| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| syruped | adjective | Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice. |
| sycones | noun pl. | A division of calcareous sponges. |
| syconus | noun | A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig. |
| sycosis | noun | A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo. |
| syenite | noun | Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite., A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite. |
| syllabe | noun | Syllable. |
| syllabi | plural | of Syllabus |
| sylphid | noun | A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. |
| sylvate | noun | A salt of sylvic acid. |
| sylvine | noun | Alt. of Sylvite |
| sylvite | noun | Native potassium chloride. |
| sympode | noun | A sympodium. |
| symptom | noun | Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited., A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue. |
| synacme | noun | Alt. of Synacmy |
| synacmy | noun | Same as Synanthesis. |
| synapta | noun | A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| synaxis | noun | A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord’s Supper. |
| syncarp | noun | A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry. |
| syncope | noun | An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne’er for never, ev’ry for every., Same as Syncopation., A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting., A pause or cessation; suspension. |
| synergy | noun | Combined action, the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy., An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism. |
| synocha | noun | See Synochus. |
| synocil | noun | A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell. |
| synodal | adjective | Synodical., A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration., A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod. |
| synodic | adjective | Alt. of Synodical |
| synonym | noun | One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous. |
| synovia | noun | A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid. |
| syntomy | noun | Brevity; conciseness. |
| syriasm | noun | A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism. |
| syringa | noun | A genus of plants; the lilac., The mock orange; — popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems. |
| syringe | noun | A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; — used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc., To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein., To wash and clean by injection from a syringe. |
| systole | noun | The shortening of the long syllable., The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; — correlative to diastole. |
| systyle | adjective | Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; — said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation., A systyle temple or other edifice. |