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Sapajo \Sap"a*jo\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The sapajou. | |
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Sapajou \Sap"a*jou\, n. [F. sapajou, sajou, Braz. sajuassu.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus {Cebus}, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also {capuchins}. The bonnet sapajou ({C. subcristatus}), the golden-handed sapajou ({C. chrysopus}), and the white-throated sapajou ({C. hypoleucus}) are well known species. See {Capuchin}. | |
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Capuchin \Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See {Capoch}.] 1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus capucinus}), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also {capucine monkey}, {weeper}, {sajou}, {sapajou}, and {sai}. (b) Other species of {Cabus}, as {C. fatuellus} (the brown or {horned capucine}.), {C. albifrons} (the {cararara}), and {C. apella}. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. {Capuchin nun}, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. | |
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Sapajou \Sap"a*jou\, n. [F. sapajou, sajou, Braz. sajuassu.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus {Cebus}, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also {capuchins}. The bonnet sapajou ({C. subcristatus}), the golden-handed sapajou ({C. chrysopus}), and the white-throated sapajou ({C. hypoleucus}) are well known species. See {Capuchin}. | |
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Capuchin \Cap`u*chin"\, n. [F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See {Capoch}.] 1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus capucinus}), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also {capucine monkey}, {weeper}, {sajou}, {sapajou}, and {sai}. (b) Other species of {Cabus}, as {C. fatuellus} (the brown or {horned capucine}.), {C. albifrons} (the {cararara}), and {C. apella}. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. {Capuchin nun}, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. | |
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Sapphic \Sap"phic\, a. [L. Sapphicus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] Sappho.] 1. Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse. 2. (Pros.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl. | |
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Sapphic \Sap"phic\, n. (Pros.) A Sapphic verse. | |
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Sapucaia \Sap`u*ca"ia\ (?; Pg. [?]), n. [Pg. sapucaya.] (Bot.) A Brazilian tree. See {Lecythis}, and {Monkey-pot}. [Written also {sapucaya}.] {Sapucaia nut} (Bot.), the seed of the sapucaia; -- called also {paradise nut}. | |
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Sapucaia \Sap`u*ca"ia\ (?; Pg. [?]), n. [Pg. sapucaya.] (Bot.) A Brazilian tree. See {Lecythis}, and {Monkey-pot}. [Written also {sapucaya}.] {Sapucaia nut} (Bot.), the seed of the sapucaia; -- called also {paradise nut}. | |
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Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), v. t. To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --Southey. | |
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Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See {Silvan}, and cf. {Sylvatic}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. --Dryden. 3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity? --E. D. Griffin. 4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. Syn: Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See {Ferocious}. | |
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Savage \Sav"age\, n. 1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners. 2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian. | |
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Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n. A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also {buck}, and {sawbuck}. | |
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Sawbuck \Saw"buck`\, n. A sawhorse. | |
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Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n. A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also {buck}, and {sawbuck}. | |
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Sawbuck \Saw"buck`\, n. A sawhorse. | |
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Sawfish \Saw"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus {Pristis}. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey. | |
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Black \Black\, a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[91]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[84]ck ink, Dan. bl[91]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[be]c, E. bleak pallid. [?]98.] 1. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! --Shak. 2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. --Shak. 3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. [bd]This day's black fate.[b8] [bd]Black villainy.[b8] [bd]Arise, black vengeance.[b8] [bd]Black day.[b8] [bd]Black despair.[b8] --Shak. 4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged. {Black act}, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts. {Black angel} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida ({Holacanthus tricolor}), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black. {Black antimony} (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, {Sb2S3}, used in pyrotechnics, etc. {Black bear} (Zo[94]l.), the common American bear ({Ursus Americanus}). {Black beast}. See {B[88]te noire}. {Black beetle} (Zo[94]l.), the common large cockroach ({Blatta orientalis}). {Black and blue}, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. [bd]To pinch the slatterns black and blue.[b8] --Hudibras. {Black bonnet} (Zo[94]l.), the black-headed bunting ({Embriza Sch[d2]niclus}) of Europe. {Black canker}, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar. {Black cat} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See {Fisher}. {Black cattle}, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.] {Black cherry}. See under {Cherry}. {Black cockatoo} (Zo[94]l.), the palm cockatoo. See {Cockatoo}. {Black copper}. Same as {Melaconite}. {Black currant}. (Bot.) See {Currant}. {Black diamond}. (Min.) See {Carbonado}. {Black draught} (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia. {Black drop} (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar. {Black earth}, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward. {Black flag}, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance. {Black flea} (Zo[94]l.), a flea beetle ({Haltica nemorum}) injurious to turnips. {Black flux}, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. --Brande & C. {Black fly}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus {Simulium} of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests. The larv[91] are aquatic. (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis ({A. fab[91]}). {Black Forest} [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in Baden and W[81]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest. {Black game}, or {Black grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Blackcock}, {Grouse}, and {Heath grouse}. {Black grass} (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species {Juncus Gerardi}, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay. {Black gum} (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See {Tupelo}. {Black Hamburg (grape)} (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or [bd]black[b8] grape. {Black horse} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the Mississippi valley ({Cycleptus elongatus}), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker. {Black lemur} (Zo[94]l.), the {Lemurniger} of Madagascar; the {acoumbo} of the natives. {Black list}, a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See {Blacklist}, v. t. {Black manganese} (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, {MnO2}. {Black Maria}, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail. {Black martin} (Zo[94]l.), the chimney swift. See {Swift}. {Black moss} (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See {Tillandsia}. {Black oak}. See under {Oak}. {Black ocher}. See {Wad}. {Black pigment}, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar. {Black plate}, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight. {Black quarter}, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox. {Black rat} (Zo[94]l.), one of the species of rats ({Mus rattus}), commonly infesting houses. {Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. {Black rust}, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain. {Black sheep}, one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble. {Black silver}. (Min.) See under {Silver}. {Black and tan}, black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs. {Black tea}. See under {Tea}. {Black tin} (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight. {Black walnut}. See under {Walnut}. {Black warrior} (Zo[94]l.), an American hawk ({Buteo Harlani}). Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious. | |
