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   Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
         n 1: Indian philosopher and statesman who introduced Indian
               philosophy to the West (1888-1975) [syn: {Radhakrishnan},
               {Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan}, {Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan}]

English Dictionary: serve up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
score paper
n
  1. paper with lines appropriate for writing music [syn: {music paper}, score paper]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrape by
v
  1. manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"
    Synonym(s): scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrape up
v
  1. gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
    Synonym(s): scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrapheap
n
  1. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter [syn: garbage heap, junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile, trash pile, refuse heap]
  2. pile of discarded metal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrub beefwood
n
  1. tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
    Synonym(s): scrub beefwood, beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrub up
v
  1. wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
    Synonym(s): scrub, scrub up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serve up
v
  1. provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show"
    Synonym(s): serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Shreveport
n
  1. a city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shrubby bittersweet
n
  1. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
    Synonym(s): bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shrubby penstemon
n
  1. low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue- violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems
    Synonym(s): shrubby penstemon, lowbush penstemon, Penstemon fruticosus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorb apple
n
  1. medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit
    Synonym(s): service tree, sorb apple, sorb apple tree, Sorbus domestica
  2. acid gritty-textured fruit
    Synonym(s): sorb, sorb apple
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorb apple tree
n
  1. medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit
    Synonym(s): service tree, sorb apple, sorb apple tree, Sorbus domestica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorbefacient
adj
  1. inducing or promoting absorption [syn: absorbefacient, sorbefacient]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survival
n
  1. a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: survival, endurance]
  2. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
    Synonym(s): survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
  3. something that survives
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survival of the fittest
n
  1. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
    Synonym(s): survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survivalist
n
  1. someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survive
v
  1. continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
    Synonym(s): survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
  2. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"
    Synonym(s): survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
    Antonym(s): succumb, yield
  3. support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
    Synonym(s): exist, survive, live, subsist
  4. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
    Synonym(s): outlive, outlast, survive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surviving
adj
  1. still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
    Synonym(s): surviving, living
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survivor
n
  1. one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital"
    Synonym(s): survivor, subsister
  2. one who outlives another; "he left his farm to his survivors"
  3. an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survivor guilt
n
  1. a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died; "survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survivors insurance
n
  1. insurance paid to surviving spouses
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
survivorship annuity
n
  1. an annuity payable to one person in the event that someone else is unable to receive it
    Synonym(s): reversionary annuity, survivorship annuity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scrapepenny \Scrape"pen`ny\, n.
      One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scribable \Scrib"a*ble\, a. [See {Scribe}.]
      Capable of being written, or of being written upon. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Servable \Serv"a*ble\, a. [See {Serve}.]
      1. Capable of being served.
  
      2. [L. servabilis.] Capable of being preserved. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Servifor \Serv"i*for\, n. [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F.
      serviteur.]
      1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts
            under another; a follower or adherent.
  
                     Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak.
  
      2. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.) An undergraduate, partly supported
            by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait
            at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge
            and Dublin universities.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorb \Sorb\, n.[L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F.
      sorbe. See {Service tree}.] (Bot.)
      (a) The wild service tree ({Pyrus torminalis}) of Europe;
            also, the rowan tree.
      (b) The fruit of these trees.
  
      {Sorb apple}, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
  
      {Sorb tree}, the wild service tree.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorbefacient \Sor`be*fa"cient\, a. [L. sorbere to suck in,
      absorb + faciens, p. pr. of facere to make.] (Med.)
      Producing absorption. -- n. A medicine or substance which
      produces absorption.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survey \Sur"vey\, n. [Formerly accentuated universally on the
      last syllable, and still so accented by many speakers.]
      1. The act of surveying; a general view, as from above.
  
                     Under his proud survey the city lies. --Sir J.
                                                                              Denham.
  
      2. A particular view; an examination, especially an official
            examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing,
            with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or
            quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of
            roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
  
      3. The operation of finding the contour, dimensions,
            position, or other particulars of, as any part of the
            earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured
            plan and description of any portion of country, or of a
            road or line through it.
  
      {Survey of dogs}. See {Court of regard}, under {Regard}.
  
