There are currently 21023 EnglishDictionary in this directory beginning with the letter S.
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Saadh (n.) See Sadh.
Saan (n. pl.) Same as Bushmen.
Sabadilla (n.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
Sabaean (a. & n.) Same as Sabian.
Sabaeanism (n.) Same as Sabianism.
Sabaeism (n.) Alt. of Sabaism
Sabaism (n.) See Sabianism.
Sabal (n.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.
Sabaoth (n. pl.) Armies; hosts.
Sabaoth (n. pl.) Incorrectly, the Sabbath.
Sabbat (n.) In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
Sabbatarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
Sabbatarian (n.) A strict observer of the Sabbath.
Sabbatarian (n.) One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.
Sabbatarianism (n.) The tenets of Sabbatarians.
Sabbath (n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
Sabbath (n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.
Sabbathless (a.) Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest.
Sabbatic (a.) Alt. of Sabbatical
Sabbatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Sabbatism (n.) Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.
Sabbaton (n.) A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
Sabean (a. & n.) Same as Sabian.
Sabeism (n.) Same as Sabianism.
Sabella (n.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
Sabellian (a.) Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabellianism (n.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabelloid (a.) Like, or related to, the genus Sabella.
Saber (n.) Alt. of Sabre
Saber (v. t.) Alt. of Sabre
Saberbill (n.) Alt. of Sabrebill
Sabered (imp. & p. p.) of Sabre
Sabering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sabre
Sabian (a.) Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.
Sabian (a.) Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies.
Sabian (n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
Sabianism (n.) The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry.
Sabicu (n.) The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.
Sabine (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy.
Sabine (n.) One of the Sabine people.
Sabine (n.) See Savin.
Sable (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Sable (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
Sable (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
Sable (n.) The fur of the sable.
Sable (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
Sable (v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
Sabled (imp. & p. p.) of Sable
Sabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sable
Sabot (n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
Sabot (n.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
Sabotiere (n.) A kind of freezer for ices.
Sabre (n. & v.) See Saber.
Sabre (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
Sabre (v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
Sabrebill (n.) The curlew.
Sabred () of Sabre
Sabretasche (n.) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.
Sabrina work () A variety of applique work for quilts, table covers, etc.
Sabring () of Sabre
Sabulose (a.) Growing in sandy places.
Sabulosity (n.) The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.
Sabulous (a.) Sandy; gritty.
Sac (n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
Sac (n.) See 2d Sack.
Sac (n.) See Sacs.
Sac (n.) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
Sacalait (n.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.
Sacar (n.) See Saker.
Saccade (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
Saccate (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
Saccate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.
Saccharate (n.) A salt of saccharic acid.
Saccharate (n.) In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.
Saccharic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.
Saccharify (v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
Saccharifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saccharify
Saccharilla (n.) A kind of muslin.
Saccharimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.
Saccharimetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.
Saccharimetry (n.) The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.
Saccharin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
Saccharinate (n.) A salt of saccharine.
Saccharinate (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid.
Saccharine (a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.
Saccharine (n.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.
Saccharinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.
Saccharize (v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
Saccharized (imp. & p. p.) of Saccharize
Saccharizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saccharize
Saccharoid (a.) Alt. of Saccharoidal
Saccharoidal (a.) Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.
Saccharometer (n.) A saccharimeter.
Saccharomycetes (n. pl.) A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.
Saccharonate (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid.
Saccharone (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid.
Saccharone (n.) An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.
Saccharonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.
Saccharose (n.) Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.
Saccharous (a.) Saccharine.
Saccharum (n.) A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.
Saccholactate (n.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate.
Saccholactic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic.
Saccholic (a.) Saccholactic.
Sacchulmate (n.) A salt of sacchulmic acid.
Sacchulmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid.
Sacchulmin (n.) An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.
Sacci (pl. ) of Saccus
Sacciferous (a.) Bearing a sac.
Sacciform (a.) Having the general form of a sac.
Saccoglossa (n. pl.) Same as Pellibranchiata.
Saccular (a.) Like a sac; sacciform.
Sacculated (a.) Furnished with little sacs.
Saccule (n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
Sacculi (pl. ) of Sacculus
Sacculo-cochlear (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.
Sacculo-utricular (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.
Sacculus (n.) A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
Saccus (n.) A sac.
Sacella (pl. ) of Sacellum
Sacellum (n.) A small monumental chapel in a church.
Sacellum (n.) An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity.
Sacerdotal (a.) Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions.
Sacerdotalism (m.) The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
Sacerdotally (adv.) In a sacerdotal manner.
Sachel (n.) A small bag.
Sachem (n.) A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.
Sachemdom (n.) The government or jurisdiction of a sachem.
Sachemship (n.) Office or condition of a sachem.
Sachet (n.) A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.
Saciety (n.) Satiety.
Sack (n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
Sack (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
Sack (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
Sack (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
Sack (n.) Bed.
Sack (n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
Sack (n.) See 2d Sac, 2.
Sack (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
Sack (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
Sack (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
Sack (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
Sack-winged (a.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.
Sackage (n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.
Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.
Sackcloth (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
Sackclothed (a.) Clothed in sackcloth.
Sacked (imp. & p. p.) of Sack
Sacker (n.) One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.
Sackful (a.) Bent on plunder.
Sackful (n.) As much as a sack will hold.
Sackfuls (pl. ) of Sackful
Sacking (n.) Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
Sacral (a.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
Sacrament (n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.
Sacrament (n.) The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
Sacrament (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
Sacrament (v. t.) To bind by an oath.
Sacramental (a.) Bound by a sacrament.
Sacramental (a.) Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; of the nature of a sacrament; sacredly or solemnly binding; as, sacramental rites or elements.
Sacramental (n.) That which relates to a sacrament.
Sacramentalism (n.) The doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments.
Sacramentalist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ's body and blood in the holy eucharist.
Sacramentally (adv.) In a sacramental manner.
Sacramentarian (a.) Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.
Sacramentarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.
Sacramentarian (n.) A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.
Sacramentarian (n.) One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.
Sacramentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental.
Sacramentary (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.
Sacramentary (n.) Same as Sacramentarian, n., 1.
Sacramentize (v. i.) To administer the sacraments.
Sacrarium (n.) A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
Sacrarium (n.) In a Christian church, the sanctuary.
Sacrarium (n.) The adytum of a temple.
Sacrate (v. t.) To consecrate.
Sacration (n.) Consecration.
Sacre (n.) See Saker.
Sacre (v. t.) To consecrate; to make sacred.
Sacred (a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
Sacred (a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
Sacred (a.) Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
Sacred (a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
Sacred (a.) Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.
Sacred (a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
Sacrific (a.) Alt. of Sacrifical
Sacrificable (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice.
Sacrifical (a.) Employed in sacrifice.
Sacrificant (n.) One who offers a sacrifice.
Sacrificator (n.) A sacrificer; one who offers a sacrifice.
Sacrificatory (n.) Offering sacrifice.
Sacrifice (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
Sacrifice (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
Sacrifice (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
Sacrifice (n.) To destroy; to kill.
Sacrifice (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Sacrifice (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
Sacrificed (imp. & p. p.) of Sacrifice
Sacrificer (n.) One who sacrifices.
Sacrificial (a.) Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice.
Sacrificing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sacrifice
Sacrilege (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
Sacrist (n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.
Sacristan (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
Sacristies (pl. ) of Sacristy
Sacristy (n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Sacro- () A combining form denoting connection with, or relation to, the sacrum, as in sacro-coccygeal, sacro-iliac, sacrosciatic.
Sacrosanct (a.) Sacred; inviolable.
Sacrosciatic (a.) Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone.
Sacrovertebral (a.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
Sacrum (n.) That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.
Sacs (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Sad (supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
Sad (supperl.) Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
Sad (supperl.) Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
Sad (supperl.) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Sad (supperl.) Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
Sad (supperl.) Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
Sad (supperl.) Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
Sad (v. t.) To make sorrowful; to sadden.
Sadda (n.) A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend-Avesta, or sacred books.
Sadden (v. i.) To become, or be made, sad.
Sadden (v. t.) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.
Sadden (v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
Sadden (v. t.) To make sad.
Sadden (v. t.) To render heavy or cohesive.
Saddened (imp. & p. p.) of Sadden
Saddening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sadden
Sadder (n.) Same as Sadda.
Saddle (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.
Saddle (n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
Saddle (n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
Saddle (n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
Saddle (n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.
Saddle (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
Saddle (n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.
Saddle (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.
Saddle (v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.
Saddle-backed (a.) Having a low back and high neck, as a horse.
Saddle-backed (a.) Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.
Saddle-shaped (a.) Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form.
Saddle-shaped (a.) Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top; -- said of strata.
Saddle-shaped (a.) Shaped like a saddle.
Saddleback (a.) Same as Saddle-backed.
Saddleback (n.) Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.
Saddleback (n.) The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus).
Saddleback (n.) The harp seal.
Saddleback (n.) The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back.
Saddlebags (n. pl.) Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side.
Saddlebow (n.) The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front.
Saddlecloth (n.) A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
Saddled (a.) Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed.
Saddled (imp. & p. p.) of Saddle
Saddler (n.) A harp seal.
Saddler (n.) One who makes saddles.
Saddlery (n.) The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.
Saddlery (n.) The trade or employment of a saddler.
Saddletree (n.) The frame of a saddle.
Saddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saddle
Sadducaic (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the Sadducees; as, Sadducaic reasonings.
Sadducee (n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels.
Sadduceeism (n.) Alt. of Sadducism
Sadducism (n.) The tenets of the Sadducees.
Sadducize (v. i.) To adopt the principles of the Sadducees.
Sadducized (imp. & p. p.) of Sadducize
Sadducizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sadducize
Sadh (n.) A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.
Sadiron (n.) An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.
Sadness (n.) Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
Sadness (n.) Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
Sadr (n.) A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).
Saengerfest (n.) A festival of singers; a German singing festival.
Safe (n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
Safe (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
Safe (n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
Safe (superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.
Safe (superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.
Safe (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
Safe (v. t.) To render safe; to make right.
Safe-conduct (n.) a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country
Safe-conduct (n.) a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety.
Safe-conduct (n.) That which gives a safe passage
Safe-conduct (v. t.) To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.
Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
Safe-pledge (n.) A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.
Safeguard (n.) A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.
Safeguard (n.) A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct.
Safeguard (n.) One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.
Safeguard (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
Safely (adv.) In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.
Safeness (n.) The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.
Safety (n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
Safety (n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Safety (n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Safflow (n.) The safflower.
Safflower (n.) A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).
Safflower (n.) An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
Safflower (n.) The dried flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius.
Saffron (a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
Saffron (n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
Saffron (n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
Saffron (n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
Saffron (v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
Saffrony (a.) Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.
Safranin (n.) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.
Safranin (n.) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
Safranin (n.) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
Safranine (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
Sag (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
Sag (v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
Sag (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
Saga (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
Saga (pl. ) of Sagum
Sagacious (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
Sagacious (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
Sagacity (n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Sagamore (n.) A juice used in medicine.
Sagamore (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.
Sagapen (n.) Sagapenum.
Sagapenum (n.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.
Sagas (pl. ) of Saga
Sagathy (n.) A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.
Sage (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
Sage (n.) The sagebrush.
Sage (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.
Sage (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
Sage (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
Sagebrush (n.) A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
Sagely (adv.) In a sage manner; wisely.
Sagene (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.
Sageness (n.) The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.
Sagenite (n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.
Sagenitic (a.) Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.
Sagged (imp. & p. p.) of Sag
Sagger (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.
Sagger (n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.
Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
Sagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sag
Saginate (v. t.) To make fat; to pamper.
Sagination (n.) The act of fattening or pampering.
Sagitta (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha.
Sagitta (n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.
Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
Sagitta (n.) The keystone of an arch.
Sagitta (n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.
Sagittal (a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.
Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.
Sagittarius (n.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
Sagittarius (n.) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer.
Sagittary (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.
Sagittary (n.) A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.
Sagittary (n.) The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.
Sagittate (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
Sagittated (a.) Sagittal; sagittate.
Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
Sagoin (n.) A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.
Sagum (n.) The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.
Sagus (n.) A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.
Sagy (a.) Full of sage; seasoned with sage.
Saheb (n.) A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.
Sahib (n.) Alt. of Saheb
Sahibah (n.) A lady; mistress.
Sahidic (a.) Same as Thebaic.
Sahlite (n.) See Salite.
Sahui (n.) A marmoset.
Sai (n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Saibling (n.) A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.
Saic (n.) A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.
Said () imp. & p. p. of Say.
Said (a.) Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.
Said (imp. & p. p.) of Say
Saiga (n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.
Saikyr (n.) Same as Saker.
Sail (n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.
Sail (n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
Sail (n.) A wing; a van.
Sail (n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
Sail (n.) Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
Sail (n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
Sail (n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.
Sail (n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.
Sail (n.) To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
Sail (n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.
Sail (n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
Sail (v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship.
Sail (v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
Sail (v. t.) To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.
Sailable (a.) Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.
Sailboat (n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
Sailcloth (n.) Duck or canvas used in making sails.
Sailed (imp. & p. p.) of Sail
Sailer (n.) A sailor.
Sailer (n.) A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.
Sailfish (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)
Sailfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark.
Sailfish (n.) The quillback.
Sailing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.
Sailing (n.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.
Sailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sail
Sailless (a.) Destitute of sails.
Sailmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
Sailor (n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Saily (a.) Like a sail.
Saim (n.) Lard; grease.
Saimir (n.) The squirrel monkey.
Sain (p. p.) Said.
Sain (v. t.) To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence.
Sainfoin (n.) A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).
Sainfoin (n.) A leguminous plant (Onobrychis sativa) cultivated for fodder.
Saint (n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
Saint (n.) One canonized by the church.
Saint (n.) One of the blessed in heaven.
Saint (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.
Saint (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
Saint-Simonianism (n.) The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint- Simonism.
Saintdom (n.) The state or character of a saint.
Sainted (a.) Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious.
Sainted (a.) Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
Sainted (imp. & p. p.) of Saint
Saintess (n.) A female saint.
Sainthood (n.) The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively.
Sainthood (n.) The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint.
Sainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saint
Saintish (a.) Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.
Saintism (n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness.
Saintlike (a.) Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly.
Saintliness (n.) Quality of being saintly.
Saintly (superl.) Like a saint; becoming a holy person.
Saintologist (n.) One who writes the lives of saints.
Saintship (n.) The character or qualities of a saint.
Saith () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Say.
Saithe (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.
Saiva (n.) One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration.
Saivism (n.) The worship of Siva.
Sajene (n.) Same as Sagene.
Sajou (n.) Same as Sapajou.
Saker (n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.
Saker (n.) A small piece of artillery.
Saker (n.) The peregrine falcon.
Sakeret (n.) The male of the saker (a).
Saki (n.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile.
Saki (n.) The alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice.
Sakti (n.) The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.
Sal (n.) An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable.
Sal (n.) Salt.
Salaam (n.) Same as Salam.
Salaam (v. i.) To make or perform a salam.
Salability (n.) The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.
Salable (a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.
Salacious (n.) Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
Salacity (n.) Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.
Salad (n.) A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.
Salad (n.) A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
Salade (n.) A helmet. See Sallet.
Salading (n.) Vegetables for salad.
Salaeratus (n.) See Saleratus.
Salagane (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.
Salal-berry (n.) The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.
Salam (n.) A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead.
Salamander (n.) A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.
Salamander (n.) A large poker.
Salamander (n.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.
Salamander (n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
Salamander (n.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States.
Salamandrina (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders.
Salamandrine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.
Salamandroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the salamanders.
Salamandroidea (n. pl.) A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela.
Salamstone (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.
Salangana (n.) The salagane.
Salaried (a.) Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.
Salaried (imp. & p. p.) of Salary
Salaries (pl. ) of Salary
Salary (a.) Saline
Salary (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
Salary (v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Salarying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salary
Sale (n.) See 1st Sallow.
Sale (v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
Sale (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
Sale (v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.
Saleable (adv.) Alt. of Saleably
Saleably (adv.) See Salable, Salably, etc.
Saleb (n.) See Salep.
Salebrosity (n.) Roughness or ruggedness.
Salebrous (a.) Rough; rugged.
Salep (n.) The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.
Salesman (n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Salesmen (pl. ) of Salesman
Saleswoman (n.) A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Saleswomen (pl. ) of Saleswoman
Salework (n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly.
Salian (a.) Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.
Salian (n.) A Salian Frank.
Saliant (a.) Same as Salient.
Saliaunce (a.) Salience; onslaught.
Salic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.
Salicaceous (a.) Belonging or relating to the willow.
Salices (pl. ) of Salix
Salicin (n.) A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.
Salicyl (n.) The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.
Salicylate (n.) A salt of salicylic acid.
Salicylide (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.
Salicylite (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.
Salicylol (n.) Same as Salicylal.
Salicylous (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a substance formerly called salicylous acid, and now salicylal.
Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
Salience (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.
Saliency (n.) Quality of being salient; hence, vigor.
Salient (a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.
Salient (v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
Salient (v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
Salient (v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
Salient (v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
Salient (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
Saliently (adv.) In a salient manner.
Saliferous (a.) Producing, or impregnated with, salt.
Salifiable (a.) Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.
Salification (n.) The act, process, or result of salifying; the state of being salified.
Salified (imp. & p. p.) of Salify
Salify (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with a salt.
Salify (v. t.) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid.
Salifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salify
Saligenin (n.) A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.
Saligot (n.) The water chestnut (Trapa natans).
Salimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.
Salimetry (n.) The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.
Salina (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.
Salina (a.) Salt works.
Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.
Salination (n.) The act of washing with salt water.
Saline (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
Saline (a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
Saline (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
Saline (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
Saline (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
Salineness (n.) The quality or state of being salt; saltness.
Saliniferous (a.) Same as Saliferous.
Saliniform (a.) Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt.
Salinity (n.) Salineness.
Salinometer (n.) A salimeter.
Salinous (a.) Saline.
Salique (a.) Salic.
Saliretin (n.) A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.
Salisburia (n.) The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia).
Salite (n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
Salite (v. t.) To season with salt; to salt.
Saliva (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands.
Salival (a.) Salivary.
Salivant (a.) Producing salivation.
Salivant (n.) That which produces salivation.
Salivary (a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.
Salivate (v. i.) To produce saliva, esp. in excess.
Salivate (v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
Salivated (imp. & p. p.) of Salivate
Salivating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salivate
Salivation (n.) The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.
Salivous (a.) Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.
Salix (n.) A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.
Salix (n.) A tree or shrub of any kind of willow.
Sallenders (n. pl.) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
Sallet (n.) A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.
Sallet (n.) Alt. of Salleting
Salleting (n.) Salad.
Salliance (n.) Salience.
Sallied (imp. & p. p.) of Sally
Sallies (pl. ) of Sally
Sallow (n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
Sallow (n.) The willow; willow twigs.
Sallow (superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
Sallow (v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.
Sallowish (a.) Somewhat sallow.
Sallowness (n.) The quality or condition of being sallow.
Sally (v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
Sally (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
Sally (v.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
Sally (v.) A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
Sally (v.) An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
Sally (v.) Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
Sally Lunn () A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.
Sallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sally
Sallyman (n.) The velella; -- called also saleeman.
Salm (n.) Psalm.
Salmagundi (n.) A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
Salmagundi (n.) Hence, a mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
Salmi (n.) Same as Salmis.
