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ss from the pith to the bark of an exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple, pine, cherry, etc. -- Silver grebe (Zoöl.), the red-throated diver. See Illust. under Diver. -- Silver hake (Zoöl.), the American whiting. -- Silver leaf, leaves or she…

A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.

A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak. [Scot.]

See Sloakan.

nags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots. "Upon a snaggy oak." Spenser.

To reprimand; to sneap. [Obs.] "Scold and sneb the good oak." Spenser.

One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden.

To soak. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Wet; soaky. [Prov. Eng.]

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

The produce of anything. Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine. Blackmore.

orrows. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. Byron.

Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. Dickens.

atively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.

ring plants" is less distinctive than "seed plants," since the conifers, grasses, sedges, oaks, etc., do not produce flowers in the popular sense. For this reason the terms Anthrophyta, Phænogamia, and Panerogamia have been superseded as names of the phylum by Spermatophyta.

A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.

Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April." Shak.

easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. Addison. To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.