When the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of Addison's Spectator. art. Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. Thomson. To have abundance of any quality; to flow in any thing. They now swim in joy, Ere long to swim at large, and laugh; for which The world a world of tears must weep. Milton. SWIM. v. a. To pass by swimming. Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main, By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. Dryd. WIMM. n. s. [from the verb.] The bladder of fishes by which they are supported in the water. The braces have the nature and use of tendons, in contracting the swim, and thereby transfusing the air out of one bladder into another, or discharging it from them both. WIMMER. n. s. [from swim.] - One who swims. Grew. Latirostrous and flat-billed birds being generally wimmers, the organ is wisely contrived for action. Life is oft preserv'd Brown. Thomson. The swimmer is situated in the fore legs of a horse, above the knees, and upon the inside, and almost upon the back parts of the hind legs, a little below the ham: this part is without hair, and resembles a piece of hard dry horn. Farrier's Dict. WIMMINGLY. adv. [from swimming.] Smoothly; without obstruction. A low word. John got on the battlements, and called to Nick, I hope the cause goes on swimmingly. Arbuthnot. WINE. n. s. [rpin, Sax. swyn, Dut.] It is probably the plural of some old word, and is now the same in both numbers.] A hog; a pig. A creature remarkable for stupidity and nastiness. O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies! Shakesp. He will be swine drunk; and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bedcloaths. SWI'NEHERD. n. s. [spin and þýnd, Sax.] A keeper of hogs. There swineherd, that keepeth the hog. Tusser. The whole interview between Ulysses and Eumeus has fallen into ridicule: Eumeus has been judged to be of the same rank and condition with Broome our modern swineherds. SWI'NEPIPE. n. s. [turdus iliacus.] A bird Bailey. of the thrush kind. To SWING. v. n. [rpingan, Sax.] 1. To wave to and fro hanging loosely. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer in our receiver, in case of Boyle. exsuction of the air than otherwise. If the coach swung but the least to one side, she used to shriek so loud, that all concluded she was Arbuthnot. overturned. Jack hath hanged himself: let us go see how he Arbuthnot. swings. When the swinging signs your ears offend With creaking noise, then rainy floods impend. Gay. 2. To fly backward and forward on a rope. To SWING. v. a. preterite, swang, swung. 1. To make to play loosely on a string. 2. To whirl round in the air. His sword prepar'd, Those that are so persuaded, desire to be wise in a way that will gratify their appetites, and so give up themselves to the swing of their unbounded Glanville. propensions. Were it not for these, civil government were not able to stand before the prevailing swing of corrupt nature, which would know no honesty South. but advantage. To SWINGE. v. a. [rpingan, Sax.] The g in this word, and all its derivatives, sounds as in gem, giant.] 1. To whip; to bastinade; to punish. Sir, I was in love with my bed: 1 thank you, you swing'd me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for your's. Shak. Two G. of V. This very rev'rend letcher, quite worn out With rheumatisms, and crippled with his gout, Forgets what he in youthful times hath done, And swinges his own vices in his son. Dryden, jun. Juvenal. The printer brought along with him a bundle of those papers, which, in the phrase of the whigcoffee-houses, have swinged off the Examiner. Swift. 2. To move as a lash. Not in use. He, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton. SWINGE. n. s. [from the verb.] A sway; of any thing in motion. a sweep use. Not in The shallow water doth her force infringe, And renders vain her tail's impetuous swinge. He swang about his head, and cut the winds. Shak. Take bottles and swing them: fill not the bottles full, but leave some air, else the liquor cannot Bacon. play nor flower. Swinging a red-hot iron about, or fastening it unto a wheel under that motion, it will sooner Brown. grow cold. Swing thee in the air, then dash thee down, SWINGEBUCKLER. n. s. [swinge and To th' hazard of thy brains and shatter'd sides. buckler.] A bully; a man that pretends Milton. to feats of arms. 3. To wave closely. Dryden. If one approach to dare his force, He swings his tail, and swiftly turns him round. SWING. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. Motion of any thing hanging loosely. In casting of any thing, the arms, to make a greater swing, are first cast backward. Bacon's Nat. Hist. The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. Shakesp. In this encyclopædia, and round of knowledge, like the great wheels of heaven, we are to observe two circles, that, while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swing and rapt of the one, we may maintain a natural and proper course in Brown the sober wheel of the other. The descending of the earth to this orbit is not upon that mechanical account Cartesius pretends, namely, the strong swing of the more solid globuli that overflow it. More. Shakesp. 4. Course; unrestrained liberty; abandonment to any motive. Now I fat his swine, for others cheere. Chapman. Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun? whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, Aud downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton. Had the upper part, to the middle, been of human shape, and all below swine, had it been murder to destroy it? Locke. Facts unjust Commit, even to the full swing of his lust. Chapm. Take thy swing: For not to take, is but the self-same thing. Dryd. These exuberant productions only excited and fomented his lusts; so that his whole time lay upon his hands, and gave him leisure to contrive, and with full swing pursue his follies. Woodward. Let them all take their swing To pillage the king, And get a blue ribband instead of a string. Swift. Bailey. 5. Unrestrained tendency. How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! Pope. SWI'NEBREAD. n. s. [cyclaminus.] A kind of plant; truffles. SWI'NEGRASS. n. s. [centinodir, Lat.] An herb. Where the swing goeth, there follow, fawn, flatter, laugh, and lie lustily at other men's liking. Ascham's Schoolmaster. Waller. You had not four such swingebucklers in all the inns of court again. Shakesp. Henry IV. SWINGER. n. s. [from swing.] He who swings; a hurler. SWINGING. adj. [from swinge.] Great; huge. A low word. The countrymen seeing the lion disarmed, with a swinging cudgel broke off the match. L'Estrange. A good swinging sum of John's readiest cash went towards building of Hocus's country-house. Arbuthnot. SWINGINGLY. adv. [from swinging, or swinge.] Vastly; greatly. This mould'ring piecemeal in your hands did The physician looks with another eye on the 3. To pass with violence. The nine-ston'd trophy thus whilst she doth SWOOP. n. s. [from the verb.] SWIVEL. n. s. Something fixed in ano-To Cubb'd in a cabbin, on a mattress laid, SwOP. v. a. [Of uncertain derivation.] To change; to exchange one thing for. another. A low word. When I drove a thrust home, he put it by, And cried, as in derision, Spare the stripling; Oh that insulting word! I would have swopp'd Youth for old age, and all my life behind, To have been then a momentary man Dry. Cleom. SWORD. n.s. [rpeord, Sax. sweerd, Dut.] The clergyman used to play at whist and swob-1. A weapon used either in cutting or bers: playing now and then a sober game at whist thrusting; the usual weapon of fights for pastime, it might be pardoned; but he could hand to hand. not digest those wicked swobbers. SWOLLEN. The participle swell. SWOLN. } Unto his aid she hastily did draw Swift. passive of Her dreadful beast, who, swoln with blood of late, When thus the gather'd storms of wretched love Bore down whatever met its stronger course; SWOм. The preterite of swim. To SWOON. v. n. [arpunan, Sax.] To So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons, Dra Our little fleet was now engag'd so far, Beaus banish beaus, and coaches coaches dry So violence Proceeded, and oppression, and swordlaw, Through all the plain, and refuge none was fini SWO'RDMAN. n.s. [sword and man.] Sa dier; fighting man. Worthy fellows, and like to prove most si ev swordmen. Shakesp. All's well that ends w At Lecca's house, Among your swordmen, where so many ass cr Both of thy mischief and thy madness met Ben Jor Essex was made lieutenant-general of the arm the darling of the swordmen Clare SwO'RDPLAYER. n. s. [sword and pi Gladiator; fencer; one who exhibits in publick his skill at the weapons by figh ing prizes. These they called swordplayers, and this speencle a swordfight. Hakewill on Provides Shakesp. K. Lear. SWORE. The preterite of swear. Old unhappy traitor, the sword is out Of Michael from the armoury of God 2. ; 4. On black-eyed Susan for his second. Dryden. Prior. There appeared such an ecstacy in his action, that he seemed ready to swoon away in the surprize of joy. Tatler. SWOON. n. s. [from the verb.] A lipothymy; a fainting fit. To SWOOP. v. a. [I suppose formed from the sound.] . To seize by falling at once as a hawk upon his prey. A fowl in Madagascar, called a ruck, the feahers of whose wings are twelve paces, can with as much ease swoop up an elephant as our kites do Wilkins. a mouse, She quits the balance and resigns the sword. Dryd. This 1, her sword-bearer, do carry, Hudibras. Unstate his happiness, and be stag'd to th' shew A swordfish small him from the rest did sunder, Malphigi observed the middle of the optick the same with ours. Sycamore is our acer majus, one of the kids Mortimer's fo“ maples: it is a quick grower. If ye had faith as a grain of mustard-ser d. v might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou pluck? up, and it should obey you. Luke, xvi I was no prophet, but an herdman, and a therer of sycamore fruit. Amos, vii. 14 Go to youder sycamore tree, and hide your tle of drink under its hollow root. Walton's Ang Sycamores with eglantine were spread: A hedge about the sides covering over head 'COPHANT. n. s. [σvnopäring; sycophanta, Lat.] A talebearer; a makebate; a malicious parasite. A piece of rhetorick is a sufficient argument of SYMBOLICALLY. adv. [from symbolical.] logick, an apologue of Æsop beyond a syllogism in Barbara. Brown. What a miraculous thing should we count it, if the flint and the steel, instead of a few sparks, should chance to knock out definitions and syllogisms! Bentley. adj. [συλλογισικός ; from syllogism.] Retaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism. Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to is nature; but therefore not seeming sycophants, because of no evil they said, they could bring any new or doubtful thing unto him, but such as al-SYLLOGI'STICAL. eady he had been apt to determine; so as they SYLLOGI'STICK. came but as proofs of his wisdom, fearful and more secure, while the fear he had figured in his mind had any possibility of event. Sidney. Men know themselves void of those qualities which the impudent sycophant, at the same time, both ascribes to them, and in his sleeve laughs at them for believing. South. o SY'COPHANT. v. n. [ovxoQavriw; from the noun.] To play the sycophant. A low bad word. His sycophanting arts being detected, that game is not to be played a second time; whereas a mian of clear reputation, though his barque be split, has something left towards setting up again. Governm. of the Tongue. YLLABICAL. adj. [from syllable.] Relat- I heard Each syllable that breath made up between them. Shakesp. There is that property in all letters, of aptness to be conjoined in syllables and words, through the voluble motions of the organs from one stop or figure to another, that they modify and discriminate the voice without appearing to discontinue it. Holder's Elements of Speech. . Any thing proverbially concise. Abraham, Job, and the rest that lived before any syllable of the law of God was written, did they not sin as much as we do in every action not commanded? Hooker. SY'LLABUB. Milton. n. s. [rightly SILLABUB, which see.] Milk and acids. No syllabubs made at the milking pail, Beaum. Iwo unes would express all they say in two pages: 'tis nothing but whipt syllabub and froth, without solidity. Felton SYLLABUS. n. s. [ovλλaßòs.] An abstract; a compendium containing the heads of a discourse. SYLLOGISM n. s. [ouλλoyioμòs; syllogisme, Fr.] An argument composed of three propositions: as, every man thinks; Peter is a man, therefore Peter thinks. Typically; by representation. This distinction of animals was hieroglyphical, in the inward sense implying an abstinence from certain vices, symbolically intimated from the naBrown. ture of those animals. It symbolically teaches our duty, and promotes charity by a real signature and a sensible sermon. Taylor. SYMBOLIZATION. n. s. [from symbolize.] The act of symbolizing; representation; resemblance. The