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Sulphur \Sul"phur\, n. [L., better sulfur: cf. F. soufre.] 1. (Chem.) A nonmetallic element occurring naturally in large quantities, either combined as in the sulphides (as pyrites) and sulphates (as gypsum), or native in volcanic regions, in vast beds mixed with gypsum and various earthy materials, from which it is melted out. Symbol S. Atomic weight 32. The specific gravity of ordinary octohedral sulphur is 2.05; of prismatic sulphur, 1.96. Note: It is purified by distillation, and is obtained as a lemon-yellow powder (by sublimation), called flour, or flowers, of sulphur, or in cast sticks called roll sulphur, or brimstone. It burns with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odor. It is an ingredient of gunpowder, is used on friction matches, and in medicine (as a laxative and insecticide), but its chief use is in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. Sulphur can be obtained in two crystalline modifications, in orthorhombic octahedra, or in monoclinic prisms, the former of which is the more stable at ordinary temperatures. Sulphur is the type, in its chemical relations, of a group of elements, including selenium and tellurium, called collectively the sulphur group, or family. In many respects sulphur resembles oxygen. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily {Pierin[91]}; as, the clouded sulphur ({Eurymus, [or] Colias, philodice}), which is the common yellow butterfly of the Eastern United States. {Amorphous sulphur} (Chem.), an elastic variety of sulphur of a resinous appearance, obtained by pouring melted sulphur into water. On standing, it passes back into a brittle crystalline modification. {Liver of sulphur}. (Old Chem.) See {Hepar}. {Sulphur acid}. (Chem.) See {Sulphacid}. {Sulphur alcohol}. (Chem.) See {Mercaptan}. {Sulphur auratum} [L.] (Old Chem.), a golden yellow powder, consisting of antimonic sulphide, {Sb2S5}, -- formerly a famous nostrum. {Sulphur base} (Chem.), an alkaline sulphide capable of acting as a base in the formation of sulphur salts according to the old dual theory of salts. [Archaic] {Sulphur dioxide} (Chem.), a colorless gas, {SO2}, of a pungent, suffocating odor, produced by the burning of sulphur. It is employed chiefly in the production of sulphuric acid, and as a reagent in bleaching; -- called also {sulphurous anhydride}, and formerly {sulphurous acid}. {Sulphur ether} (Chem.), a sulphide of hydrocarbon radicals, formed like the ordinary ethers, which are oxides, but with sulphur in the place of oxygen. {Sulphur salt} (Chem.), a salt of a sulphacid; a sulphosalt. {Sulphur showers}, showers of yellow pollen, resembling sulphur in appearance, often carried from pine forests by the wind to a great distance. {Sulphur trioxide} (Chem.), a white crystalline solid, {SO3}, obtained by oxidation of sulphur dioxide. It dissolves in water with a hissing noise and the production of heat, forming sulphuric acid, and is employed as a dehydrating agent. Called also {sulphuric anhydride}, and formerly {sulphuric acid}. {Sulphur whale}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sulphur-bottom}. {Vegetable sulphur} (Bot.), lycopodium powder. See under {Lycopodium}. | |
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Itch \Itch\, n. 1. (Med.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the {Sarcoptes scabei}), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact. 2. Any itching eruption. 3. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also {scabies}, {psora}, etc. 4. A constant irritating desire. An itch of being thought a divine king. --Dryden. {Baker's itch}. See under {Baker}. {Barber's itch}, sycosis. {Bricklayer's itch}, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers. {Grocer's itch}, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite ({Tyrogluphus sacchari}). {Itch insect} (Zo[94]l.), a small parasitic mite ({Sarcoptes scabei}) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append. {Itch mite}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Itch insect}, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox. {Sugar baker's itch}, a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin. {Washerwoman's itch}, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen. | |
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Scabious \Sca"bi*ous\, a. [L. scabiosus, from scabies the scab: cf. F. scabieux.] Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Scabious \Sca"bi*ous\, n. [Cf. F. scabieuse. See {Scabious}, a.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Scabiosa}, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the {Composit[91]}, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected. {Sweet scabious}. (a) Mourning bride. (b) A daisylike plant ({Erigeron annuus}) having a stout branching stem. | |
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Scavage \Scav"age\ (?; 48), n. [LL. scavagium, fr. AS. sce[a0]wian to look at, to inspect. See {Show}.] (O. Eng. Law) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. --Cowell. | |
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Scobs \Scobs\, n. sing. & pl. [L. scobs, or scobis, fr. scabere to scrape.] 1. Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance. --Chambers. 2. The dross of metals. | |
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Scops owl \Scops" owl`\ [NL. scops, fr. Gr. [?] the little horned owl.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus {Scops} having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the European scops owl ({Scops giu}), and the American screech owl ({S. asio}). | |
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Scup \Scup\, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[97]p, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine sparoid food fish ({Stenotomus chrysops}, or {S. argyrops}), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also {porgee}, {paugy}, {porgy}, {scuppaug}. Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species. ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). | |
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Scuppaug \Scup"paug\, n. [Contr. fr. Amer. Indian mishcuppauog, pl. of mishcup.] (Zo[94]l.) See 2d {Scup}. | |
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Scup \Scup\, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[97]p, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine sparoid food fish ({Stenotomus chrysops}, or {S. argyrops}), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also {porgee}, {paugy}, {porgy}, {scuppaug}. Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species. ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). | |
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Scuppaug \Scup"paug\, n. [Contr. fr. Amer. Indian mishcuppauog, pl. of mishcup.] (Zo[94]l.) See 2d {Scup}. | |
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Scyphus \Scy"phus\, n.; pl. {Scyphi}. [L., a cup, Gr. [?].] 1. (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk. 2. (Bot.) (a) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers. (b) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called {scypha}. See Illust. of {Cladonia pyxidata}, under {Lichen}. | |
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Sea bass \Sea" bass`\ . (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large marine food fish ({Serranus, [or] Centropristis, atrarius}) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, {blue bass}, {black sea bass}, {blackfish}, {bluefish}, and {black perch}. (b) A California food fish ({Cynoscion nobile}); -- called also {white sea bass}, and {sea salmon}. | |
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Sea bug \Sea" bug`\ (Zo[94]l.) A chiton. | |
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Sea fox \Sea" fox`\ (Zo[94]l.) The thrasher 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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Fox \Fox\, n.; pl. {Foxes}. [AS. fox; akin to D. vos, G. fuchs, OHG. fuhs, foha, Goth. fa[a3]h[?], Icel. f[?]a fox, fox fraud; of unknown origin, cf. Skr. puccha tail. Cf. {Vixen}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A carnivorous animal of the genus {Vulpes}, family {Canid[91]}, of many species. The European fox ({V. vulgaris} or {V. vulpes}), the American red fox ({V. fulvus}), the American gray fox ({V. Virginianus}), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox ({V. lagopus}) are well-known species. Note: The black or silver-gray fox is a variety of the American red fox, producing a fur of great value; the cross-gray and woods-gray foxes are other varieties of the same species, of less value. The common foxes of Europe and America are very similar; both are celebrated for their craftiness. They feed on wild birds, poultry, and various small animals. Subtle as the fox for prey. --Shak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The European dragonet. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also {sea fox}. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Shark}. 4. A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. --Beattie. 5. (Naut.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats. 6. A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox. [Obs.] Thou diest on point of fox. --Shak. 7. pl. (Enthnol.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also {Outagamies}. {Fox and geese}. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose first position is in the middle of the board, endeavors to break through the line of the geese, and the geese to pen up the fox. {Fox bat} (Zo[94]l.), a large fruit bat of the genus {Pteropus}, of many species, inhabiting Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, esp. {P. medius} of India. Some of the species are more than four feet across the outspread wings. See {Fruit bat}. {Fox bolt}, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. {Fox brush} (Zo[94]l.), the tail of a fox. {Fox evil}, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. {Fox grape} (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape ({Vitis Labrusca}) is the origin of the varieties called {Isabella}, {Concord}, {Hartford}, etc., and the southern fox grape ({Vitis vulpina}) has produced the {Scuppernong}, and probably the {Catawba}. {Fox hunter}. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. {Fox shark} (Zo[94]l.), the thrasher shark. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Thrasher}. {Fox sleep}, pretended sleep. {Fox sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a large American sparrow ({Passerella iliaca}); -- so called on account of its reddish color. {Fox squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American squirrel ({Sciurus niger}, or {S. cinereus}). In the Southern States the black variety prevails; farther north the fulvous and gray variety, called the {cat squirrel}, is more common. {Fox terrier} (Zo[94]l.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. {Fox trot}, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk. | |