Salmiac (n.) Sal ammoniac. See under Sal.
Salmis (n.) A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.
Salmon (a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Salmon (pl. ) of Salmon
Salmon (v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
Salmonet (n.) A salmon of small size; a samlet.
Salmonoid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidae, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon.
Salmonoid (n.) Any fish of the family Salmonidae.
Salmons (pl. ) of Salmon
Salogen (n.) A halogen.
Salol (n.) A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate.
salometer (n.) See Salimeter.
Salomtry (n.) Salimetry.
Salon (n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.
Saloon (n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
Saloon (n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.
Saloop (n.) An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London.
Salp (n.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.
Salpa (n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix.
Salpae (pl. ) of Salpa
Salpas (pl. ) of Salpa
Salpian (n.) Alt. of Salpid
Salpicon (n.) Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce.
Salpid (n.) A salpa.
Salpingitis (n.) Inflammation of the salpinx.
Salpinx (n.) The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.
Salsafy (n.) See Salsify.
Salsamentarious (a.) Salt; salted; saline.
Salse (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.
Salsify (n.) See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.
Salso-acid (a.) Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid.
Salsoda (n.) See Sal soda, under Sal.
Salsola (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.
salsuginous (a.) Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.
Salt (n.) A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
Salt (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
Salt (n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
Salt (n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
Salt (n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.
Salt (n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
Salt (n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
Salt (n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
Salt (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
Salt (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
Salt rheum () A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.
Salt-green (a.) Sea-green in color.
Saltant (v.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
Saltant (v.) Leaping; jumping; dancing.
Saltarella (n.) See Saltarello.
Saltarello (n.) A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
Saltate (v. i.) To leap or dance.
Saltation (n.) A leaping or jumping.
Saltation (n.) An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or appearance of a species; a sudden modification which may give rise to new races.
Saltation (n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery.
Saltatoria (n. pl.) A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
Saltatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria.
Saltatorial (a.) Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises.
Saltatorial (a.) Same as Saltatorious.
Saltatorious (a.) Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.
Saltatory (a.) Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing.
Saltbush (n.) An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.
Saltcat (n.) A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.
Saltcellar (n.) Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
Salted (imp. & p. p.) of Salt
Salter (n.) One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.
Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Saltfoot (n.) A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
Saltier (n.) See Saltire.
Saltigradae (n. pl.) A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.
Saltigrade (a.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
Saltigrade (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.
Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Salting (n.) A salt marsh.
Salting (n.) The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.
Salting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salt
Saltire (v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Saltirewise (adv.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.
Saltish (a.) Somewhat salt.
Saltle (n.) The European dab.
Saltless (a.) Destitute of salt; insipid.
Saltly (adv.) With taste of salt; in a salt manner.
Saltmouth (n.) A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
Saltness (n.) The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.
Saltpeter (n.) Alt. of Saltpetre
Saltpetrous (a.) Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
Saltwort (n.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.
Salty (a.) Somewhat salt; saltish.
Salubrious (a.) Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
Salubrity (n.) The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate.
Salue (v. t.) To salute.
Salutary (a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.
Salutation (n.) The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.
Salutatorian (n.) The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.
Salutatorily (adv.) By way of salutation.
Salutatory (a.) Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges.
Salutatory (n.) A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
Salutatory (n.) The salutatory oration.
Salute (v. t.) Hence, to give a sign of good will; to compliment by an act or ceremony, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
Salute (v. t.) To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
Salute (v. t.) To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by dipping colors, by cheers, etc.
Salute (v. t.) To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
Salute (v.) A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
Salute (v.) The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.
Saluted (imp. & p. p.) of Salute
Saluter (n.) One who salutes.
Salutiferous (a.) Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air.
Salutiferously (adv.) Salutarily.
Saluting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salute
Salvability (n.) The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness.
Salvable (a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.
Salvage (a. & n.) Savage.
Salvage (n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
Salvage (n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
Salvage (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
Salvation (n.) Saving power; that which saves.
Salvation (n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
Salvation (n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
Salvationist (n.) An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.
Salvatory (n.) A place where things are preserved; a repository.
Salve (interj.) Hail!
Salve (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
Salve (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
Salve (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
Salve (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
Salve (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
Salve (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
Salved (imp. & p. p.) of Salve
Salver (n.) A salvor.
Salver (n.) A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
Salver-shaped (a.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
Salvia (n.) A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.
Salvific (a.) Tending to save or secure safety.
Salving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salve
Salvo (n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
Salvo (n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Salvo (n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
Salvor (n.) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
Salvos (pl. ) of Salvo
Sam (a.) Together.
Samaj (n.) A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.
Samara (n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Samare (n.) See Simar.
Samaritan (a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.
Samaritan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
Samarium (n.) A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.
Samaroid (a.) Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.
Samarra (n.) See Simar.
Samarskite (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.
Sambo (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
Samboo (n.) Same as Sambur.
Sambucus (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.
Sambuke (n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.
Sambur (n.) An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).
Same (v. i.) Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
Same (v. i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
Same (v. i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
Sameliness (n.) Sameness, 2.
Sameness (n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
Sameness (n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
Samette (n.) See Samite.
Samian (a.) Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.
Samian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samos.
Samiel (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.
Samiot (a. & n.) Samian.
Samite (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.
Samlet (n.) The parr.
Sammier (n.) A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning.
Samoan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.
Samoan (n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.
Samovar (n.) A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn.
Samoyedes (n. pl.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Samp (n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.
Sampan (n.) A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.
Samphire (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
Samphire (n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.
Samphire (n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.
Sample (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
Sample (n.) Example; pattern.
Sample (v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match.
Sample (v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.
Sampler (n.) A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.
Sampler (n.) One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
Samshoo (n.) Alt. of Samshu
Samshu (n.) A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.
Samson (n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.
Sanability (n.) The quality or state of being sanable; sanableness; curableness.
Sanable (a.) Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.
Sanableness (n.) The quality of being sanable.
Sanation (n.) The act of healing or curing.
Sanative (a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.
Sanatorium (n.) An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.
Sanatory (a.) Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.
Sanbenito (n.) A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fe.
Sanbenito (n.) Anciently, a sackcloth coat worn by penitents on being reconciled to the church.
Sance-bell (n.) Alt. of Sancte bell
Sancte bell (n.) See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.
Sanctificate (v. t.) To sanctify.
Sanctification (n.) The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration.
Sanctification (n.) the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified.
Sanctification (n.) The act of sanctifying or making holy; the state of being sanctified or made holy;
Sanctified (a.) Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.
Sanctified (imp. & p. p.) of Sanctify
Sanctifier (n.) One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.
Sanctify (v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
Sanctify (v. t.) To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
Sanctify (v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Sanctify (v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
Sanctifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sanctify
Sanctifyingly (adv.) In a manner or degree tending to sanctify or make holy.
Sanctiloquent (a.) Discoursing on heavenly or holy things, or in a holy manner.
Sanctimonial (a.) Sanctimonious.
Sanctimonious (a.) Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious.
Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
Sanction (n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.
Sanction (n.) Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.
Sanction (v. t.) To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.
Sanctionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or giving, sanction.
Sanctioned (imp. & p. p.) of Sanction
Sanctioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sanction
Sanctities (pl. ) of Sanctity
Sanctitude (n.) Holiness; sacredness; sanctity.
Sanctity (n.) A saint or holy being.
Sanctity (n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.
Sanctity (n.) The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
Sanctuaries (pl. ) of Sanctuary
Sanctuarize (v. t.) To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges.
Sanctuary (n.) A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship.
Sanctuary (n.) A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.
Sanctuary (n.) A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
Sanctuary (n.) The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.
Sanctum (n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
Sanctus (n.) A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.
Sanctus (n.) An anthem composed for these words.
Sand (n.) A single particle of such stone.
Sand (n.) Courage; pluck; grit.
Sand (n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
Sand (n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.
Sand (n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Sand (v. t.) To drive upon the sand.
Sand (v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
Sand (v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand.
Sand-blind (a.) Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
Sandal (n.) A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.
Sandal (n.) A kind of slipper.
Sandal (n.) An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.
Sandal (n.) Same as Sendal.
Sandal (n.) Sandalwood.
Sandaled (a.) Made like a sandal.
Sandaled (a.) Wearing sandals.
Sandaliform (a.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper.
Sandalwood (n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
Sandalwood (n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Sandarac (n.) A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.
Sandarac (n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
Sandarach (n.) Alt. of Sandarac
Sandbagger (n.) An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
Sanded (a.) Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
Sanded (a.) Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.
Sanded (a.) Short-sighted.
Sanded (imp. & p. p.) of Sand
Sandemanian (n.) A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.
Sandemanianism (n.) The faith or system of the Sandemanians.
Sanderling (n.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
Sanders (n.) An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
Sanders-blue (n.) See Saunders-blue.
Sandever (n.) See Sandiver.
Sandfish (n.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.
Sandglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
Sandiness (n.) The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.
Sanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sand
Sandish (a.) Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.
Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
Sandix (n.) A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.
Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Sandnecker (n.) A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
Sandpaper (n.) Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
Sandpaper (v. t.) To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
Sandpiper (n.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Sandpiper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.
Sandpit (n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Sandre (n.) A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare.
Sandstone (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Sandwich (n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
Sandwich (v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
Sandwiched (imp. & p. p.) of Sandwich
Sandwiching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sandwich
Sandworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.
Sandworm (n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters.
Sandworm (n.) The chigoe, a species of flea.
Sandwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.)
Sandy (superl.) Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
Sandy (superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
Sandyx (n.) See Sandix.
Sane (a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
Sane (a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
Saneness (n.) The state of being sane; sanity.
Sang () imp. of Sing.
Sang () of Sing
Sang-froid (n.) Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness.
Sanga (n.) Alt. of Sangu
Sangaree (n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.
Sangiac (n.) See Sanjak.
Sangraal (n.) Alt. of Sangreal
Sangreal (n.) See Holy Grail, under Grail.
Sangu (n.) The Abyssinian ox (Bos / Bibos, Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.
Sanguiferous (a.) Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.
Sanguification (n.) The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.
Sanguinaceous (n.) Of a blood-red color; sanguine.
Sanguinaria (n.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family.
Sanguinaria (n.) The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
Sanguinarily (adv.) In a sanguinary manner.
Sanguinariness (n.) The quality or state of being sanguinary.
Sanguinary (a.) Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
Sanguinary (a.) Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
Sanguinary (a.) The Sanguinaria.
Sanguinary (a.) The yarrow.
Sanguine (a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
Sanguine (a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
Sanguine (a.) Having the color of blood; red.
Sanguine (a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
Sanguine (n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
Sanguine (n.) Blood color; red.
Sanguine (n.) Bloodstone.
Sanguine (n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
Sanguine (v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Sanguineless (a.) Destitute of blood; pale.
Sanguinely (adv.) In a sanguine manner.
Sanguineness (n.) The quality of being sanguine.
Sanguineous (a.) Abounding with blood; sanguine.
Sanguineous (a.) Blood-red; crimson.
Sanguineous (a.) Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood.
sanguinity (n.) The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.
Sanguinivorous (a.) Subsisting on blood.
Sanguinolency (n.) The state of being sanguinolent, or bloody.
Sanguinolent (a.) Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.
Sanguisuge (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech.
Sanguivorous (a.) Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
Sanhedrim (n.) the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.
Sanhedrin (n.) Alt. of Sanhedrim
Sanhedrist (n.) A member of the sanhedrin.
Sanhita (n.) A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda.
Sanicle (n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.
Sanidine (n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.
Sanies (n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
Sanious (a.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer.
Sanious (a.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.
Sanitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.
Sanitarian (n.) An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
Sanitarist (n.) A sanitarian.
Sanitarium (n.) A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.
Sanitary (a.) Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.
Sanitation (n.) The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
Sanity (n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
Sanjak (n.) A district or a subvision of a vilayet.
Sank () imp. of Sink.
Sank () of Sink
Sankha (n.) A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.
Sankhya (n.) A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness.
Sannop (n.) Same as Sannup.
Sannup (n.) A male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.
Sanny (n.) The sandpiper.
Sans (prep.) Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.
Sans-culotte (n.) Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.
Sans-culottic (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
Sans-culottism (n.) Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
Sans-souci (adv.) Without care; free and easy.
Sanscrit (n.) See Sanskrit.
Sanskrit (a.) Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
Sanskritic (a.) Sanskrit.
Sanskritist (n.) One versed in Sanskrit.
Santal (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.
Santalaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.
Santalic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.
Santalin (n.) Santalic acid. See Santalic.
Santalum (n.) A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.
Santees (n. pl.) One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.
Santer (v. i.) See Saunter.
Santon (n.) A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.
Santonate (n.) A salt of santonic acid.
Santonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.
Santonin (n.) A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.
Santoninate (n.) A salt of santoninic acid.
Santoninic (a.) Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.
Sao (n.) Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Sap (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
Sap (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Sap (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Sap (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Sap (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Sap (v. t.) To pierce with saps.
Sap (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Sapadillo (n.) See Sapodila.
Sapajo (n.) The sapajou.
Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood.
Sapful (a.) Abounding in sap; sappy.
Saphead (n.) A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.
Saphenous (a.) Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man.
Saphenous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes.
Sapid (a.) Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.
Sapidity (n.) The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.
Sapidness (n.) Quality of being sapid; sapidity.
Sapience (n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
Sapient (a.) Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.
Sapiential (a.) Having or affording wisdom.
Sapientious (a.) Sapiential.
Sapientize (v. t.) To make sapient.
Sapiently (adv.) In a sapient manner.
Sapindaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera.
Sapindus (n.) A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.
Sapodilla (n.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum.
Sapogenin (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of saponin.
Saponaceous (a.) Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.
Saponacity (n.) The quality or state of being saponaceous.
Saponary (a.) Saponaceous.
Saponifiable (a.) Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance.
Saponification (n.) The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.
Saponified (imp. & p. p.) of Saponify
Saponifier (n.) That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.
Saponify (v. t.) To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.
Saponifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saponify
Saponite (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.
Saponul (n.) A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
Sapor (n.) Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste.
Saporific (a.) Having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish.
Saporosity (n.) The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.
Saporous (a.) Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.
Sapota (n.) The sapodilla.
Sappan wood () Sapan wood.
Sappare (n.) Kyanite.
Sapped (imp. & p. p.) of Sap
Sapper (n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
Sapphic (a.) Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
Sapphic (n.) A Sapphic verse.
Sapphire (a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
Sapphire (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.
Sapphire (n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.
Sapphire (n.) The color of the gem; bright blue.
Sapphirine (n.) Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.
Sappho (n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
Sappiness (n.) The quality of being sappy; juiciness.
Sapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sap
Sappodilla (n.) See Sapodilla.
Sappy (a.) Musty; tainted.
Sappy (superl.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood.
Sappy (superl.) Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
Sappy (superl.) Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
Sappy (superl.) Weak in intellect.
Saprophagan (n.) One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
Saprophagous (a.) Feeding on carrion.
Saprophyte (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
Saprophytic (a.) Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
Sapsago (n.) A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
Sapskull (n.) A saphead.
Sapucaia (n.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.
Sapwood (n.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
Sarabaite (n.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.
Saraband (n.) A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.
Saracen (n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
Saracenic (a.) Alt. of Saracenical
Saracenical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture.
Sarasin (n.) See Sarrasin.
Saraswati (n.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.
Sarcasm (n.) A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
Sarcasmous (a.) Sarcastic.
Sarcastic (a.) Alt. of Sarcastical
Sarcastical (a.) Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
Sarcastically (adv.) In a sarcastic manner.
Sarcel (n.) One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
Sarceled (a.) Cut through the middle.
Sarcelle (n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.
Sarcenet (n.) A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.
Sarcin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Sarcle (v. t.) To weed, or clear of weeds, with a hoe.
Sarco- () A combining form from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology.
Sarcobases (pl. ) of Sarcobasis
Sarcobasis (n.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
Sarcoblast (n.) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.
Sarcocarp (n.) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
Sarcocele (n.) Any solid tumor of the testicle.
Sarcocol (n.) Alt. of Sarcocolla
Sarcocolla (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.
Sarcode (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
Sarcoderm (n.) Alt. of sarcoderma
sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.
sarcoderma (n.) A sarcocarp.
Sarcodic (a.) Of or pertaining to sarcode.
Sarcoid (a.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.
Sarcolactic (a.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.
Sarcolemma (n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
Sarcoline (a.) Flesh-colored.
Sarcologic (a.) Alt. of Sarcological
Sarcological (a.) Of or pertaining to sarcology.
Sarcology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.
Sarcoma (n.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.
sarcomas (pl. ) of Sarcoma
Sarcomata (pl. ) of Sarcoma
Sarcomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.
Sarcophaga (n. pl.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
Sarcophaga (n.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.
Sarcophagan (n.) Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
Sarcophagan (n.) Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
Sarcophagi (pl. ) of Sarcophagus
Sarcophagous (a.) Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.
Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
Sarcophagus (n.) A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
Sarcophaguses (pl. ) of Sarcophagus
Sarcophagy (n.) The practice of eating flesh.
Sarcophile (n.) A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.
Sarcoptes (n.) A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.
Sarcoptid (a.) Of or pertaining to the itch mites.
Sarcoptid (n.) Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites.
Sarcorhamphi (n. pl.) A division of raptorial birds comprising the vultures.
Sarcosepta (pl. ) of Sarcoseptum
Sarcoseptum (n.) One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan.
Sarcosin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.
Sarcosis (n.) Abnormal formation of flesh.
Sarcosis (n.) Sarcoma.
Sarcotic (a.) Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.
Sarcotic (n.) A sarcotic medicine.
Sarcous (a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.
Sarculation (n.) A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.
Sard (n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.
Sardachate (n.) A variety of agate containing sard.
Sardan (n.) Alt. of Sardel
Sardel (n.) A precious stone. See Sardius.
Sardel (n.) A sardine.
Sardine (n.) See Sardius.
Sardinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia.
Sardinian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sardinia.
Sardius (n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate.
Sardoin (n.) Sard; carnelian.
Sardonian (a.) Sardonic.
Sardonic (a.) Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.
Sardonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.
Sardonyx (n.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
Saree (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.
Sargasso (n.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
Sargassum (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
Sargo (n.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to Sargus, Pomadasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.
Sari (n.) Same as Saree.
Sarigue (n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.
Sark (n.) A shirt.
Sark (v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
Sarkin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
Sarlac (n.) Alt. of Sarlyk
Sarlyk (n.) The yak.
Sarmatian (a.) Alt. of Sarmatic
Sarmatic (a.) Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.
Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.
Sarmentaceous (a.) Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.
Sarmentose (a.) Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous.
Sarmentose (a.) Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.
Sarmentous (a.) Sarmentose.
Sarn (n.) A pavement or stepping-stone.
Sarong (n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.
Saros (n.) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.
Sarpened (imp. & p. p.) of Sharpen
Sarplar (n.) A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.
Sarplier (n.) A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc.
Sarpo (n.) A large toadfish of the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. pardus).
Sarracenia (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.
Sarrasin (n.) Alt. of Sarrasine
Sarrasine (n.) A portcullis, or herse.
Sarsa (n.) Sarsaparilla.
Sarsaparilla (n.) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.
Sarsaparilla (n.) The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.
Sarsaparillin (n.) See Parillin.
Sarse (n.) A fine sieve; a searce.
Sarse (v. t.) To sift through a sarse.
Sarsen (n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.
