soaring : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

S wrench
n 1: a wrench with an S-shaped handle

English Dictionary: soaring	by the DICT Development Group
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sarong n a loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body; worn by both women and men in the South Pacific
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Saronic Gulf n a gulf of the Aegean on the southeastern coast of Greece Synonym(s): Saronic Gulf, Gulf of Aegina
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Sayornis n phoebes Synonym(s): Sayornis, genus Sayornis
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Sayornis phoebe n small dun-colored North American flycatcher [syn: phoebe, phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe]
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Scaramouch n a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward Synonym(s): Scaramouch, Scaramouche
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Scaramouche n a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward Synonym(s): Scaramouch, Scaramouche
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scoring n evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do" Synonym(s): marking, grading, scoring
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scoring system n a system of classifying according to quality or merit or amount Synonym(s): rating system, scoring system
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scouring n moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing" the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water Synonym(s): scrub, scrubbing, scouring
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scouring pad n a small abrasive cleaning pad used for scouring pots and pans
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scouring rush n evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems; formerly used for scouring utensils Synonym(s): scouring rush, rough horsetail, Equisetum hyemale, Equisetum hyemale robustum, Equisetum robustum
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scranch v make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" Synonym(s): crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle
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scraunch v make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" Synonym(s): crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle
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screen actor n an actor who plays a role in a film [syn: screen actor, movie actor]
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screen saver n (computer science) a moving design that appears on a computer screen when there has been no input for a specified period of time; "screen savers prevent the damage that occurs when the same areas of light and dark are displayed too long"
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screwing n slang for sexual intercourse [syn: fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup]
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scrimmage n (American football) practice play between a football team's squads a noisy riotous fight Synonym(s): melee, scrimmage, battle royal v practice playing (a sport)
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scrimmage line n line parallel to the goal lines where football linesmen line up at the start of each play in American football; "the runner was tackled at the line of scrimmage" Synonym(s): scrimmage line, line of scrimmage
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scrimshank v British military language: avoid work
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scrimshanker n a shirker
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scrimshaw n a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers
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scrounge v collect or look around for (food) [syn: scrounge, forage] obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends" Synonym(s): schnorr, shnorr, scrounge, cadge
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scrounger n someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) Synonym(s): moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger
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scrummage n (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession Synonym(s): scrum, scrummage
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scrunch n a crunching noise v make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants [syn: crump, thud, scrunch] sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" Synonym(s): squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" Synonym(s): wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
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scrunch up v sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" Synonym(s): squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" Synonym(s): wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
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scurrying adj moving with great haste; "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses" Synonym(s): hurrying, scurrying
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sea eryngium n European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac Synonym(s): sea holly, sea holm, sea eryngium, Eryngium maritimum
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searing adj severely critical
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searing iron n a hot iron used to destroy tissue
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sereness n a withered dryness
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Serengeti n a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife Synonym(s): Serengeti, Serengeti Plain
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Serengeti National Park n a national park in Tanzania created in 1951 to protect the wildlife
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Serengeti Plain n a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife Synonym(s): Serengeti, Serengeti Plain
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Serinus n Old World finches; e.g. canaries and serins [syn: Serinus, genus Serinus]
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Serinus canaria n native to the Canary Islands and Azores; popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song Synonym(s): common canary, Serinus canaria
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Serranus n type genus of the Serranidae: mostly small Pacific sea basses Synonym(s): Serranus, genus Serranus
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Serranus subligarius n found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic [syn: belted sandfish, Serranus subligarius]
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serum globulin n globulins occurring in blood serum and containing most of the antibodies of the blood
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serum sickness n a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum Synonym(s): serum sickness, serum disease
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sharing adj unselfishly willing to share with others; "a warm and sharing friend" n using or enjoying something jointly with others having in common; "the sharing of electrons creates molecules" sharing thoughts and feelings Synonym(s): communion, sharing a distribution in shares Synonym(s): sharing, share-out
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shearing n removing by cutting off or clipping
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Sherrington n English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952) Synonym(s): Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
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shirring n baking shelled eggs
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shoring n a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support Synonym(s): shore, shoring the act of propping up with shores Synonym(s): shoring, shoring up, propping up
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shoring up n the act of propping up with shores [syn: shoring, shoring up, propping up]
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shrewmouse n small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles Synonym(s): shrew, shrewmouse
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shrink n a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink] v wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" Synonym(s): shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" Synonym(s): flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" Synonym(s): shrink, reduce become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" Synonym(s): shrink, contract Antonym(s): expand, spread out, stretch decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" Synonym(s): shrink, shrivel
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shrink back v pull away from a source of disgust or fear [syn: {shrink back}, retract]
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shrink from v avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" Synonym(s): fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
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shrink-wrap n the clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something
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shrink-wrapped software n software on CD-ROMs that are boxed and shrink-wrapped and sold in stores (implying a widely supported standard platform)
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shrinkable adj capable of being shrunk; "a shrinkable fabric" [ant: unshrinkable]
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shrinkage n process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" Synonym(s): shrinking, shrinkage the amount by which something shrinks the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting" Synonym(s): shoplifting, shrinkage
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shrinking n process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" Synonym(s): shrinking, shrinkage the act of becoming less
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shrinking violet n someone who shrinks from familiarity with others [syn: {shy person}, shrinking violet]
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shrinkwrap v wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling; "shrinkwrap the CDs"
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shrunken adj lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" Synonym(s): shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" Synonym(s): shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken
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Sir Angus Wilson n English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991) Synonym(s): Wilson, Sir Angus Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs n English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981) Synonym(s): Krebs, Hans Adolf Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill n British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) Synonym(s): Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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siren call n the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous; "he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness" Synonym(s): siren call, siren song
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siren song n the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous; "he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness" Synonym(s): siren call, siren song
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skirmish n a minor short-term fight [syn: brush, clash, encounter, skirmish] v engage in a skirmish
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skirmisher n someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party)
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soaring adj ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices" of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the cathedral"; "towering icebergs" Synonym(s): eminent, lofty, soaring, towering n the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing]
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soiree musicale n a soiree assembled for the purpose of listening to music Synonym(s): musical soiree, soiree musicale
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Soren Kierkegaard n Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855) Synonym(s): Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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soreness n a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" Synonym(s): tenderness, soreness, rawness an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress Synonym(s): discomfort, soreness, irritation
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Sorensen n Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939) [syn: Sorensen, Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen]
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sorriness n worthlessness due to insignificance [syn: paltriness, sorriness]
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sorrowing adj sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" Synonym(s): bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)
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sour mash n a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys any whiskey distilled from sour mash Synonym(s): sour mash, sour mash whiskey
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sour mash whiskey n any whiskey distilled from sour mash [syn: sour mash, sour mash whiskey]
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souring n the process of becoming sour
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sourness n the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth Synonym(s): sour, sourness, tartness the property of being acidic Synonym(s): sourness, sour, acidity a sullen moody resentful disposition Synonym(s): sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness
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square inch n a unit of area equal to one inch by one inch square [syn: square inch, sq in]
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square measure n a system of units used to measure areas [syn: area unit, square measure]
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squareness n the property of being shaped like a square
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sure enough adv as supposed or expected; "sure enough, he asked her for money again" definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" Synonym(s): surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting
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sure-enough adj (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" Synonym(s): honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure- enough(a)
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sureness n freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" Synonym(s): assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand"
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surmisable adj capable of being inferred on slight grounds [syn: presumable, supposable, surmisable]
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surmisal n a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence Synonym(s): guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
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surmise n a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence Synonym(s): guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis v infer from incomplete evidence imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" Synonym(s): suspect, surmise
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swearing n profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" Synonym(s): curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury Synonym(s): oath, swearing
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syringa n large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy- white flowers in short terminal racemes Synonym(s): mock orange, syringa, Philadelphus coronarius genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs Synonym(s): Syringa, genus Syringa
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Syringa amurensis japonica n small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers Synonym(s): Japanese tree lilac, Syringa reticulata, Syringa amurensis japonica
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Syringa emodi n robust upright shrub of mountains of northern India having oblong-elliptic leaves and pale lilac or white malodorous flowers Synonym(s): Himalayan lilac, Syringa emodi
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Syringa josikaea n central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers Synonym(s): Hungarian lilac, Syringa josikaea, Syringa josikea
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Syringa josikea n central European upright shrub having elliptic leaves and upright clusters of lilac or deep violet flowers Synonym(s): Hungarian lilac, Syringa josikaea, Syringa josikea
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Syringa persica n small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers Synonym(s): Persian lilac, Syringa persica
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Syringa reticulata n small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers Synonym(s): Japanese tree lilac, Syringa reticulata, Syringa amurensis japonica
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Syringa villosa n lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers Synonym(s): Japanese lilac, Syringa villosa
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Syringa vulgaris n large European lilac naturalized in North America having heart-shaped ovate leaves and large panicles of highly fragrant lilac or white flowers Synonym(s): common lilac, Syringa vulgaris
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syringe n a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids v spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe
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syrinx n a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together Synonym(s): panpipe, pandean pipe, syrinx the vocal organ of a bird
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lizard's tail \Liz"ard's tail`\ (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus {Saururus} ({S. cernuus}), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. --Gray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoveler \Shov"el*er\, n. [Also shoveller.] 1. One who, or that which, shovels. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A river duck ({Spatula clypeata}), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also {broadbill}, {spoonbill}, {shovelbill}, and {maiden duck}. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck ({S. rhynchotis}), is a similar species.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sarum use \Sa"rum use`\ (Ch. of Eng.) A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ({Sayornis ph[d2]be}, or {S. fuscus}). Called also {pewit}, and {ph[d2]be}. 2. The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a bird ({Contopus virens}) similar to the pewee (See {Pewee}, 1), but of smaller size.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scaramouch \Scar"a*mouch`\, n. [F. scaramouche, It. scaramuccio, scaramuccia, originally the name of a celebrated Italian comedian; cf. It. scaramuccia, scaramuccio, F. escarmouche, skirmish. Cf. {Skirmish}.] A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scare \Scare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scaring}.] [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.] To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak. {To scare away}, to drive away by frightening. {To scare up}, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang] Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scarmage \Scar"mage\, Scarmoge \Scar"moge\, n. A slight contest; a skirmish. See {Skirmish}. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scarmage \Scar"mage\, Scarmoge \Scar"moge\, n. A slight contest; a skirmish. See {Skirmish}. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scar \Scar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scarred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scarring}.] To mark with a scar or scars. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. --Shak. His cheeks were deeply scarred. --Macaulay.
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Scarring \Scar"ring\, n. A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. --Tyndall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Score \Score\ (sk[omac]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scored} (sk[omac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scoring}.] 1. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash. Let us score their backs. --Shak. A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand. --M. Arnold. 2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. 3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten. --Swift. Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. --Shak. 4. To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] --Spenser. 5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. 6. (Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See {Score}, n., 9. 7. (Geol.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorned} (sk[ocir]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scoring}.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarnir, escharnir. See {Scorn}, n.] 1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak. This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton. We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. --C. J. Smith. 2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer. To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak. Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See {Contemn}.
