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   secular
         adj 1: of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and
                  religious considerations
         2: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed
            to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement";
            "temporal possessions of the church" [syn: {worldly},
            {secular}, {temporal}] [ant: {unworldly}]
         3: not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and
            profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture",
            "children being brought up in an entirely profane
            environment" [syn: {profane}, {secular}] [ant: {sacred}]
         4: of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows; "the
            secular clergy" [ant: {religious}]
         5: characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy;
            "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the
            lay ministry" [syn: {laic}, {lay}, {secular}]
         n 1: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
               [syn: {layman}, {layperson}, {secular}] [ant: {clergyman},
               {man of the cloth}, {reverend}]

English Dictionary: social reformer by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secular games
n
  1. the centennial rites and games of ancient Rome that marked the commencement of a new generation (100 years representing the longest life in a generation); observances may have begun as early as the 5th century BC and lasted well into the Christian era
    Synonym(s): Ludi Saeculares, secular games
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secular humanism
n
  1. the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self- realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural
    Synonym(s): humanism, secular humanism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secularisation
n
  1. the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion
    Synonym(s): secularization, secularisation
  2. transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
    Synonym(s): secularization, secularisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secularise
v
  1. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation; "Ataturk secularized Turkey"
    Synonym(s): secularize, secularise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secularism
n
  1. a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secularist
n
  1. an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secularization
n
  1. the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion
    Synonym(s): secularization, secularisation
  2. transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
    Synonym(s): secularization, secularisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secularize
v
  1. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation; "Ataturk secularized Turkey"
    Synonym(s): secularize, secularise
  2. transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
    Synonym(s): desacralize, secularize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sexual arousal
n
  1. the arousal of sexual desires in preparation for sexual behavior
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sexual harassment
n
  1. unwelcome sexual behavior by a supervisor toward an employee
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sexual relation
n
  1. the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
    Synonym(s): sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sexual relationship
n
  1. a relationship involving sexual intimacy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sexual reproduction
n
  1. reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete
    Synonym(s): sexual reproduction, amphimixis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sexual urge
n
  1. all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence"
    Synonym(s): sex, sexual urge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shoe collar
n
  1. the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot [syn: collar, shoe collar]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social organisation
n
  1. the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
    Synonym(s): social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social organization
n
  1. the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
    Synonym(s): social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social rank
n
  1. position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
    Synonym(s): social station, social status, social rank, rank
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social reformer
n
  1. a disputant who advocates reform [syn: reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social relation
n
  1. a relation between living organisms (especially between people)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social work
n
  1. any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
social worker
n
  1. someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)
    Synonym(s): social worker, caseworker, welfare worker
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saccular \Sac"cu*lar\, a.
      Like a sac; sacciform.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sea colewort \Sea" cole"wort`\ (Bot.)
      Sea cabbage.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis,
      fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world;
      perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.]
      1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  
                     The secular year was kept but once a century.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a
            long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of
            time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of
            the globe.
  
      3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not
            spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished
            from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily
            respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  
                     New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with
                     secular chains.                                 --Milton.
  
      4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules;
            not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a
            religious community; as, a secular priest.
  
                     He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
                     greater regard for morals, both in the religious
                     orders and the secular clergy.            --Prescett.
  
      5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  
                     I speak of folk in secular estate.      --Chaucer.
  
      {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
            expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
            planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
            short period have been allowed for.
  
      {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
            irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
            sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
            like.
  
      {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
            uses.
  
      {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the
            secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secular \Sec"u*lar\, n.
      1. (Eccl.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by
            monastic rules. --Burke.
  
      2. (Eccl.) A church official whose functions are confined to
            the vocal department of the choir. --Busby.
  
      3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canon \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F.
      canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL.
      canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr.
      Gr. [?] rule, rod, fr. [?], [?], red. See {Cane}, and cf.
      {Canonical}.]
      1. A law or rule.
  
                     Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon
                     'gainst self-slaughter.                     --Shak.
  
      2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted
            by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a
            decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by
            ecclesiastical authority.
  
                     Various canons which were made in councils held in
                     the second centry.                              --Hock.
  
      3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy
            Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of
            moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible;
            also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical
            books}, under {Canonical}, a.
  
      4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious
            order.
  
      5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the
            Roman Catholic Church.
  