hieroglyphical symbols of Scripture, excellently intended in the species of things sacrificed in the dreams of Pharaoh, are oftentimes racked beyond their symbolizations. Brown's Vulg. Err. [symboliser, Fr. from symbol.] To have something in common with another by representative qualities. Though we suppose subject and predicate, and copula, and propositions and syllogistical connexions in their reasoning, there is no such matter; but the entire business is at the same moment present with them, without deducing one thing from another. Hale's Origin of Mank. Though the terms of propositions may be con-To SYMBOLIZE. V.N. plex, yet where the composition of the whole argument is thus plain, simple, and regular, it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistick form of Watts's Logick. SYLLOGI'STICALLY. adv. [from syllogistical.] In the form of a syllogism. it. A man knows first, and then he is able to prove syllogistically; so that syllogism comes after knowLocke. ledge, when a man has no need of it. To SY'LLOGIZE. v. n. [syllogizer, Fr. ovλoyi.] To reason by syllogism. Logick is, in effect, an art of syllogizing. Baker. Men have endeavoured to transform logick into a kind of mechanism, and to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without Watts. real knowledge. SYLVAN. adj. [better silvan] shady; relating to woods. Cedar and pine, and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene! and, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Milton's Par. Lost. Woody; Eternal greens the mossy margin grace, Watch'd by the sylvan genius of the place Pope. SYLVAN. n. s. [sylvain, Fr.] A wood-god, or satyr; perhaps sometimes a rustick. Her private orchards wall'd on ev'ry side, To lawless sylvans all access deny'd. SYMBOL. n. s. [symbole, Fr. cupboλor; symbolum, Lat.] Pope. 1. An abstract; a compendium; a comprehensive form. Beginning with the symbol of our faith, upon that the author of the gloss enquires into the nature of faith. Baker. 2. A type; that which comprehends in its figure a representation of something else. Salt, as incorruptible, was the symbol of friendship; which, if it casually fell, was accounted ominous, and their amity of no duration. Brown. Words are the signs and symbols of things; and as, in accounts, cyphers and figures pass for real sums, so words and names pass for things themSouth's Sermons. selves. The heathens made choice of these lights as apt symbols of eternity, because, contrary to all sublunary beings, though they seem to perish every night, they renew themselves every morning. Addison on Metals. SYMBOLICAL. adj. [symbolique, Fr. ovμBoxos; from symbol.] Representative; typical; expressing by signs; comprehending something more than itself. By this encroachment idolatry first crept in, men converting the symbolical use of idols into their proper worship, and receiving the represen tation of things unto them as the substance and Brown thing itself. The sacrament is a representation of Christ's death, by such symbolical actions as himself ap Taylor. pointed Our king finding himself to symbolize in many things with that king of the Hebrews, honoured Bacon. him with the title of this foundation. The pleasing of colour symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony. Bacon. Aristotle and the schools have taught, that air and water, being symbolizing elements, in the quality of moisture, are easily transmutable into one another. Boyle. They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses. Howel. 1 affectedly symbolized in careless mirth and freedom with the libertines, to circumvent libertinism. More. The soul is such, that it strangely symbolizes with the thing it mightily desires. South's Sermons. To SYMBOLIZE. v. a. To make repre sentative of something. SYMMETRIAN. Some symbolize the same from the mystery of its colours. Brown's Vulg. Err. n.s. [from symmetry.] One eminently studious of proportion. His face was a thought longer than the exact symmetrians would allow. Sidney. SYMMETRICAL. adj. [from symmetry.] Proportionate; having parts well adapted to each other. SYMMETRIST. n.s. [from symmetry.] One very studious or observant of proportion. Some exact symmetrists have been blamed for being too true. Wotton's Architecture. SYMMETRY. n. s. [symmetrie, Fr. ov. and μérgov] Adaptation of parts to ea h