SWORD-GRASS
SWORD-GRASS, noun [sword and grass.] A kind of sedge, glader; the sweet rush, a species of Acorus.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SWORD-KNOT
SWORD-KNOT, noun [sword and knot.] A ribin tied to the hilt of a sword.
SWORD-LAW
SWORD-LAW, noun [sword and law.] Violence; government by force.
SWORD-MAN
SWORD-MAN, noun [sword and man.] A soldier; a fighting man.
SWORD-PLAYER
SWORD-PLAYER, noun [sword and player.] A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
SWORD-SHAPED
SWORD-SHAPED, adjective [sword and shape.] Ensiform; shaped like a sword; as a sword-shaped leaf.
SWORDED
SWORDED, adjective Girded with a sword.
SWORDER
SWORDER, noun A soldier; a cut-throat. [Not in use.]
SWORE
SWORE, preterit tense of swear.
SWORN
SWORN, participle passive of swear. The officers of government are sworn to a faithful discharge of their duty.SWORN friends, is a phrase equivalent to determined, close or firm...
SWOUND
SWOUND, verb intransitive To swoon. [Not in use.]
SWUM
SWUM, preterit tense and participle passive of swim.
SWUNG
SWUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of swing.
SYB
SYBSIB, adjective Related by blood.
SYBARITIC
SYBARIT'ICSYBARIT'ICAL, adjective [from Sybaritoe, inhabitants of Sybaris, in Italy, who were proverbially voluptuous.] Luxurious; wanton.
SYBARITICAL
SYBARIT'ICAL, a. [from Sybaritoe, inhabitants of Sybaris, in Italy, who were proverbially voluptuous.] Luxurious; wanton.
SYCAMINE
SYCAMINE. [See Sycamore.]
SYCAMORE
SYC'AMORE, noun [Gr. a fig.] A species of fig-tree. The name is also given to the Acer majus, [A.pseudo-platanus,] a species of maple.This name is also given to the plane tree o...
SYCAMORE-MOTH
SYC'AMORE-MOTH, noun A large and beautiful moth or night butterfly; so called because its caterpillar feeds on the leaves of the sycamore.
SYCITE
SYC'ITE, noun [Gr. fig.] Fig-stone; a name which some authors give to nodules of flint or pebbles which resemble a fig.
SYCOPHANCY
SYC'OPHANCY, noun [infra.] Originally, information of the clandestine exportation of figs; hence, mean talebearing; obsequious flattery; servility.
SYCOPHANT
SYC'OPHANT, noun [Gr. a fig, and to discover.] Originally, an informer against those who stole figs, or exported them contrary to law, etc. Hence in time it came to signify a ta...
SYCOPHANTIC
SYCOPHANT'IC, adjective Talebearing; more generally, obsequiously flattering; parasitic; courting favor by mean adulation.1.sycophantic plants, or parasites, are such as adhere ...
SYCOPHANTIZE
SYC'OPHANTIZE, verb transitive To play the sycophant; to flatter meanly and officiously; to inform or tell tales for gaining favor.
SYCOPHANTRY
SYC'OPHANTRY, noun Mean and officious talebearing or adulation.
SYDNEAN
SYDNE'ANSYDNE'IAN, adjective Denoting a species of white earth brought from Sidney cove in South Wales.
SYDNEIAN
SYDNE'IAN, a. Denoting a species of white earth brought from Sidney cove in South Wales.