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  • English Word Scyphistomata Definition of Scyphistoma
  • English Word Scyphobranchii Definition An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
  • English Word Scyphomeduse Definition Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.
  • English Word Scyphophori Definition An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.
  • English Word Scyphus Definition A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
  • English Word Scyphus Definition The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
  • English Word Scyphus Definition A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.
  • English Word Scythe Definition An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
  • English Word Scythe Definition A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
  • English Word Scythe Definition To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
  • English Word Scythed Definition Armed scythes, as a chariot.
  • English Word Scytheman Definition One who uses a scythe; a mower.
  • English Word Scythemen Definition of Scytheman
  • English Word Scythestone Definition A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.
  • English Word Scythewhet Definition Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.
  • English Word Scythian Definition Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
  • English Word Scythian Definition A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
  • English Word Scythian Definition The language of the Scythians.
  • English Word Scytodermata Definition Same as Holothurioidea.
  • English Word Sdan Definition Disdain.
  • English Word Sdeign Definition To disdain.
  • English Word Sea Definition One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
  • English Word Sea Definition An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
  • English Word Sea Definition The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
  • English Word Sea Definition The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
  • English Word Sea Definition A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
  • English Word Sea Definition Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
  • English Word Sea acorn Definition An acorn barnacle (Balanus).
  • English Word Sea adder Definition The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
  • English Word Sea adder Definition The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).