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- English Word Spherograph Definition An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.
- English Word Spheroid Definition A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.
- English Word Spheroidal Definition Having the form of a spheroid.
- English Word Spheroidic Definition Alt. of Spheroidical
- English Word Spheroidical Definition See Spheroidal.
- English Word Spheroidicity Definition Alt. of Spheroidity
- English Word Spheroidity Definition The quality or state of being spheroidal.
- English Word Spheromere Definition Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.
- English Word Spherometer Definition An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.
- English Word Spherosiderite Definition Siderite occuring in spheroidal masses.
- English Word Spherosome Definition The body wall of any radiate animal.
- English Word Spherulate Definition Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.
- English Word Spherule Definition A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.
- English Word Spherulite Definition A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.
- English Word Spherulitic Definition Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.
- English Word Sphery Definition Round; spherical; starlike.
- English Word Sphery Definition Of or pertaining to the spheres.
- English Word Sphex Definition Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand.
- English Word Sphigmometer Definition See Sphygmometer.
- English Word Sphincter Definition A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.
- English Word Sphincter Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle.
- English Word Sphingid Definition A sphinx.
- English Word Sphingid Definition Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae.
- English Word Sphinx Definition In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
- English Word Sphinx Definition On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
- English Word Sphinx Definition Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
- English Word Sphinx Definition Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
- English Word Sphinx Definition The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
- English Word Sphragide Definition Lemnian earth.
- English Word Sphragistics Definition The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents.