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   scorned
         adj 1: treated with contempt [syn: {despised}, {detested},
                  {hated}, {scorned}]

English Dictionary: souari nut by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Scranton
n
  1. an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screen door
n
  1. a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door; "he heard the screen slam as she left"
    Synonym(s): screen door, screen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screen out
v
  1. examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
    Synonym(s): screen, screen out, sieve, sort
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screen test
n
  1. a filmed audition of an actor or actress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea wormwood
n
  1. plants of western and northern European coasts [syn: {sea wormwood}, Seriphidium maritimum, Artemisia maritima]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serenade
n
  1. a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form
    Synonym(s): divertimento, serenade
  2. a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman
v
  1. sing and play for somebody; "She was serenaded by her admirers"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serendipitous
adj
  1. lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serendipity
n
  1. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serenity
n
  1. a disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility]
  2. the absence of mental stress or anxiety
    Synonym(s): peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serranid
n
  1. marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
    Synonym(s): serranid fish, serranid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serranid fish
n
  1. marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
    Synonym(s): serranid fish, serranid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Serranidae
n
  1. marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish
    Synonym(s): Serranidae, family Serranidae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serum disease
n
  1. 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
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sierra Madre Occidental
n
  1. a mountain range in northwestern Mexico that runs south from Arizona parallel to the Pacific coastline
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sierra Madre Oriental
n
  1. a mountain range in northeastern Mexico the runs parallel to the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sir Anthony Hopkins
n
  1. Welsh film actor (born in 1937) [syn: Hopkins, {Anthony Hopkins}, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
n
  1. Welsh film actor (born in 1937) [syn: Hopkins, {Anthony Hopkins}, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sir Anthony Vandyke
n
  1. Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641) [syn: Vandyke, Van Dyck, Anthony Vandyke, Sir Anthony Vandyke]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sir Matthew Flinders
n
  1. British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
    Synonym(s): Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sirenidae
n
  1. sirens
    Synonym(s): Sirenidae, family Sirenidae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
souari nut
n
  1. large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
    Synonym(s): souari, souari nut, souari tree, Caryocar nuciferum
  2. a large nutlike seed of a South American tree
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
square and rabbet
n
  1. molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column [syn: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
square matrix
n
  1. a matrix with the same number of rows and columns
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
square meter
n
  1. a centare is 1/100th of an are [syn: square meter, square metre, centare]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
square metre
n
  1. a centare is 1/100th of an are [syn: square meter, square metre, centare]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
square nut
n
  1. nut with a square shape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sure-handed
adj
  1. proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surrender
n
  1. acceptance of despair
    Synonym(s): resignation, surrender
  2. a verbal act of admitting defeat
    Synonym(s): giving up, yielding, surrender
  3. the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
  4. the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
    Synonym(s): capitulation, fall, surrender
v
  1. give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
    Synonym(s): surrender, give up
    Antonym(s): hold out, resist, stand firm, withstand
  2. relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
    Synonym(s): surrender, cede, deliver, give up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surrenderer
n
  1. a person who yields or surrenders [syn: surrenderer, yielder]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surround
n
  1. the area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround"
    Synonym(s): environment, environs, surroundings, surround
v
  1. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
    Synonym(s): surround, environ, ring, skirt, border
  2. envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
    Synonym(s): smother, surround
  3. surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
    Synonym(s): besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent
  4. surround with a wall in order to fortify
    Synonym(s): wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surrounded
adj
  1. confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers"
    Synonym(s): surrounded, encircled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surrounding
adj
  1. closely encircling; "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside"
    Synonym(s): encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surroundings
n
  1. the environmental condition
    Synonym(s): milieu, surroundings
  2. the area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround"
    Synonym(s): environment, environs, surroundings, surround
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Syrian Desert
n
  1. a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sesame \Ses"a*me\, n. [L. sesamum, sesama, Gr. [?][?][?][?],
      [?][?][?]: cf. F. s[82]same.] (Bot.)
      Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus {Sesamum}
      ({S. Indicum}, and {S. orientale}), from the seeds of which
      an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds
      of these plants, sometimes used as food. See {Benne}.
  