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Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch[81]ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. {Cure}.] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. 3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. {Excursion}.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. {Scouring barrel}, a tumbling barrel. See under {Tumbling}. {Scouring cinder} (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) See {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch}. {Scouring stock} (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch[81]ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. {Cure}.] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. 3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. {Excursion}.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. {Scouring barrel}, a tumbling barrel. See under {Tumbling}. {Scouring cinder} (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) See {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch}. {Scouring stock} (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch[81]ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. {Cure}.] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. 3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. {Excursion}.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. {Scouring barrel}, a tumbling barrel. See under {Tumbling}. {Scouring cinder} (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) See {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch}. {Scouring stock} (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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Rush \Rush\, n. [OE. rusche, rische, resche, AS. risce, akin to LG. rusk, risch, D. & G. rusch; all probably fr. L. ruscum butcher's broom; akin to Goth. raus reed, G. rohr.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of {Juncus} and {Scirpus}. Note: Some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to lamps and rushlights. 2. The merest trifle; a straw. John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush. --Arbuthnot. {Bog rush}. See under {Bog}. {Club rush}, any rush of the genus {Scirpus}. {Flowering rush}. See under {Flowering}. {Nut rush} (a) Any plant of the genus {Scleria}, rushlike plants with hard nutlike fruits. (b) A name for several species of {Cyperus} having tuberous roots. {Rush broom}, an Australian leguminous plant ({Viminaria denudata}), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under {Spanish}. {Rush candle}, See under {Candle}. {Rush grass}, any grass of the genus {Vilfa}, grasses with wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets. {Rush toad} (Zo[94]l.), the natterjack. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) Same as {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch.} {Spike rush}, any rushlike plant of the genus {Eleocharis}, in which the flowers grow in dense spikes. {Sweet rush}, a sweet-scented grass of Arabia, etc. ({Andropogon sch[d2]nanthus}), used in Oriental medical practice. {Wood rush}, any plant of the genus {Luzula}, which differs in some technical characters from {Juncus}.
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Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch[81]ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. {Cure}.] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. 3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. {Excursion}.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. {Scouring barrel}, a tumbling barrel. See under {Tumbling}. {Scouring cinder} (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) See {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch}. {Scouring stock} (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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{Dutch oven}, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. {Dutch pink}, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale. {Dutch rush} (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum ({E. hyemale}) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also {scouring rush}, and {shave grass}. See {Equisetum}. {Dutch tile}, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like. Note: Dutch was formerly used for German. Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. --Fuller.
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d8Equisetum \[d8]Eq`ui*se"tum\, n.; pl. {Equiseta}. [L., the horsetail, fr. equus horse + seta a thick,, stiff hair, bristle.] (Bot.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called {horsetails}. Note: The {Equiseta} have hollow jointed stems and no true leaves. The cuticle often contains siliceous granules, so that one species ({E. hyemale}) is used for scouring and polishing, under the name of {Dutch rush} or {scouring rush}.
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Rush \Rush\, n. [OE. rusche, rische, resche, AS. risce, akin to LG. rusk, risch, D. & G. rusch; all probably fr. L. ruscum butcher's broom; akin to Goth. raus reed, G. rohr.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of {Juncus} and {Scirpus}. Note: Some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to lamps and rushlights. 2. The merest trifle; a straw. John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush. --Arbuthnot. {Bog rush}. See under {Bog}. {Club rush}, any rush of the genus {Scirpus}. {Flowering rush}. See under {Flowering}. {Nut rush} (a) Any plant of the genus {Scleria}, rushlike plants with hard nutlike fruits. (b) A name for several species of {Cyperus} having tuberous roots. {Rush broom}, an Australian leguminous plant ({Viminaria denudata}), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under {Spanish}. {Rush candle}, See under {Candle}. {Rush grass}, any grass of the genus {Vilfa}, grasses with wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets. {Rush toad} (Zo[94]l.), the natterjack. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) Same as {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch.} {Spike rush}, any rushlike plant of the genus {Eleocharis}, in which the flowers grow in dense spikes. {Sweet rush}, a sweet-scented grass of Arabia, etc. ({Andropogon sch[d2]nanthus}), used in Oriental medical practice. {Wood rush}, any plant of the genus {Luzula}, which differs in some technical characters from {Juncus}.
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Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch[81]ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. {Cure}.] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. 3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. {Excursion}.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. {Scouring barrel}, a tumbling barrel. See under {Tumbling}. {Scouring cinder} (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) See {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch}. {Scouring stock} (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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{Dutch oven}, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. {Dutch pink}, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale. {Dutch rush} (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum ({E. hyemale}) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also {scouring rush}, and {shave grass}. See {Equisetum}. {Dutch tile}, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like. Note: Dutch was formerly used for German. Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. --Fuller.
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d8Equisetum \[d8]Eq`ui*se"tum\, n.; pl. {Equiseta}. [L., the horsetail, fr. equus horse + seta a thick,, stiff hair, bristle.] (Bot.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called {horsetails}. Note: The {Equiseta} have hollow jointed stems and no true leaves. The cuticle often contains siliceous granules, so that one species ({E. hyemale}) is used for scouring and polishing, under the name of {Dutch rush} or {scouring rush}.
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Scour \Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch[81]ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. {Cure}.] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. 3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. {Excursion}.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. {Scouring barrel}, a tumbling barrel. See under {Tumbling}. {Scouring cinder} (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond. {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) See {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch}. {Scouring stock} (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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Scranch \Scranch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scranched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scranching}.] [Cf. D. schransen to eat greedily, G. schranzen. Cf. {Crunch}, {Scrunch}.] To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Scranch \Scranch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scranched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scranching}.] [Cf. D. schransen to eat greedily, G. schranzen. Cf. {Crunch}, {Scrunch}.] To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Scranch \Scranch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scranched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scranching}.] [Cf. D. schransen to eat greedily, G. schranzen. Cf. {Crunch}, {Scrunch}.] To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Scranky \Scrank"y\, a. Thin; lean. [Scot.]
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Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [82]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[umac]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread. 2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below. 3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See {Screw propeller}, below. 4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. 5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. --Thackeray. 6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges] 7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew. 8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton. 9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th {Pitch}, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. 10. (Zo[94]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}. {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc. {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau. {Endless, [or] perpetual, {screw}, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}. {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}. {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}. {Screw bean}. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3. {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}. {Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}. {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}. {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. {Screw machine}. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw. {Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. {Screw shell} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See {Turritella}. {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw. {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw. {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres}, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}. {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. {Screw worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American fly ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. {Screw wrench}. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. {To put the} {screw, [or] screws}, {on}, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. {To put under the} {screw [or] screws}, to subject to pressure; to force. {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of {Wood screw}, under {Wood}.
