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ression. [Obs.] Not to keep their suspicions in smother. Bacon. Smother fly (Zoöl.), an aphid.

Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. [Obs.] "[Slander] sneaks its head." Wake.

To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. Walton.

f her maiden character. [Scot.] And seldom was a snood amid Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. Sir W. Scott.

alts. -- Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of soda manufacture; -- called also alkali waste. -- Soda water, originally, a beverage consisting of a weak solution of sodium bicarbon…

nt and lubricant. -- Solar phosphori (Physics), certain substances, as the diamond, siulphide of barium (Bolognese or Bologna phosphorus), calcium sulphide, etc., which become phosphorescent, and shine in the dark, after exposure to sunlight or other intense light. -- Solar plexus (Anat.), a nervous plexus situated i…

Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia. -- n.

eat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part. "The hidden soul of harmony." Milton. Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul. Milton.

elle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours. Chaucer. Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. Addison.

Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).

relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself. Hawthorne. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell. Keble.

having very long legs and a long prehensile tail. -- Spider orchis (Bot.), a European orchidaceous plant (Ophrys aranifera), having flowers which resemble spiders. -- Spider shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the genus Pteroceras. See Pteroceras.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine. Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake. Dryden.

in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite.

ement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue. Spenser. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. Shak.

A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.