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Armed scythes, as a chariot. Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled. Glover.

One who uses a scythe; a mower. Macaulay.

A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.

Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]

Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants. Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.

Same as Holothurioidea.

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

Same as Spermoblast.

0 species. In general, the group is characterized by the marked development of the sporophyte, with great differentiation of its parts (root, stem, leaves, flowers, etc.); by the extreme reduction of the gametophyte; and by the development of seeds. All the Spermatophyta are heterosporous; fertilization of the egg cell…

Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta. -- Sper`ma*to*phyt"ic (#), a.

Plants which produce seed; phænogamia. These plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.

Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.

Capable of producing seeds; phænogamic.

ernation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants. -- Spo`ro*phyt"ic (#), a.

Choke damp.

See Stithy.

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

Quickly. See Swithe. [Obs.]

ord. [R.] Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other. Earle.

Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.