Sarsenet (n.) See Sarcenet.
Sart (n.) An assart, or clearing.
Sartorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.
Sartorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the sartorius muscle.
Sartorius (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.
Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs.
Sash (n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.
Sash (n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
Sash (n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.
Sash (v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.
Sash (v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.
Sashed (imp. & p. p.) of Sash
Sashery (n.) A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes.
Sashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sash
Sashoon (n.) A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot.
Sasin (n.) The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, / cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.
Sassaby (n.) Alt. of Sassabye
Sassabye (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.
Sassafras (n.) An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.
Sassanage (n.) Stones left after sifting.
Sassarara (n.) A word used to emphasize a statement.
Sasse (n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
Sassenach (n.) A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.
Sassolin (n.) Alt. of Sassoline
Sassoline (n.) Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
Sassorol (n.) Alt. of Sassorolla
Sassorolla (n.) The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.
Sassy bark () The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark.
Sastra (n.) Same as Shaster.
Sat () imp. of Sit.
Sat (imp.) of Sit
Sat (p. p.) of Sit
Satan (n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.
Satanic (a.) Alt. of Satanical
Satanical (a.) Of or pertaining to Satan; having the qualities of Satan; resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal.
Satanism (n.) The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.
Satanist (n.) A very wicked person.
Satanophany (n.) An incarnation of Satan; a being possessed by a demon.
Satchel (n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.
Sate () imp. of Sit.
Sate () of Sit
Sate (v. t.) To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.
Sated (imp. & p. p.) of Sate
Sateen (n.) A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.
Sateless (a.) Insatiable.
Satellite (a.) Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.
Satellite (n.) A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.
Satellite (n.) An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
Satellitious (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, satellites.
Sathanas (n.) Satan.
Satiate (a.) Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.
Satiate (v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
Satiate (v. t.) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.
Satiate (v. t.) To saturate.
Satiated (imp. & p. p.) of Satiate
Satiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Satiate
Satiation (n.) Satiety.
Satiety (n.) The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.
Satin (n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.
Satinet (n.) A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.
Satinet (n.) A thin kind of satin.
Sating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sate
Satiny (a.) Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.
Sation (n.) A sowing or planting.
Satire (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
Satire (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Satiric (a.) Alt. of Satirical
Satirical (a.) Censorious; severe in language; sarcastic; insulting.
Satirical (a.) Of or pertaining to satire; of the nature of satire; as, a satiric style.
Satirist (n.) One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.
Satirize (v. t.) To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
Satirized (imp. & p. p.) of Satirize
Satirizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Satirize
Satisfaction (n.) Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation.
Satisfaction (n.) That which satisfies or gratifies; atonement.
Satisfaction (n.) The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands.
Satisfactive (a.) Satisfactory.
Satisfactory (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
Satisfactory (a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.
Satisfiable (a.) That may be satisfied.
Satisfied (imp. & p. p.) of Satisfy
Satisfier (n.) One who satisfies.
Satisfy (a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
Satisfy (a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.
Satisfy (a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.
Satisfy (a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
Satisfy (v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
Satisfy (v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.
Satisfying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Satisfy
Satisfyingly (adv.) So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.
Sative (a.) Sown; propagated by seed.
Satle (v. t. & i.) To settle.
Satrap (n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
Satrapal (a.) Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.
Satrapess (n.) A female satrap.
Satrapical (a.) Satrapal.
Satrapies (pl. ) of Satrapy
Satrapy (n.) The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
Satsuma ware () A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.
Saturable (a.) Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.
Saturant (a.) Impregnating to the full; saturating.
Saturant (n.) A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.
Saturant (n.) An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach.
Saturate (p. a.) Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
Saturate (v. t.) To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Saturate (v. t.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
Saturated (a.) Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
Saturated (a.) Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.
Saturated (imp. & p. p.) of Saturate
Saturating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saturate
Saturation (n.) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors.
Saturation (n.) The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.
Saturation (n.) The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.
Saturator (n.) One who, or that which, saturates.
Saturday (n.) The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.
Saturity (n.) The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.
Saturn (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
Saturn (n.) The metal lead.
Saturnalia (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
Saturnalia (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
Saturnalian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
Saturnalian (a.) Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
Saturnian (a.) Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.
Saturnian (a.) Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.
Saturnian (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year.
Saturnian (n.) Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus.
Saturnicentric (a.) Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.
Saturnine (a.) Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
Saturnine (a.) Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper.
Saturnine (a.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
Saturnism (n.) Plumbism.
Saturnist (n.) A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.
Satyr (n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
Satyr (n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
Satyr (n.) The orang-outang.
Satyriasis (n.) Immoderate venereal appetite in the male.
Satyric (a.) Alt. of Satyrical
Satyrical (a.) Of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy.
Satyrion (n.) Any one of several kinds of orchids.
Sauce (n.) A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.
Sauce (n.) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Sauce (n.) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Sauce (n.) Sauciness; impertinence.
Sauce (n.) Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.
Sauce (v. t.) To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
Sauce (v. t.) To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.
Sauce (v. t.) To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Sauce (v. t.) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
Saucebox (n.) A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.
Sauced (imp. & p. p.) of Sauce
Saucepan (n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
Saucer (n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
Saucer (n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
Saucer (n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
Saucer (n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
Saucer (n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.
Saucily (adv.) In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.
Sauciness (n.) The quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.
Saucing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sauce
Saucisse (n.) A fascine of more than ordinary length.
Saucisse (n.) A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.
Saucisson (n.) Alt. of Saucisse
Saucy (superl.) Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks.
Saucy (superl.) Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.
Sauerkraut (n.) Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.
Sauf (a.) Safe.
Sauf (conj. & prep.) Save; except.
Saufly (adv.) Safely.
Sauger (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
Saugh () Alt. of Sauh
Sauh () imp. sing. of See.
Sauks (n. pl.) Same as Sacs.
Saul (n.) Same as Sal, the tree.
Saul (n.) Soul.
Saulie (n.) A hired mourner at a funeral.
Sault (n.) A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie.
Saunders (n.) See Sandress.
Saunders-blue (n.) A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper.
Saunter (n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
Saunter (n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.
Sauntered (imp. & p. p.) of Saunter
Saunterer (n.) One who saunters.
Sauntering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saunter
Saur (n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.
Saurel (n.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.
Sauria (n. pl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.
Saurian (a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria.
Saurian (n.) One of the Sauria.
Sauries (pl. ) of Saury
Saurioid (a.) Same as Sauroid.
Saurobatrachia (n. pl.) The Urodela.
Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici).
Sauroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the saurians.
Sauroid (a.) Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.
Sauroidichnite (n.) The fossil track of a saurian.
Sauropsida (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.
Sauropterygia (n. pl.) Same as Plesiosauria.
Saururae (n. pl.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.
Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
Sausage (n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.
Sausage (n.) An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
Sauseflem (a.) Having a red, pimpled face.
Saussurite (n.) A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.
Saut (n.) Alt. of Saute
Saute () p. p. of Sauter.
Saute (n.) An assault.
Sauter (n.) Psalter.
Sauter (v. t.) To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.
Sauterelle (n.) An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.
Sauterne (n.) A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.
Sautrie (n.) Psaltery.
Sauvegarde (n.) The monitor.
Savable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being saved.
Savableness (n.) Capability of being saved.
Savacioun (n.) Salvation.
Savage (a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
Savage (a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
Savage (a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
Savage (a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
Savage (n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
Savage (n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
Savage (v. t.) To make savage.
Savagely (adv.) In a savage manner.
Savageness (n.) The state or quality of being savage.
Savagery (n.) An act of cruelty; barbarity.
Savagery (n.) The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
Savagery (n.) Wild growth, as of plants.
Savagism (n.) The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
Savanilla (n.) The tarpum.
Savanna (n.) A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
Savant (a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Savants (pl. ) of Savant
Save (a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
Save (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
Save (a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Save (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Save (a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
Save (a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
Save (a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
Save (conj.) Except; unless.
Save (n.) The herb sage, or salvia.
Save (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Save-all (n.) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.
Save-all (n.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
Save-all (n.) Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.
Saveable (a.) See Savable.
Saved (imp. & p. p.) of Save
Saveloy (n.) A kind of dried sausage.
Savely (adv.) Safely.
Savement (n.) The act of saving.
Saver (n.) One who saves.
Savin (n.) Alt. of Savine
Savine (n.) The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)
Saving (a.) Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
Saving (a.) Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
Saving (a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
Saving (a.) Preserving; rescuing.
Saving (n.) Exception; reservation.
Saving (n.) Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
Saving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Save
Saving (participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
Savingly (adv.) In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.
Savingly (adv.) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.
Savingness (n.) Tendency to promote salvation.
Savingness (n.) The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.
Savior (v.) One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
Savior (v.) Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.
Savioress (n.) A female savior.
Savor (a.) Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.
Savor (a.) Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
Savor (a.) Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
Savor (a.) That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.
Savor (n.) To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.
Savor (n.) To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.
Savor (n.) To use the sense of taste.
Savor (v. t.) To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
Savor (v. t.) To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
Savor (v. t.) To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.
Savored (imp. & p. p.) of Savor
Savorily (adv.) In a savory manner.
Savoriness (n.) The quality of being savory.
Savoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Savor
Savorless (a.) Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.
Savorly (a.) Savory.
Savorly (adv.) In a savory manner.
Savorous (n.) Having a savor; savory.
Savory (a.) Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.
Savory (n.) An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.
Savoy (n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.
Savoyard (n.) A native or inhabitant of Savoy.
Saw () imp. of See.
Saw (imp.) of See
Saw (n.) An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.
Saw (v. i.) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
Saw (v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
Saw (v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
Saw (v. t.) A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
Saw (v. t.) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
Saw (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
Saw (v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.
Saw (v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
Saw (v. t.) To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
Saw palmetto () See under Palmetto.
Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest.
Saw-toothed (a.) Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
Saw-whet (n.) A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.
Saw-wort (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.
Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.
Sawarra nut () See Souari nut.
Sawbelly (n.) The alewife.
Sawbill (n.) The merganser.
Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
Sawbuck (n.) A sawhorse.
Sawceflem (a.) See Sauseflem.
Sawder (n.) A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.
Sawdust (n.) Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.
Sawed (imp.) of Saw
Sawed (p. p.) of Saw
Sawer (n.) One who saws; a sawyer.
Sawhorse (n.) A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
Sawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saw
Sawmill (n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
Sawn () of Saw
Sawneb (n.) A merganser.
Sawtooth (n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.
Sawtry (n.) A psaltery.
Sawyer (n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
Sawyer (n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
Sawyer (n.) The bowfin.
Sax (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Sax-tuba (n.) A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.
Saxatile (a.) Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.
Saxhorn (n.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.
Saxicava (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.
Saxicavae (pl. ) of Saxicava
saxicavas (pl. ) of Saxicava
Saxicavid (a.) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas.
Saxicavid (n.) A saxicava.
Saxicavous (a.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
Saxicoline (a.) Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.
Saxicolous (a.) Growing on rocks.
Saxifraga (n.) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.
Saxifragaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.
Saxifragant (a.) Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous.
Saxifragant (n.) That which breaks or destroys stones.
Saxifrage (n.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.
Saxifragous (a.) Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.
Saxon (a.) Anglo-Saxon.
Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.
Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.
Saxon (n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
Saxon (n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.
Saxon (n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
Saxon (n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.
Saxonic (a.) Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.
Saxonism (n.) An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
Saxonist (n.) One versed in the Saxon language.
Saxonite (n.) See Mountain soap, under Mountain.
Saxophone (n.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
Say (imp.) Saw.
Say (n.) A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth.
Say (n.) A kind of silk or satin.
Say (n.) Essay; trial; attempt.
Say (n.) Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack.
Say (n.) Tried quality; temper; proof.
Say (v. i.) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
Say (v. t.) A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb.
Say (v. t.) To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to.
Say (v. t.) To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.
Say (v. t.) To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson.
Say (v. t.) To try; to assay.
Say (v. t.) To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things.
Sayer (n.) One who says; an utterer.
Sayette (n.) A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.
Saying (n.) That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.
Saying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Say
Sayman (n.) One who assays.
Saymaster (n.) A master of assay; one who tries or proves.
Saynd () p. p. of Senge, to singe.
Scab (n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
Scab (n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
Scab (n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
Scab (n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
Scab (n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
Scab (n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
Scab (v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
Scabbard (n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
Scabbard (v. t.) To put in a scabbard.
Scabbard plane () See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.
Scabbed (a.) Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.
Scabbed (a.) Fig.: Mean; paltry; vile; worthless.
Scabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Scab
Scabbedness (n.) Scabbiness.
Scabbily (adv.) In a scabby manner.
Scabbiness (n.) The quality or state of being scabby.
Scabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scab
Scabble (v. t.) See Scapple.
Scabby (superl.) Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
Scabby (superl.) Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
Scabies (n.) The itch.
Scabious (a.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.
Scabrous (a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
Scabrousness (n.) The quality of being scabrous.
Scabwort (n.) Elecampane.
Scad (n.) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species.
Scad (n.) The cigar fish, or round robin.
Scad (n.) The friar skate.
Scad (n.) The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.
Scaffold (n.) A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.
Scaffold (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
Scaffold (n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
Scaffold (v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Scaffoldage (n.) A scaffold.
Scaffolding (n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.
Scaffolding (n.) Materials for building scaffolds.
Scaglia (n.) A reddish variety of limestone.
Scala (n.) A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
Scala (n.) A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.
Scalable (a.) Capable of being scaled.
Scalade (n.) Alt. of Scalado
Scalado (n.) See Escalade.
Scalae (pl. ) of Scala
Scalar (n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
Scalariform (a.) Like or pertaining to a scalaria.
Scalariform (a.) Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
Scalary (a.) Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.
Scalawag (n.) A scamp; a scapegrace.
Scald (a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
Scald (a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
Scald (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
Scald (n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
Scald (n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.
Scald (v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
Scald (v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
Scalded (imp. & p. p.) of Scald
Scalder (n.) A Scandinavian poet; a scald.
Scaldfish (n.) A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.
Scaldic (a.) Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.
Scalding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scald
Scale (n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
Scale (n.) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
Scale (n.) A scale insect. (See below.)
Scale (n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.
Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
Scale (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
Scale (n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.
Scale (n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
Scale (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.
Scale (n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
Scale (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.
Scale (n.) The sign or constellation Libra.
Scale (n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
Scale (n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.
Scale (v. i.) To lead up by steps; to ascend.
Scale (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
Scale (v. i.) To separate; to scatter.
Scale (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
Scale (v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
Scale (v. t.) To scatter; to spread.
Scale (v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
Scale (v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
Scale (v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
Scale-winged (a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
Scaleback (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.
Scalebeam (n.) A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
Scalebeam (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.
Scaleboard (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
Scaleboard (n.) A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.
Scaled (a.) Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
Scaled (a.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
Scaled (a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
Scaled (imp. & p. p.) of Scale
Scaleless (a.) Destitute of scales.
Scalene (a.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
Scalene (a.) Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.
Scalene (a.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.
Scalene (a.) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.
Scalene (n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
Scalenohedral (a.) Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.
Scalenohedron (n.) A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
Scaler (n.) One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
Scaliness (n.) The state of being scaly; roughness.
Scaling (a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
Scaling (a.) Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.
Scaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scale
Scaliola (n.) Same as Scagliola.
Scall (a.) A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
Scall (a.) Scabby; scurfy.
Scalled (a.) Scabby; scurfy; scall.
Scallion (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
Scallion (n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.
Scallop (n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
Scallop (n.) One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
Scallop (n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.
Scallop (v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
Scalloped (a.) Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.
Scalloped (a.) Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.
Scalloped (imp. & p. p.) of Scallop
Scalloped (n.) Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.
Scalloper (n.) One who fishes for scallops.
Scalloping (n.) Fishing for scallops.
Scalloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scallop
Scalp (n.) A bed of oysters or mussels.
Scalp (n.) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.
Scalp (n.) Fig.: The top; the summit.
Scalp (n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
Scalp (v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
Scalp (v. t.) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
Scalp (v. t.) To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
Scalp (v. t.) To remove the skin of.
Scalped (imp. & p. p.) of Scalp
Scalpel (n.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
Scalper (n.) A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.
Scalper (n.) A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.
Scalper (n.) A person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also, ticket scalper.
Scalper (n.) One who, or that which, scalps.
Scalper (n.) Same as Scalping iron, under Scalping.
Scalping () a. & n. from Scalp.
Scalping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scalp
Scalpriform (a.) Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.
Scaly (a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
Scaly (a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
Scaly (a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
Scaly (a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
Scaly-winged (a.) Scale-winged.
Scamble (v. i.) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.
Scamble (v. i.) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
Scamble (v. t.) To mangle.
Scambled (imp. & p. p.) of Scamble
Scambler (n.) 1. One who scambles.
Scambler (n.) A bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.
Scambling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scamble
Scamblingly (adv.) In a scambling manner; with turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.
Scamell (n.) Alt. of Scammel
Scamilli (pl. ) of Scamillus
Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
Scammel (n.) The female bar-tailed godwit.
Scammoniate (a.) Made from scammony; as, a scammoniate aperient.
Scammony (n.) A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (C. Scammonia).
Scammony (n.) An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic.
Scamp (a.) To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.
Scamp (n.) A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.
Scampavia (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
Scamper (n.) A scampering; a hasty flight.
Scamper (v. t.) To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away.
Scampered (imp. & p. p.) of Scamper
Scamperer (n.) One who scampers.
Scampering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scamper
Scampish (a.) Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.
Scan (v. t.) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Scandal (n.) Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.
Scandal (n.) Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.
Scandal (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
Scandalize (v. t.) To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.
Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
Scandalized (imp. & p. p.) of Scandalize
Scandalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scandalize
Scandalous (a.) Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
Scandalous (a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
Scandalous (a.) Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
Scandalously (adv.) In a manner to give offense; shamefully.
Scandalously (adv.) With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong.
Scandalousness (n.) Quality of being scandalous.
Scandalum magnatum () A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
Scandent (a.) Climbing.
Scandia (n.) A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.
Scandic (a.) Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or containing, scandium.
Scandinavian (a.) Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
Scandinavian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
Scanned (imp. & p. p.) of Scan
Scanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scan
Scansion (n.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
Scansores (n. pl.) An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.
Scansorial (a.) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot.
Scansorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scansores. See Illust.. under Aves.
Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
Scant (n.) Scantness; scarcity.
Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
Scant (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
Scant (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
Scant (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
Scanted (imp. & p. p.) of Scant
Scantily (adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.
Scantiness (n.) Quality or condition of being scanty.
Scanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scant
Scantle (v. i.) To be deficient; to fail.
Scantle (v. t.) To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
Scantlet (n.) A small pattern; a small quantity.
Scantling (a.) Not plentiful; small; scanty.
Scantling (v. t.) A fragment; a bit; a little piece.
Scantling (v. t.) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
Scantling (v. t.) A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.
Scantling (v. t.) A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.
Scantling (v. t.) A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.
Scantling (v. t.) A small quantity; a little bit; not much.
Scantling (v. t.) The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.
Scantly (adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.
Scantly (adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.
Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
Scanty (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
Scanty (a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Scanty (a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
Scape (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
Scape (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
Scape (n.) An escape.
Scape (n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
Scape (n.) Means of escape; evasion.
Scape (n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
Scape (n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
Scape (n.) The shaft of a column.
Scape (v. t. & i.) To escape.
Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Scaped (imp. & p. p.) of Scape
Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.
