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Garden syringe Syringe Syr"inge, n. [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp.
jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. ?, ?, a pipe or
tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. Syringa.]
A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or
for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small
cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic
material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is
sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for
injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
Garden syringe. See Garden.
Iris Sisyrinchium Spanish Span"ish, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Yucca
alorifolia) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub (Spartium
junceum) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two
single blocks. --Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (lepidium
Cadamines), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curiew (Zo["o]l.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree (Cordia
Gerascanthus) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zo["o]l.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zo["o]l.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia.
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed (Bidens
bipinnata) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zo["o]l.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
Pneumatic syringe Pneumatic Pneu*mat"ic, Pneumatical Pneu*mat"ic*al, a. [L.
pneumaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, wind, air, ? to blow, breathe;
cf. OHG. fnehan: cf. F. pneumatique. Cf. Pneumonia.]
1. Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties
of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the
native spirit of the body. --Bacon.
2. Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their
properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic
experiments. ``Pneumatical discoveries.' --Stewart.
3. Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a
pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
4. (Biol.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with
air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
Pneumatic action, or Pneumatic lever (Mus.), a
contrivance for overcoming the resistance of the keys and
other movable parts in an organ, by causing compressed air
from the wind chest to move them.
Pneumatic dispatch, a system of tubes, leading to various
points, through which letters, packages, etc., are sent,
by the flow and pressure of air.
Pneumatic elevator, a hoisting machine worked by compressed
air.
Pneumatic pile, a tubular pile or cylinder of large
diameter sunk by atmospheric pressure.
Pneumatic pump, an air-exhausting or forcing pump.
Pneumatic railway. See Atmospheric railway, under
Atmospheric.
Pneumatic syringe, a stout tube closed at one end, and
provided with a piston, for showing that the heat produced
by compressing a gas will ignite substances.
Pneumatic trough, a trough, generally made of wood or sheet
metal, having a perforated shelf, and used, when filled
with water or mercury, for collecting gases in chemical
operations.
Pneumatic tube. See Pneumatic dispatch, above.
Sisyrinchium anceps Blue-eyed grass Blue-eyed grass(Bot.)
a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers
of a delicate blue color.
Syringa Syringin Sy*rin"gin, n. (Chem.)
A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and
extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly
called also lilacin.
Syringa vulgaris Lilac Li"lac (l[imac]"lak), n. [Also lilach.] [Sp. lilac,
lila, Ar. l[=i]lak, fr. Per. l[=i]laj, l[=i]lanj, l[=i]lang,
n[=i]laj, n[=i]l, the indigo plant, or from the kindred
l[=i]lak bluish, the flowers being named from the color. Cf.
Anil.]
1. (Bot.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six
species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris,
the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are
frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of
their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies
various other shrubs have this name.
2. A light purplish color like that of the flower of the
purplish lilac.
California lilac (Bot.), a low shrub with dense clusters of
purplish flowers (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus).
Syringe Syringe Syr"inge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syringed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Syringing.]
1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water
into a vein.
2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Syringe Syringe Syr"inge, n. [F. seringue (cf. Pr. siringua, Sp.
jeringa, It. sciringa, scilinga), fg. Gr. ?, ?, a pipe or
tube; cf. Skr. svar to sound, and E. swarum. Cf. Syringa.]
A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or
for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small
cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic
material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is
sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for
injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
Garden syringe. See Garden.
Syringeal Syringeal Sy*rin"ge*al, a. (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.
Syringed Syringe Syr"inge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syringed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Syringing.]
1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water
into a vein.
2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Syringes Syrinx Syr"inx, n.; pl. Syringes. [NL., from Gr. ? a pipe.]
1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; --
called also pandean pipes.
Syringin Syringin Sy*rin"gin, n. (Chem.)
A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and
extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly
called also lilacin.
Syringing Syringe Syr"inge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syringed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Syringing.]
1. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water
into a vein.
2. To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Syringocoele Syringocoele Sy*rin"go*c[oe]le, n. [Syrinx + Gr. ? hollow.]
(Anat.)
The central canal of the spinal cord. --B. G. Wilder.
Syringotome Syringotome Sy*rin"go*tome, n. [Cf. F. syringotome. See
Syringotomy.] (Surg. & Anat.)
A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.
Syringotomy Syringotomy Syr`in*got"o*my, n. [Gr. ? a tube, a hollow sore +
? to cut: cf. F. syringotomie.] (Surg.)
The operation of cutting for anal fistula.
Syrinx Syrinx Syr"inx, n.; pl. Syringes. [NL., from Gr. ? a pipe.]
1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; --
called also pandean pipes.