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Foxfish \Fox"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The fox shark; -- called also {sea fox}. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Shark}. (b) The european dragonet. See {Dragonet}. | |
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Sea fox \Sea" fox`\ (Zo[94]l.) The thrasher 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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Fox \Fox\, n.; pl. {Foxes}. [AS. fox; akin to D. vos, G. fuchs, OHG. fuhs, foha, Goth. fa[a3]h[?], Icel. f[?]a fox, fox fraud; of unknown origin, cf. Skr. puccha tail. Cf. {Vixen}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A carnivorous animal of the genus {Vulpes}, family {Canid[91]}, of many species. The European fox ({V. vulgaris} or {V. vulpes}), the American red fox ({V. fulvus}), the American gray fox ({V. Virginianus}), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox ({V. lagopus}) are well-known species. Note: The black or silver-gray fox is a variety of the American red fox, producing a fur of great value; the cross-gray and woods-gray foxes are other varieties of the same species, of less value. The common foxes of Europe and America are very similar; both are celebrated for their craftiness. They feed on wild birds, poultry, and various small animals. Subtle as the fox for prey. --Shak. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The European dragonet. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also {sea fox}. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Shark}. 4. A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. --Beattie. 5. (Naut.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats. 6. A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox. [Obs.] Thou diest on point of fox. --Shak. 7. pl. (Enthnol.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also {Outagamies}. {Fox and geese}. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose first position is in the middle of the board, endeavors to break through the line of the geese, and the geese to pen up the fox. {Fox bat} (Zo[94]l.), a large fruit bat of the genus {Pteropus}, of many species, inhabiting Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, esp. {P. medius} of India. Some of the species are more than four feet across the outspread wings. See {Fruit bat}. {Fox bolt}, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. {Fox brush} (Zo[94]l.), the tail of a fox. {Fox evil}, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. {Fox grape} (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape ({Vitis Labrusca}) is the origin of the varieties called {Isabella}, {Concord}, {Hartford}, etc., and the southern fox grape ({Vitis vulpina}) has produced the {Scuppernong}, and probably the {Catawba}. {Fox hunter}. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. {Fox shark} (Zo[94]l.), the thrasher shark. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Thrasher}. {Fox sleep}, pretended sleep. {Fox sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a large American sparrow ({Passerella iliaca}); -- so called on account of its reddish color. {Fox squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American squirrel ({Sciurus niger}, or {S. cinereus}). In the Southern States the black variety prevails; farther north the fulvous and gray variety, called the {cat squirrel}, is more common. {Fox terrier} (Zo[94]l.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. {Fox trot}, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk. | |
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Foxfish \Fox"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The fox shark; -- called also {sea fox}. See {Thrasher shark}, under {Shark}. (b) The european dragonet. See {Dragonet}. | |
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Sea pass \Sea" pass`\ A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See {Passport}. | |
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Sea peach \Sea" peach`\ (Zo[94]l.) A beautiful American ascidian ({Cynthia, [or] Halocynthia, pyriformis}) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach. | |
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Sea pig \Sea" pig`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) A porpoise or dolphin. (b) A dugong. | |
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Merluce \Mer"luce\, n. [F. merluche, merlus.] (Zo[94]l.) The European hake; -- called also {herring hake} and {sea pike}. | |
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Sea pike \Sea" pike`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found on both coasts of America; -- called also {robalo}. (c) The merluce. | |
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Garfish \Gar"fish`\, n. [See {Gar}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European marine fish ({Belone vulgaris}); -- called also {gar}, {gerrick}, {greenback}, {greenbone}, {gorebill}, {hornfish}, {longnose}, {mackerel guide}, {sea needle}, and {sea pike}. (b) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus {Tylosurus}, of which one species ({T. marinus}) is common on the Atlantic coast. {T. Caribb[91]us}, a very large species, and {T. crassus}, are more southern; -- called also {needlefish}. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species. | |
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Merluce \Mer"luce\, n. [F. merluche, merlus.] (Zo[94]l.) The European hake; -- called also {herring hake} and {sea pike}. | |
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Sea pike \Sea" pike`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found on both coasts of America; -- called also {robalo}. (c) The merluce. | |
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Garfish \Gar"fish`\, n. [See {Gar}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European marine fish ({Belone vulgaris}); -- called also {gar}, {gerrick}, {greenback}, {greenbone}, {gorebill}, {hornfish}, {longnose}, {mackerel guide}, {sea needle}, and {sea pike}. (b) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus {Tylosurus}, of which one species ({T. marinus}) is common on the Atlantic coast. {T. Caribb[91]us}, a very large species, and {T. crassus}, are more southern; -- called also {needlefish}. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species. | |
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Merluce \Mer"luce\, n. [F. merluche, merlus.] (Zo[94]l.) The European hake; -- called also {herring hake} and {sea pike}. | |
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Sea pike \Sea" pike`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found on both coasts of America; -- called also {robalo}. (c) The merluce. | |
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Garfish \Gar"fish`\, n. [See {Gar}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European marine fish ({Belone vulgaris}); -- called also {gar}, {gerrick}, {greenback}, {greenbone}, {gorebill}, {hornfish}, {longnose}, {mackerel guide}, {sea needle}, and {sea pike}. (b) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus {Tylosurus}, of which one species ({T. marinus}) is common on the Atlantic coast. {T. Caribb[91]us}, a very large species, and {T. crassus}, are more southern; -- called also {needlefish}. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species. | |
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Seabeach \Sea"beach`\, n. A beach lying along the sea. [bd]The bleak seabeach.[b8] --Longfellow. | |
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Seapiece \Sea"piece`\, n. A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. --Addison. | |
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Seawife \Sea"wife`\, n.; pl. {Seawives}. (Zo[94]l.) A European wrasse ({Labrus vetula}). | |
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Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of their progress. The common salmon has been known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds; more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and grilse. Among the true salmons are: {Black salmon}, or {Lake salmon}, the namaycush. {Dog salmon}, a salmon of Western North America ({Oncorhynchus keta}). {Humpbacked salmon}, a Pacific-coast salmon ({Oncorhynchus gorbuscha}). {King salmon}, the quinnat. {Landlocked salmon}, a variety of the common salmon (var. {Sebago}), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea. This last is called also {dwarf salmon}. Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called {jack salmon}; the spotted, or southern, squeteague; the cabrilla, called {kelp salmon}; young pollock, called {sea salmon}; and the California yellowtail. 2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. {Salmon berry} (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the {Rubus Nutkanus}. {Salmon killer} (Zo[94]l.), a stickleback ({Gasterosteus cataphractus}) of Western North America and Northern Asia. {Salmon ladder}, {Salmon stair}. See {Fish ladder}, under {Fish}. {Salmon peel}, a young salmon. {Salmon pipe}, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb. {Salmon trout}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European sea trout ({Salmo trutta}). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout ({Salmo purpuratus}), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast. | |
