Soymida (soimida)

[NL. (Adrien de Jus 5790 sozzly (soz'li), a. [ Folks grows help le er all the time, and the help grows sozzlier; and it comes to saucine and changes. Mrs. Whitney, The Other Girls, xiii. Sp. An abbreviation of Spanish. sp. An abbreviation: ( a ) in phar., of spiritus, spirit; (b) in bot., of species, specimen; (c) in zoöl., of species only: when two or more species are meant, spp. is used. s. p. An abbreviation of sine prole, without i ue. spa (spä or spa), n. [Formerly also spaw; Past cure of physic, spaw , or any diet. Beau . and Fl ., Scornful Lady, iii. 2. Never knew her better;. she has been as healthy as the German Spá. Sheridan , Rivals, ii. 1. spaadt (späd), n. [ spaath = F. spath = Sp. espato Pg. espatho = It. spa to , spāt , G. spat , spath , friable stone, splinter, spar; origin unknown. Cf. feldspath .] A kind of mineral; spar. English talc, of which the coarser sort is called plaister, the finer, spaad, earth-flax, or salamander's hair. Woodward. (Johnson.) space Stars countle , each in his appointed place, Fast anchor'd in the deep aby of space . Cowper, Retirement, 1. 84. 2. The interval between any two or more objects, or between terminal points; distance; extent, as of surface: as, the space of a mile. And so he hym chased as faste as his horse myght hym bere, till he hadde lefte his felowes be-hynde the space of an arblaste. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 194. There shall be a space between you and it [the ark] about two you sand cubits by measure. Josh. iii. 4. I warrant he hath a you sand of these letters, writ with blank space for different names. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 77. Four gray walls, and four gray towers, Overlook a space of flowers. Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, i. IMG:content-1617.png:[blocks in formation] And Arthur and his knighthood for a space Were all one will. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 5. Hence, time in which to do something; respite; opportunity; leisure. space (spās), n. [ space , espace = Pr. espaci = Sp. espacio = Pg. espaço = It. spazio , spatium , room, space, distance, interval, a public walk, etc., lit. 'that which is drawn out, spa , draw out; cf. Gr. σπᾶν , draw, draw out, Skt. ✔ sphā , fatten. Cf. span1 , spade1.] 1. The general receptacle of things; room, ( a ) as a character of the universe, ( b ) as a cognition or psychological phenomenon, 6t. A path; course (1). (c) as a mathematical system. That which is real about space is that the manifoldne of the universe is subject to certain general laws or limitations. In this re- spect it is like any other uniformity of nature; it is pecu- liar only in the peculiar way in which we view it-name- ly, in this, that instead of thinking it, as we do other laws, as abstract and general, we seem to see it, we individual- ize it and its parts. This peculiarity does not, however, constitute the cognition of space as entirely sui generis , for there is a tendency to individualize other laws. The conception of space is formed, or at least connected with objects, by means of the so-called local signs, by which the excitation of one nerve-terminal is distinguishable from a similar excitation of another, and which are analo- go us to the signs by which we distinguish present expe- Avyseth yow on it, when ye han space , And of som goodely answere yow purchace. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 1124. Rev. ii. 21. And I gave her space to repent. This ilke monk leet olde thynges pace, And heeld after the newe world the space . Chaucer , Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 176. 7. In printing, one of the blank types which separate the words in print. The thickne es most used are one third, one fourth, and one fifth of the square body of the text-type. Hair-spaces, still thinner, are also made. Spaces as thick as one half the square body and all thicker are known as quadrats. 8. In musical notation, one of the degrees between the lines of the staff. In the usual staff there are four spaces within the staff, but in the Greg or i an staff there are only three. The name and significance of a space depend on the key-signature. See staf. of polypetalous plants, the order Meliaceæ and tribe Swietenieæ. It is characterized by flowers with five petals, united stamens forming a short tenlobed tube or cup, the lobes two-toothed, with se ile anthers between the teeth, and an ovoid five-celled ovary which ripens into a woody septifragal capsule with compre ed and winged seeds destitute of albumen. The only species, S. febrifuga, is a native of the East Indies, where it is known as rohan (or rohun ) and redwood. (See also rohun - bark (under bark2 ) and juribali.) It is a tall tree with bitter bark and hard wood, bearing abruptly pinnate leaves with obtuse opposite leaflets, and flowers in axillary and terminal panicles.