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Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [82]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[umac]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread. 2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below. 3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See {Screw propeller}, below. 4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. 5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. --Thackeray. 6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges] 7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew. 8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton. 9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th {Pitch}, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. 10. (Zo[94]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}. {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc. {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau. {Endless, [or] perpetual, {screw}, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}. {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}. {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}. {Screw bean}. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3. {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}. {Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}. {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}. {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. {Screw machine}. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw. {Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. {Screw shell} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See {Turritella}. {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw. {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw. {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres}, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}. {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. {Screw worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American fly ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. {Screw wrench}. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. {To put the} {screw, [or] screws}, {on}, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. {To put under the} {screw [or] screws}, to subject to pressure; to force. {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of {Wood screw}, under {Wood}.
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Screw \Screw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Screwed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Screwing}.] 1. To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press. 2. To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. --Shak. 3. Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions. Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France. --swift. 4. To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage. He screwed his face into a hardened smile. --Dryden. 5. To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. [Cant, American Colleges] {To screw out}, to press out; to extort. {To screw up}, to force; to bring by violent pressure. --Howell.
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Screwing \Screw"ing\, a. & n. from {Screw}, v. t. {Screwing machine}. See {Screw machine}, under {Screw}.
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Screwing \Screw"ing\, a. & n. from {Screw}, v. t. {Screwing machine}. See {Screw machine}, under {Screw}.
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Scrimmage \Scrim"mage\ (?; 48), n. [A corruption of skirmish. [bd]Sore scrymmishe.[b8] --Ld. Berners.]] [Written also {scrummage}.] 1. Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle. 2. (Football) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
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Scrimshaw \Scrim"shaw`\, v. t. To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines. [Sailor's cant. U.S.]
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Scrimshaw \Scrim"shaw`\, n. A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. [Sailor's cant, U.S.]
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Scrine \Scrine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scringing}.] [Cf. {Cringe}.] To cringe. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
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Scrine \Scrine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scringing}.] [Cf. {Cringe}.] To cringe. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
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Scrimmage \Scrim"mage\ (?; 48), n. [A corruption of skirmish. [bd]Sore scrymmishe.[b8] --Ld. Berners.]] [Written also {scrummage}.] 1. Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle. 2. (Football) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
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Scrummage \Scrum"mage\ (?; 43), n. See {Scrimmage}.
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Scrimmage \Scrim"mage\ (?; 48), n. [A corruption of skirmish. [bd]Sore scrymmishe.[b8] --Ld. Berners.]] [Written also {scrummage}.] 1. Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle. 2. (Football) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
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Scrummage \Scrum"mage\ (?; 43), n. See {Scrimmage}.
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Scrunch \Scrunch\, v. t. & v. i. [Cf. {Scranch}, {Crunch}.] To scranch; to crunch. --Dickens.
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Sea orange \Sea" or"ange\ (Zo[94]l.) A large American holothurian ({Lophothuria Fabricii}) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
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Sear \Sear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Searing}.] [OE. seeren, AS. se[a0]rian. See {Sear}, a.] 1. To wither; to dry up. --Shak. 2. To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. I'm seared with burning steel. --Rowe. It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience. --Macaulay. The discipline of war, being a discipline in destruction of life, is a discipline in callousness. Whatever sympathies exist are seared. --H. Spencer. Note: Sear is allied to scorch in signification; but it is applied primarily to animal flesh, and has special reference to the effect of heat in marking the surface hard. Scorch is applied to flesh, cloth, or any other substance, and has no reference to the effect of hardness. {To sear}, to close by searing. [bd]Cherish veins of good humor, and sear up those of ill.[b8] --Sir W. Temple.
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Canary bird \Ca*na"ry bird`\ (Zo[94]l.) A small singing bird of the Finch family ({Serinus Canarius}), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called {canary finch}.
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Serin \Ser"in\, n. [F. serin.] (Zo[94]l.) A European finch ({Serinus hortulanus}) closely related to the canary.
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Sermocination \Sermoc`ina"tion\, n. [L. sermocinatio. See {Sermon}.] The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing. [Obs.] --Peacham.
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Sermocinator \Sermoc"ina`tor\, n. [L.] One who makes sermons or speeches. [Obs.] --Howell.
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Kelp \Kelp\, n. [Formerly kilpe; of unknown origin.] 1. The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine. 2. (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed. Note: {Laminaria} is the common kelp of Great Britain; {Macrocystis pyrifera} and {Nereocystis Lutkeana} are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean. {Kelp crab} (Zo[94]l.), a California spider crab ({Epialtus productus}), found among seaweeds, which it resembles in color. {Kelp salmon} (Zo[94]l.), a serranoid food fish ({Serranus clathratus}) of California. See {Cabrilla}.
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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.
