rye2 (ri)

[Origin obscure.] A disease in hawks which causes the head to swell. Halli well. rye3 (rī), n. [Gipsy.] A gentleman; a a supe- rior person: as, a Rommany rye . rye-gra (ri'grås), n . [An [An altered form of ray- gra , simulating ryel .] 1. The ray-gra , Lo- lium perenne. On Desmonds mouldering turrets slowly shake The trembling rie - gra and the hare-bell blue. IMG:content-2651.png:[graphic] Mickle , Sir Martin, i. 2. Lyme-gra . See Elymus. - Italian rye-gra , the variety Italicum of the rye-gra , a meadow-gra IMG:content-2652.jpg:[graphic] Thou wouldst instruct thy master at this play; Think'st thou this Rye - straw can ore-rule my arme? ryghtwyst, a. A Middle English form of right- rykel (rīk), v . i. [A var. of reach1 .] To reach. [Scotch.] Let me ryke up to dight that tear, And go wi' me and be my dear. Burns , Jolly Beggars. ryke2t, n. A Middle English variant of richel . rymet, n. An obsolete form of rimel . rymourt, n. An obsolete form of rimer1 . Rynchæa, Rynchea, Rynchœa, n. See Rhyn- chæa. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-2654.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] The Phenic i an system had more than one sibilant sign, and the Greek choice wavered at first between two of them, until it settled upon this one. Of all the signs here given the value was the same namely, our normal s-sound, as in so, us. This is a surd or breathed utterance, a fricative or continuable consonant, of a peculiar character, to which we give the name of sibilant or hi ing. Its sonant or voiced counterpart (related to it as d to t, as v to f, and so on) is z, as in zeal, dizzy (the buzzing sound). They are produced between the tongue, at or near its tip, and a point on the roof of the mouth either close behind the front teeth or at a further remove from them. Probably no other of our alphabetic sounds are producible through so wide a range of (slightly) varying positions, or produced, in different districts and individuals, in so different a manner. None, also, are more freely combinable with other consonant-sounds into intricate groups, as in strands, twelfths, splints, sixths. In virtue of their mode of production, they are akin with t and d, and, like them, are often called dental, or lingual, or tongue-tip sounds. The proper or hi ing s is one of the most common elements of English utterance, forming more than 4 per cent. of it. But its sign has also other values. A is one of our most used endings-for example, of plural number, of po e ive case, of third person singular present-it comes extremely often at the end of a word, and there, after any sonant sound, it is pronounced as z: for example, loves, love's, he loves; flies, fly's, he flies; and it has the same sound often in the interior of words, especially between sonants: for example, use, nose, dismal. The s -sound, on the a lens). (i) [l.c.] In her., of sable. (j) In me teor., of stratus. (k) In musical notation (1), of senza; (2) in the form:S:, of segno (see D. S. and segno ). -5. An operative symbol in quaternions, signifying the operation of taking the scalar part of a quaternion. It is also used in algebra for certain varieties of summation. The lower-case s usually denotes space, or the length of the arc of a curve. Ans below the line, in enumerative geometry, refers to a plane pencil of rays. 2 (Greek S ) signifies the sum of succe ive values of a function; the variable which is to take succe ive integral values in the terms to be added may be written below the line after the 2, and the lower and upper limit of the summation may be written below and above the 2. Thus, ax = (log. x). 1 IMG:content-2655.jpg:[ocr errors] In the calculus of finite differences 2 is used like a sign of indefinite integration, the lower limit being replaced by an arbitrary constant, while the upper is supposed to be 1 le than the value of the variable. Thus, ∑ Fx = F ( x -1) + F (x-2) + etc., down to a constant value of the variable, and then an arbitrary constant is to be added to the series. ois used in the integral calculus to denote the area of a surface. A modified long 8, f, is the sign of integration.