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   sego lily
         n 1: perennial plant having clusters of one to four showy white
               bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems; edible
               bulbs useful in times of scarcity; eastern Montana and
               western North Dakota south to northern Arizona and
               northwestern New Mexico [syn: {sego lily}, {Calochortus
               nuttallii}]

English Dictionary: sickle lucerne by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sickle alfalfa
n
  1. European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods
    Synonym(s): sickle alfalfa, sickle lucerne, sickle medick, Medicago falcata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sickle lucerne
n
  1. European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods
    Synonym(s): sickle alfalfa, sickle lucerne, sickle medick, Medicago falcata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social welfare
n
  1. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need; "she lives on welfare"
    Synonym(s): social welfare, welfare, public assistance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scagliola \Scagl*io"la\, n. [It. scagliuola, dim. of scaglia.
      See {Scaglia}.]
      An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble,
      formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with
      glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with
      splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently
      colored and polished.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[be]n; akin to OS. &
      OFries. st[c7]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten,
      Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. [?], [?],
      a pebble. [fb]167. Cf. {Steen}.]
      1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular
            mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy
            threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. [bd]Dumb as a
            stone.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for
                     mortar.                                             --Gen. xi. 3.
  
      Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are
               called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the
               finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone
               is much and widely used in the construction of
               buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers,
               abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.
  
      2. A precious stone; a gem. [bd]Many a rich stone.[b8]
            --Chaucer. [bd]Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
      3. Something made of stone. Specifically:
            (a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]
  
                           Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will
                           mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray.
  
                           Should some relenting eye Glance on the where
                           our cold relics lie.                     --Pope.
  
      4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the
            kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
  
      5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak.
  
      6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a
            cherry or peach. See Illust. of {Endocarp}.
  
      7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice
            varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]
  
      Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8
               lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5
               lbs.
  
      8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness;
            insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
  
                     I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope.
  
      9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of
            stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a
            book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also
            {imposing stone}.
  
      Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other
               words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or
               stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or
               pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or
               stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone
               falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some
               adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed
               by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone;
               as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still,
               etc.
  
      {Atlantic stone}, ivory. [Obs.] [bd]Citron tables, or
            Atlantic stone.[b8] --Milton.
  
      {Bowing stone}. Same as {Cromlech}. --Encyc. Brit.
  
      {Meteoric stones}, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as
            after the explosion of a meteor.
  
      {Philosopher's stone}. See under {Philosopher}.
  
      {Rocking stone}. See {Rocking-stone}.
  
      {Stone age}, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when
            stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for
            weapons and tools; -- called also {flint age}. The {bronze
            age} succeeded to this.
  
      {Stone bass} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine
            food fishes of the genus {Serranus} and allied genera, as
            {Serranus Couchii}, and {Polyprion cernium} of Europe; --
            called also {sea perch}.
  
      {Stone biter} (Zo[94]l.), the wolf fish.
  
      {Stone boiling}, a method of boiling water or milk by
            dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages.
            --Tylor.
  
      {Stone borer} (Zo[94]l.), any animal that bores stones;
            especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow
            in limestone. See {Lithodomus}, and {Saxicava}.
  
      {Stone bramble} (Bot.), a European trailing species of
            bramble ({Rubus saxatilis}).
  
      {Stone-break}. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the
            genus {Saxifraga}; saxifrage.
  
      {Stone bruise}, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a
            bruise by a stone.
  
      {Stone canal}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Sand canal}, under {Sand}.
           
  
      {Stone cat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus
            {Noturus}. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they
            inflict painful wounds.
  
      {Stone coal}, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.
  
      {Stone coral} (Zo[94]l.), any hard calcareous coral.
  
      {Stone crab}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A large crab ({Menippe mercenaria}) found on the
                  southern coast of the United States and much used as
                  food.
            (b) A European spider crab ({Lithodes maia}).
  