Scapegoat (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
Scapegrace (n.) A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.
Scapeless (a.) Destitute of a scape.
Scapement (v.) Same as Escapement, 3.
Scaphander (n.) The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
Scaphism (n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
Scaphite (n.) Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.
Scaphocephalic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.
Scaphocephaly (n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Scaphocerite (n.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.
Scaphognathite (n.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.
Scaphoid (a.) Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped.
Scaphoid (n.) The scaphoid bone.
Scapholunar (a.) Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.
Scapholunar (n.) The scapholunar bone.
Scapiform (a.) Resembling a scape, or flower stem.
Scaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scape
Scapolite (n.) A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.
Scapple (v. t.) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.
Scapple (v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
Scapula (n.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.
Scapula (n.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.
Scapulae (pl. ) of Scapula
Scapular (a.) Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.
Scapular (n.) Alt. of Scapulary
Scapular (n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
Scapulary (a.) Same as Scapular, a.
Scapulary (n.) A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.
Scapulary (n.) A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.
Scapulary (n.) Same as 2d and 3d Scapular.
Scapulary (n.) The name given to two pieces of cloth worn under the ordinary garb and over the shoulders as an act of devotion.
Scapulas (pl. ) of Scapula
Scapulet (n.) A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.
Scapulo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the scapula or the shoulder; as, the scapulo-clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula and clavicle.
Scapus (n.) See 1st Scape.
Scar (n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
Scar (n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
Scar (n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.
Scar (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
Scar (v. i.) To form a scar.
Scar (v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
Scarab (n.) Alt. of Scarabee
Scarabaeus (n.) Same as Scarab.
Scarabee (n.) Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).
Scaraboid (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Scarabaeidae, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbledung, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.
Scaraboid (n.) A scaraboid beetle.
Scaramouch (n.) A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
Scarce (adv.) Alt. of Scarcely
Scarce (superl.) Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
Scarce (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
Scarcely (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
Scarcement (n.) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
Scarceness (n.) Alt. of Scarcity
Scarcity (n.) The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.
Scard (n.) A shard or fragment.
Scare (n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.
Scare (v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
Scarecrow (n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
Scarecrow (n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
Scarecrow (n.) The black tern.
Scared (imp. & p. p.) of Scare
Scarefire (n.) A fire causing alarm.
Scarefire (n.) An alarm of fire.
Scarf (n.) A cormorant.
Scarf (n.) A scarf joint.
Scarf (n.) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.
Scarf (n.) In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
Scarf (v. t.) To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
Scarf (v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
Scarf (v. t.) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
Scarf (v. t.) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
Scarfed (imp. & p. p.) of Scarf
Scarfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarf
Scarfs (pl. ) of Scarf
Scarfskin (n.) See Epidermis.
Scarification (n.) The act of scarifying.
Scarificator (n.) An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
Scarified (imp. & p. p.) of Scarify
Scarifier (n.) An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface.
Scarifier (n.) One who scarifies.
Scarifier (n.) The instrument used for scarifying.
Scarify (v. t.) To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.
Scarify (v. t.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field.
Scarifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarify
Scaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scare
Scariose (a.) Alt. of Scarious
Scarious (a.) Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
Scarlatina (n.) Scarlet fever.
Scarless (a.) Free from scar.
Scarlet (a.) Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.
Scarlet (n.) A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.
Scarlet (n.) Cloth of a scarlet color.
Scarlet (v. t.) To dye or tinge with scarlet.
Scarmage (n.) Alt. of Scarmoge
Scarmoge (n.) A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish.
Scarn (n.) Dung.
Scaroid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scaridae, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.
Scarp (n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.
Scarp (n.) A steep descent or declivity.
Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.
Scarp (v. t.) To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock.
Scarped (imp. & p. p.) of Scarp
Scarping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarp
Scarred (imp. & p. p.) of Scar
Scarring (n.) A scar; a mark.
Scarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scar
Scarry (a.) Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
Scarry (a.) Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.
Scarus (n.) A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.
Scarves (pl. ) of Scarf
Scary (a.) Causing fright; alarming.
Scary (a.) Subject to sudden alarm.
Scary (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
Scasely (adv.) Scarcely; hardly.
Scat (interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
Scat (n.) A shower of rain.
Scat (n.) Alt. of Scatt
Scatch (n.) A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.
Scatches (n. pl.) Stilts.
Scate (n.) See Skate, for the foot.
Scatebrous (a.) Abounding with springs.
Scath (v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.
Scatter (v. i.) To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.
Scatter (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
Scatter (v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
Scatter (v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
Scatter-brain (n.) A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
Scatter-brained (a.) Giddy; thoughtless.
Scattered (a.) Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
Scattered (a.) Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves.
Scattered (imp. & p. p.) of Scatter
Scattergood (n.) One who wastes; a spendthrift.
Scattering (a.) Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
Scattering (n.) Act of strewing about; something scattered.
Scattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scatter
Scatteringly (adv.) In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
Scatterling (n.) One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond.
Scaturient (a.) Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive.
Scaturiginous (a.) Abounding with springs.
Scaup (n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.
Scaup (n.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
Scaur (n.) A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
Scavage (n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
Scavenge (v. t.) To cleanse, as streets, from filth.
Scavenger (v.) A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
Scazon (n.) A choliamb.
Scelerat (n.) A villain; a criminal.
Scelestic (a.) Evil; wicked; atrocious.
Scelet (n.) A mummy; a skeleton.
Scena (n.) A scene in an opera.
Scena (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
Scenario (n.) A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.
Scenary (n.) Scenery.
Scene (n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
Scene (n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
Scene (n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
Scene (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.
Scene (n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
Scene (v. t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
Sceneful (a.) Having much scenery.
Sceneman (n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
Scenemen (pl. ) of Sceneman
Scenery (n.) Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
Scenery (n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
Scenic (a.) Alt. of Scenical
Scenical (a.) Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.
Scenograph (n.) A perspective representation or general view of an object.
Scenographic (a.) Alt. of Scenographical
Scenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to scenography; drawn in perspective.
Scenography (n.) The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.
Scent (n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
Scent (n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
Scent (n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
Scent (v. i.) To have a smell.
Scent (v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Scent (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Scent (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Scented (imp. & p. p.) of Scent
Scentful (a.) Full of scent or odor; odorous.
Scentful (a.) Of quick or keen smell.
Scenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scent
Scentingly (adv.) By scent.
Scentless (a.) Having no scent.
Scepsis (n.) Skepticism; skeptical philosophy.
Scepter (n.) Alt. of Sceptre
Scepter (v. t.) Alt. of Sceptre
Sceptered (imp. & p. p.) of Sceptre
Scepterellate (a.) Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.
Sceptering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sceptre
Scepterless (a.) Alt. of Sceptreless
Sceptic () Alt. of Scepticism
Sceptical () Alt. of Scepticism
Scepticism () etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.
Sceptral (a.) Of or pertaining to a scepter; like a scepter.
Sceptre (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
Sceptre (n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
Sceptre (v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
Sceptred () of Sceptre
Sceptreless (a.) Having no scepter; without authority; powerless; as, a scepterless king.
Sceptring () of Sceptre
Scern (v. t.) To discern; to perceive.
Schade (n.) Shade; shadow.
Schah (n.) See Shah.
Schediasm (n.) Cursory writing on a loose sheet.
Schedule (n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
Schedule (v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.
Scheele's green () See under Green.
Scheelin (n.) Scheelium.
Scheelite (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.
Scheelium (n.) The metal tungsten.
Scheik (n.) See Sheik.
Schelly (n.) The powan.
Schemas (pl. ) of Schema
Schemata (pl. ) of Schema
Schematic (a.) Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.
Schematism (n.) Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.
Schematism (n.) Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement.
Schematist (n.) One given to forming schemes; a projector; a schemer.
Schematize (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.
Scheme (n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
Scheme (n.) A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
Scheme (n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
Scheme (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.
Scheme (v. t.) To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
Schemed (imp. & p. p.) of Scheme
Schemeful (a.) Full of schemes or plans.
Schemer (n.) One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.
Scheming (a.) Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing.
Scheming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scheme
Schemist (n.) A schemer.
Schene (n.) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
Schenkbeer (n.) A mild German beer.
Scherbet (n.) See Sherbet.
Scherif (n.) See Sherif.
Scherzando (adv.) In a playful or sportive manner.
Scherzo (n.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.
Schesis (n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.
Schesis (n.) General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
Schetic (a.) Alt. of Schetical
Schetical (a.) Of or pertaining to the habit of the body; constitutional.
Schiedam (n.) Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands.
Schilerization (n.) The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass.
Schiller (n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.
Schilling (n.) Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
Schindylesis (n.) A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.
Schirrhus (n.) See Scirrhus.
Schism (n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.
Schisma (n.) An interval equal to half a comma.
Schismatic (a.) Of or pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as, schismatic opinions or proposals.
Schismatic (n.) One who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion.
Schismatical (a.) Same as Schismatic.
Schismatize (v. i.) To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
Schismatized (imp. & p. p.) of Schismatize
Schismatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Schismatize
Schismless (a.) Free from schism.
Schistaceous (a.) Of a slate color.
Schistic (a.) Schistose.
Schistose (a.) Alt. of Schistous
Schistosity (n.) The quality or state of being schistose.
Schistous (a.) Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.
Schizo- () A combining form denoting division or cleavage; as, schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or cell division.
Schizocarp (n.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
Schizocoele (n.) See Enterocoele.
Schizocoelous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a schizocoele.
Schizogenesis (n.) Reproduction by fission.
Schizognath (n.) Any bird with a schizognathous palate.
Schizognathae (n. pl.) The schizognathous birds.
Schizognathism (n.) The condition of having a schizognathous palate.
Schizognathous (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.
Schizomycetes (n. pl.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement.
Schizonemertea (n. pl.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.
Schizopelmous (a.) Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallucis going to the first toe only.
Schizophyte (n.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.
Schizopod (a.) Alt. of Schizopodous
Schizopod (n.) one of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively.
Schizopoda (n. pl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.
Schizopodous (a.) Of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda.
Schlich (n.) The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
Schmelze (n.) A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.
Schnapps (n.) Holland gin.
Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century.
Schoharie grit () The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology.
Scholar (n.) A man of books.
Scholar (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
Scholar (n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
Scholar (n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
Scholarity (n.) Scholarship.
Scholarlike (a.) Scholarly.
Scholarly (a.) Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.
Scholarly (adv.) In a scholarly manner.
Scholarship (n.) Literary education.
Scholarship (n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.
Scholarship (n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.
Scholastic (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
Scholastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
Scholastic (a.) Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
Scholastic (n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
Scholastic (n.) See the Note under Jesuit.
Scholastical (a. & n.) Scholastic.
Scholastically (adv.) In a scholastic manner.
Scholasticism (n.) The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
Scholia (n. pl.) See Scholium.
Scholia (pl. ) of Scholium
Scholiast (n.) A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
Scholiastic (a.) Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits.
Scholiaze (v. i.) To write scholia.
Scholical (a.) Scholastic.
Scholion (n.) A scholium.
Scholium (n.) A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.
Scholium (n.) A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.
Scholiums (pl. ) of Scholium
Scholy (n.) A scholium.
Scholy (v. i. & t.) To write scholia; to annotate.
School (n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.
School (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
School (n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
School (n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
School (n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
School (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
School (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
School (n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
School (n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
School (v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
School (v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
School-teacher (n.) One who teaches or instructs a school.
Schoolbook (n.) A book used in schools for learning lessons.
Schoolboy (n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schoolfellow (n.) One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
Schoolgirl (n.) A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schoolhouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
Schooling (a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Schooling (n.) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Schooling (n.) Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.
Schooling (n.) Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
Schooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of School
Schoolma'am (n.) A schoolmistress.
Schoolmaid (n.) A schoolgirl.
Schoolman (n.) One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
Schoolmaster (n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
Schoolmaster (n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Schoolmate (n.) A pupil who attends the same school as another.
Schoolmen (pl. ) of Schoolman
Schoolmistress (n.) A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
Schoolroom (n.) A room in which pupils are taught.
Schoolward (adv.) Toward school.
Schooner (n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
Schorl (n.) Black tourmaline.
Schorlaceous (a.) Partaking of the nature and character of schorl; resembling schorl.
Schorlous (a.) Schorlaceous.
Schorly (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.
Schottische (n.) A Scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower; also, the music for such a dance; -- not to be confounded with the Ecossaise.
Schottish (n.) Alt. of Schottische
Schreibersite (n.) A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.
Schrode (n.) See Scrod.
Schwann's sheath () The neurilemma.
Schwann's white substance () The substance of the medullary sheath.
Schwanpan (n.) Chinese abacus.
Schweitzerkase (n.) Gruyere cheese.
Schwenkfelder (n.) Alt. of Schwenkfeldian
Schwenkfeldian (n.) A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.
Sciaenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes which includes the meagre, the squeteague, and the kingfish.
Sciagraph (n.) A radiograph.
Sciagraph (n.) An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.
Sciagraphical (a.) Pertaining to sciagraphy.
Sciagraphy (n.) Same as Sciagraph.
Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.
Sciamachy (n.) See Sciomachy.
Sciatheric (a.) Alt. of Sciatherical
Sciatherical (a.) Belonging to a sundial.
Sciatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.
Sciatic (n.) Sciatica.
Sciatical (a.) Sciatic.
Sciatically (adv.) With, or by means of, sciatica.
Scibboleth (n.) Shibboleth.
Science (n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.
Science (n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.
Science (n.) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.
Science (n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
Science (v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
Scient (a.) Knowing; skillful.
Scienter (adv.) Knowingly; willfully.
Sciential (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, science.
Scientific (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
Scientific (a.) Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Scientific (a.) Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
Scientifical (a.) Scientific.
Scientifically (adv.) In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science.
Scientist (n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
Scilicet (adv.) To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.
Scillain (n.) A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.
Scillitin (n.) A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.
Scimitar (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Scimitar (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
Scimiter (n.) Alt. of Scimitar
Scincoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Scincidae, or skinks.
Scincoid (n.) A scincoidian.
Scincoidea (n. pl.) A tribe of lizards including the skinks. See Skink.
Scincoidian (n.) Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.
Sciniph (n.) Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.
Scink (n.) A skink.
Scink (n.) A slunk calf.
Scintilla (n.) A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle.
Scintillant (a.) Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling.
Scintillate (v. i.) To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
Scintillate (v. i.) To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
Scintillated (imp. & p. p.) of Scintillate
Scintillating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scintillate
Scintillation (n.) A spark or flash emitted in scintillating.
Scintillation (n.) The act of scintillating.
Scintillous (a.) Scintillant.
Scintillously (adv.) In a scintillant manner.
Sciography (n.) See Sciagraphy.
Sciolism (n.) The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.
Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
Sciolistic (a.) Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.
Sciolous (a.) Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.
Scion (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
Scion (n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Scion (n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Scioptic (a.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.
Sciopticon (n.) A kind of magic lantern.
Scioptics (n.) The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
Scioptric (a.) Scioptic.
Sciot (a.) Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios).
Sciot (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scio.
Sciotheric (a.) Of or pertaining to a sundial.
Scious (a.) Knowing; having knowledge.
Scirrhi (pl. ) of Scirrhus
Scirrhoid (a.) Resembling scirrhus.
Scirrhosity (n.) A morbid induration, as of a gland; state of being scirrhous.
Scirrhous (a.) Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.
Scirrhus (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
Scirrhus (n.) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.
Scirrhuses (pl. ) of Scirrhus
Sciscitation (n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
Scise (v. i.) To cut; to penetrate.
Scissel (n.) The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.
Scissel (n.) The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.
Scissible (a.) Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument.
Scissil (n.) See Scissel.
Scissile (a.) Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.
Scission (n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.
Scissiparity (n.) Reproduction by fission.
Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.
Scissors (n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
Scissors-tailed (a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Scissorsbill (n.) See Skimmer.
Scissorstail (n.) A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
Scitamineous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Scitamineae), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
Sciurine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.
Sciurine (n.) A rodent of the Squirrel family.
Sciuroid (a.) Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
Sciuromorpha (n. pl.) A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
Sciurus (n.) A genus of rodents comprising the common squirrels.
Scizorhinal (a.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.
Scizorhinal (a.) Having the nasal bones separate.
Sclaundre (n.) Slander.
Sclav (n.) Alt. of Sclave
Sclave (n.) Same as Slav.
Sclavic (a.) Same as Slavic.
Sclavism (n.) Same as Slavism.
Sclavonian (a. & n.) Same as Slavonian.
Sclavonic (a.) Same as Slavonic.
Sclender (a.) Slender.
Scleragogy (n.) Severe discipline.
Sclerema (n.) Induration of the cellular tissue.
Sclerenchyma (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.
Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
Sclerenchymatous (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.
Sclerenchyme (n.) Sclerenchyma.
Scleriasis (n.) A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.
Scleriasis (n.) Induration of any part, including scleroderma.
Sclerite (n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
Scleritis (n.) See Sclerotitis.
Sclerobase (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.
Scleroderm (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.
Scleroderm (n.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish.
Scleroderm (n.) One of the Sclerodermata.
Scleroderma (n.) A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
Sclerodermata (n. pl.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria.
Sclerodermic () Alt. of Sclerodermous
Sclerodermite (n.) Sclerenchyma.
Sclerodermite (n.) The hard integument of Crustacea.
Sclerodermous () Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.
Sclerodermous () Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.
Sclerogen (n.) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
Sclerogenous (a.) Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
Scleroid (a.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.
Scleroma (n.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.
Sclerometer (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Sclerosed (a.) Affected with sclerosis.
Sclerosis (n.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Sclerosis (n.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
Scleroskeleton (n.) That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
Sclerotal (a.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotal (n.) The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye.
Sclerotia (pl. ) of Sclerotium
Sclerotic (a.) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.
Sclerotic (a.) Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.
Sclerotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.
Sclerotic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Sclerotic (n.) The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).
Sclerotical (a.) Sclerotic.
Sclerotitis (n.) Inflammation of the sclerotic coat.
Sclerotium (n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
Sclerotium (n.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
Sclerotome (n.) One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes.
Sclerous (a.) Hard; indurated; sclerotic.
Scoat (v. t.) To prop; to scotch.
Scobby (n.) The chaffinch.
Scobiform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.
Scobs (n. sing. & pl.) Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.
Scobs (n. sing. & pl.) The dross of metals.
Scoff (n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
Scoff (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
Scoff (n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
Scoff (v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
Scoffed (imp. & p. p.) of Scoff
Scoffer (n.) One who scoffs.
Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.
Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoff
Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.
Scoke (n.) Poke (Phytolacca decandra).
Scolay (v. i.) See Scoley.
Scold (n.) A scolding; a brawl.
Scold (n.) One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.
Scold (v. i.) To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant.
Scold (v. t.) To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.
Scolded (imp. & p. p.) of Scold
Scolder (n.) One who scolds.
Scolder (n.) The old squaw.
Scolder (n.) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.
Scolding () a. & n. from Scold, v.
Scolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scold
Scoldingly (adv.) In a scolding manner.
Scole (n.) School.
Scoleces (pl. ) of Scolex
Scolecida (n. pl.) Same as Helminthes.
Scolecite (n.) A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also lime mesotype.
Scolecomorpha (n. pl.) Same as Scolecida.
Scolex (n.) One of the Scolecida.
Scolex (n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.
Scoley (v. i.) To go to school; to study.
