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American geneticist (1889–1988)
Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS HonFRSE (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory
Sewall_Wright
Concept in genetics
frequency of one allele is assigned p and the other q. The Wright–Fisher model (named after Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher) assumes that generations do not overlap
Genetic_drift
and clarifies the relationship between the two. According to Ishida, Sewall Wright's isolation by distance theory is termed ecological isolation by distance
Isolation_by_distance
American suffragist (1844–1920)
May Wright Sewall (née Mary Eliza Wright; May 27, 1844 – July 22, 1920) was an American reformer, who was known for her service to the causes of education
May_Wright_Sewall
American economist
earliest works. Wright was the father of geneticist Sewall Wright. Wright was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861 to John Seward Wright and Mary Clark
Philip_Green_Wright
Award given annually by the American Society of Naturalists
Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, previously known as the Sewall Wright Award, is given annually by the American Society of Naturalists to a
Sewall_Wright_Award
Measure of biological relationship between individuals
two individuals. The term coefficient of relationship was defined by Sewall Wright in 1922, and was derived from his definition of the coefficient of inbreeding
Coefficient_of_relationship
Effect in population genetics
Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright. As a result of the loss of genetic variation, the new population may
Founder_effect
Model used to visualise relationship between genotypes and reproductive success
distribution of fitness values as a kind of landscape was first introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932. In evolutionary optimization problems, fitness landscapes are
Fitness_landscape
Fusion of natural selection with Mendelian inheritance
adequate explanation of how such forms evolved. The population geneticist Sewall Wright focused on combinations of genes that interacted as complexes, and the
Modern synthesis (20th century)
Modern_synthesis_(20th_century)
British polymath (1890–1962)
founded quantitative genetics, and, together with J. B. S. Haldane and Sewall Wright, is known as one of the three principal founders of population genetics
Ronald_Fisher
English mathematical biologist
he received the Weldon Memorial Prize. In 2018, he was awarded the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists. "John McNamara". Royal
John McNamara (mathematical biologist)
John_McNamara_(mathematical_biologist)
Branch of animal science
recently molecular genetics and is based on the pioneering work of Sewall Wright, Jay Lush, and Charles Henderson. Breeding stock is a group of animals
Animal_breeding
Ecological concept
the field of population genetics in 1931 by the American geneticist Sewall Wright. Some versions of the effective population size are used in wildlife
Effective_population_size
Indicator for how well data points fit a line or curve
coefficient of determination has been attributed to the geneticist Sewall Wright and was first published in 1921. Anscombe's quartet Fraction of variance
Coefficient_of_determination
Domesticated rodent from South America
behind that of other rodents, although geneticists W. E. Castle and Sewall Wright made some contributions to this area of study, especially regarding
Guinea_pig
integrated with natural selection by Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright during the 1910s to 1930s, and resulted in the founding of the new discipline
History of evolutionary thought
History_of_evolutionary_thought
Biologist
papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In 2000, Slatkin won the Sewall Wright Award and is on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. "Kimura
Montgomery_Slatkin
Subfield of genetics
emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Its primary founders were Sewall Wright, J. B. S. Haldane and Ronald Fisher, who also laid the foundations for
Population_genetics
American zoologist
of America, 1983 Elected to The National Academy of Sciences, 1986 Sewall Wright Award, 1996 American Society of Naturalists Honorary Lifetime Membership
Robert_T._Paine_(zoologist)
Married couple of British evolutionary biologists
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1950) 1951–1975 Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf (1951) Sewall Wright (1952) Lewis Stadler (1953) Milislav Demerec (1954) Kenneth V. Thimann
Peter_and_Rosemary_Grant