      {Trigonometrical survey}, a survey of a portion of country by
            measuring a single base, and connecting it with various
            points in the tract surveyed by a series of triangles, the
            angles of which are carefully measured, the relative
            positions and distances of all parts being computed from
            these data.
  
      Syn: Review; retrospect; examination; prospect.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Regard \Re*gard"\, n. [F. regard See {Regard}, v. t.]
      1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.
  
                     But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest;
            observation; heed; notice.
  
                     Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. That view of the mind which springs from perception of
            value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites
            admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to
            have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.
  
                     He has rendered himself worthy of their most
                     favorable regards.                              --A. Smith.
  
                     Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is
                     sweeter than those marks of childish preference.
                                                                              --Hawthorne.
  
      4. State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise;
            estimation; repute; note; account.
  
                     A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having
                     wealth or power.                                 --Spenser.
  
      5. Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.
  
                     Sad pause and deep regard become the sage. --Shak.
  
      6. Matter for consideration; account; condition. [Obs.]
            [bd]Reason full of good regard.[b8] --Shak.
  
      7. Respect; relation; reference.
  
                     Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue,
                     with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness
                     with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward
                     God.                                                   --I. Watts.
  
      Note: The phrase in regard of was formerly used as equivalent
               in meaning to on account of, but in modern usage is
               often improperly substituted for in respect to, or in
               regard to. --G. P. Marsh.
  
                        Change was thought necessary in regard of the
                        injury the church did receive by a number of
                        things then in use.                        --Hooker.
  
                        In regard of its security, it had a great
                        advantage over the bandboxes.         --Dickens.
  
      8. Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.]
  
                     Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we
                     make the main and the a[89]rial blue An indistinct
                     regard.                                             --Shak.
  
      9. (O.Eng.Law) Supervision; inspection.
  
      {At regard of}, in consideration of; in comparison with.
            [Obs.] [bd]Bodily penance is but short and little at
            regard of the pains of hell.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {Court of regard}, a forest court formerly held in England
            every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs,
            to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also
            {survey of dogs}. --Blackstone.
  
      Syn: Respect; consideration; notice; observance; heed; care;
               concern; estimation; esteem; attachment; reverence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survey \Sur"vey\, n. [Formerly accentuated universally on the
      last syllable, and still so accented by many speakers.]
      1. The act of surveying; a general view, as from above.
  
                     Under his proud survey the city lies. --Sir J.
                                                                              Denham.
  
      2. A particular view; an examination, especially an official
            examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing,
            with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or
            quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of
            roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
  
      3. The operation of finding the contour, dimensions,
            position, or other particulars of, as any part of the
            earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured
            plan and description of any portion of country, or of a
            road or line through it.
  
      {Survey of dogs}. See {Court of regard}, under {Regard}.
  
      {Trigonometrical survey}, a survey of a portion of country by
            measuring a single base, and connecting it with various
            points in the tract surveyed by a series of triangles, the
            angles of which are carefully measured, the relative
            positions and distances of all parts being computed from
            these data.
  
      Syn: Review; retrospect; examination; prospect.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Regard \Re*gard"\, n. [F. regard See {Regard}, v. t.]
      1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.
  
                     But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest;
            observation; heed; notice.
  
                     Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. That view of the mind which springs from perception of
            value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites
            admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to
            have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.
  
                     He has rendered himself worthy of their most
                     favorable regards.                              --A. Smith.
  
                     Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is
                     sweeter than those marks of childish preference.
                                                                              --Hawthorne.
  
      4. State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise;
            estimation; repute; note; account.
  
                     A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having
                     wealth or power.                                 --Spenser.
  
      5. Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.
  
                     Sad pause and deep regard become the sage. --Shak.
  
      6. Matter for consideration; account; condition. [Obs.]
            [bd]Reason full of good regard.[b8] --Shak.
  
      7. Respect; relation; reference.
  
                     Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue,
                     with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness
                     with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward
                     God.                                                   --I. Watts.
  
      Note: The phrase in regard of was formerly used as equivalent
               in meaning to on account of, but in modern usage is
               often improperly substituted for in respect to, or in
               regard to. --G. P. Marsh.
  
