Index of English words, starting with "sy"

(1) - Syllogize (v. i.) To reason by means of syllogisms.

(1) - Syllogizer (n.) One who syllogizes.

(1) - Sylph (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).
(2) - Sylph (n.) Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
(3) - Sylph (n.) An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

(1) - Sylvan (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
(2) - Sylvan (a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
(3) - Sylvan (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
(4) - Sylvan (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.

(1) - Sylvanite (n.) A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium.