English Dictionary: submergible | by the DICT Development Group |
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Saponin \Sap"o*nin\, n. [L. sapo, -onis soap: cf. F. saponine.] (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort ({Saponaria}), in the bark of soap bark ({Quillaia}), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local an[91]sthesia. Formerly called also {struthiin}, {quillaiin}, {senegin}, {polygalic acid}, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type. | |
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Soapwort \Soap"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A common plant ({Saponaria officinalis}) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also {Bouncing Bet}. | |
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Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a. 1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray. 2. Excessive; big. [bd]A bouncing reckoning.[b8] --B. & Fl. {Bouncing Bet} (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria officinalis}). --Harper's Mag. | |
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Fuller \Full"er\, n. [AS. fullere, fr. L. fullo. See {Full}, v. t.] One whose occupation is to full cloth. {Fuller's earth}, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. {Fuller's herb} (Bot.), the soapwort ({Saponaria officinalis}), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. {Fuller's thistle [or] weed} (Bot.), the teasel ({Dipsacus fullonum}) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See {Teasel}. | |
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Saponary \Sap"o*na*ry\, a. Saponaceous. --Boyle. | |
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Seven \Sev"en\, a. [OE. seven, seoven, seofen, AS. seofon, seofan, seofen; akin to D. zeven, OS., Goth., & OHG. sibun, G. sieben, Icel. sjau, sj[94], Sw. sju, Dan. syv, Lith. septyni, Russ. seme, W. saith, Gael. seachd, Ir. seacht, L. septem, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. saptan. [root]305. Cf. {Hebdomad}, {Heptagon}, {September}.] One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week. {Seven sciences}. See the Note under {Science}, n., 4. {Seven stars} (Astron.), the Pleiades. {Seven wonders of the world}. See under {Wonders}. {Seven-year apple} (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub ({Genipa clusiifolia}) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. {Seven-year vine} (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant ({Ipom[oe]a tuberosa}) related to the morning-glory. | |
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Seven \Sev"en\, a. [OE. seven, seoven, seofen, AS. seofon, seofan, seofen; akin to D. zeven, OS., Goth., & OHG. sibun, G. sieben, Icel. sjau, sj[94], Sw. sju, Dan. syv, Lith. septyni, Russ. seme, W. saith, Gael. seachd, Ir. seacht, L. septem, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. saptan. [root]305. Cf. {Hebdomad}, {Heptagon}, {September}.] One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week. {Seven sciences}. See the Note under {Science}, n., 4. {Seven stars} (Astron.), the Pleiades. {Seven wonders of the world}. See under {Wonders}. {Seven-year apple} (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub ({Genipa clusiifolia}) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. {Seven-year vine} (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant ({Ipom[oe]a tuberosa}) related to the morning-glory. | |
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Shipowner \Ship"own`er\, n. Owner of a ship or ships. | |
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Siphonarid \Si`pho*na"rid\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus {Siphonaria}. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills. -- {Si`pho*na"rid}, a. | |
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Sophomore \Soph"o*more\, n. [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. [?] foolish. The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph-Mor as [bd]the next distinctive appellation to Freshman,[b8] but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.] One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also {sophimore}.] | |
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Sophomore \Soph"o*more\, n. [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. [?] foolish. The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph-Mor as [bd]the next distinctive appellation to Freshman,[b8] but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.] One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also {sophimore}.] | |
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Sophomoric \Soph`o*mor"ic\, Sophomorical \Soph`o*mor"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation. [U. S.] | |
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Sophomoric \Soph`o*mor"ic\, Sophomorical \Soph`o*mor"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation. [U. S.] | |
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Souvenir \Sou`ve*nir\ (? [or] ?), n. [F., fr. souvenir to remember, fr. L. subvenire to come up, come to mind; sub under + venire to come, akin to E. come. See {Come}, and cf. {Subvention}.] That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake. | |
