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word: Scintillate
definition:
Scintillate

Scin"til*late
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scintillated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scintillating.]
[L. scintillare, scintillatum, from scintilla a spark.  Cf. Stencil.]
1.
To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.

As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
To sparkle, as the fixed stars.


word: Scintillation
definition:
Scintillation

Scin`til*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. scintillatio: cf. F. scintillation.]
1.
The act of scintillating.

2.
A spark or flash emitted in scintillating.

These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Sciolist
definition:
Sciolist

Sci"o*list
(?)
n.
[L. sciolus. See Sciolous.]
One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance.
Sir W. Temple.

A master were lauded and sciolists shent.
R. Browning.


word: Sciolistic
definition:
Sciolistic

Sci`o*lis"tic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.


word: Sciolous
definition:
Sciolous

Sci"o*lous
(?)
a.
[L. scilus, dim. of scius knowing, fr. scire to know. See Science.]
Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
Howell.


word: Sciomachy
definition:
Sciomachy

Sci*om"a*chy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;; _; a shadow + _; battle: cf. F. sciomachie, sciamachie.]
A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
[Written also scimachy.]
Cowley.


word: Sciomancy
definition:
Sciomancy

Sci"o*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a shadow + -mancy: cf. F. sciomance, sciamancie.]
Divination by means of shadows.


word: Scion
definition:
Scion

Sci"on
(?)
n.
[OF. cion, F. scion, probably from scier to saw, fr. L. secare to cut. Cf. Section.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
(b)
A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
[Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]

2.
Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.


word: Scioptic
definition:
Scioptic

Sci*op"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; shadow + _; belonging to sight: cf. F. scioptique. See Optic.]
(Opt.)
Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.

Scioptic ball (Opt.), the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.


word: Scioptics
definition:
Scioptics

Sci*op"tics
(?)
n.
The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.


word: Sciot
definition:
Sciot

Sci"ot
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios).
n. A native or inhabitant of Scio.
[Written also Chiot.]


word: Sciotheric
definition:
Sciotheric

Sci`o*ther"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. sciothericon a sundial. See Sciatheric.]
Of or pertaining to a sundial.

Sciotheric telescope (Dialing), an instrument consisting of a horizontal dial, with a telescope attached to it, used for determining the time, whether of day or night.


word: Scire facias
definition:
Scire facias

Sci`re fa"ci*as
(sī`re̝ fā"shĭ*ăs)
[L., do you cause to know.]
(Law)
A judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated.
Wharton. Bouvier.


word: Scirrhosity
definition:
Scirrhosity

Scir*rhos"i*ty
(skĭr*r&obreve_;s"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
(Med.)
A morbid induration, as of a gland; state of being scirrhous.


word: Scirrhous
definition:
Scirrhous

Scir"rhous
(skĭr"rŭs)
a.
[NL. scirrhosus.]
(Med.)
Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.
[Written also skirrhous.]


word: Scirrhus
definition:
Scirrhus

Scir"rhus
(?)
n.
pl. L. Scirrhi (#), E. Scirrhuses (#).
[NL., from L. scirros, Gr. _;, _;, fr. _;, _;, hard.]
(Med.)
(a)
An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.
[Obs.]
(b)
A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
[Sometimes incorrectly written schirrus; written also skirrhus.]


word: Sciscitation
definition:
Sciscitation

Scis`ci*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. sciscitatio, fr. sciscitari to inquire, from sciscere to seek to know, v. incho. from scire to know.]
The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Scise
definition:
Scise

Scise
(?)
v. i.
[L. scindere, scissum, to cut, split.]
To cut; to penetrate.
[Obs.]

The wicked steel scised deep in his right side.
Fairfax.


word: Scissel
definition:
Scissel

Scis"sel
(?)
n.
[Cf. Scissile.]
1.
The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

2.
The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.


word: Scissible
definition:
Scissible

Scis"si*ble
(?)
a.
[L. scindere, scissum, to split.]
Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument.
[R.]
Bacon.


word: Scissile
definition:
Scissile

Scis"sile
(?)
a.
[L. scissilis, fr. scindere, scissum, to cut, to split: cf. F. scissile. See Schism.]
Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.
[R.]
Arbuthnot.


word: Scission
definition:
Scission

Scis"sion
(?)
n.
[L. scissio, fr. scindere, scissum, to cut, to split: cf. F. scission.]
The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.
Wiseman.


word: Scissiparity
definition:
Scissiparity

Scis`si*par"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. scissus (p. p. of scindere to split) + parere to bring forth: cf. F. scissiparité.]
(Biol.)
Reproduction by fission.


word: Scissor
definition:
Scissor

Scis"sor
(?)
v. t.
To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.
Massinger.


word: Scissors
definition:
Scissors

Scis"sors
(?)
n. pl.
[OE. sisoures, OF. cisoires (cf. F. ciseaux), probably fr. LL. cisorium a cutting instrument, fr. L. caedere to cut.  Cf. Chisel, Concise. The modern spelling is due to a mistaken derivation from L. scissor one who cleaves or divides, fr. scindere, scissum, to cut, split.]
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
[Formerly written also cisors, cizars, and scissars.]

Scissors grinder (Zool.), the European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]


word: Scissorstail
definition:
Scissorstail

Scis"sors*tail`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail.  It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.


word: Scissors-tailed
definition:
Scissors-tailed

Scis"sors-tailed`
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.


word: Scissure
definition:
Scissure

Scis"sure
(?)
n.
[L. scissura, from scindere, scissum, to cut, split.]
A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
Hammond.


word: Scitamineous
definition:
Scitamineous

Scit`a*min"e*ous
(?; 277)
a.
[NL. scitamineosus, fr. Scitamineae, fr. L. scitamentum a delicacy, dainty.]
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Scitamineae), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.


word: Sciurine
definition:
Sciurine

Sci"u*rine
(?; 277)
a.
[Cf. F. sciurien. See Sciurus.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.
n. A rodent of the Squirrel family.


word: Sciuroid
definition:
Sciuroid

Sci"u*roid
(?)
a.
[Sciurus + -oid.]
(Bot.)
Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.


word: Sciuromorpha
definition:
Sciuromorpha

Sci`u*ro*mor"pha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. sciurus squirrel + Gr. morfh` form.]
(Zool.)
A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.


word: Sciurus
definition:
Sciurus

Sci*u"rus
(?)
n.
[L., a squirrel, Gr. _;. See Squirrel.]
(Zool.)
A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.


word: Sclaff
definition:
Sclaff

Sclaff
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Sclaffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sclaffing.]
[Orig. uncert.]
1.
To scuff or shuffle along.
[Scot.]

2.
(Golf)
To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke.


word: Sclaff₂
definition:
Sclaff

Sclaff
v. t.
(Golf)
To scrape (the club) on the ground, in a stroke, before hitting the ball; also, to make (a stroke) in that way.


word: Sclaff₃
definition:
Sclaff

Sclaff
n.
[Scot.]
1.
A slight blow; a slap; a soft fall; also, the accompanying noise.

2.
(Golf)
The stroke made by one who sclaffs.

3.
A thin, solid substance, esp. a thin shoe or slipper.


word: Scleragogy
definition:
Scleragogy

Scler"a*go`gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; hard + _; a leading or training.]
Severe discipline.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hacket.


word: Sclerema
definition:
Sclerema

Scle*re"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s hard.]
(Med.)
Induration of the cellular tissue.

Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- &VerbarSclerema neonatorum (_;) [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.


word: Sclerenchyma
definition:
Sclerenchyma

Scle*ren"chy*ma
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. sklhro`s hard + -enchyma as in parenchyma.]
1.
(Bot.)
Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.

&hand_; By recent German writers and their English translators, this term is used for liber cells.
Goodale.

2.
(Zool.)
The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.


word: Sclerenchymatous
definition:
Sclerenchymatous

Scler`en*chym"a*tous
(?)
a.
(Bot. & Zool.)
Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.


word: Scleriasis
definition:
Scleriasis

Scle*ri"a*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;.]
(Med.)
(a)
A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.
(b)
Induration of any part, including scleroderma.


word: Sclerite
definition:
Sclerite

Scle"rite
(sklē"rīt)
n.
(Zool.)
A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.


word: Sclerobase
definition:
Sclerobase

Scler"o*base
(? or ?)
n.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + ba`sis base.]
(Zool.)
The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.
Scler`o*ba"sic (#), a.


word: Scleroderm
definition:
Scleroderm

Scler"o*derm
(? or ?; 277)
n.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + de`rma skin: cf. F. scléroderme.]
(a)
(Zool.)
One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish.
(b)
One of the Sclerodermata.
(c)
Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.


word: Scleroderma
definition:
Scleroderma

Scler`o*der"ma
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Med.)
A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.


word: Sclerodermous
definition:
Sclerodermous

Sclerodermic

{ Scler`o*der"mic (?), Scler`o*der"mous (?), }
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.
(b)
Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.


word: Sclerodermite
definition:
Sclerodermite

Scler`o*der"mite
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The hard integument of Crustacea.
(b)
Sclerenchyma.


word: Sclerogen
definition:
Sclerogen

Scler"o*gen
(? or ?)
n.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + -gen.]
(Bot.)
The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.


word: Sclerogenous
definition:
Sclerogenous

Scle*rog"e*nous
(?)
a.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + -genous.]
(Anat.)
Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.


word: Scleroid
definition:
Scleroid

Scle"roid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; sklhro`s hard + e'i^dos form.]
(Bot.)
Having a hard texture, as nutshells.


word: Scleroma
definition:
Scleroma

Scle*ro"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s hard + -oma.]
(Med.)
Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.


word: Sclerometer
definition:
Sclerometer

Scle*rom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + -meter.]
An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.


word: Sclerosis
definition:
Sclerosis

Scle*ro"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. (_;_;, fr. sklhro`s hard.]
1.
(Med.)
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

2.
(Bot.)
Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.

Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med.), an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal.  Formerly referred to as multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, or insular sclerosis, but now usually called only multiple sclerosis, or MS.


word: Scleroskeleton
definition:
Scleroskeleton

Scle`ro*skel"e*ton
(?)
n.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + E. skeleton.]
(Anat.)
That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.


word: Sclerotal
definition:
Sclerotal

Scle*ro"tal
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Sclerotic.
n. The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye.
Owen.


word: Sclerotic
definition:
Sclerotic

Scle*rot"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard: cf. F. sclérotique.]
1.
Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.

2.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.

3.
(Med.)
Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.

Sclerotic parenchyma (Bot.), sclerenchyma. By some writers a distinction is made, sclerotic parenchyma being applied to tissue composed of cells with the walls hardened but not thickened, and sclerenchyma to tissue composed of cells with the walls both hardened and thickened.


word: Sclerotic₂
definition:
Sclerotic

Scle*rot"ic
n.
[Cf. F. sclérotique.]
(Anat.)
The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).


word: Sclerotic₃
definition:
Sclerotic

Scle*rot"ic
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.


word: Sclerotitis
definition:
Sclerotitis

Scler`o*ti"tis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Sclerotic, and -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.


word: Sclerotium
definition:
Sclerotium

Scle*ro"ti*um
(?)
n.
pl. Sclerotia (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. sklhro`s hard.]
1.
(Bot.)
A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.

2.
(Zool.)
The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.


word: Sclerotome
definition:
Sclerotome

Scler"o*tome
(sklĕr"o̝*t&omacrm or sklēr"o̝*t&omacrm)
n.
[Gr. sklhro`s hard + te`mnein to cut.]
(Zool.)
One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes.
Scler`o*tom"ic (#), a.


word: Scobiform
definition:
Scobiform

Scob"i*form
(?)
a.
[L. scobs, or scobis, sawdust, scrapings + -form: cf. F. scobiforme.]
Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.


word: Scobs
definition:
Scobs

Scobs
n. sing. & pl.
[L. scobs, or scobis, fr. scabere to scrape.]
1.
Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.
Chambers.

2.
The dross of metals.


word: Scoff
definition:
Scoff

Scoff
(?; 115)
n.
[OE. scof; akin to OFries. schof, OHG. scoph, Icel. skaup, and perh. to E. shove.]
1.
Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
Shak.

2.
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
Cowper.


word: Scoff₂
definition:
Scoff

Scoff
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scoffed (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoffing.]
[Cf. Dan. skuffe to deceive, delude, Icel. skopa to scoff, OD. schoppen. See Scoff, n.]
To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Goldsmith.

God's better gift they scoff at and refuse.
Cowper.


word: Scoff₃
definition:
Scoff

Scoff
v. t.
To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.

To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest.
Glanvill.


word: Scold
definition:
Scold

Scold
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scolding.]
[Akin to D. schelden, G. schelten, OHG. sceltan, Dan. skielde.]
To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant.

Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever
I was forced to scold.
Shak.


word: Scold₂
definition:
Scold

Scold
v. t.
To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.


word: Scold₃
definition:
Scold

Scold
n.
1.
One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.

She is an irksome, brawling scold.
Shak.

2.
A scolding; a brawl.


word: Scolder
definition:
Scolder

Scold"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who scolds.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.
(b)
The old squaw.
[Local U.S.]


word: Scolecite
definition:
Scolecite

Scol"e*cite
(? or ?; 277)
n.
[Gr. skw`lhx, -hkos, a worm, earthworm.]
(Min.)
A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also lime mesotype.


word: Scolecomorpha
definition:
Scolecomorpha

Sco*le`co*mor"pha
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL. See Scolex, -morphous.]
(Zool.)
Same as Scolecida.


word: Scolex
definition:
Scolex

Sco"lex
(?)
n.
pl. Scoleces (#).
[NL., from Gr. skw`lhx worm, grub.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.
(b)
One of the Scolecida.


word: Scoley
definition:
Scoley

Sco*ley"
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. OF. escoler to teach. See School.]
To go to school; to study.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Scoliosis
definition:
Scoliosis

Sco`li*o"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. skolio`s crooked.]
(Med.)
A lateral curvature of the spine.


word: Scolithus
definition:
Scolithus

Scol"i*thus
(? or ?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. skw`lhx a worm + li`qos a stone.]
(Paleon.)
A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.


word: Scolopacine
definition:
Scolopacine

Scol`o*pa"cine
(?)
a.
[L. scolopax a snipe, Gr. _;.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family.


word: Scolopendra
definition:
Scolopendra

Scol`o*pen"dra
(?)
n.
[L., a kind of multiped, fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

2.
A sea fish.
[R.]
Spenser.


word: Scolytid
definition:
Scolytid

Scol"y*tid
(?)
n.
[Gr. skoly`ptein to cut short.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.


word: Scomber
definition:
Scomber

Scom"ber
(?)
n.
[L., a mackerel, Gr. sko`mbros.]
(Zool.)
A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.


word: Scombriformes
definition:
Scombriformes

Scom`bri*for"mes
(sk&obreve_;m`brĭ*fôr"mēz)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.


word: Scombroid
definition:
Scombroid

Scom"broid
(sk&obreve_;m"broid)
a.
[Scomber + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.
n. Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type, and including the tuna (Thunnus and related genera).


word: Scomfish
definition:
Scomfish

Scom"fish
(sk&obreve_;m"fĭsh or skŭm"-)
v. t. & i.
To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Scomm
definition:
Scomm

Scomm
(sk&obreve_;m)
n.
[L. scomma a taunt, jeer, scoff, Gr. _;, fr. _; to mock, scoff at.]
1.
A buffoon.
[Obs.]
L'Estrange.

2.
A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.
[Obs.]
Fotherby.


word: Sconce
definition:
Sconce

Sconce
(?)
n.
[D. schans, OD. schantse, perhaps from OF. esconse a hiding place, akin to esconser to hide, L. absconsus, p. p. of abscondere. See Abscond, and cf. Ensconce, Sconce a candlestick.]
1.
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
Milton.

2.
A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches.
Beau. & Fl.

3.
A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.

I must get a sconce for my head.
Shak.

4.
Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
[Colloq.]

To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel.
Shak.

5.
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
Johnson.

6.
[OF. esconse a dark lantern, properly, a hiding place. See Etymol. above.]
A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.
Evelyn.

Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
Dryden.

7.
Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.

8.
(Arch.)
A squinch.

9.
A fragment of a floe of ice.
Kane.

10.
[Perhaps a different word.]
A fixed seat or shelf.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Sconce₂
definition:
Sconce

Sconce
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sconced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sconcing.]
1.
To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
[Obs.]

Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't.
Marston.

2.
To mulct; to fine.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Scone
definition:
Scone

Scone
(?)
n.
A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
[Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.]
[Scot.]
Burns.


word: Scoop
definition:
Scoop

Scoop
(?)
n.
[OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.]
1.
A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

2.
A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

3.
(Surg.)
A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

4.
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
J. R. Drake.

5.
A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

6.
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

7.
a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.

8.
an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat.
[Newspaper or laboratory cant]

9.
news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?.
[informal]

Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.


word: Scoop₂
definition:
Scoop

Scoop
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.]
[OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.]
1.
To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
Dryden.

2.
To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

3.
To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.
Arbuthnot.


word: Scoop₃
definition:
Scoop

Scoop
v. t.
to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); -- used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped.  Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.


word: Scooper
definition:
Scooper

Scoop"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, scoops.

2.
(Zool.)
The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.


word: Scoot
definition:
Scoot

Scoot
(?)
v. i.
To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
[Colloq. & Humorous, U. S.]


word: Scoparin
definition:
Scoparin

Sco"pa*rin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.


word: Scopate
definition:
Scopate

Sco"pate
(?)
a.
[L. scopae, scopa, a broom.]
(Zool.)
Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.


word: -scope
definition:
-scope

-scope
(_;)
[Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See Scope.]
A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.


word: Scope
definition:
Scope

Scope
(?)
n.
[It. scopo, L. scopos a mark, aim, Gr. skopo`s, a watcher, mark, aim; akin to _;, _; to view, and perh. to E. spy. Cf. Skeptic, Bishop.]
1.
That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
scope
Spenser.

Your scope is as mine own,
So to enforce or qualify the laws
As to your soul seems good.
Shak.

The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church.
Hooker.

2.
Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.

Give him line and scope.
Shak.

In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is given to the operation of laws which man must always fail to discern the reasons of.
I. Taylor.

Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind.
Burke.

An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope.
Hawthorne.

3.
Extended area.
[Obs.]
scopes
Sir J. Davies.

4.
Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.


word: Scopeloid
definition:
Scopeloid

Sco"pe*loid
(?)
a.
[NL. Scopelus, typical genus (fr. Gr. _; a headland) + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent.
n. (Zool.) Any fish of the family Scopelidae.


word: Scopiferous
definition:
Scopiferous

Sco*pif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. scopae, scopa + -ferous.]
(Zool.)
Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.


word: Scopiform
definition:
Scopiform

Sco"pi*form
(?)
a.
[L. scopae, scopa, a broom + -form.]
Having the form of a broom or besom.
scopiform
Kirwan.


word: Scopiped
definition:
Scopiped

Sco"pi*ped
(?; 277)
n.
[L. scopae, scopa, a broom + pes, pedis, a foot.]
(Zool.)
Same as Scopuliped.


word: Scops owl
definition:
Scops owl

Scops" owl`
(?)
[NL. scops, fr. Gr. _; the little horned owl.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus Scops having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the European scops owl (Scops giu), and the American screech owl (Scops asio).


word: Scoptical
definition:
Scoptical

Scoptic

{ Scop"tic (?), Scop"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. skwptiko`s, from skw`ptein to mock, to scoff at.]
Jesting; jeering; scoffing.
[Obs.]
South.


word: Scopula
definition:
Scopula

Scop"u*la
(?)
n.
pl. E. Scopulas (#), L. Scopulae (#).
[L. scopulae, pl. a little broom.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.
(b)
A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.


word: Scopuliped
definition:
Scopuliped

Scop"u*li*ped
(?)
n.
[L. scopulae, pl., a little broom (fr. scopae a broom) + pes, pedis, foot.]
(Zool.)
Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.


word: Scopulous
definition:
Scopulous

Scop"u*lous
(?)
a.
[L. scopulosus, fr. scopulus a rock, Gr. _;.]
Full of rocks; rocky.
[Obs.]


word: Scorbutical
definition:
Scorbutical

Scorbutic

{ Scor*bu"tic (?), Scor*bu"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. scorbutique.]
(Med.)
Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms.
Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.


word: Scorch
definition:
Scorch

Scorch
(skôrch)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scorched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scorching.]
[OE. scorchen, probably akin to scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skrökka, to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skråkkla to wrinkle (see Shrug); but perhaps influenced by OF. escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F. écorcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis, bark (cf. Cork); because the skin falls off when scorched.]
1.
To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

Summer drouth or singèd air
Never scorch thy tresses fair.
Milton.

2.
To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
Prior.

3.
To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
Rev. xvi. 8.

The fire that scorches me to death.
Dryden.


word: Scorch₂
definition:
Scorch

Scorch
v. i.
1.
To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
Mortimer.

2.
To burn or be burnt.

He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.
Hawthorne.

3.
To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]
Scorch"er, n. [Colloq.]


word: Scorching
definition:
Scorching

Scorch"ing
a.
1.
Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.

2.
sufficiently hot to cause scorching.


word: Score
definition:
Score

Score
(sk&omacrr)
n.
[AS. scor twenty, fr. sceran, scieran, to shear, cut, divide; or rather the kindred Icel. skor incision, twenty, akin to Dan. skure a notch, Sw. skåra. See Shear.]
1.
A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
Shak.

2.
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

He parted well, and paid his score.
Shak.

3.
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

But left the trade, as many more
Have lately done on the same score.
Hudibras.

You act your kindness in Cydaria's score.
Dryden.

4.
The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

Amongst three or four score hogsheads.
Shak.

At length the queen took upon herself to grant patents of monopoly by scores.
Macaulay.

5.
A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Halliwell.

6.
A weight of twenty pounds.
[Prov. Eng.]

7.
The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

8.
A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

9.
(Mus.)
The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.
Moore (Encyc. of Music).

10.
the grade received on an examination, such as those given in school or as a qualifying examination for a job or admission to school; -- it may be expressed as a percentage of answers which are correct, or as a number or letter; as, a score of 98 in a civil service exam.

In score (Mus.), having all the parts arranged and placed in juxtaposition. Smart. -- To quit scores, to settle or balance accounts; to render an equivalent; to make compensation.
[1913 Webster]
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? South.


word: Score₂
definition:
Score

Score
(sk&omacrr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scored (sk&omacrrd); 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.


word: Score₃
definition:
Score

Score
(?)
v. i.
1.
To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

2.
To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.

3.
To run up a score, or account of dues.

4.
To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest.
[slang]

5.
To purchase drugs illegally.
[slang]


word: Scoria
definition:
Scoria

Sco"ri*a
(?)
n.
pl. Scoriae (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; dung, ordure.]
1.
The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.

2.
Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.


word: Scoriaceous
definition:
Scoriaceous

Sco`ri*a"ceous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. scoriacé.]
Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.


word: Scorification
definition:
Scorification

Sco`ri*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. scorification. See Scorify.]
(Chem.)
The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.


word: Scorifier
definition:
Scorifier

Sco"ri*fi`er
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button.


word: Scorify
definition:
Scorify

Sco"ri*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scorified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scorifying (?).]
[Scoria + -fy: cf. F. scorifier.]
(Chem.)
To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.


word: Scorn
definition:
Scorn

Scorn
(skôrn)
n.
[OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF. escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern&omacrn to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to mock.]
1.
Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

Scorn at first makes after love the more.
Shak.

And wandered backward as in scorn,
To wait an aeon to be born.
Emerson.

2.
An act or expression of extreme contempt.

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
Dryden.

3.
An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Ps. xliv. 13.

To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. “He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.” Esther iii. 6. -- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.


word: Scorn₂
definition:
Scorn

Scorn
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scorned (skôrnd); 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.


word: Scorn₃
definition:
Scorn

Scorn
(skôrn)
v. i.
To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,
And, now I am remembered, scorned at me.
Shak.


word: Scorner
definition:
Scorner

Scorn"er
(?)
n.
One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.
scorners
Spenser.

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Prov. iii. 34.


word: Scornful
definition:
Scornful

Scorn"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.

Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
Prior.

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
Shak.

2.
Treated with scorn; exciting scorn.
[Obs.]

The scornful mark of every open eye.
Shak.


word: Scorodite
definition:
Scorodite

Scor"o*dite
(?)
n.
[G. scorodit; -- so called in allusion to its smell under the blowpipe, from Gr. _; garlic.]
(Min.)
A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron.
[Written also skorodite.]


word: Scorpaenoid
definition:
Scorpaenoid

Scor*pae"noid
(?)
a.
[NL. Scorpaena, a typical genus (see Scorpene) + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the family Scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [Written also scorpaenid.] See Illust. under Rockfish.


word: Scorpene
definition:
Scorpene

Scor"pene
(?)
n.
[F. scorpène, fr. L. scorpaena a kind of fish, Gr. _;.]
(Zool.)
A marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena, as the European hogfish (Scorpaena scrofa), and the California species (Scorpaena guttata).


word: Scorpio
definition:
Scorpio

Scor"pi*o
(?)
n.
pl. Scorpiones (#).
[L.]
1.
(Zool.)
A scorpion.

2.
(Astron.)
(a)
The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [&scorpius_;] in almanacs.
(b)
A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.


word: Scorpioidal
definition:
Scorpioidal

Scorpioid

{ Scor"pi*oid (?), Scor`pi*oid"al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;; _; a scorpion + e'i^dos form.]
1.
Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.


word: Scorpion
definition:
Scorpion

Scor"pi*on
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. scorpio, scorpius, Gr. _;, perhaps akin to E. sharp.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.

&hand_; Scorpions have a flattened body, and a long, slender post-abdomen formed of six movable segments, the last of which terminates in a curved venomous sting. The venom causes great pain, but is unattended either with redness or swelling, except in the axillary or inguinal glands, when an extremity is affected. It is seldom if ever destructive of life. Scorpions are found widely dispersed in the warm climates of both the Old and New Worlds.

2.
(Zool.)
The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
[Local, U. S.]

3.
(Zool.)
The scorpene.

4.
(Script.)
A painful scourge.

My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings xii. 11.

5.
(Astron.)
A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.

6.
(Antiq.)
An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

Book scorpion. (Zool.) See under Book. -- False scorpion. (Zool.) See under False, and Book scorpion. -- Scorpion bug, or Water scorpion (Zool.) See Nepa. -- Scorpion fly (Zool.), a neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa. See Panorpid. -- Scorpion grass (Bot.), a plant of the genus Myosotis.  Myosotis palustris is the forget-me-not. -- Scorpion senna (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous shrub (Coronilla Emerus) having a slender joined pod, like a scorpion's tail. The leaves are said to yield a dye like indigo, and to be used sometimes to adulterate senna. -- Scorpion shell (Zool.), any shell of the genus Pteroceras. See Pteroceras. -- Scorpion spiders. (Zool.), any one of the Pedipalpi. -- Scorpion's tail (Bot.), any plant of the leguminous genus Scorpiurus, herbs with a circinately coiled pod; -- also called caterpillar. -- Scorpion's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant (Genista Scorpius) of Southern Europe. -- The Scorpion's Heart (Astron.), the star Antares in the constellation Scorpio.


word: Scorpiones
definition:
Scorpiones

Scor`pi*o"nes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
A division of arachnids comprising the scorpions.


word: Scorpionwort
definition:
Scorpionwort

Scor"pi*on*wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpioides) of Southern Europe, having slender curved pods.


word: Scorse
definition:
Scorse

Scorse
(? or ?)
n.
[Cf. It. scorsa a course, and E. discourse.]
Barter; exchange; trade.
[Obs.]

And recompensed them with a better scorse.
Spenser.


word: Scorse₂
definition:
Scorse

Scorse
v. t.
[Written also scourse, and scoss.]
1.
To barter or exchange.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
To chase.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Scortatory
definition:
Scortatory

Scor"ta*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. scortator a fornicator, from scortari to fornicate, scortum a prostitute.]
Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.


word: Scot₂
definition:
Scot

Scot
n.
[Cf. L. Skoti, pl., AS. Scotta, pl. Skottas, Sceottas.]
A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.


word: Scot₃
definition:
Scot

Scot
n.
[Icel. skot; or OF. escot, F. écot, LL. scottum, scotum, from a kindred German word; akin to AS. scot, and E. shot, shoot; cf. AS. sceótan to shoot, to contribute. See Shoot, and cf. Shot.]
A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.

Scot and lot, formerly, a parish assessment laid on subjects according to their ability. [Eng.] Cowell. Now, a phrase for obligations of every kind regarded collectivelly.
[1913 Webster]
Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along. Emerson. 


word: Scotale
definition:
Scotale

Scotal

{ Scot"al (?), Scot"ale (?), }
n.
[Scot + ale.]
(O. Eng. Law)
The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.


word: Scotch
definition:
Scotch

Scotch
(?)
a.
[Cf. Scottish.]
Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zool.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zool.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch.


word: Scotch₂
definition:
Scotch

Scotch
n.
1.
The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.

2.
Collectively, the people of Scotland.


word: Scotch₃
definition:
Scotch

Scotch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scotched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scotching.]
[Cf. Prov. E. scote a prop, and Walloon ascot a prop, ascoter to prop, F. accoter, also Armor. skoaz the shoulder, skoazia to shoulder up, to prop, to support, W. ysgwydd a shoulder, ysgwyddo to shoulder. Cf. Scoat.]
[Written also scoatch, scoat.]
To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.


word: Scotch₄
definition:
Scotch

Scotch
n.
A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.


word: Scotch₅
definition:
Scotch

Scotch
v. t.
[Probably the same word as scutch; cf. Norw. skoka, skoko, a swingle for flax; perhaps akin to E. shake.]
To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

We have scotched the snake, not killed it.
Shak.

Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]


word: Scotchman
definition:
Scotchman

Scotch"man
(?)
n.
pl. Scotchmen (_;).
1.
A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.

