Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 33
Scyphi (n. pl. ) of Scyphus.
Scyphus (n.) (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
Scyphus (n.) (Bot.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
Scyphus (n.) (Bot.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.
Scythe (n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass. -- Drayton.
Whatever thing The scythe of Time mows down. -- Milton.
Scythe (n.) (Antiq.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Scythe (v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]
Time had not scythed all that youth begun. -- Shak.
Scythe (n.) An edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground.
Scythe (v.) Cut with a scythe; "scythe grass or grain."
Scythed (a.) Armed scythes, as a chariot.
Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled. -- Glover.
Scythemen (n. pl. ) of Scytheman.
Scytheman (n.) One who uses a scythe; a mower. -- Macaulay.
Scythestone (n.) A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.
Scythewhet (n.) (Zool.) Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]
Scythian (a.) Of or pertaining to
Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to
Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.
Scythian
(n.) A
native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race
which in early times occupied
Scythian (n.) The language of the Scythians.
Compare: Turanian
Turanian (pr. a.) Of, pertaining
to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and
low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the
northern parts of Europe and Asia and in Central Asia; of pertaining to, or
designating, the people who speak these languages.
Scythian (a.) Of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their
culture or language.
Scythian (n.) A member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia.
Scythian (n.) The Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians.
Scythian, () The Scythians consisted of "all the pastoral tribes who dwelt to the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, and were scattered far away toward the east. Of this vast country but little was anciently known. Its modern representative is Russia, which, to a great extent, includes the same territories." They were the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 9:27). It appears that in apostolic times there were some of this people that embraced Christianity (Col. 3:11).
Scytodermata (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Holothurioidea.
Sdain (v. & n.) Disdain. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
'Sdeath (interj.) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger. -- Shak.
Sdeign (v. t.) To disdain. [Obs.]
But either sdeigns with other to partake. -- Spenser.
Sea (n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
Sea (n.) An inland body of
water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the
Sea (n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. -- Shak.
Ambiguous between sea and land The river horse and scaly crocodile. -- Milton.
Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
Sea (n.) (Jewish Antiq.) A great
brazen laver in the temple at
He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof. -- 2 Chron. iv. 2.
Sea (n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory. -- Shak.
All the space . . . was one sea of heads. -- Macaulay.
Note: Sea is often used in the composition of words of obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten, sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed, sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is also used either adjectively or in combination with substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea acorn, or sea-acorn.
At sea, Upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances. "To say the old man was at sea would be too feeble an expression." -- G. W. Cable
At full sea, At the height of flood tide; hence, at the height. "But now God's mercy was at full sea." -- Jer. Taylor.
Beyond seas, or Beyond the sea or Beyond the seas (Law), Out of the state, territory, realm, or country. -- Wharton.
Half seas over, Half drunk. [Colloq.] -- Spectator.
Heavy sea, A sea in which the waves run high.
Long sea, A sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves.
Short sea, A sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.
To go to sea, To adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.
Compare: Ocean
Ocean (n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.
Like the
odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. --
Longfellow.
Ocean (n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is
regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic
oceans.
Ocean (n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. -- Locke.
You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion. -- Lieber & Stoller (Poison Ivy: song lyrics, 1994)
Sea (n.) A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land.
Sea (n.) Anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: ocean, sea].
Sea (n.) Turbulent water with swells of considerable size; "heavy seas."
SEA, () Self-Extracting Archive.
SEA, () Society for Electronic Access (org.).
SEA, () System Enhancement Associates (manufacturer).
Self Extracting Archive
SEA, () (SEA) An archive format used on the Apple Macintosh. Double-clicking a file of this type should extract its contents.
(1995-05-02)
Sea. () The ocean; the great mass of waters which surrounds the land, and which probably extends from pole to pole, covering nearly three quarters of the globe. Waters within the ebb and flow of the tide, are to be considered the sea. Gilp. R. 526.
