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scidæ. They feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances. -- Sow thistle Etym: [AS. sugepistel] (Bot.), a composite plant (Sonchus oleraceus) said to be eaten by swine and some other animals.

the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc. Spider ant. (Zoöl.) Same as Solitary ant, under Solitary. -- Spider crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of maioid crabs having a more or less triangu…

Having stamens, but lacking pistils.

That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

The stalk of a pistil.

To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. "Straggling pistol shots." Sir W. Scott. They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Sir W. Raleigh.

Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. [R.] Swift.

The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.…

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

ansacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

method, as well as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle. Bp. Warburton.

m of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc. Garden syringe. See Garden.…

A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.

Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.

The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.

bustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

ccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.

g. Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thess. ii. 15. Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.

A Linnæan order of plants having three pistils or styles.