2.
(Naut.)
A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Scotch rite
definition:
Scotch rite

Scotch rite
(Freemasonry)
The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.


word: Scoter
definition:
Scoter

Sco"ter
(?)
n.
[Cf. Prov. E. scote to plow up.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.

&hand_; The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the velvet, or double, scoter (Oidemia fusca). The common American species are the velvet, or white-winged, scoter (Oidemia Deglandi), called also velvet duck, white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the black scoter (Oidemia Americana), called also black coot, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter, or surf duck (Oidemia perspicillata), called also baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead, pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are collectively called also coots.  The females and young are called gray coots, and brown coots.


word: Scot-free
definition:
Scot-free

Scot"-free"
[?]
a.
Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe.

Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free.
Sir W. Scott.

Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland.
A. Lang.


word: Scotia
definition:
Scotia

Sco"ti*a
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. skoti`a darkness, a sunken molding in the base of a pillar, so called from the dark shadow it casts, from sko`tos darkness.]
(Arch.)
A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.


word: Scotist
definition:
Scotist

Sco"tist
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.


word: Scotograph
definition:
Scotograph

Scot"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. sko`tos darkness + -graph.]
An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing.
Maunder.


word: Scotomy
definition:
Scotomy

Scot"o*my
(?)
n.
[NL. scotomia, from Gr. _; dizziness, fr. _; to darken, fr. sko`tos darkness: cf. F. scotomie.]
1.
Dizziness with dimness of sight.
[Obs.]
Massinger.

2.
(Med.)
Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.


word: Scotoscope
definition:
Scotoscope

Sco"to*scope
(? or ?)
n.
[Gr. sko`tos darkness + -scope.]
An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.
[Obs.]
Pepys.


word: Scots
definition:
Scots

Scots
(?)
a.
[For older Scottis Scottish. See Scottish.]
Of or pertaining to the Scotch; Scotch; Scottish; as, Scots law; a pound Scots (1s. 8d.).


word: Scottering
definition:
Scottering

Scot"ter*ing
(?)
n.
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Scotticism
definition:
Scotticism

Scot"ti*cism
(?)
n.
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen.

That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis.
Masson.


word: Scottish
definition:
Scottish

Scot"tish
(?)
a.
[From Scot a Scotchman: cf. AS. Scyttisc, and E. Scotch, a., Scots, a.]
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.


word: Scoundrel
definition:
Scoundrel

Scoun"drel
(?)
n.
[Probably from Prov. E. & Scotch scunner, scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun. See Shun.]
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.

Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood
Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.
Pope.


word: Scoundreldom
definition:
Scoundreldom

Scoun"drel*dom
(?)
n.
The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels.
Carlyle.


word: Scoundrelism
definition:
Scoundrelism

Scoun"drel*ism
(?)
n.
The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality.
Cotgrave.


word: Scour
definition:
Scour

Scour
(skour)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scoured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scouring.]
[Akin to LG. schüren, 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.

5.
To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush.
If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch.
Blackstone.

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.


word: Scour₂
definition:
Scour

Scour
v. i.
1.
To clean anything by rubbing.
Shak.

2.
To cleanse anything.

Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.
Bacon.

3.
To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.

4.
To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.

So four fierce coursers, starting to the race,
Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
Dryden.


word: Scour₃
definition:
Scour

Scour
n.
1.
Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

2.
The act of scouring.

3.
A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.
If you catch the two sole denizens [trout] of a particular scour, you will find another pair installed in their place to-morrow.
Grant Allen.


word: Scourer
definition:
Scourer

Scour"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, scours.

2.
A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.

In those days of highwaymen and scourers.
Macaulay.


word: Scourge
definition:
Scourge

Scourge
(?)
n.
[F. escourgée, fr. L. excoriata (sc. scutica) a stripped off (lash or whip), fr. excoriare to strip, to skin. See Excoriate.]
1.
A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

Up to coach then goes
The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
Chapman.

2.
Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.

Sharp scourges of adversity.
Chaucer.

What scourge for perjury
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
Shak.


word: Scourge₂
definition:
Scourge

Scourge
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scourged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scourging (?).]
[From Scourge, n.: cf. OF. escorgier.]
1.
To whip severely; to lash.

Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman?
Acts xxii. 25.

2.
To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb. xii. 6.

3.
To harass or afflict severely.

To scourge and impoverish the people.
Brougham.


word: Scourger
definition:
Scourger

Scour"ger
(?)
n.
One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

The West must own the scourger of the world.
Byron.


word: Scouse
definition:
Scouse

Scouse
(skous)
n.
(Naut.)
A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Scout
definition:
Scout

Scout
(skout)
n.
[Icel. skūta a small craft or cutter.]
A swift sailing boat.
[Obs.]

So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.
Pepys.


word: Scout₂
definition:
Scout

Scout
n.
[Icel. skūta to jut out. Cf. Scout to reject.]
A projecting rock.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.


word: Scout₃
definition:
Scout

Scout
(skout)
v. t.
[Icel. skūta a taunt; cf. Icel. skūta to jut out, skota to shove, skj&omacrta to shoot, to shove. See Shoot.]
To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
scout
Shak.


word: Scout₄
definition:
Scout

Scout
n.
[OF. escoute scout, spy, fr. escouter, escolter, to listen, to hear, F. écouter, fr. L. auscultare, to hear with attention, to listen to. See Auscultation.]
1.
A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.

Scouts each coast light-armèd scour,
Each quarter, to descry the distant foe.
Milton.

2.
A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
[Cant]

3.
(Cricket)
A fielder in a game for practice.

4.
The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
[Colloq.]

While the rat is on the scout.
Cowper.

5.
A boy scout or girl scout (which see, above).


word: Scout₅
definition:
Scout

Scout
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Scouting.]
1.
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

Take more men,
And scout him round.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.


word: Scout₆
definition:
Scout

Scout
v. i.
To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.

With obscure wing
Scout far and wide into the realm of night.
Milton.


word: Scovel
definition:
Scovel

Scov"el
(skŭv"'l)
n.
[OF. escouve, escouvette, broom, L. scopae, or cf. W. ysgubell, dim. of ysgub a broom.]
A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.


word: Scowl
definition:
Scowl

Scowl
(skoul)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scowled (skould); p. pr. & vb. n. Scowling.]
[Akin to Dan. skule; cf. Icel. skolla to skulk, LG. schulen to hide one's self, D. schuilen, G. schielen to squint, Dan. skele, Sw. skela, AS. sceolh squinting. Cf. Skulk.]
1.
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
Spenser.

2.
Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
scowling
Thomson.


word: Scowl₂
definition:
Scowl

Scowl
v. t.
1.
To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
Milton.

2.
To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.


word: Scowl₃
definition:
Scowl

Scowl
n.
1.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

With solemn phiz, and critic scowl.
Lloyd.

2.
Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
Burns.

A ruddy storm, whose scowl
Made heaven's radiant face look foul.
Crashaw.


word: Scrabbed eggs
definition:
Scrabbed eggs

Scrab"bed eggs`
(?)
[CF. Scramble.]
A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper.
Halliwell.


word: Scrabble
definition:
Scrabble

Scrab"ble
(skrăb"b'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scrabbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrabbling (?).]
[Freq. of scrape. Cf. Scramble, Scrawl, v. t.]
1.
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.

Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.
Bunyan.

2.
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.

David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
1. Sam. xxi. 13.


word: Scrabble₂
definition:
Scrabble

Scrab"ble
v. t.
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.


word: Scrabble₃
definition:
Scrabble

Scrab"ble
n.
The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.


word: Scraffle
definition:
Scraffle

Scraf"fle
(skrăf"f'l)
v. i.
[See Scramble: cf. OD. schraeffelen to scrape.]
To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Scrag
definition:
Scrag

Scrag
(skrăg)
n.
[Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag, n.]
1.
Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver.
Thackeray.

2.
A rawboned person.
[Low]
Halliwell.

3.
A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Scrag whale (Zool.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus gibbosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.


word: Scrag₂
definition:
Scrag

Scrag
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Scrag.]
To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging.
[Colloq.]
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
Pall Mall Mag.


word: Scragged
definition:
Scragged

Scrag"ged
(?)
a.
1.
Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

2.
Lean and rough; scraggy.


word: Scraggy
definition:
Scraggy

Scrag"gy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Scragger (?); superl. Scraggiest.]
1.
Rough with irregular points; scragged.
scraggy
J. Philips.

2.
Lean and rough; scragged.
scraggy
Sir W. Scott.


word: Scram
definition:
Scram

Scram
(skrăm)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scrammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scramming (?).]
to leave; to go away; used mostly as an impolite command to a person to go away from a specific location.
[informal]


word: Scram₂
definition:
Scram

Scram
(skrăm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scrammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scramming (?).]
to shut down (a nuclear reactor) quickly, as in an emergency.


word: Scramble
definition:
Scramble

Scram"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scrambled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrambling (?).]
[Freq. of Prov. E. scramb to rake together with the hands, or of scramp to snatch at. cf. Scrabble.]
1.
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

2.
To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

Of other care they little reckoning make,
Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
Milton.


word: Scramble₂
definition:
Scramble

Scram"ble
(?)
v. t.
1.
To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.
Marlowe.

2.
To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.


word: Scramble₃
definition:
Scramble

Scram"ble
n.
1.
The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.

2.
The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.

Scarcity [of money] enhances its price, and increases the scramble.
Locke.


word: Scrambled eggs
definition:
Scrambled eggs

Scram"bled eggs
(?)
Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.


word: Scrambler
definition:
Scrambler

Scram"bler
(?)
n.
1.
One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

2.
A greedy and unceremonious contestant.


word: Scrambling
definition:
Scrambling

Scram"bling
(?)
a.
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
Scram"bling*ly, adv.

A huge old scrambling bedroom.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Scranch
definition:
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.]


word: Scrannel
definition:
Scrannel

Scran"nel
(?)
a.
[Cf. Scrawny.]
Slight; thin; lean; poor.

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.
Milton.


word: Scranny
definition:
Scranny

Scran"ny
(?)
a.
[See Scrannel.]
Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Scrap
definition:
Scrap

Scrap
(skrăp)
n.
[OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t.]
1.
Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

I have no materials -- not a scrap.
De Quincey.

2.
Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.

3.
pl.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

4.
pl.
Same as Scrap iron, below.

Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap. -- Scrap iron. (a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap. (b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also foundry scrap, or cast scrap.


word: Scrapbook
definition:
Scrapbook

Scrap"book`
(?)
n.
A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.


word: Scrape
definition:
Scrape

Scrape
(skrāp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scraped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scraping.]
[Icel. skrapa; akin to Sw. skrapa, Dan. skrabe, D. schrapen, schrabben, G. schrappen, and prob. to E. sharp.]
1.
To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

2.
To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).

I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
Ezek. xxvi. 4.

3.
To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.

The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers.
Fuller.

4.
To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.
Macaulay.

To scrape acquaintance, to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction. Farquhar.

He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously.
G. W. Cable.


word: Scrape₂
definition:
Scrape

Scrape
v. i.
1.
To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.

2.
To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
scraping
Shak.

3.
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.

4.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.


word: Scrape₃
definition:
Scrape

Scrape
n.
1.
The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.

2.
A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
H. Spencer.

3.
A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.

The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through thick and thin has led him into many of these scrapes.
Bp. Warburton.


word: Scraper
definition:
Scraper

Scrap"er
(?)
n.
1.
An instrument with which anything is scraped.
(a)
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
(b)
An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
(c)
(Naut.)
An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
(d)
(Lithography)
In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.

2.
One who scrapes.
(a)
One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
(b)
One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.


word: Scraping
definition:
Scraping

Scrap"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.

2.
Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.


word: Scraping₂
definition:
Scraping

Scrap"ing
a.
Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
Scrap"ing*ly, adv.


word: Scrapple
definition:
Scrapple

Scrap"ple
(?)
n.
[Dim. of scrap.]
An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.


word: Scrappy
definition:
Scrappy

Scrap"py
(?)
a.
Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.

A dreadfully scrappy dinner.
Thackeray.


word: Scrat₃
definition:
Scrat

Scrat
n.
[Cf. AS. scritta an hermaphrodite, Ir. scrut a scrub, a low, mean person, Gael. sgrut, sgruit, an old, shriveled person.]
An hermaphrodite.
[Obs.]
Skinner.


word: Scratch
definition:
Scratch

Scratch
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scratched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scratching.]
[OE. cracchen (perhaps influenced by OE. scratten to scratch); cf. OHG. chrazz&omacrn, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, to scrape, Icel. krota to engrave. Cf. Grate to rub.]
1.
To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.

Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.
Grew.

Be mindful, when invention fails,
To scratch your head, and bite your nails.
Swift.

2.
To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
Scratch
Swift.

3.
To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.

4.
To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

To scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party ticket in its entirety. [U. S.]


word: Scratch₂
definition:
Scratch

Scratch
v. i.
1.
To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

Dull, tame things, . . . that will neither bite nor scratch.
Dr. H. More.

2.
(Billiards)
To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
[Cant, U. S.]


word: Scratch₃
definition:
Scratch

Scratch
n.
1.
A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.

The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work.
Moxon.

These nails with scratches deform my breast.
Prior.

God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
The prince of Wales from such a field as this.
Shak.

2.
(Pugilistic Matches)
A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.
[Cant]
Grose.

3.
pl.
(Far.)
Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).

4.
A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

5.
(Billiards)
(a)
A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
[Cant, U. S.]
(b)
a shot which results in a penalty, such as dropping the cue ball in a pocket without hitting another ball.

6.
In various sports, the line from which the start is made, except in the case of contestants receiving a distance handicap.

Scratch cradle. See Cratch cradle, under Cratch. -- Scratch grass (Bot.), a climbing knotweed (Polygonum sagittatum) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles. -- Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above. Thackeray. -- start from scratch to start (again) from the very beginning; also, to start without resources.


word: Scratch₄
definition:
Scratch

Scratch
a.
Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.
[Slang]

Scratch race, one without restrictions regarding the entrance of competitors; also, one for which the competitors are chosen by lot.


word: Scratchback
definition:
Scratchback

Scratch"back`
(?)
n.
A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
[Eng.]


word: Scratch coat
definition:
Scratch coat

Scratch" coat`
(?)
The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.


word: Scratcher
definition:
Scratcher

Scratch"er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zool.), any rasorial bird.


word: Scratch hit
definition:
Scratch hit

Scratch" hit
n.
(Baseball)
a base hit which was weakly batted, barely allowing the batter to reach first base safely.


word: Scratch runner
definition:
Scratch runner

Scratch player

{ Scratch player, Scratch runner, etc. }
One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.


word: Scraw
definition:
Scraw

Scraw
(skr&asuml_;)
n.
[Ir. scrath a turf, sgraith a turf, green sod; akin to Gael. sgrath, sgroth, the outer skin of anything, a turf, a green sod.]
A turf.
[Obs.]
Swift.


word: Scrawl₂
definition:
Scrawl

Scrawl
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scrawled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling.]
[Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.

His name, scrawled by himself.
Macaulay.


word: Scrawl₃
definition:
Scrawl

Scrawl
v. i.
To write unskillfully and inelegantly.

Though with a golden pen you scrawl.
Swift.


word: Scrawl₄
definition:
Scrawl

Scrawl
(skr&asuml_;l)
n.
Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.

The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible.
Arbuthnot.

You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you.
Gray.


word: Scrawny
definition:
Scrawny

Scraw"ny
(skr&asuml_;"n&ybreve_;)
a.
[Cf. Scrannel.]
Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.


word: Scray
definition:
Scray

Scray
(skrā)
n.
[Cf. W. ysgräen, ysgräell, a sea swallow, Armor. skrav.]
(Zool.)
A tern; the sea swallow.
[Prov. Eng.]
[Written also scraye.]


word: Screable
definition:
Screable

Scre"a*ble
(skrē"ȧ*b'l)
a.
[L. screare to hawk, spit out.]
Capable of being spit out.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Screak
definition:
Screak

Screak
(skrēk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Screaked (skrēkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Screaking.]
[Cf. Icel. skraekja to screech. Cf. Creak, v., Screech.]
To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.


word: Scream
definition:
Scream

Scream
(skrēm)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Screamed (skrēmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Screaming.]
[Icel. skraema to scare, terrify; akin to Sw. skräma, Dan. skraemme. 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.


word: Scream₂
definition:
Scream

Scream
n.
A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech.
Screams
Pope.


word: Screamer
definition:
Screamer

Scream"er
(skrēm"ẽr)
n.
(Zool.)
Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

2.
Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy.
[Slang]

3.
An exclamation mark.
[Printer's Slang]


word: Screaming
definition:
Screaming

Scream"ing
a.
1.
Uttering screams; shrieking.

2.
Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp.

The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.
Dryden.


word: Scree
definition:
Scree

Scree
(skrē)
n.
A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky débris.
[Prov. Eng.]
Southey.


word: Screech
definition:
Screech

Screech
(skrēch)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Screeched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Screeching.]
[Also formerly, scritch, OE. skriken, skrichen, schriken, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skrækja to shriek, to screech, skrīkja to titter, Sw. skrika to shriek, Dan. skrige; also Gael. sgreach, sgreuch, W. ysgrechio, Skr. kharj to creak. Cf. Shriek, v., Scream, v.]
To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
screeching
Shak.


word: Screech₂
definition:
Screech

Screech
n.
A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

Screech bird, or Screech thrush (Zool.), the fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. -- Screech rain. -- Screech hawk (Zool.), the European goatsucker; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] -- Screech owl. (Zool.) (a) A small American owl (Scops asio), either gray or reddish in color. (b) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.


word: Screechers
definition:
Screechers

Screech"ers
(?)
n. pl.
(Zool.)
The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.


word: Screed
definition:
Screed

Screed
(skrēd)
n.
[Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See Shred.]
1.
(Arch.)
(a)
A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
(b)
A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

2.
A fragment; a portion; a shred.
[Scot.]


word: Screed₂
definition:
Screed

Screed
n.
[See 1st Screed. For sense 2 cf. also Gael. sgread an outcry.]
1.
A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.

2.
An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.

The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Screen
definition:
Screen

Screen
(skrēn)
n.
[OE. scren, OF. escrein, escran, F. écran, of uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm a screen, OHG. scirm, scerm a protection, shield, or G. schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. schranne a railing.]
1.
Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.

Your leavy screens throw down.
Shak.

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
Bacon.

2.
(Arch.)
A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.

3.
A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.

4.
A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.

5.
(Cricket)
An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.

6.
a netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.

Screen door
a door of which half or more is composed of a screen.

Screen window
a screen inside a frame, fitted for insertion into a window frame.

7.
The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed. The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.

8.
The motion-picture industry; motion pictures.
screen


word: Screen₂
definition:
Screen

Screen
(skrēn)
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.

3.
to examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose.
As:
(a)
To inspect the qualifications of candidates for a job, to select one or more to be hired.
(b)
(Biochem., Med.)
to test a large number of samples, in order to find those having specific desirable properties; as, to screen plant extracts for anticancer agents.


word: Screening
definition:
Screening

Screen"ing
(skrēn"ĭng)
n.
the process of examining or testing objects methodically to find those having desirable properties.  See screen{3}.
In the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical screening involves testing a large number of samples of substances to find those having desirable pharmacological activity; those samples which have the property sought are called active or positive in the screen.  The substances tested may be pure compounds with known structure, mixtures of pure compounds, or complex mixtures obtained by extraction from living organisms.  There are often additional sets of test performed on active samples, called counterscreening to eliminate those samples that may also possess undesirable properties.  In the case of screening of mixtures from living organisms, a type of counterscreening called dereplication is usually performed, to determine if the active sample contains a known compound which has previously been studied.


word: Screw
definition:
Screw

Screw
(skr&usuml_;)
n.
[OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. écrou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skrūfa.]
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.

&hand_; 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.
(Zool.)
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 screw, 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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 screws on or To put the screw on, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. -- To put under the screw or To put under the 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.


word: Screw₂
definition:
Screw

Screw
(skr&usuml_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Screwed (skr&usuml_;d); 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, (a) to force; to bring by violent pressure. Howell. (b) to damage by unskillful effort; to bungle; to botch; to mess up; as, he screwed up the contract negotiations, and we lost the deal. (c) [intrans.] to fail by unskillful effort, usually causing unpleasant consequences.  -- To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting.

Screw around
(a)
to act aimlessly or unproductively.
(b)
to commit adultery; to be sexually promiscuous.

Screw around with
to operate or make changes on (a machine or device) without expert knowledge; to fiddle with.
[Colloq.]


word: Screw₃
definition:
Screw

Screw
v. i.
1.
To use violent means in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
Howitt.

2.
To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.


word: screwball
definition:
screwball

screw"ball
n.
1.
An eccentric or crazy person; an oddball.

2.
(Baseball)
A baseball pitch that curves in the direction opposite to that of a curve ball.


word: screwball₂
definition:
screwball

screw"ball
adj.
1.
Eccentric; zany; crazy; as, screwball antics; a screwball comedy.

2.
Ridiculously unsound; improbable or doomed to failure; -- of plans or ideas; as, a screwball plan to raise cocoanuts in Alaska.


word: Screw-cutting
definition:
Screw-cutting

Screw"-cut`ting
(?)
a.
Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.


word: Screw-driver
definition:
Screw-driver

Screwdriver

Screw"driv`er, Screw"-driv`er
(?)
n.
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.


word: Scribable
definition:
Scribable

Scrib"a*ble
(?)
a.
[See Scribe.]
Capable of being written, or of being written upon.
[R.]


word: Scribble
definition:
Scribble

Scrib"ble
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Scrabble.]
(Woolen Manuf.)
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.


word: Scribble₂
definition:
Scribble

Scrib"ble
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scribbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribbling (-blĭng).]
[From Scribe.]
1.
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

2.
To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.


word: Scribble₃
definition:
Scribble

Scrib"ble
v. i.
To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite.
Pope.


word: Scribble₄
definition:
Scribble

Scrib"ble
n.
Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.
Boyle.

Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
In this my scribble.
Bunyan.


word: Scribbler
definition:
Scribbler

Scrib"bler
(?)
n.
One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.

The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine.
Granville.


word: Scribbling
definition:
Scribbling

Scrib"bling
(?)
n.
[See 1st Scribble.]
The act or process of carding coarsely.

Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.


word: Scribbling₂
definition:
Scribbling

Scrib"bling
a.
Writing hastily or poorly.

Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!
Goldsmith.


word: Scribe
definition:
Scribe

Scribe
(skrīb)
n.
[L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska`rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. Ascribe, Describe, Script, Scrivener, Scrutoire.]
1.
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

2.
(Jewish Hist.)
A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.


word: Scribe₂
definition:
Scribe

Scribe
(skrīb)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scribed (skrībd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribing.]
1.
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
Spenser.

2.
(Carp.)
To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.

3.
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.


word: Scribe₃
definition:
Scribe

Scribe
v. i.
To make a mark.

With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet.
A. M. Mayer.


word: Scriber
definition:
Scriber

Scrib"er
(?)
n.
A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.


word: Scribism
definition:
Scribism

Scrib"ism
(?)
n.
The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ.
F. W. Robertson.


word: Scrim
definition:
Scrim

Scrim
(?)
n.
1.
A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.

2.
pl.
Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.


word: Scrimmage
definition:
Scrimmage

Scrim"mage
(?; 48)
n.
[A corruption of skirmish.  “Sore scrymmishe.” 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.


word: Scrimp
definition:
Scrimp

Scrimp
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scrimped (?; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrimping.]
[Cf. Dan. skrumpe, G. schrumpfen, D. krimpen.  Cf. Shrimp, Shrink.]
To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.


word: Scrimping
definition:
Scrimping

Scrimp"ing
a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t.

Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.


word: Scrimshaw
definition:
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.]


word: Scrimshaw₂
definition:
Scrimshaw

Scrim"shaw`
n.
A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed.
[Sailor's cant, U.S.]


word: Scrine
definition:
Scrine

Scrine
(?)
n.
[L. scrinium a case for books, letters, etc.: cf. OF. escrin, F. écrin. See Shrine.]
A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine.
[Obs.]

But laid them up in immortal scrine.
Spenser.


word: Scringe
definition:
Scringe

Scringe
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scringed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scringing (?).]
[Cf. Cringe.]
To cringe.
[Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]


word: Scrip
definition:
Scrip

Scrip
(?)
n.
[OE. scrippe, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. & OSw. skreppa, and also LL. scrippum, OF. esquerpe, escrepe, F. écharpe scarf.  Cf. Scrap, Scarf a piece of dress.]
A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.
[Archaic]
Chaucer.

And in requital ope his leathern scrip.
Milton.


word: Scrip₂
definition:
Scrip

Scrip
n.
[From script.]
1.
A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.

Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.
Shak.

Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.
Locke.

2.
A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc.  When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

3.
Paper fractional currency.
[Colloq.U.S.]


word: Script
definition:
Script

Script
(?)
n.
[OE. scrit, L. scriptum something written, fr. scribere, scriptum to write: cf. OF. escript, escrit, F. écrit. See Scribe, and cf. Scrip a writing.]
1.
A writing; a written document.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
(Print.)
Type made in imitation of handwriting.

3.
(Law)
An original instrument or document.

4.
Written characters; style of writing.


word: Scriptorium
definition:
Scriptorium

Scrip*to"ri*um
(?)
n.
pl. Scriptoria (#).
[LL. See Scriptory.]
In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.

Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated.
J. R. Green.


word: Scriptory
definition:
Scriptory

Scrip"to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. scriptorius, fr. scribere, scriptum to write.]
Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used in writing; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed.
[R.]
Swift.


word: Scriptural
definition:
Scriptural

Scrip"tur*al
(?; 135)
a.
Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.


word: Scripturalism
definition:
Scripturalism

Scrip"tur*al*ism
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures.


word: Scripture
definition:
Scripture

Scrip"ture
(?; 135)
n.
[L. scriptura, fr. scribere, scriptum, to write: cf. OF. escripture, escriture, F. écriture. See Scribe.]
1.
Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.

I have put it in scripture and in remembrance.
Chaucer.

Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin.
Ld. Berners.

2.
The books of the Old and the New Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.

There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.
South.

Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity.
Buckminster.

3.
A passage from the Bible; a text.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Shak.

Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture.
Milton.


word: Scripturist
definition:
Scripturist

Scrip"tur*ist
(?; 135)
n.
One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them.

The Puritan was a Scripturist, -- a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.
Palfrey.


word: Scrivener
definition:
Scrivener

Scrive"ner
(? or ?)
n.
[From older scrivein, OF. escrivain, F. écrivain, LL. scribanus, from L. scribere to write. See Scribe.]
1.
A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
Shak.

The writer better scrivener than clerk.
Fuller.

2.
One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

3.
A writing master.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.


word: Scrobicula
definition:
Scrobicula

Scro*bic"u*la
(?)
n.
pl. Scrobiculae (#).
[NL. See Scrobiculate.]
(Zool.)
One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.


word: Scrobicular
definition:
Scrobicular

Scro*bic"u*lar
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles.


word: Scrobiculated
definition:
Scrobiculated

Scrobiculate

{ Scro*bic"u*late (?), Scro*bic"u*la`ted (?), }
a.
[L. scrobiculus, dim. of scrobis a ditch or trench.]
(Bot.)
Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.


word: Scrode
definition:
Scrode

Scrod

{ Scrod (?), Scrode (?), }
n.
A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed.
[Written also escrod.]
[Local, U.S.]


word: Scroddled ware
definition:
Scroddled ware

Scrod"dled ware`
(?)
Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.


word: Scrofula
definition:
Scrofula

Scrof"u*la
(?)
n.
[L. scrofulae, fr. scrofa a breeding sow, because swine were supposed to be subject to such a complaint, or by a fanciful comparison of the glandular swellings to little pigs; perhaps akin to Gr. _; an old sow: cf. F. scrofules.  Cf. Scroyle.]
(Med.)
A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).


word: Scrofulous
definition:
Scrofulous

Scrof"u*lous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. scrofuleux.]
1.
Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.

2.
Diseased or affected with scrofula.

Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished.
Arbuthnot.


word: Scrog
definition:
Scrog

Scrog
(?)
n.
[Cf. Scrag, or Gael. sgrogag anything shriveled, from sgrog to compress, shrivel.]
A stunted shrub, bush, or branch.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Scroggy
definition:
Scroggy

Scrog"gy
(?)
a.
Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Halliwell.


word: Scroll
definition:
Scroll

Scroll
(?)
n.
[A dim. of OE. scroue, scrowe (whence E. escrow), OF. escroe, escroue, F. écrou entry in the jail book, LL. scroa scroll, probably of Teutonic origin; cf. OD. schroode a strip, shred, slip of paper, akin to E. shred.  Cf. Shred, Escrow.]
1.
A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll.
Isa. xxxiv. 4.

Here is the scroll of every man's name.
Shak.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

3.
A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal.
[U.S.]
Burrill.

4.
(Geom.)
Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.

Linen scroll (Arch.) See under Linen. -- Scroll chuck (Mach.), an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws. -- Scroll saw. See under Saw.


word: Scrolled
definition:
Scrolled

Scrolled
(?)
a.
Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.


word: Scrophularia
definition:
Scrophularia

Scroph`u*la"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL. So called because it was reputed to be a remedy for scrofula.]
(Bot.)
A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.


word: Scrophulariaceous
definition:
Scrophulariaceous

Scroph`u*la`ri*a"ceous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceae, or Scrophularineae), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.


word: Scrotocele
definition:
Scrotocele

Scro"to*cele
(?)
n.
[Scrotum + Gr. kh`lh a tumor: cf. F. scrotocèle.]
(Med.)
A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.


word: Scrow
definition:
Scrow

Scrow
(? or ?)
n.
[See Escrow, Scroll.]
1.
A scroll.
[Obs.]
Palsgrave.