Evolutionary process
Researchers can sometimes test this through a reciprocal transplant. Sewall Wright proposed that populations occupy adaptive peaks on a fitness landscape
Adaptation
Estimation of effect of genetic variation on phenotypic variation of a trait
estimation of heritability. One school of thought was developed by Sewall Wright at The University of Chicago, and further popularized by C. C. Li (University
Heritability
Form of causal modeling that fit networks of constructs to data
(SEM) began differentiating itself from correlation and regression when Sewall Wright provided explicit causal interpretations for a set of regression-style
Structural_equation_modeling
Study of the inheritance of continuously variable traits
to overlook that random fertilization includes self-fertilization. Sewall Wright showed that a proportion 1/N of random fertilizations is actually self
Quantitative_genetics
Significance of the peppered moth in evolutionary biology
it remains a classic example in the teaching of evolution. In 1978, Sewall Wright described it as "the clearest case in which a conspicuous evolutionary
Peppered_moth_evolution
View that mind is a ubiquitous feature of reality
the notion of ontopoetics as a version of panpsychism. The geneticist Sewall Wright endorsed a version of panpsychism. He believed that consciousness is
Panpsychism
Directed graph that models causal relationships between variables
and selection bias. Causal graphs were first used by the geneticist Sewall Wright under the rubric "path diagrams". They were later adopted by social
Causal_graph
Surname
Scooby Wright (born 1994), American football player Seaborn Wright, American politician Selwyn Wright (1934–2015), English physicist Sewall Wright (1889–1988)
Wright
Canadian scientist
MacArthur Fellow. In 2015 the American Society of Naturalists gave her the Sewall Wright Award for fundamental contributions to the unification of biology. In
Sarah_Otto
American historian (1942–2015)
genetics in his biography of Sewall Wright, who was still alive and available for interviews. In this book, Provine criticizes Wright for confounding three different
William_B._Provine
2018 book by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
diagrams is then introduced through the explanations of the work of Sewall Wright. Chapter 3 provides an introduction to Bayes' Theorem. Then Bayesian
The_Book_of_Why
Congenital first branchial arch defect
internal organs) Cardiac anomalies Ambiguous genitalia Absence of glands Sewall Wright described twelve grades of otocephaly in guinea pigs. Grades 1 to 5
Otocephaly
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892–1964)
a series of scientific conferences. At the University of Wisconsin, Sewall Wright introduced him before his speech, noting many of Haldane's achievements
J._B._S._Haldane
Study of the evolution of life
B. Ford established an empirical research programme. Ronald Fisher, Sewall Wright, and J. B. S. Haldane created a sound theoretical framework. Ernst Mayr
Evolutionary_biology
Japanese biologist (1924–1994)
trio of the modern synthesis, Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright. Kimura was born on November 13, 1924, in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture
Motoo_Kimura
Visualization of variable interrelationships
cause and effect dates back, at least, to the use of path analysis by Sewall Wright in 1918. According to George Richardson's book "Feedback Thought in
Causal_loop_diagram
One gene variant masking the effect of another in the other copy of the gene
through the contribution of modifier genes. In 1929, American geneticist Sewall Wright responded by stating that dominance is simply a physiological consequence
Dominance_(genetics)
genetics is described in the Wright-Fisher model after Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher (1922, 1930) and (1931). Wright-Fisher populations have constant
Idealised_population
1931 scientific paper by Sewall Wright
American population geneticist Sewall Wright. The paper was first published in Genetics volume 16, pages 97–159. In it, Wright outlines various concepts,
Evolution in Mendelian Populations
Evolution_in_Mendelian_Populations
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician (1929–2021)
member of the National Academy of Sciences (resigned in 1972) 1994: Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists 2015: Crafoord Prize
Richard_Lewontin
Sequence of DNA that determines traits in an organism
was used in early phases of the Human Genome Project. R. A. Fisher, Sewall Wright and J.B.S. Haldane integrated Mendelian genetics with Darwinian evolution
Gene