      {Open Sesame}, the magical command which opened the door of
            the robber's den in the Arabian Nights' tale of [bd]The
            Forty Thieves;[b8] hence, a magical password.
  
      {Sesame grass}. (Bot.) Same as {Gama grass}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarmatian \Sar*ma"tian\, Sarmatic \Sar*mat"ic\, a. [L.
      Sarmaticus.]
      Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the
      ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarmatian \Sar*ma"tian\, Sarmatic \Sar*mat"ic\, a. [L.
      Sarmaticus.]
      Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the
      ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sawarra nut \Sa*war"ra nut`\
      See {Souari nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Souari nut \Sou*a"ri nut`\ (Bot.)
      The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American
      tree ({Caryocar nuciferum}) of the same natural order with
      the tea plant; -- also called {butternut}. [Written also
      {sawarra nut}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sawarra nut \Sa*war"ra nut`\
      See {Souari nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Souari nut \Sou*a"ri nut`\ (Bot.)
      The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American
      tree ({Caryocar nuciferum}) of the same natural order with
      the tea plant; -- also called {butternut}. [Written also
      {sawarra nut}.]

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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scream \Scream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Screamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Screaming}.] [Icel. skr[91]ma to scare, terrify; akin to Sw.
      skr[84]ma, Dan. skr[91]mme. Cf. {Screech}.]
      To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp
      outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to
      shriek; to screech.
  
               I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. --Shak.
  
               And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before.
                                                                              --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Screen \Screen\ (skr[emac]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Screened}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Screening}.]
      1. To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to
            separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger;
            to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal;
            as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
  
                     They were encouraged and screened by some who were
                     in high commands.                              --Macaulay.
  
      2. To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in
            order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the
            worthless from the valuable; to sift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sea wormwood \Sea" worm"wood`\ (Bot.)
      A European species of wormwood ({Artemisia maritima}) growing
      by the sea.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seerhand \Seer"hand\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
      A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenade \Ser`*enade"\, n. [F. s[82]r[82]nade, It. serenata,
      probably fr. L. serenus serene (cf. {Serene}), misunderstood
      as a derivative fr. L. serus late. Cf. {Soir[82]e}.] (Mus.)
      (a) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; --
            usually applied to musical entertainments given in the
            open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit
            of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
      (b) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenade \Ser`e*nade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Serenaded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Serenading}.]
      To entertain with a serenade.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenade \Ser`e*nade"\, v. i.
      To perform a serenade.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenade \Ser`e*nade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Serenaded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Serenading}.]
      To entertain with a serenade.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenader \Ser`e*nad"er\, n.
      One who serenades.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenade \Ser`e*nade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Serenaded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Serenading}.]
      To entertain with a serenade.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenata \Ser`e*na"ta\, Serenate \Ser"e*nate\, n. [It. serenata.
      See {Serenade}.] (Mus.)
      A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject;
      a serenade.
  
               Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his
               pround fair.                                          --Milton.
  
      Note: The name serenata was given by Italian composers in the
               time of Handel, and by Handel himself, to a cantata of
               a pastoreal of dramatic character, to a secular ode,
               etc.; also by Mozart and others to an orchectral
               composition, in several movements, midway between the
               suite of an earlier period and the modern symphony.
               --Grove.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenata \Ser`e*na"ta\, Serenate \Ser"e*nate\, n. [It. serenata.
      See {Serenade}.] (Mus.)
      A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject;
      a serenade.
  
               Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his
               pround fair.                                          --Milton.
  