Scoliosis (n.) A lateral curvature of the spine.
Scolithus (n.) A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.
Scollop (n. & v.) See Scallop.
Scolopacine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family.
Scolopendra (n.) A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.
Scolopendra (n.) A sea fish.
Scolopendrine (a.) Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
Scolytid (n.) Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
Scomber (n.) A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
Scomberoid (a. & n.) Same as Scombroid.
Scombriformes (n. pl.) A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.
Scombroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.
Scombroid (n.) Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.
Scomfish (v. t. & i.) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
Scomfit (n. & v.) Discomfit.
Scomm (n.) A buffoon.
Scomm (n.) A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.
Sconce (p. p.) A fixed seat or shelf.
Sconce (p. p.) A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
Sconce (p. p.) A fragment of a floe of ice.
Sconce (p. p.) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
Sconce (p. p.) A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
Sconce (p. p.) A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
Sconce (p. p.) A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
Sconce (p. p.) A squinch.
Sconce (p. p.) Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
Sconce (p. p.) Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
Sconce (v. t.) To mulct; to fine.
Sconce (v. t.) To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
Sconced (imp. & p. p.) of Sconce
Sconcheon (n.) A squinch.
Sconcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sconce
Scone (n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
Scoop (n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
Scoop (n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
Scoop (n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Scoop (n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
Scoop (n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
Scoop (n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
Scoop (n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
Scoop (n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Scoop (n.) To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
Scooped (imp. & p. p.) of Scoop
Scooper (n.) One who, or that which, scoops.
Scooper (n.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Scooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoop
Scoot (v. i.) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
Scoparin (n.) A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.
Scopate (a.) Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.
Scope (n.) Extended area.
Scope (n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
Scope (n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
Scope (v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
Scopeline (a.) Scopeloid.
Scopeloid (a.) Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodae, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent.
Scopeloid (n.) Any fish of the family Scopelidae.
Scopiferous (a.) Bearing a tuft of brushlike hairs.
Scopiform (a.) Having the form of a broom or besom.
Scopiped (n.) Same as Scopuliped.
Scoppet (v. t.) To lade or dip out.
Scops owl () Any one of numerous species of small owls of the genus Scops having ear tufts like those of the horned owls, especially the European scops owl (Scops giu), and the American screech owl (S. asio).
Scopster (n.) The saury.
Scoptic (a.) Alt. of Scoptical
Scoptical (a.) Jesting; jeering; scoffing.
Scopula (n.) A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.
Scopula (n.) A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.
Scopulae (pl. ) of Scopula
Scopulas (pl. ) of Scopula
Scopuliped (n.) Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.
Scopulous (a.) Full of rocks; rocky.
Scorbute (n.) Scurvy.
Scorbutic (a.) Alt. of Scorbutical
Scorbutical (a.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms.
Scorbutus (n.) Scurvy.
Scorce (n.) Barter.
Scorch (v. i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
Scorch (v. i.) To burn or be burnt.
Scorch (v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
Scorch (v. t.) To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
Scorch (v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
Scorched (imp. & p. p.) of Scorch
Scorching (a.) Burning; parching or shriveling with heat.
Scorching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scorch
Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Score (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
Score (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield.
Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
Score (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
Score (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.
Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
Scoria (n.) The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
Scoriac (a.) Scoriaceous.
Scoriaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.
Scoriae (pl. ) of Scoria
Scorie (n.) The young of any gull.
Scorification (n.) The act, process, or result of scorifying, or reducing to a slag; hence, the separation from earthy matter by means of a slag; as, the scorification of ores.
Scorified (imp. & p. p.) of Scorify
Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button.
Scoriform (a.) In the form of scoria.
Scorifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scorify
Scoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Score
Scoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scorn
Scorious (a.) Scoriaceous.
Scorn (n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Scorn (n.) An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Scorn (n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Scorn (n.) To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
Scorn (n.) To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
Scorn (v. i.) To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
Scorned (imp. & p. p.) of Scorn
Scorner (n.) One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.
Scornful (a.) Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
Scornful (a.) Treated with scorn; exciting scorn.
Scorny (a.) Deserving scorn; paltry.
Scorodite (n.) A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron.
Scorpaenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [Written also scorpaenid.] See Illust. under Rockfish.
Scorpene (n.) A marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena, as the European hogfish (S. scrofa), and the California species (S. guttata).
Scorper (n.) Same as Scauper.
Scorpio (n.) A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.
Scorpio (n.) A scorpion.
Scorpio (n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
Scorpiodea (n. pl.) Same as Scorpiones.
Scorpioid (a.) Alt. of Scorpioidal
Scorpioidal (a.) Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.
Scorpion (n.) A painful scourge.
Scorpion (n.) A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.
Scorpion (n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
Scorpion (n.) Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
Scorpion (n.) The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
Scorpion (n.) The scorpene.
Scorpiones (n. pl.) A division of arachnids comprising the scorpions.
Scorpiones (pl. ) of Scorpio
Scorpionidea (n. pl.) Same as Scorpiones.
Scorpionwort (n.) A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpioides) of Southern Europe, having slender curved pods.
Scorse (n.) Barter; exchange; trade.
Scorse (v. i.) To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.
Scorse (v. t.) To barter or exchange.
Scorse (v. t.) To chase.
Scortatory (a.) Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.
Scot (n.) A name for a horse.
Scot (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.
Scot (n.) A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.
Scot-free (a.) Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe.
Scotal (n.) Alt. of Scotale
Scotale (n.) The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.
Scotch (a.) Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.
Scotch (n.) A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Scotch (n.) Collectively, the people of Scotland.
Scotch (n.) The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
Scotch (v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
Scotch-hopper (n.) Hopscotch.
Scotched (imp. & p. p.) of Scotch
Scotching (n.) Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
Scotching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scotch
Scotchman (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.
Scotchman (n.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.
Scotchmen (pl. ) of Scotchman
Scoter (n.) Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.
Scoth (v. t.) To clothe or cover up.
Scotia (n.) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.
Scotia (n.) Scotland
Scotist (n.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.
Scotograph (n.) An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing.
Scotoma (n.) Scotomy.
Scotomy (n.) Dizziness with dimness of sight.
Scotomy (n.) Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.
Scotoscope (n.) An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.
Scots (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scotch; Scotch; Scottish; as, Scots law; a pound Scots (1s. 8d.).
Scotsman (n.) See Scotchman.
Scottering (n.) The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
Scotticism (n.) An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen.
Scotticize (v. t.) To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
Scottish (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
Scoundrel (a.) Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
Scoundrel (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
Scoundreldom (n.) The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels.
Scoundrelism (n.) The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality.
Scour (n.) Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.
Scour (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
Scour (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing.
Scour (v. i.) To cleanse anything.
Scour (v. i.) To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.
Scour (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.
Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse.
Scour (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.
Scour (v. t.) To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
Scourage (n.) Refuse water after scouring.
Scoured (imp. & p. p.) of Scour
Scourer (n.) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
Scourer (n.) One who, or that which, scours.
Scourge (n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
Scourge (n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
Scourge (n.) To harass or afflict severely.
Scourge (n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
Scourge (n.) To whip severely; to lash.
Scourged (imp. & p. p.) of Scourge
Scourger (n.) One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.
Scourging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scourge
Scouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scour
Scourse (v. t.) See Scorse.
Scouse (n.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse.
Scout (n.) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
Scout (n.) A fielder in a game for practice.
Scout (n.) A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.
Scout (n.) A projecting rock.
Scout (n.) A swift sailing boat.
Scout (n.) The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
Scout (v. i.) To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
Scout (v. t.) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
Scout (v. t.) To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
Scout (v. t.) To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
Scouted (imp. & p. p.) of Scout
Scouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scout
Scovel (n.) A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.
Scow (n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
Scow (v. t.) To transport in a scow.
Scowl (n.) Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
Scowl (n.) The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
Scowl (v. i.) Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
Scowl (v. i.) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
Scowl (v. t.) To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.
Scowl (v. t.) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
Scowled (imp. & p. p.) of Scowl
Scowling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scowl
Scowlingly (adv.) In a scowling manner.
Scrabbed eggs () A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper.
Scrabble (n.) The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.
Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
Scrabble (v. t.) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.
Scrabble (v. t.) To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
Scrabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scrabble
Scrabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrabble
Scraber (n.) The black guillemot.
Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.
Scraffle (v. i.) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.
Scrag (n.) A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
Scrag (n.) A rawboned person.
Scrag (n.) Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
Scrag-necked (a.) Having a scraggy neck.
Scragged (a.) Lean and rough; scraggy.
Scragged (a.) Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.
Scraggedness (n.) Quality or state of being scragged.
Scraggily (adv.) In a scraggy manner.
Scragginess (n.) The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.
Scraggy (superl.) Lean and rough; scragged.
Scraggy (superl.) Rough with irregular points; scragged.
Scragly (a.) See Scraggy.
Scramble (n.) The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.
Scramble (n.) The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.
Scramble (v. i.) To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
Scramble (v. i.) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
Scramble (v. t.) To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.
Scramble (v. t.) To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.
Scrambled (imp. & p. p.) of Scramble
Scrambler (n.) A greedy and unceremonious contestant.
Scrambler (n.) One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.
Scrambling (a.) Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
Scrambling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scramble
Scranch (v. t.) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.
Scrap (v. t.) Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Scrap (v. t.) Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.
Scrap (v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.
Scrapbook (n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
Scrape (n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
Scrape (n.) The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.
Scrape (v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
Scrape (v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
Scrape (v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
Scrape (v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
Scrape (v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.
Scrape (v. t.) To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.
Scrape (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
Scraped (imp. & p. p.) of Scrape
Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
Scraper (n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
Scraper (n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
Scraper (n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.
Scraper (n.) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.
Scraper (n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Scraper (n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
Scraper (n.) One who scrapes.
Scraping (a.) Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
Scraping (n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
Scraping (n.) The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
Scraping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrape
Scrappily (adv.) In a scrappy manner; in scraps.
Scrappy (a.) Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
Scrat (n.) An hermaphrodite.
Scrat (v. i.) To rake; to search.
Scrat (v. t.) To scratch.
Scratch (a.) Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.
Scratch (n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.
Scratch (n.) A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
Scratch (n.) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.
Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
Scratch (n.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
Scratch (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Scratch (v. t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.
Scratch (v. t.) To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.
Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.
Scratch (v. t.) To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
Scratch coat () The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
Scratchback (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
Scratchbrush (n.) A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.
Scratched (imp. & p. p.) of Scratch
Scratcher (n.) One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zool.), any rasorial bird.
Scratching (adv.) With the action of scratching.
Scratching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scratch
Scratchweed (n.) Cleavers.
Scratchwork (n.) See Scratch coat.
Scratchy (a.) Characterized by scratches.
Scraw (n.) A turf.
Scrawl (n.) Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.
Scrawl (v. i.) See Crawl.
Scrawl (v. i.) To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Scrawl (v. t.) To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.
Scrawled (imp. & p. p.) of Scrawl
Scrawler (n.) One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
Screak (v.) To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.
Screaked (imp. & p. p.) of Screak
Screaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screak
Scream (n.) A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech.
Scream (v. i.) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
Screamed (imp. & p. p.) of Scream
Screaming (a.) Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp.
Screaming (a.) Uttering screams; shrieking.
Screaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scream
Scree (n.) A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.
Screech (n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
Screech (v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
Screeched (imp. & p. p.) of Screech
Screechers (n. pl.) The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.
Screeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screech
Screechy (a.) Like a screech; shrill and harsh.
Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
Screed (n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred.
Screed (n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
Screed (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
Screed (n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
Screen (n.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
Screen (n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
Screen (n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
Screen (v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
Screen (v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
Screened (imp. & p. p.) of Screen
Screening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screen
Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
Screw (n.) A small packet of tobacco.
Screw (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
Screw (n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
Screw (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
Screw (n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
Screw (v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
Screw (v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
Screw (v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.
Screw (v. t.) To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
Screw (v. t.) To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
Screw (v. t.) To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
Screw-cutting (a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
Screw-driver (n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
Screwed (imp. & p. p.) of Screw
Screwer (n.) One who, or that which, screws.
Screwing () a. & n. from Screw, v. t.
Screwing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screw
Scribable (a.) Capable of being written, or of being written upon.
Scribatious (a.) Skillful in, or fond of, writing.
Scribbet (n.) A painter's pencil.
Scribble (n.) Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.
Scribble (v. i.) To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
Scribble (v. t.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scribble (v. t.) To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
Scribble (v. t.) To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
Scribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scribble
Scribblement (n.) A scribble.
Scribbler (n.) A scribbling machine.
Scribbler (n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
Scribbling (a.) Writing hastily or poorly.
Scribbling (n.) The act of writing hastily or idly.
Scribbling (n.) The act or process of carding coarsely.
Scribbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scribble
Scribblingly (adv.) In a scribbling manner.
Scribe (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Scribe (n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
Scribe (v. i.) To make a mark.
Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Scribe (v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
Scribed (imp. & p. p.) of Scribe
Scriber (n.) A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.
Scribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scribe
Scribism (n.) The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ.
Scrid (n.) A screed; a shred; a fragment.
Scriggle (v. i.) To wriggle.
Scrim (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.
Scrim (n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
Scrimer (n.) A fencing master.
Scrimmage (n.) Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.
Scrimmage (n.) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.
Scrimp (n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.
Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.
Scrimped (imp. & p. p.) of Scrimp
Scrimping () a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t.
Scrimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrimp
Scrimpingly (adv.) In a scrimping manner.
Scrimpness (n.) The state of being scrimp.
Scrimption (n.) A small portion; a pittance; a little bit.
Scrimshaw (n.) A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed.
Scrimshaw (v. t.) To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
Scrine (n.) A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine.
Scrine (v. i.) To cringe.
Scringed (imp. & p. p.) of Scrine
Scringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrine
Scrip (n.) A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.
Scrip (n.) A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.
Scrip (n.) Paper fractional currency.
Scrippage (n.) The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
Script (n.) A writing; a written document.
Script (n.) An original instrument or document.
Script (n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Script (n.) Written characters; style of writing.
Scriptoria (pl. ) of Scriptorium
Scriptorium (n.) In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.
Scriptory (a.) Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used in writing; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed.
Scriptural (a.) Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.
Scripturalism (n.) The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures.
Scripturalist (n.) One who adheres literally to the Scriptures.
Scripturally (adv.) In a scriptural manner.
Scripturalness (n.) Quality of being scriptural.
Scripture (n.) A passage from the Bible;; a text.
Scripture (n.) Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
Scripture (n.) The books of the Old and the new Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
Scripturian (n.) A Scripturist.
Scripturist (n.) One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them.
Scrit (n.) Writing; document; scroll.
Scritch (n.) A screech.
Scrivener (n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
Scrivener (n.) A writing master.
Scrivener (n.) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
Scrobicula (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.
Scrobiculae (pl. ) of Scrobicula
Scrobicular (a.) Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles.
Scrobiculate (a.) Alt. of Scrobiculated
Scrobiculated (a.) Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.
Scrod (n.) Alt. of Scrode
Scroddled ware () Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.
Scrode (n.) A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed.
Scrofulide (n.) Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.
Scrofulous (a.) Diseased or affected with scrofula.
Scrofulous (a.) Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.
Scrog (n.) A stunted shrub, bush, or branch.
Scroggy (a.) Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.
Scroll (n.) A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal.
Scroll (n.) A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
Scroll (n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
Scroll (n.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.
Scrolled (a.) Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.
Scrophularia (n.) A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.
Scrotal (a.) Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.
Scrotiform (a.) Purse-shaped; pouch-shaped.
Scrotocele (n.) A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia.
Scrotum (n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.
Scrouge (v. t.) To crowd; to squeeze.
Scrow (n.) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
Scrow (n.) A scroll.
Scroyle (n.) A mean fellow; a wretch.
Scrub (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
Scrub (n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
Scrub (n.) A worn-out brush.
Scrub (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
Scrub (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
Scrub (n.) Something small and mean.
Scrub (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
Scrub (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
Scrubbed (a.) Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
Scrubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Scrub
Scrubber (n.) A gas washer. See under Gas.
Scrubber (n.) One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
Scrubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrub
Scrubboard (n.) A baseboard; a mopboard.
Scrubby (superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
Scrubstone (n.) A species of calciferous sandstone.
Scruff (n.) Scurf.
Scruff (n.) The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.
Scruou-lize (v. t.) To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples.
Scruple (n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
Scruple (n.) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
Scruple (n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
Scruple (v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
Scruple (v. t.) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
Scruple (v. t.) To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
Scrupled (imp. & p. p.) of Scruple
Scrupler (n.) One who scruples.
Scrupulist (n.) A scrupler.
Scrupulosity (n.) The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.
Scrupulous (a.) Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
Scrupulous (a.) Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
Scrupulous (a.) Given to making objections; captious.
Scrupulous (a.) Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
Scrutable (a.) Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.
Scrutation (n.) Search; scrutiny.
Scrutator (n.) One who scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer.
Scrutineer (n.) A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.
Scrutinize (v. i.) To make scrutiny.
Scrutinize (v. t.) To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.
Scrutinized (imp. & p. p.) of Scrutinize
Scrutinizer (n.) One who scrutinizes.
Scrutinizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrutinize
Scrutinous (a.) Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; sctrict.
Scrutiny (n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
Scrutiny (n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
Scrutiny (n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
Scrutiny (n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
Scrutiny (v. t.) To scrutinize.
Scrutoire (n.) A escritoire; a writing desk.
Scruze (v. t.) To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise.
Scry (n.) A cry or shout.
Scry (v. t.) To descry.
Scry (v.) A flock of wild fowl.
Scud (n.) A slight, sudden shower.
Scud (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
Scud (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
Scud (n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
Scud (n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
Scud (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
Scud (v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
Scud (v. t.) To pass over quickly.
Scudded (imp. & p. p.) of Scud
Scudding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scud
Scuddle (v. i.) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
Scudi (pl. ) of Scudo
Scudo (n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
Scudo (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.
Scuff (n.) The back part of the neck; the scruff.
Scuff (v. i.) To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.
Scuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Scuff
Scuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuff
Scuffle (n.) A child's pinafore or bib.
Scuffle (n.) A garden hoe.
Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
Scuffle (n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
Scuffle (v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
Scuffled (imp. & p. p.) of Scuffle
Scuffler (n.) An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.
Scuffler (n.) One who scuffles.
Scuffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuffle
Scug (n.) A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill.
Scug (v. i.) To hide.
Sculk () Alt. of Sculker
Sculker () See Skulk, Skulker.
Scull (n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
Scull (n.) A shoal of fish.
Scull (n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
Scull (n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
Scull (n.) The common skua gull.
Scull (n.) The skull.
Scull (v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Scull (v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
Sculled (imp. & p. p.) of Scull
Sculler (n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
Sculler (n.) One who sculls.
Sculleries (pl. ) of Scullery
Scullery (n.) A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.
Scullery (n.) Hence, refuse; filth; offal.
Sculling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scull
Scullion (n.) A scalion.
Scullion (n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.
Scullionly (a.) Like a scullion; base.
Sculp (v. t.) To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.
Sculpin (n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
Sculpin (n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).
Sculptile (a.) Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images.
Sculptor (n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.
Sculptor (n.) One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.
Sculptress (n.) A female sculptor.
Sculptural (a.) Of or pertaining to sculpture.
Sculpture (n.) Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
Sculpture (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
Sculpture (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculptured (imp. & p. p.) of Sculpture
Sculpturesque (a.) After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
Sculpturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sculpture
Scum (v. i.) To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.
