | |
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Singultous \Sin*gul"tous\, a. (Med.) Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. --Dunglison. | |
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Sinical \Sin"i*cal\, a. [From {Sine}.] (Trig.) Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant. | |
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Sink \Sink\, n. 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. 2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. 3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also {sink hole}. [U. S.] {Sink hole}. (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as {Sink}, n., 3. | |
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Sink \Sink\, n. 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. 2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. 3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also {sink hole}. [U. S.] {Sink hole}. (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as {Sink}, n., 3. | |
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Sincaline \Sin"ca*line\, n. [So called because obtained by the action of alkalies on sinapine.] (Chem.) Choline. [Written also {sinkaline}.] | |
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Vine \Vine\, n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See {Wine}, and cf. {Vignette}.] (Bot.) (a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. (b) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants. There shall be no grapes on the vine. --Jer. viii. 13. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds. --2 Kings iv. 89. {Vine apple} (Bot.), a small kind of squash. --Roger Williams. {Vine beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of the grapevine. Among the more important species are the grapevine fidia (see {Fidia}), the spotted {Pelidnota} (see {Rutilian}), the vine fleabeetle ({Graptodera chalybea}), the rose beetle (see under {Rose}), the vine weevil, and several species of {Colaspis} and {Anomala}. {Vine borer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially {Sinoxylon basilare}, a small species the larva of which bores in the stems, and {Ampeloglypter sesostris}, a small reddish brown weevil (called also {vine weevil}), which produces knotlike galls on the branches. (b) A clearwing moth ({[92]geria polistiformis}), whose larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often destructive. {Vine dragon}, an old and fruitless branch of a vine. [Obs.] --Holland. {Vine forester} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of moths belonging to {Alypia} and allied genera, whose larv[91] feed on the leaves of the grapevine. {Vine fretter} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera that injuries the grapevine. {Vine grub} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of insect larv[91] that are injurious to the grapevine. {Vine hopper} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of leaf hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially {Erythroneura vitis}. See Illust. of {Grape hopper}, under {Grape}. {Vine inchworm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any species of geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine, especially {Cidaria diversilineata}. {Vine-leaf rooer} (Zo[94]l.), a small moth ({Desmia maculalis}) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black, spotted with white. {Vine louse} (Zo[94]l.), the phylloxera. {Vine mildew} (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white, delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the vitality of the surface. The plant has been called {Oidium Tuckeri}, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing stage of an {Erysiphe}. {Vine of Sodom} (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (--Deut. xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of Sodom. See {Apple of Sodom}, under {Apple}. {Vine sawfly} (Zo[94]l.), a small black sawfiy ({Selandria vitis}) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the grapevine. The larv[91] stand side by side in clusters while feeding. {Vine slug} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the vine sawfly. {Vine sorrel} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Cissus acida}) related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is found in Florida and the West Indies. {Vine sphinx} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of hawk moths. The larv[91] feed on grapevine leaves. {Vine weevil}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Vine borer} (a) above, and {Wound gall}, under {Wound}. | |
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Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface, a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See {Sinus}.] Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. -- {Sin"u*ous*ly}, adv. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge. | |
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Skim \Skim\, a. Contraction of {Skimming} and {Skimmed}. {Skim coat}, the final or finishing coat of plaster. {Skim colter}, a colter for paring off the surface of land. {Skim milk}, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been taken. | |
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Smickly \Smick"ly\, adv. Smugly; finically. [Obs.] --Ford. | |
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Smockless \Smock"less\, a. Wanting a smock. --Chaucer. | |
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Smokeless \Smoke"less\, a. Making or having no smoke. [bd]Smokeless towers.[b8] --Pope. | |
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Smokeless powder \Smoke"less pow"der\ A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. | |
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Smokily \Smok"i*ly\, adv. In a smoky manner. | |
