Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 37
Season (v. i.) 變習慣 To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
Season (v. i.) （木材）變乾 To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
Season (v. i.) To give token; to savor. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Season (n.) [C] 季，季節；節期，時令；旺季；活躍季節 A period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field; "he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"; "she always looked forward to the avocado season."
Season (n.) One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons" [syn: season, time of year].
Season (n.) A recurrent time marked by major holidays; "it was the Christmas season."
Season (v.) 給……調味；加味於 [（+with）]；使得到鍛鍊；使適應 [（+to）] Lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it" [syn: season, flavor, flavour].
Season (v.) Make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller" [syn: season, harden].
Season (v.) Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism" [syn: temper, season, mollify].
Seasonable (a.) 合於時宜的；應時的；及早的 Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.
Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. -- Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.
Seasonable (a.) In keeping with the season; "a hard but seasonable frost"; "seasonable clothes" [ant: unseasonable].
Seasonable (a.) Done or happening at the appropriate or proper time; "a timely warning"; "with timely treatment the patient has a good chance of recovery"; "a seasonable time for discussion"; "the book's publication was well timed" [syn: timely, seasonable, well-timed(a), well timed(p)].
Seasonage (n.) A seasoning. [Obs.] -- South.
Seasonal (a.) 季節的；季節性的； 週期性的 Of or pertaining to the seasons.
Seasonal (a.) Occurring or being used in a specific season; as, seasonal items for sale.
Seasonal dimorphism (Zool.), The condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.
Compare: Cyclic
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) 圓的；環式的；循環的；週期的 Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. -- Coleridge.
Cyclic (a.) (Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic.
Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.
Note: [Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic]
Syn: closed-chain, closed-ring.
Cyclic (a.) Recurring in cycles [2]; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.
Note: [Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every Second (prenominal); alternating (prenominal), oscillating (prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial].
Cyclic (a.) Marked by repeated cycles [2].
Cyclic chorus, The chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
Cyclic poets, Certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. -- Milman.
Seasonal (a.) Occurring at or dependent on a particular season; "seasonal labor"; "a seasonal rise in unemployment" [ant: year-around, year-round].
Seasonal (n.) A worker who finds employment only in certain seasons [syn: seasonal worker, seasonal].
Seasoner (n.) One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
Seasoner (n.) A cook who uses seasonings; "the cook is a light seasoner."
Seasoner (n.) Something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts [syn: flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning].
Seasoning (n.) The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
Seasoning (n.) That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.
Seasoning (n.) Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation.
Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings. -- Addison.
Seasoning tub (Bakery), A trough in which dough is set to rise. -- Knight.
Seasoning (n.) Something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts [syn: flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning].
Seasoning (n.) The act of adding a seasoning to food.
Seasonless (a.) Without succession of the seasons.
Sea spider () (Zool.) Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
Sea spider () (Zool.) Any pycnogonid.
Sea spider (n.) Any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs [syn: sea spider, pycnogonid].
Sea squirt () (Zool.) An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.
Sea squirt (n.) Ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water.
Sea star () (Zool.) A starfish, or brittle star.
Starfish (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
Note: The ophiuroids are also sometimes called starfishes.
See Brittle star, and Ophiuroidea.
Starfish (n.) (Zool.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.
Sea star (n.) Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish, sea star].
Sea surgeon () (Zool.) A surgeon fish.
Compare: Surgeon
Surgeon (n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.
Surgeon (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
Surgeon apothecary, One who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. -- Dunglison.
Surgeon dentist, A dental surgeon; a dentist.
Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above.
Surgeon general. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department.
Surgeon general. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department.
Surgeon (n.) A physician who specializes in surgery [syn: surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones].
Sea swallow () (Zool.) The common tern.
Sea swallow () (Zool.) The storm petrel.
Sea swallow () (Zool.) The gannet.
Sea swallow () (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough.
Sea swallow (n.) Common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage [syn: sea swallow, Sterna hirundo].
Seat (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. -- Matt. xxi. 12.
Seat (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. -- Rev. ii. 13.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. -- Bacon.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. -- Macaulay.
Seat (n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
Seat (n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. -- G. Eliot.
Seat (n.) (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seat worm (Zool.), The pinworm.
Seated (imp. & p. p.) of Seat.
Seating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seat.
Seat (v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. -- Arbuthnot.
Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. -- Shak.
They had seated themselves in New Guiana. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Seat (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
Seat (v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. -- Milton.
Seat (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] -- W. Stith.
Seat (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
Seat (v. i.) To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Seat (n.) A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [syn: seat, place].
Seat (n.) The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
Seat (n.) Furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests".
Seat (n.) Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down."
Seat (n.) A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised).
Seat (n.) The location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason."
Seat (n.) The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate."
Seat (n.) A part of a machine that supports or guides another part.
Seat (n.) The cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through."
Seat (v.) Show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: seat, sit, sit down].
Seat (v.) Be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000."
Seat (v.) Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" [syn: induct, invest, seat].
Seat (v.) Put a seat on a chair.
Seat (v.) Provide with seats; "seat a concert hall."
