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Late, -- as opposed to soon. [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne. W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace).

A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. B…

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.

By synecdoche.

A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.

The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.

Same as Synæresis.

Working together; coöperating; as, synergetic muscles.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

One who holds the doctrine of synergism.

Of or pertaining to synergism. "A synergistic view of regeneration." Shedd.

the combined healty action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."

h phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

Long since; long ago. [Scot.]

The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.

See Auld lang syne.