-Light green S. Same as acid - green. Magenta S., rubine S. Same as acid - magenta. See -es2. s1. The suffix of the po e ive or genitive case singular, earlier -es , by syncope -s, now regu- larly written with an apostrophe, 's. See-es1. -S2. The suffix of the plural form of nouns, earlier- es , which is now retained in pronuncia- tion only after a sibilant, being otherwise re- duced by syncope to -s. S3. The suffix of the third person singular of the present indicative of verbs, earlier -es , more originally -eth, -th. See-eth3, -th3. S. A. An abbreviation of Latin secundum ar- tem , according to the rules of art: used in med- ical prescriptions. s. a. An abbreviation of Latin sine anno (with- out year), without date. other hand, is represented to a considerable extent by e sa, adv. An obsolete or Scotch form of so2. before e, i, y (see C); and by double s, or , which is fresa. In her., an abbreviation of sable1. quent in the middle and at the end of words, and has the hi ing sound, save in a few exceptional cases, like dis- saat, n. A Middle English form of soe. solve, po e (between the o and e). Another sound often sab (sab), v. and n. A Scotch form of sob. represented by s is the sh -sound (see below) - namely, in very numerous cases where thesis followed by a consonantal y-sound, whether written with i, as in pa ion, or implied in "long u, " as in sure, fi ure: since the combi nation sy in English pronunciation has a strong tendency to fuse into sh, and in ordinary free utterance often does so, even in cases where theory and extra-careful usage require the separation of the two sounds. This fused sound is represented by the important digraph sh (also by ch in a few French words, as machine ). It is a second sibilant, a more palatal one as simple an utterance as the s-sibilant, but very much le frequent (le than 1 per cent., or one fifth of s; but about 15 per cent. if its presence in the ch-sound is included). It is made with nearly the same part of the tongue as s, and against the roof of the mouth, but generally a little further back, and especially (it would seem) with an opener cavity immediately behind the point of closest approximation of the organs. Its compound sign (Middle English and German sch ) marks it as coming historically from the fusion of an s with a following guttural spirant. It has a rare sonant counterpart in the zh -sound of azure, pleasure, and the like (as to which, see Z). The shand zh -sounds also constitute the concluding element in the compound ch -and jor soft g -sounds (see ch and G and J) combined with a somewhat modified t and d respectively (made by a contact at the sh -point) as first element. 2. As a medieval Roman numeral, 7; also 70; with a dash over it (S), 70,000.-3. In chem., the symbol of sulphur.-4. An abbreviation: ( a ) Of Society in such combinations as F. R. S. (Fellow of the Royal Society), F. L. S. (Fellow of the Linnean Society), etc. (b) Of Surgery, as in D. D. S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery). (c) Of Science, as in B. S. (Bachelor of Science). (d) Of South or Southern. (e) Of Sunday and Satur day. (f) [l. c.] Of Latin solidum, equivalent to English shilling: as, £ s. d., pounds, shillings, pence. (g) In an at. and zoöl., of sacral: used in vertebral formulæ: as, S. 5, five sacral vertebræ. (h) [l. c.] Of second (sixtieth part of a minute), substantive (a noun), snow (in a ship's log-book), of Latin semi, half (used in medical prescriptions after a quantity which is to be divided into two), and of spherical (of sabadilla (sab-a-dil'ä), n. See cevadilla, and caustic barley (under barley1 ). Sabæanl (sa-bean), n. and a. Sabean2. Sabæan2 (sa-bē'an), a. and n. Sabian2 . See Sabean1, See Sabian1, Sabæanism (sā-bē'an-izm), n. See Sabaism. Sabaism (sā bā-izm), n. [See Sabian2.] The doctrines of the Sabians or Mandæans. Also Sabæism, Sabianism, Sabeism, and sometimes, incorrectly, Sabæanism. Palmetto ( Sabal Palmetto ). 5285 Sabal (sā'bal), n. [NL. (Adanson, 1763); said to be from a S. Amer. or Mex. name.] A genus of fan-palms of the tribe Corypheæ, including several palmettos. It is distinguished from the genera next akin, Washingtonia and Corypha, by its dorsal embryo, and is further characterized by bisexual flowers with a cup-shaped calyx and a deep-lobed imbricate corolla persistent unchanged after blo oming, by its six united stamens forming at their dilated bases a ring attached to the corolla-tube, and by its three-lobed and three-celled ovary, tapering into a robust columnar style which is basilar in fruit. The fruit is usually globose and one celled, with a loose fleshy pericarp, and a single shining dark-brown roundish and depre ed seed, with hard corneous albumen which is deeply hollowed in at the base. The 7 species are natives of tropical America, from Venezuela and Trinidad northward into Florida and South Carolina and the Bermuda Islands. They are thornle palms, some species low and almost stemle , others with a tall robust trunk ringed at the base and covered above with the remains of sheaths. The leaves are terminal, roundish, and deep-cleft; the flowers are small and sinooth, white or greenish, and the fruit is small and black, borne on a large and elongated spadix which is at first erect, and inclosed in a long tubular spathe, from which hang many long and slender branches and branchlets. See palmetto and cabbage - tree, and cut in preceding column.