Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SYN-O'VI-A, or SYN'O-VY, n.

In anatomy, the fluid secreted into the cavities of joints, for the purpose of lubricating them. – Cyc.

SYN-O'VI-AL, a. [supra.]

Pertaining to synovia; secreting a lubricating fluid; as, the synocial membrane; synovial gland. – Cyc.

SYN-TAC'TIC, or SYN-TAC'TIC-AL, a. [See Syntax.]

1. Pertaining to syntax, or the construction of sentences.
2. According to the rules of syntax or construction. – Encyc.

SYN-TAC'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In conformity to syntax.

SYN'TAX, or SY'N-TAX'IS, n. [L. syntaxis; Gr. συνταξις; συν, together, and τασσω, to put.]

1. In grammar, the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences, according to established usage. Syntax includes concord and regimen, or the agreement and government of words. Words, in every language, have certain connections and relations, as verbs and adjectives with nouns, which relations must be observed in the formation of sentences. A gross violation of the rules of syntax is a solecism.
2. Connected system or order; union of things. [Not in use.] – Glanville.

SYN-TE-RE'SIS, n. [Gr. συν and τηρεω.]

Remorse of conscience. – Bp. Ward.

SYN-TER-ET'IC, a.

Preserving health.

SYN-TET'IC, a.

Wasting with consumption.

SYN-TEX'IS, n. [Gr.]

A deep consumption.

SYN'THE-SIS, n. [Gr. συνθεσις; συν, and τιθημι, to put or set.]

1. Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compound medicines. – Cyc.
2. In logic, composition, or that process of reasoning in which we advance by a regular chain from principles before established or assumed, and propositions already proved, till we arrive at the conclusion. Synthesis is the opposite of analysis or resolution. – Encyc.
3. In surgery, the operation by which divided parts are reunited. – Cyc.
4. In chimistry, the uniting of elements into a compound; the opposite of analysis, which is the separation of a compound into its constituent parts. That water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen, is proved both by analysis and synthesis.

SYN-THET'IC, or SYN-THET'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to the analytical.

SYN-THET'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By synthesis; by composition.

SYN'THE-TIZE, v.t.

To unite in regular structure. [Not much used.]

SYN'TO-MY, n. [Gr. συντομια.]

Brevity; conciseness.

SYN-TON'IC, a. [Gr. συν, with, and τονος, tone.]

In music, sharp; intense. – Rousseau.

SYPH'I-LIS, n. [A term coined by Fracastorius, and introduced into nosology by Savages. Its etymology is unknown.]

A disease characterized by ulcers of a peculiar character on the genitals, succeeded by inguinal buboes. So far, the disease is local. The indications of a constitutional affection are ulcers in the throat, copper-colored eruptions on the skin, pains in the bones, nodes, &c. This malady is exclusively contagious.

SYPH'I-LIT-IC, a.

Pertaining to syphilis.

SY'PHON, n. [Gr. σιφων.]

A tube or pipe. More correctly Siphon, – which see.

SY'REN, n. [or adj. See SIREN.]

SYR'I-AC, a. [from Syria.]

Pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch; Syriac Bible.

SYR'I-AC, n.

The language of Syria, especially the ancient language of that country.

SYR'I-A-CISM, n.

A Syrian idiom. – Milton.

SYR'I-AN, a.

Pertaining to Syria.

SYR'I-AN-ISM, n.

A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity in the Syrian language. – Paley.

SYR'I-ASM, n.

The same as Syrianism. – Warburton. Stuart.