a sudden and unexpected change or reversal of position, attitude, or action.

a. n. from Switch, v.

a device used as part of an electronic device, which transforms electrical current from an AC line circuit to DC for use in electronic devices, and which can use either 110 volt or 220 volt AC line curent.

One who tends a switch on a railway.

Whisking.

Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly.

A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.

To copulate with (a woman).

To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.

Squint-eyed.

Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.

See Swab.

See Swabber.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Contraction of Swollen, p. p.

imp. of Swim.

A fainting fit; syncope.

a. n. from Swoon, v.

A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

Altogether; indiscriminately.

Same as Swap.

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.

Girded with a sword.

One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.

A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long. The gar pike. The cutlass fish.

The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).

Slashing with a sword.

Destitute of a sword.

A swordsman.

Fencing; a sword fight.

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

A soldier; a fighting man.

The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.

The limulus. Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.

imp. of Swear.

p. p. of Swear.

A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.

See Swoon, v. n.

Swoon.

imp. p. p. of Swim.

imp. p. p. of Swing.

Quickly. See Swithe.

Saw.

See Sib.

A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.

Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate.

Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.

See Sycamore.

A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture. The American plane tree, or buttonwood. A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus).

A groom.

Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.

Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.

A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.

A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.

The missel thrush.

A division of calcareous sponges.

A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

To play the sycophant.

Sycophancy.

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sycophancy.

To play the sycophant.

Sycophancy.

A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.

Saw.

Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite. A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.

Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.

See Sike.

See Sicker.

A young herring (Clupea harengus).

A syllabary.

A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.

Syllable.

Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.

In a syllabic manner.

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., /275.

Same as Syllabication.

To form or divide into syllables.

The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.

One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.

To syllabify.

To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

Same as Syllabub.

A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis.

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidae.

The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration

Of or pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.

In a syllogistic manner.

A reasoning by syllogisms.

To reason by means of syllogisms.

One who syllogizes.

An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.

Like a sylph.

Sylphlike.

Like a sylph; airy; graceful.

Same as Silva.

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

A telluride of gold and silver, (Au, Ag)Te2, of a steel gray, silver white, or brass yellow. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. H., 1.5-2. Sp.gr., 7.9-8.3.

An old name for tellurium.

A salt of sylvic acid.

Sylvan.

Sylvan.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pine or its products; specifically, designating an acid called also abeitic acid, which is the chief ingredient of common resin (obtained from Pinus sylvestris, and other species).

Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidae). See Warbler.

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.

Native potassium chloride.

See Simar.

See Cimbal.

The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic symbiosis or antipathetic symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algae and fungi to form lichens, and in the inclusion of algae in radiolarians) it is called conjunctive symbiosis; if there is no actual union of the organisms (as in the association of ants with myrmecophytes), disjunctive symbiosis.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, or living in, a state of symbiosis.