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.
Swell (v. i.) [imp. Swelled; p. p. Swelled or Swollen; p. pr. & vb. n. Swelling.] To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet. -- Sir W. Scott.
Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
Your equal mind yet swells not into state. -- Dryden.
Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" -- Shak.
Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. -- Shak.
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. [Obs.]
Swoopstake (adv.) Altogether; indiscriminately. [R.] -- Shak.
Swop (v. & n.) Same as Swap. -- Dryden.
Swop (n.) An equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter" [syn: barter, swap, swop, trade].
Swop (v.) Exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade, swap, swop, switch].
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.
He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain. -- Rom. xiii. 4.
She quits the balance, and resigns the sword. -- Dryden.
Sword (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
I came not to send peace, but a sword. -- Matt. x. 34.
Sword (n.) The military power of a country.
He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law. -- Milton.
Sword (n.) (Weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Sword arm, The right arm.
Sword bayonet, A bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword.
Sword bearer, One who carries his master's sword; an officer in London who carries a sword before the lord mayor when he goes abroad.
Sword belt, A belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side.
Sword blade, The blade, or cutting part, of a sword.
Sword cane, A cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath.
Sword dance. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers. -- Sir W. Scott.
Sword dance. (b) A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them.
Sword fight, fencing; A combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay.
Sword grass. (Bot.) See Gladen.
Sword knot, A ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword.
Sword law, Government by the sword, or by force; violence. -- Milton.
Sword lily. (Bot.) See Gladiolus.
Sword mat (Naut.), A mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture.
Sword shrimp (Zool.), A European shrimp ({Pasiphaea sivado) having a very thin, compressed body.
Sword stick, A sword cane.
To measure swords with one. See under Measure, v. t.
To put to the sword. See under Put.
Sword (n.) A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard [syn: sword, blade, brand, steel].
Sword, () Of the Hebrew was pointed, sometimes two-edged, was worn in a sheath, and suspended from the girdle (Ex. 32:27; 1 Sam. 31:4; 1 Chr. 21:27; Ps. 149:6: Prov. 5:4; Ezek. 16:40; 21:3-5).
It is a symbol of divine chastisement (Deut. 32:25; Ps. 7:12; 78:62), and of a slanderous tongue (Ps. 57:4; 64:3; Prov. 12:18). The word of God is likened also to a sword (Heb. 4:12; Eph. 6:17; Rev. 1:16). Gideon's watchword was, "The sword of the Lord" (Judg. 7:20).
Swordbill (n.) (Zool.) 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. -- Milton.
Sworder (n.) One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Swordfish (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) The gar pike.
Swordfish (n.) (Zool.) The cutlass fish.
Swordfish (n.) (Astron.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.
Swordfish sucker (Zool.), A remora ({Remora brachyptera"> Swordfish sucker (Zool.), a remora ({Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.
Cutlass fish, cutlassfish (n.) (Zool.) A peculiar, long, thin, marine fish ({Trichiurus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth; -- called also frostfish, saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish; also, several related members of the genus Trichiurus. It is closely related to snake mackerel.
Syn: frost fish, frostfish, hairtail.
Swordfish (n.) Flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks.
Swordfish (n.) Large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night [syn: swordfish, Xiphias gladius].
Swordick (n.) (Zool.) The spotted gunnel ({Muraenoides gunnellus). [Prov. Eng.]
Swording (n.) Slashing with a sword. -- Tennyson.
Swordless (a.) Destitute of a sword.
Swordmen (n. pl. ) of Swordman.
Swordman (n.) A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." -- Shak.
Swordplay (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.
Swordplay (n.) The act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully [syn: play, swordplay].
Swordplayer (n.) A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
Sword-shaped (a.) (Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
Sword-shaped (a.) Shaped like a sword blade; "the iris has an ensiform leaf" [syn: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike, bladelike].
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.
Swordsman (n.) Someone skilled at fencing [syn: fencer, swordsman].
Swordsmanship (n.) The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. -- Cowper.
Swordsmanship (n.) Skill in fencing.
Swordtail (n.) (Zool.) The limulus.
Swordtail (n.) (Zool.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
Swordtail (n.) Freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish [syn: swordtail, helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri].
Swore () imp. of Swear.
Sworn () p. p. of Swear.
Sworn brothers, originally, Companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends.
Sworn enemies, Determined or irreconcilable enemies.
