SPage 265
- English Word Silicium Definition See Silicon.
- English Word Siliciureted Definition Combined or impregnated with silicon.
- English Word Silicle Definition A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.
- English Word Silico- Definition A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.
- English Word Silicofluoric Definition Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides.
- English Word Silicofluoride Definition A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.
- English Word Silicoidea Definition An extensive order of Porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.
- English Word Silicon Definition A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.
- English Word Silicotungstic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).
- English Word Silicula Definition A silicle.
- English Word Silicule Definition A silicle.
- English Word Siliculose Definition Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
- English Word Siliculose Definition Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.
- English Word Siliginose Definition Made of fine wheat.
- English Word Siling Definition a. & n. from Sile to strain.
- English Word Siliqua Definition Same as Silique.
- English Word Siliqua Definition A weight of four grains; a carat; -- a term used by jewelers, and refiners of gold.
- English Word Siliquae Definition of Siliqua
- English Word Silique Definition An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.
- English Word Siliquosa Definition A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques.
- English Word Siliquose Definition Alt. of Siliquous
- English Word Siliquous Definition Bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules.
- English Word Siliqyiform Definition Having the form of a silique.
- English Word Silk Definition The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
- English Word Silk Definition Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.
- English Word Silk Definition That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
- English Word Silken Definition Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
- English Word Silken Definition Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
- English Word Silken Definition Dressed in silk.
- English Word Silken Definition To render silken or silklike.