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Sebacic \Se*bac"ic\, a. [L. sebum tallow: cf. F. s[82]bacique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also {sebic}, and {pyroleic}, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance. | |
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Sebic \Se"bic\, a. See {Sebacic}. [Obs.] | |
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Sebacic \Se*bac"ic\, a. [L. sebum tallow: cf. F. s[82]bacique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also {sebic}, and {pyroleic}, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance. | |
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Sebic \Se"bic\, a. See {Sebacic}. [Obs.] | |
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Seepage \Seep"age\, [or] Sipage \Sip"age\, n. Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.] | |
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Seepage \Seep"age\, n. The act or process of seeping; percolation. | |
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Sepia \Se"pi*a\, n.; pl. E. {Sepias}, L. {Sepi[91]}. [L., fr. Gr. [?][?][?] the cuttlefish, or squid.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common European cuttlefish. (b) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under {Cuttlefish}. 2. A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms {Roman sepia}. Cf. {India ink}, under {India}. {Sepia} {drawing [or] picture}, a drawing in monochrome, made in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments. | |
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Sepic \Se"pic\, a. Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing. | |
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Sepose \Se*pose"\, v. t. [L. pref se- aside + E. pose.] To set apart. [Obs.] --Donne. | |
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Shaps \Shaps\, n. pl. [Shortened fr. chaparajos. Cf. {Chaps}.] Chaparajos. [Western U. S.] A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins. --The Century. | |
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Shave \Shave\, n. [AS. scafa, sceafa, a sort of knife. See {Shave}, v. t.] 1. A thin slice; a shaving. --Wright. 2. A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving. 3. (a) An exorbitant discount on a note. [Cant, U.S.] (b) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular. [Cant, U.S.] --N. Biddle. 4. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave. 5. The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave. [Colloq.] {Shave grass} (Bot.), the scouring rush. See the Note under {Equisetum}. {Shave hook}, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle. | |
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Sheaf \Sheaf\, n.; pl. {Sheaves}. [OE. sheef, shef, schef, AS. sce[a0]f; akin to D. schoof, OHG. scoub, G. schaub, Icel. skauf a fox's brush, and E. shove. See {Shove}.] 1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. --Dryden. 2. Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. --Dryden. | |
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Sheep \Sheep\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. shep, scheep, AS. sc[?]p, sce[a0]p; akin to OFries. sk[?]p, LG. & D. schaap, G. schaf, OHG. sc[be]f, Skr. ch[be]ga. [root]295. Cf. {Sheepherd}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus {Ovis}, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. Note: The domestic sheep ({Ovis aries}) varies much in size, in the length and texture of its wool, the form and size of its horns, the length of its tail, etc. It was domesticated in prehistoric ages, and many distinct breeds have been produced; as the merinos, celebrated for their fine wool; the Cretan sheep, noted for their long horns; the fat-tailed, or Turkish, sheep, remarkable for the size and fatness of the tail, which often has to be supported on trucks; the Southdowns, in which the horns are lacking; and an Asiatic breed which always has four horns. 2. A weak, bashful, silly fellow. --Ainsworth. 3. pl. Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. {Rocky mountain sheep}.(Zo[94]l.) See {Bighorn}. {Maned sheep}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Aoudad}. {Sheep bot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See {Estrus}. {Sheep dog} (Zo[94]l.), a shepherd dog, or collie. {Sheep laurel} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Kalmia angustifolia}) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs. {Sheep pest} (Bot.), an Australian plant ({Ac[91]na ovina}) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep. {Sheep run}, an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. {Sheep's beard} (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb ({Urospermum Dalechampii}) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes. {Sheep's bit} (Bot.), a European herb ({Jasione montana}) having much the appearance of scabious. {Sheep pox} (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin. {Sheep scabious}. (Bot.) Same as {Sheep's bit}. {Sheep shears}, shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep. {Sheep sorrel}. (Bot.), a prerennial herb ({Rumex Acetosella}) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel. {Sheep's-wool} (Zo[94]l.), the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges ({Spongia equina}, variety {gossypina}). {Sheep tick} (Zo[94]l.), a wingless parasitic insect ({Melophagus ovinus}) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also {sheep pest}, and {sheep louse}. {Sheep walk}, a pasture for sheep; a sheep run. {Wild sheep}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Argali}, {Mouflon}, and {O[94]rial}. | |
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Sheepback \Sheep"back`\, n. (Geol.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also {roche moutonn[82]e}; -- usually in the plural. | |
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Sheephook \Sheep"hook`\, n. A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. --Dryden. | |
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Sheepish \Sheep"ish\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.] 2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. --Locke. -- {Sheep"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Sheep"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Sheep's-eye \Sheep's"-eye`\, n. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. --Wycherley. | |
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Shoe \Shoe\, n.; pl. {Shoes}, formerly {Shoon}, now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[?]h, sce[a2]h; akin to OFries. sk[?], OS. sk[?]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk[?]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk[?]hs; of unknown origin.] 1. A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. --Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. --Shak. 2. Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically: (a) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury. (b) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow. (c) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill. (d) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. (e) (Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building. (f) (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. (g) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. (h) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. (i) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile. (j) (Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also {slipper}, and {gib}. Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring. {Shoe of an anchor}. (Naut.) (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered. (b) A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground. {Shoe block} (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other. {Shoe bolt}, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners. {Shoe pac}, a kind of moccasin. See {Pac}. {Shoe stone}, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather. | |
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Shopbook \Shop"book`\, n. A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. --Locke. | |
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Shoppish \Shop"pish\, a. Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman. | |
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Show \Show\, n. [Formerly written also shew.] 1. The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition. 2. That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show. As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows. --Bacon. 3. Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp. I envy none their pageantry and show. --Young. 4. Semblance; likeness; appearance. He through the midst unmarked, In show plebeian angel militant Of lowest order, passed. --Milton. 5. False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense. Beware of the scribes, . . . which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers. --Luke xx. 46. 47. 6. (Med.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor. 7. (Mining) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp. --Raymond. {Show bill}, a broad sheet containing an advertisement in large letters. {Show box}, a box xontaining some object of curiosity carried round as a show. {Show card}, an advertising placard; also, a card for displaying samples. {Show case}, a gla[?]ed case, box, or cabinet for displaying and protecting shopkeepers' wares, articles on exhibition in museums, etc. {Show glass}, a glass which displays objects; a mirror. {Show of hands}, a raising of hands to indicate judgment; as, the vote was taken by a show of hands. {Show stone}, a piece of glass or crystal supposed to have the property of exhibiting images of persons or things not present, indicating in that way future events. | |