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Squirrel \Squir"rel\ (skw[etil]r"r[etil]l or skw[icr]r"-; 277), n. [OE. squirel, OF. esquirel, escurel, F. [82]cureuil, LL. squirelus, squirolus, scuriolus, dim. of L. sciurus, Gr. si`oyros; skia` shade + o'yra` tail. Cf. {Shine}, v. i.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus {Sciurus} and several allied genera of the family {Sciurid[91]}. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows. Note: Among the common North American squirrels are the gray squirrel ({Scirius Carolinensis}) and its black variety; the fox, or cat, sqirrel ({S. cinereus}, or {S. niger}) which is a large species, and variable in color, the southern variety being frequently black, while the northern and western varieties are usually gray or rusty brown; the red squirrel (see {Chickaree}); the striped, or chipping, squirrel (see {Chipmunk}); and the California gray squirrel ({S. fossor}). Several other species inhabit Mexico and Central America. The common European species ({Sciurus vulgaris}) has a long tuft of hair on each ear. the so-called Australian squirrels are marsupials. See {Petaurist}, and {Phalanger}. 2. One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. {Barking squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the prairie dog. {Federation squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the striped gopher. See {Gopher}, 2. {Flying squirrel} (Zo[94]l.). See {Flying squirrel}, in the Vocabulary. {Java squirrel} (Zo[94]l.). See {Jelerang}. {Squirrel corn} (Bot.), a North American herb ({Dicantra Canadensis}) bearing little yellow tubers. {Squirrel cup} (Bot.), the blossom of the {Hepatica triloba}, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring. {Squirrel fish} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A sea bass ({Serranus fascicularis}) of the Southern United States. (b) The sailor's choice ({Diplodus rhomboides}). (c) The redmouth, or grunt. (d) A market fish of Bermuda ({Holocentrum Ascensione}). {Squirrel grass} (Bot.), a pestiferous grass ({Hordeum murinum}) related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and into the throat, flesh, and eyes of animals, sometimes even producing death. {Squirrel hake} (Zo[94]l.), a common American hake ({Phycis tenuis}); -- called also {white hake}. {Squirrel hawk} (Zo[94]l.), any rough-legged hawk; especially, the California species {Archibuteo ferrugineus}. {Squirrel monkey}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of small, soft-haired South American monkeys of the genus {Calithrix}. They are noted for their graceful form and agility. See {Teetee}. (b) A marmoset. {Squirrel petaurus} (Zo[94]l.), a flying phalanger of Australia. See {Phalanger}, {Petaurist}, and {Flying phalanger} under {Flying}. {Squirrel shrew} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus {Tupaia}. They are allied to the shrews, but have a bushy tail, like that of a squirrel. {Squirrel-tail grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Hordeum jubatum}) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns.
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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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Serry \Ser"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Serried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Serrying}.] [F. serrer, LL. serrare, serare, from L. sera a bar, bolt; akin to serere to join or bind together. See {Serries}.] To crowd; to press together. Note: [Now perhaps only in the form serried, p. p. or a.]
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Serum \Se"rum\ (s[emac]"r[ucr]m), n. [L., akin to Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. s[be]ra curd.] (Physiol.) (a) The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc. (b) A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. {Blood serum}, the pale yellowish fluid which exudes from the clot formed in the coagulation of the blood; the liquid portion of the blood, after removal of the blood corpuscles and the fibrin. {Muscle serum}, the thin watery fluid which separates from the muscles after coagulation of the muscle plasma; the watery portion of the plasma. See {Muscle plasma}, under {Plasma}. {Serum albumin} (Physiol. Chem.), an albuminous body, closely related to egg albumin, present in nearly all serous fluids; esp., the albumin of blood serum. {Serum globulin} (Physiol. Chem.), paraglobulin. {Serum of milk} (Physiol. Chem.), the whey, or fluid portion of milk, remaining after removal of the casein and fat.
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Share \Share\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sharing}.] 1. To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide. Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger. --Swift.
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Shear \Shear\, v. t. [imp. {Sheared}or {Shore};p. p. {Sheared} or {Shorn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shearing}.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski[?]re, Gr. [?][?][?]. Cf. {Jeer}, {Score}, {Shard}, {Share}, {Sheer} to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. --Shak. 3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See {Shear}, n., 4.
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Shearing \Shear"ing\, n. 1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 2. The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth. 3. Same as {Shearling}. --Youatt. 4. The act or operation of reaping. [Scot.] 5. The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates. 6. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 7. (Mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. {Shearing machine}. (a) A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal. (b) A machine for shearing cloth.
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Shearing \Shear"ing\, n. 1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 2. The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth. 3. Same as {Shearling}. --Youatt. 4. The act or operation of reaping. [Scot.] 5. The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates. 6. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 7. (Mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. {Shearing machine}. (a) A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal. (b) A machine for shearing cloth.
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Shear \Shear\, n. [AS. sceara. See {Shear}, v. t.] 1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See {Shears}. On his head came razor none, nor shear. --Chaucer. Short of the wool, and naked from the shear. --Dryden. 2. A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep. After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing. --Youatt. 3. (Engin.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called {shearing stress}, and {tangential stress}. 4. (Mech.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. {Shear blade}, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine. {Shear hulk}. See under {Hulk}. {Shear steel}, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.
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Sheer \Sheer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sheered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sheering}.] [D. sheren to shear, cut, withdraw, warp. See {Shear}.] To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle. {To sheer off}, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move away. {To sheer up}, to approach obliquely.
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Shirr \Shirr\, n. (Sewing) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also {shirring}, and {gauging}.
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Shore \Shore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoring}.] [OE. schoren. See {Shore} a prop.] To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
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Shoring \Shor"ing\, n. 1. The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore. 2. A system of props; props, collectively.
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Showeriness \Show"eriness\, n. Quality of being showery.
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Shower \Show"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Showered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Showering}.] 1. To water with a shower; to [?][?]t copiously with rain. Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. --Milton. 2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in [?]undance; to rain. --Shak. C[?]sar's favor, That showers down greatness on his friends. --Addison.
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Shrank \Shrank\, imp. of {Shrink}.
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Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk} or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrewmouse \Shrew"mouse`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.
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Shrink \Shrink\, v. t. 1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. 2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. --Milton. {To shrink on} (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.
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Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk} or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrink \Shrink\, n. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. --Leigh Hunt.
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Shrinkage \Shrink"age\, n. 1. The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement. 2. The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc. 3. Decrease in value; depreciation. [Colloq.]
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Shrinker \Shrink"er\, n. One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
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Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk} or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrinking \Shrink"ing\, a. & n. from {Shrink}. {Shrinking head} (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also {sinking head}, and {riser}.
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Shrinking \Shrink"ing\, a. & n. from {Shrink}. {Shrinking head} (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also {sinking head}, and {riser}.
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Shrinkingly \Shrink"ing*ly\, adv. In a shrinking manner.
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Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk} or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk} or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
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Shrunken \Shrunk"en\, p. p. & a. from {Shrink}.
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Sirenical \Siren"ical\, a. Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive. Here's couple of sirenical rascals shall enchant ye. --Marton.
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Sirenize \Si"ren*ize\, v. i. To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.
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Sire \Sire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Siring}.] To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.
