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Saw. Chaucer.

See Sib. [Obs. or Scot.]

A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.

Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." Bp. Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres." Bp. Hall.

Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.

See Sycamore.

A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

A groom. [India]

Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China] McElrath.

Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.

A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.

A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.

The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

A division of calcareous sponges.

A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Hence: -

An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney.

Sycophancy. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.