SPage 400
- English Word Silly Definition Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
- English Word Sillyhow Definition A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
- English Word Silo Definition A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.
- English Word Silt Definition Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- English Word Silt Definition To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
- English Word Silt Definition To flow through crevices; to percolate.
- English Word Silted Definition of Silt
- English Word Silting Definition of Silt
- English Word Silty Definition Full of silt; resembling silt.
- English Word Silure Definition A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
- English Word Silurian Definition Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.
- English Word Silurian Definition The Silurian age.
- English Word Siluridan Definition Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.
- English Word Siluroid Definition Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe.
- English Word Siluroid Definition A siluroid fish.
- English Word Siluroidei Definition An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.
- English Word Silurus Definition A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.
- English Word Silva Definition The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
- English Word Silva Definition A description or history of the forest trees of a country.
- English Word Silvae Definition of Silva