Scum (v. t.) To sweep or range over the surface of.
Scum (v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.
Scum (v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
Scumber (n.) Dung.
Scumber (v. i.) To void excrement.
Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.
Scumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scumble
Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing.
Scumbling (n.) In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.
Scumbling (n.) The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.
Scumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scumble
Scummed (imp. & p. p.) of Scum
Scummer (n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.
Scummer (n.) Excrement; scumber.
Scummer (v. i.) To scumber.
Scumming (n.) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Scumming (n.) The act of taking off scum.
Scumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scum
Scummy (a.) Covered with scum; of the nature of scum.
Scunner (n.) A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.
Scunner (v. i.) To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.
Scunner (v. t.) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
Scup (n.) A swing.
Scuppaug (n.) See 2d Scup.
Scupper (v.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.
Scuppernong (n.) An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
Scur (v. i.) To move hastily; to scour.
Scurf (n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.
Scurf (n.) Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.
Scurf (n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
Scurf (n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.
Scurff (n.) The bull trout.
Scurfiness (n.) Quality or state of being scurfy.
Scurfiness (n.) Scurf.
Scurfy (superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
Scurrier (n.) One who scurries.
Scurrile (a.) Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
Scurrility (n.) That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
Scurrility (n.) The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.
Scurrilous (a.) Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
Scurrit (n.) the lesser tern (Sterna minuta).
Scurry (n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.
Scurry (v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
Scurvily (adv.) In a scurvy manner.
Scurviness (n.) The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
Scurvy (n.) Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
Scut (n.) The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.
Scuta (n. pl.) See Scutum.
Scuta (pl. ) of Scutum
Scutage (n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.
Scutal (a.) Of or pertaining to a shield.
Scutate (a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.
Scutch (n.) A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.
Scutch (n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
Scutch (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drub.
Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.
Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
Scutch grass () A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.
Scutched (imp. & p. p.) of Scutch
Scutcheon (n.) A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4.
Scutcheon (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.
Scutcheoned (a.) Emblazoned on or as a shield.
Scutcher (n.) An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
Scutcher (n.) One who scutches.
Scutching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scutch
Scute (n.) A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.
Scute (n.) A small shield.
Scute (n.) An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
Scutella (n. pl.) See Scutellum.
Scutella (n.) See Scutellum, n., 2.
Scutella (pl. ) of Scutellum
Scutellate (a.) Alt. of Scutellated
Scutellated (a.) Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.
Scutellated (a.) Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.
Scutellation (n.) the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.
Scutelle (pl. ) of Scutella
Scutelliform (a.) Having the form of a scutellum.
Scutelliform (a.) Scutellate.
Scutelliplantar (a.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
Scutellum (n.) A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.
Scutellum (n.) One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.
Scutellum (n.) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.
Scutibranch (a.) Scutibranchiate.
Scutibranch (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchia (n. pl.) Same as Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchian (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.
Scutibranchiate (a.) Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata.
Scutibranchiate (n.) One of the Scutibranchiata.
Scutiferous (a.) Carrying a shield or buckler.
Scutiform (a.) Shield-shaped; scutate.
Scutiger (n.) Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
Scutiped (a.) Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.
Scuttle (n.) A broad, shallow basket.
Scuttle (n.) A quick pace; a short run.
Scuttle (n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
Scuttle (n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
Scuttle (n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
Scuttle (n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
Scuttle (n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
Scuttle (v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
Scuttle (v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
Scuttle (v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Scuttled (imp. & p. p.) of Scuttle
Scuttling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuttle
Scutum (n.) A penthouse or awning.
Scutum (n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
Scutum (n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
Scutum (n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
Scybala (n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces.
Scye (n.) Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment.
Scyle (v. t.) To hide; to secrete; to conceal.
Scyllaea (n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.
Scyllarian (n.) One of a family (Scyllaridae) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennae. Also used adjectively.
Scyllite (n.) A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.
Scymetar (n.) See Scimiter.
Scypha (n.) See Scyphus, 2 (b).
Scyphae (pl. ) of Scypha
Scyphi (pl. ) of Scyphus
Scyphiform (a.) Cup-shaped.
Scyphistoma (n.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.
Scyphistomae (pl. ) of Scyphistoma
Scyphistomata (pl. ) of Scyphistoma
Scyphobranchii (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
Scyphomeduse (n. pl.) Same as Acraspeda, or Discophora.
Scyphophori (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.
Scyphus (n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.
Scyphus (n.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
Scyphus (n.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
Scythe (n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Scythe (n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
Scythe (v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
Scythed (a.) Armed scythes, as a chariot.
Scytheman (n.) One who uses a scythe; a mower.
Scythemen (pl. ) of Scytheman
Scythestone (n.) A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.
Scythewhet (n.) Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.
Scythian (a.) Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
Scythian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
Scythian (n.) The language of the Scythians.
Scytodermata (n. pl.) Same as Holothurioidea.
Sdan (v. & n.) Disdain.
Sdeign (v. t.) To disdain.
Sea (n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
Sea (n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
Sea (n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
Sea (n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
Sea acorn () An acorn barnacle (Balanus).
Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
Sea adder () The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
Sea amenone () Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian.
Sea anchor () See Drag sail, under 4th Drag.
Sea ape () The sea otter.
Sea ape () The thrasher shark.
Sea apple () The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea.
Sea arrow () A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.
Sea bank () A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
Sea bank () The seashore.
Sea barrow () A sea purse.
Sea bass () A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
Sea bat () See Batfish (a).
Sea bean () Same as Florida bean.
Sea bear () Any fur seal. See under Fur.
Sea bear () The white bear.
Sea beast () Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
Sea bird () Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.
Sea blite () A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.
Sea bow () See Marine rainbow, under Rainbow.
Sea boy () A boy employed on shipboard.
Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
Sea bream () Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
Sea brief () Same as Sea letter.
Sea bug () A chiton.
Sea butterfly () A pteropod.
Sea cabbage () See Sea kale, under Kale.
Sea calf () The common seal.
Sea canary () The beluga, or white whale.
Sea captain () The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
Sea card () Mariner's card, or compass.
Sea cat () Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.
Sea cat () The wolf fish.
Sea catfish () Alt. of Sea cat
Sea chart () A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.
Sea chickweed () A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
Sea clam () Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. (Mactra, / Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
Sea cob () The black-backed gull.
Sea cock () A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Sea cock () In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
Sea cock () The black-bellied plover.
Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
Sea colander () A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
Sea colewort () Sea cabbage.
Sea compass () The mariner's compass. See under Compass.
Sea coot () A scoter duck.
Sea corn () A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
Sea cow () The dugong.
Sea cow () The mantee.
Sea cow () The walrus.
Sea crawfish () Alt. of Sea crayfish
Sea crayfish () Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
Sea crow () The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.
Sea crow () The chough.
Sea crow () The coot.
Sea crow () The cormorant.
Sea crow () The razorbill.
Sea crow () The skua.
Sea cucumber () Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).
Sea dace () The European sea perch.
Sea daffodil () A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).
Sea devil () Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
Sea devil () Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.
Sea devil () The angler.
Sea dog () An old sailor; a salt.
Sea dog () The common seal.
Sea dog () The dogfish.
Sea dotterel () The turnstone.
Sea dove () The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche.
Sea dragon () A dragonet, or sculpin.
Sea dragon () The pegasus.
Sea drake () The pewit gull.
Sea duck () Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.
Sea eagle () The eagle ray. See under Ray.
Sea eel () The conger eel.
Sea egg () A sea urchin.
Sea fan () Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.
Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
Sea fennel () Samphire.
Sea fern () Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.
Sea fight () An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.
Sea fir () A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.
Sea flewer () A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.
Sea foam () Foam of sea water.
Sea foam () Meerschaum; -- called also sea froth.
Sea fowl () Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.
Sea fox () The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.
Sea froth () See Sea foam, 2.
Sea gauge () See under Gauge, n.
Sea gherkin () Alt. of Sea girkin
Sea ginger () A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.
Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
Sea girkin () Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.
Sea god () A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.
Sea goddess () A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
Sea goose () A phalarope.
Sea gown () A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
Sea grape () A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
Sea grape () The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
Sea grape () The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
Sea grass () Eelgrass.
Sea green () The green color of sea water.
Sea gudgeon () The European black goby (Gobius niger).
Sea gull () Any gull living on the seacoast.
Sea hare () Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.
Sea hawk () A jager gull.
Sea heath () A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
Sea hen () the common guillemot; -- applied also to various other sea birds.
Sea hog () The porpoise.
Sea holly () An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
Sea holm () A small uninhabited island.
Sea holm () Sea holly.
Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.
Sea horse () Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
Sea horse () The walrus.
Sea hulver () Sea holly.
Sea jelly () A medusa, or jellyfish.
Sea kale () See under Kale.
Sea king () One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
Sea laces () A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
Sea lamprey () The common lamprey.
Sea language () The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
Sea lark () Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
Sea lark () The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
Sea lavender () See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.
Sea lawyer () The gray snapper. See under Snapper.
Sea legs () Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.
Sea lemon () Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.
Sea leopard () Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.
Sea letter () The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
Sea lettuce () The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.
Sea level () The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
Sea lily () A crinoid.
Sea loach () The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.
Sea louse () Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
Sea mantis () A squilla.
Sea marge () Land which borders on the sea; the seashore.
Sea mat () Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.
Sea maw () The sea mew.
Sea mew () A gull; the mew.
Sea mile () A geographical mile. See Mile.
Sea milkwort () A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.
Sea monk () See Monk seal, under Monk.
Sea monster () Any large sea animal.
Sea moss () Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.
Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides.
Sea mouse () The dunlin.
Sea mud () A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.
Sea needle () See Garfish (a).
Sea nettle () A jellyfish, or medusa.
Sea onion () The officinal squill. See Squill.
Sea ooze () Same as Sea mud.
Sea orange () A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
Sea otter () An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris, / marina) found in the North Pacific Ocean. Its fur is highly valued, especially by the Chinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed.
Sea owl () The lumpfish.
Sea pad () The puffin.
Sea partridge () The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.
Sea pass () A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport.
Sea peach () A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, / Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.
Sea pear () A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.
Sea perch () The cunner.
Sea perch () The European bass (Roccus, / Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.
Sea perch () The name is applied also to other species of fishes.
Sea perch () The sea bass.
Sea pheasant () The pintail duck.
Sea pie () A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.
Sea pie () The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Haematopus.
Sea piet () See 1st Sea pie.
Sea pig () A dugong.
Sea pig () A porpoise or dolphin.
Sea pigeon () The common guillemot.
Sea pike () A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.
Sea pike () The garfish.
Sea pike () The merluce.
Sea pincushion () A pentagonal starfish.
Sea pincushion () A sea purse.
Sea pink () See Thrift.
Sea plover () the black-bellied plover.
Sea poacher () Alt. of Sea poker
Sea poker () The lyrie.
Sea pool () A pool of salt water.
Sea poppy () The horn poppy. See under Horn.
Sea porcupine () Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.
Sea pork () An American compound ascidian (Amoraecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.
Sea pudding () Any large holothurian.
Sea purse () The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
Sea purslane () See under Purslane.
Sea pye () See 1st Sea pie.
Sea pyot () See 1st Sea pie.
Sea quail () The turnstone.
Sea rat () A pirate.
Sea rat () The chimaera.
Sea raven () An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts.
Sea raven () The cormorant.
Sea reed () The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.
Sea risk () Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.
Sea robber () A pirate; a sea rover.
Sea robin () See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.
Sea rocket () See under Rocket.
Sea room () Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground.
Sea rover () One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
Sea salmon () A young pollock.
Sea salmon () See Sea bass (b).
Sea salmon () The spotted squeteague.
Sea salt () Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.
Sea sandpiper () The purple sandpiper.
Sea sandwort () See Sea chickweed.
Sea saurian (n.) Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.
Sea scorpion () A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines.
Sea scorpion () The scorpene.
Sea scurf () Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.
Sea serpent () A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.
Sea serpent () Any marine snake. See Sea snake.
Sea slater () Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
Sea slug () A holothurian.
Sea slug () A nudibranch mollusk.
Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.
Sea snail () Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
Sea snipe () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.
Sea snipe () The bellows fish.
Sea spider () Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
Sea spider () Any pycnogonid.
Sea squirt () An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.
Sea star () A starfish, or brittle star.
Sea surgeon () A surgeon fish.
Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough.
Sea swallow () The common tern.
Sea swallow () The gannet.
Sea swallow () The storm petrel.
Sea tang () A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
Sea term () A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
Sea thief () A pirate.
Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
Sea titling () The rock pipit.
Sea toad () A sculpin.
Sea toad () A toadfish.
Sea toad () The angler.
Sea trout () A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.
Sea trout () A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
Sea trout () Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.
Sea trout () The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
Sea trumpet () Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
Sea turn () A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea.
Sea turtle () Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
Sea turtle () The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
Sea unicorn () The narwhal.
Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
Sea whip () A gorgonian having a simple stem.
Sea widgeon () The pintail duck.
Sea widgeon () The scaup duck.
Sea willow () A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
Sea wing () A wing shell (Avicula).
Sea withwind () A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
Sea wolf () A sea lion.
Sea wolf () The European sea perch.
Sea wolf () The sea elephant.
Sea wolf () The wolf fish.
Sea wood louse () A sea slater.
Sea woodcock () The bar-tailed godwit.
Sea wormwood () A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
Sea wrack () See Wrack.
Sea-bar (n.) A tern.
Sea-blubber (n.) A jellyfish.
Sea-bordering (a.) Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.
Sea-born (a.) Born at sea.
Sea-born (a.) Born of the sea; produced by the sea.
Sea-built (a.) Built at, in, or by the sea.
Sea-ear (n.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.
Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea.
Sea-gate (n.) Alt. of Sea-gait
Sea-green (a.) Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.
Sea-island (a.) Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.
Sea-maid (n.) A sea nymph.
Sea-maid (n.) The mermaid.
Sea-mail (n.) A gull; the mew.
Sea-mell (n.) The sea mew.
Sea-orb (n.) A globefish.
Sea-pen (n.) A pennatula.
Sea-roving (a.) Cruising at random on the ocean.
Sea-walled (a.) Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.
Seabeach (n.) A beach lying along the sea.
Seabeard (n.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.
Seaboard (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.
Seaboard (adv.) Toward the sea.
Seaboard (n.) The seashore; seacoast.
Seaboat () A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.
Seaboat () A chitin.
Seabord (n. & a.) See Seaboard.
Seabound (a.) Bounded by the sea.
Seacoast (n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
Seafarer (n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.
Seafaring (a.) Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.
Seagirt (a.) Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.
Seagoing (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
Seah (n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.
Seak (n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.
Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
Seal (n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.
Seal (n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Seal (n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
Seal (n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
Seal (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.
Seal (v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.
Seal (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
Seal (v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
Seal (v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
Seal (v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
Seal (v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
Seal (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.
Seal (v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
Seal-brown (a.) Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
Sealed (imp. & p. p.) of Seal
Sealer (n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
Sealer (n.) One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.
Sealgh (n.) Alt. of Selch
Sealing wax () A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.
Seam (n.) A denomination of weight or measure.
Seam (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
Seam (n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
Seam (n.) Grease; tallow; lard.
Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
Seam (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
Seam (n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
Seam (n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
Seam (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
Seam (v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
Seam (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
Seam (v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
Seaman (n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.
Seaman (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
Seamanlike (a.) Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.
Seamanship (n.) The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.
Seamark (n.) Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.
Seamed (a.) Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.
Seamed (imp. & p. p.) of Seam
Seamen (pl. ) of Seaman
Seamen (pl. ) of Seaman
Seaming (n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
Seaming (n.) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
Seaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seam
Seamless (a.) Without a seam.
Seamster (n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.
Seamstress (n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
Seamstressy (n.) The business of a seamstress.
Seamy (a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.
Sean (n.) A seine. See Seine.
Seance (n.) A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.
Seannachie (n.) A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.
Seapiece (n.) A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.
Seaport (n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.
Seapoy (n.) See Sepoy.
Seaquake (n.) A quaking of the sea.
Sear (a.) Alt. of Sere
Sear (a.) To wither; to dry up.
Sear (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
Searce (n.) A fine sieve.
Searce (v. t.) To sift; to bolt.
Searcer (n.) A searce, or sieve.
Searcer (n.) One who sifts or bolts.
Search (v. i.) To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
Search (v. t.) The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.
Search (v. t.) To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
Search (v. t.) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
Search (v. t.) To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
Search (v. t.) To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
Searchable (a.) Capable of being searched.
Searchableness (n.) Quality of being searchable.
Searched (imp. & p. p.) of Search
Searcher (n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
Searcher (n.) An inspector of leather.
Searcher (n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
Searcher (n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
Searcher (n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
Searcher (n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
Searcher (n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
Searching (a.) Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye.
Searching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Search
Searchless (a.) Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
Searcloth (n.) Cerecloth.
Searcloth (v. t.) To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.
Seared (a.) Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.
Seared (imp. & p. p.) of Sear
Searedness (n.) The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.
Searing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sear
Seascape (n.) A picture representing a scene at sea.
Seashell (n.) The shell of any marine mollusk.
Seashore (n.) All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks.
Seashore (n.) The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
Seasick (a.) Affected with seasickness.
Seasickness (n.) The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
Seaside (n.) The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.
Season (n.) A period of time not very long; a while; a time.
Season (n.) Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.
Season (n.) That which gives relish; seasoning.
Season (v. i.) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
Season (v. i.) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
Season (v. i.) To give token; to savor.
Season (v. t.) Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agrecable.
Season (v. t.) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
Season (v. t.) To copulate with; to impregnate.
Season (v. t.) To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
Season (v. t.) To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.
Season (v. t.) To imbue; to tinge or taint.
Season (v. t.) To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.
Season (v. t.) To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.
Seasonable (a.) Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.
Seasonage (n.) A seasoning.
Seasonal (a.) Of or pertaining to the seasons.
Seasoned (imp. & p. p.) of Season
Seasoner (n.) One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
Seasoning (n.) Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation.
Seasoning (n.) That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.
Seasoning (n.) The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
Seasoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Season
Seasonless (a.) Without succession of the seasons.
Seat (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seat (n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
Seat (n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
Seat (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
Seat (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
Seat (v. i.) To rest; to lie down.
Seat (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
Seat (v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
Seat (v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
Seat (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
Seat (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
Seated (imp. & p. p.) of Seat
Seating (n.) The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
Seating (n.) The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
Seating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seat
Seatless (a.) Having no seat.
Seave (n.) A rush.
Seavy (a.) Overgrown with rushes.
Seawan (n.) Alt. of Seawant
Seawand () See Sea girdles.
Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
Seaward (a.) Directed or situated toward the sea.
Seaward (adv.) Toward the sea.
Seaware (n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.
Seaweed (n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
Seaweed (n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
Seawife (n.) A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).
Seawives (pl. ) of Seawife
Seaworthiness (n.) The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.
Seaworthy (a.) Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
Sebaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
Sebat (n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.
Sebate (n.) A salt of sebacic acid.
Sebesten (n.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
Sebic (a.) See Sebacic.
Sebiferous (a.) Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands.
Sebiferous (a.) Producing vegetable tallow.
Sebiparous (a.) Same as Sebiferous.
Seborrhea (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
Secale (n.) A genus of cereal grasses including rye.
Secancy (n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.
