The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.

A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis. A syphilitic patient.

In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.

Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.

To inoculate with syphilis.

A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.

Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.

Resembling syphilis.

One skilled in syphilology.

That branch of medicine which treats of syphilis.

See Syphon.

A red wine of Italy.

See Siren.

Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch. The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.

A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.

Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. A native of Syria.

A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism.

A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism.

A genus of plants; the lilac. The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.

To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.

A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.

The central canal of the spinal cord.

A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.

A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.

Of or pertaining to the syrphus flies. A syrphus fly.

A quicksand; a bog.

Of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand.

A quicksand.

A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.

Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.

Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.

Same as Sirup, Sirupy.

The junction of bones by intervening muscles.

Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.

A political union, confederation, or league.

An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.

Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study.

In a systematic manner; methodically.

The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

One who forms a system, or reduces to system.

The act or operation of systematizing.

To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.

One who systematizes.

The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems.

Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.

The act or process of systematizing; systematization.

To reduce to system; to systematize.

One who systemizes, or reduces to system; a systematizer.

Being without system.

The shortening of the long syllable.

Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur.

Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation. A systyle temple or other edifice.

Scythe.

See Sith, Sithe.

Pertaining to a syzygy.

The connection of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary circuits. The reverse arrangement may be used to transform from two-phase.

To take.

p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken.

A heap. See Tas.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

Tobacco.

A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.

One who wears a tabard.

A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.

A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.

To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.

A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.

Same as Tabor.

See Tabard.

To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.

Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.

Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Withering, or wasting away.

Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. One affected with tabes.

Affected by tabes; tabetic.

Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.

See Tabbinet.

A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.

To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

Same as Tableau, n., 2.

A tablet; a notebook.

A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.

A table.

One who boards.

A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.

As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

A small table or flat surface.

Ware, or articles collectively, for use during meals, including, for example, dishes, plates, bowls, knives, forks, and spoons.

A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.

Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.

To make (a sound) with a tabor.

One who plays on the tabor.

A small tabor.

A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

See Tabor.

Same as Taboret.

A taborer.

A taboret.

See Taboo.

A table; a tablet.

Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).

The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.

To tabulate.

An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.

The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.