      6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a
            prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  
      7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one
            after another, at regular intervals, successively taking
            up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda
            (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew,
            thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the
            strictest form of imitation. See {Imitation}.
  
      8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name;
            -- so called from having been used for printing the canons
            of the church.
  
      9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called
            also {ear} and {shank}.
  
      Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight.
  
      10. (Billiards) See {Carom}.
  
      {Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}.
  
      {Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under
            {Augustinian}.
  
      {Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of
            a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the
            year).
  
      {Canon law}. See under {Law}.
  
      {Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass,
            following the Sanctus, which never changes.
  
      {Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery,
            nor kept the canonical hours.
  
      {Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a
            chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.
  
      {Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual
            community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black
            canon.
  
      {Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a
            monastery, but kept the hours.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canoness \Can"on*ess\, n. [Cf. LL. canonissa.]
      A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
  
      {Regular canoness}, one bound by the poverty, and observing a
            strict rule of life.
  
      {Secular canoness}, one allowed to hold private property, and
            bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as
            she chose to remain in the chapter.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clergy \Cler"gy\, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie,
      F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused
      with OF. clergi[82], F. clerg[82], fr. LL. clericatus office
      of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL.
      scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in
      sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See {Clerk}.]
      1. The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the
            service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction
            from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the
            ministers of the Established Church. --Hooker.
  
      2. Learning; also, a learned profession. [Obs.]
  
                     Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. --Guy
                                                                              of Warwick.
  
                     Put their second sons to learn some clergy. --State
                                                                              Papers (1515).
  
      3. The privilege or benefit of clergy.
  
                     If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled
                     equally to his clergy after as before conviction.
                                                                              --Blackstone.
  
      {Benefit of clergy} (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons
            of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge
            -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read,
            such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or
            clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by
            various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of
            George IV. (1827).
  
      {Regular clergy}, {Secular clergy} See {Regular}, n., and
            {Secular}, a.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis,
      fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world;
      perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.]
      1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  
                     The secular year was kept but once a century.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a
            long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of
            time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of
            the globe.
  
      3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not
            spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished
            from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily
            respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  
                     New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with
                     secular chains.                                 --Milton.
  
      4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules;
            not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a
            religious community; as, a secular priest.
  
                     He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
                     greater regard for morals, both in the religious
                     orders and the secular clergy.            --Prescett.
  
      5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  
                     I speak of folk in secular estate.      --Chaucer.
  
      {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
            expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
            planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
            short period have been allowed for.
  
      {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
            irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
            sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
            like.
  
      {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
            uses.
  
      {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the
            secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis,
      fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world;
      perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.]
      1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  
                     The secular year was kept but once a century.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a
            long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of
            time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of
            the globe.
  
      3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not
            spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished
            from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily
            respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  
                     New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with
                     secular chains.                                 --Milton.
  
      4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules;
            not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a
            religious community; as, a secular priest.
  
                     He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
                     greater regard for morals, both in the religious
                     orders and the secular clergy.            --Prescett.
  
      5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  
                     I speak of folk in secular estate.      --Chaucer.
  
      {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
            expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
            planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
            short period have been allowed for.
  
      {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
            irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
            sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
            like.
  
      {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
            uses.
  
      {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the
            secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis,
      fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world;
      perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.]
      1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  
                     The secular year was kept but once a century.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a
            long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of
            time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of
            the globe.
  
      3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not
            spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished
            from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily
            respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  
                     New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with
                     secular chains.                                 --Milton.
  
      4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules;
            not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a
            religious community; as, a secular priest.
  
                     He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
                     greater regard for morals, both in the religious
                     orders and the secular clergy.            --Prescett.
  
      5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  
                     I speak of folk in secular estate.      --Chaucer.
  
      {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
            expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
            planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
            short period have been allowed for.
  
      {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
            irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
            sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
            like.
  
      {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
            uses.
  
      {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the
            secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis,
      fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world;
      perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.]
      1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  
                     The secular year was kept but once a century.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a
            long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of
            time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of
            the globe.
  
      3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not
            spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished
            from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily
            respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  
                     New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with
                     secular chains.                                 --Milton.
  
      4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules;
            not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a
            religious community; as, a secular priest.
  
                     He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
                     greater regard for morals, both in the religious
                     orders and the secular clergy.            --Prescett.
  
      5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  
                     I speak of folk in secular estate.      --Chaucer.
  