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Sifac \Si"fac\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred. | |
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Seepage \Seep"age\, [or] Sipage \Sip"age\, n. Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.] | |
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Sipage \Sip"age\, n. See {Seepage}. [Scot. & U.S.] | |
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Skew \Skew\, a. Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases. {Skew arch}, an oblique arch. See under {Oblique}. {Skew back}. (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the voussoirs of a segmental arch. (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame. {Skew bridge}. See under {Bridge}, n. {Skew curve} (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See {Plane curve}, under {Curve}. {Skew gearing}, [or] {Skew bevel gearing} (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears. {Skew surface} (Geom.), a ruled surface such that in general two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface. {Skew symmetrical determinant} (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 -2-7 2 1 Note: This requires that the numbers in the diagonal from the upper left to lower right corner be zeros. A like determinant in which the numbers in the diagonal are not zeros is a skew determinant, as in (2), above. | |
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Soapfish \Soap"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any serranoid fish of the genus {Rhypticus}; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin. | |
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Sofa \So"fa\, n.; pl. {Sofas}. [Ar. soffah, from saffa to dispose in order: cf. F. sofa, It. sof[85].] A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. --Cowper. {Sofa bed}, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to form a bed; -- called also {sofa bedstead}. | |
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Sofi \So"fi\, n.; pl. {Sofis}. Same as {Sufi}. | |
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Sophic \Soph"ic\, Sophical \Soph"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] wise, [?] wisdom.] Teaching wisdom. [Obs.] --S. Harris. | |
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Sophi \So"phi\, n.; pl. {Sophis}. See {Sufi}. | |
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Sow \Sow\, n. [OE. sowe, suwe, AS. sugu, akin to s[umac], D. zog, zeug, OHG. s[umac], G. sau, Icel. s[ymac]r, Dan. so, Sw. sugga, so, L. sus. Gr. "y^s, sy^s, Zend. hu boar; probably from the root seen in Skr. s[umac] to beget, to bear; the animal being named in allusion to its fecundity. [root]294. Cf. {Hyena}, {Soil} to stain, {Son}, {Swine}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A sow bug. 3. (Metal.) (a) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed. (b) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner. (c) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander. 4. (Mil.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like. --Craig. {Sow bread}. (Bot.) See {Cyclamen}. {Sow bug}, [or] {Sowbug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of terrestrial Isopoda belonging to {Oniscus}, {Porcellio}, and allied genera of the family {Oniscid[91]}. They feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances. {Sow thistle} [AS. sugepistel] (Bot.), a composite plant ({Sonchus oleraceus}) said to be eaten by swine and some other animals. | |
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Sow \Sow\, n. [OE. sowe, suwe, AS. sugu, akin to s[umac], D. zog, zeug, OHG. s[umac], G. sau, Icel. s[ymac]r, Dan. so, Sw. sugga, so, L. sus. Gr. "y^s, sy^s, Zend. hu boar; probably from the root seen in Skr. s[umac] to beget, to bear; the animal being named in allusion to its fecundity. [root]294. Cf. {Hyena}, {Soil} to stain, {Son}, {Swine}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A sow bug. 3. (Metal.) (a) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed. (b) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner. (c) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander. 4. (Mil.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like. --Craig. {Sow bread}. (Bot.) See {Cyclamen}. {Sow bug}, [or] {Sowbug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of terrestrial Isopoda belonging to {Oniscus}, {Porcellio}, and allied genera of the family {Oniscid[91]}. They feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances. {Sow thistle} [AS. sugepistel] (Bot.), a composite plant ({Sonchus oleraceus}) said to be eaten by swine and some other animals. | |
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Space \Space\ (sp[amac]s), n. [OE. space, F. espace, from L. spatium space; cf. Gr. spa^n to draw, to tear; perh. akin to E. span. Cf. {Expatiate}.] 1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. --Locke. 2. Place, having more or less extension; room. They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in]. --R. of Brunne. While I have time and space. --Chaucer. 3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile. Put a space betwixt drove and drove. --Gen. xxxii. 16. 4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. [bd]Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space.[b8] --R. of brunne. Nine times the space that measures day and night. --Milton. God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. --Tillotson. 5. A short time; a while. [R.] [bd]To stay your deadly strife a space.[b8] --Spenser. 6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. --Chaucer. 7. (print.) (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books. Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line. 8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. {Absolute space}, {Euclidian space}, etc. See under {Absolute}, {Euclidian}, etc. {Space line} (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. --Hansard. {Space rule} (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter. | |
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Space \Space\, v. i. [Cf. OF. espacier, L. spatiari. See {Space}, n.] To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.] And loved in forests wild to space. --Spenser. | |
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Space \Space\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spaced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spacong}.] [Cf. F. espacer. See {Space}, n.] (Print.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters. | |
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Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p. {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.] 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer. Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii. 9. 2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. --Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. --Macaulay. 3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon. 4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. --Addison. 5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak. 6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak. {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to. {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with me?[b8] --Shak. Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter. | |
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Spake \Spake\, archaic imp. of {Speak}. | |
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Spaky \Spak"y\, a. Specky. [Obs.] --hapman. | |
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Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p. {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.] 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer. Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii. 9. 2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. --Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. --Macaulay. 3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon. 4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. --Addison. 5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak. 6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak. {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to. {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with me?[b8] --Shak. Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter. | |
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Speak \Speak\, v. t. 1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. --Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense. 3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. --Shak. Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. --Tennyson. And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. --Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. --Sir W. Scott. 4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. And French she spake full fair and fetisely. --Chaucer. 5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. --Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. --Emerson. {To speak a ship} (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander. | |
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Spece \Spece\, n. Species; kind. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Specie \Spe"cie\, n. [Formed as a singular from species, in sense 5.] Coin; hard money. | |
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Speck \Speck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Specked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Specking}.] To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. --Milton. | |
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Speck \Speck\, n. [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G. speck.] The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. {Speck falls} (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. | |