Seat (v.) Place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on the tripod."
Seat (v.) Place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair."
Sea tang () A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
Sea term () A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
Sea thief () A pirate.
Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
Seating (n.) The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
Seating (n.) The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
Sea titling () The rock pipit.
Seatless (a.) Having no seat.
Sea toad () A sculpin.
Sea toad () A toadfish.
Sea toad () The angler.
Sea trout () Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.
Sea trout () The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
Sea trout () A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.
Sea trout () A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
Sea trumpet () Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
Sea turn () A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea.
Sea turtle () Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
Sea turtle () The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
Sea unicorn () The narwhal.
Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Seave (n.) A rush.
Seavy (a.) Overgrown with rushes.
Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
Sea-walled (a.) Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.
Seawan (n.) Alt. of Seawant.
Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately. -- Bartlett.
Seawand () (Bot.) See Sea girdles.
Seaward (a.) Directed or situated toward the sea. -- Donne.
Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. -- G. W. Cable.
Seaward (adv.) Toward the sea. -- Drayton.
Seaward (adv.) In the direction of the sea; "the sailor looked seaward" [syn: seaward, seawards, asea].
Seaward (a.) (Of winds) Coming from the land; "offshore winds" [syn: offshore, seaward] [ant: inshore, onshore, seaward, shoreward].
Seaward (a.) (Of winds) Coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from seaward winds" [syn: inshore, onshore, seaward, shoreward] [ant: offshore, seaward].
Seaward (a.) Directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast; "from the hill he took a seaward course"; "on the seaward side of the road."
Seaward (n.) The direction toward the sea.
Compare: Sea girdles
Sea girdles, () (Bot.) A kind of kelp ({Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
Seaware (n.) (Bot.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.
Seaweed (n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
Seaweed (n.) (Bot.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
Seaweed (n.) Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae.
Sea whip () (Zool.) A gorgonian having a simple stem.
Sea widgeon () (Zool.) The scaup duck.
Sea widgeon () (Zool.) The pintail duck.
Compare: Widgeon
Widgeon (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus
Anas. The common European widgeon ({Anas penelope"> Anas. The common European widgeon ({Anas penelope) and the American widgeon ({Anas Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly.
Bald-faced widgeon, or Green-headed widgeon, The American widgeon.
Black widgeon, The European tufted duck.
Gray widgeon. (a) The gadwall.
Gray widgeon. (b) The pintail duck.
Great headed widgeon, The poachard.
Pied widgeon. (a) The poachard.
Pied widgeon. (b) The goosander.
Saw-billed widgeon, The merganser.
Sea widgeon. See in the Vocabulary.
Spear widgeon, The goosander. [Prov. Eng.]
Spoonbilled widgeon, The shoveler.
White widgeon, The smew.
Wood widgeon, The wood duck.
Seawives (n. pl.) of Seawife.
Seawife (n.) (Zool.) A European wrasse ({Labrus vetula).
Sea willow () (Zool.) A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
Sea wing () (Zool.) A wing shell ({Avicula).
Sea withwind () (Bot.) A kind of bindweed ({Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
Sea wolf () (Zool.) The wolf fish.
Sea wolf () (Zool.) The European sea perch.
Sea wolf () (Zool.) The sea elephant.
Sea wolf () (Zool.) A sea lion.
Sea wolf (n.) Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas [syn: killer whale, killer, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca].
Sea woodcock () (Zool.) The bar-tailed godwit.
Sea wood louse () (Zool.) A sea slater.
Sea wormwood () (Bot.) A European species of wormwood ({Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
Seaworthiness (n.) The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. -- Kent.
Seaworthiness (n.) Fitness to traverse the seas [syn: seaworthiness, fitness].
Seaworthy (a.) Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
Seaworthy (a.) Fit for a sea voyage [ant: unseaworthy].
Sea wrack () (Bot.) See Wrack.
Compare: Zostera
Zostera (n.) [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.
Sea wrack (n.) Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts [syn: eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina].
Sea wrack (n.) Growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp [syn: sea wrack, wrack].
Sebaceous (a.) (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
Sebaceous cyst (Med.), A cyst formed by distention of a sebaceous gland, due to obstruction of its excretory duct.
Sebaceous glands (Anat.), Small subcutaneous glands, usually connected with hair follicles. They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.
Sebaceous (a.) Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" [syn: greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous].
Sebacic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.
Sebat (n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.
Sebate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of sebacic acid.
Sebesten (n.) (Bot.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees ({Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
Note: In the West Indies the name is given to the similar fruit of Cordia Sebestana.
Sebic (a.) See Sebacic. [Obs.]
Compare: Sebacic
Sebacic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.
Sebiferous (a.) (Bot.) Producing vegetable tallow.
Sebiferous (a.) (Physiol.) Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands.
Sebiparous (a.) (Physiol.) Same as Sebiferous.
Seborrhea (n.) (Med.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
Seborrhea (n.) A condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily.
Secale (n.) (Bot.) A genus of cereal grasses including rye.
Secale (n.) Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye [syn: Secale, genus Secale].
Secancy (n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another. [R.] -- Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
Secant (a.) Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line.