      Note: The name serenata was given by Italian composers in the
               time of Handel, and by Handel himself, to a cantata of
               a pastoreal of dramatic character, to a secular ode,
               etc.; also by Mozart and others to an orchectral
               composition, in several movements, midway between the
               suite of an earlier period and the modern symphony.
               --Grove.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenitude \Se*ren"i*tude\, n.
      Serenity. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serenity \Se*ren"i*ty\, n. [L. serenuas: cf. F.
      s[82]r[82]nit[82].]
      1. The quality or state of being serene; clearness and
            calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.
  
                     A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a
                     general trouble.                                 --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
      2. Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state;
            coolness; composure.
  
                     I can not see how any men should ever transgress
                     those moral rules with confidence and serenity.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      Note: Serenity is given as a title to the members of certain
               princely families in Europe; as, Your Serenity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Perciformes \[d8]Per`ci*for"mes\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true
      perches ({Percid[91]}); the pondfishes ({Centrarchid[91]});
      the sci[91]noids ({Sci[91]nid[91]}); the sparoids
      ({Sparid[91]}); the serranoids ({Serranid[91]}), and some
      other related families.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serranoid \Ser*ra"noid\, n. [NL. Serranus, a typical genus (fr.
      L. serra a saw) + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any fish of the family {Serranid[91]}, which includes the
      striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.
      -- a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the {Serranid[91]}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serum-therapy \Se"rum-ther`a*py\, n. (Med.)
      The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from
      immune animals.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Share \Share\, n. [OE. share, AS. scearu, scaru, fr. sceran to
      shear, cut. See {Shear}, v.]
      1. A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a
            small share of prudence.
  
      2. Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any
            property or interest owned by a number; a portion among
            others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.
            [bd]My share of fame.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      3. Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into
            which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a
            ship owned in ten shares.
  
      4. The pubes; the sharebone. [Obs.] --Holland.
  
      {To go shares}, to partake; to be equally concerned.
  
      {Share and share alike}, in equal shares.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shire \Shire\, n. [AS. sc[c6]re, sc[c6]r, a division, province,
      county. Cf. {Sheriff}.]
      1. A portion of Great Britain originally under the
            supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually
            identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a
            smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire,
            Hallamshire.
  
                     An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a
                     county or shire.                                 --Blackstone.
  
      2. A division of a State, embracing several contiguous
            townships; a county. [U. S.]
  
      Note: Shire is commonly added to the specific designation of
               a county as a part of its name; as, Yorkshire instead
               of York shire, or the shire of York; Berkshire instead
               of Berks shire. Such expressions as the county of
               Yorkshire, which in a strict sense are tautological,
               are used in England. In the United States the composite
               word is sometimes the only name of a county; as,
               Berkshire county, as it is called in Massachusetts,
               instead of Berks county, as in Pensylvania.
  
                        The Tyne, Tees, Humber, Wash, Yare, Stour, and
                        Thames separate the counties of Northumberland,
                        Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc. --Encyc.
                                                                              Brit.
  
      {Knight of the shire}. See under {Knight}.
  
      {Shire clerk}, an officer of a county court; also, an under
            sheriff. [Eng.]
  
      {Shire mote} (Old. Eng. Law), the county court; sheriff's
            turn, or court. [Obs.] --Cowell. --Blackstone.
  
      {Shire reeve} (Old Eng. Law), the reeve, or bailiff, of a
            shire; a sheriff. --Burrill.
  
      {Shire town}, the capital town of a county; a county town.
  
      {Shire wick}, a county; a shire. [Obs.] --Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorrento work \Sor"ren"to work`\
      Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with
      inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely,
      jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Souari nut \Sou*a"ri nut`\ (Bot.)
      The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American
      tree ({Caryocar nuciferum}) of the same natural order with
      the tea plant; -- also called {butternut}. [Written also
      {sawarra nut}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butternut \But"ter*nut`\, n.
      1. (Bot.) An American tree ({Juglans cinerea}) of the Walnut
            family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil
            contained in the latter. Sometimes called {oil nut} and
            {white walnut}.
  
