One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.
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A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.
See Somite.
The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure.
Of or pertaining to the somatopleure.
A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs.
Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.
In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.
The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America.
Gloomy; somber.
Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
In some degree; somewhat.
In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Former; sometime.
In some degree or measure; a little.
At some indefinite time.
In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.
Once; for a time.
To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.
One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.
Slumber; sleep.
See Somersault.
Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.
To walk when asleep.
The act of walking in sleep, called also sleepwalking.
A somnambulist.
A somnambulist.
Somnambulistic.
A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
To summon.
A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.
Somnial; somniatory.
Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial.
Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy.
Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.
Causing sleep; somniferous.
Driving away sleep.
The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
One who talks in his sleep.
Apt to talk in sleep.
A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.
A person in a state of somniapathy.
Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.
Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism (hypnotism); the hypnotic state.
Somnipathy.
A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour.
A summons; a citation.
A summoner.
To summon; to cite.
A summoner.
A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.
A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.
Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.
A short and simple sonata.
That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial.
The musk shrew. See under Musk.
A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, and extreme draft must be not more than 32 feet; the weight, not less than 4,035 pounds (without crew); the sail area, not more than 550 square yards; and the cost of construction (for American boats) not more than $2400. The crew must be amateurs and citizens of the country in which the yacht was built.
That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.
Disposed to sing; full of song.
Consisting of songs.
Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.
A woman who sings; also, a female singing bird.
A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.
The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
Being without a son.
To compose sonnets.
To compose sonnets.
A composer of sonnets.
A sonneter, or sonneteer.
To compose sonnets.
Like the sun; sunny; golden.
See Sunnite.
An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.
Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Austral zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.
Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body.
The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.
See Soncy.
Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.
A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
Probably from /saintes/ saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath.
Same as Souchong.
Same as Suji.
Speedy; quick.
See Sunnite.
In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.
Soon.
Skin of bacon.
A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.
See Souchong.
A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak.
To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
Sweet.
A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme.
Truth; reality.
To assent to as true.
One who, or that which, soothes.
Soothly; really; in fact.
a. n. from Soothe, v.
In a soothing manner.
In truth; truly; really; verily.
Truth; reality.
A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.
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