2.
A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.


word: Scroyle
definition:
Scroyle

Scroyle
(skroil)
n.
[Cf. OF. escrouselle a kind of vermin, escrouelles, pl., scrofula, F. écrouelles, fr. (assumed) LL. scrofellae for L. scrofulae. See Scrofula, and cf. Cruels.]
A mean fellow; a wretch.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Scrub
definition:
Scrub

Scrub
(skrŭb)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scrubbed (skrŭbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing.]
[OE. scrobben, probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skrubbe, Sw. skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.]
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.


word: Scrub₂
definition:
Scrub

Scrub
(skrŭb)
v. i.
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.


word: Scrub₃
definition:
Scrub

Scrub
(skrŭb)
n.
1.
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
scrub
Bunyan.

We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
Goldsmith.

2.
Something small and mean.

3.
A worn-out brush.
Ainsworth.

4.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

5.
(Stock Breeding)
One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
[U.S.]

6.
Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush; -- called also scrub brush. See Brush, above.
[Australia & South Africa]

7.
(Forestry)
A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.

Scrub bird (Zool.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidae, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird. -- Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Quercus Catesbaei); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Quercus undulata, var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zool.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.


word: Scrub₄
definition:
Scrub

Scrub
(skrŭb)
a.
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
Walpole.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Swift.

Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.


word: Scrubber
definition:
Scrubber

Scrub"ber
(skrŭb"bẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush or machine used in scrubbing.

2.
(Gas Manuf.)
A gas washer. See under Gas.

3.
(Manufacturing)
a device for removing pollutants from a gas stream, especially for removing sulfur oxides from processes burning coal or oil.


word: Scrubber₂
definition:
Scrubber

Scrub"ber
(skrŭb"bẽr)
n.
1.
a stunted or emaciated steer.

2.
A person who lives in the bush.
[Australian]

3.
A domesticated animal which has escaped and lives wild in the bush.
[Australian]


word: Scrubby
definition:
Scrubby

Scrub"by
(skrŭb"b&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Scrubbier (skrŭb"bĭ*ẽr); superl. Scrubbiest.]
Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
scrubby
Duke of Argyll.


word: Scruff₂
definition:
Scruff

Scruff
n.
[Cf. Scuff.]
The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.


word: Scruple
definition:
Scruple

Scru"ple
(?)
n.
[L. scrupulus a small sharp or pointed stone, the twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to Gr. _; the chippings of stone, _; a razor, Skr. kshura: cf. F. scrupule.]
1.
A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

2.
Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

I will not bate thee a scruple.
Shak.

3.
Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples.
Macaulay.

To make scruple, to hesitate from conscientious motives; to scruple. Locke.


word: Scruple₂
definition:
Scruple

Scru"ple
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scrupled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrupling (?).]
To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may.
Fuller.

Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship.
South.


word: Scruple₃
definition:
Scruple

Scru"ple
v. t.
1.
To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of heretics than of gentiles.
Milton.

2.
To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
[R.]

Letters which did still scruple many of them.
E. Symmons.


word: Scrupulize
definition:
Scrupulize

Scru"pu*lize
(?)
v. t.
To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples.
[Obs.]
Bp. Montagu.


word: Scrupulosity
definition:
Scrupulosity

Scru`pu*los"i*ty
(skr&usuml_;`p&uuptack_;*l&obreve_;s"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
[L. scrupulositas.]
The quality or state of being scrupulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the fear of doing wrong or offending; nice regard to exactness and propriety; precision.

The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires.
Dr. H. More.

Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath.
South.


word: Scrupulous
definition:
Scrupulous

Scru"pu*lous
(?)
a.
[L. scrupulosus: cf. F. scrupuleux.]
1.
Full of scruples; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.

Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous.
Hooker.

2.
Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.

3.
Given to making objections; captious.
[Obs.]

Equality of two domestic powers
Breed scrupulous faction.
Shak.

4.
Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
[Obs.]

The justice of that cause ought to be evident; not obscure, not scrupulous.
Bacon.


word: Scrutable
definition:
Scrutable

Scru"ta*ble
(?)
a.
Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Scrutin de liste
definition:
Scrutin de liste

Scru`tin" de liste"
(skr&usdot_;`tăN" dẽ lēst)
[F., voting by list.]
Voting for a group of candidates for the same kind of office on one ticket or ballot, containing a list of them; -- the method, used in France, as from June, 1885, to Feb., 1889, in elections for the Chamber of Deputies, each elector voting for the candidates for the whole department in which he lived, as disting. from scrutin d'arrondissement (dȧ`rôN`dēs`mäN"), or voting by each elector for the candidate or candidates for his own arrondissement only.


word: Scrutineer
definition:
Scrutineer

Scru`ti*neer
(?)
n.
A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.


word: Scrutinize
definition:
Scrutinize

Scru"ti*nize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scrutinized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrutinizing (?).]
[From Scrutiny.]
To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.

Whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize.
Ayliffe.

Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
G. W. Cable.


word: Scrutinous
definition:
Scrutinous

Scru"ti*nous
(?)
a.
Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; strict.
Scru"ti*nous*ly, adv.


word: Scrutiny
definition:
Scrutiny

Scru"ti*ny
(?)
n.
[L. scrutinium, fr. scrutari to search carefully, originally, to search even to the rags, fr. scruta trash, trumpery; perhaps akin to E. shred: cf. AS. scrudnian to make scrutiny.]
1.
Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

They that have designed exactness and deep scrutiny have taken some one part of nature.
Sir M. Hale.

Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view
And narrower scrutiny.
Milton.

2.
(Anc. Church)
An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.

3.
(Canon Law)
A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.

4.
(Parliamentary Practice)
An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
Brande & C.


word: Scruze
definition:
Scruze

Scruze
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Excruciate.]
To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise.
[Obs. or Low]
Spenser.


word: Scry₃
definition:
Scry

Scry
n.
[OE. ascrie, fr. ascrien to cry out, fr. OF. escrier, F. s'écrier. See Ex-, and Cry.]
A cry or shout.
[Obs.]
Ld. Berners.


word: Scud
definition:
Scud

Scud
(skŭd)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scudded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scudding.]
[Dan. skyde to shoot, shove, push, akin to skud shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, and to E. shoot. √159.  See Shoot.]
1.
To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans.
I. Taylor.

The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
Beaconsfield.

2.
(Naut.)
To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.


word: Scud₃
definition:
Scud

Scud
n.
1.
The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

2.
Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.

Borne on the scud of the sea.
Longfellow.

The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon.
Sir S. Baker.

3.
A slight, sudden shower.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

4.
(Zool.)
A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
[Prov. Eng.]

5.
(Zool.)
Any swimming amphipod crustacean.

Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.


word: Scuddle
definition:
Scuddle

Scud"dle
(?)
v. i.
[Freq. of scud: cf. Scuttle to hurry.]
To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.


word: Scudo
definition:
Scudo

Scu"do
(?)
n.
pl. Scudi (#).
[It., a crown, a dollar, a shield, fr. L. scutum a shield.  Cf. Scute.]
(Com.)
(a)
A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.
(b)
A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.


word: Scuff
definition:
Scuff

Scuff
(skŭf)
n.
[Cf. D. schoft shoulder, Goth. skuft hair of the head.  Cf. Scruff.]
The back part of the neck; the scruff.
[Prov. Eng.]
Ld. Lytton.


word: Scuff₂
definition:
Scuff

Scuff
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scuffed (skŭft); p. pr. & vb. n. Scuffing.]
[See Scuffle.]
To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.


word: Scuff₃
definition:
Scuff

Scuff
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scuffing.]
1.
To cause a blemish on the surface of, by scraping against an object; as, he scuffed his shoe on the ground.

2.
To scrape with one's foot; as, he scuffed the chair leg with his shoe.


word: Scuffle
definition:
Scuffle

Scuf"fle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Scuffled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scuffling (?).]
[Freq. of scuff, v.i.; cf. Sw. skuffa to push, shove, skuff a push, Dan. skuffe a drawer, a shovel, and E. shuffle, shove. See Shove, and cf. Shuffle.]
1.
To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

2.
Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.

A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.
Eikon Basilike.


word: Scuffle₂
definition:
Scuffle

Scuf"fle
n.
1.
A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

2.
Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.

The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned.
L'Estrange.

3.
A child's pinafore or bib.
[Prov. Eng.]

4.
A garden hoe.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Scuffler
definition:
Scuffler

Scuf"fler
(?)
n.
1.
One who scuffles.

2.
An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.


word: Scug
definition:
Scug

Scug
(skŭg)
v. i.
[Cf. Dan. skygge to darken, a shade, SW. skugga to shade, a shade, Icel. skyggja to shade, skuggi a shade.]
To hide.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Scull₃
definition:
Scull

Scull
n.
[Of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skola to wash.]
1.
(Naut.)
(a)
A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
(b)
One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
(c)
A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.

2.
(Zool.)
The common skua gull.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Scull₄
definition:
Scull

Scull
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sculled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sculling.]
(Naut.)
To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.


word: Sculler
definition:
Sculler

Scull"er
(?)
n.
1.
A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
[R.]
Dryden.

2.
One who sculls.


word: Scullery
definition:
Scullery

Scul"ler*y
(skŭl"lẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Sculleries (skŭl"lẽr*ĭz).
[Probably originally, a place for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian (see Swill to wash, to drink), but influenced either by Icel. skola, skyla, Dan. skylle, or by OF. escuelier a place for keeping dishes, fr. escuele a dish, F. écuelle, fr. L. scutella a salver, waiter (cf. Scuttle a basket); or perhaps the English word is immediately from the OF. escuelier; cf. OE. squyllare a dishwasher.]
1.
A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

2.
Hence, refuse; filth; offal.
[Obs.]
Gauden.


word: Scullion₂
definition:
Scullion

Scul"lion
n.
[OF. escouillon (Cot.) a dishclout, apparently for escouvillon, F. écouvillon a swab; cf. also OF. souillon a servant employed for base offices.  Cf. Scovel.]
A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

The meanest scullion that followed his camp.
South.


word: Sculp
definition:
Sculp

Sculp
(?)
v. t.
[See Sculptor.]
To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.
[Obs. or Humorous.]
Sandys.


word: Sculpin
definition:
Sculpin

Scul"pin
(?)
n.
[Written also skulpin.]
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with several sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
(b)
A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
(c)
The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lyra).

&hand_; The name is also applied to other related California species.

Deep-water sculpin, the sea raven.


word: Sculptile
definition:
Sculptile

Sculp"tile
(?)
a.
[L. sculptilis. See Sculptor.]
Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Sculptor
definition:
Sculptor

Sculp"tor
(?)
n.
[L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum, to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. _; to carve: cf. F. sculpteur.]
1.
One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.

2.
Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.


word: Sculpture
definition:
Sculpture

Sculp"ture
(?; 135)
n.
[L. sculptura: cf. F. sculpture.]
1.
The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

2.
Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.

There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen
The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
Dryden.


word: Sculpture₂
definition:
Sculpture

Sculp"ture
(?; 135)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sculptured (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.]
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

Sculptured tortoise (Zool.), a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.


word: Sculpturesque
definition:
Sculpturesque

Sculp`tur*esque"
(?)
a.
After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.


word: Scum
definition:
Scum

Scum
(skŭm)
n.
[Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. skum, Icel. skūm, LG. schum, D. schuim, OHG. scūm, G. schaum; probably from a root meaning, to cover. √158.  Cf. Hide skin, Meerschaum, Skim, v., Sky.]

1.
The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.

Some to remove the scum as it did rise.
Spenser.

2.
refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.

The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people.
Addison.


word: Scum₂
definition:
Scum

Scum
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scumming (?).]
1.
To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.

You that scum the molten lead.
Dryden & Lee.

2.
To sweep or range over the surface of.
[Obs.]

Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
Milton.


word: Scum₃
definition:
Scum

Scum
v. i.
To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.

Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over.
A. K. H. Boyd.


word: Scumble
definition:
Scumble

Scum"ble
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scumbling (?).]
[Freq. of scum. √ 158.]
(Fine Arts)
To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.


word: Scumbling
definition:
Scumbling

Scum"bling
(?)
n.
1.
(Fine Arts)
(a)
A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing.
(b)
In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.

2.
The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.

Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards.
L. Wallace.


word: Scummer₃
definition:
Scummer

Scum"mer
n.
[Cf. OF. escumoire, F. écumoire. See Scum, and cf. Skimmer.]
An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.


word: Scumming
definition:
Scumming

Scum"ming
(?)
n.
(a)
The act of taking off scum.
(b)
That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.


word: Scunner
definition:
Scunner

Scun"ner
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Shun.]
To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Scunner₂
definition:
Scunner

Scun"ner
v. i.
To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
C. Kingsley.


word: Scunner₃
definition:
Scunner

Scun"ner
n.
A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Carlyle.


word: Scup₂
definition:
Scup

Scup
n.
[Contr. fr. American Indian mishcùp, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.]
(Zool.)
A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or Stenotomus argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

&hand_; The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species (Stenotomus Gardeni).


word: Scuppaug
definition:
Scuppaug

Scup"paug
(?)
n.
[Contr. fr. Amer. Indian mishcuppauog, pl. of mishcup.]
(Zool.)
See 2d Scup.


word: Scupper
definition:
Scupper

Scup"per
(?)
n.
[OF. escopir, escupir, to spit, perhaps for escospir, L. ex + conspuere to spit upon; pref. con- + spuere to spit.  Cf. Spit, v.]
(Naut.)
An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

Scupper hose (Naut.), a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of a vessel, to prevent the water from entering. Totten. -- Scupper nail (Naut.), a nail with a very broad head, for securing the edge of the hose to the scupper. -- Scupper plug (Naut.), a plug to stop a scupper. Totten.


word: Scuppernong
definition:
Scuppernong

Scup"per*nong
(skŭp"pẽr*n&obreve_;ng)
n.
[Probably of American Indian origin.]
(Bot.)
An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.


word: Scur
definition:
Scur

Scur
(skûr)
v. i.
[Cf. Scour to run.]
To move hastily; to scour.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Scurf
definition:
Scurf

Scurf
(?)
n.
[AS. scurf, sceorf, or from Scand.; cf. Sw. skorf, Dan. skurv, Icel. skurfur, D. schurft, G. schorf; all akin to AS. scurf, and to AS. sceorfan to scrape, to gnaw, G. schürfen to scrape, and probably also to E. scrape.  Cf. Scurvy.]
1.
Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

2.
Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.

The scurf is worn away of each committed crime.
Dryden.

3.
Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.

There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top
Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire
Shone with a glossy scurf.
Milton.

4.
(Bot.)
Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
Gray.


word: Scurfy
definition:
Scurfy

Scurf"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Scurfier (?); superl. Scurfiest.]
Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.


word: Scurrile
definition:
Scurrile

Scur"rile
(?)
a.
[L. scurrilis, fr. scurra a bufoon, jester: cf. F. scurrile.]
Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter.
Cowley.

A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than your father's ancient name.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Scurrility
definition:
Scurrility

Scur*ril"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. scurrilitas: cf. F. scurrilité.]
1.
The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.

Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility.
Shak.

2.
That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.

Interrupting prayers and sermons with clamor and scurrility.
Macaulay.


word: Scurrilous
definition:
Scurrilous

Scur"ril*ous
(?)
a.
[See Scurrile.]
1.
Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

2.
Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.

The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment.
Macaulay.


word: Scurry
definition:
Scurry

Scur"ry
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. Scur, Skirr.]
To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.


word: Scurvy
definition:
Scurvy

Scur"vy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Scurvier (?); superl. Scurviest.]
[From Scurf; cf. Scurvy, n.]
1.
Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
scurvy
Lev. xxi. 18, 20.

2.
Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
scurvy
Ld. Lytton.

That scurvy custom of taking tobacco.
Swift.

[He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms.
Shak.


word: Scurvy₂
definition:
Scurvy

Scur"vy
n.
[Probably from the same source as scorbute, but influenced by scurf, scurfy, scurvy, adj.; cf. D. scheurbuik scurvy, G. scharbock, LL. scorbutus.  Cf. Scorbute.]
(Med.)
A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.

Scurvy grass [Scurvy + grass; or cf. Icel. skarfakāl scurvy grass.] (Bot.) A kind of cress (Cochlearia officinalis) growing along the seacoast of Northern Europe and in arctic regions. It is a remedy for the scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic explorers. The name is given also to other allied species of plants.


word: Scut
definition:
Scut

Scut
(?)
n.
[Cf. Icel. skott a fox's tail. √ 159.]
[Obs.]
The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, esp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.
scut
Skelton.

How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, whereas that part in others attains no higher than a scut.
Sir T. Browne.

My doe with the black scut.
Shak.


word: Scutage
definition:
Scutage

Scu"tage
(?; 48)
n.
[LL. scutagium, from L. scutum a shield.]
(Eng. Hist.)
Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.


word: Scutal
definition:
Scutal

Scu"tal
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a shield.

A good example of these scutal monstrosities.
Cussans.


word: Scutate
definition:
Scutate

Scu"tate
(?)
a.
[L. scutatus armed with a shield, from scutum a shield.]
1.
Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

2.
(Zool.)
Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.


word: Scutch
definition:
Scutch

Scutch
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scutched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scutching.]
[See Scotch to cut slightly.]
1.
To beat or whip; to drub.
[Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

2.
To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

3.
To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also batting machine.


word: Scutch₂
definition:
Scutch

Scutch
n.
1.
A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

2.
The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
scutch
Cuthbert Bede.


word: Scutcheon
definition:
Scutcheon

Scutch"eon
(?)
n.
[Aphetic form of escutcheon.]
1.
An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.
Bacon.

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.
Macaulay.

2.
A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4.


word: Scutcheoned
definition:
Scutcheoned

Scutch"eoned
(?)
a.
Emblazoned on or as a shield.

Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old.
Lowell.


word: Scutcher
definition:
Scutcher

Scutch"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who scutches.

2.
An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton, etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.


word: Scutch grass
definition:
Scutch grass

Scutch" grass`
(?)
(Bot.)
A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.


word: Scute
definition:
Scute

Scute
(?)
n.
[L. scutum a shield, a buckler. See Scudo.]
1.
A small shield.
[Obs.]
Skelton.

2.
An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.

3.
(Zool.)
A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.


word: Scutella₂
definition:
Scutella

Scu*tel"la
n.
pl. Scutellae (#).
[NL., fem. dim. of L. scutum.]
(Zool.)
See Scutellum, n., 2.


word: Scutellated
definition:
Scutellated

Scutellate

{ Scu"tel*late (?), Scu"tel*la`ted (?), }
a.
[L. scutella a dish, salver.  Cf. Scuttle a basket.]
1.
(Zool.)
Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.
Woodward.

2.
[See Scutellum.]
(Zool.)
Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.


word: Scutellation
definition:
Scutellation

Scu`tel*la"tion
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.


word: Scutelliform
definition:
Scutelliform

Scu*tel"li*form
(?)
a.
[L. scutella a dish + -form.]
1.
Scutellate.

2.
(Bot.)
Having the form of a scutellum.


word: Scutelliplantar
definition:
Scutelliplantar

Scu*tel`li*plan"tar
(?)
a.
[L. scutellus a shield + planta foot.]
(Zool.)
Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.


word: Scutellum
definition:
Scutellum

Scu*tel"lum
(?)
n.
pl. Scutella (#).
[NL., neut. dim. of L. scutum a shield.]
1.
(Bot.)
A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.
(b)
One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.


word: Scutibranchiata
definition:
Scutibranchiata

Scu`ti*bran`chi*a"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Scutum, and Branchia.]
(Zool.)
An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

&hand_; It is now usually regarded as including only the Rhipidoglossa and the Docoglossa. When originally established, it included a heterogenous group of mollusks having shieldlike shells, such as Haliotis, Fissurella, Carinaria, etc.


word: Scutibranchiate
definition:
Scutibranchiate

Scu`ti*bran"chi*ate
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata.
n. One of the Scutibranchiata.


word: Scutiform
definition:
Scutiform

Scu"ti*form
(?)
a.
[L. scutum shield + -form: cf. F. scutiforme.]
Shield-shaped; scutate.


word: Scutiger
definition:
Scutiger

Scu"ti*ger
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. scutum shield + gerere to bear.]
(Zool.)
Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.


word: Scutiped
definition:
Scutiped

Scu"ti*ped
(?)
a.
[L. scutum a shield + pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. scutipède.]
(Zool.)
Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.


word: Scutter
definition:
Scutter

Scut"ter
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. Scuttle, v. i.]
To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle.
[Prov. Eng.]
A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.
Kipling.


word: Scuttle
definition:
Scuttle

Scut"tle
(?)
n.
[AS. scutel a dish, platter; cf. Icel. skutill; both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. scutum a shield.  Cf. Skillet.]
1.
A broad, shallow basket.

2.
A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.


word: Scuttle₂
definition:
Scuttle

Scut"tle
v. i.
[For scuddle, fr. scud.]
To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.

With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Scuttle₄
definition:
Scuttle

Scut"tle
(skŭt"t'l)
n.
[OF. escoutille, F. éscoutille, cf. Sp. escotilla; probably akin to Sp. escotar to cut a thing so as to make it fit, to hollow a garment about the neck, perhaps originally, to cut a bosom-shaped piece out, and of Teutonic origin; cf. D. schoot lap, bosom, G. schoss, Goth. skauts the hem of a garnment.  Cf. Sheet an expanse.]
1.
A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
Specifically:
(a)
(Naut.)
A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
(b)
An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.

2.
The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.

Scuttle butt, or Scuttle cask (Naut.), a butt or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship.
Totten.


word: Scuttle₅
definition:
Scuttle

Scut"tle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Scuttled (skŭt"t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Scuttling.]
1.
To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

2.
To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.

3.
Hence:
To defeat, frustrate, abandon, or cause to be abandoned; -- of plans, projects, actions, hopes; as, the review committee scuttled the project due to lack of funds.


word: scuttlebutt
definition:
scuttlebutt

scut"tle*butt`
(skŭt"t'l*bŭt`)
n.
1.
See scuttle butt.

2.
A drinking fountain on board a ship or at a naval station.

3.
The latest gossip; rumors.


word: Scutum
definition:
Scutum

Scu"tum
(?)
n.
pl. Scuta (#).
[L.]
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.

2.
(O. Eng. Law)
A penthouse or awning.
[Obs.]
Burrill.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
(b)
One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.


word: Scye
definition:
Scye

Scye
(sī)
n.
Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garment.
[Cant]


word: Scyle
definition:
Scyle

Scyle
(sīl)
v. t.
[AS. scylan to withdraw or remove.]
To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
[Obs.]


word: Scylla
definition:
Scylla

Scyl"la
(?)
n.
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying “Between Scylla and Charybdis,” signifying a great peril on either hand.


word: Scyllaea
definition:
Scyllaea

Scyl*lae"a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Scylla.]
(Zool.)
A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.

&hand_; In color and form these mollusks closely imitate the fronds of sargassum and other floating seaweeds among which they live.


word: Scyllarian
definition:
Scyllarian

Scyl*la"ri*an
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.


word: Scyllite
definition:
Scyllite

Scyl"lite
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scyllium), the shark, and the skate.


word: Scyphistoma
definition:
Scyphistoma

Scy*phis"to*ma
(?)
n.
pl. Scyphistomata (#), Scyphistomae (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. sky`fos a cup + sto`ma the mouth.]
(Zool.)
The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.


word: Scyphobranchii
definition:
Scyphobranchii

Scy`pho*bran"chi*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. sky`fos a cup + bra`gchion a gill.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.


word: Scyphomedusae
definition:
Scyphomedusae

Scy`pho*me*du"sae
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. sky`fos cup + NL. medusa.]
(Zool.)
Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.


word: Scyphophori
definition:
Scyphophori

Scy*phoph"o*ri
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. sky`fos a cup + fe`rein to bear.]
(Zool.)
An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.


word: Scyphus
definition:
Scyphus

Scy"phus
(?)
n.
pl. Scyphi (#).
[L., a cup, Gr. sky`fos.]
1.
(Antiq.)
A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

2.
(Bot.)
(a)
The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
(b)
A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.


word: Scythe
definition:
Scythe

Scythe
(sīth)
n.
[OE. sithe, AS. sīðe, sigðe; akin to Icel. sigðr a sickle, LG. segd, seged, seed, seid, OHG. segansa sickle, scythe, G. sense scythe, and to E. saw a cutting instrument. See Saw.]
[Written also sithe and sythe.]
1.
An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.

The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass.
Drayton.

Whatever thing
The scythe of Time mows down.
Milton.

2.
(Antiq.)
A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.


word: Scythe₂
definition:
Scythe

Scythe
(?)
v. t.
To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
[Obs.]

Time had not scythed all that youth begun.
Shak.


word: Scythed
definition:
Scythed

Scythed
(?)
a.
Armed with scythes, as a chariot.

Chariots scythed,
On thundering axles rolled.
Glover.


word: Scythian
definition:
Scythian

Scyth"i*an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.

Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.


word: Scythian₂
definition:
Scythian

Scyth"i*an
n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.

2.
The language of the Scythians.


word: Scytodermata
definition:
Scytodermata

Scy`to*der"ma*ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a hide + _; a skin.]
(Zool.)
Same as Holothurioidea.


word: 'Sdeath
definition:
'Sdeath

'Sdeath
(?)
interj.
[Corrupted fr. God's death.]
An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.
Shak.


word: Sea
definition:
Sea

Sea
(sē)
n.
[OE. see, AS. s&aemacr_;; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. sēo, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. sö, Sw. sjö, Icel. saer, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage. √151a.]
1.
One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.

2.
An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.

3.
The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.

I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
Shak.

Ambiguous between sea and land
The river horse and scaly crocodile.
Milton.

4.
The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion or agitation of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.

5.
(Jewish Antiq.)
A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.

He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof.
2 Chron. iv. 2.

6.
Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
Shak.

All the space . . . was one sea of heads.
Macaulay.

&hand_; Sea is often used in the composition of words of obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten, sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed, sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is also used either adjectively or in combination with substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea acorn, or sea-acorn.

At sea, upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances. “To say the old man was at sea would be too feeble an expression.” G. W. Cable -- At full sea at the height of flood tide; hence, at the height. “But now God's mercy was at full sea.” Jer. Taylor. -- Beyond seas, or Beyond the sea or Beyond the seas (Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country. Wharton. -- Half seas over, half drunk. [Colloq.] Spectator. -- Heavy sea, a sea in which the waves run high. -- Long sea, a sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves. -- Short sea, a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion. -- To go to sea, to adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.


word: Sea adder
definition:
Sea adder

Sea" ad"der
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
(b)
The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).


word: Sea anemone
definition:
Sea anemone

Sea" a*nem"o*ne
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actinaria; an actinian.

&hand_; They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colors varied and often very beautiful.


word: Sea apple
definition:
Sea apple

Sea" ap"ple
(?)
(Bot.)
The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea.
A. Grisebach.


word: Sea bass
definition:
Sea bass

Sea" bass`
(_;)
(Zool.)
(a)
A large marine food fish (Serranus atrarius syn. 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.


word: Sea blite
definition:
Sea blite

Sea" blite`
(?)
(Bot.)
A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marshes.


word: Seaboard₂
definition:
Seaboard

Sea"board`
a.
Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.


word: Seaboat
definition:
Seaboat

Sea"boat`
(?)
[AS. s&aemacr_;bāt.]
1.
A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.

2.
(Zool.)
A chiton.


word: Sea-born
definition:
Sea-born

Sea"-born`
(?)
a.
1.
Born of the sea; produced by the sea.
sea-born
Waller.

2.
Born at sea.


word: Sea bream
definition:
Sea bream

Sea" bream`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (Pagellus Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.


word: Sea canary
definition:
Sea canary

Sea" ca*na"ry
(?)
[So called from a whistling sound which it makes.]
(Zool.)
The beluga, or white whale.


word: Sea cat
definition:
Sea cat

Sea catfish

{ Sea" cat`fish (?). Sea" cat` (?). }
(Zool.)
(a)
The wolf fish.
(b)
Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.


word: Sea chart
definition:
Sea chart

Sea" chart`
(?)
A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.


word: Sea chickweed
definition:
Sea chickweed

Sea" chick"weed`
(?)
(Bot.)
A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.


word: Sea clam
definition:
Sea clam

Sea" clam`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. (Mactra solidissima or Spisula solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.


word: Sea coal
definition:
Sea coal

Sea" coal`
(?)
Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.

Sea-coal facing (Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.


word: Seacoast
definition:
Seacoast

Sea"coast`
(?)
n.
The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.


word: Sea cock
definition:
Sea cock

Sea" cock`
(?)
1.
In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The black-bellied plover.
(b)
A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).


word: Sea cocoa
definition:
Sea cocoa

Sea" co"coa
(?)
(Bot.)
A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.


word: Sea colander
definition:
Sea colander

Sea" col"an*der
(?)
(Bot.)
A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.


word: Sea corn
definition:
Sea corn

Sea" corn`
(?)
(Zool.)
A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsules of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.


word: Sea crayfish
definition:
Sea crayfish

Sea crawfish

{ Sea" craw"fish` (?). Sea" cray"fish` (?). }
(Zool.)
Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (Palinurus vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.


word: Sea crow
definition:
Sea crow

Sea" crow`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
The chough.
[Ireland]
(b)
The cormorant.
(c)
The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.
(d)
The skua.
(e)
The razorbill.
[Orkney Islands]
(f)
The coot.


word: Sea cucumber
definition:
Sea cucumber

Sea" cu"cum*ber
(?)
(Zool.)
Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (Pentacta frondosa).


word: Sea devil
definition:
Sea devil

Sea" dev`il
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cephaloptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.
(b)
Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
(c)
The angler.


word: Sea dog
definition:
Sea dog

Sea" dog`
(?)
1.
(Zool.)
The dogfish.
(b)
The common seal.

2.
An old sailor; a salt.
[Colloq.]


word: Sea duck
definition:
Sea duck

Sea" duck`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.


word: Sea eagle
definition:
Sea eagle

Sea" ea"gle
(?)
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaetus ichthyaetus).  The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.

2.
(Zool.)
The eagle ray. See under Ray.


word: Sea-ear
definition:
Sea-ear

Sea"-ear`
(sē"ēr`)
n.
(Zool.)
Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.


word: Sea elephant
definition:
Sea elephant

Sea" el"e*phant
(sē" ē"e̝*fant)
(Zool.)
A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (Macrorhinus angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.


word: Sea fan
definition:
Sea fan

Sea" fan"
(sē" făn`)
(Zool.)
Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.


word: Seafarer
definition:
Seafarer

Sea"far`er
(?)
n.
[Sea + fare.]
One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.


word: Sea fir
definition:
Sea fir

Sea" fir`
(?)
(Zool.)
A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.


word: Sea fowl
definition:
Sea fowl

Sea" fowl`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.


word: Sea-gait
definition:
Sea-gait

Sea-gate

{ Sea"-gate`, Sea"-gait`  }
n.
A long, rolling swell of the sea.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Sea girkin
definition:
Sea girkin

Sea gherkin

{ Sea" gher`kin (?), or Sea" gir"kin (?) }
(Zool.)
Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.


word: Sea ginger
definition:
Sea ginger

Sea" gin"ger
(?)
(Zool.)
A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially Millepora alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida.  So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.


word: Sea girdles
definition:
Sea girdles

Sea" gir"dles
(?)
(Bot.)
A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.


word: Sea god
definition:
Sea god

Sea" god`
(?)
A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.


word: Sea goddess
definition:
Sea goddess

Sea" god"dess
(?)
A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.


word: Seagoing
definition:
Seagoing

Sea"go`ing
(?)
a.
Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.


word: Sea grape
definition:
Sea grape

Sea" grape`
(?)
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
(b)
A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.

2.
pl.
(Zool.)
The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).


word: Sea heath
definition:
Sea heath

Sea" heath`
(?)
(Bot.)
A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.


word: Sea horse
definition:
Sea horse

Sea" horse`
(?)
1.
A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The walrus.
(b)
Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.

&hand_; In a passage of Dryden's, the word is supposed to refer to the hippopotamus.


word: Sea-island
definition:
Sea-island

Sea"-is`land
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.


word: Sea king
definition:
Sea king

Sea" king`
(?)
One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.


word: Seal
definition:
Seal

Seal
(sēl)
n.
[OE. sele, AS. seolh; akin to OHG. selah, Dan. sael, Sw. själ, Icel. selr.]
(Zool.)
Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

&hand_; Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are numerous species, bearing such popular names as sea lion, sea leopard, sea bear, or ursine seal, fur seal, and sea elephant. The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata), and the ringed seal (Phoca foetida), are northern species. See also Eared seal, Harp seal, Monk seal, and Fur seal, under Eared, Harp, Monk, and Fur. Seals are much hunted for their skins and fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is very abundant.

Harbor seal (Zool.), the common seal (Phoca vitulina). It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean, and often ascends rivers; -- called also marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.


word: Seal₂
definition:
Seal

Seal
n.
[OE. seel, OF. seel, F. sceau, fr. L. sigillum a little figure or image, a seal, dim. of signum a mark, sign, figure, or image. See Sign, n., and cf. Sigil.]
1.
An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.

2.
Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.

Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond
Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud.
Shak.

3.
That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.

4.
That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
seal
Milton.

Like a red seal is the setting sun
On the good and the evil men have done.
Longfellow.

5.
An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.

Great seal. See under Great. -- Privy seal. See under Privy, a. -- Seal lock, a lock in which the keyhole is covered by a seal in such a way that the lock can not be opened without rupturing the seal. -- Seal manual. See under Manual, a. -- Seal ring, a ring having a seal engraved on it, or ornamented with a device resembling a seal; a signet ring. Shak.


word: Seal₃
definition:
Seal

Seal
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sealed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sealing.]
[OE. selen; cf. OF. seeler, seieler, F. sceller, LL. sigillare. See Seal a stamp.]
1.
To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.

And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.
Shak.

2.
To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.

3.
To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.

4.
Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.

Seal up your lips, and give no words but “mum”.
Shak.

5.
To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
Gwilt.

6.
To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.

7.
Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
[Utah, U.S.]

If a man once married desires a second helpmate . . . she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church.
H. Stansbury.


word: Sea laces
definition:
Sea laces

Sea" la"ces
(?)
(Bot.)
A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.


word: Sea lark
definition:
Sea lark

Sea" lark`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
(b)
Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.


word: Seal-brown
definition:
Seal-brown

Seal"-brown`
(?)
a.
Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.


word: Sea legs
definition:
Sea legs

Sea" legs`
(?)
Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability to stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.
[Sailor's Cant]
Totten.


word: Sea lemon
definition:
Sea lemon

Sea" lem"on
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.


word: Sea leopard
definition:
Sea leopard

Sea" leop"ard
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.


word: Sealer
definition:
Sealer

Seal"er
(?)
n.
One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.


word: Sea letter
definition:
Sea letter

Sea" let"ter
(?)
(Mar. Law.)
The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
Burrill.


word: Sea lettuce
definition:
Sea lettuce

Sea" let"tuce
(?)
(Bot.)
The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.


word: Sea level
definition:
Sea level

Sea" lev"el
(?)
The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.


word: Sealing wax
definition:
Sealing wax

Seal"ing wax`
(?)
A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.


word: Sea lion
definition:
Sea lion

Sea" li"on
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidae native of the Pacific Ocean, especially the southern sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.


word: Sea louse
definition:
Sea louse

Sea" louse`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.


word: Sealskin
definition:
Sealskin

Seal"skin`
(?)
n.
The skin of a seal; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.


word: Seam₂
definition:
Seam

Seam
n.
[OE. seem, seam, AS. seám; akin to D. zoom, OHG. soum, G. saum, LG. soom, Icel. saumr, Sw. & Dan. söm, and E. sew. √ 156. See Sew to fasten with thread.]
1.
The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

2.
Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.

Precepts should be so finely wrought together . . . that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
Addison.

3.
(Geol. & Mining)
A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

4.
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

Seam blast, a blast made by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks. -- Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams. Knight. -- Seam set, a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.


word: Seam₃
definition:
Seam

Seam
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seaming.]
1.
To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

2.
To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.

Seamed o'er with wounds which his own saber gave.
Pope.

3.
To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.


word: Seam₄
definition:
Seam

Seam
v. i.
To become ridgy; to crack open.

Later their lips began to parch and seam.
L. Wallace.


word: Seam₅
definition:
Seam

Seam
n.
[AS. seám, LL. sauma, L. sagma a packsaddle, fr. Gr. _;. See Sumpter.]
A denomination of weight or measure.
(a)
The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
seam
P. Plowman.
(b)
The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
[Eng.]


word: Sea-mail
definition:
Sea-mail

Sea"-mail`
(?)
n.
[Sea + (perhaps) Mall Mally, for Mary; hence, Prov. E. mally a hare.]
(Zool.)
A gull; the mew.


word: Seaman₂
definition:
Seaman

Sea"man
(?)
n.
pl. Seamen (#).
[AS. saeman.]
One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.

Able seaman, a sailor who is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship. -- Ordinary seaman. See Ordinary.


word: Seamanship
definition:
Seamanship

Sea"man*ship
n.
The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.


word: Sea marge
definition:
Sea marge

Sea" marge`
(?)
Land which borders on the sea; the seashore.
Shak.

You are near the sea marge of a land teeming with life.
J. Burroughs.


word: Seamark
definition:
Seamark

Sea"mark`
(?)
n.
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.
Shak.


word: Sea mat
definition:
Sea mat

Sea" mat`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.


word: Sea milkwort
definition:
Sea milkwort

Sea" milk"wort`
(?)
(Bot.)
A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.


word: Seaming
definition:
Seaming

Seam"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

2.
(Fishing)
The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.

Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.


word: Sea mouse
definition:
Sea mouse

Sea" mouse`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides.
(b)
The dunlin.


word: Seamster
definition:
Seamster

Seam"ster
(?)
n.
[See Seamstress.]
One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.
[Obs.]


word: Seamstress
definition:
Seamstress

Seam"stress
(?; 277)
n.
[From older seamster, properly fem., AS. seámestre. See Seam.]
A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.


word: Sea mud
definition:
Sea mud

Sea" mud`
(?)
A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.


word: Seamy
definition:
Seamy

Seam"y
(?)
a.
Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.
seamy
Burns.

Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Seance
definition:
Seance

Sé`ance"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. sedens, -entis, p. pr. of sedere to sit. See Sit.]
A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communications, so called.


word: Seannachie
definition:
Seannachie

Sean"na*chie
(?)
n.
[Gael. seanachaidh.]
A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.
[Written also sennachy.]
[Scot.]


word: Sea orange
definition:
Sea orange

Sea" or"ange
(?)
(Zool.)
A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales.  Its expanded tentacles are bright red.


word: Sea otter
definition:
Sea otter

Sea" ot"ter
(?)
(Zool.)
An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris syn. Enhydris marina) found in the North Pacific Ocean.   Its fur is highly valued, especially by the Chinese.  It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed.

Sea-otter's cabbage (Bot.), a gigantic kelp of the Pacific Ocean (Nereocystis Lutkeana). See Nereocystis.


word: Sea partridge
definition:
Sea partridge

Sea" par"tridge
(?)
(Zool.)
The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.


word: Sea pass
definition:
Sea pass

Sea" pass`
(?)
A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport.


word: Sea peach
definition:
Sea peach

Sea" peach`
(?)
(Zool.)
A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia pyriformis syn. Halocynthia pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.


word: Sea perch
definition:
Sea perch

Sea" perch`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
The European bass (Roccus lupus syn. Labrax lupus); -- called also sea dace.
(b)
The cunner.
(c)
The sea bass.
(d)
The name is applied also to other species of fishes.


word: Sea pie₂
definition:
Sea pie

Sea" pie`
A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.


word: Sea pike
definition:
Sea pike

Sea" pike`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
The garfish.
(b)
A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.
(c)
The merluce.


word: Sea poker
definition:
Sea poker

Sea poacher

{ Sea" poach"er (sē" p&omacrch"ẽr). Sea" pok"er (sē" p&omacrk"ẽr). }
(Zool.)
The lyrie.


word: Sea porcupine
definition:
Sea porcupine

Sea" por"cu*pine
(?)
(Zool.)
Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.


word: Sea pork
definition:
Sea pork

Sea" pork`
(?)
(Zool.)
An American compound ascidian (Amoroecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.


word: Seaport
definition:
Seaport

Sea"port`
(sē"p&omacrrt`)
n.
A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.


word: Sere
definition:
Sere

Sear

{ Sear, Sere (sēr), }
a.
[OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sorēn to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. çush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry.  √152.  Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.]
Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
Milton.

I have lived long enough; my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.
Shak.


word: Sear
definition:
Sear

Sear
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Searing.]
[OE. seeren, AS. seárian. 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.

&hand_; 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 up, to close by searing. “Cherish veins of good humor, and sear up those of ill.” Sir W. Temple.


word: Sear₂
definition:
Sear

Sear
n.
[F. serre a grasp, pressing, fr. L. sera. See Serry.]
The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

Sear spring, the spring which causes the sear to catch in the notches by which the hammer is held.


word: Sea raven
definition:
Sea raven

Sea" ra"ven
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northern Atlantic coasts.
(b)
The cormorant.


word: Search
definition:
Search

Search
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Searched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Searching.]
[OE. serchen, cerchen, OF. cerchier, F. chercher, L. circare to go about, fr. L. circum, circa, around. See Circle.]
1.
To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
Search
John v. 39.

They are come to search the house.
Shak.

Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Ps. cxxxix. 23.

2.
To inquire after; to look for; to seek.

I will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
Ezek. xxxiv. 11.

Enough is left besides to search and know.
Milton.

3.
To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

4.
To examine; to try; to put to the test.

To search out, to seek till found; to find by seeking; as, to search out truth.


word: Search₂
definition:
Search

Search
v. i.
To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.

Once more search with me.
Shak.

It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars.
Locke.


word: Search₃
definition:
Search

Search
n.
[Cf. OF. cerche. See Search, v. t.]
The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Thus the orb he roamed
With narrow search, and with inspection deep
Considered every creature.
Milton.

Nor did my search of liberty begin
Till my black hairs were changed upon my chin.
Dryden.

Right of search (Mar. Law), the right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war. -- Search warrant (Law), a warrant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search of a house, or other place, for goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.


word: Searcher
definition:
Searcher

Search"er
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. cercheor inspector.]
One who, or that which, searches or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
(a)
Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
Graunt.
(b)
An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
(c)
An inspector of leather.
[Prov. Eng.]
(d)
(Gun.)
An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
(e)
An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
(j)
(Med.)
An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.


word: Searching
definition:
Searching

Search"ing
a.
Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye.
searching
Dickens.


word: Searchlight
definition:
Searchlight

Search"light`
(?)
n.
(a)
An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about.
(b)
The beam of light projecting by this apparatus.


word: Seared
definition:
Seared

Seared
(?)
a.
Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.

A seared conscience and a remorseless heart.
Macaulay.


word: Sea room
definition:
Sea room

Sea" room`
(?)
(Naut.)
Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground.
Totten.


word: Sea rover
definition:
Sea rover

Sea" rov"er
(?)
One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.


word: Sea salmon
definition:
Sea salmon

Sea" salm"on
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
A young pollock.
(b)
The spotted squeteague.
(c)
See Sea bass (b).


word: Sea saurian
definition:
Sea saurian

Sea" sau"ri*an
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.), the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.


word: Seascape
definition:
Seascape

Sea"scape
(?)
n.
[Cf. Landscape.]
A picture representing a scene at sea.  Compare landscape.
Thackeray.


word: Sea scorpion
definition:
Sea scorpion

Sea" scor"pi*on
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines.
(b)
The scorpene.


word: Sea scurf
definition:
Sea scurf

Sea" scurf`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.


word: Sea serpent
definition:
Sea serpent

Sea" ser"pent
(?)
1.
(Zool.)
Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

2.
(Zool.)
A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.

&hand_; Many accounts of sea serpents are imaginary or fictitious; others are greatly exaggerated and distorted by incompetent observers; but a number have been given by competent and trustworthy persons, which indicate that several diverse animals have been called sea serpents. Among these are, apparently, several large snakelike fishes, as the oar fish, or ribbon fish (Regalecus), and huge conger eels. Other accounts probably refer to the giant squids (Architeuthis). Some of the best accounts seem to describe a marine saurian, like the fossil Mosasauri, which were large serpentlike creatures with paddles.


word: Seashore
definition:
Seashore

Sea"shore`
(?)
n.
1.
The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

2.
(Law)
All the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks.


word: Seasickness
definition:
Seasickness

Sea"sick`ness
n.
The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.


word: Seaside
definition:
Seaside

Sea"side`
(?)
n.
The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.


word: Sea snail
definition:
Sea snail

Sea" snail`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.
(b)
Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.


word: Sea snake
definition:
Sea snake

Sea" snake`
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.


word: Season
definition:
Season

Sea"son
(?)
n.
[OE. sesoun, F. saison, properly, the sowing time, fr. L. satio a sowing, a planting, fr. serere, satum, to sow, plant; akin to E. sow, v., to scatter, as seed.]
1.
One of the divisions of the year, marked by alterations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.

The several seasons of the year in their beauty.
Addison.

2.
Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.

The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs.
Milton.

3.
A period of time not very long; a while; a time.

Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.
Acts xiii. 11.

4.
That which gives relish; seasoning.
[Obs.]

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
Shak.

In season, in good time, or sufficiently early for the purpose. -- Out of season, beyond or out of the proper time or the usual or appointed time.


word: Season₂
definition:
Season

Sea"son
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seasoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seasoning.]
1.
To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.

He is fit and seasoned for his passage.
Shak.

2.
To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.

3.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.

4.
To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.

5.
Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable.

You season still with sports your serious hours.
Dryden.

The proper use of wit is to season conversation.
Tillotson.

6.
To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.
seasons
Shak.

7.
To imbue; to tinge or taint.
seasoned
Fuller.

Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles.
Jer. Taylor.

8.
To copulate with; to impregnate.
[R.]
Holland.


word: Season₃
definition:
Season

Sea"son
(?)
v. i.
1.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

2.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.

3.
To give token; to savor.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Seasonable
definition:
Seasonable

Sea"son*a*ble
(?)
a.
Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction.
Ecclus. xxxv. 20.


word: Seasonal
definition:
Seasonal

Sea"son*al
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to the seasons.

2.
Occurring or being used in a specific season; as, seasonal items for sale.

Seasonal dimorphism (Zool.), the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.


word: seasonal affective disorder
definition:
seasonal affective disorder

seasonal affective disorder
(?)
n.
A form of mild depression that occurs in winters, associated with reduction in the amount of sunlight.  It is characterized by oversleeping, irritability, and sometimes overeating.  It can be treated by light therapy and usually disappears with the arrival of spring.


word: Seasoning
definition:
Seasoning

Sea"son*ing
n.
1.
The act or process by which anything is seasoned.

2.
That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.

3.
Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation.

Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings.
Addison.

Seasoning tub (Bakery), a trough in which dough is set to rise. Knight.


word: Sea spider
definition:
Sea spider

Sea" spi"der
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
(b)
Any pycnogonid.


word: Sea swallow
definition:
Sea swallow

Sea" swal"low
(?)
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The common tern.
(b)
The storm petrel.
(c)
The gannet.

2.
(Her.)
See Cornish chough, under Chough.


word: Seat
definition:
Seat

Seat
(sēt)
n.
[OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw. säte, Dan. saede, MHG. sāze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. √154. See Sit, and cf. Settle, n.]
1.
The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
Matt. xxi. 12.

2.
The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.

Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
Rev. ii. 13.

He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
Bacon.

A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
Macaulay.

3.
That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.

4.
A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.

5.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
G. Eliot.

6.
(Mach.)
A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.

Seat worm (Zool.), the pinworm.


word: Seat₂
definition:
Seat

Seat
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.]
1.
To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
Arbuthnot.

2.
To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.
Shak.

They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
Sir W. Raleigh.

3.
To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

4.
To fix; to set firm.

From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
They plucked the seated hills.
Milton.

5.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
[Obs.]
W. Stith.

6.
To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.


word: Sea tang
definition:
Sea tang

Sea" tang`
(?)
(Bot.)
A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.

To their nests of sedge and sea tang.
Longfellow.


word: Sea thongs
definition:
Sea thongs

Sea" thongs`
(?; 115)
(Bot.)
A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.


word: Seating
definition:
Seating

Seat"ing
(sēt"ĭng)
n.
1.
The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

2.
The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.


word: Sea trout
definition:
Sea trout

Sea" trout`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.
(b)
The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
(c)
A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.
(d)
A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.


word: Sea trumpet
definition:
Sea trumpet

Sea" trum"pet
(?)
1.
(Bot.)
A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.

2.
(Zool.)
Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.


word: Sea turtle
definition:
Sea turtle

Sea" tur"tle
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
(b)
The sea pigeon, or guillemot.


word: Sea urchin
definition:
Sea urchin

Sea" ur"chin
(?)
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
When living they are covered with movable spines which are often long and sharp.


word: Sea-walled
definition:
Sea-walled

Sea"-walled`
(?)
a.
Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.
Shak.


word: Seawant
definition:
Seawant

Seawan

{ Sea"wan (?), Sea"want (?), }
n.
The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

&hand_; Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately.
Bartlett.


word: Seaward
definition:
Seaward

Sea"ward
(?)
a.
Directed or situated toward the sea.
Donne.

Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece.
G. W. Cable.


word: Seaware
definition:
Seaware

Sea"ware`
(?)
n.
[Cf. AS. s&aemacr_;wār seaweed.]
(Bot.)
Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.


word: Seaweed
definition:
Seaweed

Sea"weed`
(?)
n.
1.
Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

2.
(Bot.)
Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.


word: Sea withwind
definition:
Sea withwind

Sea" with"wind`
(?)
(Bot.)
A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.


word: Sea wolf
definition:
Sea wolf

Sea" wolf`
(?)
(Zool.)
(a)
The wolf fish.
(b)
The European sea perch.
(c)
The sea elephant.
(d)
A sea lion.


word: Sea wormwood
definition:
Sea wormwood

Sea" worm"wood`
(?)
(Bot.)
A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.


word: Seaworthiness
definition:
Seaworthiness

Sea"wor`thi*ness
(?)
n.
The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.
Kent.


word: Seaworthy
definition:
Seaworthy

Sea"wor`thy
(?)
a.
Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.


word: Sebaceous
definition:
Sebaceous

Se*ba"ceous
(?)
a.
[NL. sebaceus, from L. sebum tallow, grease.]
(Physiol.)
Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.

Sebaceous cyst (Med.), a cyst formed by distention of a sebaceous gland, due to obstruction of its excretory duct. -- Sebaceous glands (Anat.), small subcutaneous glands, usually connected with hair follicles. They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.


word: Sebacic
definition:
Sebacic

Se*bac"ic
(?)
a.
[L. sebum tallow: cf. F. sébacique.]
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.


word: Sebat
definition:
Sebat

Se"bat
(?)
n.
[Heb. shĕbāt.]
The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.
W. Smith (Bibl. Dict.).


word: Sebesten
definition:
Sebesten

Se*bes"ten
(se̝*bĕs"tĕn)
n.
[Ar. sebestān the tree: cf. Sp. sebesten.]
(Bot.)
The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

&hand_; In the West Indies the name is given to the similar fruit of Cordia Sebestana.


word: Sebiferous
definition:
Sebiferous

Se*bif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. sebum tallow + -ferous.]
1.
(Bot.)
Producing vegetable tallow.

2.
(Physiol.)
Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands.


word: Sebiparous
definition:
Sebiparous

Se*bip"a*rous
(?)
a.
[L. sebum tallow + parere to bring forth.]
(Physiol.)
Same as Sebiferous.


word: Seborrhea
definition:
Seborrhea

Seb"or*rhe*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. sebum tallow + Gr. _; to flow.]
(Med.)
A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.


word: Secancy
definition:
Secancy

Se"can*cy
(?)
n.
[See Secant.]
A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.
[R.]
Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).


word: Secant
definition:
Secant

Se"cant
(sē"kănt)
a.
[L. secans, -antis, p. pr. of secare to cut. See Section.]
Cutting; dividing into two parts; as, a secant line.


word: Secant₂
definition:
Secant

Secant
n.
[Cf. F. sécante. See Secant, a.]
1.
(Geom.)
A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.

2.
(Trig.)
A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.


word: Secco
definition:
Secco

Sec"co
(?)
a.
[It.]
Dry.

Secco painting, or Painting in secco, painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, which is on wet or fresh plaster.


word: Secede
definition:
Secede

Se"cede"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Seceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seceding.]
[L. secedere, secessum; pref se- aside + cedere to go, move. See Cede.]
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.


word: Seceder
definition:
Seceder

Se*ced"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who secedes.

2.
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.


word: Secern
definition:
Secern

Se*cern"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Secerned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Secerning.]
[L. secernere. See Secrete.]
1.
To separate; to distinguish.

Averroes secerns a sense of titillation, and a sense of hunger and thirst.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
(Physiol.)
To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.
Arbuthnot.


word: Secernent₂
definition:
Secernent

Se*cern"ent
n.
1.
That which promotes secretion.

2.
(Anat.)
A vessel in, or by means of, which the process of secretion takes place; a secreting vessel.


word: Secess
definition:
Secess

Se*cess"
(se̝*sĕs")
n.
[L. secessus. See Secede.]
Retirement; retreat; secession.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Secession
definition:
Secession

Se*ces"sion
(se̝*sĕsh"ŭn)
n.
[L. secessio: cf. F. sécession. See Secede.]
1.
The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.

2.
(U.S. Hist.)
The withdrawal of a State from the national Union.

Secession Church (in Scotland). See Seceder.


word: Secessionism
definition:
Secessionism

Se*ces"sion*ism
(?)
n.
The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.


word: Secessionist
definition:
Secessionist

Se*ces"sion*ist
n.
1.
One who upholds secession.

2.
(U.S. Hist.)
One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will.


word: Sechium
definition:
Sechium

Se"chi*um
(?)
n.
[NL.: cf. F. séchion; perhaps formed fr. Gr. _; cucumber.]
(Bot.)
The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.


word: Seck
definition:
Seck

Seck
(?)
a.
[F. sec, properly, dry, L. siccus.]
Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.


word: Seckel
definition:
Seckel

Seck"el
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.


word: Seclude
definition:
Seclude

Se*clude
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Secluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Secluding.]
[L. secludere, seclusum; pref. se- aside + claudere to shut. See Close, v. t.]
1.
To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven
Seclude their bosom slaves.
Thomson.

2.
To shut or keep out; to exclude.
[Obs.]
Evelyn.


word: Seclusion
definition:
Seclusion

Se*clu"sion
(?)
n.
[See Seclude.]
The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.

O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys!
Cowper.


word: Second
definition:
Second

Sec"ond
(?)
a.
[F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]
1.
Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other.

And he slept and dreamed the second time.
Gen. xli. 5.

2.
Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.

May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
Landor.

3.
Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.

A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
Shak.

Second Adventist. See Adventist. -- Second cousin, the child of a cousin. -- Second-cut file. See under File. -- Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground, or middle distance. [R.] -- Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers. -- Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. -- Second intention. See under Intention. -- Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor. -- Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration.
[1913 Webster]
On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. Dickens.


word: Second₂
definition:
Second

Sec"ond
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.

Man
An angel's second, nor his second long.
Young.

2.
One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.

Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset.
Sir H. Wotton.

3.
Aid; assistance; help.
[Obs.]

Give second, and my love
Is everlasting thine.
J. Fletcher.

4.
pl.
An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

5.
[F. seconde. See Second, a.]
The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.

6.
In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

7.
(Mus.)
(a)
The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.
(b)
The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

8.
(Parliamentary Procedure)
A motion in support of another motion which has been moved in a deliberative body;  a motion without a second dies without discussion.

Second hand, the hand which marks the seconds on the dial of a watch or a clock.


word: Second₃
definition:
Second

Sec"ond
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seconding.]
[Cf. F. seconder, L. secundare, from secundus. See Second, a.]
1.
To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.
[R.]

In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
Fuller.

Sin is seconded with sin.
South.

2.
To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage.

We have supplies to second our attempt.
Shak.

In human works though labored on with pain,
A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain;
In God's, one single can its end produce,
Yet serves to second too some other use.
Pope.

3.
Specifically,
(Parliamentary Procedure)
to support, as a motion{6} or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.

&hand_;  Under common parliamentary rules used by many organizations, especially legislative bodies, a motion must be seconded in order to come properly before the deliberative body for discussion.  Any motion{6} for which there is no second{8} dies for lack thereof.


word: Secondarily
definition:
Secondarily

Sec"ond*a*ri*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In a secondary manner or degree.

2.
Secondly; in the second place.
[Obs.]

God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers.
1 Cor. xii. 28.


word: Secondariness
definition:
Secondariness

Sec"ond*a*ri*ness
n.
The state of being secondary.

Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love.
Mrs. Oliphant.


word: Secondary
definition:
Secondary

Sec"ond*a*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. secondaire, L. secundaire. See Second, a.]
1.
Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it.
L'Estrange.

Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four.
Bacon.

2.
Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

3.
(Chem.)
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.

  A primary amine has the general formula R.NH2; a secondary amine has the general formula R.NH.R′, where R and R′ are alkyl or aryl groups.  A primary alcohol has the general formula R.CH2.OH; a secondary alcohol has the general formula R.CHOH.R′.  Tertiary amines and alcohols have the general formulas R.CR′N.R″ and R.CR′OH.R″, respectively.

4.
(Min.)
Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

5.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

6.
(Med.)
(a)
Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
(b)
Occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.

Secondary accent. See the Note under Accent, n., 1. -- Secondary age. (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the Tertiary. See Mesozoic, and Note under Age, n., 8. -- Secondary alcohol (Chem.), any one of a series of alcohols which contain the radical CH.OH united with two hydrocarbon radicals. On oxidation the secondary alcohols form ketones. -- Secondary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after the constitutional effects of the injury have subsided. -- Secondary axis (Opt.), any line which passes through the optical center of a lens but not through the centers of curvature, or, in the case of a mirror, which passes through the center of curvature but not through the center of the mirror. -- Secondary battery. (Elec.) See under Battery, n., 4. -- Secondary circle (Geom. & Astron.), a great circle that passes through the poles of another great circle and is therefore perpendicular to its plane. -- Secondary circuit, Secondary coil (Elec.), a circuit or coil in which a current is produced by the induction of a current in a neighboring circuit or coil called the primary circuit or coil. -- Secondary color, a color formed by mixing any two primary colors in equal proportions. -- Secondary coverts (Zool.), the longer coverts which overlie the basal part of the secondary quills of a bird. See Illust. under Bird. -- Secondary crystal (Min.), a crystal derived from one of the primary forms. -- Secondary current (Elec.), a momentary current induced in a closed circuit by a current of electricity passing through the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also at the end of the passage of the primary current. -- Secondary evidence, that which is admitted upon failure to obtain the primary or best evidence. -- Secondary fever (Med.), a fever coming on in a disease after the subsidence of the fever with which the disease began, as the fever which attends the outbreak of the eruption in smallpox. -- Secondary hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage occuring from a wounded blood vessel at some considerable time after the original bleeding has ceased. -- Secondary planet. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet. -- Secondary qualities, those qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from them as such, but are dependent for their development and intensity on the organism of the percipient, such as color, taste, odor, etc. -- Secondary quills or Secondary remiges (Zool.), the quill feathers arising from the forearm of a bird and forming a row continuous with the primaries; -- called also secondaries. See Illust. of Bird. -- Secondary rocks or Secondary strata (Geol.), those lying between the Primary, or Paleozoic, and Tertiary (see Primary rocks, under Primary); -- later restricted to strata of the Mesozoic age, and at present but little used. -- Secondary syphilis (Med.), the second stage of syphilis, including the period from the first development of constitutional symptoms to the time when the bones and the internal organs become involved. -- Secondary tint, any subdued tint, as gray. -- Secondary union (Surg.), the union of wounds after suppuration; union by the second intention.


word: Secondary₂
definition:
Secondary

Sec"ond*a*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Secondaries (_;).
1.
One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.

Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary.
Shak.

2.
(Astron.)
(a)
A secondary circle.
(b)
A satellite.

3.
(Zool.)
A secondary quill.


word: Second-class
definition:
Second-class

Sec"ond-class`
(?)
a.
Of the rank or degree below the best or highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage; a second-class citizen.


word: Seconder
definition:
Seconder

Sec"ond*er
(?)
n.
One who seconds{3} or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.


word: Secondhand
definition:
Secondhand

Sec"ond*hand`
(?)
a.
1.
Not original or primary; received from another; as, secondhand information.

They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge.
Locke.

2.
Not new; already or previously possessed or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment.

At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.


word: Secondo
definition:
Secondo

Se*con"do
(se̝*k&obreve_;n"do̝; It. sa̝*ko̝n"do̝)
n.
[It.]
(Mus.)
The second part in a concerted piece.


word: Second-rate
definition:
Second-rate

Sec"ond-rate`
(?)
a.
Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.
Dryden.


word: Second-sight
definition:
Second-sight

Sec"ond-sight`
(?)
n.
The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.

He was seized with a fit of second-sight.
Addison.

Nor less availed his optic sleight,
And Scottish gift of second-sight.
Trumbull.


word: Secre
definition:
Secre

Se"cre
(? or ?)
a.
Secret; secretive; faithful to a secret.
[Obs.]

To be holden stable and secre.
Chaucer.


word: Secrecy
definition:
Secrecy

Se"cre*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Secrecies (#).
[From Secret.]
1.
The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

The Lady Anne,
Whom the king hath in secrecy long married.
Shak.

2.
That which is concealed; a secret.
[R.]
Shak.

3.
Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
secrecy
Milton.

4.
The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show.
Hooker.


word: Secret
definition:
Secret

Se"cret
(?)
a.
[F. secret (cf. Sp. & Pg. secreto, It. secreto, segreto), fr. L. secretus, p. p. of secernere to put apart, to separate. See Certain, and cf. Secrete, Secern.]
1.
Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.
Shak.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us.
Deut. xxix. 29.

2.
Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.

There, secret in her sapphire cell,
He with the Nais wont to dwell.
Fenton.

3.
Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
[R.]

Secret Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter.
Shak.

4.
Separate; distinct.
[Obs.]

They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.
Cudworth.


word: Secret₂
definition:
Secret

Se"cret
n.
[F. secret (cf. Pr. secret, Sp. & Pg. secreto, It. secreto, segreto), from L. secretum. See Secret, a.]
1.
Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.

To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.
Rambler.

2.
A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.

All secrets of the deep, all nature's works.
Milton.

3.
pl.
The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.

In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately.

Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Prov. ix. 17.


word: Secretage
definition:
Secretage

Se"cret*age
(?)
n.
[F.]
A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
Ure.


word: Secretarial
definition:
Secretarial

Sec`re*ta"ri*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary.
[R.]

Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training.
Carlyle.


word: Secretariate
definition:
Secretariate

Secretariat

{ Sec`re*ta"ri*at (?), Sec`re*ta"ri*ate (?), }
n.
[F. secrétariat.]
The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.


word: Secretary
definition:
Secretary

Sec"re*ta*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Secretaries (#).
[F. secrétaire (cf. Pr. secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, from L. secretum a secret. See Secret, a. & n.]
1.
One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
[R.]

2.
A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.

That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance with the secretaries, and employed men of ambassadors.
Bacon.

3.
An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.

4.
A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.

5.
(Zool.)
The secretary bird.

Secretary bird. [So called in allusion to the tufts of feathers at the back of its head, which were fancifully thought to resemble pens stuck behind the ear.] (Zool.) A large long-legged raptorial bird (Gypogeranus serpentarius), native of South Africa, but now naturalized in the West Indies and some other tropical countries. It has a powerful hooked beak, a crest of long feathers, and a long tail. It feeds upon reptiles of various kinds, and is much prized on account of its habit of killing and devouring snakes of all kinds. Called also serpent eater.


word: Secrete
definition:
Secrete

Se*crete"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Secreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Secreting.]
[L. secretus separated, secret, hidden, p. p. of secernere. See Secret, and cf. Discrete, Discreet.]
1.
To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

2.
(Physiol.)
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.

Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
Carpenter.


word: Secretion
definition:
Secretion

Se*cre"tion
(?)
n.
[L. secretio: cf. F. sécrétion.]
1.
The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.

2.
(Physiol.)
The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.

3.
(Physiol.)
Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.


word: Secretive
definition:
Secretive

Se*cret"ive
(?)
a.
Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.


word: Secretiveness
definition:
Secretiveness

Se*cret"ive*ness
n.
1.
The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

2.
(Phren.)
The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.


word: Secretness
definition:
Secretness

Se"cret*ness
n.
1.
The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.

2.
Secretiveness; concealment.
Donne.


word: Secreto-motory
definition:
Secreto-motory

Se*cre`to-mo"to*ry
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.


word: Secretory
definition:
Secretory

Se*cre"to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. sécrétoire. See Secrete.]
(Physiol.)
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.
n. A secretory vessel; a secernent.


word: Secret service
definition:
Secret service

Se"cret serv"ice
The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy.


word: Sect₂
definition:
Sect

Sect
(sĕkt)
n.
[F. secte, L. secta, fr. sequi to follow; often confused with L. secare, sectum, to cut. See Sue to follow, and cf. Sept, Suit, n.]
Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

He beareth the sign of poverty,
And in that sect our Savior saved all mankind.
Piers Plowman.

As of the sect of which that he was born,
He kept his lay, to which that he was sworn.
Chaucer.

The cursed sect of that detestable and false prophet Mohammed.
Fabyan.

As concerning this sect [Christians], we know that everywhere it is spoken against.
Acts xxviii. 22.


word: Sectant
definition:
Sectant

Sec"tant
(?)
n.
[L. secare, sectum, to cut.]
One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.


word: Sectarian
definition:
Sectarian

Sec*ta"ri*an
(?)
a.
Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.


word: Sectarian₂
definition:
Sectarian

Sec*ta"ri*an
n.
One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.


word: Sectarianism
definition:
Sectarianism

Sec*ta"ri*an*ism
(?)
n.
The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.


word: Sectarianize
definition:
Sectarianize

Sec*ta"ri*an*ize
(?)
v. t.
To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.


word: Sectary
definition:
Sectary

Sec"ta*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Sectaries (#).
[F. sectaire. See Sect.]
A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.

I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries.
Milton.


word: Sectator
definition:
Sectator

Sec*ta"tor
(?)
n.
[L., fr. sectari, v. intens. fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow.]
A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Sectile
definition:
Sectile

Sec"tile
(?)
a.
[L. sectilis, fr. secare, sectum, to cut: cf. F. sectile. See Section.]
Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.


word: Section
definition:
Section

Sec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. sectio, fr. secare, sectum, to cut; akin to E. saw a cutting instrument: cf. F. section. See Saw, and cf. Scion, Dissect, Insect, Secant, Segment.]
1.
The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

2.
A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections.
Locke.

The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics.
Macaulay.

3.
(Geom.)
The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

4.
(Nat. Hist.)
A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign §.

5.
(Mus.)
A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

6.
The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

&hand_; In mechanical drawing, as in these Illustrations of a cannon, a longitudinal section (a) usually represents the object as cut through its center lengthwise and vertically; a cross or transverse section (b), as cut crosswise and vertically; and a horizontal section (c), as cut through its center horizontally. Oblique sections are made at various angles. In architecture, a vertical section is a drawing showing the interior, the thickness of the walls, etc., as if made on a vertical plane passed through a building.

Angular sections (Math.), a branch of analysis which treats of the relations of sines, tangents, etc., of arcs to the sines, tangents, etc., of their multiples or of their parts. [R.] -- Conic sections. (Geom.) See under Conic. -- Section liner (Drawing), an instrument to aid in drawing a series of equidistant parallel lines, -- used in representing sections. -- Thin section, a section or slice, as of mineral, animal, or vegetable substance, thin enough to be transparent, and used for study under the microscope.


word: Sectional
definition:
Sectional

Sec"tion*al
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.

All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition.
Story.

2.
Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.


word: Sectionalism
definition:
Sectionalism

Sec"tion*al*ism
(?)
n.
A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
[U. S.]


word: Sectionalize
definition:
Sectionalize

Sec"tion*al*ize
(?)
v. t.
To divide according to geographical sections or local interests.
[U. S.]

The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties.
Nicolay & Hay (Life of Lincoln).


word: Sector
definition:
Sector

Sec"tor
(?)
n.
[L., properly, a cutter, fr. secare, sectum, to cut: cf. F. secteur. See Section.]
1.
(Geom.)
A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

2.
A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.

3.
An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.

Dip sector, an instrument used for measuring the dip of the horizon. -- Sector of a sphere, or Spherical sector, the solid generated by the revolution of the sector of a circle about one of its radii, or, more rarely, about any straight line drawn in the plane of the sector through its vertex.


word: Secular
definition:
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. séculier.]
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.
Prescott.

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 Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.


word: Secular₂
definition:
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.


word: Secularism
definition:
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.


word: Secularist
definition:
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.


word: Secularity
definition:
Secularity

Sec`u*lar"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf.F. sécularité, 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.


word: Secularization
definition:
Secularization

Sec`u*lar*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. sécularisation.]
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.


word: Secularize
definition:
Secularize

Sec"u*lar*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Secularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Secularizing (?).]
[Cf. F. séculariser.]
1.
To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.

2.
To convert from spiritual to secular 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.


word: Secularness
definition:
Secularness

Sec"u*lar*ness
n.
The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-mindedness.


word: Secund
definition:
Secund

Se"cund
(?)
a.
[L. secundus following the course or current of wind or water. See Second, a.]
(Bot.)
Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.
Gray.


word: Secundate
definition:
Secundate

Se*cun"date
(?)
v. t.
[L. secundatus, p. p. of secundare to direct favorably.]
To make prosperous.
[R.]


word: Secundine
definition:
Secundine

Sec"un*dine
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. secondine.]
1.
(Bot.)
The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.

&hand_; In the ripened seed the primine and secundine are usually united to form the testa, or outer seed coat. When they remain distinct the secundine becomes the mesosperm, as in the castor bean.

2.
[Cf. F. secondines.]
The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural.


word: Secundo-geniture
definition:
Secundo-geniture

Se*cun`do-gen"i*ture
(?)
n.
[L. secundus second + genitura a begetting, generation.]
A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.

The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain.
Bancroft.


word: Secure
definition:
Secure

Se*cure"
(?)
a.
[L. securus; pref. se- without + cura care. See Cure care, and cf. Sure, a.]
1.
Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
Dryden.

2.
Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
Macaulay.

3.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.

Confidence then bore thee on, secure
Either to meet no danger, or to find
Matter of glorious trial.
Milton.

4.
Not exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
Secure
Dryden.


word: Secure₂
definition:
Secure

Se*cure"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Secured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Securing.]
1.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

I spread a cloud before the victor's sight,
Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
Dryden.

2.
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.

It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
T. Dick.

3.
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.

4.
To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.

Secure arms (Mil.), a command and a position in the manual of arms, used in wet weather, the object being to guard the firearm from becoming wet. The piece is turned with the barrel to the front and grasped by the right hand at the lower band, the muzzle is dropped to the front, and the piece held with the guard under the right arm, the hand supported against the hip, and the thumb on the rammer.


word: Securely
definition:
Securely

Se*cure"ly
adv.
In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.

His daring foe . . . securely him defied.
Milton.


word: Securement
definition:
Securement

Se*cure"ment
(?)
n.
The act of securing; protection.
[R.]

Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment.
C. A. Ives.


word: Secureness
definition:
Secureness

Se*cure"ness
n.
The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.


word: Securifera
definition:
Securifera

Sec`u*rif"e*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from L. securis an ax + ferre to bear.]
(Zool.)
The Serrifera.


word: Securiform
definition:
Securiform

Se*cu"ri*form
(?)
a.
[L. securis an ax or hatchet + -form: cf. F. sécuriforme.]
(Nat. Hist.)
Having the form of an ax or hatchet.


word: Securipalp
definition:
Securipalp

Se*cu"ri*palp
(?)
n.
[L. securis ax, hatchet + E. palp.]
(Zool.)
One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.


word: Security
definition:
Security

Se*cu"ri*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Securities (#).
[L. securitas: cf. F. sécurité. See Secure, and cf. Surety.]
1.
The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.
Specifically:
(a)
Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power or safety; hence, assurance; certainty.

His trembling hand had lost the ease,
Which marks security to please.
Sir W. Scott.

He means, my lord, that we are too remiss,
Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
Shak.

Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,
From firm security.
Shak.

Some . . . alleged that we should have no security for our trade.
Swift.

2.
That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.
(a)
Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.

Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
Macaulay.

3.
An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.


word: Sedan
definition:
Sedan

Se*dan"
(?)
n.
[Said to be named from Sedan, in France, where it was first made, and whence it was introduced into England in the time of King Charles I.]
A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.


word: Sedate
definition:
Sedate

Se*date"
(?)
a.
[L. sedatus, p. p. of sedare, sedatum, to allay, calm, causative of sedere to sit. See Sit.]
Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
I. Watts.

Whatsoever we feel and know
Too sedate for outward show.
Wordsworth.


word: Sedation
definition:
Sedation

Se*da"tion
(?)
n.
[L. sedatio.]
The act of calming, or the state of being calm.
[R.]
Coles.


word: Sedative
definition:
Sedative

Sed"a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F.  sédatif.]
Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize
(Med.)
allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.


word: Sedative₂
definition:
Sedative

Sed"a*tive
n.
(Med.)
A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.


word: Sedent
definition:
Sedent

Se"dent
(?)
a.
[L. sedens, -entis, p. pr. of sedere to sit. See Sit.]
Sitting; inactive; quiet.
[R.]


word: Sedentary
definition:
Sedentary

Sed"en*ta*ry
(?)
a.
[L. sedentarius, fr. sedere to sit: cf. F. seédentaire. See Sedent.]
1.
Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.
Sedentary
Bp. Warburton.

2.
Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.

Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
Beaconsfield.

3.
Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.
[R.]
sedentary
Milton.

The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
Spectator.

4.
Caused by long sitting.
[Obs.]
Sedentary
Milton.

5.
(Zool.)
Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.

Sedentary spider (Zool.), one of a tribe of spiders which rest motionless until their prey is caught in their web.


word: Sederunt
definition:
Sederunt

Se*de"runt
(?)
n.
[L., they sat, fr. sedere to sit.]
A sitting, as of a court or other body.

'T is pity we have not Burns's own account of that long sederunt.
Prof. Wilson.

Acts of sederunt (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. Bell.


word: Sedge
definition:
Sedge

Sedge
(?)
n.
[OE. segge, AS. secg; akin to LG. segge; -- probably named from its bladelike appearance, and akin to L. secare to cut, E. saw a cutting instrument; cf. Ir. seisg, W. hesg.  Cf. Hassock, Saw the instrument.]
1.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

&hand_; The name is sometimes given to any other plant of the order Cyperaceae, which includes Carex, Cyperus, Scirpus, and many other genera of rushlike plants.

2.
(Zool.)
A flock of herons.

Sedge hen (Zool.), the clapper rail. See under 5th Rail. -- Sedge warbler (Zool.), a small European singing bird (Acrocephalus phragmitis). It often builds its nest among reeds; -- called also sedge bird, sedge wren, night warbler, and Scotch nightingale.


word: Sedged
definition:
Sedged

Sedged
(?)
a.
Made or composed of sedge.

With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.
Shak.


word: Sedilia
definition:
Sedilia

Se*dil"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Sedile (_;)
[L. sedile a seat.]
(Arch.)
Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.
Hook.


word: Sediment
definition:
Sediment

Sed"i*ment
(?)
n.
[F. sédiment, L. sedimentum a settling, fr. sedere to sit, to settle. See Sit.]
1.
The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

2.
(Geol.)
The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.


word: Sedimentary
definition:
Sedimentary

Sed`i*men"ta*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. sédimentaire.]
Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.

Sedimentary rocks. (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.


word: Sedimentation
definition:
Sedimentation

Sed`i*men*ta"tion
(?)
n.
The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.


word: Sedition
definition:
Sedition

Se*di"tion
(?)
n.
[OE. sedicioun, OF.  sedition, F. sédition, fr. L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to go.  Cf. Issue.]
1.
The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
Shak.

Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
Macaulay.

2.
Dissension; division; schism.
[Obs.]

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.
Gal. v. 19, 20.


word: Seditious
definition:
Seditious

Se*di"tious
(?)
a.
[L. seditiosus: cf. F. séditieux.]
1.
Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.

2.
Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens.


word: Seduce
definition:
Seduce

Se*duce"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seduced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seducing (?).]
[L. seducere, seductum; pref. se- aside + ducere to lead. See Duke.]
1.
To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

For me, the gold of France did not seduce.
Shak.

2.
Specifically, to induce to engage in sexual intercourse.


word: Seducement
definition:
Seducement

Se*duce"ment
(?)
n.
1.
The act of seducing.

2.
The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting.
Pope.


word: Seducer
definition:
Seducer

Se*du"cer
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, seduces.  For a female seducer, the term seductress is also used

He whose firm faith no reason could remove,
Will melt before that soft seducer, love.
Dryden.

2.
Specifically:
One who induces another to engage in sexual intercourse.


word: Seduction
definition:
Seduction

Se*duc*tion
(?)
n.
[L. seductio: cf. F. séduction. See Seduce.]
1.
The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.

2.
Specifically:
(a)
The offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.
[Archaic]
(b)
Any successful enticement to engage in some sexual activity, especially intercourse.

3.
That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.


word: Seductive
definition:
Seductive

Se*duc"tive
(?)
a.
Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.

This may enable us to understand how seductive is the influence of example.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Sedulity
definition:
Sedulity

Se*du"li*ty
(?)
n.
[L. sedulitas. See Sedulous.]
The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.

The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter.
Feltham.


word: Sedulous
definition:
Sedulous

Sed"u*lous
(?; 135)
a.
[L. sedulus, perhaps from sedere to sit, and so akin to E. sit.]
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?
L'Estrange.


word: Sedum
definition:
Sedum

Se"dum
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. sedere to sit; so called in allusion to the manner in which the plants attach themselves to rocks and walls.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
Gray.


word: See
definition:
See

See
(?)
n.
[OE. se, see, OF. se, sed, sied, fr. L. sedes a seat, or the kindred sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. Siege.]
1.
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see.
Spenser.

2.
Specifically:
(a)
The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York.
(b)
The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as, an archiepiscopal see.
(c)
The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see.
(d)
The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.

Apostolic see. See under Apostolic.


word: See₂
definition:
See

See
(sē)
v. t.
[imp. Saw (s&asuml_;); p. p. Seen (sēn); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeing.]
[OE. seen, sen, seon, AS. seón; akin to OFries. sīa, D. zien, OS. & OHG. sehan, G. sehen, Icel. sjā, Sw. se, Dan. see, Goth. saíhwan, and probably to L. sequi to follow (and so originally meaning, to follow with the eyes). Gr. "e`pesqai, Skr. sac.  Cf. Sight, Sue to follow.]
1.
To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.

I will now turn aside, and see this great sight.
Ex. iii. 3.

2.
To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.

Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren.
Gen. xxxvii. 14.

Jesus saw that he answered discreetly.
Mark xii. 34.

Who's so gross
That seeth not this palpable device?
Shak.

3.
To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentively; to look after.
Shak.

I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for contradicting him.
Addison.

4.
To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
1 Sam. xv. 35.

5.
To fall in with; to meet or associate with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Ps. xc. 15.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
John viii. 51.

Improvement in wisdom and prudence by seeing men.
Locke.

6.
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.

7.
In poker and similar games at cards, to meet (a bet), or to equal the bet of (a player), by staking the same sum.
see

God you see (or God him see or God me see, etc.), God keep you (him, me, etc.) in his sight; God protect you. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To see (anything) out, to see (it) to the end; to be present at, work at, or attend, to the end. -- To see stars, to see flashes of light, like stars; -- sometimes the result of concussion of the head. [Colloq.] -- To see (one) through, to help, watch, or guard (one) to the end of a course or an undertaking.


word: See₃
definition:
See

See
v. i.
1.
To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.

Whereas I was blind, now I see.
John ix. 25.

2.
Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.

For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John ix. 39.

Many sagacious persons will find us out, . . . and see through all our fine pretensions.
Tillotson.

3.
To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.

See that ye fall not out by the way.
Gen. xlv. 24.

&hand_; Let me see, Let us see, are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation.

Cassio's a proper man, let me see now, -
To get his place.
Shak.

&hand_; See is sometimes used in the imperative for look, or behold. “See. see! upon the banks of Boyne he stands.”
Halifax.

To see about a thing, to pay attention to it; to consider it. -- To see on, to look at. [Obs.] “She was full more blissful on to see.” Chaucer. -- To see to. (a) To look at; to behold; to view. [Obs.] “An altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to” Josh. xxii. 10. (b) To take care about; to look after; as, to see to a fire.


word: Seed
definition:
Seed

Seed
(sēd)
n.
pl. Seed or Seeds (#).
[OE. seed, sed, AS. s&aemacr_;d, fr. sāwan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. sāð, saeði, Goth. manasēþs seed of men, world. See Sow to scatter seed, and cf. Colza.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
(b)
Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.
Gen. i. 11.

&hand_; The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle.

2.
(Physiol.)
The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.

3.
That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

4.
The principle of production.

Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed,
Which may the like in coming ages breed.
Waller.

5.
Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

&hand_; In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural.

6.
Race; generation; birth.

Of mortal seed they were not held.
Waller.

Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. -- Seed bud (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. -- Seed coat (Bot.), the covering of a seed. -- Seed corn, or Seed grain (Bot.), corn or grain for seed.  -- To eat the seed corn,  To eat the corn which should be saved for seed, so as to forestall starvation; -- a desparate measure, since it only postpones disaster. Hence: any desparate action which creates a disastrous situation in the long-term, done in order to provide temporary relief. -- Seed down (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed. -- Seed drill.  See 6th Drill, 2 (a). -- Seed eater (Zool.), any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds. -- Seed gall (Zool.), any gall which resembles a seed, formed on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. -- Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon. -- Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. -- Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. -- Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. -- Seed pearl, a small pearl of little value. -- Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. -- Seed stalk (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. -- Seed tick (Zool.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. -- Seed vessel (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp. -- Seed weevil (Zool.), any one of numerous small weevils, especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the seeds of various plants. -- Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.]


word: Seed₂
definition:
Seed

Seed
(?)
v. i.
1.
To sow seed.

2.
To shed the seed.
Mortimer.

3.
To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.

Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs.
Landor.


word: Seed₃
definition:
Seed

Seed
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeding.]
1.
To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

2.
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes.
B. Jonson.

To seed down, to sow with grass seed.


word: Seedbox
definition:
Seedbox

Seed"box`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A capsule.
(b)
A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.


word: Seediness
definition:
Seediness

Seed`i*ness
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.
[Colloq.]
G. Eliot.

What is called seediness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged.
J. S. Blackie.


word: Seedling
definition:
Seedling

Seed"ling
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.


word: Seedlop
definition:
Seedlop

Seedlip

{ Seed"lip` (?), Seed"lop` (?), }
n.
[AS. s&aemacr_;dleáp; s&aemacr_;d seed + leáp basket.]
A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Seedsman
definition:
Seedsman

Seeds"man
(?)
n.
pl. Seedsmen (-men).
1.
A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

The seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
Shak.

2.
A person who deals in seeds.


word: Seedtime
definition:
Seedtime

Seed"time`
(?)
n.
[AS. s&aemacr_;dtīma.]
The season proper for sowing.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Gen. viii. 22.


word: Seedy
definition:
Seedy

Seed"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Seedier (?); superl. Seediest.]
1.
Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

2.
Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.

3.
Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat.
[Colloq.]

Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law.
Goldsmith.

Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof.


word: Seeing
definition:
Seeing

See"ing
(?)
conj.
present participle
In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.

Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me?
Gen. xxvi. 27.


word: Seek₂
definition:
Seek

Seek
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sought (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.]
[OE. seken, AS. sēcan, sēcean; akin to OS. s&omacrkian, LG. söken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. saekja, Sw. söka, Dan. söge, Goth. s&omacrkjan, and E. sake.  Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc.]
1.
To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren.
Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.

2.
To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
Luke xi. 16.

3.
To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.

4.
To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal.
Amos v. 5.

Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
Pope.


word: Seek₃
definition:
Seek

Seek
(?)
v. i.
To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.
Isa. xxxiv. 16.

To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. “Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek.” Milton. [Obs.] -- To seek after, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. -- To seek for, to endeavor to find. -- To seek to, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.] “All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.” 1 Kings x. 24. -- To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.]

To seek
Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
Chaucer.


word: Seeker
definition:
Seeker

Seek"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

2.
(Eccl.)
One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.

A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers.
Bullokar.


word: Seek-no-further
definition:
Seek-no-further

Seek"-no-fur`ther
(?)
n.
A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.


word: Seek-sorrow
definition:
Seek-sorrow

Seek"-sor`row
(?)
n.
One who contrives to give himself vexation.
[Archaic.]
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Seel
definition:
Seel

Seel
(sēl)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seeled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeling.]
[F. siller, ciller, fr. cil an eyelash, L. cilium.]
1.
(Falconry)
To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head.
Bacon.

Fools climb to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
J. Reading.

2.
Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.

Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.
Shak.

Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel.
Chapman.


word: Seel₂
definition:
Seel

Seel
v. i.
[Cf. LG. sielen to lead off water, F. siller to run ahead, to make headway, E. sile, v.t.]
To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Seeling
definition:
Seeling

Seel

{ Seel (?), Seel"ing, }
n.
The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
[Obs.]
Sandys.


word: Seel₃
definition:
Seel

Seel
n.
[AS. s&aemacr_;l, from s&aemacr_;l good, prosperous. See Silly.]
1.
Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] “So have I seel”.
Chaucer.

2.
Time; season; as, hay seel.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Seem
definition:
Seem

Seem
(sēm)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Seemed (sēmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeming.]
[OE. semen to seem, to become, befit, AS. sēman to satisfy, pacify; akin to Icel. saema to honor, to bear with, conform to, saemr becoming, fit, s&omacrma to beseem, to befit, sama to beseem, semja to arrange, settle, put right, Goth. samjan to please, and to E. same. The sense is probably due to the adj. seemly. √191. See Same, a., and cf. Seemly.]
To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.
seemed
Macaulay.

Thou picture of what thou seem'st.
Shak.

All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.
Milton.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Prov. xiv. 12.

It seems, it appears; it is understood as true; it is said.

A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake.
Addison.

Ham. Ay, madam, it is common.
Queen.  If it be,
Why seems it so particular with thee?
Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”
Shak.


word: Seemer
definition:
Seemer

Seem"er
(?)
n.
One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.

Hence shall we see,
If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Shak.


word: Seeming
definition:
Seeming

Seem"ing
a.
Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

My lord, you have lost a friend indeed;
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.
Shak.


word: Seeming₂
definition:
Seeming

Seem"ing
n.
1.
Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

These keep
Seeming and savor all the winter long.
Shak.

2.
Apprehension; judgment.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Nothing more clear unto their seeming.
Hooker.

His persuasive words, impregned
With reason, to her seeming.
Milton.


word: Seemingly
definition:
Seemingly

Seem"ing*ly
adv.
In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.

This the father seemingly complied with.
Addison.


word: Seemly
definition:
Seemly

Seem"ly
(sēm"l&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar.Seemlier (sēm"lĭ*ẽr); superl. Seeliest.]
[Icel. sæmiligr, fr. sæmr becoming, fit; akin to samr same, E. same; the sense being properly, the same or like, hence, fitting. See Seem, v. i.]
Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.

He had a seemly nose.
Chaucer.

I am a woman, lacking wit
To make a seemly answer to such persons.
Shak.

Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
Hooker.


word: Seemly₂
definition:
Seemly

Seem"ly
(sēm"l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[Compar. Seemlier; superl. Seemliest.]
In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

Suddenly a men before him stood,
Not rustic as before, but seemlier clad,
As one in city or court or place bred.
Milton.


word: Seemlyhed
definition:
Seemlyhed

Seem"ly*hed
(sēm"l&ybreve_;*hĕd)
n.
[See -hood.]
Comely or decent appearance.
[Obs.]
Rom. of R. Spenser.


word: Seen₂
definition:
Seen

Seen
a.
Versed; skilled; accomplished.
[Obs.]

Well seen in every science that mote be.
Spenser.

Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen,
Than his great brother read in states and men.
Dryden.


word: Sipe
definition:
Sipe

Seep

{ Seep (?), or Sipe (?), }
v. i.
[AS. sīpan to distill.]
To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
[Scot. & U. S.]

Water seeps up through the sidewalks.
G. W. Cable.


word: Sipage
definition:
Sipage

Seepage

{ Seep"age (?), or Sip"age  }
n.
Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
[Scot. & U. S.]


word: Seepage
definition:
Seepage

Seep"age
n.
1.
The act or process of seeping; percolation.

2.
a fluid that seeps out of a container; as, seepage from a  reservoir.


word: Sipy
definition:
Sipy

Seepy

{ Seep"y (?), or Sip"y  }
a.
Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.


word: Seerhand
definition:
Seerhand

Seer"hand
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.


word: Seersucker
definition:
Seersucker

Seer"suck`er
(?)
n.
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.


word: Seesaw
definition:
Seesaw

See"saw`
(?)
n.
[Probably a reduplication of saw, to express the alternate motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing.]
1.
A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

2.
A plank or board adjusted for this play.

3.
A vibratory or reciprocating motion.

He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact.
Sir W. Hamilton.

