176 SHORT-HAND WRITING.—SOUXDS. 



Yacht. — A sailing-vessel, pleasure-boat, or small ship with one 



deck, sufficiently large for a sea-voyage. 

 Xe'bec. — A small three-masted vessel, used in the IMediter- 



ranean Sea. With a fair wind, in good weather, it carries 



two large square-sails ; when close-hauled it carries large 



lateen-sails. 



SHORT-HAND WRITING. 



Ideog'raphy (idea^ and Gr. graplw, I write). — The represen- 

 tation of ideas independently, or in an ideographic manner, 

 as sometimes is done in short-hand writing. 



Phonog'raphy (Gr. phone, a sound, and grapho, I write). — 

 A method of writing short-hand by representing all the 

 consonants by straight lines and curves, and the vowels by 

 dots or short dashes, which are made heavy or light, to 

 represent long or short vowels. 

 This system professes to be founded on the analysis of the 

 sounds of the English language. 



Stenography, Brachyg'raphy (Gr. stenos, close, or Iraehus, 

 short, and </rapho, I write). — The art of writing in short- 

 hand by using abbreviations or characters for whole words. 



SILK-WORMS. 



Ser'iculture (Lat. sericu?n, silk, and cultura, cultivation). — 

 Cultivation of silk-worms. 



SLEEP. 



Hypnorogy (Gr. hrqmos, sleep, and logos, a discourse). — The 

 doctrine of sleep. 



SOCIETY. 



Socid'ogy. — The science which relates to, or treats of, human 



society. 



SOUNDS. 



Acous'tics (Gr. nkouo, I hear). — That branch of science which 

 treats of the laws of sound. It is usually divided into two 

 parts, viz. : diacoustics, which explains the properties of 



