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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



102 words match “OWEN”

SAUTE n.
p. p. of Sauter. C. Owen.
SCLEROTAL a.
The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye. Owen.
SEA BREAM n.
d fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
SOCIALISM n.
erism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is t…
SOUR a.
gum (Bot.) See Turelo. -- Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
SOWANS n.
See Sowens.
SOWINS n.
See Sowens.
SPERMATOON; SPERMATOOEN n.
A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to"al, a. Owen.
SPLANCHNO-SKELETON n.
That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.
SPRINGE v.
To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane corn. Chaucer.
STILLIFORM a.
Having the form of a drop. Owen.
STINGER n.
essor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.
STRIATE v.
To mark with striaæ. "Striated longitudinally." Owen.
SUBCONCAVE a.
Slightly concave. Owen.
SUBTRIHEDRAL a.
Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth. Owen.
TERETIAL a.
as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.
THO pron.
Those. [Obs.] This knowen tho that be to wives bound. Chaucer.
TUDOR a.
Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth. Tudor style (Arch.), the latest development of Gothic architecture in England, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered ar…
TYPAL a.
Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. Owen.
UNITABLE a.
Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.
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