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Span \Span\, n. [AS. spann; akin to D. span, OHG. spanna, G. spanne, Icel. sp[94]nn. [root]170. See {Span}, v. t. ] 1. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom. 2. Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound. --Pope. Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy. --Farquhar. 3. The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports. 4. (Naut.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used. 5. [Cf. D. span, Sw. spann, Dan. sp[91]nd, G. gespann. See {Span}, v. t. ] A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action. {Span blocks} (Naut.), blocks at the topmast and topgallant-mast heads, for the studding-sail halyards. {Span counter}, an old English child's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters. --Halliwell. [bd]Henry V., in whose time boys went to span counter for French crowns.[b8] --Shak. {Span iron} (Naut.), a special kind of harpoon, usually secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat. {Span roof}, a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides. --Gwilt. {Span shackle} (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Span \Span\, n. [AS. spann; akin to D. span, OHG. spanna, G. spanne, Icel. sp[94]nn. [root]170. See {Span}, v. t. ] 1. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom. 2. Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound. --Pope. Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy. --Farquhar. 3. The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports. 4. (Naut.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used. 5. [Cf. D. span, Sw. spann, Dan. sp[91]nd, G. gespann. See {Span}, v. t. ] A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action. {Span blocks} (Naut.), blocks at the topmast and topgallant-mast heads, for the studding-sail halyards. {Span counter}, an old English child's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters. --Halliwell. [bd]Henry V., in whose time boys went to span counter for French crowns.[b8] --Shak. {Span iron} (Naut.), a special kind of harpoon, usually secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat. {Span roof}, a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides. --Gwilt. {Span shackle} (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Spaniard \Span"iard\, n. A native or inhabitant of Spain. | |
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Spanner \Span"ner\, n. 1. One who, or that which, spans. 2. The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. [Obs.] 3. An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose. 4. pl. A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam. | |
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Spanworm \Span"worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm. | |
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Spawner \Spawn"er\, n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) A mature female fish. The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. --Walton. 2. Whatever produces spawn of any kind. | |
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Spinner \Spin"ner\, n. 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. 2. A spider. [bd]Long-legged spinners.[b8] --Shak. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A spinneret. {Ring spinner}, a machine for spinning, in which the twist, given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle. | |
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Spinneret \Spin"ner*et\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets. | |
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Spinnerule \Spin"ner*ule\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders. | |
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Rat \Rat\, n. [AS. r[91]t; akin to D. rat, OHG. rato, ratta, G. ratte, ratze, OLG. ratta, LG. & Dan. rotte, Sw. r[86]tta, F. rat, Ir. & Gael radan, Armor. raz, of unknown origin. Cf. {Raccoon}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the several species of small rodents of the genus {Mus} and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat ({M. Alexandrinus}). These were introduced into Anerica from the Old World. 2. A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair. [Local, U.S.] 3. One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. [Cant] Note: [bd]It so chanced that, not long after the accession of the house of Hanover, some of the brown, that is the German or Norway, rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber as is said); and being much stronger than the black, or, till then, the common, rats, they in many places quite extirpated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the government of George the First, but has by degrees obtained a wide meaning, and come to be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics.[b8] --Lord Mahon. {Bamboo rat} (Zo[94]l.), any Indian rodent of the genus {Rhizomys}. {Beaver rat}, {Coast rat}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Beaver} and {Coast}. {Blind rat} (Zo[94]l.), the mole rat. {Cotton rat} (Zo[94]l.), a long-haired rat ({Sigmodon hispidus}), native of the Southern United States and Mexico. It makes its nest of cotton and is often injurious to the crop. {Ground rat}. See {Ground Pig}, under {Ground}. {Hedgehog rat}. See under {Hedgehog}. {Kangaroo rat} (Zo[94]l.), the potoroo. {Norway rat} (Zo[94]l.), the common brown rat. See {Rat}. {Pouched rat}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) See {Pocket Gopher}, under {Pocket}. (b) Any African rodent of the genus {Cricetomys}. {Rat Indians} (Ethnol.), a tribe of Indians dwelling near Fort Ukon, Alaska. They belong to Athabascan stock. {Rat mole}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mole rat}, under {Mole}. {Rat pit}, an inclosed space into which rats are put to be killed by a dog for sport. {Rat snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large colubrine snake ({Ptyas mucosus}) very common in India and Ceylon. It enters dwellings, and destroys rats, chickens, etc. {Spiny rat} (Zo[94]l.), any South America rodent of the genus {Echinomys}. {To smell a rat}. See under {Smell}. {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any American rat of the genus {Neotoma}, especially {N. Floridana}, common in the Southern United States. Its feet and belly are white. | |