Academic field within biology
Louis Pasteur M. S. Swaminathan Jethro Tull Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Sewall Wright Agricultural biotechnology Agricultural chemistry Agricultural diversification
Agricultural_science
American evolutionary biologist
Naturalist Award in 2009, the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 2012, the Sewall Wright Award in 2019, and the Friend of Darwin Award in 2024. Losos is a Fellow
Jonathan_Losos
One version of the theory of evolution
shifting balance theory is a theory of evolution proposed in 1932 by Sewall Wright, suggesting that adaptive evolution may proceed most quickly when a
Shifting_balance_theory
Stock character in film
Aquinas, Isaac Newton, Adam Smith, André-Marie Ampère, Jacques Hadamard, Sewall Wright, Nikola Tesla, Norbert Wiener, Archimedes, Pierre Curie and Albert Einstein
Absent-minded_professor
American evolutionary biologist
travel to the University of Melbourne in Australia. He received the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists in 1997 and the Leidy
Douglas_J._Futuyma
American ornithologist
2003: Margaret Morse Nice Medal, Wilson Ornithological Society 2005: Sewall Wright Award, American Society of Naturalists 2006: Love and Alden Miller Research
Robert_Ricklefs
American aeronautical engineer and inventor of Wright's law of productivity gains
the economist Philip Green Wright and his brothers were the geneticist Sewall Wright and the political scientist Quincy Wright. He graduated from Lombard
Theodore_Paul_Wright
Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900–1975)
Dobzhansky's work in the field of evolutionary genetics, with the help of Sewall Wright, integrated standards of the theoretical, natural historical, and experimental
Theodosius_Dobzhansky
B. S. Haldane did not even recognize that species were real, while Sewall Wright ignored the topic, despite accepting allopatric speciation. The primary
History_of_speciation
Line – Wallacea – George C. Williams (biologist) – Edward O. Wilson – Sewall Wright Y-chromosomal Adam – Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups List of biology
Index of evolutionary biology articles
Index_of_evolutionary_biology_articles
American ecologist (1920–1980)
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1950) 1951–1975 Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf (1951) Sewall Wright (1952) Lewis Stadler (1953) Milislav Demerec (1954) Kenneth V. Thimann
Robert_Whittaker_(ecologist)
American academic and Nobel Laureate (1916–2001)
Simon rediscovered path diagrams, which were originally invented by Sewall Wright around 1920. Simon was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence
Herbert_A._Simon
Statistically expected level of heterozygosity in a population
F-statistics was developed during the 1920s by the American geneticist Sewall Wright, who was interested in inbreeding in cattle. However, because complete
F-statistics
Canadian evolutionary biologist
Lawson Medal for lifetime achievement in botany. In 2008 he received the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists. In 2014, he received
Spencer Barrett (evolutionary biologist)
Spencer_Barrett_(evolutionary_biologist)
Evolutionary strategy favoring relatives
relatedness parameter (r) in Hamilton's rule was introduced in 1922 by Sewall Wright as a coefficient of relationship that gives the probability that at
Kin_selection
American entomologist (born 1941)
Evolution (618 pages). In the same year she was the recipient of the Sewall Wright Award. She has been selected as one of the 21 "Leaders in Animal Behavior"
Mary_Jane_West-Eberhard
Influence of a single gene on multiple phenotypic traits
will result in an increase in fitness. Expanding on Fisher's work, Sewall Wright provided more evidence in his 1968 book Evolution and the Genetics of
Pleiotropy
American political scientist (1890–1970)
United Nations Association. Wright's father was the economist Philip Green Wright and his brothers were the geneticist Sewall Wright and the aeronautical engineer
Quincy_Wright
Statistical method in genetic epidemiology
Robert Heath Lock. Another progenitor of Mendelian randomization is Sewall Wright who introduced path analysis, a form of causal diagram used for making
Mendelian_randomization
American-Israeli agricultural geneticist (1931–2026)
below. Soller also learned much from the writings of Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright during this time. In 1951 he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
Morris_Soller
British evolutionary biologist (1936–2000)
