To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

Same as Silicoidea.

See Siliceous.

Same as Silicoidea.

Silicified.

See Silicon.

Combined or impregnated with silicon.

A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.

Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides.

A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

An extensive order of Porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.

A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).

A silicle.

A silicle.

Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.

Made of fine wheat.

a. n. from Sile to strain.

Same as Silique.

An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

Having the form of a silique.

A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques.

Bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules.

The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.

Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.

To render silken or silklike.

The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.

A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.

Silkiness.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

A young herring.

A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.

Silver.

In a silly manner; foolishly.

Same as Fibrolite.

The quality or state of being silly.

The pollock, or coalfish.

A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.

Happy; fortunate; blessed.

A caul. See Caul, n., 3.

A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Full of silt; resembling silt.

A form of silicon carbide, produced in the electric furnace, possessing great hardness, and high electrical resistance, and not subject to oxidation below 2880/ F., or 1600/ C.

A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

The Silurian age.

Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.

Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe. A siluroid fish.

An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.

A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.

The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively. A description or history of the forest trees of a country.

See Sylvanium.

See Sylvanite.

Same as Sylvate.

To acquire a silvery color.

Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.

The knot.

A tree or shrub (Elaeagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.

See Leucadendron.

A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).

The tarpum. A white variety of the goldfish.

The state of being silvery.

The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.

One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard.

To cover with silver.

Having no silcver; hence, without money; impecunious.

A small silver coin.

Like silver in appearance or in sound.

Made of silver.

Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.

One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.

Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.

The science treating of the life of trees in the forest.

See Sylviculture.

A cyma.

A grimace.

A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.

The harness of a drawloom.

A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.

Simian; apelike.

Of or pertaining to the family Simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike. Any Old World monkey or ape.

That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.

In a similar manner.

Similar.

Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance.

A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

The technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- called sometimes a joinder in issue.

The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.

Involving or expressing similitude.

To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.

Of or pertaining to the Simi/; monkeylike.

See Scimiter.

To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.

Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the /real Simon Pure./

One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.

Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony.

Simoniacal.

One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.

Simoniacal.

One who practices simony.

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.

A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.

A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.

One who simpers.

a. n. from Simper, v.

In a simpering manner.

To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

Sincere; inguenuous; guileless.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.