English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Sycoceryl (n.)

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.

Sycock (n.)

The missel thrush.

Sycones (n. pl.)

A division of calcareous sponges.

Syconium (n.)

Alt. of Syconus

Syconus (n.)

A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

Sycophancy (n.)

The character or characteristic of a sycophant.

Sycophancy (n.)

False accusation; calumniation; talebearing.

Sycophancy (n.)

Obsequious flattery; servility.

Sycophant (n.)

An informer; a talebearer.

Sycophant (n.)

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

Sycophant (v. t.)

To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

Sycophant (v. t.)

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Sycophant (v. i.)

To play the sycophant.

Sycophantcy (n.)

Sycophancy.

Sycophantic (a.)

Alt. of Sycophantical

Sycophantical (a.)

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.

Sycophantish (a.)

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sycophantism (n.)

Sycophancy.

Sycophantize (v. i.)

To play the sycophant.

Sycophantry (n.)

Sycophancy.