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Oar \Oar\, n [AS. [be]r; akin to Icel. [be]r, Dan. aare, Sw. [86]ra; perh. akin to E. row, v. Cf. {Rowlock}.] 1. An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom. Note: An oar is a kind of long paddle, which swings about a kind of fulcrum, called a rowlock, fixed to the side of the boat. 2. An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates. {Oar cock} (Zo[94]l), the water rail. [Prov. Eng.] {Spoon oar}, an oar having the blade so curved as to afford a better hold upon the water in rowing. {To boat the oars}, to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat. {To feather the oars}. See under {Feather}., v. t. {To lie on the oars}, to cease pulling, raising the oars out of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest. {To muffle the oars}, to put something round that part which rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing. {To put in one's oar}, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited. {To ship the oars}, to place them in the rowlocks. {To toss the oars}, To peak the oars, to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. {To trail oars}, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. {To unship the oars}, to take them out of the rowlocks. | |
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Spoon \Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[omac]n, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[86]n, Icel. sp[a0]nn, sp[a2]nn, a chip, a spoon. [root]170. Cf. {Span-new}.] 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. [bd]Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend,[b8] thus heard I say. --Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. --Shak. 2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. 3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] --Hood. {Spoon bait} (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. {Spoon bit}, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. {Spoon net}, a net for landing fish. {Spoon oar}. see under {Oar}. | |
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Spoonworm \Spoon"worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A gephyrean worm of the genus {Thalassema}, having a spoonlike probiscis. | |
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Spoonwort \Spoon"wort`\, n. (Bot.) Scurvy grass. | |
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Spun \Spun\, imp. & p. p. of {Spin}. {Spun hay}, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition. {Spun silk}, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. {Spun yarn} (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted. | |
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Subhumerate \Sub*hu"mer*ate\, v. t. [See {Sub-}, {Humerus}.] To place the shoulders under; to bear. [Obs.] Nothing surer ties a friend than freely to subhumerate the burden which was his. --Feltham. | |
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Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, n. A submarine boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif. {submergible submarine} when capable of operating at various depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and {submersible submarine} when capable of being only partly submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks. | |
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Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, a. Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. {Submarine armor}, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water. {Submarine cable}. See {Telegraph cable}, under {Telegraph}. {Submarine mine}. See {Torpedo}, 2 (a) . | |
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Submarine \Sub*ma*rine"\, n. A submarine plant or animal. | |
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Armor \Ar"mor\, n. [OE. armure, fr. F. armure, OF. armeure, fr. L. armatura. See {Armature}.] [Spelt also {armour}.] 1. Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. Note: In English statues, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statues of armor directed what arms every man should provide. 2. Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. {Coat armor}, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. {Submarine}, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under {Submarine}. | |
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Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, a. Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. {Submarine armor}, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water. {Submarine cable}. See {Telegraph cable}, under {Telegraph}. {Submarine mine}. See {Torpedo}, 2 (a) . | |
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Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, a. Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. {Submarine armor}, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water. {Submarine cable}. See {Telegraph cable}, under {Telegraph}. {Submarine mine}. See {Torpedo}, 2 (a) . | |
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Cable \Ca"ble\ (k[amac]"b'l), n. [F. c[83]ble, LL. capulum, caplum, a rope, fr. L. capere to take; cf. D., Dan., & G. kabel, from the French. See {Capable}.] 1. A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. 2. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable. 3. (Arch) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also {cable molding}. {Bower cable}, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. {Cable road}, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor. {Cable's length}, the length of a ship's cable. Cables in the merchant service vary in length from 100 to 140 fathoms or more; but as a maritime measure, a cable's length is either 120 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile). {Cable tier}. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable. {Sheet cable}, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. {Stream cable}, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. {Submarine cable}. See {Telegraph}. {To pay out the cable}, {To veer out the cable}, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole. {To serve the cable}, to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et. {To slip the cable}, to let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die. | |