other; proportion; harmony; agreement of one part to another. She by whose lines proportion shou's be Of harmony, he would at next have said Donne. And in the symmetry of her parts is found A pow'r, like that of harmony in sound. Waller. Symmetry, equality, and correspondence of parts, is the discernment of reason, not the object More. of sense. Nor were they only animated by him, but their measure and symmetry were owing to him. Dryden. SYMPHATHETICAL. adj. [sympathetique, Fr. sym(SYMPATHETICK. pathy.] Having mutual sensation; being affected either by what happens to the other; feeling in consequence of what another feels. Hereupon are grounded the gross mistakes in 790 the cure of diseases, not only from sumpathetick re- | SYMPHO'NIOUS. adj. [from symphony.]| SYNAGOGUE. n. s. United by this sympathetick bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond. Brown. Roscommon. To confer at the distance of the Indies by sympathetick conveyances, may be as usual to future times as to us in a literary correspondence. Glanville. To you our author makes her soft request, Who speak the kindest, and who write the best; Your sympathetick hearts she hopes to move, From tender friendship and endearing love. Prior. All the ideas of sensible qualities are not inherent in the inanimate bodies; but are the effects of their motion upon our nerves, and sympathetical and vital passions produced within ourselves. Bentley. SYMPATHETICALLY. adv. [from sympathetick.] With sympathy; in consequence of sympathy. To SYMPATHIZE. v. n. [sympatiser, Fr. from sympathy.] 1. To feel with another; to feel in consequence of what another feels; to feel mutually. The men sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on. Shakesp. The thing of courage, Hath doff'd her gaudy trim, With her great master so to sympathize. Milton. The limbs of his body is to every one a part of himself: he sympathizes, and is concerned for them. Locke. Their countrymen were particularly attentive to all their story, and sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures. Addison's Spectator. Though the greatness of their mind exempts them from fear, yet none condole and sympathize more heartily. Collier. 2. To agree; to fit. Not proper. Green is a pleasing colour, from a blue and a yellow mixed together, and by consequence blue and yellow are two colours which sympathize. Dryden. SYMPATHY. n. s. [sympathie, Fr. ovμráda.] Fellow feeling; mutual sensibility; the quality of being affected by the affection of another. go to, Harmonious; agreeing in sound. Up he rode, Follow'd with acclamation, and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tund Angelick harmonies. Milton. SYMPHONY. n. s. [symphonie, Fr. oùr and p.] Concert of instruments; harmony of mingled sounds. A learned searcher from Pythagoras's school, where it was a maxim that the images of all things are latent in numbers, determines the comeliest proportion between breadths and heights reducing symmetry to symphony, and the harmony of sound to a kind of harmony in sight. Wotton. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing. Milton's Par. Lost. The trumpets sound, And warlike symphony is heard around; The marching troops through Athens take their way; The great earl marshal orders their array. Dryden. SYMPHYSIS. n. s. [σù, and pów.] Symphysis, in its original signification, denotes a connascency, or growing together; and perhaps) is meant of those bones which in young children are distinct, but after some years unite and conWiseman. solidate into one bone. SYMPO'SIACK. adj. [symposiaque, Fr. ovμwands.] Relating to merry makings; happening where company is drinking together. By desiring a secresy to words spoke under the rose, we only mean in society and compotation, from the ancient custom of symposiack meetings to wear chaplets of roses about their heads. Brown. In some of those symposiack disputations amongst my acquaintance, l'affirmed that the dietetick part of medicine depended upon scientifick principles. Arbuthnot. SYMPTOM. n. s. [cymptome, Fr. cúμΡώμα.] 1. Something that happens concurrently with something else, not as the original cause, nor as the necessary or constant effect. 