Swordfish

sOrd'fish, n. a laige soa-JU/i having the tipper jaw elongated so as to resemble a sward. Swordsman, sdrdz'man, w a man skilled in the ust of the sword —n. Swords manship. Swore, Sworn. Set Swear. Sybarite, sib'a-rlt, ». an inhabitant of Sybans, a Greek town in ancient Italy, noted lor the effemmacy and luxury of its inhabitants: erne devoted to luxury —adjs Sybarit'ic, Sybarlt/lcal [black mulberry tree. Syoamlne, sili'a-inTn, ». [pf.j supposed to be the Sycamora, juk'a-mor, n the hg-mulberry, growmg in Egypt and other Eastern countries: in Britain, applied to a forge maple, and in America, to the plane-tree. [Gr. sykomoros — sykon a fig, and moron the black mulberry Syoophancy, aik'o-fan-M, Sycophaatism, sik/ofant-izm, n. the behaviour of a sycophant mean tale -bearing obsequious flattery servility Sycophant sik'o-fant, « a common informer: a semle flatterer. [Gr sykophantis, usually said to mean one who informed against persons exporting figs from Attica, or plundering the sacred fig-trees but more prob., one who brings figs to light by shaking the tree, hence one who makes nch men yield up their fruit by informations and other vile arts sykon a fig, and phaind, to bring to light, to show,] Sympathy Syoophatttio, sik-o-fant'ik, Sycophant'lO , -fk-al, flyooplUUlt'lSh, -ish, adj. like a sycoplmHi obsequiously flattering parasitic. Syllabic, sil-Jab'ik, Syuabloal, -ik-al, adj. consistuig of a syllable or syllables, adv. SyllftV- — Ically. {bus. u. Syllabic a'tioii.