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Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, a. Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. {Submarine armor}, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water. {Submarine cable}. See {Telegraph cable}, under {Telegraph}. {Submarine mine}. See {Torpedo}, 2 (a) . | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Telegraph \Tel"e*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] far, far off (cf. Lith. toli) + -graph: cf. F. t[82]l[82]graphe. See {Graphic}.] An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action. Note: The instruments used are classed as indicator, type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's. In the offices in the United States the recording instrument is now little used, the receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of long and short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix. {Acoustic telegraph}. See under {Acoustic}. {Dial telegraph}, a telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the sending station. {Electric telegraph}, [or] {Electro-magnetic telegraph}, a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. {Facsimile telegraph}. See under {Facsimile}. {Indicator telegraph}. See under {Indicator}. {Pan-telegraph}, an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station. {Printing telegraph}, an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs. {Signal telegraph}, a telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore. {Submarine telegraph cable}, a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water. {Telegraph cable}, a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean. {Telegraph plant} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Desmodium gyrans}) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a semaphore. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submarshal \Sub*mar"shal\, n. An under or deputy marshal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submerge \Sub*merge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Submerged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Submerging}.] [L. submergere, submersum; sub under + mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See {Merge}.] 1. To put under water; to plunge. 2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submerge \Sub*merge"\, v. i. To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included. Some say swallows submerge in ponds. --Gent. Mag. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submerge \Sub*merge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Submerged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Submerging}.] [L. submergere, submersum; sub under + mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See {Merge}.] 1. To put under water; to plunge. 2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submergence \Sub*mer"gence\, n. [From L. submergens, p. pr.] The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, n. A submarine boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif. {submergible submarine} when capable of operating at various depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and {submersible submarine} when capable of being only partly submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submerge \Sub*merge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Submerged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Submerging}.] [L. submergere, submersum; sub under + mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See {Merge}.] 1. To put under water; to plunge. 2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submerse \Sub*merse"\, a. (Bot.) Submersed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submersed \Sub*mersed"\, a. [L. submersus, p. p. of submergere. See {Submerge}.] Being or growing under water, as the leaves of aquatic plants. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submarine \Sub`ma*rine"\, n. A submarine boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif. {submergible submarine} when capable of operating at various depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and {submersible submarine} when capable of being only partly submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Submersion \Sub*mer"sion\, n. [L. submersio: cf. F. submersion.] 1. The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning. 2. The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Subnarcotic \Sub`nar*cot"ic\, a. (Med.) Moderately narcotic. | |
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Subnormal \Sub*nor"mal\, n. (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Seffner, FL (CDP, FIPS 64925) Location: 27.99758 N, 82.27488 W Population (1990): 5371 (2095 housing units) Area: 9.4 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33584 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Shobonier, IL Zip code(s): 62885 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Spooner, WI (city, FIPS 75625) Location: 45.82453 N, 91.89350 W Population (1990): 2464 (1151 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54801 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Sheep-market occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., "sheep-gate"). The word so rendered is an adjective, and it is uncertain whether the noun to be supplied should be "gate" or, following the Vulgate Version, "pool." |