2. The symptoms, as Dr. Sydenham remarks, which are commonly scorbutick, are often nothing but [synagogue, F Guaywyn.] An assembly of the Jews worship. Go, Tubal, and meet me at our sy age. As his custom was, he went into the g on the sabbath. SYNALE PHA. n. s. [ovrahah.] Ac traction, or excision of a syllable in L tin verse, by joining together two v els in the scanning or cutting of t ending vowel; as, ill' ego. Bas Virgil, though smooth, is far from affecting he frequently uses synalephas, and conclash sense in the middle of his verse. SYNARTHRO'SIS. n. s. [our and A close conjunction of two bones. There is a conspicuous motion where the junction is called diarthrosis, as in the elbow; z obscure one, where the conjunction is called mar throsis, as in the joining of the carpus to the e carpus. Wiseman's S SYNCHONTHRO'SIS. n.s. [our and xéne Synchondrosis is an union by gristles of the s non to the ribs. Wisene SYNCHRONICAL. adj. [ù and Happening together at the same time, It is difficult to make out how the air is a veyed into the left ventricle of the heart, the stole and diastole of the heart and lungs being from synchronical. Bak SYNCHRONISM. n. s. [ and x Concurrence of events happening at t same time. The coherence and synchronism of all the parts of the Mosaical chronology, after the Flood, er a most regular testimony to the truth of his he tory. SY'NCHRONOUS. adj. [t, and x Happening at the same time. The variations of the gravity of the air keep both the solids and fluids in an oscillatory moti.1 synchronous and proportional to their changes. SY'NCOFE. n. s. [syncope, Fr. σvyuoni.] 1. Fainting fit. Arbuthnot en år. The symptoms attending gunshot wounds a pain, fever, delirium, and syncope. Wisema the principles or seeds of a growing, but unripe 2. Contraction of a word by cutting c gout. A sign; a token. Blackmore. A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. Shakesp. You art not young; no more am I: Ten glorious campaigns are passed, and now, then, there's sympathy: you are merry, so am I; like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of ha! ha! then there's more sympathy: you love good symptoms. Swift. sack, and so do I: would you desire better sym-SYMPTOMATICAL.) adj.[symptomatique, pathy? Shakesp. Merry Wives of Windsor. But what it is, SYMPTOMATICK. Fr. from symptom.] Happening concurrently or occasionally. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate it is this noble quality that makes all men to be of one kind; for every man would be a distinct species to himself, were there no sympathy among individuals. South's Sermons. Can kindness to desert like your's be strange? Kindness by secret sympathy is ty'd; For noble souls in nature are ally'd. Dryden. There are such associations made in the minds of most men; and to this might be attributed most of the sympathies and antipathies observable in them. Locke. Symptomatical is often used to denote the difference between the primary and secondary causes in diseases; as a fever from pain is said to be symptomatical, because it arises from pain only; and therefore the ordinary means in fevers are not in such cases to be had recourse to, but to what will remove the pain; for when that ceases, the fever will cease, without any direct means taken for that. Quincy. By fomentation and a cataplasm the swelling was discussed; and the fever, then appearing but symptomatical, lessened as the heat and pain mitigated. Wiseman's Surgery. SYMPTOMATICALLY. adv. [from symptomatical.] In the nature of a symptom. The causes of a bubo are vicious humours abounding in the blood, or in the nerves, excreted sometimes critically, sometimes symptomatically. Wiseman SYNAGO'GICAL. adj. [from synagogue.] Pertaining to a synagogue. a part in the middle. SYNCOPIST. n. s. [from syncope.] Con tractor of words. To outshine all the modern syncopists, and the roughly content my English readers, I intend t publish a Spectator that shall not have a singe vowel in it. Specta To SY'NDICATE. v. n. [syndiquer, Fr. and in.] To judge; to pass judgment on; to censure. An unusual word. Not in use. Aristotle undertook to censure and syndicate master, and all law-makers before him. Habea SY'NDROME. n. s. [ovideoμà.] Concurrent ¡NECDO CHICAL. adj. [from synecdoche.]