Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 210
Swivel-eyed (a.) Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]
Swizzle (v. t.) To drink; to swill. -- Halliwell.
Swizzle (n.) Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]
Swizzle (n.) Any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice
Swizzle (v.) To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called pointer swizzling); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to simplify code (e.g., by turning lots of name lookups into pointer dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed unswizzling. See also snap.
Swizzle
Pointer swizzling
To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called "pointer swizzling"); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to simplify code (e.g. by turning lots of name lookups into pointer dereferences). The converse operation is sometimes termed "unswizzling".
See also snap.
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Compare: Swab
Swab (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Swabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swabbing.] [See Swabber, n.] To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also swob.]
Swob (n. & v.) See Swab.
Swob (n.) Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors [syn: swab, swob, mop].
Swob (v.) Wash with a swab or a mop; "swab the ship's decks" [syn: swab, swob].
Swob (v.) Apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint" [syn: dab, swab, swob].
Swobber (n.) See Swabber.
Swobber (n.) (pl.) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist. [Written also swabber.] -- Swift.
Swollen () p. p. of Swell.
Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
Swollen (a.) Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain].
Swoln () Contraction of Swollen, p. p. -- Milton.
Swom () obs. imp. of Swim. -- Shak.
Swooned (imp. & p. p.) of Swoon.
Swooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoon.
Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. -- Lam. ii. 11.
The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain. -- Dryden.
He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy. -- Tatler.
Swoon (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.
Swoon (n.) A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium].
Swoon (v.) Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk, swoon, pass out].
Swooning () a. & n. from Swoon, v. -- Swoon"ing*ly, adv.
Swooning (a.) Weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" [syn: faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded].
Swooped (imp. & p. p.) of Swoop.
Swooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoop.
Swoop (v. t.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
Swoop (v. t.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
And now at last you came to swoop it all. -- Dryden.
The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. -- Glanvill.
Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop.
Swoop (v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. -- L'Estrange.
Swoop (n.) (Music) Rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides" [syn: swoop, slide].
Swoop (n.) A very rapid raid.
Swoop (n.) A swift descent through the air.
Swoop (v.) Move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" [syn: pounce, swoop].
Swoop (v.) Move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc.
Swoop (v.) Seize or catch with a swooping motion [syn: swoop, swoop up].
Swoopstake (n.) See Sweepstake.
Swoopstake (adv.) Altogether; indiscriminately.
Swop (v. & n.) Same as Swap.
Sword (n.) 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.
Sword (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
Sword (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
Sword (n.) The military power of a country.
Sword (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Swordbill (n.) A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
Sworded (a.) Girded with a sword.
Sworder (n.) One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
Swordfish (n.) 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.
Swordfish (n.) The gar pike.
Swordfish (n.) The cutlass fish.
Swordfish (n.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.
Swordick (n.) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).
Swording (n.) Slashing with a sword.
Swordless (a.) Destitute of a sword.
Swordmen (n. pl. ) of Swordman.
Swordman (n.) A swordsman.
Swordplay (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.
Swordplayer (n.) A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
Sword-shaped (a.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
Swordsmen (n. pl. ) of Swordsman.
Swordsman (n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
Swordsman (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Swordsmanship (n.) The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.
Swordtail (n.) The limulus.
Swordtail (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
Swore () imp. of Swear.
Sworn () p. p. of Swear.
Swough (n.) A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.
Swough (n.) A swoon.
Swound (v. & n.) See Swoon, v. & n.
'Swounds (interj.) An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath.
Swown (v. & n.) Swoon.
Swum () imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Swung () imp. & p. p. of Swing.
Swythe (adv.) Quickly. See Swithe.
Sy (imp.) Saw.
Syb (a.) See Sib.
Sybarite (n.) A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
Sybaritic (a.) Alt. of Sybaritical
Sybaritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate.
Sybaritism (n.) Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
Sycamine (n.) See Sycamore.
Sycamore (n.) [C] 西克莫無花果；懸鈴木，美國梧桐；假挪威槭 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.
Sycamore (n.) The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
Sycamore (n.) A large European species of maple ({Acer Pseudo-Platanus}). [Written sometimes {sycomore}.]
sycamore
Sycamore (n.) Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: {sycamore}, {lacewood}].
Sycamore (n.) Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits [syn: {plane tree}, {sycamore}, {platan}].
Sycamore (n.) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn [syn: {sycamore}, {great maple}, {scottish maple}, {Acer pseudoplatanus}].
Sycamore (n.) Thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore [syn: {sycamore}, {sycamore fig}, {mulberry fig}, {Ficus sycomorus}].
Sycamore (n.) More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus). At Jericho, Zacchaeus climbed a sycomore-tree to see Jesus as he passed by (Luke 19:4). This tree was easily destroyed by frost (Ps. 78:47), and therefore it is found mostly in the "vale" (1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chr. 1:15: in both passages the R.V. has properly "lowland"), i.e., the "low country," the shephelah, where the climate is mild. Amos (7:14) refers to its fruit, which is of an inferior character; so also probably Jeremiah (24:2). It is to be distinguished from our sycamore (the Acer pseudo-platanus), which is a species of maple often called a plane-tree.
Syce (n.) A groom.
Sycee (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
Sychnocarpous (a.) Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.
Sycite (n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
Sycoceric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.
Sycoceryl (n.) 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.
Sycock (n.) The missel thrush.
Sycones (n. pl.) A division of calcareous sponges.
Syconium (n.) Alt. of Syconus.
Syconus (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
Sycophancy (n.) The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence:
Sycophancy (n.) False accusation; calumniation; talebearing. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Sycophancy (n.) Obsequious flattery; servility.
The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. -- Bp. Warburton.
Sycophancy (n.) Fawning obsequiousness.
Sycophant (n.) 讒言者，誹謗者；拍馬者，諂媚者；食客 An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." -- Sir P. Sidney.
Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. -- Dryden.
Sycophant (v. t.) To inform against; hence, to calumniate. [Obs.]
Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. -- Milton.
Sycophant (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Sycophant (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Sycophant (n.) A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser].
Sycophantcy (n.) Sycophancy. [Obs.] Sycophantic
Sycophantic (a.) Alt. of Sycophantical.
Sycophantical (a.) 說奉承話的 Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.
To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. -- South.
Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. -- De Quincey.
Sycophantish (a.) Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.
Sycophantism (n.) Sycophancy.
Sycophantize (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Sycophantry (n.) Sycophancy.
Sycosis (n.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.
Syderolite (n.) A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.
Sye (imp.) Saw.
Syene (n.) Opening (Ezek. 29:10; 30:6), a town of Egypt, on the borders of Ethiopia, now called Assouan, on the right bank of the Nile, notable for its quarries of beautiful red granite called "syenite." It was the frontier town of Egypt in the south, as Migdol was in the north-east.
Syene, () A bush; enmity.
Syenite (n.) (Min.) 【地】正長岩 Orig., A rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.