Search the Dictionary

a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface. Cloths of gold and satins rich of hue. Chaucer. Denmark satin, a kind of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes. -- Farmer's satin. See under Farmer. -- Satin bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bower bird. Called…

A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.

A thin kind of satin.

One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.

The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietnia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribæum) growing in Florida and the West Indies.

Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.

See under Satin.

A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.

Pertaining to, or derived from, isatin; as, isatic acid, which is also called trioxindol.

ic acid, and is one important source of artificial indigo. [Written also, less properly, isatine.]

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. -- To beat about, to try to find; to search by various mea…

nd in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde, oil of bitter almonds; the aldehyde, C6H5.CHO, intermediate in composition between benzoic or benzyl alcohol, and benzoic aci…

trappings on; to clothe; to deck. After them followed two other chariots covered with red satin, and the horses betrapped with the same. Stow.

singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.

A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor.

The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.

seems to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. Contractile vacuole (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.