realised that the number that kept falling out of his calculations was Sewall Wright's coefficient of relationship. This became Hamilton's rule: in each behaviour-evoking
W._D._Hamilton
American philosopher, architect and inventor (1895–1983)
ISBN 978-0-385-01804-3. Jerry Coyne and Steve Jones (1995). "1994 Sewall Wright Award: Richard C. Lewontin". The American Naturalist. 146 (1). University
Buckminster_Fuller
Book by Ronald Aylmer Fisher
important in population genetics. Researchers like, J.B.S. Haldane and Sewall Wright expanded on Fisher's framework to describe gene frequencies, genetic
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
The_Genetical_Theory_of_Natural_Selection
British evolutionary biologist (born 1945)
according to the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal webpage. Lande, R (2007). "2006 Sewall Wright Award. Brian Charlesworth". The American Naturalist. 169 (1): iii. doi:10
Brian_Charlesworth
Change in the heritable traits of populations
pioneers in the field of population genetics, such as Ronald Fisher, Sewall Wright and J. B. S. Haldane set the foundations of evolution onto a robust
Evolution
Belief about living organisms
remnants of vitalist thinking can be found in the work of Alistair Hardy, Sewall Wright, and Charles Birch, who seem to believe in some sort of nonmaterial
Vitalism
Percent of variation in IQ scores in a given population associated with genetic variation
decomposition models for the phenotype. First pointed out by Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright, different sources of variance differ in their contribution to the resemblance
Heritability_of_IQ
Starobinski (Switzerland) --- History and criticism of the literatures Sewall Wright (United States) --- Genetics 1985 Ernst H. J. Gombrich (Austria / United
List of Balzan Prize recipients
List_of_Balzan_Prize_recipients
Difference in DNA among individuals or populations
known as fixation indices, were developed by population geneticist Sewall Wright to quantify differences in genetic variation within and between populations
Genetic_variation
American geneticist
Philosophical Society in 1910. At Harvard, his most famous PhD student was Sewall Wright who graduated in 1915. The same year he was elected to membership in
William_E._Castle
Species of moth
". Heredity. 1: 143–174. Fisher, R. A. & Ford, E. B. (1950). "The 'Sewall Wright' effect". Heredity. 4: 117–119. Ford, E. B. & Sheppard, P. M. (1969)
Scarlet_tiger_moth
Grouping by physical or social qualities
differences are far smaller than those among comparable subspecies. In 1978, Sewall Wright suggested that human populations that have long inhabited separated
Race_(human_categorization)
American biologist (1872–1955)
contributed to the study of eugenics and was an influential teacher to Sewall Wright. Key was born in Hartford, Wisconsin, in 1872. She was the fourth child
Wilhelmine_Key
Theory in evolutionary biology
between the two models, critiques from such eminent commentators as Sewall Wright as well as Simpson himself have argued that punctuated equilibrium is
Punctuated_equilibrium
Mechanism of evolution by differential reproduction
Haldane introduced the concept of the "cost" of natural selection. Sewall Wright elucidated the nature of selection and adaptation. In his book Genetics
Natural_selection
Surname list
businessman and politician from Maine May Wright Sewall (1844–1920), American feminist, educator, and lecturer Richard B. Sewall (1908–2003), American professor
Sewall
Speciation that occurs between geographically isolated populations
Bibcode:1998PNAS...95.5106P, doi:10.1073/pnas.95.9.5106, PMC 20221, PMID 9560236 Sewall Wright (1943), "Isolation by distance", Genetics, 28 (2): 114–138, doi:10.1093/genetics/28
Allopatric_speciation
English biologist and philosopher (1887–1975)
and the population geneticists J. B. S. Haldane, Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright. However, at the time of Huxley's book several of these had yet to make
Julian_Huxley
DNA locus associated with variation in a quantitative trait
an early summary of the theory of evolution of continuous variation, Sewall Wright, a graduate student who trained under Castle, summarized contemporary
Quantitative_trait_locus
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
biologist Conrad Hal Waddington, and geneticists Charles Birch and Sewall Wright. Henry Murray dedicated his "Explorations in Personality" to Whitehead
Alfred_North_Whitehead
Principle relating genetic variance to fitness
Largely as a result of Fisher's feud with the American geneticist Sewall Wright about adaptive landscapes, the theorem was widely misunderstood to mean
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection
Fisher's_fundamental_theorem_of_natural_selection
Genetic diversity in human populations
populations of European and African descent. The population geneticist Sewall Wright developed the fixation index (often abbreviated to FST) as a way of
Human_genetic_variation
Annual prize in statistical biology by Oxford University
S. Haldane 1941 Julia Bell 1944 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis 1947 Sewall Wright 1950 Lionel S. Penrose 1953 Frank Yates 1956 David J. Finney 1959 E
Weldon_Memorial_Prize
Day of the year
Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (born 1918) 1988 – Sewall Wright, American biologist and geneticist (born 1889) 1990 – Charlotte Moore
March_3
Individuals nearly identical in genotype due to long inbreeding
today. Sewall Wright took over the experiment in 1915. He was faced with the task of analyzing all of the accumulated data produced by Rommel. Wright became
Inbred_strain
1966—Edward F. Knipling, Fritz Albert Lipmann, William Cumming Rose, Sewall Wright 1967—Kenneth Stewart Cole, Harry Harlow, Michael Heidelberger, Alfred
List of National Medal of Science laureates
List_of_National_Medal_of_Science_laureates
Justin Kroll (died 1973), Luxembourgish metallurgist. December 21 – Sewall Wright (died 1988), American geneticist. December 29 – Vera Fedorovna Gaze
1889_in_science
Metaphor used to visualize the processes of evolution
(versus Wright's) is that the landscape changes as the environment changes. Credit for the first evolutionary landscape typically goes to Sewall Wright, and
Evolutionary_landscape
American geneticist (1916–2012)
original plan had been to get a postdoctoral fellowship to work with Sewall Wright at the University of Chicago, but this proved difficult just at the
James_F._Crow
Random mating
to describe the mathematical properties of structured populations, Sewall Wright proposed a "factor of Panmixia" (P) to include in the equations describing
Panmixia
Theory of evolution by changes at the molecular level
population genetics, established by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher, and Sewall Wright, created a mathematical approach to analyzing gene frequencies that
Neutral theory of molecular evolution
Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evolution
American phylogeneticist (born 1942)
Felsenstein's tree-pruning algorithm Relatives Lee Felsenstein (brother) Awards Sewall Wright Award (1993) Weldon Memorial Prize (2000) Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008)
Joseph_Felsenstein
Allele association in population genetics
{D^{2}}{p_{A}(1-p_{A})p_{B}(1-p_{B})}}} This LD measure was introduced by Sewall Wright and its use popularised by Hill and Robertson. The above LD theory is
Linkage_disequilibrium
1937 book by Theodosius Dobzhansky
of evolution. In his book Dobzhansky applied the theoretical work of Sewall Wright (1889–1988) to the study of natural populations. Dobzhansky uses theories
Genetics and the Origin of Species
Genetics_and_the_Origin_of_Species
Professional society dedicated to the biological sciences
including the Conceptual Unification Award (originally named in honor of Sewall Wright) for senior researchers making "fundamental contributions ... to the
American Society of Naturalists
American_Society_of_Naturalists
American behavior geneticist
where he studied under renowned scholar of genetics and evolution, Sewall Wright. Scott's first academic position was at Wabash College, where he chaired
John_Paul_Scott_(geneticist)
Brazilian-American philosopher
the method of path analysis, developed by the evolutionary biologist Sewall Wright. WarpPLS has been used to study a variety of topics, including nursing
Ned_Kock
Type of mathematical model
it do not. The first threshold models in genetics were introduced by Sewall Wright, examining the propensity of guinea pig strains to have an extra hind
Threshold_model
SEWALL WRIGHT
SEWALL WRIGHT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Seal 4.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Jewel, JEWELL means "jewel."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a variant form of Sewell.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Sea Powerful
Surname or Lastname
English (of Breton or Cornish origin)
English (of Breton or Cornish origin) : from a Celtic personal name, Old Breton Iudicael, composed of elements meaning ‘lord’ + ‘generous’, ‘bountiful’, which was borne by a 7th-century saint, a king of Brittany who abdicated and spent the last part of his life in a monastery. Forms of this name are found in medieval records not only in Devon and Cornwall, where they are of native origin, but also in East Anglia and even Yorkshire, whither they were imported by Bretons after the Norman Conquest.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : variant of Sewell.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Sewell.Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) came with his parents from Bishop Stoke, Hampshire, England, to Newbury, MA, as a nine-year-old boy. In 1676 he married Hannah Hull, a wealthy heiress, and in 1681 he was appointed printer to the Council in Boston. He served as a judge in the infamous Salem witchcraft trials of 1692—the only one of the judges to admit publicly that he had been wrong. In 1700 he published The Selling of Joseph, which argues that all men are created equal and presents theological arguments against slavery.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Ewell in Surrey or from Ewell Minnis or Temple Ewell in Kent, all named with Old English ǣwell ‘river source’.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Beal.Ninian Beall, a Scottish Royalist, emigrated to Calvert co., MD, in about 1650, after King Charles I was beheaded.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal names Siwal(d) and Sewal(d), Old English Sigeweald and Sǣweald, composed of the elements sige ‘victory’ and sǣ ‘sea’ + weald ‘rule’.English : habitational name from Sewell in Bedfordshire, Showell in Oxfordshire, or Seawell or Sywell in Northamptonshire, all of which are named from Old English seofon ‘seven’ + wella ‘spring’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Sea Powerful
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a pet form of the personal name Hugh, Hew (see Hugh).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Seal 1–4; it is also established as a surname in Ireland.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Sewak of Lord Rama
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from a Middle English form of Anglo-Saxon Siweard, SEWARD means "sea guard."Â
Male
Native American
Native American Miwok name SEWATI means "curved bear claw."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a Middle English personal name representing two originally distinct personal names, Siward and Seward, Old English Sigeweard and Sǣweard, composed of the elements sige ‘victory’ and sǣ ‘sea’ + weard ‘guard’, ‘protect’. They became confused in the late Old English period.English : occupational name for a swineherd, from Old English sū ‘pig’ + hierde ‘herdsman’.Irish : when not of English origin (see 1 above) a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Suaird, Ó Suairt, usually Anglicized as Sword.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, German, Teutonic
Sea Powerful
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English
From the New Hall
SEWALL WRIGHT
SEWALL WRIGHT
Boy/Male
Hindu
Young Moon, Moon crested Lord
Boy/Male
Tamil
Same as Amitabh
Male
Turkish
Turkish form of Hebrew Abraham, İBRAHİM means "father of a multitude."Â
Boy/Male
Muslim
Servant of the Kind.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Twist; Flexure
Girl/Female
Hindu
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Christian, French, Hebrew, Jamaican
In the Holy Land; The Plains; From the Plain of Sharon; Plain
Boy/Male
Tamil
Subiraj | ஸà¯à®ªà¯€à®°à®¾à®œ
Girl/Female
Indian
Shy, Modesty
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old Norse byname Triggr meaning ‘trustworthy’, ‘faithful’, a cognate of Trow 1.
SEWALL WRIGHT
SEWALL WRIGHT
SEWALL WRIGHT
SEWALL WRIGHT
SEWALL WRIGHT
v. t.
To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
n.
The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
v. t.
To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
v. i.
To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
v. i. & t.
To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
v. i.
To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
a.
Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
adv.
In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
v. t.
To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
superl.
Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
v. t.
To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
v. t.
See Inwall.
v. i.
To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
n.
An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace.
v. t.
To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
v. i.
A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
v. t.
To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
v. t.
To inclose or fortify as with a wall.
v. i.
The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
v. i.
To affix one's seal, or a seal.