Secant (a.) A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.
Secant (a.) Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line.
Secco (a.) Dry.
Secede (v. i.) To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
Seceded (imp. & p. p.) of Secede
Seceder (n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.
Seceder (n.) One who secedes.
Seceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secede
Secern (v. t.) To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.
Secern (v. t.) To separate; to distinguish.
Secerned (imp. & p. p.) of Secern
Secernent (a.) Secreting; secretory.
Secernent (n.) A vessel in, or by means of, which the process of secretion takes place; a secreting vessel.
Secernent (n.) That which promotes secretion.
Secerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secern
Secernment (n.) The act or process of secreting.
Secess (n.) Retirement; retreat; secession.
Secession (n.) The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
Secession (n.) The withdrawal of a State from the national Union.
Secessionism (n.) The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
Secessionist (n.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will.
Secessionist (n.) One who upholds secession.
Seche (v. t. & i.) To seek.
Sechium (n.) The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.
Seck (a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.
Seckel (n.) A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.
Secle (n.) A century.
Seclude (v. t.) To shut or keep out; to exclude.
Seclude (v. t.) To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
Secluded (imp. & p. p.) of Seclude
Secluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seclude
Seclusion (n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Seclusive (a.) Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.
Second (a.) Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.
Second (a.) Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.
Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.
Second (a.) Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
Second (a.) Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.
Second (a.) The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.
Second (a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.
Second (a.) To follow or attend for the purpose of assisting; to support; to back; to act as the second of; to assist; to forward; to encourage.
Second (n.) Aid; assistance; help.
Second (n.) An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.
Second (n.) One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.
Second (n.) One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power.
Second (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.
Second (n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.
Second-class (a.) Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
Second-rate (a.) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.
Second-sight (n.) The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
Second-sighted (a.) Having the power of second-sight.
Secondaries (pl. ) of Secondary
Secondarily (adv.) In a secondary manner or degree.
Secondarily (adv.) Secondly; in the second place.
Secondariness (n.) The state of being secondary.
Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
Secondary (a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
Secondary (a.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
Secondary (a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
Secondary (a.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
Secondary (a.) Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Secondary (n.) A satellite.
Secondary (n.) A secondary circle.
Secondary (n.) A secondary quill.
Secondary (n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
Seconded (imp. & p. p.) of Second
Seconder (n.) One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
Secondhand (a.) Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment.
Secondhand (a.) Not original or primary; received from another.
Seconding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Second
Secondly (adv.) In the second place.
Secondo (n.) The second part in a concerted piece.
Secre (a.) Secret; secretive; faithful to a secret.
Secre (n.) A secret.
Secrecies (pl. ) of Secrecy
Secrecy (n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
Secrecy (n.) That which is concealed; a secret.
Secrecy (n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
Secrecy (n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
Secrely (adv.) Secretly.
Secreness (n.) Secrecy; privacy.
Secret (a.) A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.
Secret (a.) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
Secret (a.) Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.
Secret (a.) The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.
Secret (a.) Withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
Secret (v. t.) To keep secret.
Secretage (n.) A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
Secretarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary.
Secretariat (n.) Alt. of Secretariate
Secretariate (n.) The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
Secretaries (pl. ) of Secretary
Secretary (n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
Secretary (n.) One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
Secretary (n.) The secretary bird.
Secretaryship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.
Secrete (v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
Secrete (v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
Secrete-metory (a.) Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
Secreted (imp. & p. p.) of Secrete
Secreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secrete
Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
Secretion (n.) The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
Secretist (n.) A dealer in secrets.
Secretitious (a.) Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors.
Secretive (a.) Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
Secretiveness (n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
Secretiveness (n.) The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
Secretly (adv.) In a secret manner.
Secretness (n.) Secretiveness; concealment.
Secretness (n.) The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.
Secretory (a.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.
Secretory (n.) A secretory vessel; a secernent.
Sect (n.) A cutting; a scion.
Sectant (n.) One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.
Sectarian (n.) Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
Sectarianism (n.) The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
Sectarianize (v. t.) To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.
Sectaries (pl. ) of Sectary
Sectarism (n.) Sectarianism.
Sectarist (n.) A sectary.
Sectary (n.) A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.
Sectator (n.) A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.
Sectile (a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.
Sectility (n.) The state or quality of being sectile.
Section (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
Section (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
Section (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
Section (n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
Section (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
Sectional (a.) Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
Sectional (a.) Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
Sectionality (n.) The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
Sectionalize (v. t.) To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
Sectionally (adv.) In a sectional manner.
Sectionize (v. t.) To form into sections.
Sectism (n.) Devotion to a sect.
Sectist (n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.
Sectiuncle (n.) A little or petty sect.
Sector (n.) A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
Sectoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.
Sectorial (a.) Adapted for cutting.
Sectorial (n.) A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.
Secular (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
Secular (a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
Secular (a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
Secular (a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
Secular (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
Secular (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
Secular (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Secular (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
Secularism (n.) The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.
Secularism (n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists.
Secularity (n.) Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.
Secularization (n.) The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
Secularize (v. t.) To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
Secularize (v. t.) To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
Secularize (v. t.) To make worldly or unspiritual.
Secularized (imp. & p. p.) of Secularize
Secularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secularize
Secularly (adv.) In a secular or worldly manner.
Secularness (n.) The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness.
Secund (a.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.
Secundate (v. t.) To make prosperous.
Secundation (n.) Prosperity.
Secundine (n.) The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural.
Secundine (n.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.
Securable (a.) That may be secured.
Secure (a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
Secure (a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
Secure (a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
Secure (a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
Secure (v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
Secure (v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
Secure (v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
Secure (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
Secured (imp. & p. p.) of Secure
Securely (adv.) In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.
Securement (n.) The act of securing; protection.
Secureness (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
Securer (n.) One who, or that which, secures.
Securifera (n. pl.) The Serrifera.
Securiform (a.) Having the form of an ax hatchet.
Securing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secure
Securipalp (n.) One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.
Securities (pl. ) of Security
Security (n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.
Security (n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.
Security (n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.
Security (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.
Security (n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.
Security (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.
Sedan (n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
Sedate (a.) Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.
Sedation (n.) The act of calming, or the state of being calm.
Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Sedative (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize
Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
Sedent (a.) Sitting; inactive; quiet.
Sedentarily (adv.) In a sedentary manner.
Sedentariness (n.) Quality of being sedentary.
Sedentary (a.) Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.
Sedentary (a.) Caused by long sitting.
Sedentary (a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.
Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
Sederunt (n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body.
Sedge (n.) A flock of herons.
Sedged (a.) Made or composed of sedge.
Sedgy (a.) Overgrown with sedge.
Sedilia (n. pl.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.
Sediment (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
Sedimental (a.) Sedimentary.
Sedimentary (a.) Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.
Sedimentation (n.) The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Sedition (n.) Dissension; division; schism.
Sedition (n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
Seditionary (n.) An inciter or promoter of sedition.
Seditious (a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens.
Seditious (a.) Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.
Sedlitz (a.) Same as Seidlitz.
Seduce (v. t.) Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.
Seduce (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
Seduced (imp. & p. p.) of Seduce
Seducement (n.) The act of seducing.
Seducement (n.) The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting.
Seducer (n.) One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.
Seducible (a.) Capable of being seduced; corruptible.
Seducing (a.) Seductive.
Seducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seduce
Seduction (n.) That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
Seductive (a.) Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.
Seductively (adv.) In a seductive manner.
Seductress (n.) A woman who seduces.
Sedulity (n.) The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.
Sedulous (a.) Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
Sedum (n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
See (n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
See (v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.
See (v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.
See (v. i.) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
See (v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
See (v. t.) To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
See (v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.
See (v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
See (v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
See (v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
Seed (n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
Seed (n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
Seed (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
Seed (n.) Race; generation; birth.
Seed (n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
Seed (n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
Seed (n.) The principle of production.
Seed (pl. ) of Seed
Seed (v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
Seed (v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
Seed-lac (n.) A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.
Seedbox (n.) A capsule.
Seedbox (n.) A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.
Seedcake (n.) A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.
Seedcod (n.) A seedlip.
Seeded (imp. & p. p.) of Seed
Seeder (n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.
Seediness (n.) The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.
Seeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seed
Seedless (a.) Without seed or seeds.
Seedling (n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
Seedlip (n.) Alt. of Seedlop
Seedlop (n.) A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered.
Seedman (See) Seedsman.
Seedness (n.) Seedtime.
Seeds (pl. ) of Seed
Seedsman (n.) A person who deals in seeds.
Seedsman (n.) A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.
Seedsmen (pl. ) of Seedsman
Seedtime (n.) The season proper for sowing.
Seedy (superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
Seedy (superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
Seedy (superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.
Seeing (conj. (but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.
Seeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of See
Seek (a.) Sick.
Seek (v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek (v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
Seek (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
Seek (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
Seek (v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek-no-further (n.) A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.
Seek-sorrow (n.) One who contrives to give himself vexation.
Seeker (n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.
Seeker (n.) One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
Seeking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seek
Seel (n.) Alt. of Seeling
Seel (n.) Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel".
Seel (n.) Time; season; as, hay seel.
Seel (v. i.) To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.
Seel (v. t.) Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.
Seel (v. t.) To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head.
Seeled (imp. & p. p.) of Seel
Seelily (adv.) In a silly manner.
Seeling (n.) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
Seeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seel
Seely (a.) See Silly.
Seem (a.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.
Seem (v. t.) To befit; to beseem.
Seemed (imp. & p. p.) of Seem
Seemer (n.) One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.
Seeming (a.) Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.
Seemliness (n.) The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.
Seemly (superl.) In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.
Seemly (v. i.) Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.
Seemlyhed (n.) Comely or decent appearance.
Seen () p. p. of See.
Seen (a.) Versed; skilled; accomplished.
Seen (p. p.) of See
Seep (v. i.) Alt. of Sipe
Seepage (n.) Alt. of Sipage
Seepy (a.) Alt. of Sipy
Seer (a.) Sore; painful.
Seer (n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet.
Seer (n.) One who sees.
Seeress (n.) A female seer; a prophetess.
Seerfish (n.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).
Seerhand (n.) A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.
Seership (n.) The office or quality of a seer.
Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
Seerwood (n.) Dry wood.
Seesaw (a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
Seesaw (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Seesaw (n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
Seesaw (n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion.
Seesaw (n.) Same as Crossruff.
Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Seesaw (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
Seesawad (imp. & p. p.) of Seesaw
Seesawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seesaw
Seet (imp.) Sate; sat.
Seeth () imp. of Seethe.
Seethe (n.) To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.
Seethe (v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.
Seethed (imp.) of Seethe
Seethed (p. p.) of Seethe
Seether (n.) A pot for boiling things; a boiler.
Seething (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seethe
Seg (n.) A castrated bull.
Seg (n.) Sedge.
Seg (n.) The gladen, and other species of Iris.
Segar (n.) See Cigar.
Seggar (n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.
Segge (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
Segment (n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
Segment (n.) A segment gear.
Segment (n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
Segment (n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
Segment (n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
Segment (v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
Segmental (a.) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs.
Segmental (a.) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae.
Segmental (a.) Relating to, or being, a segment.
Segmentation (n.) The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.
Segmented (a.) Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
Segnitude (n.) Alt. of Segnity
Segnity (n.) Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.
Segno (n.) A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.
Sego (n.) A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
Segregate (a.) Separate; select.
Segregate (a.) Separated from others of the same kind.
Segregate (v. i.) To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.
Segregate (v. t.) To separate from others; to set apart.
Segregated (imp. & p. p.) of Segregate
Segregating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Segregate
Segregation (n.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
Segregation (n.) The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.
Seguestration (n.) Disunion; disjunction.
Seguestration (n.) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
Seguestration (n.) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
Seguestration (n.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Seiches (n. pl.) Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.
Seid (n.) A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.
Seidlitz (a.) Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.
Seigh () obs. imp. sing. of See. Saw.
Seigneurial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
Seigneurial (a.) Vested with large powers; independent.
Seignior (n.) A lord; the lord of a manor.
Seignior (n.) A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.
Seigniorage (n.) A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.
Seignioral (a.) Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial.
Seignioralty (n.) The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.
Seigniorial (a.) Same as Seigneurial.
Seigniorize (v. t.) To lord it over.
Seigniory (n.) The power or authority of a lord; dominion.
Seigniory (n.) The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.
Seiner (n.) One who fishes with a seine.
Seining (n.) Fishing with a seine.
Seint (n.) A girdle.
Seint (n.) A saint.
Seintuary (n.) Sanctuary.
Seirfish (n.) Same as Seerfish.
Seirospore (n.) One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.
Seise (v. t.) See Seize.
Seisin (n.) See Seizin.
Seismal (a.) Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.
Seismic (a.) Alt. of Seismal
Seismograph (n.) An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.
Seismographic (a.) Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.
Seismography (n.) A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.
Seismography (n.) The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.
Seismological (a.) Of or pertaining to seismology.
Seismology (n.) The science of earthquakes.
Seismometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.
Seismometric (a.) Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.
Seismometry (n.) The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.
Seismoscope (n.) A seismometer.
Seity (n.) Something peculiar to one's self.
Seizable (a.) That may be seized.
Seize (v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
Seize (v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
Seize (v. t.) To fasten; to fix.
Seize (v. t.) To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
Seize (v. t.) To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
Seize (v. t.) To take possession of by force.
Seize (v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
Seized (imp. & p. p.) of Seize
Seizer (n.) One who, or that which, seizes.
Seizin (n.) The act of taking possession.
Seizin (n.) The thing possessed; property.
Seizing (n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
Seizing (n.) The cord or lashing used for such fastening.
Seizing (n.) The operation of fastening together or lashing.
Seizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seize
Seizor (n.) One who seizes, or takes possession.
Seizure (n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.
Seizure (n.) That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.
Seizure (n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
Sejant (a.) Alt. of Sejeant
Sejeant (a.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast.
Sejein (v. t.) To separate.
Sejunction (n.) The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
Sejungible (a.) Capable of being disjoined.
Seke (a.) Sick.
Seke (v. t. & i.) To seek.
Sekes (n.) A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.
Selachian (n.) One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.
Selachii (n. pl.) An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei.
Selachoidei (n. pl.) Same as Selachii.
Selachostomi (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.
Selaginella (n.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.
Selah (n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.
Selch (n.) A seal.
Selcouth (n.) Rarely known; unusual; strange.
Seld (a.) Rare; uncommon; unusual.
Seld (adv.) Rarely; seldom.
Seldem (superl) Rarely; not often; not frequently.
Selden (adv.) Seldom.
Seldom (a.) Rare; infrequent.
Seldomness (n.) Rareness.
Seldseen (a.) Seldom seen.
Seldshewn (a.) Rarely shown or exhibited.
Select (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
Select (v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.
Selected (imp. & p. p.) of Select
Selectedly (adv.) With care and selection.
Selecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Select
Selection (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.
Selection (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Selective (a.) Selecting; tending to select.
Selectman (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.
Selectmen (pl. ) of Selectman
Selectness (n.) The quality or state of being select.
Selector (n.) One who selects.
Selenate (n.) A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.
Selenecentric (a.) As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.
Selenhydric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.
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.
Selenide (n.) A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.
Seleniferous (a.) Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.
Selenio- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of selenium or its compounds; as, selenio-phosphate, a phosphate having selenium in place of all, or a part, of the oxygen.
Selenious (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds.
Selenite (n.) A salt of selenious acid.
Selenite (n.) A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.
Selenitic (a.) Alt. of Selenitical
Selenitical (a.) Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite.
Seleniuret (n.) A selenide.
Seleniureted (a.) Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen.
Selenograph (n.) A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.
Selenographer (n.) One skilled in selenography.
Selenographic (a.) Alt. of Selenographical
Selenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to selenography.
Selenographist (n.) A selenographer.
Selenography (n.) The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; -- corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth.
Selenology (n.) That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon.
Selenonium (n.) A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium.
Self (a.) Same; particular; very; identical.
Self (n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
Self (n.) Personification; embodiment.
Self-abased (a.) Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.
Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
Self-abasement (n.) Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.
Self-abasing (a.) Lowering or humbling one's self.
Self-abuse (n.) The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.
Self-accused (a.) Accused by one's self or by one's conscience.
Self-action (n.) Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.
Self-active (a.) Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
Self-activity (n.) The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.
Self-adjusting (a.) Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery.
Self-admiration (n.) Admiration of one's self.
Self-affairs (n. pl.) One's own affairs; one's private business.
Self-affrighted (a.) Frightened at or by one's self.
Self-aggrandizement (n.) The aggrandizement of one's self.
Self-annihilated (a.) Annihilated by one's self.
Self-annihilation (n.) Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires.
Self-applause (n.) Applause of one's self.
Self-applying (a.) Applying to or by one's self.
Self-approving (a.) Approving one's own action or character by one's own judgment.
Self-asserting (a.) asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.
Self-assertion (n.) The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
Self-assertive (a.) Disposed to self-assertion; self-asserting.
Self-assumed (a.) Assumed by one's own act, or without authority.
Self-assured (a.) Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.
Self-banished (a.) Exiled voluntarily.
Self-begetten (a.) Begotten by one's self, or one's own powers.
Self-bern (a.) Born or produced by one's self.
Self-cconsistent (a.) Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.
Self-celored (a.) Being of a single color; -- applied to flowers, animals, and textile fabrics.
Self-centered (a.) Alt. of Self-centred
Self-centering (a.) Alt. of Self-centring
Self-centration (n.) The quality or state of being self-centered.
Self-centred (a.) Centered in itself, or in one's self.
Self-centring (a.) Centering in one's self.
Self-charity (n.) Self-love.
Self-color (n.) A color not mixed or variegated.
Self-command (n.) Control over one's own feelings, temper, etc.; self-control.
Self-commune (n.) Self-communion.
Self-communicative (a.) Imparting or communicating by its own powers.
Self-communion (n.) Communion with one's self; thoughts about one's self.
Self-complacency (n.) The quality of being self-complacent.
Self-complacent (a.) Satisfied with one's own character, capacity, and doings; self-satisfied.
Self-conceit (n.) Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.
Self-conceited (a.) Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited.
Self-concern (n.) Concern for one's self.
Self-condemnation (n.) Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.
Self-confidence (n.) The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance.
Self-confident (a.) Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant.
Self-conjugate (a.) Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles.
Self-conscious (a.) Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self.
Self-conscious (a.) Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.
Self-consciousness (n.) The quality or state of being self-conscious.
Self-considering (a.) Considering in one's own mind; deliberating.
Self-consistency (n.) The quality or state of being self-consistent.
Self-consuming (a.) Consuming one's self or itself.
Self-contained (a.) Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.
Self-contained (a.) Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.
Self-contradiction (n.) The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.
Self-contradictory (a.) Contradicting one's self or itself.
Self-control (n.) Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.
Self-convicted (a.) Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.
Self-conviction (n.) The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self-convicted.
Self-created (a.) Created by one's self; not formed or constituted by another.
Self-culture (n.) Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.
Self-deceit (n.) The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self-deceived; self-deception.
Self-deceived (a.) Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.
Self-deception (n.) Self-deceit.
Self-defence (n.) See Self-defense.
Self-defense (n.) The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation.
Self-defensive (a.) Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation.
Self-degradation (n.) The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.
Self-delation (n.) Accusation of one's self.
Self-delusion (n.) The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
Self-denial (n.) The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.
Self-denying (a.) Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing.
Self-dependent (a.) Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.
