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saimiri (medicine) and dyke(1) (iou)


saimiri (medicine)


saimiri


A genus of the family cebidae consisting of four species: s. Boliviensis, s. Orstedii (red-backed squirrel monkey), s. Sciureus (common squirrel monkey), and s. Ustus. They inhabit tropical rain forests in central and south america. S. Sciureus is used extensively in research studies.


dyke(1) (iou)



dyke noun1. Also dike. ME.
[Old Norse dik, diki or (branch II) Middle Low German dik dam, Middle Dutch dijc ditch, pool, mound, dam (Dutch dijk dam): see DITCH noun.]
I. Something dug out.
A long narrow excavation, a ditch (as a boundary-marker, defensive measure, etc.). ME-L16.
Any hollow dug in the ground; a pit, cave, etc. ME-L15.
A hollow dug out to hold or conduct water; a drainage ditch; any watercourse or channel. LME.
Pope Thames, The King of dykes!
A lavatory. slang. E20.
II. Something built up.
a. The wall of a city; a fortification. ME-M16.
b. A low wall of turf or stone serving as a division or enclosure. LME.
R. Sibbald The Ruins of a dry-stone dyke.
A bank formed by throwing up the earth from a ditch. L15.
A (raised) causeway. L15.
An embankment, long ridge, or dam against flooding, esp. as built in the Netherlands against the sea. M17.
J. A. Michener He might by building a dyke hold back the wadi and prevent it from washing away the fields.
fig. A barrier, an obstacle, a defence. L18.
Byron He there builds up a formidable dyke Between his own and others' intellect.
a. Mining. A fissure filled with rock; a fault. dial. L18.
b. Geology. A sheet of rock filling a fissure; esp. a mass of igneous rock that has intruded upwards through strata, sometimes showing as a ridge at the surface. E19.
Comb.: dyke-reeve [perh. alt. of DYKE-GRAVE] Hist. an officer who had charge of the drains and sea banks in fenland counties.