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beauty, but do not perfect their seeds in England. There are 
two varieties. 
4. Syringa sunpensa.—Leaves ovate, serrate and ternate.— 
Native of Japan, in Miaco, &c., often cultivated for the ele¬ 
gance of the flowers. It begins to flower in April. 
Propagation and Culture. —The common lilac may be 
increased by seeds or suckers. It thrives best upon a rich 
light soil, such as the gardens near London are for the most 
part composed of; and there they grow to a much larger 
size, when they are permitted to stand unremoved, than in 
any other part of England. 
SY'RINGE, s. [c-ypiyf, Gr.] A pipe through which 
any liquor is squirted.—The heart seems not designed to be 
the fountain or conservatory of the vital flame, but as a ma¬ 
chine to receive the blood from the veins, and force it out by 
the arteries through the whole body as a syringe doth any 
liquor, though not by the same artifice. Rap. 
To SY'RINGE, v. a. To spout by a syringe.—A flux 
of blood from the nose, mouth, and eye, was stopt by the 
springing up of oxycrate. Wiseman. —To wash with a 
syringe. 
SYRINGO'TOMY, s. [<n S and rer oga, Gr.] The 
act or practice of cutting fistulas or hollow sores. 
SYRMIA, a palatinate of the Austrian province, of Scla- 
vonia, lying in the east of that province, between the Da¬ 
nube and the district called “ the frontier regiment of Peter- 
wardein.” Its superficial extent is 910 square miles; its 
population between 90,000 and 100,000. It contains the 
mountain of Carlovics, but is generally level, and of great 
fertility, though in some places marshy, and consequently 
unhealthy. The chief products are wheat, maize, wine of 
a remarkably heating quality, and the spirit extracted from 
plums, called Slivavicza. Some silk is also raised, but the 
quantity is not large. The chief town is Vukovar. 
SYRUP. See Sirop. 
SY'RTIS, s. [Latin.] A quick sand ; a bog.—A boggy 
sprtis, —neither sea, nor good dry land. Milton. 
SYSELAND, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 10| 
miles south-east of Norwich. 
SYSIIAN, a considerable town on the east of European 
Russia, in the government of Simbirsk, at the confluence of 
two rivers called the Sysranka and the Krymsa. It 
contains 6300 inhabitants, has some trade both by land and 
water, and is the chief town of a circle; 78 miles south 
of Simbirsk. 
SY'STASIS, s. [o-i n;a.crn;, Gr.] The consistence of any 
thing ; a constitution.—It is a worse preservative of a general 
constitution, than the spstasis of Crete, or the confederation 
of Poland, or any other ill-devised corrective which has 
yet been imagined in the necessities produced by an ill-con¬ 
structed system of government. Burke. 
SY'STEM, s. [ spsteme , Fr.; cru?'/;jwa, Gr.] Any com- 
plexure or combination of many things acting together. A 
scheme which reduces many things to regular dependance 
or co-operation. A scheme which unites many things in 
order.—The best way to learn any science is to begin with 
a regular spstetn, or a short and plain scheme of that science 
well drawn up into a narrow compass. Watts. 
SYSTEMATICAL, adj. [av^Trjga.ru<oi;, Gr.] Metho¬ 
dical ; written or formed with regular subordination of one 
part to another.—Now we deal much in essays, and un¬ 
reasonably despise spstematical learning; whereas our 
fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. Watts. 
SYSTEMATICALLY, adv. In form of a system.— 
Aristotle brings morality into system, and ranges it into 
classes according to its different objects, distinguishing vir¬ 
tues into their several kinds, which had not been handled 
spstematicallp before. Baker. 
SY'STEMATIST, or Sy'stematizer, s. One who 
reduces things to any kind of system.—Aristotle may be 
called the spstemaiizer of his master’s doctrines. Harris. 
To SYSTEMATIZE, v. a. To reduce to a system.— 
Spstematised regicide. Burke. 