      2. (Bot.) The nut of the {Caryocar butyrosum} and {C.
            nuciferum}, of S. America; -- called also {Souari nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squirm \Squirm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squirmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Squirming}.] [Cf. {Swarm} to climb a tree.]
      To twist about briskly with contor[?]ions like an eel or a
      worm; to wriggle; to writhe.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surintendant \Sur`in*tend"ant\, n. [F. See {Superintendent}.]
      Superintendent. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, n. (Insurance)
      The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the
      company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration
      (called the
  
      {surrender value}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. i.
      To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield;
      as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the
      first summons.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrendered}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Surrendering}.] [OF. surrendre to deliver; sur
      over + rendre to render. See {Sur-}, and {Render}.]
      1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up
            possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to
            surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to
            surrender a fort or a ship.
  
      2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to
            surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
  
                     To surrender up that right which otherwise their
                     founders might have in them.               --Hooker.
  
      3. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; --
            used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to
            despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
  
      4. (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a
            principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice
            by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant
            thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, n.
      1. The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning
            one's person, or the possession of something, into the
            power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an
            enemy; the surrender of a right.
  
                     That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender
                     in trust of the whole of it.               --Burke.
  
      2. (Law)
            (a) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an
                  immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
            (b) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by
                  his bail.
            (c) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one
                  government to another, as by a foreign state. See
                  {Extradition}. --Wharton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, n. (Insurance)
      The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the
      company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration
      (called the
  
      {surrender value}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrendered}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Surrendering}.] [OF. surrendre to deliver; sur
      over + rendre to render. See {Sur-}, and {Render}.]
      1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up
            possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to
            surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to
            surrender a fort or a ship.
  
      2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to
            surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
  
                     To surrender up that right which otherwise their
                     founders might have in them.               --Hooker.
  
      3. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; --
            used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to
            despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
  
      4. (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a
            principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice
            by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant
            thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrenderee \Sur*ren`der*ee"\, n. (Law)
      The person to whom a surrender is made. --Mozley & W.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrenderer \Sur*ren"der*er\, n.
      One who surrenders.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrendered}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Surrendering}.] [OF. surrendre to deliver; sur
      over + rendre to render. See {Sur-}, and {Render}.]
      1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up
            possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to
            surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to
            surrender a fort or a ship.
  
      2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to
            surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
  
                     To surrender up that right which otherwise their
                     founders might have in them.               --Hooker.
  
      3. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; --
            used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to
            despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
  
      4. (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a
            principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice
            by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant
            thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrenderor \Sur*ren`der*or"\, n. (Law)
      One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. --Bouvier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrendry \Sur*ren"dry\, n.
      Surrender. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surround \Sur*round"\, n.
      A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by
      surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a
      ravine, etc. [U.S.] --Baird.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surround \Sur*round"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrounded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Surrounding}.] [OF. suronder to overflow, LL.
      superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves,
      overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the
      influence of E. round. See {Super-}, and {Undulate}, and cf.
      {Abound}.]
      1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
  
      2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall
            surrounds the city.
  
                     But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds
                     me.                                                   --Milton.
  
      3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to
            surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller.
  
      4. (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile
            forces, so as to cut off means of communication or
            retreat; to invest, as a city.
  
      Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence
               about.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surround \Sur*round"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrounded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Surrounding}.] [OF. suronder to overflow, LL.
      superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves,
      overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the
      influence of E. round. See {Super-}, and {Undulate}, and cf.
      {Abound}.]
      1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
  
      2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall
            surrounds the city.
  
                     But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds
                     me.                                                   --Milton.
  
      3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to
            surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller.
  
      4. (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile
            forces, so as to cut off means of communication or
            retreat; to invest, as a city.
  
      Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence
               about.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surround \Sur*round"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrounded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Surrounding}.] [OF. suronder to overflow, LL.
      superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves,
      overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the
      influence of E. round. See {Super-}, and {Undulate}, and cf.
      {Abound}.]
      1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
  
      2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall
            surrounds the city.
  