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Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smuggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smuggling}.] [Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. sm[?]gan to creep. See {Smock}.] 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace. 2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely. | |
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Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. i. To import or export in violation of the customs laws. | |
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Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smuggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smuggling}.] [Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. sm[?]gan to creep. See {Smock}.] 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace. 2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely. | |
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Smuggler \Smug"gler\, n. 1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling. | |
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Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smuggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smuggling}.] [Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. sm[?]gan to creep. See {Smock}.] 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace. 2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely. | |
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Smugly \Smug"ly\, adv. In a smug manner. [R.] --Gay. | |
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Stannous \Stan"nous\ (-n[ucr]s), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with {stannic} compounds. {Stannous chloride} (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, {SnCl2.(H2O)2}, obtained by dissolving tin in hydrochloric acid. It is used as a mordant in dyeing. | |
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Stannic \Stan"nic\, a. [L. stannum tin: cf. F. stannique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with {stannous} compounds. {Stannic acid}. (a) A hypothetical substance, {Sn(OH)4}, analogous to silic acid, and called also {normal stannic acid}. (b) Metastannic acid. {Stannic chloride}, a thin, colorless, fuming liquid, {SnCl4}, used as a mordant in calico printing and dyeing; -- formerly called {spirit of tin}, or {fuming liquor of Libavius}. {Stannic oxide}, tin oxide, {SnO2}, produced artificially as a white amorphous powder, and occurring naturally in the mineral cassiterite. It is used in the manufacture of white enamels, and, under the name of {putty powder}, for polishing glass, etc. | |
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Fuming \Fum"ing\, a. Producing fumes, or vapors. {Cadet's fuming liquid} (Chem.), alkarsin. {Fuming liquor of Libsvius} (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, {SnCl4}, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. {Fuming sulphuric acid}. (Chem.) Same as {Disulphuric acid}, uder {Disulphuric}. | |
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Sniggle \Snig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sniggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sniggling}.] [See {Snig} a kind of eel.] To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. --Walton. | |
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Sniggle \Snig"gle\, v. t. To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Sniggle \Snig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sniggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sniggling}.] [See {Snig} a kind of eel.] To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. --Walton. | |
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Sniggle \Snig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sniggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sniggling}.] [See {Snig} a kind of eel.] To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. --Walton. | |
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Snowslip \Snow"slip`\, n. A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc. | |
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Snuggle \Snug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snuggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snuggling}.] [Freq. of snug.] To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle. | |
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Snuggle \Snug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snuggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snuggling}.] [Freq. of snug.] To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle. | |
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Snuggle \Snug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snuggled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snuggling}.] [Freq. of snug.] To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle. | |
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Snugly \Snug"ly\, adv. In a snug manner; closely; safely. | |
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Somniculous \Som*nic"u*lous\, a. [L. somniculosus.] Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.] | |
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Songless \Song"less\, a. Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods. | |
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Squamosal \Squa*mo"sal\, a. (Anat.) (a) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. -- n. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under {Temporal}. | |
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Squeamish \Squeam"ish\, a. [OE. squaimous, sweymous, probably from OE. sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf. Icel. svemr a bustle, a stir, Norw. sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one, Icel. svimi a giddiness, AS. sw[c6]mi. The word has been perhaps confused witrh qualmish. Cf. {Swim} to be dizzy.] Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish. --Hudibras. His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain. --Southern. So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. --M. Arnold. Syn: Fastidious; dainty; overnice; scrupulous. See {Fastidious}. -- {Squeam"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Squeam"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Suingly \Su"ing*ly\, adv. [See {Sue} to follow.] In succession; afterwards. [Obs.] --Sir T. More. | |
