Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 210

Swivel-eyed (a.) Squint-eyed.

Swizzle (v. t.) To drink; to swill.

Swizzle (n.) Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.

Swob (n. & v.) See Swab.

Swobber (n.) See Swabber.

Swobber (n.) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist.

Swollen () p. p. of Swell.

Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Swoln () Contraction of Swollen, p. p.

Swom () imp. of Swim.

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.

Swoon (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

Swooning () a. & n. from Swoon, v.

Swooped (imp. & p. p.) of Swoop

Swooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoop

Swoop (n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

Swoop (n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.

Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.

Swoop (v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep.

Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.

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 (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 (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.) 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).

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.

Sycophancy (n.) False accusation; calumniation; talebearing.

Sycophancy (n.) Obsequious flattery; servility.

Sycophant (n.) An informer; a talebearer.

Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

Sycophant (v. t.) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

Sycophant (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Sycophant (v. i.) To play the sycophant.

Sycophantcy (n.) Sycophancy.

Sycophantic (a.) Alt. of Sycophantical

Sycophantical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.

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.

Syenite (n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

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