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Speck \Speck\, n. [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.] 1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. [bd]Gray sand, with black specks.[b8] --Anson. 2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean. --Landor. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A small etheostomoid fish ({Ulocentra stigm[91]a}) common in the Eastern United States. | |
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Speece \Speece\, n. Species; sort. [Obs.] | |
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Speech \Speech\, v. i. & t. To make a speech; to harangue. [R.] | |
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Speech \Speech\, n. [OE. speche, AS. sp[?]c, spr[?], fr. specan, sprecan, to speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. spr[be]hha, G. sprache, Sw. spr[?]k, Dan. sprog. See {Speak}.] 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. --Holder. 2. he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation. Note: Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips, etc., the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which move their walls. O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage. --Chaucer. The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told. --Milton. 3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. People of a strange speech and of an hard language. --Ezek. iii. 6. 4. Talk; mention; common saying. The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey. --Shak. 5. formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. --Swift. 6. ny declaration of thoughts. I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied. --Milton. Syn: Syn. Harangue; language; address; oration. See {Harangue}, and {Language}. | |
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Speiss \Speiss\, n. (Metal.) Impure metallic arsenides, principally of iron, produced in copper and lead smelting. | |
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Speiss \Speiss\, n. [Cf. G. speise food, mixed metal for bells, etc.] (Metal.) A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt. | |
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Speke \Speke\, v. i. & t. To speak. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Sphex \Sphex\, n.[NL., fr. Gr. [?][?][?], [?][?][?], a wasp.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus {Sphex} and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of {Sand wasp}, under {Sand}. {Sphex fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus {Conops} and allied genera. The form of the body is similar to that of a sphex. | |
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d8Spica \[d8]Spi"ca\, n.; pl. {Spic[91]}. [L., an ear, as of corn.] 1. (Med.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley. 2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo. | |
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Spice \Spice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spiced}; p. p. & vb. n. {Spicing}.] 1. To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit. She 'll receive thee, but will spice thy bread With flowery poisons. --Chapman. 2. To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices. In the spiced Indian air, by night. --Shak. 3. To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous. [Obs.] [bd]A spiced conscience.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Spice \Spice\, n. [OE. spice, spece, spice, species, OF. espice, espece, F. [82]pice spice, esp[8a]ce species, fr. L. species particular sort or kind, a species, a sight, appearance, show, LL., spices, drugs, etc., of the same sort, fr. L. specere to look. See {Spy}, and cf. {Species}.] 1. Species; kind. [Obs.] The spices of penance ben three. --Chaucer. Abstain you from all evil spice. --Wyclif (1. Thess,v. 22). Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative. --Sir T. Elyot. 2. A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc. Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices? --Piers Plowman. 3. Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief. So much of the will, with a spice of the willful. --Coleridge. | |
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Spick \Spick\, n. [Cf. Sw. spik. See {Spike} a nail.] A spike or nail. [Prov. Eng.] {Spick and span}, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand-new; as, a spick and span novelty. See {Span-new}. | |
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Spicy \Spi"cy\, a. [Compar. {Spicier}; superl. {Spiciest}.] [From {Spice}.] 1. Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes. [bd]The spicy nut-brown ale.[b8] --Milton. Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. --Pope. 2. Producing, or abounding with, spices. In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew. --Dryden. 3. Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate. Syn: Aromatic; fragrant; smart; pungent; pointed; keen. See {Racy}. | |
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Spy \Spy\, n.; pl. {Spies}. [See {Spy}, v., and cf. {Espy}, n.] 1. One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others. [bd]These wretched spies of wit.[b8] --Dryden. 2. (Mil.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer. {Spy money}, money paid to a spy; the reward for private or secret intelligence regarding the enemy. {Spy Wednesday} (Eccl.), the Wednesday immediately preceding the festival of Easter; -- so called in allusion to the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot. Syn: See {Emissary}, and {Scout}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spike \Spike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spiked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spiking}.] 1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. 2. To set or furnish with spikes. 3. To fix on a spike. [R.] --Young. 4. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spike \Spike\, n. [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See {Spikenard}.] (Bot.) Spike lavender. See {Lavender}. {Oil of spike} (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic ({Lavendula Spica}), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spike \Spike\, n. [Akin to LG. spiker, spieker, a large nail, D. spijker, Sw. spik, Dan. spiger, Icel. sp[c6]k; all perhaps from L. spica a point, an ear of grain; but in the sense of nail more likely akin to E. spoke of a wheel. Cf. {Spine}.] 1. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. 2. Anything resembling such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . .; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. --Addison. 3. An ear of corn or grain. 4. (Bot.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. {Spike grass} (Bot.), either of two tall perennial American grasses ({Uniola paniculata}, and {U. latifolia}) having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. {Spike rush}. (Bot.) See under {Rush}. {Spike shell} (Zo[94]l.), any pteropod of the genus {Styliola} having a slender conical shell. {Spike team}, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spiky \Spik"y\, a. 1. Like a spike; spikelike. These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors. --C. A. Young. 2. Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes. Or by the spiky harrow cleared away. --Dyer. The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spiss \Spiss\, a. [L. spissus.] Thick; crowded; compact; dense. [Obs.] This spiss and . . . copious, yet concise, treatise. --Brerewood. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p. {Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. [or] Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[umac]rj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.] 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer. Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii. 9. 2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. --Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. --Macaulay. 3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon. 4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of C[91]sar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. --Addison. 5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak. 6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak. {To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. {To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to. {To speak with}, to converse with. [bd]Would you speak with me?[b8] --Shak. Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spoke \Spoke\, imp. of {Speak}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spoke \Spoke\, n. [OE. spoke, spake, AS, sp[be]ca; akin to D. speek, LG. speke, OHG. speihha, G. speiche. [root]170. Cf. {Spike} a nail.] 1. The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly. 2. (Naut.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 3. A rung, or round, of a ladder. 4. A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill. {To put a spoke in one's wheel}, to thwart or obstruct one in the execution of some design. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spoke \Spoke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spoked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spoking}.] To furnish with spokes, as a wheel. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spook \Spook\, n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw. sp[94]ke, Dan. sp[94]gelse a specter, sp[94]ge to play, sport, joke, sp[94]g a play, joke.] 1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also {spuke}.] --Ld. Lytton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The chim[91]ra. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spouse \Spouse\, n. [OF. espous, espos, fem. espouse, F. [82]poux, [82]pouse, fr. L. sponsus, sponsa, prop. p. p. of spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. {Despond}, {Espouse}, {respond}, {Sponsor}.] 1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to my spouse had won. --Spenser. 2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. [Obs.] At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man. --Fabyan. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spouse \Spouse\, v. t. [See {Espouse}, and Spouse, n.] To wed; to espouse. [Obs.] This markis hath her spoused with a ring. --Chaucer. Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize. --Spenser. She was found again, and spoused to Marinell. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spuke \Spuke\, n. See {Spook}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spook \Spook\, n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw. sp[94]ke, Dan. sp[94]gelse a specter, sp[94]ge to play, sport, joke, sp[94]g a play, joke.] 1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also {spuke}.] --Ld. Lytton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The chim[91]ra. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spuke \Spuke\, n. See {Spook}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spook \Spook\, n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw. sp[94]ke, Dan. sp[94]gelse a specter, sp[94]ge to play, sport, joke, sp[94]g a play, joke.] 1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also {spuke}.] --Ld. Lytton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The chim[91]ra. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Squabash \Squa*bash"\, v. t. To crush; to quash; to squash. [Colloq. or Slang, Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Squabbish \Squab"bish\, a. Thick; fat; heavy. | |
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Sub-base \Sub"-base`\, n. (Arch.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like. | |
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Sub-bass \Sub"-bass`\, n. (Mus.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. [Written also {sub-base}.] --Ayliffe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sub-base \Sub"-base`\, n. (Arch.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sub-bass \Sub"-bass`\, n. (Mus.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. [Written also {sub-base}.] --Ayliffe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sub-bass \Sub"-bass`\, n. (Mus.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. [Written also {sub-base}.] --Ayliffe. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Subfusk \Sub*fusk"\, a. Subfuscous. [Obs.] --Tatler. | |
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Suffice \Suf*fice"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sufficed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sufficing}.] [OE. suffisen, OF. soufire, F. suffire (cf. suffisant, p. pr.), L. sufficere to put under, to substitute, to avail for, to suffice; sub under + facere to make. See {Fact}.] To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. --Chaucer. To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice? --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Suffice \Suf*fice"\, v. t. 1. To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. --Spenser. Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. --Deut. iii. 26. 2. To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.] The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Suffix \Suf"fix\, n. [L. suffixus, p. p. of suffigere to fasten on, to affix; sub under + figere to fix: cf. F. suffixe. See {Fix}.] 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix. 2. (Math.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See {Subscript}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Suffix \Suf*fix"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suffixed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suffixing}.] To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Suffuse \Suf*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suffused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suffusing}.] [L. suffusus, p. p. of suffundere to overspread; sub under + fundere to pour. See {Fuse} to melt.] To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. --Pope. | |
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Suppage \Sup"page\, n. [From {Sup}.] What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
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Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Supposed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Supposing}.] [F. supposer; pref. sub- under + poser to place; -- corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit. See {Pose}.] 1. To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result? Suppose they take offence without a cause. --Shak. When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence. --Tillotson. 2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true. How easy is a bush supposed a bear! --Shak. Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead. --2 Sam. xiii. 32. 3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight. One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected. --Female Quixote. 4. To put by fraud in the place of another. [Obs.] Syn: To imagine; believe; conclude; judge; consider; view; regard; conjecture; assume. | |
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Suppose \Sup*pose"\, v. i. To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. --Acts ii. 15. | |
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Suppose \Sup*pose"\, n. Supposition. [Obs.] --Shak. [bd]A base suppose that he is honest.[b8] --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sweepage \Sweep"age\, n. The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Sweep-saw \Sweep"-saw`\, n. A bow-saw. | |
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Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. {Sweep}, {Swiple}.] 1. A swape or sweep. See {Sweep}. 2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. --R. A. Proctor. 3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written also {swypes}.] --Craig. | |
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Savage, MD Zip code(s): 20763 Savage, MN (city, FIPS 58738) Location: 44.75538 N, 93.35724 W Population (1990): 9906 (3395 housing units) Area: 41.2 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55378 Savage, MS Zip code(s): 38665 Savage, MT Zip code(s): 59262 | |
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Scappoose, OR (city, FIPS 65500) Location: 45.75164 N, 122.88051 W Population (1990): 3529 (1317 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97056 | |
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Seabeck, WA Zip code(s): 98380 | |
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Sebeka, MN (city, FIPS 59152) Location: 46.62908 N, 95.08817 W Population (1990): 662 (327 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56477 | |
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Seboeis, ME Zip code(s): 04448 | |
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Sipsey, AL (town, FIPS 70704) Location: 33.82207 N, 87.08305 W Population (1990): 568 (217 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Si'ufaga, AS (village, FIPS 71300) Location: 14.29105 S, 169.48580 W Population (1990): 143 (33 housing units) Area: 14.1 sq km (land), 51.2 sq km (water) | |
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Skippack, PA (CDP, FIPS 71008) Location: 40.22104 N, 75.40157 W Population (1990): 2042 (815 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Subiaco, AR (town, FIPS 67520) Location: 35.29749 N, 93.63921 W Population (1990): 538 (135 housing units) Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72865 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
spike v. To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result. The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved. In programming environments it normally refers to a temporary change, usually for testing purposes (as opposed to a permanent change, which would be called {hardwired}). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SAP AG Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of {client-server} business software. The US branch is called SAP America. {Home (http://www.sap.com/)}. [Details?] (1998-07-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SBCS A {character set} that uses 8 bits to represent a character. (1995-03-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SBus {Sun-3} (and {Sun-4}?) {workstations}. [Reference?] (2001-09-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SCOOPS Scheme Object-Oriented Programming System. Developed at {Texas Instruments} in 1986. It supports {multiple inheritance} and {class variable}s. {(ftp://altdorf.ai.mit.edu/archive/scheme-library/unsupported/CScheme)}. (1994-11-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
