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  • English Word Swung Definition imp. & p. p. of Swing.
  • English Word Swythe Definition Quickly. See Swithe.
  • English Word Sy Definition Saw.
  • English Word Syb Definition See Sib.
  • English Word Sybarite Definition A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
  • English Word Sybaritic Definition Alt. of Sybaritical
  • English Word Sybaritical Definition Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate.
  • English Word Sybaritism Definition Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
  • English Word Sycamine Definition See Sycamore.
  • English Word Sycamore Definition A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.
  • English Word Sycamore Definition The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
  • English Word Sycamore Definition A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus).
  • English Word Syce Definition A groom.
  • English Word Sycee Definition Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
  • English Word Sychnocarpous Definition Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.
  • English Word Sycite Definition A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
  • English Word Sycoceric Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.
  • English Word Sycoceryl Definition A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.
  • English Word Sycock Definition The missel thrush.
  • English Word Sycones Definition A division of calcareous sponges.
  • English Word Syconium Definition Alt. of Syconus
  • English Word Syconus Definition A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
  • English Word Sycophancy Definition The character or characteristic of a sycophant.
  • English Word Sycophancy Definition False accusation; calumniation; talebearing.
  • English Word Sycophancy Definition Obsequious flattery; servility.
  • English Word Sycophant Definition An informer; a talebearer.
  • English Word Sycophant Definition A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
  • English Word Sycophant Definition To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  • English Word Sycophant Definition To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
  • English Word Sycophant Definition To play the sycophant.