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Skewer \Skew"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skewered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skewering}.] To fasten with skewers.
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Skirmish \Skir"mish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skirmished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skirmishing}.] [OE. skirmishen, scarmishen, OF. escremir, eskermir, to fence, fight, F. escrimer, of German origin; cf. OHG. scirmen to protect, defend, G. schirmen, OHG. scirm, scerm, protection, shield, G. schirm; perhaps akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] a sunshade. Cf. {Scaramouch}, {Scrimmage}.] To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
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Skirmish \Skir"mish\, n.[OE. scarmishe, scrymishe. See {Skirmish}, v. i.] 1. A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops. 2. A slight contest. They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit. --Shak.
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Skirmish \Skir"mish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skirmished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skirmishing}.] [OE. skirmishen, scarmishen, OF. escremir, eskermir, to fence, fight, F. escrimer, of German origin; cf. OHG. scirmen to protect, defend, G. schirmen, OHG. scirm, scerm, protection, shield, G. schirm; perhaps akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] a sunshade. Cf. {Scaramouch}, {Scrimmage}.] To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
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Skirmisher \Skir"mish*er\, n. One who skirmishes. Specifically: pl. (Mil.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
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Skirmish \Skir"mish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skirmished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skirmishing}.] [OE. skirmishen, scarmishen, OF. escremir, eskermir, to fence, fight, F. escrimer, of German origin; cf. OHG. scirmen to protect, defend, G. schirmen, OHG. scirm, scerm, protection, shield, G. schirm; perhaps akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] a sunshade. Cf. {Scaramouch}, {Scrimmage}.] To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
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Skrimmage \Skrim"mage\, n. See {Scrimmage}.
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Skringe \Skringe\, v. i. See {Scringe}.
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Soaring \Soar"ing\, a. & n. from {Soar}. -- {Soar"ing*ly}, adv.
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Soar \Soar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Soared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Soaring}.] [F. s'essorer to soar, essorer to dry (by exposing to the air), fr. L. ex out + aura the air, a breeze; akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?][?].] 1. To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings. --Chaucer. When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. --Byron. 2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton. Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune. --Addison.
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Soaring \Soar"ing\, a. & n. from {Soar}. -- {Soar"ing*ly}, adv.
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Sorance \Sor"ance\ (? [or] ?), n. Soreness. [Obs.]
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Soreness \Sore"ness\, n. The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.
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Sorrance \Sor"rance\, n. Same as {Sorance}. [Obs.]
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Sorriness \Sor"ri*ness\, n. The quality or state of being sorry.
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Sorrow \Sor"row\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sorrowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sorrowing}.] [OE. sorowen, sorwen, sorhen, AS. sorgian; akin to Goth. sa[a3]rgan. See {Sorrow}, n.] To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry. Sorrowing most of all . . . that they should see his face no more. --Acts xx. 38. I desire no man to sorrow for me. --Sir J. Hayward.
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Souring \Sour"ing\, n. (Bot.) Any sour apple.
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Sour \Sour\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Soured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Souring}.] To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity. They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity. --Addison.
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Sourness \Sour"ness\, n. The quality or state of being sour.
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Square \Square\, a. 1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure. 2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner. 3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame. 4. Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. --Shak. 5. Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing. 6. Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square. 7. Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous. By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. --Beau. & Fl. 8. (Naut.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced. Note: Square is often used in self-explaining compounds or combination, as in square-built, square-cornered, square-cut, square-nosed, etc. {Square foot}, an area equal to that of a square the sides of which are twelwe inches; 144 square inches. {Square knot}, a knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other; a reef knot. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Square measure}, the measure of a superficies or surface which depends on the length and breadth taken conjointly. The units of square measure are squares whose sides are the linear measures; as, square inches, square feet, square meters, etc. {Square number}. See {square}, n., 6. {Square root of a number} [or] {quantity} (Math.), that number or quantity which, multiplied by itself produces the given number or quantity. {Square sail} (Naut.), a four-sided sail extended upon a yard suspended by the middle; sometimes, the foresail of a schooner set upon a yard; also, a cutter's or sloop's sail boomed out. See Illust. of {Sail}. {Square stern} (Naut.), a stern having a transom and joining the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a round stern, which has no transom. {Three-square}, {Five-square}, etc., having three, five, etc., equal sides; as, a three-square file. {To get square with}, to get even with; to pay off. [Colloq.]
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Measure \Meas"ure\, n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. [?], E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged. 2. An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like. False ells and measures be brought all clean adown. --R. of Gloucester. 3. The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. --Job xi. 9. 4. The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount. It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal. --Luke xiii. 21. 5. Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure. Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure. --Is. v. 14. 6. Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days. --Ps. xxxix. 4. 7. The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure. 8. Undefined quantity; extent; degree. There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confession. --Jer. Taylor. 9. Regulated division of movement: (a) (Dancing) A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet. (b) (Mus.) (1) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats. (2) The space between two bars. See {Beat}, {Triple}, {Quadruple}, {Sextuple}, {Compound time}, under {Compound}, a., and {Figure}. (c) (Poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure. 10. (Arith.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers. 11. A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. --Clarendon. 12. The act of measuring; measurement. --Shak. 13. pl. (Geol.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures. {Lineal}, [or] {Long}, {measure}, measure of length; the measure of lines or distances. {Liquid measure}, the measure of liquids. {Square measure}, the measure of superficial area of surfaces in square units, as inches, feet, miles, etc. {To have hard measure}, to have harsh treatment meted out to one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with. {To take measures}, to make preparations; to provide means. {To take one's measure}, to measure one, as for a garment; hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character, ability, etc. {To tread a measure}, to dance in the style so called. See 9 (a) . Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass. --Shak.