| Expressed by a synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Should 1, Lindamer, bring you into hospitals, and shew you there how many souls, narrowly odged in synedochical bodies, see their earthen Cottages moulder away to dust, those miserable) persons, by the loss of one limb after another, surviving but part of themselves, and living to see themselves dead and buried by piecemeal? Boyle. INNEURO'SIS. n. s. [our and gor.] Synneurosis is when the connexion is made by a igament. Of this in symphysis we find instances, n the connexion of the ossa pubis together, especially in women, by a ligamentous substance. In articulation, it is either round, as that which unites the head of the os femoris to the coxa; or broad, as the tendon of the patella, which unites it to the os tibiæ, Wiseman's Surgery. Y'NOD. n. s. [synode, Fr. oúvodo.] An assembly called for consultation: it is used particularly of ecclesiasticks. A provincial synod is commonly used, and a general council. The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity. Shakesp. Coriolanus. Since the mortal and intestine jars Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us, It hath in solemn synod been decreed, T'admit no traffick to our adverse towns. Shak. The opinion was not only condemned by the synod, but imputed to the emperor as extreme madness. Bacon. Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brew'd Of clerks and elders ana, like the rude Chaos of presbyt'ry, where laymen guide, With the tame woolpack clergy by their side. Cleaveland. His royal majesty, according to these presbyterian rules, shall have no power to command his clergy to keep a national synod. White. Well have ye judg'd, well ended long debate, Synod of gods! and, like to what ye are, Great things resolv'd. Milton's Par. Lost. Let us call to synod all the blest Through heav'n's wide bounds. Milton. The second council of Nice, he saith, I most irreverently call that wise synod; upon which he falls into a very tragical exclamation, that I should dare to reflect so much dishonour on a council. Stillingfleet. Howe'er love's native hours are set, 'Tis in the mercy of her eye, If poor love shall live or die. Their planetary motions and aspects Of noxious efficacy, and when to join In synod unbenign. Crashaw. Milton. As the planets and stars have, according to astrologers, in their great synods, or conjunctions, much more powerful influences on the air than are ascribed to one or two of them out of that aspect; so divers particulars, which, whilst they lay scattered among the writings of several authors, were inconsiderable, when they come to be laid together, may oftentimes prove highly useful to physiology in their conjunctions. Boyle SY'NODAL. n. s. [from synod.] Money paid anciently to the bishop, &c. at Easter visitation. SY'NODAL. SYNO'DICAL. adj. [synodique, Fr. from SYNO'DICK. synod.] 1. Relating to a synod; transacted in a synod. The various dignity of their several churches, and of their many functious, rules, and orders in them, by reason of the frequency of their synodical | VOL. II. and processional meetings, have necessarily raised Selden. many questions of place among them. St. Athanasius writes a synodical epistle to those of Antioch, to compose the differences among them upon the ordination of Pauliuus. Stillingfleet. 2. [Synodique, Fr.] Reckoned from one conjunction with the sun to another. The diurnal and annual revolutions of the sun, to us are the measures of day and year; and the synodick revolution of the moon measures the month. Holder. The moon makes its synodical motion about the earth in twenty-nine days twelve hours and about forty-four minutes. Locke's Elem. of Nat. Philos. SYNO'DICALLY. adv. [from synodical.] By the authority of a synod or publick assembly. Nelson. Synthetick method is that which begins with the parts, and leads onward to the knowledge of the whole it begins with the most simple principles and general truths, and proceeds by degre s to that which is drawn from them, or compounded of them; and therefore it is called the meth ǝd of composition. Watts's Lo gick. SY PHON. n. s. [This should be written siphon; σowr.] A tube; a pipe. Take your glass, syphon, or crane; and draw it off from its last fæces into small bottles. Mortimer. SYRINGE. n. s. [σvgy.] A pipe through which any liquor is squirted. The heart seems not designed to be the fountain or conservatory of the vital flame, but as a machine to receive the blood from the veins, and force it out by the arteries through the whole body, as a syringe doth any liquor, though not by the same artifice. Ray. To SY'RINGE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To spout by a syringe. A flux of blood from the nose, mouth, and eye, was stopt by the syringing up of oxycrate. Wiseman's Surgery. It shall be needful for those churches synodically to determine something in those points. Saunders. The alterations made by the commissioners were brought to the convocation, then sitting, where they were synodically agreed upon. SYNONYMA. n. s. [Latin; ovvvvμ☺.] Names which signify the same thing. To SYNONYMISE. v. a. (from synonyma.] 