4.
(Whist.)
Same as Crossruff.


word: Seesaw₂
definition:
Seesaw

See"saw`
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Seesawad (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seesawing.]
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.


word: Seesaw₃
definition:
Seesaw

See"saw`
v. t.
To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

He seesaws himself to and fro.
Ld. Lytton.


word: Seethe
definition:
Seethe

Seethe
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Seethed (?) (Sod (_;), obs.); p. p. Seethed, Sodden (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Seething.]
[OE. sethen, AS. seó_;an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G.  sieden, Icel. sj_;_;a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a burnt offering.  Cf. Sod, n., Sodden, Suds.]
To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.
[Written also seeth.]

Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
2 Kings iv. 38.


word: Seethe₂
definition:
Seethe

Seethe
v. i.
To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.
1 Sam. ii. 13.

A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam.
G. W. Cable.


word: Seether
definition:
Seether

Seeth"er
(?)
n.
A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

Like burnished gold the little seether shone.
Dryden.


word: Seg
definition:
Seg

Seg
(?)
n.
[See Sedge.]
(Bot.)
1.
Sedge.
[Obs.]

2.
The gladen, and other species of Iris.
Prior.


word: Seg₂
definition:
Seg

Seg
n.
[Probably from the root of L. secare to cut.]
A castrated bull.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Halliwell.


word: Seggar
definition:
Seggar

Seg"gar
(?)
n.
[Prov. E. saggard a seggar, seggard a sort of riding surtout, contr. fr. safeguard.]
A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.
[Written also saggar, sagger, and segger.]
Ure.


word: Segment
definition:
Segment

Seg"ment
(?)
n.
[L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut off: cf. F. segment. See Saw a cutting instrument.]
1.
One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

2.
(Geom.)
A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

3.
(Mach.)
(a)
A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
(b)
A segment gear.

4.
(Biol.)
(a)
One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
(b)
One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. -- Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it. -- Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5.


word: Segment₂
definition:
Segment

Seg"ment
(?)
v. i.
(Biol.)
To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.


word: Segmental
definition:
Segmental

Seg*men"tal
(?)
a.
1.
Relating to, or being, a segment.

2.
(Anat. & Zool.)
(a)
Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae.
(b)
Of or pertaining to the segmental organs.

Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. -- Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zool.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. -- Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.


word: Segmentation
definition:
Segmentation

Seg`men*ta"tion
(?)
n.
The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.

Segmentation cavity (Biol.), the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells in segmentation or cleavage of the ovum; the cavity of the blastosphere. In the gastrula stage, the segmentation cavity in which the mesoblast is formed lies between the entoblast and ectoblast. See Illust. of Invagination. -- Segmentation nucleus (Biol.), the body formed by fusion of the male and female pronucleus in an impregnated ovum. See the Note under Pronucleus. -- Segmentation of the ovum, or Egg cleavage (Biol.), the process by which the embryos of all the higher plants and animals are derived from the germ cell.  In the simplest case, that of small ova destitute of food yolk, the ovum or egg divides into two similar halves or segments (blastomeres), each of these again divides into two, and so on, thus giving rise to a mass of cells (mulberry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed.  This constitutes regular segmentation.  Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavage is interfered with by the presence of food yolk, from which results unequal segmentation. See Holoblastic, Meroblastic, Alecithal, Centrolecithal, Ectolecithal, and Ovum. -- Segmentation sphere (Biol.), the blastosphere, or morula. See Morula.


word: Segnity
definition:
Segnity

Segnitude

{ Seg"ni*tude (?), Seg"ni*ty (?), }
n.
[L. segnitas, fr. segnis slow, sluggish.]
Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.
[Obs.]


word: Sego
definition:
Sego

Se"go
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.


word: Segregate
definition:
Segregate

Seg"re*gate
(?)
a.
[L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious.]
1.
Separate; select.

2.
(Bot.)
Separated from others of the same kind.


word: Segregate₂
definition:
Segregate

Seg"re*gate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Segregated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Segregating.]
To separate from others; to set apart.

They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations.
I. Taylor.


word: Segregate₃
definition:
Segregate

Seg"re*gate
v. i.
(Geol.)
To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.


word: Segregation
definition:
Segregation

Seg`re*ga"tion
(?)
n.
[L. segregatio: cf. F. ségrégation.]
1.
The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

2.
(Geol.)
Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.


word: Seiches
definition:
Seiches

Seiches
(?)
n. pl.
[F.]
(Geol.)
Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.


word: Seid
definition:
Seid

Seid
(?)
n.
[Ar seyid prince.]
A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.


word: Seidlitz
definition:
Seidlitz

Seid"litz
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.
[Written also Sedlitz.]

Seidlitz powders, effervescing salts, consisting of two separate powders, one of which contains forty grains of sodium bicarbonate mixed with two drachms of Rochell_; salt (tartrate of potassium and sodium) and the other contains thirty-five grains of tartaric acid. The powders are mixed in water, and drunk while effervescing, as a mild cathartic; -- so called from the resemblance to the natural water of Seidlitz. Called also Rochelle powders. -- Seidlitz water, a natural water from Seidlitz, containing magnesium, sodium, calcium, and potassium sulphates, with calcium carbonate and a little magnesium chloride. It is used as an aperient.


word: Seigneurial
definition:
Seigneurial

Seign*eu"ri*al
(sēn*ū"rĭ*al)
a.
[F., fr. seigneur. See Seignior.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
Sir W. Temple.

2.
Vested with large powers; independent.


word: Seignior
definition:
Seignior

Seign"ior
(?)
n.
[OF. seignor, F. seigneur, cf. It. signore, Sp. señor from an objective case of L. senier elder. See Senior.]
1.
A lord; the lord of a manor.

2.
A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.

Grand Seignior, the sultan of Turkey.


word: Seigniorage
definition:
Seigniorage

Seign"ior*age
(?)
n.
[F. seigneuriage, OF. seignorage.]
1.
Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.

If government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holders, by making a charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving back rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called “levying a seigniorage”), the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bullion.
J. S. Mill.

2.
A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.


word: Seigniorize
definition:
Seigniorize

Seign"ior*ize
(?)
v. t.
To lord it over.
[Obs.]

As proud as he that seigniorizeth hell.
Fairfax.


word: Seigniory
definition:
Seigniory

Seign"ior*y
(?)
n.
pl. -ies (#).
[OE. seignorie, OF. seigneurie, F. seigneurie; cf. It. signoria.]
1.
The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English.
Spenser.

2.
The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
[Written also seigneury, and seignory.]


word: Seine
definition:
Seine

Seine
(?)
n.
[F. seine, or AS. segene, b_;th fr. L. sagena, Gr. _;_;_;_;.]
(Fishing.)
A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.

Seine boat, a boat specially constructed to carry and pay out a seine.


word: Seirospore
definition:
Seirospore

Sei"ro*spore
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; a cord + E. spore.]
(Bot.)
One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.


word: Seise
definition:
Seise

Seise
(?)
v. t.
See Seize.
Spenser.

&hand_; This is the common spelling in the law phrase to be seised of (an estate).


word: Seismal
definition:
Seismal

Seismic

{ Seis"mic (?), Seis"mal (?), }
a.
[Gr. seismo`s an earthquake, from sei`ein to shake.]
Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.

Seismic vertical, the point upon the earth's surface vertically over the center of effort or focal point whence the earthquake's impulse proceeds, or the vertical line connecting these two points.


word: Seismogram
definition:
Seismogram

Seis"mo*gram
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; earthquake + -gram.]
(Physics)
The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.


word: Seismograph
definition:
Seismograph

Seis"mo*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; an earthquake + -graph.]
(Physics)
An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.


word: Seismographic
definition:
Seismographic

Seis`mo*graph"ic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.


word: Seismography
definition:
Seismography

Seis*mog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
1.
A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

2.
The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.


word: Seismometer
definition:
Seismometer

Seis*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; an earthquake + -meter.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.


word: Seismometric
definition:
Seismometric

Seis`mo*met"ric
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.


word: Seismometry
definition:
Seismometry

Seis*mom"e*try
(?)
n.
The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.


word: Seize
definition:
Seize

Seize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seizing.]
[OE. seisen, saisen, OF. seisir, saisir, F. saisir, of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. set. The meaning is properly, to set, put, place, hence, to put in possession of. See Set, v. t.]
1.
To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

For by no means the high bank he could seize.
Spenser.

Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?
Shak.

2.
To take possession of by force.

At last they seize
The scepter, and regard not David's sons.
Milton.

3.
To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.

Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul.
Pope.

4.
(law)
To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

5.
To fasten; to fix.
[Obs.]

As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws
Upon the carcass of some beast too weak.
Spenser.

6.
To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.

7.
(Naut.)
To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

&hand_; This word, by writers on law, is commonly written seise, in the phrase to be seised of (an estate), as also, in composition, disseise, disseisin.

To be seized of, to have possession, or right of possession; as, A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. “Whom age might see seized of what youth made prize.” Chapman. -- To seize on or To seize upon, to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and forcibly.


word: Seizin
definition:
Seizin

Sei"zin
(?)
n.
[F. saisine. See Seize.]
1.
(Law)
Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.
Burrill.

2.
The act of taking possession.
[Obs.]

3.
The thing possessed; property.
Sir M. Halle.

&hand_; Commonly spelt by writers on law seisin.

Livery of seizin. (Eng. Law) See Note under Livery, 1.


word: Seizing
definition:
Seizing

Seiz"ing
(?)
n.
1.
The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

2.
(Naut.)
(a)
The operation of fastening together or lashing.
(b)
The cord or lashing used for such fastening.


word: Seizure
definition:
Seizure

Sei"zure
(?)
n.
1.
The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

2.
Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.

Make o'er thy honor by a deed of trust,
And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.
Dryden.

3.
That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.


word: Sejeant
definition:
Sejeant

Sejant

{ Se"jant, Se"jeant  }
(?)
a.
[F. séant, p. pr. of seoir to sit, L. sedere.]
(Her.)
Sitting, as a lion or other beast.

Sejant rampant, sitting with the forefeet lifted up. Wright.


word: Sejein
definition:
Sejein

Se*jein"
(?)
v. t.
[L. sejungere; pref. se- aside + jungere to join. See Join.]
To separate.
[Obs.]


word: Sejunction
definition:
Sejunction

Se*junc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. sejunctio. See Sejoin.]
The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
[Obs.]
Bp. Pearson.


word: Sekes
definition:
Sekes

Se"kes
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_; a pen, a sacred inclosure, a shrine.]
(Arch.)
A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.


word: Selachii
definition:
Selachii

Se*la"chi*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_; a fish having cartilages instead of bones.]
(Zool.)
An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei.


word: Selachostomi
definition:
Selachostomi

Sel`a*chos"to*mi
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Selachii, and Stoma.]
(Zool.)
A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.


word: Selaginella
definition:
Selaginella

Sel`a*gi*nel"la
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. selago, -inis, a kind of plant.]
(Bot.)
A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.


word: Selah
definition:
Selah

Se"lah
(?)
n.
[Heb. selāh.]
(Script.)
A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.

Beyond the fact that Selah is a musical term, we know absolutely nothing about it.
Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)


word: Selcouth
definition:
Selcouth

Sel"couth
(sĕl"kōth)
a.
[AS. selcūð, seldcūð; seld rare + cūð known. See Uncouth.]
Rarely known; unusual; strange.
[Obs.]

[She] wondered much at his so selcouth case.
Spenser.


word: Seldom
definition:
Seldom

Sel"dom
(sĕl"dŭm)
adv.
[Usually, Compar. More seldom (m&omacrr" sĕl"dŭm); superl. Most seldom (m&omacrst" sĕl"dŭm); but sometimes also, Seldomer (sĕl"dŭm*ẽr), Seldomest.]
[AS. seldan, seldon, seldum, fr. seld rare; akin to OFries. sielden, D. zelden, G. selten, OHG. seltan, Icel. sjaldan, Dan. sielden, Sw. sällan, Goth. sildaleiks marvelous.]
Rarely; not often; not frequently.

Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one.
Hooker.


word: Select
definition:
Select

Se*lect"
(?)
a.
[L. selectus, p. p. of seligere to select; pref. se- aside + levere to gather. See Legend.]
Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.

A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
Macaulay.


word: Select₂
definition:
Select

Se*lect"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Selected; p. pr. & vb. n. Selecting.]
To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.
select
Milton.

The pious chief . . . 
A hundred youths from all his train selects.
Dryden.


word: Selection
definition:
Selection

Se*lec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. selectio: cf. F. sélection.]
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

2.
That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.

Natural selection. (Biol.) See under Natural.


word: Selective
definition:
Selective

Se*lect"ive
(?)
a.
Selecting; tending to select.

This selective providence of the Almighty.
Bp. Hall.


word: Selectman
definition:
Selectman

Se*lect"man
(?)
n.
pl. Selectmen (_;).
One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.

The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an “order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;” the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors.
Palfrey.


word: Selenhydric
definition:
Selenhydric

Sel`en*hy"dric
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.


word: Selenic
definition:
Selenic

Se*len"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. sélénique.]
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.


word: Selenide
definition:
Selenide

Sel"e*nide
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.


word: Seleniferous
definition:
Seleniferous

Sel`e*nif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Selenium + -ferous. ]
Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.


word: Selenio-
definition:
Selenio-

Se*le"ni*o-
(_;)
(Chem.)
A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of selenium or its compounds; as, selenio-phosphate, a phosphate having selenium in place of all, or a part, of the oxygen.


word: Selenious
definition:
Selenious

Se*le"ni*ous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. sélénieux.]
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds.


word: Selenite₂
definition:
Selenite

Sel"e*nite
n.
[L. selenites, Gr. _;_;_;_; (sc. _;_;_;), from selh`nh the moon. So called from a fancied resemblance in luster or appearance to the moon.]
(Min.)
A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.


word: Selenitical
definition:
Selenitical

Selenitic

{ Sel`e*nit"ic (?), Sel`e*nit"ic*al (?), }
a.
(Min.)
Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite.


word: Selenium
definition:
Selenium

Se*le"ni*um
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. selh`nh the moon. So called because of its chemical analogy to tellurium (from L. tellus the earth), being, as it were, a companion to it.]
(Chem.)
A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group of atomic number 34, analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.96.


word: Seleniureted
definition:
Seleniureted

Sel`e*ni"u*ret`ed
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen.
[Written also seleniuretted.]
[Obsoles.]


word: Selenocentric
definition:
Selenocentric

Se*le`no*cen"tric
(?)
a.
[Gr. selh`nh the moon + E. centric.]
(Astron.)
As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.


word: Selenograph
definition:
Selenograph

Se*le"no*graph
(?)
n.
A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.


word: Selenographical
definition:
Selenographical

Selenographic

{ Sel`e*no*graph"ic (?), Sel`e*no*graph"i*cal (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. sélénographique.]
Of or pertaining to selenography.


word: Selenography
definition:
Selenography

Sel`e*nog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. selh`nh the moon + -graphy.]
The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; -- corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth.
selenography
Sir T. Browne.  


word: Selenology
definition:
Selenology

Sel`e*nol"o*gy
n.
[Gr. selh`nh the moonn + -logy.]
That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon.
Sel`e*no*log"i*cal (#), a.


word: Selenonium
definition:
Selenonium

Sel`e*no"ni*um
(?)
n.
[Selenium + sulphonium.]
(Chem.)
A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium.
[R.]


word: Self
definition:
Self

Self
(sĕlf)
a.
[AS. self, seolf, sylf; akin to OS. self, OFries. self, D. zelf, G. selb, selber, selbst, Dan. selv. Sw. sjelf, Icel. sjālfr, Goth. silba.  Cf. Selvage.]
1.
Same; particular; very; identical.
[Obs., except in the compound selfsame.]
self
Sir. W. Raleigh.

To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first.
Shak.

At that self moment enters Palamon.
Dryden.

2.
Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.


word: Self₂
definition:
Self

Self
n.
pl. Selves (_;).
1.
The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
selves
Addison.

A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world.
Pope.

The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

3.
Personification; embodiment.
[Poetic.]

She was beauty's self.
Thomson.

&hand_; Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. “Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.”  John iv. 2.

&hand_; self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others.


word: Self-abased
definition:
Self-abased

Self`-a*based"
(?)
a.
Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.


word: Self-abasement
definition:
Self-abasement

Self`-a*base"ment
(?)
n.
1.
Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

2.
Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.


word: Self-abuse
definition:
Self-abuse

Self`-abuse"
(?)
n.
1.
The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.

2.
Self-deception; delusion.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.


word: Self-accused
definition:
Self-accused

Self"-ac*cused"
(?)
a.
Accused by one's self or by one's conscience.
self-accused
Cowper.


word: Self-acting
definition:
Self-acting

Self`-act"ing
(?)
a.
Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.


word: Self-active
definition:
Self-active

Self`-ac"tive
(?)
a.
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.


word: Self-adjusting
definition:
Self-adjusting

Self`-ad*just"ing
(?)
a.
(Mach.)
Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery.

Self-adjusting bearing (Shafting), a bearing which is supported in such a manner that it may tip to accomodate flexure or displacement of the shaft.


word: Self-annihilation
definition:
Self-annihilation

Self`-an*ni`hi*la"tion
(?)
n.
Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires.
Addison.


word: Self-approving
definition:
Self-approving

Self`-ap*prov"ing
(?)
a.
Approving one's own action or character by one's own judgment.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs
Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.
Pope.


word: Self-asserting
definition:
Self-asserting

Self`-as*sert"ing
(?)
a.
asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.


word: Self-assertion
definition:
Self-assertion

Self`-as*ser"tion
(?)
n.
The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.


word: Self-binder
definition:
Self-binder

Self`-bind"er
(?)
n.
A reaping machine containing mechanism for binding the grain into sheaves.


word: Self-centred
definition:
Self-centred

Self-centered

{ Self`-cen"tered, Self`-cen"tred  }
(?)
a.
1.
Centered in itself, or in one's self.

There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt,
Self-centered and unmoved.
Dryden.

2.
interested solely or primiarily in oneself, or one's own welfare; disinclined to consider the interests of others; selfish; egotistical.


word: Self-centring
definition:
Self-centring

Self-centering

{ Self`-cen"ter*ing (?), Self`-cen"tring (?) }
a.
Centering in one's self.


word: Self-colored
definition:
Self-colored

Self`-col"ored
(?)
a.
Being of a single color; -- applied to flowers, animals, and textile fabrics.


word: Self-complacent
definition:
Self-complacent

Self`-com*pla"cent
(?)
a.
Satisfied with one's own character, capacity, and doings; self-satisfied.


word: Self-conceit
definition:
Self-conceit

Self`-con*ceit"
(?)
n.
Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.


word: Self-conceited
definition:
Self-conceited

Self`-con*ceit"ed
a.
Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited.
Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.


word: Self-confidence
definition:
Self-confidence

Self`-con"fi*dence
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance.

A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him.
Beaconsfield.


word: Self-confident
definition:
Self-confident

Self`-con"fi*dent
(?)
a.
Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant.
Self`-con"fi*dent*ly, adv.


word: Self-conjugate
definition:
Self-conjugate

Self`-con"ju*gate
(?)
a.
(Geom.)
Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles.


word: Self-conscious
definition:
Self-conscious

Self`-con"scious
(?)
a.
1.
Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self.
self-conscious
Dryden.

2.
Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.


word: Self-consistent
definition:
Self-consistent

Self`-con*sist"ent
(?)
a.
Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.


word: Self-contained
definition:
Self-contained

Self`-con*tained"
(?)
a.
1.
Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.

2.
(Mach.)
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.

Self-contained steam engine. (a) A steam engine having both bearings for the crank shaft attached to the frame of the engine. (b) A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.


word: Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
definition:
Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

Self`-con*tained" Underwater Breathing Apparatus
(?)
n.
A portable device to allow divers to breathe while under water, consisting of one or two tanks of compressed air which are strapped onto the back of the diver, and are connected by tubing to a mouthpiece through which the diver receives the air from the tanks at rate adjustable by a valve; -- called also SCUBA, SCUBA gear, or SCUBA apparatus.


word: Self-contradiction
definition:
Self-contradiction

Self`-con`tra*dic"tion
(?)
n.
The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.


word: Self-control
definition:
Self-control

Self`-con*trol"
(?)
n.
Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.


word: Self-convicted
definition:
Self-convicted

Self`-con*vict"ed
(?)
a.
Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.


word: Self-conviction
definition:
Self-conviction

Self`-con*vic"tion
(?)
n.
The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self-convicted.


word: Self-culture
definition:
Self-culture

Self`-cul"ture
(?)
n.
Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.


word: Self-deceit
definition:
Self-deceit

Self`-de*ceit"
(?)
n.
The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self-deceived; self-deception.


word: Self-deceived
definition:
Self-deceived

Self`-de*ceived"
(?)
a.
Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.


word: Self-defense
definition:
Self-defense

Self`-de*fense"
(?)
n.
The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation.

In self-defense (Law), in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of the assailiant. Wharton.


word: Self-defensive
definition:
Self-defensive

Self`-de*fen"sive
(?)
a.
Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation.


word: Self-degradation
definition:
Self-degradation

Self`-deg`ra*da"tion
(?)
n.
The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.


word: Self-delusion
definition:
Self-delusion

Self`-de*lu"sion
(?)
n.
The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.


word: Self-denial
definition:
Self-denial

Self`-de*ni"al
(?)
n.
The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.


word: Self-denying
definition:
Self-denying

Self`-de*ny"ing
(?)
a.
Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing.
Self`-de*ny"ing*ly, adv.


word: Self-destruction
definition:
Self-destruction

Self`-de*struc"tion
(?)
n.
The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide.
Milton.


word: Self-destructive
definition:
Self-destructive

Self`-de*struc"tive
(?)
a.
Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.


word: Self-determination
definition:
Self-determination

Self`-de*ter`mi*na"tion
(?)
n.
Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.


word: Self-determining
definition:
Self-determining

Self`-de*ter"min*ing
(?)
a.
Capable of self-determination; as, the self-determining power of will.


word: Self-devotion
definition:
Self-devotion

Self`-de*vo"tion
(?)
n.
The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self-devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.


word: Self-discipline
definition:
Self-discipline

Self`-dis"ci*pline
(?)
n.
Correction or government of one's self for the sake of improvement.


word: Self-educated
definition:
Self-educated

Self`-ed"u*ca`ted
(?)
a.
Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.


word: Self-elective
definition:
Self-elective

Self`-e*lect"ive
(?)
a.
Having the right of electing one's self, or, as a body, of electing its own members.


word: Self-evident
definition:
Self-evident

Self`-ev"i*dent
(?)
a.
Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth.
Self`-ev"i*dent*ly, adv.


word: Self-evolution
definition:
Self-evolution

Self`-ev`o*lu"tion
(?)
n.
Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or power.


word: Self-exaltation
definition:
Self-exaltation

Self`-ex`al*ta"tion
(?)
n.
The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.


word: Self-examinant
definition:
Self-examinant

Self`-ex*am"i*nant
(?)
n.
One who examines himself; one given to self-examination.

The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good.
Coleridge.


word: Self-examination
definition:
Self-examination

Self`-ex*am`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.


word: Self-excite
definition:
Self-excite

Self`-ex*cite"
v. t.
(Elec.)
To energize or excite (the field magnets of a dynamo) by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.


word: Self-existence
definition:
Self-existence

Self`-ex*ist"ence
(?)
n.
Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God.
Blackmore.


word: Self-existent
definition:
Self-existent

Self`-ex*ist"ent
(?)
a.
Existing of or by himself, independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.


word: self-explaining
definition:
self-explaining

self`-ex*plain"ing
(?)
a.
Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.


word: Self-exposure
definition:
Self-exposure

Self`-ex*po"sure
(?)
n.
The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.


word: Self-fertilization
definition:
Self-fertilization

Self`-fer`ti*li*za"tion
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.


word: Self-government
definition:
Self-government

Self`-gov"ern*ment
(?)
n.
1.
The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command.

2.
Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil body; also, the state of being so governed; democratic government; democracy.

It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, -- the system that lets in all to participate in the councels that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.
D. Webster.


word: Self-hardening
definition:
Self-hardening

Self`-hard"en*ing
a.
(Metal.)
Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high-speed steels.
Self`-hard"en*ed, a.


word: Self-heal
definition:
Self-heal

Self`-heal"
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A blue-flowered labiate plant (Brunella vulgaris); the healall.


word: Self-help
definition:
Self-help

Self`-help"
(?)
n.
1.
The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.

2.
(Law)
The right or fact of redressing or preventing wrongs by one's own action without recourse to legal proceedings, as in self-defense, distress, abatement of a nuisance, etc.

3.
developing one's capabilities or solving one's own problems, especially psychological problems, without the assistance of a professional, by independent study or by association with other individuals having similar interests.


word: Self-help₂
definition:
Self-help

Self`-help"
(?)
a.
of, pertaining to, or useful for the process of developing one's capabilities or solving one's problems; as, self-help books on writing for profit.


word: Selfhood
definition:
Selfhood

Self"hood
(?)
n.
Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Bib. Sacra.


word: Self-ignorance
definition:
Self-ignorance

Self`-ig"no*rance
(?)
n.
Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.


word: Self-imparting
definition:
Self-imparting

Self`-im*part"ing
(?)
a.
Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will.
Norris.


word: Self-importance
definition:
Self-importance

Self`-im*por"tance
(?)
n.
An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.


word: Self-important
definition:
Self-important

Self`-im*por"tant
(?)
a.
Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.


word: Self-indignation
definition:
Self-indignation

Self`-in`dig*na"tion
(?)
n.
Indignation at one's own character or actions.
Baxter.


word: Self-induction
definition:
Self-induction

Self`-in*duc"tion
n.
(Elec.)
Induction in a circuit due to the action of one portion of a current upon an adjacent portion during periods of varying current strength. The nature of the induction is such as to oppose the action which produces it.


word: Self-indulgence
definition:
Self-indulgence

Self`-in*dul"gence
(?)
n.
Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.


word: Self-interested
definition:
Self-interested

Self`-in"ter*est*ed
a.
Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.


word: Self-involution
definition:
Self-involution

Self`-in`vo*lu"tion
(?)
n.
Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie.


word: Selfish
definition:
Selfish

Self"ish
(?)
a.
1.
Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions.
Cudworth.

In that throng of selfish hearts untrue.
Keble.

2.
(Ethics)
Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.
Fleming.


word: Selfishness
definition:
Selfishness

Self"ish*ness
n.
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.

Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
Sir J. Mackintosh.


word: Selfism
definition:
Selfism

Self"ism
(?)
n.
Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.
Emerson.


word: Self-knowing
definition:
Self-knowing

Self`-know"ing
(?)
a.
1.
Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.

2.
Knowing of itself, without help from another.


word: Self-knowledge
definition:
Self-knowledge

Self`-knowl"edge
(?)
n.
Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.


word: Selfless
definition:
Selfless

Self"less
a.
Having no regard to self; unselfish.

Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount
As high as woman in her selfless mood.
Tennyson.


word: Self-life
definition:
Self-life

Self"-life`
(?)
n.
Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good.


word: Self-love
definition:
Self-love

Self`-love`
(?)
n.
The love of one's self; desire for personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage.
Shak.

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
Pope.


word: Self-luminous
definition:
Self-luminous

Self`-lu"mi*nous
(?)
a.
Possessing in itself the property of emitting light.
Sir D. Brewster.


word: Self-made
definition:
Self-made

Self"-made`
(?)
a.
Made by one's self.

Self-made man, a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talents or energies.


word: Self-motion
definition:
Self-motion

Self`-mo"tion
(?)
n.
Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneous or voluntary motion.

Matter is not induced with self-motion.
Cheyne.


word: Self-neglecting
definition:
Self-neglecting

Self`-neg*lect"ing
(?)
n.
A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
Shak.


word: Self-opinion
definition:
Self-opinion

Self`-o*pin"ion
(?)
n.
Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion.
Collier.


word: Self-opinioned
definition:
Self-opinioned

Self`-o*pin"ioned
(?)
a.
Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited.
South.


word: Self-partiality
definition:
Self-partiality

Self`-par`ti*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
That partiality to himself by which a man overrates his own worth when compared with others.
Kames.


word: Self-posited
definition:
Self-posited

Self`-pos"it*ed
(?)
a.
Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself.

These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited.
Tyndall.


word: Self-positing
definition:
Self-positing

Self`-pos"it*ing
a.
The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself.

The self-positing of the molecules.
R. Watts.


word: Self-possession
definition:
Self-possession

Self`-pos*ses"sion
(?)
n.
The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.


word: Self-preservation
definition:
Self-preservation

Self`-pres`er*va"tion
(?)
n.
The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.


word: Self-registering
definition:
Self-registering

Self`-reg"is*ter*ing
(?)
a.
Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.


word: Self-regulative
definition:
Self-regulative

Self`-reg"u*la*tive
(?)
a.
Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself.
Whewell.


word: Self-reliant
definition:
Self-reliant

Self`-re*li"ant
(?)
a.
Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.


word: Self-renunciation
definition:
Self-renunciation

Self`-re*nun`ci*a"tion
(?)
n.
The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.


word: Self-repelling
definition:
Self-repelling

Self`-re*pel"ling
(_;)
a.
Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.


word: Self-repetition
definition:
Self-repetition

Self`-rep`e*ti"tion
(?)
n.
Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.


word: Self-reproach
definition:
Self-reproach

Self`-re*proach"
(?)
n.
The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.


word: Self-reproof
definition:
Self-reproof

Self`-re*proof"
(?)
n.
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.


word: Self-reproved
definition:
Self-reproved

Self`-re*proved"
(?)
a.
Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.


word: Self-reproving
definition:
Self-reproving

Self`-re*prov"ing
(?)
a.
Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.


word: Self-respect
definition:
Self-respect

Self`-re*spect"
(?)
n.
Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.


word: Self-restrained
definition:
Self-restrained

Self`-re*strained"
(?)
a.
Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.


word: Self-righteousness
definition:
Self-righteousness

Self`-right"eous*ness
n.
The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.


word: Self-sacrifice
definition:
Self-sacrifice

Self`-sac"ri*fice
(?)
n.
The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.


word: Self-sacrificing
definition:
Self-sacrificing

Self`-sac"ri*fi`cing
(?)
a.
Yielding up one's own interest, feelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.


word: Selfsame
definition:
Selfsame

Self"same
(?)
a.
[Self, a. + same.]
Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

His servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
Matt. viii. 13.


word: Self-satisfied
definition:
Self-satisfied

Self`-sat"is*fied
(?)
a.
Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.


word: Self-seeking₂
definition:
Self-seeking

Self"-seek`ing
n.
The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.


word: Self-starter
definition:
Self-starter

Self`-start"er
n.
A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand; -- called also a starter.


word: Self-sufficient
definition:
Self-sufficient

Self`-suf*fi"cient
(?)
a.
1.
Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation.