Sworn friends, Close friends.
Sworn (a.) Bound by or as if by an oath; "according to an early tradition became his sworn brother"; "sworn enemies" [syn: pledged, sworn].
Sworn (a.) Bound by or stated on oath; "now my sworn friend and then mine enemy" -- Shakespeare [ant: unsworn].
Swough (n.) A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough. [Obs.]
He sigheth with full many a sorry swough. -- Chaucer.
Swough (n.) A swoon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Swound (v. & n.) See Swoon, v. & n. [Prov. Eng. or Archaic] -- Shak. Dryden.
The landlord stirred As one awaking from a swound. -- Longfellow.
'Swounds (interj.) An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Shak.
Swown (v. & n.) Swoon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Swum () imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Swung () imp. & p. p. of Swing.
Swythe (adv.) Quickly. See Swithe. [Obs.]
Sy, obs. imp. of See. Saw. -- Chaucer.
Sy, () The country code for Syria.
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Syb (a.) See Sib. [Obs. or Scot.]
Sybarite (n.) A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary. Sybaritic
Sybarite (n.) A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: voluptuary, sybarite].
Sybaritic (a.) Alt. of Sybaritical.
Sybaritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." -- Bp.
Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres." -- Bp. Hall.
Sybaritism (n.) Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
Compare: Plane
Plane (n.) (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Note: The Oriental plane ({Platanus orientalis) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane ({Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species ({Platanus racemosa).
Sycamine (n.) See Sycamore.
Sycamore (n.) [C] (Bot.) 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}.]
Compare: Buttonwood
Buttonwood (n.) (Bot.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa.
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.
Sycamore, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 496
Housing Units (2000): 209
Land area (2000): 0.997241 sq. miles (2.582841 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002461 sq. miles (0.006374 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.999702 sq. miles (2.589215 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75104
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.670810 N, 83.633871 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31790
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Headwords:
Sycamore, GA
Sycamore
Sycamore, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 914
Housing Units (2000): 401
Land area (2000): 0.587989 sq. miles (1.522884 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.587989 sq. miles (1.522884 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75980
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.950402 N, 83.170919 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44882 45242 45249
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Headwords:
Sycamore, OH
Sycamore
Sycamore, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 183
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 4.144380 sq. miles (10.733895 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.144380 sq. miles (10.733895 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71965
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.401443 N, 94.713463 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Sycamore
Sycamore, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 150
Housing Units (2000): 79
Land area (2000): 7.053526 sq. miles (18.268547 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.053526 sq. miles (18.268547 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71972
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.519520 N, 94.941129 W
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Sycamore, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 12020
Housing Units (2000): 4925
Land area (2000): 5.484594 sq. miles (14.205033 sq. km)
Water
area (2000): 0.017968 sq. miles (0.046537 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.502562 sq. miles (14.251570 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74223
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.983850 N, 88.694091 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60178
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Headwords:
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Sycamore
Sycamore, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 185
Housing Units (2000): 93
Land area (2000): 3.171566 sq. miles (8.214319 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009319 sq. miles (0.024137 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.180885 sq. miles (8.238456 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70900
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.038490 N, 81.222032 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Sycamore, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 159
Housing Units (2000): 90
Land area (2000): 0.027240 sq. miles (0.070551 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.027240 sq. miles (0.070551 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75190
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.246973 N, 85.560664 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Sycamore
Syce (n.) A groom. [India]
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. [China] -- McElrath.
Sychnocarpous (a.) (Bot.) Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.
Sycite (n.) (Min.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig. [Obs.]
Sycoceric (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.
Sycoceryl (n.) (Chem.) 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.) (Zool.) The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
Sycones (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of calcareous sponges.
Note: They usually resemble a fig, being vase-shaped with a fringed opening at the summit. The feeding cells are in ampullae connected with radial tubes in the thickened walls of the body. Syconium
Syconium (n.) Alt. of Syconus.
Syconus (n.) (Bot.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
Syconium (n.) The fleshy multiple fruit of the fig consisting of an enlarged hollow receptacle containing numerous fruitlets.
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].
Sycophant (n.) One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting _you_.
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. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv.
Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. -- De Quincey.
Sycophantism (n.) Sycophancy.
Sycophantize (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Sycophantry (n.) Sycophancy. [Obs.]
Sycosis (n.) (Med.) 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, obs. imp. of See. Saw. -- Chaucer.
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.