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<A NAME="silentvote">
<B>silent vote,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the collective vote of those who take no avowed part in a campaign. <DD><B> 2. </B>the vote represented by the number of persons qualified to vote, but who do not vote. </DL>
<A NAME="silenus">
<B>Silenus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) a minor woodland deity, the foster father and companion of Dionysus and leader of the satyrs. He is represented as a short, stout, bald, drunken old man. </DL>
<A NAME="silenus">
<B>silenus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ni.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>any of various minor deities of the forests, resembling the satyrs. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=satyr.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="silesia">
<B>silesia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fine, light, smooth cotton or linen cloth used for lining. </DL>
<A NAME="silesian">
<B>Silesian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Silesia, a region of central Europe, now included in Czechoslovakia and Poland. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Silesia. </DL>
<A NAME="silex">
<B>silex, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>flint; silica. <DD><B> 2. </B>a strong glass that is mostly quartz and resists heat. </DL>
<A NAME="silex">
<B>Silex, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a coffee maker made of silex glass. </DL>
<A NAME="silhouette">
<B>silhouette, </B>noun, verb, <B>-etted,</B> <B>-etting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an outline portrait cut out of a black paper or drawn and filled in with some single color. <DD><B> 2. </B>a dark image outlined against a lighter background. <BR> <I>Ex. the cat's dark silhouette on the wall (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the contour, as of a garment or figure. <BR> <I>Ex. The slim silhouette gained over the full-skirted silhouette in women's daytime clothes (Helen C. Wells).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to show in outline. <BR> <I>Ex. The mountain was silhouetted against the sky.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in silhouette,</B> </I>in outline or profile, especially in black against a white background. <BR> <I>Ex. This framing of the trees, which stand out in silhouette against a bright blue sky (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="silhouettist">
<B>silhouettist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a maker of silhouettes. </DL>
<A NAME="silica">
<B>silica, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a common mineral, silicon dioxide, a hard, white or colorless substance. In the form of quartz, it enters into the composition of many rocks and is contained in sponges and certain plants. Flint, sand, opal, and chalcedony are forms of silica. </DL>
<A NAME="silicagel">
<B>silica gel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of colloidal silica, resembling coarse sand, used as an adsorbent in air conditioners and petroleum refining. </DL>
<A NAME="silicaglass">
<B>silica glass,</B> <B>=quartz glass.</B></DL>
<A NAME="silicate">
<B>silicate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a compound containing silicon with oxygen and a metal; a salt of silicic acid. Silicates constitute the greater number of the minerals that compose the crust of the earth. Mica, garnet, talc, asbestos, and feldspar are silicates. </DL>
<A NAME="silicated">
<B>silicated, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> coated, mixed, combined, or impregnated with silica. <BR> <I>Ex. silicated complexion soap.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="silicatization">
<B>silicatization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the process of combining with silica so as to change to a silicate. </DL>
<A NAME="siliceous">
<B>siliceous</B> or <B>silicious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>containing or consisting of silica; resembling silica. <BR> <I>Ex. Paleolithic stone tools were made by chipping or flaking hard siliceous (glasslike) materials like flint, quartzite, and obsidian (Beals and Hoijer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>growing best or solely in soil containing much silica. </DL>
<A NAME="silicic">
<B>silicic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>containing silicon or silica. <BR> <I>Ex. The more volatile or acidic or silicic constituents of the fluid rock beneath the surface may have concentrated in the original uplifts (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or obtained from silicon or silica. </DL>
<A NAME="silicicacid">
<B>silicic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various weak acids obtained from silicon. </DL>
<A NAME="silicide">
<B>silicide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a compound of silicon and another element or radical. </DL>
<A NAME="siliciferous">
<B>siliciferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> yielding or containing silica; united with silica. </DL>
<A NAME="silicification">
<B>silicification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> conversion into silica. </DL>
<A NAME="silicifiedwood">
<B>silicified wood,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> wood so impregnated or replaced by silica that it has become quartz or opal. </DL>
<A NAME="silicify">
<B>silicify, </B>verb, <B>-fied,</B> <B>-fying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to convert into or impregnate with silica. <BR> <I>Ex. The walnut kernels are ... a golden brown in color and perfectly silicified (Scientific American).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to become siliceous. </DL>
<A NAME="silicium">
<B>silicium, </B>noun. <B>=silicon.</B></DL>
<A NAME="silicle">
<B>silicle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) a short, broad silique, as in shepherd's-purse. </DL>
