sext us (sekstus)

[ML., sixth: see sext, sixth.] In medieval music for more than four voice-parts, the second additional voice or part. sexual (sek'sū-al), a. [= F. sexuel = Sp. Pg. sexual = It. se uale, IMG:content-0759.jpg:[graphic] nut (which see, under cocoanut ). seyd, n. Same as sayid. seyet, seynt. Middle English past participles of seel . Seymeria (sē-mē'ri-a), n. [NL. (Pursh, 1814), named after Henry Seymer , an English amateur See S, and the above etymology. naturalist.] A genus of gamopetalous plants sh. An abbreviation of shilling . of the order Scrophularineæ , tribe Gerardieæ , sha (shä), n. [Chin.] A very light, thin silken and subtribe Eugerardieæ . It is characterized by material made in China; silk gauze. bractle flowers with a bell-shaped calyx having narrow and slender lobes, a short corolla-tube with broad open throat and five spreading lobes, four short woolly stamens, smooth and equal anther-cells, and a globose capsule with a compre ed pointed or beaked apex. There are 10 spe- cies, of which one is a native of Madagascar and the rest all of the United States and Mexico. They are erect branch- ing herbs, often turning black in drying, usually clammy hairy, and bearing chiefly opposite, and incised leaves, and yellow flowers in an interrupted spike or raceme. For S. macrophylla , of the Mi i ippi valley, see mullen fox- seyndt. A Middle English past participle of senge, singe sexes concur; gamogenesis. - Sexual selection. See seseyntt, n. A Middle English spelling of saint1 . lection.-Sexual system. (a) In zool . and an at., the seyntuariet, n. A Middle English form of sanc- reproductive system; the sexual organs, collectively con- sidered. (b) In bot . , a system of cla ification founded tuary . IMG:content-0760.png:[blocks in formation] sf. An abbreviation of sforzando or sforzato . sfogato (sfo-gätō), a. [It., pp. of sfogare , evap- orate, exhale, vent.] Exhaled; in music , not- ing a pa age to be rendered in a light, airy manner, as if simply exhaled. - Soprano sfogato, a thin, high soprano. 'sfoott (sfut), interj . [Also written 'udsfoot, ' odsfoot ; abbr. God's foot ; cf. ' sblood .] A minced imprecation. sforzando (sfor-tsän'dō), a. [It., [It., ppr. of sfor- zare , force, ex , out, + ML. fortia , force: see force1 .] 1.] In music , forced or pre ed; with sud- applied to a single tone or chord which is to be made particularly prominent. Abbreviated sf . pedal . sforzato (sfor-tsätō), a. [It., pp. of sforzare , force: see sforzando .] Same as sforzando . sfregazzi (sfre-gät'si), n. [It., sfregare , rub, ex , out, + fricare , rub: see friction .] In painting , a mode of glazing adopted by Titian and other old masters for soft shadows of flesh, etc. It consisted in dipping the finger in the color and drawing it once, with an even movement, along the surface to be painted. Fairholt . sfumato (sfö-mä'to), a . [It., smoked, ex , out , + fumatus , pp. of fumare , smoke: see fume , v.] In painting , smoked: noting a style of paint- ing wherein the tints are so blended that out- lines are scarcely perceptible, the effect of the whole being indistinct or misty. You may... say again, as I have heard you say ere now, that the popular Christian paradise and hell are but a Pagan Olympus and Tartar us, as gro ly material as Ma- homet's, without the honest thoroughgoing sexuality which, you thought, made his notion logical and cons is- Kingsley, Yeast, viii. ( Davies .) sexualization (seksū-al-i-zā'shon), n. [ sex- ualize + -ation .] The attribution of sex or of sfz. An abbreviation of sforzando or sforzato . sexually (sek'sū-al-i), adv . By means of sex; in the sexual relation; after the manner of the sexes: as, to propagate sexually . sex us (sek's us), n .; pl. sex us . [L.] Sex; also, either sex, male or female. sexvalent (seks'vā-lent), a. Same as sexiva- lent . sgraffiato (sgraf-fiä'tō), n.; pl. sgraffiati (-ti). Same as sgraffito . sgraffito (sgraf-fe'tō), n.; pl. sgraffiti (-ti). [It.: see graffito .] 1. Same as graffito decoration (which see, under graffito ). Its [the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry's] exterior is beautifully adorned by sgraffiti frescoes and majolica 2. ( a ) Same as graffito ware (which see, under graffito ). ( b ) A kind of pottery made in Eng- land, in which clays of different colors are laid one upon another and the pattern is produced by cutting away the outer layers, as in cameos and cameo-gla . [The term is improperly applied in this case, and is in a sense a trade-mark.]-Sgraffito painting. See graffito painting , under grafito . sh. [ME. sh , h, sch , occasionally ch , , x , ear- lier sc , partly an a ibilated form of AS. sc (as in most of the following words in sh- , as well, of course, medially and terminally, in many others), partly when medial representing OF. seylt, v. An obsolete form of sayl . sey2t. A Middle English form of the preterit of - - , as in the verbal termination -ish2 ; the AS. seel . sc = OS. sk , sc = OFries. sk = D. sch = MLG. LG. sch = OHG. sc , sk , MHG. G. sch = Icel. sk = Sw. Dan. sk = Goth.sk. The palatalization, II. in trans. To play mean tricks; retreat or skulk away meanly or clandestinely. [Old cant.] shabbedt (shab'ed), a. [ shabbid , shab- byd , schabbed ; All that ben sore and shabbid eke with synne Rather with pite thanne with reddour wynne. IMG:content-0761.png:[blocks in formation] shabbily (shab'i-li), adv . In a shabby manner, in any sense of the word shabby . shabbine (shab'i-nes), n. Shabby character or condition. Especially - (a) A threadbare or worn- out appearance. (b) Meanne or paltrine of conduct. shabblet, n. See shable . shabby (shab'i), a . [An a ibilated form of scabby.] 1. Scabby; mangy. Hall i well . -2. Mean; base; scurvy. He tugged for a second or two at the hilt of his shabble , finding it loth to quit the sheath. Scott , Rob Roy, xxviii. shabrack (shab'rak), n. [Also schabrack , schabraque ( schabrak = Dan. skaberak = F. chabraque , schabraque , schab- ork was not preceded by s , became OF. and ME.ch, mod. E. ch (pron. tsh), mod. F. ch (pron. sh), led to the change of s , as combined with the palatalized c or k , into another sibilant, which in the earlier Teut., as well as in L. and Gr., was unknown, or was not alphabetically repre- sented, and which, at first represented by sc, shack field.-3. To hibernate, as an animal, especially the bear: also said of men who "lay up" or "hole up" for the winter, or go into winter quarters. [Western U. S.]