Neglect of friends can never be proved rational till we prove the person using it omnipotent and self-sufficient, and such as can never need any mortal assistance.
South.

2.
Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing.
self-sufficient
I. Watts.


word: Self-sufficing
definition:
Self-sufficing

Self`-suf*fi"cing
(?)
a.
Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient.
Self`-suf*fi"cing*ness, n.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Self-torture
definition:
Self-torture

Self`-tor"ture
(?)
n.
The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.


word: Self-uned
definition:
Self-uned

Self`-uned"
(?)
a.
[E. self + L. unus one.]
One with itself; separate from others.
[Obs.]
Sylvester.


word: Self-view
definition:
Self-view

Self"-view`
(?)
n.
A view of one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests.


word: Self-will
definition:
Self-will

Self`-will"
(?)
n.
[AS. selfwill.]
One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.


word: Self-willed
definition:
Self-willed

Self`-willed"
(?)
a.
Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.


word: Selion
definition:
Selion

Sel"ion
(?)
n.
[OF. seillon a measure of land, F. sillon a ridge, furrow, LL. selio a measure of land.]
A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


word: Seljukian
definition:
Seljukian

Sel*juk"i*an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century.
J. H. Newman.


word: Seljuckian
definition:
Seljuckian

Sel*juck"i*an
n.
A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government;
pl.
the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.


word: Sell₄
definition:
Sell

Sell
(sĕl)
n.
[F. selle, L. sella, akin to sedere to sit. See Sit.]
1.
A saddle for a horse.
[Obs.]

He left his lofty steed with golden self.
Spenser.

2.
A throne or lofty seat.
[Obs.]
Fairfax.


word: Sell₅
definition:
Sell

Sell
(sĕl)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sold (s&omacrld); p. pr. & vb. n. Selling.]
[OE. sellen, sillen, AS. sellan, syllan, to give, to deliver; akin to OS. sellian, OFries. sella, OHG. sellen, Icel. selja to hand over, to sell, Sw. sälja to sell, Dan. sælge, Goth. saljan to offer a sacrifice; all from a noun akin to E. sale.  Cf. Sale.]
1.
To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.  It is the correlative of buy.

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
Matt. xix. 21.

I am changed; I'll go sell all my land.
Shak.

&hand_; Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes.

2.
To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.

You would have sold your king to slaughter.
Shak.

3.
To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
[Slang]
Dickens.

To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.


word: Sell₆
definition:
Sell

Sell
(sĕl)
v. i.
1.
To practice selling commodities.

I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you.
Shak.

2.
To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.

To sell out, to sell one's whole stock in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business.


word: Selters water
definition:
Selters water

Sel"ters wa"ter
(?)
A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid.


word: Selvedge
definition:
Selvedge

Selvage

{ Sel"vage, Sel"vedge  }
(?)
n.
[Self + edge, i. e., its own proper edge; cf. OD. selfegge.]
1.
The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

2.
The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.
Knight.

3.
(Mining.)
A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.
Raymond.


word: Selvagee
definition:
Selvagee

Sel`va*gee"
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.


word: Semaeostomata
definition:
Semaeostomata

Se*mae`o*stom"a*ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; a military standard + _;_;_;, _;_;_;, mouth.]
(Zool.)
A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.


word: Semantical
definition:
Semantical

Semantic

Sem*an"tic, Sem*an"tic*al
(?)
n. sing. or pl.
[Gr. shmantikos having meaning, from sh^ma a sign.]
1.
pertaining to the meanings of words.

2.
of or pertaining to semantics.


word: Semantics
definition:
Semantics

Sem*an"tics
(?)
n. sing. or pl.
[Gr. shmantikos having meaning, from sh^ma a sign.]
1.
the study of the meanings of words and of the sense development of words; -- formerly called semasiology.

2.
a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior, developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve one's interaction with others and one's environment is enhanced by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols; -- also called general semantics.

3.
the meanings of words as they are used to achieve an effect; especially, the multiple meanings of words or the multiplicity of words having the same meaning; -- used in referring to the confusion that can be caused (intentionally or unintentionally) by multiple meanings; as, there's no real difference, it's only a matter of semantics.


word: Semaphore
definition:
Semaphore

Sem"a*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. sh^ma a sign + fe`rein to bear: cf. F. sémaphore.]
A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.


word: Semaphorical
definition:
Semaphorical

Semaphoric

{ Sem`a*phor"ic (?), Sem`a*phor"ic*al (?) }
a.
[Cf. F. sémaphorique.]
Of or pertaining to a semaphore, or semaphores; telegraphic.


word: Semasiology
definition:
Semasiology

Se*ma`si*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. shmasi`a signification + -logy.]
(Philol.)
The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.
Se*ma`si*o*log"ic*al (#), a.


word: Sematic
definition:
Sematic

Se*mat"ic
(se̝*măt"ĭk)
a.
[Gr. sh^ma, sh`matos, sign, token.]
Significant; ominous; serving as a warning of danger; -- applied esp. to the warning colors or forms of certain animals.


word: Sematology
definition:
Sematology

Sem`a*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. sh^ma, sh`matos, sign + -logy.]
The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.
Smart.

Syn. -- semantics.


word: Sematrope
definition:
Sematrope

Sem"a*trope
(?)
n.
[Gr. sh^ma sign + tre`pein to turn. ]
An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.
Knight.


word: Semblable
definition:
Semblable

Sem"bla*ble
(?)
a.
[F., from sembler to seem, resemble, L. similare, simulare. See Simulate.]
Like; similar; resembling.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Semblance
definition:
Semblance

Sem"blance
(?)
n.
[F. See Semblable, a.]
1.
Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were.
Fairfax.

2.
Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.

Only semblances or imitations of shells.
Woodward.


word: Semblant
definition:
Semblant

Sem"blant
(?)
a.
[F. semblant, p. pr.]
1.
Like; resembling.
[Obs.]
Prior.

2.
Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
[R.]
Carlyle.


word: Semblant₂
definition:
Semblant

Sem"blant
n.
[F.]
1.
Show; appearance; figure; semblance.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

His flatterers made semblant of weeping.
Chaucer.

2.
The face.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (Luke xxiv. 5).


word: Semble
definition:
Semble

Sem"ble
(?)
v. i.
[F. sembler. See Semblable, a.]
1.
To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
[Obs.]

Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.
Prior.

2.
(Law)
It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause.


word: Sembling
definition:
Sembling

Sem"bling
(?)
n.
[Cf. Assemble.]
(Zool.)
The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

&hand_; It is often adopted by collectors in order to procure specimens of rare species.


word: seme
definition:
seme

seme
(sēm)
n.
[Gr. sh^ma a sign.]
1.
(Linguistics)
A linguistic sign.

2.
(Linguistics)
A basic component of meaning of a morpheme, especially one which cannot be decomposed into more basic components; a primitive concept.


word: Seme
definition:
Seme

Se*mé"
(?)
a.
[F. semé, fr. semer to sow.]
(Her.)
Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.


word: Semiography
definition:
Semiography

Semeiography

{ Se`mei*og"ra*phy (sē`mi̝*&obreve_;g"rȧ*f&ybreve_;), or Se`mi*og"ra*phy (sē`mĭ*&obreve_;g"rȧ*f&ybreve_;), }
n.
[Gr. shmei^on sign + -graphy.]
(Med.)
A description of the signs of disease.


word: Semiologioal
definition:
Semiologioal

Semeiological

{ Se`mei*o*log"ic*al (?), or Se`mi*o*log"io*al  }
a.
Of or pertaining to the science of signs, or the systematic use of signs; as, a semeiological classification of the signs or symptoms of disease; a semeiological arrangement of signs used as signals.


word: Semiology
definition:
Semiology

Semeiology

{ Se`mei*ol"o*gy (sē`me̝*&obreve_;l"o̝*j&ybreve_; or  sē`mi̝*&obreve_;l"o̝*j&ybreve_;), or Se`mi*ol"o*gy (sĕm`e̝*&obreve_;l"o̝*j&ybreve_;) }
n.
[Gr. shmei^on a mark, a sign + -logy.]
The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; -- also called semiotics.
Specifically:
(a)
(Med.)
The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
(b)
The art of using signs in signaling.


word: Semiotic
definition:
Semiotic

Semeiotic

{ Se`mei*ot"ic (sē`me̝*&obreve_;t"ĭk or  sĕ`me̝*&obreve_;t"ĭk), or Se`mi*ot"ic  }
a.
[Gr. shmeiwtiko`s, fr. shmei^on a mark, a sign.]
1.
Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.

2.
(Med.)
Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.


word: Semiotics
definition:
Semiotics

Semeiotics

{ Se`mei*ot"ics (sē`mi̝*&obreve_;t"ĭks), or Se`mi*ot"ics  }
n.
1.
The study of signs as an element of communication; the analysis of systems of communication; -- also called semiology.

2.
a theory of signs and symbols, including as branches semantics, pragmatics and syntactics.
[RHUD]


word: Semele
definition:
Semele

Sem"e*le
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;_;_;.]
(Gr. Myth.)
A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.


word: Semen
definition:
Semen

Se"men
(sē"mĕn)
n.
pl. Semina (sĕm"ĭ*nȧ).
[L., from the root of serere, satum, to sow. See Sow to scatter seed.]
1.
(Bot.)
The seed of plants.

2.
(Physiol.)
The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power.

Semen contra, or Semen cinae or Semen cynae, a strong aromatic, bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.


word: Semester
definition:
Semester

Se*mes"ter
(se̝*mĕs"tẽr)
n.
[G., from L. semestris half-yearly; sex six + mensis a month.]
A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.


word: Semi-
definition:
Semi-

Sem"i-
(?)
[L. semi; akin to Gr. _;_;_;, Skr. sāmi-, AS. sām-, and prob. to E.  same, from the division into two parts of the same size.  Cf. Hemi-, Sandelend.]
A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.

&hand_; The prefix semi is joined to another word either with the hyphen or without it. In this book the hyphen is omitted except before a capital letter; as, semiacid, semiaquatic, semi-Arian, semiaxis, semicalcareous.


word: Semiamplexicaul
definition:
Semiamplexicaul

Sem`i*am*plex"i*caul
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.


word: Semiannular
definition:
Semiannular

Sem`i*an"nu*lar
(?)
a.
Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.
Grew.


word: Semi-Arian
definition:
Semi-Arian

Sem`i-A"ri*an
(?)
n.
[See Arian.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
A member of a branch of the Arians which did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar privilege.


word: Semibarbarian
definition:
Semibarbarian

Sem`i*bar*ba"ri*an
(?)
a.
Half barbarous; partially civilized.
n. One partly civilized.


word: Semibarbarism
definition:
Semibarbarism

Sem`i*bar"ba*rism
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.


word: Semibreve
definition:
Semibreve

Sem"i*breve`
(?)
n.
[Pref. semi- + breve: cf. F. semi-breve, It. semibreve.]
[Formerly written semibref.]
(Mus.)
A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.


word: Semibull
definition:
Semibull

Sem"i*bull`
(?)
n.
(R.C.Ch.)
A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.


word: Semicalcareous
definition:
Semicalcareous

Sem`i*cal*ca"re*ous
(?)
a.
Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.


word: Semicentennial
definition:
Semicentennial

Sem`i*cen*ten"ni*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.


word: Semichorus
definition:
Semichorus

Sem"i*cho`rus
n.
(Mus.)
A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.


word: Semicircle
definition:
Semicircle

Sem"i*cir`cle
(?)
n.
1.
(a)
The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
(b)
A semicircumference.

2.
A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.

3.
An instrument for measuring angles.


word: Semicircular
definition:
Semicircular

Sem`i*cir"cu*lar
(?)
a.
Having the form of half of a circle.
Addison.

Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.


word: Semicolon
definition:
Semicolon

Sem"i*co`lon
(?)
n.
The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.


word: Semicolumn
definition:
Semicolumn

Sem"i*col`umn
(?)
n.
A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.


word: Semicolumnar
definition:
Semicolumnar

Sem`i*co*lum"nar
(?)
a.
Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.


word: Semicrystalline
definition:
Semicrystalline

Sem`i*crys"tal*line
(?)
a.
(Min.)
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.


word: Semicubical
definition:
Semicubical

Sem`i*cu"bic*al
(?)
a.
(Math.)
Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.

Semicubical parabola, a curve in which the ordinates are proportional to the square roots of the cubes of the abscissas.


word: Semicupium
definition:
Semicupium

Semicubium

{ Sem`i*cu"bi*um (?), Sem`i*cu"pi*um (?), }
n.
[LL., fr. L. semi half + cupa tub, cask.]
A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.


word: Semicylyndrical
definition:
Semicylyndrical

Semicylindric

{ Sem`i*cy*lin"dric (?), Sem`i*cy*lyn"dric*al (?) }
a.
Half cylindrical.


word: Semidetached
definition:
Semidetached

Sem`i*de*tached"
(?)
a.
Half detached; partly distinct or separate.

Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]


word: Semidiameter
definition:
Semidiameter

Sem`i*di*am"e*ter
(?)
n.
(Math.)
Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.


word: Semidiaphaneity
definition:
Semidiaphaneity

Sem`i*di`a*pha*ne"i*ty
(?)
n.
Half or imperfect transparency; translucency.
[R.]
Boyle.


word: Semi-Diesel
definition:
Semi-Diesel

Sem`i-Die"sel
(?)
a.
Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.


word: Semiditone
definition:
Semiditone

Sem`i*di"tone`
(?)
n.
[Pref. semi- + ditone: cf. It. semiditono.  Cf. Hemiditone.]
(Gr. Mus.)
A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone.
[R.]


word: Semidiurnal
definition:
Semidiurnal

Sem`i*di*ur"nal
(?)
a.
1.
Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.

2.
Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.


word: Semidome
definition:
Semidome

Sem"i*dome`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.


word: Semidouble
definition:
Semidouble

Sem"i*dou`ble
(?)
n.
(Eccl.)
An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones. See Double, n., 8.


word: Semidouble₂
definition:
Semidouble

Sem`i*dou"ble
a.
(Bot.)
Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.


word: Semifable
definition:
Semifable

Sem"i*fa`ble
(?)
n.
That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable.
De Quincey.


word: Semifloscule
definition:
Semifloscule

Sem"i*flos`cule
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.


word: Semiflosculous
definition:
Semiflosculous

Sem`i*flos"cu*lous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.


word: Semiglutin
definition:
Semiglutin

Sem`i*glu"tin
(?)
n.
(Physiol. Chem.)
A peptonelike body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.


word: Semilens
definition:
Semilens

Sem"i*lens`
(?)
n.
(Opt.)
The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.


word: Semilenticular
definition:
Semilenticular

Sem`i*len*tic"u*lar
(?)
a.
Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
Kirwan.


word: Semiligneous
definition:
Semiligneous

Sem`i*lig"ne*ous
(?)
a.
Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.


word: Semiliquidity
definition:
Semiliquidity

Sem`i*li*quid"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.


word: Semilor
definition:
Semilor

Sem"i*lor
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. similor, semilor.]
A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See Simplor.


word: Semilunar
definition:
Semilunar

Sem`i*lu"nar
(?)
a.
Shaped like a half moon.

Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar valves, or Sigmoid valves (Anat.), the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle.


word: Semimetal
definition:
Semimetal

Sem"i*met`al
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree and not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, uranium, etc.
[Obs.]


word: Semimetallic
definition:
Semimetallic

Sem`i*me*tal"lic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.


word: Semimonthly
definition:
Semimonthly

Sem`i*month"ly
(?)
a.
Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment.
n. Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical.
adv. In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month.


word: Semimute
definition:
Semimute

Sem`i*mute"
(?)
a.
Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.


word: Seminal
definition:
Seminal

Sem"i*nal
(?)
a.
[L. seminalis, fr. semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. seminal. See Sow to scatter seed.]
1.
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

2.
Contained in seed.

3.
Hence:
Holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; serving as a source, or first principle; giving rise to related ideas or results; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue; a seminal discovery.

The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
Hare.

Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Seminal receptacle. (Zool.) Same as Spermatheca.


word: Seminar
definition:
Seminar

Sem`i*nar"
(?)
n.
[G. See Seminary, n.]
A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.


word: Seminarist
definition:
Seminarist

Seminarian

{ Sem`i*na"ri*an (?), Sem"i*na*rist (?), }
n.
[Cf. F. séminariste.]
A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.


word: Seminary
definition:
Seminary

Sem"i*na*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Seminaries (#).
[L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal.]
1.
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.

But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds.
Evelyn.

2.
Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
[Obs.]
Woodward.

3.
A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

4.
Seminal state.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

5.
Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
[Obs.]
Harvey.

6.
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Seminate
definition:
Seminate

Sem"i*nate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Seminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seminating.]
[L. seminatus, p. p. of seminare to sow, fr. semen, seminis, seed.]
To sow; to spread; to propagate.
[R.]
Waterhouse.


word: Semination
definition:
Semination

Sem`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. seminatio: cf. F. sémination.]
1.
The act of sowing or spreading.
[R.]

2.
(Bot.)
Natural dispersion of seeds.
Martyn.


word: Seminiferous
definition:
Seminiferous

Sem`i*nif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. semen, semenis, seed -ferous.]
(Biol.)
Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.


word: Seminifical
definition:
Seminifical

Seminific

{ Sem`i*nif"ic (?), Sem`i*nif"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. semen, seminis, seed + facere to make.]
(Biol.)
Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.


word: Seminist
definition:
Seminist

Sem"i*nist
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.


word: Seminoles
definition:
Seminoles

Sem"i*noles
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Seminole (_;)
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.


word: Seminose
definition:
Seminose

Sem"i*nose`
(?)
n.
[L. semen seed + glucose.]
(Chem.)
A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.


word: Seminymph
definition:
Seminymph

Sem"i*nymph`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.


word: Semioccasionally
definition:
Semioccasionally

Sem`i*oc*ca"sion*al*ly
(?)
adv.
Once in a while; on rare occasions.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Semiofficial
definition:
Semiofficial

Sem`i*of*fi"cial
(?)
a.
Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement.
Sem`i*of*fi"cial*ly, adv.


word: Semiological
definition:
Semiological

Semiology

Semiography

{ Se`mi*og"ra*phy (?), Se`mi*ol"o*gy (?), Se`mi*o*log"ic*al (?) }
Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.


word: Semipalmated
definition:
Semipalmated

Semipalmate

{ Sem`i*pal"mate (?), Sem`i*pal"ma*ted (?), }
a.
(Zool.)
Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.


word: Semiparabola
definition:
Semiparabola

Sem`i*pa*rab"o*la
(?)
n.
(Geom.)
One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.


word: Semiped
definition:
Semiped

Sem"i*ped
(?)
n.
[L. semipes, semipedis; pref.  semi- half + pes, pedis, a foot.]
(Pros.)
A half foot in poetry.


word: Semi-Pelagian
definition:
Semi-Pelagian

Sem`i-Pe*la"gi*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints.


word: Semi-Pelagianism
definition:
Semi-Pelagianism

Sem`i-Pe*la"gi*an*ism
(sĕm`ĭ*pe̝*lā"jĭ*an*ĭz'm)
n.
The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians.


word: Semipellucid
definition:
Semipellucid

Sem`i*pel*lu"cid
(sĕm`ĭ*pĕl*lū"sĭd)
a.
Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.


word: Semipellucidity
definition:
Semipellucidity

Sem`i*pel`lu*cid"i*ty
(sĕm`ĭ*pĕl`l&uuptack_;*sĭd"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
The quality or state of being imperfectly transparent.


word: Semipenniform
definition:
Semipenniform

Sem`i*pen"ni*form
(sĕm`ĭ*pĕn"nĭ*fôrm)
a.
(Anat.)
Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.


word: Semiperspicuous
definition:
Semiperspicuous

Sem`i*per*spic"u*ous
(sĕm`ĭ*pẽr*spĭk"&uuptack_;*ŭs)
a.
Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.


word: Semiphlogisticated
definition:
Semiphlogisticated

Sem`i*phlo*gis"ti*ca`ted
(sĕm`ĭ*flo̝*jĭs"tĭ*kā`tĕd)
a.
(Old Chem.)
Partially impregnated with phlogiston.
[Obs.]


word: Semiplume
definition:
Semiplume

Sem"i*plume`
(sĕm`ĭ*plūm)
n.
(Zool.)
A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.


word: Semiprecious
definition:
Semiprecious

Sem`i*pre"cious
(sĕm`ĭ*prĕsh"ŭs)
a.
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.  Used mostly of gemstones used in jewelry, such as amethyst, garnet, or iolite, which are sufficiently rare to have commercial value, but are not considered as precious, as are the diamond, emerald, and ruby.


word: Semiproof
definition:
Semiproof

Sem"i*proof`
(sĕm"ĭ*prōf`)
n.
Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Semi pupa
definition:
Semi pupa

Sem`i pu"pa
(sĕm`ĭ*pū"pȧ)
n.
(Zool.)
The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.


word: Semiquartile
definition:
Semiquartile

Semiquadrate

{ Sem"i*quad`rate (sĕm"ĭ*kw&obreve_;d`ra̝t), Sem"i*quar`tile (sĕm"ĭ*kw&asuml_;r`tĭl), }
n.
(Astrol.)
An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.
Hutton.


word: Semiquaver
definition:
Semiquaver

Sem"i*qua`ver
(sĕm"ĭ*kwā`vẽr)
n.
(Mus.)
A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note.


word: Semiquintile
definition:
Semiquintile

Sem"i*quin`tile
(sĕm"ĭ*kwĭn`tĭl)
n.
(Astrol.)
An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.


word: Semirecondite
definition:
Semirecondite

Sem`i*rec"on*dite
(sĕm`ĭ*rĕk"&obreve_;n*dīt or sĕm`ĭ*re̝*k&obreve_;n"dĭt)
a.
(Zool.)
Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.


word: Semiring
definition:
Semiring

Sem"i*ring`
(sĕm"ĭ*rĭng`)
n.
(Anat.)
One of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds.  The semirings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.


word: Semi-Saxon
definition:
Semi-Saxon

Sem`i-Sax"on
(?)
a.
Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.


word: Semisextile
definition:
Semisextile

Sem"i*sex"tile
(?)
n.
(Astrol.)
An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
Hutton.


word: Semispherical
definition:
Semispherical

Semispheric

{ Sem`i*spher"ic (?), Sem`i*spher"ic*al (?), }
a.
Having the figure of a half sphere.
Kirwan.


word: Semite
definition:
Semite

Sem"ite
(?)
n.
One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.
[Written also Shemite.]


word: Semitertian
definition:
Semitertian

Sem`i*ter"tian
(?)
a.
(Med.)
Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.
n. An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.


word: Semitic
definition:
Semitic

Sem*it"ic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.
[Written also Shemitic.]

Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phœnician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.


word: Semitone
definition:
Semitone

Sem"i*tone
(?)
n.
[Pref. semi- + tone. CF. Hemitone.]
(Mus.)
Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

&hand_; There is an impropriety in the use of this word, and half step is now preferred. See Tone.
J. S. Dwight.


word: Semitonic
definition:
Semitonic

Sem`i*ton"ic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.


word: Semitontine
definition:
Semitontine

Sem`i*ton*tine"
(?)
a.
(LIfe Insurance)
Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See Tontine insurance.
Sem`i*ton*tine", n.


word: Semitransept
definition:
Semitransept

Sem"i*tran`sept
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.


word: Semivitrification
definition:
Semivitrification

Sem`i*vit"ri*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The quality or state of being semivitrified.

2.
A substance imperfectly vitrified.


word: Semivitrified
definition:
Semivitrified

Sem`i*vit"ri*fied
(?)
a.
Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.


word: Semivocal
definition:
Semivocal

Sem`i*vo"cal
(?)
a.
(Phon.)
Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.


word: Semivowel
definition:
Semivowel

Sem"i*vow`el
(?)
n.
(Phon.)
(a)
A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.
(b)
The sign or letter representing such a sound.


word: Semiweekly
definition:
Semiweekly

Sem`i*week"ly
(?)
a.
Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.
n. That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.
adv. At intervals of half a week each.


word: Semolina
definition:
Semolina

Sem`o*li"na
(?)
n.
[It. semolino, from semola bran, L. simila the finest wheat flour.  Cf. Semoule, Simnel.]
The purified fine, hard parts of durum wheat, derived mostly from the endosperm, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery, such as in the preparation of Italian pasta.


word: Sempervirent
definition:
Sempervirent

Sem`per*vi"rent
(?)
a.
[L. semper always + virens, p. pr. of virere to be green.]
Always fresh; evergreen.
[R.]
Smart.


word: Sempervive
definition:
Sempervive

Sem"per*vive
(?)
n.
[L. semperviva, sempervivum, fr. sempervivus ever-living; semper always + vivus living.]
(Bot.)
The houseleek.


word: Sempervivum
definition:
Sempervivum

Sem`per*vi"vum
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.


word: Sempiternal
definition:
Sempiternal

Sem`pi*ter"nal
(?)
a.
[L. sempiternus, fr. semper always: cf. F. sempiternel.]
1.
Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
Sir M. Hale.

2.
Without beginning or end; eternal.
Blackmore.


word: Sempiternity
definition:
Sempiternity

Sem`pi*ter"ni*ty
(?)
n.
[L. sempiternitas.]
Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.
Sir M. Hale.


word: Sempre
definition:
Sempre

Sem"pre
(?)
adv.
[It., fr. L. semper.]
(Mus.)
Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.


word: Sempstress
definition:
Sempstress

Semp"stress
(?)
n.
A seamstress.

Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts.
Swift.


word: Semuncia
definition:
Semuncia

Se*mun"ci*a
(?)
n.
[L., fr. semi half + uncia ounce.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.


word: Senary
definition:
Senary

Sen"a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. senarius, fr. seni six each, fr. sex six. See Six.]
Of six; belonging to six; containing six.
Dr. H. More.


word: Senate
definition:
Senate

Sen"ate
(?)
n.
[OE. senat, F. sénat, fr. L. senatus, fr. senex, gen. senis, old, an old man. See Senior, Sir.]
1.
An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
(a)
(Anc. Rom.)
A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass.
Dr. W. Smith.

2.
The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
[Eng.]

3.
In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
[U. S.]

Senate chamber, a room where a senate meets when it transacts business. -- Senate house, a house where a senate meets when it transacts business.


word: Senator
definition:
Senator

Sen"a*tor
(?)
n.
[OE. senatour, OF. senatour, F. sénateur, fr. L. senator.]
1.
A member of a senate.

The duke and senators of Venice greet you.
Shak.

&hand_; In the United States, each State sends two senators for a term of six years to the national Congress.

2.
(O.Eng.Law)
A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.
Burrill.


word: Senatorial
definition:
Senatorial

Sen`a*to"ri*al
(?)
a.
[F. sénatorial, or L. senatorius.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.

2.
Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State.
[U. S.]


word: Send
definition:
Send

Send
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sent (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.]
[AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. sī_;, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s_;t.  Cf. Sense.]
1.
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
Jer. xxiii. 21.

I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John viii. 42.

Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.
Swift.

2.
To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
Esther viii. 10.

O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
Ps. xliii. 3.

3.
To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

4.
To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
send
Shak.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
Deut. xxviii. 20.

And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matt. v. 45.

God send your mission may bring back peace.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Send₂
definition:
Send

Send
(?)
v. i.
1.
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
2 Kings vi. 32.

2.
(Naut.)
To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Totten.

To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.


word: Send₃
definition:
Send

Send
n.
(Naut.)
The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
[Written also scend.]
W. C. Russell.
send
Longfellow.


word: Sendal
definition:
Sendal

Sen"dal
(?)
n.
[OF. cendal (cf. Pr. & Sp. cendal, It. zendale), LL. cendallum, Gr. _;_;_; a fine Indian cloth.]
A light thin stuff of silk.
[Written also cendal, and sendal.]
Chaucer.

Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver?
Sir W. Scott.


word: Senecas
definition:
Senecas

Sen"e*cas
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Seneca (_;)
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Seneca grass(Bot.), holy grass. See under Holy. -- Seneca eil, petroleum or naphtha. -- Seneca root, or Seneca snakeroot (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth (Polygala Senega) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.]


word: Senecio
definition:
Senecio

Se*ne"ci*o
(?)
n.
[L., groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.]
(Bot.)
A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.


word: Senectitude
definition:
Senectitude

Se*nec"ti*tude
(?)
n.
[L. senectus aged, old age, senex old.]
Old age.
[R.]
Senectitude
H. Miller.


word: Senegin
definition:
Senegin

Sen"e*gin
(?)
n.
(Med. Chem.)
A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.


word: Senescent
definition:
Senescent

Se*nes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. senescent, p. pr. of senescere to grow old, incho. fr. senere to be old.]
Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
senescent
Poe.
senescent
Lowell.


word: Seneschal
definition:
Seneschal

Sen"es*chal
(?)
n.
[OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS. scealc.  Cf. Senior, Marshal.]
An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.

Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Milton.

Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.
Hallam.


word: Sengreen
definition:
Sengreen

Sen"green
(?)
n.
[AS. singr_;ne, properly, evergreen, fr. sin (in composition) always + grëne green; akin to OHG. sin- ever, L. semper.]
(Bot.)
The houseleek.


word: Senhor
definition:
Senhor

Se*nhor"
(?)
n.
[Pg. Cf. Señor, Senior.]
A Portuguese title of courtesy corresponding to the Spanish señor or the English Mr. or sir; also, a gentleman.


word: Senhora
definition:
Senhora

Se*nho"ra
(?)
n.
[Pg. Cf. Señora.]
A Portuguese title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.


word: Senile
definition:
Senile

Se"nile
(?)
a.
[L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old, an old man: cf. F. sénile. See Senior.]
Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Senile
Boyle.

Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.


word: Senior
definition:
Senior

Sen"ior
(?)
a.
[L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See Sir.]
1.
More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

2.
Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.


word: Senior₂
definition:
Senior

Sen"ior
n.
1.
A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

2.
One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

3.
An aged person; an older.
Dryden.

Each village senior paused to scan,
And speak the lovely caravan.
Emerson.

4.
One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.


word: Senna
definition:
Senna

Sen"na
(?)
n.
[Cf. It. & Sp. sena, Pg. sene, F. séné; all fr. Ar. sanā.]
1.
(Med.)
The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (Cassia acutifolia, Cassia angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

2.
(Bot.)
The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.

Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder. -- Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.


word: Sennet
definition:
Sennet

Sen"net
(?)
n.
[Properly, a sign given for the entrance or exit of actors, from OF. sinet, signet, dim. of signe. See Signet.]
A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.
[Obs.]


word: Sennight
definition:
Sennight

Sen"night
(?)
n.
[Contr. fr. sevennight.]
The space of seven nights and days; a week.
[Written also se'nnight.]
[Archaic.]
Shak. Tennyson.


word: Sennit
definition:
Sennit

Sen"nit
(?)
n.
[Seven + knit.]
1.
(Naut.)
A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

2.
Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.


word: Senocular
definition:
Senocular

Se*noc"u*lar
(?)
a.
[L. seni six each (fr. sex six) + oculus eye.]
Having six eyes.
[R.]
Derham.


word: Senonian
definition:
Senonian

Se*no"ni*an
(?)
a.
[F. sénonien, from the district of Sénonais, in France.]
(Geol.)
In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.


word: Senor
definition:
Senor

Senyor

Se*ñor"
(?)
n.
[Sp.  Cf. Senior.]
A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.


word: Senora
definition:
Senora

Senyora

Se*ño"ra
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.


word: Senorita
definition:
Senorita

Senyorita

Se`ño*ri"ta
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.


word: Sensate
definition:
Sensate

Sen"sate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sensated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sensating.]
[See Sensated.]
To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.
R. Hooke.


word: Sensated
definition:
Sensated

Sensate

{ Sen"sate (?), Sen"sa*ted (?), }
a.
[L. sensatus gifted with sense, intelligent, fr. sensus sense. See Sense.]
Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
[R.]
Baxter.


word: Sensation
definition:
Sensation

Sen*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. sensation. See Sensate.]
1.
(Physiol.)
An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.

Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling.  . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.

3.
A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

The sensation caused by the appearance of that work is still remembered by many.
Brougham.


word: Sensational
definition:
Sensational

Sen*sa"tion*al
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

2.
Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.

3.
Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.


word: Sensationalism
definition:
Sensationalism

Sen*sa"tion*al*ism
(?)
n.
1.
(Metaph.)
The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

2.
The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.


word: Sensationalist
definition:
Sensationalist

Sen*sa"tion*al*ist
n.
1.
(Metaph.)
An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

2.
One who practices sensational writing or speaking.


word: Sense
definition:
Sense

Sense
(?)
n.
[L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. See, v. t. See Send, and cf. Assent, Consent, Scent, v. t., Sentence, Sentient.]
1.
(Physiol.)
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
Shak.

What surmounts the reach
Of human sense I shall delineate.
Milton.

The traitor Sense recalls
The soaring soul from rest.
Keble.

2.
Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
Bacon.

3.
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover.
Sir P. Sidney.

High disdain from sense of injured merit.
Milton.

4.
Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
sense
Shak.

He raves; his words are loose
As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.
Dryden.

5.
That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

I speak my private but impartial sense
With freedom.
Roscommon.

The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.
Macaulay.

6.
Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
Neh. viii. 8.

I think 't was in another sense.
Shak.

7.
Moral perception or appreciation.

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
L' Estrange.

8.
(Geom.)
One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.

Common sense, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) “The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions.” (b) “The faculty of first principles.” These two are the philosophical significations. (c) “Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish.” (d) When the substantive is emphasized: “Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation.” -- Moral sense. See under Moral, (a). -- The inner sense, or The internal sense, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection.  “This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.” Locke. -- Sense capsule (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. -- Sense organ (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc. -- Sense organule (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate.


word: Sense₂
definition:
Sense

Sense
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sensed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sensing.]
To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
[Obs. or Colloq.]

Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?
Glanvill.


word: Senseful
definition:
Senseful

Sense"ful
(?)
a.
Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.
[R.]
Senseful
Spenser.
senseful
Norris.


word: Senseless
definition:
Senseless

Sense"less
a.
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things.
Shak.

The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
Shak.

The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
Rowe.

They were a senseless, stupid race.
Swift.

They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late.
Clarendon.


word: Sensibility
definition:
Sensibility

Sen`si*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Sensibilities (#).
[Cf. F. sensibilité, LL. sensibilitas.]
1.
(Physiol.)
The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

2.
The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.
Sensibilities
Cowper.

The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility.
Burke.

His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride.
Marshall.

3.
Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

This adds greatly to my sensibility.
Burke.

4.
That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.


word: Sensible
definition:
Sensible

Sen"si*ble
(?)
a.
[F., fr. L. sensibilis, fr. sensus sense.]
1.
Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; as, sensible heat; sensible resistance.

Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
Arbuthnot.

The disgrace was more sensible than the pain.
Sir W. Temple.

Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things.
A. Smith.

2.
Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physically or mentally; impressible.

Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
Shak.

3.
Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
sensible
Shak.

4.
Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

He [man] can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
Locke.

They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.
Addison.

5.
Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

6.
Possessing or containing sense or reason; gifted with, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.

Now a sensible man, by and by a fool.
Shak.

Sensible note or Sensible tone (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; -- so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound.  Called also the leading tone. -- Sensible horizon. See Horizon, n., 2. (a).


word: Sensible₂
definition:
Sensible

Sen"si*ble
(?)
n.
1.
Sensation; sensibility.
[R.]
sensible
Milton.

2.
That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
Krauth-Fleming.

3.
That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
[R.]

This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
Burton.


word: Sensibleness
definition:
Sensibleness

Sen"si*ble*ness
n.
1.
The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.
sensibleness
Sharp.
Sensibleness
Hammond.

The sensibleness of the divine presence.
Hallywell.

2.
Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.


word: Sensibly
definition:
Sensibly

Sen"si*bly
adv.
1.
In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

What remains past cure,
Bear not too sensibly.
Milton.

2.
With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.


word: Sensifacient
definition:
Sensifacient

Sen`si*fa"cient
(?)
a.
[L. sensus sense + facere to make.]
Converting into sensation.
Huxley.


word: Sensiferous
definition:
Sensiferous

Sen*sif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. sensifer; sensus sense + ferre to bear.]
Exciting sensation; conveying sensation.
Huxley.


word: Sensificatory
definition:
Sensificatory

Sen*sif"i*ca*to*ry
(?)
a.
Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.
Huxley.


word: Sensigenous
definition:
Sensigenous

Sen*sig"e*nous
(?)
a.
[L. sensus sense + -genous.]
Causing or exciting sensation.
Huxley.


word: Sensitive
definition:
Sensitive

Sen"si*tive
(?)
a.
[F. sensitif. See Sense.]
1.
Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

2.
Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
Macaulay.

3.
(a)
(Mech.)
Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
(b)
(Chem. & Photog.)
Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

4.
Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
[R.]

A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
Hammond.

5.
Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
E. Darwin.

Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern (Onoclea sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together. -- Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. -- Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Aeschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage. -- Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light. -- Sensitive plant. (Bot.) (a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or Mimosa sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch. (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia (Cassia nictitans, and Cassia Chamaecrista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc.


word: Sensitivity
definition:
Sensitivity

Sen`si*tiv"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling.
Hickok.


word: Sensitize
definition:
Sensitize

Sen"si*tize
(?)
v. t.
(Photog.)
To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.


word: Sensitizer
definition:
Sensitizer

Sen"si*ti`zer
(?)
n.
(Photog.)
An agent that sensitizes.

The sensitizer should be poured on the middle of the sheet.
Wilis & Clements (The Platinotype).


word: Sensitometer
definition:
Sensitometer

Sen`si*tom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[See Sensitive; -meter.]
(Photog.)
An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.


word: Sensorial
definition:
Sensorial

Sen*so"ri*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. sensorial. See Sensorium.]
Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.
A. Tucker.


word: Sensorium
definition:
Sensorium

Sen*so"ri*um
(?)
n.
pl. E. Sensoriums (#), L. Sensoria (#).
[L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.]
(Physiol.)
The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.


word: Sensori-volitional
definition:
Sensori-volitional

Sen*so`ri-vo*li"tion*al
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.
Dunglison.


word: Sensory₂
definition:
Sensory

Sen"so*ry
a.
(Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.


word: Sensual
definition:
Sensual

Sen"su*al
(?)
a.
[L. sensualis, from sensus sense: cf. F. sensuel.]
1.
Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies.
Bacon.

Far as creation's ample range extends,
The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends.
Pope.

2.
Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Jude 19.

The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine.
Hooker.

3.
Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.

No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity.
Atterbury.

4.
Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.


word: Sensualism
definition:
Sensualism

Sen"su*al*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. sensualisme.]
1.
The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

2.
(Philos.)
The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.

3.
(Ethics)
The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.
Krauth-Fleming.


word: Sensualist
definition:
Sensualist

Sen"su*al*ist
n.
[CF. F. sensualiste.]
1.
One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.

2.
One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.


word: Sensualistic
definition:
Sensualistic

Sen`su*al*is"tic
(?)
a.
1.
Sensual.

2.
Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.


word: Sensuality
definition:
Sensuality

Sen`su*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[CF. F. sensualité, L. sensualitas sensibility, capacity for sensation.]
The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.

Those pampered animals
That rage in savage sensuality.
Shak.

They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality.
Addison.


word: Sensualization
definition:
Sensualization

Sen`su*al*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.


word: Sensualize
definition:
Sensualize

Sen"su*al*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sensualized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sensualizing (?).]
To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.
Pope.

By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized.
T. H. Skinner.


word: Sensuous
definition:
Sensuous

Sen"su*ous
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

To this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
Milton.

2.
Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.


word: Sentence
definition:
Sentence

Sen"tence
(?)
n.
[F., from L. sententia, for sentientia, from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel, to think. See Sense, n., and cf. Sentiensi.]
1.
Sense; meaning; significance.
[Obs.]

Tales of best sentence and most solace.
Chaucer.

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.
Milton.

2.
(a)
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

My sentence is for open war.
Milton.

That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
Atterbury.

3.
(Law)
In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom.  In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

Received the sentence of the law.
Shak.

4.
A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
Broome.

5.
(Gram.)
A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

&hand_; Sentences are simple or compound.  A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, “The Lord reigns.”  A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: -

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Pope.

Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained.

A king . . . understanding dark sentences.
Dan. vii. 23.


word: Sentence₂
definition:
Sentence

Sen"tence
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sentenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing (?).]
1.
To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
Dryden.

2.
To decree or announce as a sentence.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
To utter sententiously.
[Obs.]
Feltham.


word: Sentence method
definition:
Sentence method

Sen"tence meth`od
(Education)
A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet method and word method.  See also phonics.


word: sentential
definition:
sentential

sen*ten"tial
(?)
a.
1.
Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.
Abp. Newcome.

2.
Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause.


word: Sententiary
definition:
Sententiary

Sen*ten"ti*ary
(?)
n.
[LL. sententiarius.]
One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.
R. Henry.


word: Sententiosity
definition:
Sententiosity

Sen*ten`ti*os"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being sententious.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Sententious
definition:
Sententious

Sen*ten"tious
(?)
a.
[L.  sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.]
1.
Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

How he apes his sire,
Ambitiously sententious!
Addison.

2.
Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
[Obs.]
Sententious
Grew.


word: Sentiency
definition:
Sentiency

Sentience

{ Sen"ti*ence (?), Sen"ti*en*cy (?), }
n.
[See Sentient, Sentence.]
The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
G. H. Lewes.

An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
Earle.


word: Sentient
definition:
Sentient

Sen"ti*ent
(?)
a.
[L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.]
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
Specif.
(Physiol.)
especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.


word: Sentiment
definition:
Sentiment

Sen"ti*ment
(?)
n.
[OE. sentement, OF. sentement, F. sentiment, fr. L. sentire to perceive by the senses and mind, to feel, to think. See Sentient, a.]
1.
A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.

The word sentiment, agreeably to the use made of it by our best English writers, expresses, in my own opinion very happily, those complex determinations of the mind which result from the cooperation of our rational powers and of our moral feelings.
Stewart.

Alike to council or the assembly came,
With equal souls and sentiments the same.
Pope.

2.
Hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject.

Sentiments of philosophers about the perception of external objects.
Reid.

Sentiment, as here and elsewhere employed by Reid in the meaning of opinion (sententia), is not to be imitated.
Sir W. Hamilton.

3.
A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.

4.
Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.

Mr. Hume sometimes employs (after the manner of the French metaphysicians) sentiment as synonymous with feeling; a use of the word quite unprecedented in our tongue.
Stewart.

Less of sentiment than sense.
Tennyson.


word: Sentimental
definition:
Sentimental

Sen`ti*men"tal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. sentimental.]
1.
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
[Obsoles.]

Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke,
Where not the character, but poet, spoke,
He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design,
Nor spared a useless, though a golden line.
Whitehead.

2.
Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.

A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness.
Whately.

3.
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.


word: Sentimentalism
definition:
Sentimentalism

Sen`ti*men"tal*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. sentimentalisme.]
The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.


word: Sentimentalist
definition:
Sentimentalist

Sen`ti*men"tal*ist
n.
[Cf. F. sentimentaliste.]
One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.


word: Sentimentality
definition:
Sentimentality

Sen`ti*men*tal"i*ty
(?)
n.
[CF. F. sentimentalité.]
The quality or state of being sentimental.


word: Sentimentalize
definition:
Sentimentalize

Sen`ti*men"tal*ize
(?)
v. t.
To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.


word: Sentimentalize₂
definition:
Sentimentalize

Sen`ti*men"tal*ize
v. i.
To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.
C. Kingsley.


word: Sentine
definition:
Sentine

Sen"tine
(?)
n.
[L. sentina bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs: cf. F. sentine.]
A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
[Obs.]
Latimer.


word: Sentinel
definition:
Sentinel

Sen"ti*nel
n.
[F. sentinelle (cf. It. sentinella); probably originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path. L. semita; and OF. sentine, sentele, senteret, diminutive words.  Cf. Sentry.]
1.
One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.

The sentinels who paced the ramparts.
Macaulay.

2.
Watch; guard.
[Obs.]
sentinel
Bacon.

3.
(Zool.)
A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.


word: Sentinel₂
definition:
Sentinel

Sen"ti*nel
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sentineled (?) or Sentinelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sentineling or Sentinelling.]
1.
To watch over like a sentinel.
sentinel
[R.]
Sir W. Scott.

2.
To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.


word: Sentisection
definition:
Sentisection

Sen`ti*sec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. sentire to feel + E. section.]
Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.
B. G. Wilder.


word: Sentry
definition:
Sentry

Sen"try
(?)
n.
pl. Sentires (#).
[Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See Sentinel.]
1.
(Mil.)
A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

2.
Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep,
Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.
Dryden.

Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.


word: Sepal
definition:
Sepal

Se"pal
(?)
n.
[NL. sepalum, formed in imitation of NL. petalum, petal, to denote one of the divisions of the calyx: cf. F. sépale.]
(Bot.)
A leaf or division of the calyx.

&hand_; When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous; when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when of several parts united, it is properly called gamosepalous.


word: Sepalody
definition:
Sepalody

Se*pal"o*dy
(?)
n.
[Sepal  + Gr. e'i^dos form.]
(Bot.)
The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.


word: Sepalous
definition:
Sepalous

Sep"al*ous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.


word: Separability
definition:
Separability

Sep`a*ra*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.


word: Separable
definition:
Separable

Sep"a*ra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. separabilis: cf. F. séparable.]
Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.
Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv.

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold.
Boyle.


word: Separate
definition:
Separate

Sep"a*rate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Separated (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Separating.]
[L. separatus, p. p. of separare to separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. Sever.]
1.
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
Dryden.

Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me.
Gen. xiii. 9.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Rom. viii. 35.

2.
To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

3.
To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem.
Acts xiii. 2.

Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Gray.


word: Separate₂
definition:
Separate

Sep"a*rate
v. i.
To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.


word: Separate₃
definition:
Separate

Sep"a*rate
(?)
p. a.
[L. separatus, p. p. ]
1.
Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

Him that was separate from his brethren.
Gen. xlix. 26.

2.
Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere.
Heb. vii. 26.

3.
Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband. -- Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation.


word: Separatical
definition:
Separatical

Sep`a*rat"ic*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical.
[R.]
Dr. T. Dwight.


word: Separating
definition:
Separating

Sep"a*ra`ting
(?)
a.
Designed or employed to separate.

Separating funnel (Chem.), a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.


word: Separation
definition:
Separation

Sep`a*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. separatio: cf. F. séparation.]
The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
(a)
Chemical analysis.
(b)
Divorce.
(c)
(Steam Boilers)
The operation of removing water from steam.

Judicial separation (Law), a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect of making each a single person for all legal purposes but without ability to contract a new marriage. Mozley & W.


word: Separatism
definition:
Separatism

Sep"a*ra*tism
(?)
n.
[CF. F. séparatisme.]
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.


word: Separatist
definition:
Separatist

Sep`a*ra*tist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F.  séparatiste.]
One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.

Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting of separatist .
Macaulay.


word: Separatistic
definition:
Separatistic

Sep`a*ra*tis"tic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.


word: Separative
definition:
Separative

Sep"a*ra*tive
(?)
a.
[L. separativus.]
Causing, or being to cause, separation.
Separative
Boyle.


word: Separator
definition:
Separator

Sep"a*ra`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who, or that which, separates.
(a)
(Steam Boilers)
A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.
(b)
(Mining)
An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
(c)
(Weaving)
An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.


word: Separatory₂
definition:
Separatory

Sep"a*ra*to*ry
n.
[Cf. F. séparatoire.]
1.
(Chem.)
An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.

2.
(Surg.)
A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
[Obs.]


word: Separatrix
definition:
Separatrix

Sep`a*ra"trix
(?)
n.
pl. L. -trices (#), E. -trixes (#).
[L., she that separates.]
(Arith.)
The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.


word: Sepelible
definition:
Sepelible

Sep"e*li*ble
(?)
a.
[L. sepelibilis, fr.  sepelire to bury.]
Admitting of burial.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Sephardic
definition:
Sephardic

Se*phar"dic
(?)
a.
[From Sephardim, a name applied to the Spanish Jews, fr. Sephard, name of a place where Jews were held in captivity (Ob. 20).]
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.


word: Sephardim
definition:
Sephardim

Se*phar"dim
(?)
n. pl.
[NHeb.; orig. uncert.]
Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.


word: Sephen
definition:
Sephen

Se"phen
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially Trygon sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.


word: Sepia
definition:
Sepia

Se"pi*a
(?)
n.
pl. E. Sepias (#), L. Sepiae (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;_;_; the cuttlefish, or squid.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The common European cuttlefish.
(b)
A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.

2.
A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia.  Cf. India ink, under India.

Sepia drawing or Sepia picture, a drawing in monochrome, made in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.


word: Sepia₂
definition:
Sepia

Se"pi*a
a.
Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.


word: Sepidaceous
definition:
Sepidaceous

Sep`i*da"ceous
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.


word: Sepiment
definition:
Sepiment

Sep"i*ment
(?)
n.
[L. sepimentum, saepimentum, from sepire, saepire, to hedge in.]
Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
[R.]
Bailey.


word: Sepiostare
definition:
Sepiostare

Se"pi*o*stare`
(?)
n.
[Sepia + Gr. _;_;_; a bone.]
(Zool.)
The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.


word: Seposit
definition:
Seposit

Se*pos"it
(?)
v. t.
[L. sepositus, p. p. of seponere to set aside.]
To set aside; to give up.
[Obs.]


word: Seposition
definition:
Seposition

Sep`o*si"tion
(_;)
n.
[L. sepositio.]
The act of setting aside, or of giving up.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Sepoy
definition:
Sepoy

Se"poy
(?)
n.
[Per. sipāhī, fr. sipāh an army.  Cf. Spahi.]
A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.


word: Seppuku
definition:
Seppuku

Sep*pu"ku
(?)
n.
Same as Hara-kiri.

Seppuku, or hara-kiri, also came into vogue.
W. E. Griffis.


word: Sepsin
definition:
Sepsin

Sep"sin
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; putrefaction.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.


word: Sepsis
definition:
Sepsis

Sep"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_; putrefaction.]
(Med.)
The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.


word: Sept
definition:
Sept

Sept
(?)
n.
[A corruption of sect, n.]
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
S. Lover.


word: Septangle
definition:
Septangle

Sep"tan`gle
(?)
n.
[Septi- + angle.]
(Geom.)
A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.
[R.]


word: Septarium
definition:
Septarium

Sep*ta"ri*um
(?)
n.
pl. Septaria (#).
[NL., fr. L. septum, saeptum, an inclosure, a partition, fr. sepire, saepire, to inclose.]
(Geol.)
A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.


word: Septate
definition:
Septate

Sep"tate
(?)
a.
[L. septum, saeptum, partition.]
Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.


word: September
definition:
September

Sep*tem"ber
(?)
n.
[L., fr. septem seven, as being the seventh month of the Roman year, which began with March: cf. F. septembre. See Seven.]
The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.


word: Septembrist
definition:
Septembrist

Sep*tem"brist
(?)
n.
[F. septembriste.]
An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.


word: Septemfluous
definition:
Septemfluous

Sep*tem"flu*ous
(?)
a.
[L. septemfluus; septem seven + fluere to flow.]
Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents.
[R.]
Fuller.


word: Septempartite
definition:
Septempartite

Sep*tem"par*tite
(?)
a.
[L. septem seven + E. partite.]
Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.


word: Septemvir
definition:
Septemvir

Sep*tem"vir
(?)
n.
pl. E. Septemvirs (#), L. Septemviri (#).
[L. septemviri, pl.; septem seven + viri, pl. of vir man.]
(Rom. Hist.)
One of a board of seven men associated in some office.


word: Septemvirate
definition:
Septemvirate

Sep*tem"vi*rate
(?)
n.
[L. septemviratus.]
The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.


word: Septenary
definition:
Septenary

Sep"ten*a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. septenairus, from septeni seven each, septem seven: cf. F. septénaire. See Seven. ]
1.
Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number.
I. Watts.

2.
Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
Septenary
Fuller.


word: Septennate
definition:
Septennate

Sep*ten"nate
(?)
n.
[F. septennat.]
A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.


word: Septennial
definition:
Septennial

Sep*ten"ni*al
(?)
a.
[L. septennium a period of seven years; septem seven +  annus year. See Seven, and Annual.]
1.
Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.

2.
Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England.


word: Septentrion
definition:
Septentrion

Sep*ten"tri*on
(?)
n.
[L. septentrio the northern regions, the north, fr. septentriones the seven stars near the north pole, called Charles's Wain, or the Great Bear, also those called the Little Bear; properly, the seven plow oxen; septem seven + trio, orig., a plow ox: cf. F. septentrion.]
The north or northern regions.
Shak.

Both East West, South and Septentrioun.
Chaucer.


word: Septentrional
definition:
Septentrional

Septentrion

{ Sep*ten"tri*on (?), Sep*ten"tri*on*al (?), }
a.
[L. septentrionalis: cf. F. septentrional.]
Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
septentrion
Milton.


word: Septentrionate
definition:
Septentrionate

Sep*ten"tri*on*ate
(?)
v. i.
To tend or point toward the north; to north.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Septette
definition:
Septette

Septet

{ Sep*tet", Sep*tette"  }
(?)
n.
[From L. septem seven, like duet, from L. duo.]
1.
A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.

2.
(Mus.)
A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.


word: Septfoil
definition:
Septfoil

Sept"foil
(?)
n.
[F. sept seven (L. septem) + E. foil leaf: cf. L. septifolium.]
1.
(Bot.)
A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornamental foliation having seven lobes.  Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.

3.
(Eccl.Art.)
A typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the Holy Chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, etc.
[R.]


word: Septi-
definition:
Septi-

Sep"ti-
(?)
[L. septem seven.]
A combining form meaning seven; as, septifolious, seven-leaved; septi-lateral, seven-sided.


word: Septic
definition:
Septic

Sep"tic
(?)
a.
[Septi- + -ic.]
(Math.)
Of the seventh degree or order.
n. (Alg.) A quantic of the seventh degree.


word: Septical
definition:
Septical

Septic

{ Sep"tic (?), Sep"tic*al (?), }
a.
[L. septicus, Gr. _;_;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_; to make putrid: cf. F. septique.]
Having power to promote putrefaction.


word: Septicaemia
definition:
Septicaemia

Sep`ti*cae"mi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;_;_; putrefactive + _;_;_; blood.]
(Med.)
A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning.  It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.


word: Septically
definition:
Septically

Sep"tic*al*ly
(?)
adv.
In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.


word: Septicidal
definition:
Septicidal

Sep"ti*ci`dal
(?)
a.
[Septum + L. caedere to cut: cf. F. septicide.]
(Bot.)
Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.


word: Septifarious
definition:
Septifarious

Sep`ti*fa"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. septifariam sevenfold.  Cf. Bifarious.]
(Bot.)
Turned in seven different ways.


word: Septiferous
definition:
Septiferous

Sep*tif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Septum + -ferous: cf. F. septifère.]
(Bot.)
Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.


word: Septiferous₂
definition:
Septiferous

Sep*tif"er*ous
a.
[Gr. _;_;_; putrefied + -ferous.]
Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.


word: Septifragal
definition:
Septifragal

Sep*tif"ra*gal
(?)
a.
[Septum + L. frangere, fractum, to break.]
(Bot.)
Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.


word: Septilateral
definition:
Septilateral

Sep`ti*lat"er*al
(?)
a.
[Septi- + lateral.]
Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.


word: Septillion
definition:
Septillion

Sep*til"lion
(?)
n.
[F. septilion, formed fr. L. septem seven, in imitation of million.]
According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration.


word: Septimole
definition:
Septimole

Sep"ti*mole
(?)
n.
[L.  septem seven.]
(Mus.)
A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.


word: Septinsular
definition:
Septinsular

Sep*tin"su*lar
(?)
a.
[Septi- + insular.]
Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.


word: Septomaxillary
definition:
Septomaxillary

Sep`to*max"il*la*ry
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts.
n. A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.


word: Septuagenary
definition:
Septuagenary

Sep`tu*ag"e*na*ry
(?)
a.
[L. septuagenarius, fr. septuageny seventy each; akin to septuaginta seventy, septem seven. See Seven.]
Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old.
n. A septuagenarian.


word: Septuagesima
definition:
Septuagesima

Sep`tu*a*ges"i*ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. septuagesimus the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy.]
(Eccl.)
The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.


word: Septuagesimal
definition:
Septuagesimal

Sep`tu*a*ges"i*mal
(?)
a.
Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.

Our abridged and septuagesimal age.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Septuagint
definition:
Septuagint

Sep"tu*a*gint
(?)
n.
[From L. septuaginta seventy.]
A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

&hand_; The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the number and names of the translators, the times at which different portions were translated, are all uncertain. The only point in which all agree is that Alexandria was the birthplace of the version. On one other point there is a near agreement, namely, as to time, that the version was made, or at least commenced, in the time of the early Ptolemies, in the first half of the third century b.c.
Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)

Septuagint chronology, the chronology founded upon the dates of the Septuagint, which makes 1500 years more from the creation to Abraham than the Hebrew Bible.


word: Septulum
definition:
Septulum

Sep"tu*lum
(?)
n.
pl. Septula (#).
[NL., dim. of L. septum septum.]
(Anat.)
A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.


word: Septum
definition:
Septum

Sep"tum
(?)
n.
pl. Septa (#).
[L. septum, saeptum, an inclosure, hedge, fence, fr. sepire, saepire, to hedge in, inclose.]
1.
A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

2.
(Bot.)
A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
(b)
One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
(c)
One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.


word: Septuple
definition:
Septuple

Sep"tu*ple
(?)
a.
[LL. septuplus; cf. Gr. _;_;_;_;_;:cf. F. septuple.  Cf. Double, Quadruple.]
Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.


word: Septuple₂
definition:
Septuple

Sep"tu*ple
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Septupled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Septupling (?).]
To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.
Sir J. Herschel.


word: Sepulchre
definition:
Sepulchre

Sepulcher

{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre  }
(?)
n.
[OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. sépulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.]
The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.

The stony entrance of this sepulcher.
Shak.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher.
John xx. 1.

A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within.  See Matt. xxiii. 27.


word: Sepulchre₂
definition:
Sepulchre

Sepulcher

{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre  }
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Sepulchered (?) or Sepulchred (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering (?) or Sepulchring (_;).]
To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.

And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Milton.


word: Sepulchral
definition:
Sepulchral

Se*pul"chral
(?)
a.
[L. sepulcralis: cf. F. sépulcral.]
1.
Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.

2.
Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.

This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone.
H. Sweet.