<A NAME="silicon">
<B>silicon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nonmetallic chemical element found only combined with other elements, chiefly with oxygen in silica. Next to oxygen, silicon is the most abundant element in nature and occurs in amorphous and crystalline forms. The crystalline form is much used in the manufacture of steel as a deoxidizing and hardening agent. </DL>
<A NAME="siliconcarbide">
<B>silicon carbide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a substance that is almost as hard as diamond, used in grinding metals, beveling glass, in polishing powders and other abrasives, and as a semiconductor in transistors. </DL>
<A NAME="silicondioxide">
<B>silicon dioxide,</B> <B>=silica.</B></DL>
<A NAME="silicone">
<B>silicone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an organic compound in which silicon has replaced some of the carbon. Noted for their stability and their ability to resist extremes of heat and cold, silicones are used for lubricants, varnishes, and insulators. <BR> <I>Ex. Silicones are fluids and resins that keep clothes and shoes and brick walls dry in the rain (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="siliconerubber">
<B>silicone rubber,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rubber made of oxygen and silicon that can keep its rubberlike properties at much higher and lower temperatures than natural rubber or any other type of synthetic rubber. Silicon rubber is used in such products as seals, gaskets, and other parts of machinery exposed to high temperatures. </DL>
<A NAME="siliconize">
<B>siliconize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to combine, or cause to combine, with silicon. </DL>
<A NAME="silicosis">
<B>silicosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a disease of the lungs caused by continually breathing air filled with dust from quartz or silicates, formerly common among certain types of workers, such as stonecutters. </DL>
<A NAME="silicotic">
<B>silicotic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with, causing, or suffering from silicosis. <DD><I>noun </I> a person having silicosis. </DL>
<A NAME="silicula">
<B>silicula, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lae.</B> <B>=silicle.</B></DL>
<A NAME="silicular">
<B>silicular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) having the shape or appearance of a silicula or silicle. </DL>
<B>siliculose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) <DD><B> 1. </B>bearing silicles. <DD><B> 2. </B>having the shape or appearance of a silicle. </DL>
<A NAME="silique">
<B>silique, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) the characteristic podlike fruit of plants of the mustard family, a long, narrow, two-valved capsule which splits open from the bottom upward, exposing the seeds attached to two placentae. </DL>
<A NAME="silk">
<B>silk, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the lustrous, fine, soft, strong fiber spun by silkworms to form their cocoons. <BR> <I>Ex. Raw silk that comes from Hong Kong ... is much heavier (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thread made of this. <DD><B> 3. </B>a cloth made of silk fiber. <BR> <I>Ex. Japanese silks, imported silks.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a garment of such material. <BR> <I>Ex. The little lady ... had on ... rather an old black silk (Elizabeth Gaskell).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a fiber like silk, produced especially by spiders and moths, or made artificially. <DD><B> 6. </B>anything like silk. <BR> <I>Ex. corn silk.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(British.) the gown of silk which a king's or queen's counsel is entitled to wear. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of, made of, or having to do with silk; like silk; silken. <BR> <I>Ex. She sewed the silk dress with silk thread. Conventional balloons of light rubberised silk fabric can take payloads of half a ton or more (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=silky.</B> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (U.S.) (of corn) to produce silk. <BR><I>expr. <B>hit the silk,</B> </I>(Slang.) to parachute from a plane. <BR> <I>Ex. The rookie pilots soon learned how to hit the silk.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>silks,</B> </I>the blouses and caps worn by jockeys and harness race drivers and the coverings sometimes draped over their horses which, by their coloring, identify the owner of these horses; colors. <BR> <I>Ex. Citation raced under the silks of Calumet Farm.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>take silk,</B> </I>(British.) to become a king's or queen's counsel. <BR> <I>Ex. After he ... had taken silk ... he became at least as redoubtable a leader as his father had been (London Times).</I> adj. <B>silklike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="silkaline">
<B>silkaline</B> or <B>silkalene, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, thin, cotton fabric resembling silk. </DL>
<A NAME="silkcotton">
<B>silk cotton,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the silky, elastic down or fiber covering the seeds of certain tropical trees of the bombax family, used for packing, and for stuffing pillows and cushions. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=kapok.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="silkcottonfamily">
<B>silk-cotton family, =bombax family.</B></DL>
<A NAME="silkcottontree">
<B>silk-cotton tree,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of trees of tropical America, the East Indies, and Africa, that bear large pods from which kapok or silk cotton is obtained; kapok tree. </DL>
<A NAME="silkcupsponge">
<B>silk cup sponge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sponge found off the coasts of Egypt and Greece that is the most valuable of all commercial animal sponges. </DL>
