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.

An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the Minia Malabarica of India, and Minia cantans of Africa.

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 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.

One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.

Simplicity; silliness.

a trade name for a fat substitute prepared as microparticles of protein from whey. It has little fat, but has a consistency and taste resembling fat, and is thus used to prepare foods low in fat for dietetic purposes.

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

One who is simple.

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

The act of simplifying.

To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.

Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.

Simplicity.

See Symploce.

In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.

See Simulacrum.

A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.

False; specious; counterfeit.

To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

One who simulates, or feigns.

Simulated, or capable of being simulated.

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.