Syle (?), n. [See Sile a young herring.] (Zoöl.) A young herring
(Clupea harengus). [Also written sile.]
But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And when they're
grown, why then we call them herring.
J. Ingelow.
||Syl`la*ba"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Syllabaria (#). [NL.] A syllabary.
Syl"la*ba*ry (?), n. A table of syllables; more especially, a table of
the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the
Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams.
Syl"labe (?), n. [F.] Syllable. [R.] B. Jonson.
{ Syl*lab"ic (?), Syl*lab"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. syllabique.]
1. Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.
2. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment. "The
syllabic stage of writing." Earle.
Syl*lab"ic*al*ly, adv. In a syllabic manner.
Syl*lab"i*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syllabicated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Syllabicating.] To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.
Syl*lab`i*ca"tion (?), n. The act of forming syllables; the act or
method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275.
Syl*lab`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [See Syllabify.] Same as Syllabication.
Rush.
Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of
force.
H. Sweet.
Syl*lab"i*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Syllabified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Syllabifying (?).] [L. syllaba syllable + -fy.] To form or divide into
syllables.
Syl"la*bism (?), n. The expressing of the sounds of a language by
syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words. I. Taylor
(The Alphabet).
Syl"la*bist (?), n. One who forms or divides words into syllables, or
is skilled in doing this.
Syl"la*bize (?), v. t. To syllabify. Howell.
Syl"la*ble (?), n. [OE. sillable, OF. sillabe, F. syllabe, L. syllaba,
Gr. &?; that which is held together, several letters taken together so
as to form one sound, a syllable, fr. &?; to take together; &?; with +
&?; to take; cf. Skr. labh, rabh. Cf. Lemma, Dilemma.] 1. An elementary
sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with
a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a
part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by
itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a
single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the
place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase
need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and
renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of
separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.
2. In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest,
and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It
may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter.
Chaucer.
3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short;
a particle.
Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
Hooker.
Who dare speak One syllable against him?
Shak.
Syl"la*ble, v. t. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to
articulate. Milton.
Syl"la*bub (?), n. Same as Syllabub.
Syl"la*bus (?), n.; pl. E. Syllabuses (#), L. Syllabi (#). [L., fr. the
same source as E. syllable.] A compendium containing the heads of a
discourse, and the like; an abstract.
||Syl*lep"sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. sy`llhpsis a taking together, from
||&?;. See syllable, n.] 1. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which a word
||is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
2. (Gram.) The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than
another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender,
number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
{ Syl*lep"tic (?), Syl*lep"tic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?; collective.] Of or
pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis. -- Syl*lep"tic*al*ly,
adv.
Syl*lid"i*an (?), n. [From NL. Syllis, the typical genus.] (Zoöl.) Any
one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidæ.
Many of the species are phosphorescent; others are remarkable for
undergoing strobilation or fission and for their polymorphism. The egg,
in such species, develops into an asexual individual. When mature, a
number of its posterior segments gradually develop into one or more
sexual individuals which finally break away and swim free in the sea.
The males, females, and neuters usually differ greatly in form and
structure.
Syl"lo*gism (?), n. [OE. silogisme, OF. silogime, sillogisme, F.
syllogisme, L. syllogismus, Gr. syllogismo`s a reckoning all together,
a reasoning, syllogism, fr. syllogi`zesqai to reckon all together, to
bring at once before the mind, to infer, conclude; sy`n with, together
+ logi`zesqai to reckon, to conclude by reasoning. See Syn-, and
Logistic, Logic.] (Logic) The regular logical form of every argument,
consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the
premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily
follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion
must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration; as in the
following example:
Every virtue is laudable; Kindness is a virtue; Therefore kindness is
laudable.
These propositions are denominated respectively the major premise, the
minor premise, and the conclusion.
If the premises are not true and the syllogism is regular, the
reasoning is valid, and the conclusion, whether true or false, is
correctly derived.
{ Syl`lo*gis"tic (?), Syl`lo*gis"tic*al (?), } a. [L. syllogisticus,
Gr. &?;: cf. F. syllogistique.] Of or pertaining to a syllogism;
consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms;
as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.
Syl`lo*gis"tic*al*ly, adv. In a syllogistic manner.
Syl`lo*gi*za"tion (?), n. A reasoning by syllogisms. [Obs. or R.]
Harris.
Syl"lo*gize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Syllogized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Syllogizing (?).] [Gr. &?;: cf. F. syllogiser.] To reason by means of
syllogisms.
Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize, or frame
arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the
question.