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Sunglass \Sun"glass`\, n.; pl. {Sunglasses}. A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus. [bd]Lighting a cigar with a sunglass.[b8] --Hawthorne. | |
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Sunglass \Sun"glass`\, n.; pl. {Sunglasses}. A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus. [bd]Lighting a cigar with a sunglass.[b8] --Hawthorne. | |
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Sunglow \Sun"glow`\, n. A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset. | |
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Sunsquall \Sun"squall`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any large jellyfish. | |
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Swing \Swing\, n. 1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. 2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing. 3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise. 4. Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion. The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. --Shak. 5. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it. 6. Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. [bd]Take thy swing.[b8] --Dryden. To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. --Burke. {Full swing}. See under {Full}. {Swing beam} (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it may have an independent lateral motion. {Swing bridge}, a form of drawbridge which swings horizontally, as on a vertical pivot. {Swing plow}, [or] {Swing plough}. (a) A plow without a fore wheel under the beam. (b) A reversible or sidehill plow. {Swing wheel}. (a) The scape-wheel in a clock, which drives the pendulum. (b) The balance of a watch. | |
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Swingel \Swin"gel\, n. [AS. swingele whip, scourge. See {Swing}.] The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also {swingling knife}, {swingling staff}, and {swingling wand}. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, v. i. [Freq. of swing.] 1. To dangle; to wave hanging. [Obs.] --Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swingling}.] [See {Swingel}.] 1. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch. 2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby. | |
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Swinglebar \Swin"gle*bar`\, n. A swingletree. --De Quincey. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swingling}.] [See {Swingel}.] 1. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch. 2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby. | |
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Swingletail \Swin"gle*tail`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See {Thrasher}. | |
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Thrasher \Thrash"er\, Thresher \Thresh"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A large and voracious shark ({Alopias vulpes}), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also {fox shark}, {sea ape}, {sea fox}, {slasher}, {swingle-tail}, and {thrasher shark}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See {Brown thrush}. {Sage thrasher}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Sage}. {Thrasher whale} (Zo[94]l.), the common killer of the Atlantic. | |
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Swingletail \Swin"gle*tail`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See {Thrasher}. | |
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Thrasher \Thrash"er\, Thresher \Thresh"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A large and voracious shark ({Alopias vulpes}), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also {fox shark}, {sea ape}, {sea fox}, {slasher}, {swingle-tail}, and {thrasher shark}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See {Brown thrush}. {Sage thrasher}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Sage}. {Thrasher whale} (Zo[94]l.), the common killer of the Atlantic. | |
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Swingletree \Swin"gle*tree`\, n. [So named in allusion to its swinging. See {Swingle}, v. i., and cf. {Swingtree}.] A whiffletree, or whippletree. See {Singletree}. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swingling}.] [See {Swingel}.] 1. To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch. 2. To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby. | |
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Swingling \Swin"gling\, a. & n. from {Swingle}, v. t. {Swingling tow}, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also {swingling knife}, {swingling staff}, and {swingling wand}. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also {swingling knife}, {swingling staff}, and {swingling wand}. | |
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Swingling \Swin"gling\, a. & n. from {Swingle}, v. t. {Swingling tow}, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling. | |
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Swingle \Swin"gle\, n. A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also {swingling knife}, {swingling staff}, and {swingling wand}. | |
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Swinish \Swin"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. [bd]Swinish gluttony.[b8] --Milton. -- {Swin"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Swin"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Synclastic \Syn*clas"tic\, a. [Pref. syn- + Gr. kla^n to break.] (Math. Physics) Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic. --Sir W. Thomson. | |
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Synclinal \Syn*cli"nal\, n. (Geol.) A synclinal fold. | |