Sea. () The sea is public and common to all people, and every person has an equal right to navigate it, or to fish there; Ang. on Tide Wat. 44 to 49; Dane's Abr. c. 68, a. 3, 4; Inst. 2, 1, 1; and to land upon the sea, shore. (q.v.)
Sea. () Every nation has jurisdiction to the distance of a cannon shot, (q, v.) or marine league, over the water adjacent to its shore. 2 Cranch, 187, 234; 1 Circuit Rep. 62; Bynk. Qu. Pub. Juris. 61; 1 Azuni Mar. Law, 204; Id. 185; Vattel, 207:
Sea acorn () (Zool.) An acorn barnacle ({Balanus).
Sea adder () (Zool.) The European fifteen-spined stickleback ({Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
Sea adder () (Zool.) The European tanglefish, or pipefish ({Syngnathus acus).
Sea anchor () (Naut.) See Drag sail, Under 4th Drag.
Compare: Drag
Drag (n.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Drag (n.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
Drag (n.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
Drag (n.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] -- Thackeray.
Drag (n.) A heavy harrow, for
breaking up ground.
Drag (n.) (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress,
or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth,
so used. See Drag sail (below).
Drag (n.) (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Drag (n.) (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. -- J. D. Forbes.
Drag (n.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." -- Hazlitt.
Drag (n.) (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
Drag (n.) (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Drag (n.) (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
Drag sail (Naut.), A sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc.
Drag twist (Mining), A spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.
Sea anemone () (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian.
Note: They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colors varied and often very beautiful.
Sea anemone (n.) Marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone, anemone].
Sea ape () (Zool.) The thrasher shark.
Sea ape () (Zool.) The sea otter.
Compare: Thrasher
Thrasher, Thresher (n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
Thrasher, Thresher (n.) (Zool.) A large and voracious shark ({Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts.
Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
Thrasher, Thresher (n.) (Zool.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zool.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zool.), The common killer of the Atlantic.
Sea apple () (Bot.) The fruit of a West Indian palm ({Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. -- A. Grisebach.
Sea arrow () (Zool.) A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.
Sea bank () The seashore. -- Shak.
Sea bank () A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
Sea-bar (n.) (Zool.) A tern.
Sea barrow () (Zool.) A sea purse.
Sea bass () (Zool.) (a) A large marine food fish ({Serranus atrarius syn. Centropristis atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.
Sea bass () (Zool.) (b) A California food fish ({Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
Sea bass (n.) The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae [syn: sea bass, bass].
Sea bass (n.) Any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin.
Sea bat () (Zool.) See Batfish (a).
Seabeach (n.) A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." -- Longfellow.
Sea bean () (Bot.) Same as Florida bean.
Compare: Bean
Bean (n.) (Bot.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
Note: The origin and classification of many kinds are still doubtful. Among true beans are: the black-eyed bean and China bean, included in Dolichos Sinensis; black Egyptian bean or hyacinth bean, Dolichos Lablab; the common haricot beans, kidney beans, string beans, and pole beans, all included in Phaseolus vulgaris; the lower bush bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus; Lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus; Spanish bean and scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus; Windsor bean, the common bean of England, Faba vulgaris.
As an article of food beans are classed with vegetables.
Bean (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
Bean aphis (Zool.), A plant louse ({Aphis fab[ae]"> Bean aphis (Zool.), a plant louse ({Aphis fab[ae]) which infests the bean plant.
Bean fly (Zool.), A fly found on bean flowers.
Bean goose (Zool.), A species of goose ({Anser segetum"> Bean goose (Zool.), a species of goose ({Anser segetum).
Bean weevil (Zool.), A small weevil that in the larval state destroys beans. The American species is Bruchus fab[ae].
Florida bean (Bot.) The seed of Mucuna urens, a West Indian plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments.
Ignatius bean, or St. Ignatius's bean (Bot.), A species of Strychnos.
Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy.
Pea bean, A very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size.
Sacred bean. See under Sacred.
Screw bean. See under Screw.
Sea bean. (a) Same as Florida bean.
Sea bean. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament.
Tonquin bean, or Tonka bean, The fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree.
Vanilla bean. See under Vanilla.
Sea bear () (Zool.) Any fur seal. See under Fur.
Sea bear () (Zool.) The white bear.
Compare: Seal
Seal (n.) (Zool.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Note: Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are numerous species, bearing such popular names as sea lion, sea leopard, sea bear, or ursine seal, fur seal, and sea elephant. The bearded seal ({Erignathus barbatus), the hooded seal ({Cystophora cristata), and the ringed seal ({Phoca foetida}), are northern species. See also Eared seal, Harp seal, Monk seal, and Fur seal, under Eared, Harp, Monk, and Fur. Seals are much hunted for their skins and fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is very abundant.
Harbor seal (Zool.), The common seal ({Phoca vitulina"> Harbor seal (Zool.), the common seal ({Phoca vitulina). It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean, and often ascends rivers; -- called also marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.
Seabeard (n.) (Bot.) A green seaweed ({Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.
Sea beast () (Zool.) Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
Sea bird () Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.
Sea blite () A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.
Sea-blubber (n.) A jellyfish.
Seaboard (n.) The seashore; seacoast.
Seaboard (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.
Seaboard (adv.) Toward the sea.
Seaboat () A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.
Seaboat () A chitin.
Seabord (n. & a.) See Seaboard.
Sea-bordering (a.) Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.
Sea-born (a.) Born of the sea; produced by the sea.
Sea-born (a.) Born at sea.
Seabound (a.) Bounded by the sea.
Sea bow () See Marine rainbow, under Rainbow.
Sea boy () A boy employed on shipboard.
Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
Sea bream () Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
Sea brief () Same as Sea letter.
Sea bug () A chiton.
Sea-built (a.) Built at, in, or by the sea.
Sea butterfly () A pteropod.
Sea cabbage () See Sea kale, under Kale.
Sea calf () The common seal.
Sea canary () The beluga, or white whale.
Sea captain () The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
Sea card () Mariner's card, or compass.
Sea catfish () Alt. of Sea cat.
Sea cat () The wolf fish.
Sea cat () Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.
Sea chart () A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.
Sea chickweed () A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
Sea clam () (Zool.) Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. ({Mactra solidissima or Spisula solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
Seacoast (n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
Sea cob () The black-backed gull.
Sea cock () In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
Sea cock () (Zool.) The black-bellied plover.
Sea cock () (Zool.) A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Sea cocoa () (Bot.) A magnificent palm ({Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
Sea colander () (Bot.) A large blackfish seaweed ({Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
Sea colewort () (Bot.) Sea cabbage.
Sea compass () The mariner's compass. See under Compass.
Sea coot () (Zool.) A scoter duck.
Sea corn () (Zool.) A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks ({Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
Sea cow () (Zool.) The mantee.
Sea cow () (Zool.) The dugong.
Sea cow () (Zool.) The walrus. Sea crawfish
Compare: Manatee
Manatee (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called also sea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]
Note: One species ({Trichechus Senegalensis) inhabits the west coast of Africa; another ({Trichechus Americanus) inhabits the east coast of South America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee ({Trichechus latirostris) is by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a variety of Trichechus Americanus. It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It was hunted for its oil and flesh, and every species is now an endangered species.
Sea cow (n.) Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs [syn: sea cow, sirenian mammal, sirenian].
Sea crawfish () Alt. of Sea crayfish.
Sea crayfish () (Zool.) Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster ({Palinurus vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
Sea crawfish (n.) Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish].
Sea crow () (Zool.) The chough. [Ireland]
Sea crow () (Zool.) The cormorant.
Sea crow () (Zool.) The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.
Sea crow () (Zool.) The skua.