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Squareness \Square"ness\, n. The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
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Square \Square\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squaring}.] [Cf. OF. escarrer, esquarrer. See {Square}, n.] 1. To form with four sides and four right angles. --Spenser. 2. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work. 3. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard. --Shak. 4. To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others. Square my trial To my proportioned strength. --Milton. 5. To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts. 6. (Math.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity. 7. (Astrol.) To hold a quartile position respecting. The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales. --Creech. 8. (Naut.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards. {To square one's shoulders}, to raise the shoulders so as to give them a square appearance, -- a movement expressing contempt or dislike. --Sir W. Scott. {To square the circle} (Math.), to determine the exact contents of a circle in square measure. The solution of this famous problem is now generally admitted to be impossible.
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Squire \Squire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {squired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {squiring}.] 1. To attend as a squire. --Chaucer. 2. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady. [Colloq.] --Goldsmith.
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Surance \Sur"ance\, n. Assurance. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Surangular \Suran"gular\, a. [Pref. sur- + angular.] (Anat.) Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. -- n. The surangular bone.
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Sureness \Sure"ness\, n. The state of being sure; certainty. For more sureness he repeats it. --Woodward. The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. --Emerson.
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Surmisable \Surmis"able\, a. Capable of being surmised; as, a surmisable result.
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Surmisal \Sur*mis"al\, n. Surmise. [R.] --Milton.
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Surmise \Sur*mise"\, n. [OF. surmise accusation, fr. surmettre, p. p. surmis, to impose, accuse; sur (see {Sur-}) + mettre to put, set, L. mittere to send. See {Mission}.] 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. [We] double honor gain From his surmise proved false. --Milton. No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises. --Swift. 2. Reflection; thought. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Conjecture; supposition; suspicion; doubt.
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Surmise \Sur*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surmised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Surmising}.] To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. --Dryden. This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it. --Woodward.
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Surmise \Sur*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surmised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Surmising}.] To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. --Dryden. This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it. --Woodward.
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Surmiser \Sur*mis"er\, n. One who surmises.
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Surmise \Sur*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surmised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Surmising}.] To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. --Dryden. This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it. --Woodward.
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Surmising \Sur*mis"ing\, a. & n. from {Surmise}, v.
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Zo94spore \Zo"[94]*spore\, n. [Zo[94]- + spore.] 1. (Bot.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zo[94]spores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, alg[91]. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozo[94]spores and the smaller microzo[94]spores. Called also {sporozoid}, and {swarmspore}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) See {Swarmspore}.
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Swarmspore \Swarm"spore`\, n. 1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain alg[91] and fungi; a zo[94]spore. 2. (Zo[94]l.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also {zo[94]spore}.
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Zo94spore \Zo"[94]*spore\, n. [Zo[94]- + spore.] 1. (Bot.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zo[94]spores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, alg[91]. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozo[94]spores and the smaller microzo[94]spores. Called also {sporozoid}, and {swarmspore}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) See {Swarmspore}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swarmspore \Swarm"spore`\, n. 1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain alg[91] and fungi; a zo[94]spore. 2. (Zo[94]l.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also {zo[94]spore}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swear \Swear\, v. i. [imp. {Swore}, formerly {Sware}; p. p. {Sworn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swearing}.] [OE. swerien, AS. swerian; akin to D. zweren, OS. swerian, OHG. swerien, G. schw[94]ren, Icel. sverja, Sw. sv[84]rja, Dan. sv[91]rge, Icel. & Sw. svara to answer, Dan. svare, Dan. & Sw. svar an answer, Goth. swaran to swear, and perhaps to E. swarm. [fb]177. Cf. {Answer}.] 1. To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc. Ye shall swear by my name falsely. --Lev. xix. 12. I swear by all the Roman gods. --Shak. 2. (Law) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner. 3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse. [I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. --Shak. {To swear by}, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. [bd]I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam.[b8] --Miss Edgeworth. {To swear off}, to make a solemn vow, or a serious resolution, to abstain from something; as, to swear off smoking. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swearing \Swear"ing\, a. & n. from {Swear}, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syrianism \Syr"ianism\, n. A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism. --Paley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringa \Sy*rin"ga\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], [?], a shepherd's pipe, tube. Cf. {Syringe}.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants; the lilac. (b) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringin \Sy*rin"gin\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac ({Syringa}) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also {lilacin}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lilac \Li"lac\ (l[imac]"l[ait]k), n. [Also {lilach}.] [Sp. lilac, lila, Ar. l[c6]lak, fr. Per. l[c6]laj, l[c6]lanj, l[c6]lang, n[c6]laj, n[c6]l, the indigo plant, or from the kindred l[c6]lak bluish, the flowers being named from the color. Cf. {Anil}.] 1. (Bot.) A shrub of the genus {Syringa}. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. {Syringa vulgaris}, the common lilac, and {S. Persica}, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name. 2. A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac. {California lilac} (Bot.), a low shrub with dense clusters of purplish flowers ({Ceanothus thyrsiflorus}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringe \Syr"inge\, n. [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp. jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. [?], [?], a pipe or tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. {Syringa}.] A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc. {Garden syringe}. See {Garden}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringe \Syr"inge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Syringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Syringing}.] 1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein. 2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringeal \Syrin"geal\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringe \Syr"inge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Syringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Syringing}.] 1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein. 2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syrinx \Syr"inx\, n.; pl. {Syringes}. [NL., from Gr. [?] a pipe.] 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also {pandean pipes}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringin \Sy*rin"gin\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac ({Syringa}) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also {lilacin}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringe \Syr"inge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Syringed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Syringing}.] 1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein. 2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringotome \Syrin"gotome\, n. [Cf. F. syringotome. See {Syringotomy}.] (Surg. & Anat.) A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syringotomy \Syr`ingot"omy\, n. [Gr. [?] a tube, a hollow sore + [?] to cut: cf. F. syringotomie.] (Surg.) The operation of cutting for anal fistula.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Syrinx \Syr"inx\, n.; pl. {Syringes}. [NL., from Gr. [?] a pipe.] 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also {pandean pipes}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Saranac, MI (village, FIPS 71660) Location: 42.92980 N, 85.20938 W Population (1990): 1461 (607 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48881 Saranac, NY Zip code(s): 12981