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Synclinal \Syn*cli"nal\, a. [Gr. [?] to incline together; sy`n with + [?] to incline.] 1. Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line. 2. (Geol.) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal. Note: A downward flexure in the case of folded rocks makes a synclinal axis, and the alternating upward flexure an anticlinal axis. | |
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Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. {Axes}. [L. axis axis, axle. See {Axle}.] A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. 2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. 3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. --Gray. 4. (Anat.) (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra dentata}. (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. 5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. 6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any design. {Anticlinal axis} (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. {Synclinal axis}, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. {Axis cylinder} (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also {axis band}, {axial fiber}, and {cylinder axis}. {Axis in peritrochio}, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. {Axis of a curve} (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the {major axis} and the {minor axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the {transverse axis} and the {conjugate axis}. {Axis of a lens}, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. {Axis of a} {telescope [or] microscope}, the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which compose it. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in a plane}, two straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. {Axes of co[94]rdinates in space}, the three straight lines in which the co[94]rdinate planes intersect each other. {Axis of a balance}, that line about which it turns. {Axis of oscillation}, of a pendulum, a right line passing through the center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. {Axis of polarization}, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster. {Axis of revolution} (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution. {Axis of symmetry} (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other part. {Axis of the} {equator, ecliptic, horizon} (or other circle considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. --Hutton. {Axis of the Ionic capital} (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. {Neutral axis} (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. {Optic axis of a crystal}, the direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial. {Optic axis}, {Visual axis} (Opt.), the straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye. {Radical axis of two circles} (Geom.), the straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other. {Spiral axis} (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. {Axis of abscissas} and {Axis of ordinates}. See {Abscissa}. | |
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Syncline \Syn*cline"\, n. (Geol.) A synclinal fold. | |
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Synclinical \Syn*clin"ic*al\, a. Synclinal. [R.] | |
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d8Synclinorium \[d8]Syn`cli*no"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Synclinoria}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] to lay together + [?] mountain.] (Geol.) A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. --Dana. | |
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Synochal \Syn"o*chal\, a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha. [Obs.] | |
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Synocil \Syn"o*cil\, n. [Pref. syn- + cilium.] (Zo[94]l.) A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell. | |
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Samsula-Spruce Creek, FL (CDP, FIPS 63362) Location: 29.04875 N, 81.05581 W Population (1990): 3404 (1475 housing units) Area: 60.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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San Clemente, CA (city, FIPS 65084) Location: 33.44721 N, 117.61107 W Population (1990): 41100 (18726 housing units) Area: 45.2 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92672 | |
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San Miguel, CA (CDP, FIPS 68266) Location: 35.75169 N, 120.69224 W Population (1990): 1123 (451 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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San Miguel County, CO (county, FIPS 113) Location: 38.01325 N, 108.42614 W Population (1990): 3653 (2635 housing units) Area: 3332.2 sq km (land), 5.1 sq km (water) San Miguel County, NM (county, FIPS 47) Location: 35.47004 N, 104.82748 W Population (1990): 25743 (11066 housing units) Area: 12218.1 sq km (land), 48.2 sq km (water) | |
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Science Hill, KY (city, FIPS 68952) Location: 37.17602 N, 84.63640 W Population (1990): 628 (260 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42553 | |
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Shingle Springs, CA (CDP, FIPS 71554) Location: 38.67077 N, 120.93966 W Population (1990): 2049 (708 housing units) Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Shinglehouse, PA (borough, FIPS 70304) Location: 41.96532 N, 78.19150 W Population (1990): 1243 (539 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16748 | |
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Shingleton, MI Zip code(s): 49884 | |
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Shingletown, CA Zip code(s): 96088 | |
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Shongaloo, LA (village, FIPS 69455) Location: 32.94036 N, 93.29380 W Population (1990): 161 (77 housing units) Area: 20.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71072 | |
