English Dictionary: succuba | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sassaby \Sas"sa*by\, Sassabye \Sas"sa*bye\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large African antelope ({Alcelaphus lunata}), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sassaby \Sas"sa*by\, Sassabye \Sas"sa*bye\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large African antelope ({Alcelaphus lunata}), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Skiascope \Ski"a*scope\, Sciascope \Sci"a*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a shadow + -scope.] (Med.) A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. -- {Ski*as"co*py}, {Ski*as"co*py}, n. | |
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Sea cob \Sea" cob`\ (Zo[94]l.) The black-backed gull. | |
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Seascape \Sea"scape\, n. [Cf. {Landscape}.] A picture representing a scene at sea. [Jocose] --Thackeray. | |
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Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se[a2]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj[?]kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under {Illness}. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. --Fuller. {Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. {Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick. {Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. {Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. {Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick. {Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.] Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bay \Bay\, n. [F. baie, fr. LL. baia. Of uncertain origin: cf. Ir. & Gael. badh or bagh bay harbor, creek; Bisc. baia, baiya, harbor, and F. bayer to gape, open the mouth.] 1. (Geol.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character. Note: The name is not used with much precision, and is often applied to large tracts of water, around which the land forms a curve; as, Hudson's Bay. The name is not restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance, but is used foe any recess or inlet between capes or headlands; as, the Bay of Biscay. 2. A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc. 3. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay. 4. A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers. 5. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks. 6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. {Sick bay}, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. --Totten. | |
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Skiascope \Ski"a*scope\, Sciascope \Sci"a*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a shadow + -scope.] (Med.) A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. -- {Ski*as"co*py}, {Ski*as"co*py}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Skiascope \Ski"a*scope\, Sciascope \Sci"a*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a shadow + -scope.] (Med.) A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. -- {Ski*as"co*py}, {Ski*as"co*py}, n. | |
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Suasive \Sua"sive\, a. Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory. --South. [bd]Genial and suasive satire.[b8] --Earle. -- {Sua"sive*ly}, adv. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Succuba \[d8]Suc"cu*ba\, n.; pl. {Succub[91]}. [NL., fr. L. succubare to lie under; sub under + cubare to lie down; cf. L. succuba, succubo, one who lies under another.] A female demon or fiend. See {Succubus}. Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succub[91] some call. --Mir. for Mag. | |
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d8Succubus \[d8]Suc"cu*bus\, n.; pl. {Succubi}. [See {Succuba}.] 1. A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. {Incubus}. 2. (Med.) The nightmare. See {Nightmare}, 2. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Saxapahaw, NC (CDP, FIPS 59580) Location: 35.94791 N, 79.32106 W Population (1990): 1178 (449 housing units) Area: 13.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) | |
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Shakopee, MN (city, FIPS 59350) Location: 44.77060 N, 93.47558 W Population (1990): 11739 (4340 housing units) Area: 68.5 sq km (land), 3.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55379 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Susupe, MP (CDP, FIPS 70800) Location: 15.15636 N, 145.70571 E Population (1990): 1776 (285 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
segv /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for {segmentation fault} (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation'). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
sysape /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer operator; a play on {sysop} common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see {one-banana problem}). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
sysop /sis'op/ n. [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system. A common neophyte mistake on {FidoNet} is to address a message to `sysop' in an international {echo}, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
segv /seg'vee/ segmentation violation. {segmentation fault} (1994-12-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Shockwave with {Macromedia Director}. Shockwave is freely available as a {plug-in} for the {Netscape Navigator} web {browser}. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an {ISDN} or faster connection. {Home (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/)}. [Filetypes? More detail?] (1998-07-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
shockwave net overload, or a {virus} from one network node to another, resulting in a wave of inactivity across the net. (1997-05-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Shockwave with {Macromedia Director}. Shockwave is freely available as a {plug-in} for the {Netscape Navigator} web {browser}. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an {ISDN} or faster connection. {Home (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/)}. [Filetypes? More detail?] (1998-07-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
shockwave net overload, or a {virus} from one network node to another, resulting in a wave of inactivity across the net. (1997-05-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sysape /sys'ayp/ A rather derogatory term for a computer operator; a play on {sysop} common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see {one-banana problem}). [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
sysop {system operator} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Segub elevated. (1.) The youngest son of Hiel the Bethelite. His death is recorded in 1 Kings 16:34 (comp. Josh. 6:26). (2.) A descendant of Judah (1 Chr. 2:21, 22). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Segub, fortified; raised |