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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Swōrd'-dȧnçe, n.p. 1340A dance in which swords are held and clashed together by the male dancers. W. Scott.
  2. Swōrd'ed, a.p. 1340Girded with a sword. “The sworded seraphim.” Milton.
  3. Swōrd'er, n.p. 1340One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cut-throat. [Obs.] Shak.
  4. Swōrd'-fīght, n.p. 1340Fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords.
  5. Swōrd'-fish, n.p. 1340(Ichth.) A large fish (Xiphias gladius), allied to the mackerel, and having the upper jaw elongated into a sword-shaped process. It is found in the Atlantic, and its flesh is often eaten.
  6. Swōrd'-grȧss, n.p. 1340(Bot.) A kind of sedge; glader; the sweet rush, a species of Acorus. Ainsworth.
  7. Swōrd'-knŏt, n.p. 1340A ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword.
  8. Swōrd'-law, n.p. 1340Government by the sword, or by force; violence. Milton.
  9. Swōrd'less, a.p. 1340Destitute of a sword.
  10. Swōrd'man, n.p. 1340A swordsman.
  11. Swōrd'-plāy'er, n.p. 1340A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
  12. Swōrd'-shāped, a.p. 1341(Bot.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform; as, a sword-shaped leaf. Martyn.
  13. Swōrds'man, n.p. 1341A soldier; a fighting man. Shak. 2. One skilled in the use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing. Beau. & Fl.
  14. Swōrds'man-ship, n.p. 1341The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.
  15. Swōrd'-stick, n.p. 1341A sword-cane. Simmonds.
  16. Swōre, imp.p. 1341of swear. See SWEAR.
  17. Swōrn, p. p. or p. a.p. 1341from swear. See SWEAR. Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. — Sworn friends, close or firm friends.
  18. Swough, n.p. 1341Loss of feeling or sensation; a stupor; stupefaction. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  19. Swound, v. i.p. 1341To swoon. [Rare.] Shak.
  20. Swound, n.p. 1341A swoon. [Rare.] Coleridge.
  21. Swŭm, imp. & p. p.p. 1341of swim. See SWIM.
  22. Swŭng, imp. & p. p.p. 1341of swing. See SWING.
  23. Sy̆b, a.p. 1341Related by blood; sib. [Obs.]
  24. Sy̆b'a-rīte, n.p. 1341A person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
  25. Sy̆b'a-rĭt'ic or Sy̆b'a-rĭt'ic-al, a.p. 1341Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton. Bp. Hall.
  26. Sy̆b'a-rit-ism, n.p. 1341The habit of extreme luxury.
  27. Sy̆c'a-mīne, n.p. 1341The mulberry-tree. Luke xvii. 6. ☞ It has often been confounded by ancient and modern writers with the sycamore, as, for example, by Dioscorides.
  28. Sy̆c'a-mōre, n.p. 1341(Bot.) A large tree (Ficus sycamorus), allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore of Scripture. ☞ In America, the plane-tree, or buttonwood, is often called by this…
  29. Sy̆-çee' or Sy̆-çee'-sĭl'ver, n.p. 1341Silver in the form of small masses, lumps, or ingots, bearing the stamp of the office that issues it, and used as a currency. [China.] Oliphant. Brande.
  30. Sy̆ch'no-cär'poŭs, a.p. 1341Having the capacity of bearing frequent crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants. Henslow.
  31. Sy̆ç'īte, n.p. 1341(Min.) Fig-stone;—a name which some authors give to nodules of flint or pebbles which resemble a fig. [Obs.]
  32. Sȳ-cō'mȧ, n.p. 1341(Med.) A tumor shaped like a fig.
  33. Sy̆c'o-phan-çy, n.p. 1341The character or characteristic of a sycophant; hence, mean tale-bearing; obsequious flattery; servility.
  34. Sy̆c'o-phant, n.p. 1341Originally, an informer in Athens, who sought favor by denouncing those who stole figs, or exported them contrary to law, &c. 2. Hence, a tale-bearer or informer in general. [Obs.] The poor man that…
  35. Sy̆c'o-phant, v. t.p. 1341To play the sycophant toward; to flatter meanly and officiously; to gain favor from by informing or telling tales; also, to calumniate.
  36. Sy̆c'o-phant, v. i.p. 1341To play the sycophant.
  37. Sy̆c'o-phant-çy, n.p. 1341Sycophancy. [Obs.] Barrow.
  38. Sy̆c'o-phănt'ic or Sy̆c'o-phănt'ic-al, a.p. 1341Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. “To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite.” South.…
  39. Sy̆c'o-phănt'ish, a.p. 1341Resembling a sycophant; flattering.
  40. Sy̆c'o-phănt'ish-ly, adv.p. 1341In a sycophantish manner; like a sycophant.
  41. Sy̆c'o-phant-ism, n.p. 1341Mean flattery; sycophancy.
  42. Sy̆c'o-phant-īze, v. i.p. 1341The same as SYCOPHANT.
  43. Sy̆c'o-phant-ry, n.p. 1341Mean and officious tale-bearing or adulation; sycophancy. [Obs.] Barrow.
  44. Sy-cō'sis, n.p. 1341(Med.) A tubercular eruption upon the scalp or the bearded part of the face.
  45. Sŷd'er-o-lite, n.p. 1341A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the pottery called Wedgwood-ware. Simmonds.
  46. Sȳ'e-nīte, n.p. 1341(Min.) A crystalline rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, of grayish-white and reddish colors, taking its name from Syene, in Upper Egypt, where it was quarried for monuments by the…
  47. Sȳ'e-nĭt'ĭc, a.p. 1341Relating to Syene; as Syenitic inscriptions. 2. Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.
  48. Sȳke, n.p. 1341A small brook or rill in low ground; a sike. [Prov. Eng.]
  49. Sȳk'er, adv.p. 1341Surely. [Obs.] Spenser.
  50. Sŷl'la-ba-ry, n.p. 1341A table of syllables; more especially, the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams.
  51. Syl-lāb'ic or Syl-lāb'ic-al, a.p. 1341Pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent. 2. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment.
  52. Syl-lāb'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 1341In a syllabic manner; syllable after syllable.
  53. Syl-lāb'ī-ē'āte, v. t.p. 1341To form into syllables; to syllabify.
  54. Syl-lāb/i-cā'tion, n.p. 1341The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. [See Prin. of Pron., § 129.]
  55. Syl-lāb'ī-fi-cā'tion, n.p. 1341The same as SYLLABICATION, q. v. “That condition of syllabification which constitutes in part the prosodial superiority of the Greek.” Bush.
  56. Syl-lāb'ĭ-fȳ, v. t.p. 1341To form or divide into syllables.
  57. Sŷl'la-bīst, n.p. 1341One who forms words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.
  58. Sȳl'la-ble, n.p. 1341An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word; the smallest separately…
  59. Syl'la-ble, v. t.p. 1341To pronounce the syllables of: to utter; to articulate. [Obs.] Milton.
  60. Syl'la-bŭb, n.p. 1341A compound drink made of wine and milk. [Written also sillabub.]