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Sinclair, ME Zip code(s): 04779 Sinclair, WY (town, FIPS 71150) Location: 41.77748 N, 107.11674 W Population (1990): 500 (207 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 82334 | |
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Sinclairville, NY (village, FIPS 67488) Location: 42.26439 N, 79.25819 W Population (1990): 708 (295 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14782 | |
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Smugglers Notch, VT Zip code(s): 05464 | |
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Snoqualmie, WA (city, FIPS 65205) Location: 47.52426 N, 121.81763 W Population (1990): 1546 (637 housing units) Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98065 | |
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Sunny Isles, FL (CDP, FIPS 69550) Location: 25.93210 N, 80.12584 W Population (1990): 11772 (10309 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water) | |
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Sunnyslope, CA (CDP, FIPS 76022) Location: 34.01894 N, 117.42273 W Population (1990): 3766 (1112 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Sunnyslope, WA (CDP, FIPS 68785) Location: 47.49184 N, 120.34128 W Population (1990): 1907 (728 housing units) Area: 24.9 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
semicolon ; Common: {ITU-T}: semicolon; {semi}. Rare: weenie; {INTERCAL}: hybrid, pit-thwong. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sinclair, Clive {Clive Sinclair} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sinclair PC200 {(http://www.nonowt.demon.co.uk/magfold/articfol/the_miss.htm)}. [Summary?] 1998-07-28 | |
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Sinclair Radionics {Sinclair Research} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Sinclair Research manufacturer. Evolving from Sinclair Radionics in 1979, Sinclair Research was owned by Sir {Clive Sinclair}. Sinclair Radionics produced electronic components and devices (such as calculators and pocket radios and televisions), but Sinclair Research began by producing some of the first {8-bit} home {microcomputers}. Sinclair produced five microcomputers from 1980 to 1987, all based on the {Zilog Z80} {microprocessor} (except for the {QL}, which used the {Motorola 68008} - a variant on the {68000}). The 1K kit-build {ZX80}, introduced in 1980, was followed by the 1K {ZX81} (expandable to 16K) in 1981, the 16K (expandable to 48K) {ZX Spectrum} in 1982 (then superseded by two distinct 48K models and a 128K model in 1986) and the {QL} (Quantum Leap) in 1984. A portable {laptop computer}, the {Z88}, was released in 1987 under the {Cambridge Computers} banner. Of them all, the ZX Spectrum was the best known, and it went on to become the most popular microcomputer of its time in the United Kingdom and in many other territories. This was partly due to its ease of use, and also due to its enormous {software} catalogue, covering games, {word processing}, music, {programming} and {graphics}. Glorious "mine's-better-than-yours" battles were fought (and still are today) between owners of Spectrums and {Commodore 64}s over who had the best machine. Sir Clive's financial problems in the mid-80s led him to sell the rights to the Sinclair brand to {Amstrad} in April 1986. This led to further models of the Spectrum being released from 1986 to 1988 and also an {IBM} {PC}-compatible based internally on Amstrad's own PC range. Sir Clive was not involved with the production of these computers, and no computer with the Sinclair name has been produced since. {Home (http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk/)}. {Planet Sinclair (http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/)}. {comp.sys.sinclair FAQ (http://www.kendalls.demon.co.uk/cssfaq/)}. (1998-12-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single assignment If a variable is only assigned a value once then an instance of that variable is thereafter semantically equivalent to the value. Thus a single assignment language is a {functional language}. See also {zero assignment}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single ASsignment Language by Professor {David Turner} in 1976 whilst at St. Andrews University. SASL is a derivative of {ISWIM} with infinite data structures. It is fully {lazy} but {weakly typed}. It was designed for teaching functional programming, with very simple {syntax}. Example syntax: def fac n = n = 0 -> 1 ; n x fac(n-1) A version of the {expert system} {EMYCIN} has been written in SASL. SASL was originally known as "Saint Andrews Static Language". Not to be confused with {SISAL}. {(ftp://a.cs.uiuc.edu/uiuc/kamin.distr/distr/sasl.p)}. See also {Kamin's interpreters}. ["A New Implementation Technique for Applicative Languages", D.A. Turner, Soft Prac & Exp 8:31-49 (1979)]. (2003-08-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Connection Attach type of {SCSI} connector, used mostly by {OEM}s, which carries both power and data on one 80-pin connector. SCA SCSI drives tend to be cheaper but use with standard SCSI cables requires an adaptor and external termination. {(http://www.pcmech.com/show/harddrive/152/)}. (2003-06-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Connector Attachment {Single Connection Attach} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Data Rate Random Access Memory Dynamic Random Access Memory) {RAM} or {SDRAM} that transfers data on only one {clock} transition (0-1 or 1-0), in contrast to {DDR-RAM}. (2001-05-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory {Single Data Rate Random Access Memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Document Interface program} that only shows a single windows giving a view of one document at a time. The opposite is {Multiple Document Interface} (MDI). (1999-03-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Edge Contact is