                     But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds
                     me.                                                   --Milton.
  
      3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to
            surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller.
  
      4. (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile
            forces, so as to cut off means of communication or
            retreat; to invest, as a city.
  
      Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence
               about.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrounding \Sur*round"ing\, a.
      Inclosing; encircling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surrounding \Sur*round"ing\, n.
      1. An encompassing.
  
      2. pl. The things which surround or environ; external or
            attending circumstances or conditions.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swarmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swarming}.]
      1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; --
            said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in
            summer.
  
      2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
            congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer.
  
      3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
            in motion.
  
                     Every place swarms with soldiers.      --Spenser.
  
      4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury.
  
      5. To breed multitudes.
  
                     Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with
                     blood of Gorgon.                                 --Milton.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Scranton, AR (city, FIPS 62960)
      Location: 35.36026 N, 93.53848 W
      Population (1990): 218 (105 housing units)
      Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72863
   Scranton, IA (city, FIPS 71310)
      Location: 42.02042 N, 94.54819 W
      Population (1990): 583 (292 housing units)
      Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 51462
   Scranton, KS (city, FIPS 63675)
      Location: 38.77793 N, 95.74079 W
      Population (1990): 674 (272 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 66537
   Scranton, KY
      Zip code(s): 40322
   Scranton, NC
      Zip code(s): 27875
   Scranton, ND (city, FIPS 71500)
      Location: 46.14779 N, 103.14241 W
      Population (1990): 294 (155 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Scranton, PA (city, FIPS 69000)
      Location: 41.40405 N, 75.66610 W
      Population (1990): 81805 (35357 housing units)
      Area: 65.3 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 18503, 18504, 18505, 18508, 18509, 18510
   Scranton, SC (town, FIPS 64600)
      Location: 33.91725 N, 79.74359 W
      Population (1990): 802 (308 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 29591

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Serenada, TX (CDP, FIPS 66806)
      Location: 30.69913 N, 97.69154 W
      Population (1990): 3242 (1092 housing units)
      Area: 17.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sherando, VA
      Zip code(s): 22952

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sierra Madre, CA (city, FIPS 71806)
      Location: 34.16870 N, 118.04933 W
      Population (1990): 10762 (4868 housing units)
      Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 91024

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sorento, IL (village, FIPS 70525)
      Location: 38.99995 N, 89.57268 W
      Population (1990): 596 (251 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62086

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sorrento, FL
      Zip code(s): 32776
   Sorrento, LA (town, FIPS 71225)
      Location: 30.18834 N, 90.86581 W
      Population (1990): 1119 (432 housing units)
      Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 70778
   Sorrento, ME
      Zip code(s): 04677

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   Share and enjoy! imp.   1. Commonly found at the end of software
   release announcements and {README file}s, this phrase indicates
   allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see
   {hacker ethic}, sense 1).   2. The motto of the complaints division
   of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of
   incompetent {suit}s) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the
   Galaxy".   The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal
   appeals to hackers.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Share and enjoy!
  
      1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements
      and {README file}s, this phrase indicates allegiance to the
      hacker ethic of free information sharing (see {hacker ethic}).
  
      2. The motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the
      ultimate gaggle of incompetent {suit}s) in Douglas Adams's
      "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".   The irony of using this
      as a cultural recognition signal appeals to {freeware}
      hackers.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SRI International
  
      One of the world's largest contract research firms.
      Founded in 1946 in conjuction with {Stanford University} as
      the Stanford Research Institute, they later became fully
      independent and were incorporated as a non-profit organisation
      under U.S. and California laws.
  
      SRI does research and development in many areas, independently
      and for hire.   They produce and sell reports on the
      independent research.
  
      {Home (http://www.sri.com/)}.
  
      Address: Menlo Park, California, USA; Cambridge, UK.
  
      (2003-04-12)
  
  
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