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Saranac Lake, NY (village, FIPS 65233) Location: 44.32501 N, 74.13307 W Population (1990): 5377 (2632 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 12983
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Schram City, IL (village, FIPS 68120) Location: 39.16259 N, 89.46058 W Population (1990): 692 (312 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Sea Ranch Lakes, FL (village, FIPS 64725) Location: 26.20011 N, 80.09622 W Population (1990): 619 (334 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Searingtown, NY (CDP, FIPS 66102) Location: 40.77012 N, 73.66006 W Population (1990): 5020 (1613 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Sharon Grove, KY Zip code(s): 42280
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Sharon Springs, KS (city, FIPS 64375) Location: 38.89425 N, 101.75214 W Population (1990): 872 (435 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67758 Sharon Springs, NY (village, FIPS 66663) Location: 42.79495 N, 74.61754 W Population (1990): 543 (281 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13459
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Sky Ranch, SD Zip code(s): 57724
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Suring, WI (village, FIPS 78725) Location: 45.00042 N, 88.37029 W Population (1990): 626 (282 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54174
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Surrency, GA (town, FIPS 74852) Location: 31.72178 N, 82.19827 W Population (1990): 253 (106 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31563
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Syringa, VA Zip code(s): 23169
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
scram switch n. [from the nuclear power industry] An emergency-power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}), esp. one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is _not_ something you {frob} lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a {dinosaur pen} for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless {field servoid} should put 120 volts across himself while {Easter egging}. (See also {molly-guard}, {TMRC}.) A correspondent reports a legend that "Scram" is an acronym for "Start Cutting Right Away, Man" (another less plausible variant of this legend refers to "Safety Control Rod Axe Man"; these are almost certainly both {backronym}s). The story goes that in the earliest nuclear power experiments the engineers recognized the possibility that the reactor wouldn't behave exactly as predicted by their mathematical models. Accordingly, they made sure that they had mechanisms in place that would rapidly drop the control rods back into the reactor. One mechanism took the form of `scram technicians'. These individuals stood next to the ropes or cables that raised and lowered the control rods. Equipped with axes or cable-cutters, these technicians stood ready for the (literal) `scram' command. If necessary, they would cut the cables, and gravity would expeditiously return the control rods to the reactor, thereby averting yet another kind of {core dump}. Modern reactor control rods are held in place with claw-like devices, held closed by current. SCRAM switches are circuit breakers that immediately open the circuit to the rod arms, resulting in the rapid insertion and subsequent bottoming of the control rods.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
sharing violation [From a file error common to several {OS}s] A response to receiving information, typically of an excessively personal nature, that you were probably happier not knowing. "You know those little noises that Pat makes in bed..?" "Whoa! Sharing violation!" In contrast to the original file error, which indicated that you were _not_ being given data that you _did_ want.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
scram switch (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is not something you {frob} lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a {dinosaur pen} for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless {field servoid} should put 120 volts across himself while {Easter egging}. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also {molly-guard}, {TMRC}. [{Jargon File}] (2003-05-17)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
screen saver A program which displays either a completely black image or a constantly changing image on a computer monitor to prevent a stationary image from "burning" into the phosphor of the screen. Screen savers usually start automatically after the computer has had no user input for a preset time. Some screen savers come with many different modules, each giving a different effect. Approximately pre-1990, many {cathode ray tubes}, in TVs, computer {monitors} or elsewhere, were prone to "burn-in"; that is, if the same pattern (e.g., the {WordPerfect} status line; the {Pong} score readout; or a TV channel-number display) were shown at the same position on the screen for very long periods of time, the phosphor on the screen would "fatigue" and that part of the screen would seem greyed out, even when the CRT was off. Eventually CRTs were developed which were resistant to burn-in (and which sometimes went into {sleep} mode after a period of inactivity); but in the meantime, solutions were developed: home video game systems of the era (e.g., Atari 2600s) would, when not being played, change the screen every few seconds, to avoid burn-in; and computer screen saver programs were developed. The first screen savers were simple screen blankers - they just set the screen to all black, but, in the best case of {creeping featurism} ever recorded, these tiny (often under 1K long) programs grew without regard to efficiency or even basic usefulness. At first, small, innocuous {display hacks} (generally on an almost-black screen) were added. Later, more complex effects appeared, including {animations} (often with sound effects!) of arbitrary length and complexity. Along the way, avoiding repetitive patterns and burn-in was completely forgotten and "screen savers" such as {Pointcast} were developed, which make no claim to save your monitor, but are simply bloated {browsers} for {push media} which self-start after the machine has been inactive for a few minutes. (1997-11-23)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
screen scraper A piece of software used to automate interaction between two computer systems through the terminal interface (designed for human use) of one of those systems. Typically, the screen scraper interacts with {terminal emulation} software to generate input to and process output from the "host" system through terminal screens. Screen scrapers are advantageous when modifications to the host system are undesireable, when it is desireable to make use of the existing business and data integrity logic on the host, and when no other (peer-to-peer) interface method is available. Some products employ screen scraping combined with additional functionality which provides a {DBMS}-like or other specialised interface to the host. The host system is often called a "{legacy} system" because it usually the older of the systems involved and based on older technology. (1995-04-19)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
screen sharing {Audiographic Teleconferencing}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Sharon, Saron a plain, a level tract extending from the Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles long and from 8 to 15 miles broad, celebrated for its beauty and fertility (1 Chr. 27:29; Isa. 33:9; 35:2; 65:10). The "rose of Sharon" is celebrated (Cant. 2:1). It is called Lasharon (the article la being here a part of the word) in Josh. 12:18.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Shearing-house (2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., "house of shepherds binding sheep." R.V., "the shearing-house of the shepherds;" marg., "house of gathering"), some place between Samaria and Jezreel, where Jehu slew "two and forty men" of the royal family of Judah. The Heb. word Beth-eked so rendered is supposed by some to be a proper name.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Shrines, Silver little models and medallions of the temple and image of Diana of Ephesus (Acts 19:24). The manufacture of these was a very large and profitable business.