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Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac. -- n.

A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism. Paley.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

ctangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

or source of a name. This opinion that Aram . . . was the father and denomination of the Syrians in general. Sir W. Raleigh.

The Syrian bear. See under Bear. [Written also dhubb, and dub.]

put in motion or action by violence; to drive. As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.

A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. W. M. Thomson.

them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. 1 Kings xx. 27.

shing ground; a play ground. From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground. Milton.

along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher t…

One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century.

from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the time of the Babylonian Exile. Nineteen years constitute a lunar cycle, of which the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years are leap years. The year 5663 [1902-…

pposed to be the subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman. See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth.

ed as a bearded man inclosed in a winged circle, a conception probably derived from the Assyrian representations of Ashur.