      {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
            expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
            planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
            short period have been allowed for.
  
      {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
            irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
            sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
            like.
  
      {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
            uses.
  
      {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem composed for the
            secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularism \Sec"u*lar*ism\, n.
      1. The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit;
            secularity.
  
      2. The tenets or principles of the secularists.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularist \Sec"u*lar*ist\, n.
      One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith,
      and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the
      facts and influences which are derived from the present life;
      also, one who believes that education and other matters of
      civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a
      religious element.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularity \Sec`u*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf.F. s[82]cularit[82], LL.
      saecularitas.]
      Supreme attention to the things of the present life;
      worldliness.
  
               A secularity of character which makes Christianity and
               its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible.
                                                                              --I. Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularization \Sec`u*lar*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
      s[82]cularisation.]
      The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered
      secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular;
      conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and
      uses; as, the secularization of church property.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secularized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Secularizing}.] [Cf. F. s[82]culaiser.]
      1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to
            secularize a priest or a monk.
  
      2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize
            a church, or church property.
  
                     At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W.
                                                                              Coxe.
  
      3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secularized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Secularizing}.] [Cf. F. s[82]culaiser.]
      1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to
            secularize a priest or a monk.
  
      2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize
            a church, or church property.
  
                     At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W.
                                                                              Coxe.
  
      3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secularized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Secularizing}.] [Cf. F. s[82]culaiser.]
      1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to
            secularize a priest or a monk.
  
      2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize
            a church, or church property.
  
                     At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W.
                                                                              Coxe.
  
      3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularly \Sec"u*lar*ly\, adv.
      In a secular or worldly manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secularness \Sec"u*lar*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being secular; worldliness;
      worldly-minded-ness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[d3]r moor, morass; akin to D.
      moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere.
      See {Mere} a lake.]
      1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and
            having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and
            abounding in peat; a heath.
  
                     In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
                                                                              --Carew.
  
      2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
  
      {Moor buzzard} (Zo[94]l.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Moor coal} (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.
  
      {Moor cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of the moor fowl or red
            grouse of Europe.
  
      {Moor coot}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gallinule}.
  
      {Moor fowl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The European ptarmigan, or red grouse ({Lagopus
                  Scoticus}).
            (b) The European heath grouse. See under {Heath}.
  
      {Moor game}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Moor fowl} (above).
  
      {Moor grass} (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria
            c[91]rulea}), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
  
      {Moor hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the marsh harrier.
  
      {Moor hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The female of the moor fowl.
            (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See
                  {Gallinule}.
            (c) An Australian rail ({Tribonyx ventralis}).
  
      {Moor monkey} (Zo[94]l.), the black macaque of Borneo
            ({Macacus maurus}).
  
      {Moor titling} (Zo[94]l.), the European stonechat
            ({Pratinocola rubicola}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reproduction \Re`pro*duc"tion\ (-d?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F.
      reproduction.]
      1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being
            reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which
            plants and animals give rise to offspring.
  
      Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.:
               {asexual reproduction} (agamogenesis) and {sexual
               reproduction} (gamogenesis). In both cases the new
               individual is developed from detached portions of the
               parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation,
               fission, etc.), the detached portions of the organism
               develop into new individuals without the intervention
               of other living matter. In sexual reproduction, the
               detached portion, which is always a single cell, called
               the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion
               of living matter, the male germ cell, usually from
               another organism, and in the fusion of the two
               (impregnation) a new cell is formed, from the
               development of which arises a new individual.
  
      2. That which is reproduced.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sickler \Sic"kler\, n.
      One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sicklewort \Sic"kle*wort`\, n. [AS. sicolwyrt.] (Bot.)
      (a) A plant of the genus {Coronilla} ({C. scorpioides}); --
            so named from its curved pods.
      (b) The healall ({Brunella vulgaris}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.]
      1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
            as, a sickly body.
  
                     This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak.
  
      2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a
            sickly climate. --Cowper.
  
      3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
  
                     The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden.
  
                     Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.      --Keble.
  
      4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell;
            sickly sentimentality.
  
      Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless;
               weak; feeble; languid; faint.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sigillarid \Sig`il*la"rid\, n. (Paleon.)
      One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the
      genus {Sigillaria} and its allies.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Suckler \Suc"kler\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sicklerville, NJ
      Zip code(s): 08081
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