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s species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.

ea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennæ. Also used adjectively.

A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of selenium or its compounds; as, selenio-phosphate, a phosphate having selenium in place of all, or a part, of the oxygen.

One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively. [Written also Shemite.]

mily of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecæ. Also used adjectively.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting that three atoms or equivalents of the substance to the name of which it is prefixed are combined with two of some other element or radical; as, sesquibromide, sesquicarbonate, sesquichloride, sesquioxide.

A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains. Sicca rupee, an East Indian coin, valued nominally at about two shillings sterling, or fifty cents.

called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.

One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits. Pope. Sister Block (Naut.), a tackle block having two sheaves, one above the other. -- Sister hooks, a pair of hooks fitted together, the shank of one forming a mousing for the other; -- called also match hook. -- Sister…

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sodium or one of its compounds.

f being soft; -- opposed to Ant: hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.

To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective. Like bristles rose my stiffening hair. Dryden. The tender soil then stiffening by degrees. Dryden. Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity. Dryden.

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).