2. To wash with a syringe. To express the same thing in different SYRINGO'TOMY. n. s. [σvgiyέ and réroμa.] The act or practice of cutting fistulas or hollow sores. words. SY'RTIS. n. s. [Lat.] A quick sand; a bog. This word fortis we may synonymise after all these fashions, stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid. Camden's Remains. A boggy syrtis, neither sea, nor good dry land. SYNONYMOUS. adj. [synonime, Fr. Milton. ováruμ] Expressing the same thing|SY'STEM. n. s. [systéme, Fr. oúrnua.] by different words. 1. Any complexure or combination of many things acting together. When two or more words signify the same thing, as wave and billow, mead and meadow, they are usually called synonymous words. Watts's Logick. These words consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed; for wisdom and understanding are synonymous words here. Tillotson. Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity. Bentley's Sermons. SYNONYMY. n. s. [overvμia.] The quality of expressing by different words the same thing. SYNOPSIS. n. s. [œuro↓k.] A general view; all the parts brought under one view. SYNOPTICAL. adj. [from synopsis.] Affording a view of many parts at once. We have collected so many synoptical tables, calculated for his monthly use. Evelyn's Calendar. SYNTACTICAL. adj. [from syntaxis, Lat.] 1. Conjoined; fitted to each other. 2. Relating to the construction of speech. SY'NTAX. . 1. δ. [συνταξις.] } SY'NTAXIS. n. 1. A system; a number of things joined together. They owe no other dependance to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanville. 2. That part of grammar which teaches the construction of words. I can produce a hundred instances to convince any reasonable man, that they do not so much as understand common grammar and syntax Swift. SYNTHESIS. n. s. [ourdeos.] The act of joining opposed to analysis. 2. A scheme which reduces many things to regular dependence or co-operation. 3. A scheme which unites many things in order. He presently bought a system of divinity, with design to apply himself straightway to that study. Fell. Aristotle brings morality into system, by treating of happiness under heads, and ranges it in classes according to its different objects, distinguishing virtues into their several kinds, which had not been handled systematically before. Baker. The best way to learn any science is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow comWatts. pass. SYSTEMATICAL. adj. [systematique, Fr. ousnμarinds; from system.] Methodical; written or formed with regular subordination of one part to another. It will be necessary, in a discourse about the formation of the world, to give you a brief account of some of the most principal and systematical pheBentley. nomena that occur in it. Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas, our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. Watts. SYSTEMATICALLY. adv. [from systematical.] In form of a system. I treat of the usefulness of writing books of essay, in comparison of that of writing systematically. Boyle. Aristotle brings morality into system, and ranges it into classes according to its different objects, distinguishing virtues into their several kinds, which had not been handled systematically before. Baker. SY'STOLE. n. s. [systole, Fr. ouroan.] 1. [In anatomy.] The contraction of the heart. The systole resembles the forcible bending of a spring, and the diastole its flying out again to its natural site. Ray. The synthesis consists in assuming the causes discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations. Newton's Opticks. SYNTHETICK. adj. [ourdetixòs.] Conjoining; compounding; forming composi- 2. [Systole, Fr.] In grammar, the shorttion: opposed to analytick. ening of a long syllable. |