                        Change was thought necessary in regard of the
                        injury the church did receive by a number of
                        things then in use.                        --Hooker.
  
                        In regard of its security, it had a great
                        advantage over the bandboxes.         --Dickens.
  
      8. Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.]
  
                     Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we
                     make the main and the a[89]rial blue An indistinct
                     regard.                                             --Shak.
  
      9. (O.Eng.Law) Supervision; inspection.
  
      {At regard of}, in consideration of; in comparison with.
            [Obs.] [bd]Bodily penance is but short and little at
            regard of the pains of hell.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {Court of regard}, a forest court formerly held in England
            every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs,
            to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also
            {survey of dogs}. --Blackstone.
  
      Syn: Respect; consideration; notice; observance; heed; care;
               concern; estimation; esteem; attachment; reverence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survival \Sur*viv"al\, n. [From {Survive}.]
      1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the
            existence of, another person, thing, or event; an
            outliving.
  
      2. (Arh[91]ol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief,
            remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often
            unknown, or imperfectly known.
  
                     The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the
                     study of manners and customs.            --Tylor.
  
      {Survival of the fittest}. (Biol.) See {Natural selection},
            under {Natural}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survival \Sur*viv"al\, n. [From {Survive}.]
      1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the
            existence of, another person, thing, or event; an
            outliving.
  
      2. (Arh[91]ol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief,
            remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often
            unknown, or imperfectly known.
  
                     The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the
                     study of manners and customs.            --Tylor.
  
      {Survival of the fittest}. (Biol.) See {Natural selection},
            under {Natural}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survivance \Sur*viv"ance\, Survivancy \Sur*viv"an*cy\, n. [F.
      survivance.]
      Survivorship. [R.]
  
               His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.
                                                                              --Bp. Burnet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survivance \Sur*viv"ance\, Survivancy \Sur*viv"an*cy\, n. [F.
      survivance.]
      Survivorship. [R.]
  
               His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.
                                                                              --Bp. Burnet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Survived}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Surviving}.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
      + vivere to live. See {Super-}, and {Victuals}.]
      To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than;
      to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
      --Cowper.
  
               I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she
               survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
                                                                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. i.
      To remain alive; to continue to live.
  
               Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives,
               Still conquers all the conquerors.         --Sir J.
                                                                              Denham.
  
               Alike are life and death, When life in death survives.
                                                                              --Longfellow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Survived}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Surviving}.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
      + vivere to live. See {Super-}, and {Victuals}.]
      To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than;
      to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
      --Cowper.
  
               I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she
               survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
                                                                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survivency \Sur*viv"en*cy\, n.
      Survivorship. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surviver \Sur*viv"er\, n.
      One who survives; a survivor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survive \Sur*vive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Survived}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Surviving}.] [F. survivre, L. supervivere; super over
      + vivere to live. See {Super-}, and {Victuals}.]
      To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than;
      to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
      --Cowper.
  
               I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she
               survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
                                                                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surviving \Sur*viv"ing\, a.
      Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving
      friends; surviving customs.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survivor \Sur*viv"or\, n.
      1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time,
            event, or thing.
  
                     The survivor bound In filial obligation for some
                     term To do obsequious sorrow.            --Shak.
  
      2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two
            persons having a joint interest in anything. --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Survivorship \Sur*viv"or*ship\, n.
      1. The state of being a survivor.
  
      1. (Law) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has
            a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate
            upon the death of other. --Blackstone.
  
      {Chance of survivorship}, the chance that a person of a given
            age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the
            Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship
            for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11
            respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shreveport, LA (city, FIPS 70000)
      Location: 32.47155 N, 93.79781 W
      Population (1990): 198525 (87473 housing units)
      Area: 255.4 sq km (land), 37.9 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 71101, 71103, 71104, 71105, 71108, 71109, 71118, 71119, 71129

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Sharp APL
  
      (Or "Dictionary APL")
  
      ["A Dictionary of the APL Language", K. Iverson, Pub 0402,
      Sharp Assocs, Toronto, 1985].
  
      {(ftp://watserv1.waterloo.edu/languages/apl/sharp.apl)}.
  
      (1997-09-02)
  
  
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