packaged. [Other uses?] (1999-02-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Edge Contact Cartridge {Intel}'s {Pentium II}, {Pentium III}, and {Xeon} {microprocessors}. A SECC fits into a {Slot 1} or {Slot 2} connector. [SECC 2?] (1999-08-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Edge Processor Package {Intel}'s {Celeron} {processor}. A SEPP fits into a {Slot 1} connector. (1999-08-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Electron Tunneling SET devices can be used to construct circuits which process information by manipulating individual electrons. SET devices are small, dissipate little power, and can detect exquisitely small quantities of charge. The small size and low power dissipation of SET circuits makes them potentially useful for the {Information Technology} industry. (1999-01-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Electron Tunneling Technology {single electron tunneling}. {Single electron tunneling transistors} have some properties which make them attractive for neural networks, among which their small size, low power consumption and potentially high speed. Simulations have been performed on some small circuits of SET transistors that exhibit functional properties similar to those required for neural networks. {(http://www.computer.org/conferen/proceed/mn96/ABSTRACT.HTM#125)}. [Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems (MicroNeuro '96). Martijn J. Goossens, Chris J.M. Verhoeven, and Arthur H.M. van Roermund]. (1999-01-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single ended signal and another wire or shield is connected to electrical ground. This is in contrast to a {differential} connection where the second wire carries an inverted signal. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Image Random Dot Stereogram composed of (coloured) dots which when viewed correctly appears three-dimensional. SIRDs were invented by Dr. Christoper Tyler, Associate Director of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco (1999). {FAQ (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~singlis/sirds.html)}. {Nice pictures (http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/massimin/index.ang.html)}. {Picture Gallery (http://h2.ph.man.ac.uk/gareth/sirds.html)}. {Vern Hart's SIRDS Gallery (http://www.vern.com/)}. {SGI Gallery (http://www.sgi.com/free/gallery.html)}. (1996-11-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single inheritance The property of an {object-oriented language} which restricts a sub-{class} to be derived from only one parent. Opposite of {multiple inheritance}. | |
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Single In-line Memory Module about 10cm x 2cm, with {RAM} {integrated circuits} or die on one or both sides and a single row of pins along one long edge. Several SIMMs are mounted with their substrates at right-angles to the main circuit board (the {motherboard}). This configuration allows greater packing density than direct mounting of, e.g. DIL ({dual in-line}) RAM packages on the motherboard. In 1993 one SIMM typically held one or four megabytes, by early 1997 one could hold 8, 16, or 32 MB. (1997-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Inline Pin Package single line of pins. Compare {Dual Inline Package}, {Single In-line Memory Module}. (1995-03-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Instruction Multiple Data {Single Instruction/Multiple Data} | |
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Single Instruction/Multiple Data (SIMD) (Or "data parallel") The classification under {Flynn's taxonomy} for a {parallel processor} where many processing elements ({functional units}) perform the same operations on different data. There is often a central controller which broadcasts the instruction stream to all the processing elements. Contrast {Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data}. (1994-11-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single program/multiple data processing} where the same program is run on multiple processors. Every instance of the program knows which part of the computation it should perform and the results of the computation are combined somehow. (2002-04-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single quote Common names include single quote; quote; {ITU-T}: apostrophe. Rare: prime; glitch; tick; irk; pop; {INTERCAL}: spark; {ITU-T}: closing single quotation mark; {ITU-T}: acute accent. Single quote is used in {C} and derived languages to introduce a single character {literal value} which is represented internally by its ASCII code. In the {Unix} {shells} and {Perl} single quote is used to delimit strings in which variable substitution is not performed (in contrast to {double-quote}-delimited strings). Single quote is often used in text for both open and close single quotation mark and apostrophe. Typesetters use two different symbols - open has a tail going up, close and apostrophe have tails hanging down (like a raised {comma}). Some people use {back quote} (`) for open single quotation mark. (1998-04-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single sourcing {dead tree} and on-line {documentation}, and usually also on-line help. In practice, it most often refers to a {FrameMaker} file set with {conditional text} which, when the conditions are set appropriately, allows you to create variants of the original document (e.g., for a product that runs on different {Unix} {platforms}) as well as for different media -- typically task-oriented on-line help to be accessed under {Microsoft Windows} or from a {web browser}, linear printed document, and {HTML} delivered via the {WWW} and/or {CD-ROM}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single static assignment where each variable has only one single definition in the program code. "Static" comes from the fact that the definition site may be in a loop, thus dynamically executed several times. SSA form is used for program optimization or {static analysis} and {optimisation}. (2003-04-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single Virtual Storage {OS/VS2} | |
