These are the meanings of the letters SPLECNIE when you unscramble them.
- Eclipse (n.)
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.
- Eclipse (n.)
The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
- Eclipse (v. i.)
To suffer an eclipse.
- Eclipse (v. t.)
To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
- Eclipse (v. t.)
To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
- License (n.)
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
- License (n.)
Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
- License (n.)
That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
- License (n.)
The document granting such permission.
- License (v. t.)
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
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- Pensile (a.)
Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
- Selenic (a.)
Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.
- Silence (interj.)
Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
- Silence (n.)
Absence of mention; oblivion.
- Silence (n.)
Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
- Silence (n.)
Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
- Silence (n.)
The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
- Silence (n.)
The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
- Silence (v. t.)
To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
- Silence (v. t.)
To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
- Silence (v. t.)
To put to rest; to quiet.
- Silence (v. t.)
To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
- Splenic (a.)
Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.