English English Dictionary

A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.

Saw.

Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.

Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.

Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.

See Sike.

See Sicker.

A young herring (Clupea harengus).

of Syllabarium

A syllabary.

A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.

Syllable.

of Syllabus

Alt. of Syllabical

Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.

Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment.

In a syllabic manner.

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.