SY'STEM-MAKER, s. One who forms systems. 
We spstem-ma/cers can sustain 
The thesis, which you grant was plain. Prior. 
SY'STEM-MONGER, s. One fond of framing systems. 
Mason .—A spstem-monger, who, without knowing any 
thing of the world by experience, has formed a system of it 
in his dusty cell, lays it down, that flattery is pleasing. Ld. 
Chesterfield. 
SY'STOLE, s. [spstole, Fr.; av^oA'i. Gr.] The con¬ 
traction of the heart.—The spstole resembles the forcible 
bending of a spring, and the diastole its flying out again to 
its natural site. Rap .—In grammar, the shortening of a long 
syllable. 
SYSTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4 miles 
north-east-by-north of Grantham. 
SYSTON, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 5 miles 
north-north-east of Leicester. Population 1223. 
SY'STYLE, s. [ spstple , Fr.; from aw and Gr.] 
A building in which the pillars are near together. 
SYSZKOVO, a small town of the west of European 
Russia, in the government of Grodno, on the Niemen. 
SYTSCHEVSK, a small town in the interior of European 
Russia, in the government of Smolensk, on the river 
Wasuga; 144 miles west-by-north of Moscow. 
SYWELL, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire; 
4j miles west of Wellingborough. 
SY'ZGY, s. [spzpgie, Fr.; ovCpyia., Gr.] A con¬ 
junction of any two of the heavenly bodies. 
SZABADSZALLAS, a small town in the interior of 
Hungary, in the district of Little Rumania, with 4000 
inhabitants, all Calvinists. They have no manufactures, 
and few mechanical occupations, being employed in agricul¬ 
ture, rearing cattle, and cultivating the grape; 43 miles 
south-by-west of Pest. 
SZADEK, a small town in the west of Poland; 12 miles 
north-east of Siradia. Population 800. 
SZALA, a river of Hungary, which rises in the county of 
Wieselburg, flows through the county of Szalad, and falls 
into the lake of Balaton. 
SZALAD, a county of Hungary, lying to the north-east 
of the Drave, and the north of the lake of Balaton. Its 
superficial extent is 2130 square miles ; its population about 
230,000, of very diversified origin, being composed of the 
descendants of Magyars, Croats, Slowacs, and German 
settlers. It contains the mountains of Radastong, and a 
part of the forest of Rakong, but has also a great deal of 
level ground, and part of the lake of Balaton. It produces 
wine, and is fertile in corn. The number of hogs reared in 
the forests is also large. The chief town is Egerszeg. 
SZALONAK, or Schloning, a small town in the west 
of Hungary, in the county of Eisenburg, situated on a steep 
hill of considerable height, and containing 1800 inha¬ 
bitants. 
SZALONTHA, a small town of the east of Hungary, in 
the county of Bihar, on the river called the Black Koresch. 
It is inhabited by Calvinists. 
SZAMOBOR, a small town of Austrian Illyria ; 22 miles 
north-by-east of Carlstadt, with 2700 inhabitants. It has a 
Franciscan monastery, and several schools, and in the 
neighbourhood is a rich copper mine. 
SZAMOS. See Samosch. 
SZAMOS-UJVAR. See Armenierstadt. 
SZARVAS, a large town in the east of Hungary, in the 
palatinate of Bekesch, on the river Koresch; 82 miles 
east-south-east of Pest, and 21 north-north-east of Csongrad. 
SZARYGRAD, a considerable town in the south-west of 
European Russia, in the government of Podolia. It has 
nearly 7000 inhabitants, and is the chief place of a circle. 
SZASZ-REGEN, Reginu, or Rken-Markt, a large 
market town of Transylvania, in the county of Thorda, 
inhabited chiefly by the descendants of Saxon settlers, who 
are employed in weaving or in tanning leather. They are 
distinguished from the aborigines both by their dress and 
manner of building their houses. 
SZCZERKOW, a small town in the west of Poland, on 
the 
