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Caladium sagittaefoliumTanier Tan"i*er, n. (Bot.)
An aroid plant (Caladium sagitt[ae]folium), the leaves of
which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also
tannier.] Crotalaria sagittalisRattlebox Rat"tle*box`, n.
1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
2. (Bot.)
(a) An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds
of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.
(b) Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of
yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded
pods. Petasites sagittataSweet Sweet, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr,
s[oe]tr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods,
and plains. --Milton.
5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See Sweet-top.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora
(P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (M. odorata) growing
in England.
Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as Sweet
flag, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur (Petasites
sagittata) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub
(Comptonia, or Myrica, asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch
myrtle. See 5th Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree (Liquidambar
styraciflua). See Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zo["o]l.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea
Ageratum) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See Spirit of nitrous
ether, under Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant (Centaurea
moschata), also, the yellow-flowered (C. odorata); --
called also sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zo["o]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also
sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. Sagitta
Sagitta Sa*git"ta, n. [L., an arrow.]
1. (Astron.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the
Arrow.
2. (Arch.) The keystone of an arch. [R.] --Gwilt.
3. (Geom.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord;
also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its
resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
[Obs.]
4. (Anat.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones,
found in most fishes.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine
worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of
swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class
Ch[ae]tognatha.
SagittalSagittal Sag"it*tal, a. [L. sagitta an arrow: cf. F.
sagittal.]
1. Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow;
furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
2. (Anat.)
(a) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region
of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal
furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of
the skull.
(b) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of
an animal.
Sagittal suture (Anat.), the suture between the two
parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also
rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture. Sagittal sutureSagittal Sag"it*tal, a. [L. sagitta an arrow: cf. F.
sagittal.]
1. Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow;
furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
2. (Anat.)
(a) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region
of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal
furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of
the skull.
(b) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of
an animal.
Sagittal suture (Anat.), the suture between the two
parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also
rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture. Sagittaria variabilisWapatoo Wap"a*too`, n. (Bot.)
The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria
variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written
also wappato.] Sagittarius
Sagittarius Sag`it*ta"ri*us, n. [L., literally, an archer, fr.
sagittarius belonging to an arrow, fr. sagitta an arrow.]
(Astron.)
(a) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the
sun enters about November 22, marked thus
[[sagittarius]] in almanacs; the Archer.
(b) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and
globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
SagittarySagittary Sag"it*ta"ry, n. [See Sagittarius.]
1. (Myth.) A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse,
armed with a bow and quiver. --Shak.
2. The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure
of an archer over the door. --Shak. Sagittary
Sagittary Sag"it*ta*ry, a. [L. sagittarius.]
Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow. --Sir T. Browne.
Sagittate
Sagittate Sag"it*tate, a. [NL. sagittatus, fr. L. sagitta an
arrow.]
Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal
angles prolonged downward.
Sagittated
Sagittated Sag"it*ta`ted, a.
Sagittal; sagittate.
Meaning of Gitta from wikipedia
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Gitta may
refer to:
Gitta, Hsawlaw,
village in
Burma Gita, Israel,
communal settlement in
Israel Gitta Alpár (1903–1991),
Hungarian opera singer Gitta...
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Gitta Sereny, CBE (13
March 1921 – 14 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and
investigative journalist who
became known for her...
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Ongole Gitta". The
Times of India. 5 July 2012.
Archived from the
original on 20 May 2013.
Retrieved 22 July 2012. "Kriti
Kharbanda in Ram's
Ongole Gitta"....
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Gitta Connemann (born 10 May 1964) is a
German lawyer and
politician of the
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been
serving as a
member of the German...
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Gitta Nickel (May 28, 1936 Briensdorf,
Province of East
Prussia -
December 18, 2023
Werder (Havel)) was a
German filmmaker. She was one of the few female...
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Nobody Else, in 1991.
Nielsen released a few
songs under the
pseudonym "
Gitta"
because producers wanted to see if she
could succeed as a
singer without...
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Gitta Poulsgaard Jensen (born 18 July 1972) is a
retired Danish swimmer who won
three relay medals at the
World and
European championships in 1991. She...
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Gitta Lind (17
April 1925 – 9
November 1974) was a
German singer and film actress. Lind was born in
Trier as Rita
Maria Gracher.
During her
first employment...
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Gitta Gradova (June 8, 1904 –
April 26, 1985) was an
American pianist.
Gradova was born as
Gertrude Weinstock on June 8, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, US...
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nearly all the
Samaritans in his time were
adherents of a
certain Simon of
Gitta, a
village not far from
Flavia Neapolis.
Irenaeus believed him to have been...
