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nation of things connected and adjusted by design; a system. The appearance and outward scheme of things. Locke. Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity. Atterbury. Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. J. Edwards. The Revolution came and ch…

Full of schemes or plans.

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley.

Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- Schem"ing*ly, adv.

A schemer. [R.] Waterland.

One who uses a scythe; a mower. Macaulay.

A descendant of Shem.

Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

See Semitism.

or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.

A mower. [Obs.] Marston.

or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte.

A message by a telephone. [Recent]

The objective case of they. See They. Go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. Matt. xxv. 9. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father. Matt. xxv. 34.

Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. My theme is alway one and ever was. Chaucer. And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. Shak.

The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.

The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.