      {Stone crawfish} (Zo[94]l.), a European crawfish ({Astacus
            torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of
            the common species ({A. fluviatilis}).
  
      {Stone curlew}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus
                  crepitans}). It frequents stony places. Called also
                  {thick-kneed plover} or {bustard}, and {thick-knee}.
            (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
            (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.]
  
      {Stone crush}. Same as {Stone bruise}, above.
  
      {Stone eater}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stone borer}, above.
  
      {Stone falcon} (Zo[94]l.), the merlin.
  
      {Stone fern} (Bot.), a European fern ({Asplenium Ceterach})
            which grows on rocks and walls.
  
      {Stone fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of many species of
            pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Perla} and allied
            genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait.
            The larv[91] are aquatic.
  
      {Stone fruit} (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a
            drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry.
  
      {Stone grig} (Zo[94]l.), the mud lamprey, or pride.
  
      {Stone hammer}, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a
            thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other,
            -- used for breaking stone.
  
      {Stone hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the merlin; -- so called from its
            habit of sitting on bare stones.
  
      {Stone jar}, a jar made of stoneware.
  
      {Stone lily} (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid.
  
      {Stone lugger}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Stone roller}, below.
  
      {Stone marten} (Zo[94]l.), a European marten ({Mustela
            foina}) allied to the pine marten, but having a white
            throat; -- called also {beech marten}.
  
      {Stone mason}, a mason who works or builds in stone.
  
      {Stone-mortar} (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used
            in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short
            distances.
  
      {Stone oil}, rock oil, petroleum.
  
      {Stone parsley} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Seseli
            Labanotis}). See under {Parsley}.
  
      {Stone pine}. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under {Pine},
            and {Pi[a4]on}.
  
      {Stone pit}, a quarry where stones are dug.
  
      {Stone pitch}, hard, inspissated pitch.
  
      {Stone plover}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The European stone curlew.
            (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the
                  genus {Esacus}; as, the large stone plover ({E.
                  recurvirostris}).
            (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]
            (d) The ringed plover.
            (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to
                  other species of limicoline birds.
  
      {Stone roller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American fresh-water fish ({Catostomus nigricans})
                  of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive,
                  often with dark blotches. Called also {stone lugger},
                  {stone toter}, {hog sucker}, {hog mullet}.
            (b) A common American cyprinoid fish ({Campostoma
                  anomalum}); -- called also {stone lugger}.
  
      {Stone's cast}, [or] {Stone's throw}, the distance to which a
            stone may be thrown by the hand.
  
      {Stone snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler.
            [Local, U.S.]
  
      {Stone toter}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) See {Stone roller}
            (a), above.
            (b) A cyprinoid fish ({Exoglossum maxillingua}) found in
                  the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a
                  three-lobed lower lip; -- called also {cutlips}.
  
      {To leave no stone unturned}, to do everything that can be
            done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Social \So"cial\, a. [L. socialis, from socius a companion; akin
      to sequi to follow: cf. F. social. See {Sue} to follow.]
      1. Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in
            society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social
            interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits;
            social happiness; social duties. [bd]Social phenomena.[b8]
            --J. S. Mill.
  
      2. Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse;
            companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
  
      3. Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
  
                     Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social
                     communication.                                    --Milton.
  
      4. (Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of
            many individual plants of the same species.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Living in communities consisting of males, females,
                  and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
            (b) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
                  basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
  
      {Social science}, the science of all that relates to the
            social condition, the relations and institutions which are
            involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member
            of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself
            with questions of the public health, education, labor,
            punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the
            like.
  
      {Social whale} (Zo[94]l.), the blackfish.
  
      {The social evil}, prostitution.
  
      Syn: Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly;
               familiar; communicative; convival; festive.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sewickley Hills, PA (borough, FIPS 69416)
      Location: 40.56026 N, 80.12019 W
      Population (1990): 622 (222 housing units)
      Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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