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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,836 words match “SY”

Scythe. [Obs. or R.]

Pertaining to a syzygy.

SYZYGY n. 4 definitions

The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.

Blindness. [R.] Urquhart.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

ACHROMATOPSY n.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

ACRASIA; ACRASY n.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

ACRISIA; ACRISY n. 2 definitions

Inability to judge.

Absence of thirst.

The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. Craig.

See Embassy, the usual spelling. Helps.

ANALEPSIS; ANALEPSY n. 2 definitions

Recovery of strength after sickness.

Same as Anamorphosis.

ANISYL n. 3 definitions

The univalent radical CH3OC6H4CH2; as, anisyl alcohol.

ANOPSIA; ANOPSY a.

Want or defect of sight; blindness.

ANTISYPHILITIC a. 2 definitions

Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.

Defective digestion, indigestion. Coxe.

APHASIA; APHASY n.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

th, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.