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single-attached Connected to only one of the two rings of an {FDDI} network. This is the kind of connection normally used for a {host} computer, as opposed to {router}s and {concentrator}s which are normally "{dual-attached}". (1994-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single-duplex one telegrapher at each end, transmitting alternately in each direction. (2000-03-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
single-electron transistor {quantum dot} | |
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Single-line Digital Subscriber Line Digital Subscriber Line, S-HDSL) A form of {Digital Subscriber Line} similar to {HDSL} but providing {T1} or {E1} connections over a single {twisted-pair} copper line. (1998-05-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Single-pair High Speed Digital Subscriber Line {Single-line Digital Subscriber Line} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
singleton variable piece of code, probably because of a programming mistake. To be useful, a variable must be set and read from, in that order. If it is only referred to once then it cannot be both set and read. There are various exceptions. {C}-like {assignment operators}, e.g. "x += y", read and set x and return its new value (they are abbreviations for "x = x+y", etc). A {function} {argument} may be passed only for the sake of uniformity or to support future enhancements. A good {compiler} or a {syntax} checker like {lint} should report singleton variables but also allow specific instances to be marked as deliberate by the programmer. (1997-12-20) | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Senegal Senegal:Geography Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania Map references: Africa Area: total area: 196,190 sq km land area: 192,000 sq km comparative area: slightly smaller than South Dakota Land boundaries: total 2,640 km, The Gambia 740 km, Guinea 330 km, Guinea-Bissau 338 km, Mali 419 km, Mauritania 813 km Coastline: 531 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: short section of the boundary with The Gambia is indefinite; boundary with Mauritania in dispute; Climate: tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (December to April) has strong southeast winds; dry season (May to November) dominated by hot, dry harmattan wind Terrain: generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills in southeast Natural resources: fish, phosphates, iron ore Land use: arable land: 27% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 30% forest and woodland: 31% other: 12% Irrigated land: 1,800 sq km (1989 est.) Environment: current issues: wildlife populations threatened by poaching; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; overfishing natural hazards: lowlands seasonally flooded; periodic droughts international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands, Whaling; signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Marine Dumping Note: The Gambia is almost an enclave of Senegal Senegal:People Population: 9,007,080 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 45% (female 2,004,514; male 2,021,251) 15-64 years: 52% (female 2,398,609; male 2,301,236) 65 years and over: 3% (female 140,128; male 141,342) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 3.12% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 42.87 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 11.64 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 73.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 57.16 years male: 55.65 years female: 58.71 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 6.03 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Senegalese (singular and plural) adjective: Senegalese Ethnic divisions: Wolof 36%, Fulani 17%, Serer 17%, Toucouleur 9%, Diola 9%, Mandingo 9%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 2% Religions: Muslim 92%, indigenous beliefs 6%, Christian 2% (mostly Roman Catholic) Languages: French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Diola, Mandingo Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1988) total population: 27% male: 37% female: 18% Labor force: 2.509 million (77% are engaged in subsistence farming; 175,000 wage earners) by occupation: private sector 40%, government and parapublic 60% Senegal:Government Names: conventional long form: Republic of Senegal conventional short form: Senegal local long form: Republique du Senegal local short form: Senegal Digraph: SG Type: republic under multiparty democratic rule Capital: Dakar Administrative divisions: 10 regions (regions, singular - region); Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Kolda, Louga, Saint-Louis, Tambacounda, Thies, Ziguinchor Independence: 20 August 1960 (from France; The Gambia and Senegal signed an agreement on 12 December 1981 that called for the creation of a loose confederation to be known as Senegambia, but the agreement was dissolved on 30 September 1989) National holiday: Independence Day, 4 April (1960) Constitution: 3 March 1963, revised 1991 Legal system: based on French civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court, which also audits the government's accounting office; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Abdou DIOUF (since 1 January 1981); election last held 21 February 1993 (next to be held NA February 2000); results - Abdou DIOUF (PS) 58.4%, Abdoulaye WADE (PDS) 32.03%, other 9.57% head of government: Prime Minister Habib THIAM (since 7 April 1991) cabinet: Council of Ministers; appointed by the prime minister in consultation with the president Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale): elections last held 9 May 1993 (next to be held NA May 1998); results - PS 70%, PDS 23%, other 7%; seats - (120 total) PS 84, PDS 27, LD-MPT 3, Let Us Unite Senegal 3, PIT 