space See {octal forty}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPC 1. with {quality management}. [What is it?] 2. {Software Productivity Centre}. 3. (1998-12-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Spec A specification language. It expresses {black box} interface specifications for large distributed systems with {real-time} constraints. It incorporates conceptual models, {inheritance} and the event model. It is a descendant of {MSG.84}. ["An Introduction to the Specification Language Spec", V. Berzins et al, IEEE Software 7(2):74-84 (Mar 1990)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPEC A non-profit corporation registered in California formed to "establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant {benchmarks} that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers" (from SPEC's bylaws). The founders believe that the user community will benefit greatly from an objective series of applications-oriented tests, which can serve as common reference points and be considered during the evaluation process. SPEC develops suites of {benchmark}s intended to measure computer performance. These are available to the public for a fee covering development and administration costs. The current (14 Nov 94) SPEC benchmark suites are: {CINT92} (CPU intensive integer benchmarks); {CFP92} (CPU intensive floating-point benchmarks); SDM (UNIX Software Development Workloads); SFS (System level file server (NFS) workload). {Results (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable)}. SPEC also publishes a quarterly report of SPEC news and results, The SPEC Newsletter. Some issues are {here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html)}. There is a {FAQ} about SPEC {here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/specfaq.html)}. (1994-11-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spec {specification} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Spec A specification language. It expresses {black box} interface specifications for large distributed systems with {real-time} constraints. It incorporates conceptual models, {inheritance} and the event model. It is a descendant of {MSG.84}. ["An Introduction to the Specification Language Spec", V. Berzins et al, IEEE Software 7(2):74-84 (Mar 1990)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPEC A non-profit corporation registered in California formed to "establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant {benchmarks} that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers" (from SPEC's bylaws). The founders believe that the user community will benefit greatly from an objective series of applications-oriented tests, which can serve as common reference points and be considered during the evaluation process. SPEC develops suites of {benchmark}s intended to measure computer performance. These are available to the public for a fee covering development and administration costs. The current (14 Nov 94) SPEC benchmark suites are: {CINT92} (CPU intensive integer benchmarks); {CFP92} (CPU intensive floating-point benchmarks); SDM (UNIX Software Development Workloads); SFS (System level file server (NFS) workload). {Results (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable)}. SPEC also publishes a quarterly report of SPEC news and results, The SPEC Newsletter. Some issues are {here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html)}. There is a {FAQ} about SPEC {here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/specfaq.html)}. (1994-11-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spec {specification} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Spec A specification language. It expresses {black box} interface specifications for large distributed systems with {real-time} constraints. It incorporates conceptual models, {inheritance} and the event model. It is a descendant of {MSG.84}. ["An Introduction to the Specification Language Spec", V. Berzins et al, IEEE Software 7(2):74-84 (Mar 1990)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPEC A non-profit corporation registered in California formed to "establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant {benchmarks} that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers" (from SPEC's bylaws). The founders believe that the user community will benefit greatly from an objective series of applications-oriented tests, which can serve as common reference points and be considered during the evaluation process. SPEC develops suites of {benchmark}s intended to measure computer performance. These are available to the public for a fee covering development and administration costs. The current (14 Nov 94) SPEC benchmark suites are: {CINT92} (CPU intensive integer benchmarks); {CFP92} (CPU intensive floating-point benchmarks); SDM (UNIX Software Development Workloads); SFS (System level file server (NFS) workload). {Results (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable)}. SPEC also publishes a quarterly report of SPEC news and results, The SPEC Newsletter. Some issues are {here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html)}. There is a {FAQ} about SPEC {here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/specfaq.html)}. (1994-11-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spec {specification} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPG System Program Generator. A compiler-writing language. ["A System Program Generator", D. Morris et al, Computer J 13(3) (1970)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPGA {Staggered Pin Grid Array} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spike (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result. The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved. In programming environments it normally refers to a temporary change, usually for testing purposes (as opposed to a permanent change, which would be called {hard-coded}). (1999-10-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SP/k simplified for student use. ["SP/k: A System for Teaching Computer Programming", R.C. Holt et al, CACM 20(5):301-309, May 1977]. (1997-12-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spooge /spooj/ Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPS Symbolic Programming System. Assembly language for IBM 1620. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPSS {Statistical Package for the Social Sciences} | |
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SPX 1. 2. {(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/atari/umich/Graphics/spx_v18.lzh)}. 3. {Simplex}. (1997-03-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spx Peace} eXtension files. (1995-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SPX 1. 2. {(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/atari/umich/Graphics/spx_v18.lzh)}. 3. {Simplex}. (1997-03-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
spx Peace} eXtension files. (1995-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SVC 1. 2. (2001-10-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SVG {Scalable Vector Graphics} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SVGA "Adapter"). (1995-11-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SVS {OS/VS2} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Shavsha ("Seraiah," 2 Sam. 8:17; "Shisha," 1 Kings 4:3), one of David's secretaries (1 Chr. 18:16). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ships early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) make reference to them, and Balaam speaks of the "ships of Chittim" (Num. 24:24). Solomon constructed a navy at Ezion-geber by the assistance of Hiram's sailors (1 Kings 9:26-28; 2 Chr. 8:18). Afterwards, Jehoshaphat sought to provide himself with a navy at the same port, but his ships appear to have been wrecked before they set sail (1 Kings 22:48, 49; 2 Chr. 20:35-37). In our Lord's time fishermen's boats on the Sea of Galilee were called "ships." Much may be learned regarding the construction of ancient merchant ships and navigation from the record in Acts 27, 28. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Shobach poured out, the "captain of the host of Hadarezer" when he mustered his vassals and tributaries from beyond "the river Euphrates" (2 Sam. 10:15-18); called also Shophach (1 Chr. 19:16). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sibbecai the Lord sustains, one of David's heroes (1 Chr. 11:29), general of the eighth division of the army (27:11). He slew the giant Saph in the battle of Gob (2 Sam. 21:18; R.V., "Sibbechai"). Called also Mebunnai (23:27). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Spies When the Israelites reached Kadesh for the first time, and were encamped there, Moses selected twelve spies from among the chiefs of the divisions of the tribes, and sent them forth to spy the land of Canaan (Num. 13), and to bring back to him a report of its actual condition. They at once proceeded on their important errand, and went through the land as far north as the district round Lake Merom. After about six weeks' absence they returned. Their report was very discouraging, and the people were greatly alarmed, and in a rebellious spirit proposed to elect a new leader and return to Egypt. Only two of the spies, Caleb and Joshua, showed themselves on this occasion stout-hearted and faithful. All their appeals and remonstrances were in vain. Moses announced that as a punishment for their rebellion they must now wander in the wilderness till a new generation should arise which would go up and posses the land. The spies had been forty days absent on their expedition, and for each day the Israelites were to be wanderers for a year in the desert. (See {ESHCOL}.) Two spies were sent by Joshua "secretly" i.e., unknown to the people (Josh. 2:1), "to view the land and Jericho" after the death of Moses, and just before the tribes under his leadership were about to cross the Jordan. They learned from Rahab (q.v.), in whose house they found a hiding-place, that terror had fallen on all the inhabitants of the land because of the great things they had heard that Jehovah had done for them (Ex. 15:14-16; comp. 23:27; Deut. 2:25; 11:25). As the result of their mission they reported: "Truly Jehovah hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Spouse (Cant. 4:8-12; Hos. 4:13, 14) may denote either husband or wife, but in the Scriptures it denotes only the latter. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shobach, your bonds; your chains | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shobek, made void; forsaken | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Shophach, pouring out | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Sibbechai, bough; cottage; of springs |