2, UDS-R 1 Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Cour Supreme) Political parties and leaders: Socialist Party (PS), President Abdou DIOUF; Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), Abdoulaye WADE; Democratic League-Labor Party Movement (LD-MPT), Dr. Abdoulaye BATHILY; Independent Labor Party (PIT), Amath DANSOKHO; Senegalese Democratic Union-Renewal (UDS-R), Mamadou Puritain FALL; Let Us Unite Senegal (coalition of African Party for Democracy and Socialism and National Democratic Rally); other small uninfluential parties Other political or pressure groups: students; teachers; labor; Muslim Brotherhoods Member of: ACCT, ACP, AfDB, CCC, CEAO, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, FZ, G-15, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM (observer), ITU, NAM, OAU, OIC, PCA, UN, UNAMIR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNMIH, UNOMUR, UPU, WADB, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador Mamadou Mansour SECK chancery: 2112 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 telephone: [1] (202) 234-0540, 0541 US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Mark JOHNSON embassy: Avenue Jean XXIII at the corner of Avenue Kleber, Dakar mailing address: B. P. 49, Dakar telephone: [221] 23 42 96, 23 34 24 FAX: [221] 22 29 91 Flag: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow, and red with a small green five-pointed star centered in the yellow band; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia Economy Overview: In 1994 Senegal embarked on its most concerted structural adjustment effort yet to exploit the 50% devaluation of the currencies of the 14 Francophone African nations on 12 January. After years of foot-dragging, the government finally passed a liberalized labor code which should significantly help lower the cost of labor and improve the manufacturing sector's competitiveness. Inroads also have been made in closing tax loopholes and eliminating monopoly power in several sectors. At the same time the government is holding the line on current fiscal expenditure under the watchful eyes of international organizations on which it depends for substantial support. A bumper peanut crop - Senegal's main source of foreign exchange - coincided with an improvement of international prices and probably resulted in a doubling of earnings in 1994 over 1993. The country's narrow resource base, environmental degradation, and untamed population growth will continue to hold back growth in living standards over the medium term. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $12.3 billion (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: -2% (1993 est.) National product per capita: $1,450 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): -1.8% (1991 est.) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $1.2 billion expenditures: $1.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $269 million (1992 est.) Exports: $904 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.) commodities: fish, ground nuts (peanuts), petroleum products, phosphates, cotton partners: France, other EC countries, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali Imports: $1.2 billion (c.i.f., 1991 est.) commodities: foods and beverages, consumer goods, capital goods, petroleum partners: France, other EC countries, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria, China, Japan External debt: $2.9 billion (1990) Industrial production: growth rate 1.9% (1991); accounts for 15% of GDP Electricity: capacity: 230,000 kW production: 720 million kWh consumption per capita: 79 kWh (1993) Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, petroleum refining, building materials Agriculture: accounts for 20% of GDP; major products - peanuts (cash crop), millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green vegetables; estimated two-thirds self-sufficient in food; fish catch of 354,000 metric tons in 1990 Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin moving to Europe and North America Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $551 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $5.23 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $589 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $295 million Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 529.43 (January 1995), 555.20 (1994), 283.16 (1993), 264.69 (1992), 282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990) note: the official rate is pegged to the French franc, and beginning 12 January 1994, the CFA franc was devalued to CFAF 100 per French franc from CFAF 50 at which it had been fixed since 1948 Fiscal year: calendar year Senegal:Transportation Railroads: total: 905 km narrow gauge: 905 km 1.000-meter gauge (70 km double track) Highways: total: 14,007 km paved: 3,777 km unpaved: crushed stone, improved earth 10,230 km Inland waterways: 897 km total; 785 km on the Senegal, 112 km on the Saloum Ports: Dakar, Kaolack, Matam, Podor, Richard-Toll, Saint-Louis, Ziguinchor Merchant marine: total: 1 bulk ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,995 GRT/3,775 DWT Airports: total: 24 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 9 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1 with paved runways under 914 m: 2 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 4 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 7 Senegal:Communications Telephone system: NA telephones; above-average urban system local: NA intercity: microwave and cable international: 3 submarine cables; 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 0, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 1 televisions: NA Senegal:Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police (Surete Nationale) Manpower availability: males age 15-49 2,021,019; males fit for military service 1,054,855; males reach military age (18) annually 96,589 (1995 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $134 million, 2.1% of GDP (1993) |