Self-depending (a.) Depending on one's self.
Self-depraved (a.) Corrupted or depraved by one's self.
Self-destroyer (n.) One who destroys himself; a suicide.
Self-destruction (n.) The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide.
Self-destructive (a.) Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.
Self-determination (n.) Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
Self-determining (a.) Capable of self-determination; as, the self-determining power of will.
Self-devised (a.) Devised by one's self.
Self-devoted (a.) Devoted in person, or by one's own will.
Self-devotement (n.) Self-devotion.
Self-devotion (n.) The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self-devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
Self-devouring (a.) Devouring one's self or itself.
Self-diffusive (a.) Having power to diffuse itself; diffusing itself.
Self-discipline (n.) Correction or government of one's self for the sake of improvement.
Self-distrust (n.) Want of confidence in one' self; diffidence.
Self-educated (a.) Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.
Self-elective (a.) Having the right of electing one's self, or, as a body, of electing its own members.
Self-enjoyment (n.) Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.
Self-esteem (n.) The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.
Self-estimation (n.) The act of estimating one's self; self-esteem.
Self-evidence (n.) The quality or state of being self-evident.
Self-evident (a.) Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth.
Self-evolution (n.) Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or power.
Self-exaltation (n.) The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.
Self-examinant (n.) One who examines himself; one given to self-examination.
Self-examination (n.) An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.
Self-existence (n.) Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God.
Self-existent (a.) Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
self-explaining (a.) Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.
Self-exposure (n.) The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.
Self-fertilization (n.) The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.
Self-fertilized (a.) Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
Self-glorious (a.) Springing from vainglory or vanity; vain; boastful.
Self-government (n.) Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil body; also, the state of being so governed; democratic government; democracy.
Self-government (n.) The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command.
Self-gratulation (n.) Gratulation of one's self.
Self-heal (n.) A blue-flowered labiate plant (Brunella vulgaris); the healall.
Self-healing (a.) Having the power or property of healing itself.
Self-help (n.) The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.
Self-homicide (n.) The act of killing one's self; suicide.
Self-ignorance (n.) Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.
Self-ignorant (a.) Ignorant of one's self.
Self-imparting (a.) Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will.
Self-importance (n.) An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.
Self-important (a.) Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.
Self-imposed (a.) Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.
Self-imposture (n.) Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit.
Self-indignation (n.) Indignation at one's own character or actions.
Self-indulgence (n.) Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.
Self-respect (n.) Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.
Self-restrained (a.) Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.
Self-restraint (n.) Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
Self-reverence (n.) A reverent respect for one's self.
Self-righteous (a.) Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
Self-righteousness (n.) The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
Self-sacrifice (n.) The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
Self-sacrificing (a.) Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.
Self-satisfaction (n.) The quality or state of being self-satisfied.
Self-satisfied (a.) Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.
Self-satisfying (a.) Giving satisfaction to one's self.
Self-seeker (n.) One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
Self-seeking (a.) Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.
Self-seeking (n.) The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.
Self-slaughter (n.) Suicide.
Self-sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being self-sufficient.
Self-sufficient (a.) Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing.
Self-sufficient (a.) Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation.
Self-sufficing (a.) Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient.
Self-suspended (a.) Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced.
Self-suspicious (a.) Suspicious or distrustful of one's self.
Self-taught (a.) Taught by one's own efforts.
Self-tormentor (n.) One who torments himself.
Self-torture (n.) The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.
Self-trust (n.) Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
Self-uned (a.) One with itself; separate from others.
Self-view (n.) A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests
Self-will (n.) One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.
Self-willed (a.) Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.
Self-willedness (n.) Obstinacy.
Self-worship (n.) The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
Self-wrong (n.) Wrong done by a person himself.
Selfhood (n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Selfish (a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.
Selfish (a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
Selfishly (adv.) In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
Selfism (n.) Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.
Selfist (n.) A selfish person.
Selfless (a.) Having no regard to self; unselfish.
Selflessness (n.) Quality or state of being selfless.
Selfness (n.) Selfishness.
Selfsame (a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
Selion (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.
Seljuckian (n.) A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.
Sell (n.) A cell; a house.
Sell (n.) A saddle for a horse.
Sell (n.) A sill.
Sell (n.) A throne or lofty seat.
Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Sell (n.) Self.
Sell (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
Sell (v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
Sell (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
Sell (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
Sell (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.
Sellanders (n. pl.) Alt. of Sellenders
Sellenders (n. pl.) See Sallenders.
Seller (n.) One who sells.
Selling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sell
Selters water () A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid.
Seltzer water () See Selters water.
Seltzo-gene (n.) A gazogene.
Selvage (n.) Alt. of Selvedge
Selvaged (a.) Alt. of Selvedged
Selvagee (n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.
Selvas (n. pl.) Vast woodland plains of South America.
Selve (a.) Self; same.
Selvedge (n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.
Selvedge (n.) The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
Selvedge (n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.
Selvedged (a.) Having a selvage.
Selves (n.) pl. of Self.
Selves (pl. ) of Self
Sely (a.) Silly.
Semaeostomata (n. pl.) A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.
Semaphore (n.) A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
Semaphoric (a.) Alt. of Semaphorical
Semaphorical (a.) Of or pertaining to a semaphore, or semaphores; telegraphic.
Semaphorically (adv.) By means of a semaphore.
Semaphorist (n.) One who manages or operates a semaphore.
Sematology (n.) The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.
Sematrope (n.) An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.
Semblable (a.) Like; similar; resembling.
Semblable (n.) Likeness; representation.
Semblably (adv.) In like manner.
Semblance (a.) Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
Semble (a.) It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause.
Semble (a.) Like; resembling.
Semble (a.) To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
Seme (a.) Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.
Semeiography (n.) Alt. of Semiography
Semeiological (a.) Alt. of Semiologioal
Semeiology (n.) Alt. of Semiology
Semeiotic (a.) Alt. of Semiotic
Semeiotics (n.) Alt. of Semiotics
Semele (n.) A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.
Semen (n.) The seed of plants.
Semen (n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power.
Semeniferous (a.) Seminiferous.
Semester (n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.
Semicope (n.) A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.
Semicrystalline (a.) Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
Semicubical (a.) Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
Semicubium (n.) Alt. of Semicupium
Semicupium (n.) A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.
Semicylindric (a.) Alt. of Semicylyndrical
Semicylyndrical (a.) Half cylindrical.
Semideistical (a.) Half deisticsl; bordering on deism.
Semidemiquaver (n.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.
Semidetached (a.) Half detached; partly distinct or separate.
Semidiameter (n.) Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
Semidiapason (n.) An imperfect octave.
Semidiapente (n.) An imperfect or diminished fifth.
Semidiaphaneity (n.) Half or imperfect transparency; translucency.
Semidiaphanous (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent.
Semidiatessaron (n.) An imperfect or diminished fourth.
Semiditone (n.) A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone.
Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.
Semidome (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.
Semidouble (a.) Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.
Semidouble (n.) An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones. See Double, n., 8.
Semifable (n.) That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable.
Semiflexed (a.) Half bent.
Semifloret (n.) See Semifloscule.
Semifloscular (a.) Semiflosculous.
Semifloscule (n.) A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.
Semiflosculous (a.) Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.
Semiglutin (n.) A peptonelike body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water. Hemicollin, a like body, is also formed at the same time, and differs from semiglutin by being partly soluble in alcohol.
Semihistorical (a.) Half or party historical.
Semihoral (a.) Half-hourly.
Semiiannual (a.) Half-yearly.
Semiimute (a.) Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.
Semiindurated (a.) Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
Semilapidified (a.) Imperfectly changed into stone.
Semilens (n.) The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.
Semilenticular (a.) Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
Semiligneous (a.) Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
Semiliquid (a.) Half liquid; semifluid.
Semiliquidity (n.) The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.
Semilogical (a.) Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies.
Semilor (n.) A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See Simplor.
Semilunar (a.) Shaped like a half moon.
Semilunar (n.) The semilunar bone.
Semilunary (a.) Semilunar.
Semilunate (a.) Semilunar.
Semilune (n.) The half of a lune.
Semimetal (n.) An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree and not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, uranium, etc.
Semimetallic (a.) Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.
Semimonthly (a.) Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment.
Semimonthly (adv.) In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month.
Semimonthly (n.) Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical.
Semimute (n.) A semimute person.
Semina (pl. ) of Semen
Seminal (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.
Seminal (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
Seminal (n.) A seed.
Seminality (n.) The quality or state of being seminal.
Seminarian (n.) Alt. of Seminarist
Seminaries (pl. ) of Seminary
Seminarist (n.) A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.
Seminary (a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.
Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
Seminary (n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
Seminary (n.) A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
Seminary (n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
Seminary (n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
Seminary (n.) Seminal state.
Seminate (v. t.) To sow; to spread; to propagate.
Seminated (imp. & p. p.) of Seminate
Seminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seminate
Semination (n.) Natural dispersion of seeds.
Semination (n.) The act of sowing or spreading.
Semined (a.) Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds.
Seminiferous (a.) Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.
Seminific (a.) Alt. of Semnifical
Seminification (n.) Propagation from seed.
Seminist (n.) A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.
Seminoles (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.
Seminose (n.) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.
Seminude (a.) Partially nude; half naked.
Seminymph (n.) The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.
Semioccasionally (adv.) Once in a while; on rare occasions.
Semiofficial (a.) Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement.
Semiography () Alt. of Semiological
Semiography (n.) A description of the signs of disease.
Semiological () Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.
Semiologioal (a.) Of or pertaining to the science of signs, or the systematic use of signs; as, a semeiological classification of the signs or symptoms of disease; a semeiological arrangement of signs used as signals.
Semiology () Alt. of Semiological
Semiology (n.) The art of using signs in signaling.
Semiology (n.) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
Semiology (n.) The science or art of signs.
Semiopacous (a.) Semiopaque.
Semiopal (n.) A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.
Semiopaque (a.) Half opaque; only half transparent.
Semiorbicular (a.) Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
Semiotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.
Semiotic (a.) Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.
Semiotic (a.) Same as Semeiotic.
Semiotics (n.) Same as Semeiotics.
Semiotics (n.) Semeiology.
Semious (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sim/; monkeylike.
Semioval (a.) Half oval.
Semiovate (a.) Half ovate.
Semioxygenated (a.) Combined with oxygen only in part.
Semipagan (a.) Half pagan.
Semipalmate (a.) Alt. of Semipalmated
Semipalmated (a.) Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.
Semiparabola (n.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.
Semiped (n.) A half foot in poetry.
Semipedal (a.) Containing a half foot.
Semipellucid (a.) Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
Semipellucidity (n.) The qualiti or state of being imperfectly transparent.
Semipenniform (a.) Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.
Semiphlogisticated (a.) Partially impregnated with phlogiston.
Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
Semiprecious (a.) Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.
Semiproof (n.) Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
Semiquadrate (n.) Alt. of Semiquartile
Semiquartile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.
Semiquaver (n.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.
Semiquintile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
Semirecondite (a.) Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.
Semiring (n.) One of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds. The semerings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.
Semisavage (a.) Half savage.
Semisavage (n.) One who is half savage.
Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
Semisolid (a.) Partially solid.
Semisoun (n.) A half sound; a low tone.
Semispheric (a.) Alt. of Semispherical
Semispherical (a.) Having the figure of a half sphere.
Semispheroidal (a.) Formed like a half spheroid.
Semisteel (n.) Puddled steel.
Semita (n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.
Semitae (pl. ) of Semita
Semitangent (n.) The tangent of half an arc.
Semite (n.) One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.
Semiterete (a.) Half terete.
Semitertian (a.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.
Semitertian (n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
Semitic (a.) Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.
Semitism (n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.
Semitone (n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
Semitonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.
Semitransept (n.) The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.
Semitranslucent (a.) Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.
Semitransparency (n.) Imperfect or partial transparency.
Semitransparent (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent.
Semiverticillate (a.) Partially verticillate.
Semivif (a.) Only half alive.
Semivitreous (a.) Partially vitreous.
Semivitrification (n.) A substance imperfectly vitrified.
Semivitrification (n.) The quality or state of being semivitrified.
Semivitrified (a.) Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
Semivocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
Semivowel (n.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.
Semivowel (n.) The sign or letter representing such a sound.
Semiweekly (a.) Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.
Semiweekly (adv.) At intervals of half a week each.
Semiweekly (n.) That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.
Semnifical (a.) Forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.
Semolella (n.) See Semolina.
Semolina (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.
Semolino (n.) Same as Semolina.
Semopermanent (n.) Half or partly permanent.
Semoule (n.) Same as Semolina.
Sempervirent (a.) Always fresh; evergreen.
Sempervive (n.) The houseleek.
Sempervivum (n.) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.
Sempiternal (a.) Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
Sempiternal (a.) Without beginning or end; eternal.
Sempiterne (a.) Sempiternal.
Sempiternity (n.) Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.
Sempre (adv.) Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.
Sempster (n.) A seamster.
Sempstress (n.) A seamstress.
Sempstressy (n.) Seamstressy.
Semster (n.) A seamster.
Semuncia (n.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.
Sen (adv., prep., & conj.) Since.
Sen (n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.
Senary (a.) Of six; belonging to six; containing six.
Senate (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
Senate (n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
Senate (n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
Senate (n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
Senate (n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
Senate (n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
Senator (n.) A member of a senate.
Senator (n.) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.
Senatorial (a.) Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State.
Senatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.
Senatorially (adv.) In a senatorial manner.
Senatorian (a.) Senatorial.
Senatorious (a.) Senatorial.
Senatorship (n.) The office or dignity of a senator.
Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.
Send (n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
Send (v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
Send (v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
Send (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
Send (v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
Send (v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
Send (v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
Sendal (n.) A light thin stuff of silk.
Sender (n.) One who sends.
Sending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Send
Senecas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
Senecio (n.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
Senectitude (n.) Old age.
Senega (n.) Seneca root.
Senegal (n.) Gum senegal. See under Gum.
Senegin (n.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.
Senescence (n.) The state of growing old; decay by time.
Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
Seneschalship (n.) The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.
Senge (v. t.) To singe.
Sengreen (n.) The houseleek.
Senile (a.) Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Senility (n.) The quality or state of being senile; old age.
Senior (a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
Senior (a.) More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
Senior (n.) A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
Senior (n.) An aged person; an older.
Senior (n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.
Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
Seniority (n.) The quality or state of being senior.
Seniorize (v. i.) To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.
Seniory (n.) Seniority.
Senna (n.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.
Senna (n.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.
Sennachy (n.) See Seannachie.
Sennet (n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.
Sennet (n.) The barracuda.
Sennight (n.) The space of seven nights and days; a week.
Sennit (n.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.
Sennit (n.) Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.
Senocular (a.) Having six eyes.
Senonian (a.) In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.
Sens (adv.) Since.
Sensate (a.) Alt. of Sensated
Sensate (v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.
Sensated (a.) Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
Sensated (imp. & p. p.) of Sensate
Sensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sensate
Sensation (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
Sensation (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.
Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.
Sensational (a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
Sensationalism (n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.
Sensationalism (n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.
Sensationalist (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
Sensationalist (n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Sense (v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
Sense (v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
Sense (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
Sense (v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
Sense (v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
Sense (v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
Sense (v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
Sense (v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Sensed (imp. & p. p.) of Sense
Senseful (a.) Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.
Senseless (a.) Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
Sensery (n.) Same as Sensorium.
Sensibilities (pl. ) of Sensibility
Sensibility (n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
Sensibility (n.) That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
Sensibility (n.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
Sensible (a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
Sensible (a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
Sensible (a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
Sensible (a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
Sensible (a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
Sensible (a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
Sensible (n.) Sensation; sensibility.
Sensible (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Sensible (n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
Sensibleness (n.) Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
Sensibleness (n.) The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.
Sensibly (adv.) In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.
Sensibly (adv.) With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.
Sensificatory (a.) Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.
Sensigenous (a.) Causing or exciting sensation.
Sensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sense
Sensism (n.) Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.
Sensist (n.) One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.
Sensitive (a.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
Sensitive (a.) Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
Sensitive (a.) Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
Sensitive (a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
Sensitive (a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
Sensitive (a.) Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
Sensitivity (n.) The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
Sensitize (v. t.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.
Sensitizer (n.) An agent that sensitizes.
Sensitory (n.) See Sensory.
Sensive (a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.
Sensor (a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
Sensori-volitional (a.) Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.
Sensoria (pl. ) of Sensorium
Sensorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.
Sensories (pl. ) of Sensery
Sensoriums (pl. ) of Sensorium
Sensual (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
Sensual (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.
Sensual (a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.
Sensual (a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
Sensualism (n.) The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.
Sensualism (n.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.
Sensualism (n.) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.
Sensualist (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
Sensualist (n.) One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.
Sensualistic (a.) Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
Sensualistic (a.) Sensual.
Sensuality (n.) The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.
Sensualization (n.) The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.
Sensualize (v. t.) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.
Sensualized (imp. & p. p.) of Sensualize
Sensualizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sensualize
Sensually (adv.) In a sensual manner.
Sensualness (n.) Sensuality; fleshliness.
Sensuism (n.) Sensualism.
Sensuosity (n.) The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.
Sensuous (a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.
Sensuous (a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
Sent () imp. & p. p. of Send.
Sent () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.
Sent (imp. & p. p.) of Send
Sent (v. & n.) See Scent, v. & n.
Sentence (n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
Sentence (n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
Sentence (n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
Sentence (n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
Sentence (n.) Sense; meaning; significance.
Sentence (v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
Sentence (v. t.) To utter sententiously.
Sentenced (imp. & p. p.) of Sentence
Sentencer (n.) One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.
Sentencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sentence
sentential (a.) Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.
sentential (a.) Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause.
Sententially (adv.) In a sentential manner.
Sententiarist (n.) A sententiary.
Sententiary (n.) One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.
Sententiosity (n.) The quality or state of being sententious.
Sententious (a.) Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
Sententious (a.) Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
Sentery (n.) A sentry.
Senteur (n.) Scent.
Sentience (n.) Alt. of Sentiency
Sentiency (n.) The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
Sentient (a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
Sentient (n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
Sentiently (adv.) In a sentient or perceptive way.
Sentiment (a.) A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.
Sentiment (a.) A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.
Sentiment (a.) Hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject.
Sentimental (a.) Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
Sentimental (a.) Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
Sentimental (a.) Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
Sentimentalism (n.) The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
Sentimentalist (n.) One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
Sentimentality (n.) The quality or state of being sentimental.
Sentimentalize (v. i.) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.
Sentimentalize (v. t.) To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
Sentimentally (adv.) In a sentimental manner.
Sentine (n.) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
Sentinel (n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
Sentinel (n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
Sentinel (n.) Watch; guard.
Sentinel (v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Sentinel (v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
Sentineled (imp. & p. p.) of Sentinel
Sentineling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sentinel
Sentinelled () of Sentinel
Sentinelling () of Sentinel
Sentires (pl. ) of Sentry
Sentisection (n.) Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.
Sentry (n.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
Sentry (n.) Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Senza (prep.) Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.
Sepal (n.) A leaf or division of the calyx.
Sepaled (a.) Having one or more sepals.
Sepaline (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.
Sepalody (n.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
Sepaloid (a.) Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.
Sepalous (a.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.
Separability (n.) Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.
Separable (a.) Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.
Separate (p. a.) Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
Separate (p. a.) Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
Separate (p. a.) Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
Separate (v. i.) To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
Separate (v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
Separate (v. t.) To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
Separate (v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
Separated (imp. & p. p.) of Separate
Separatical (a.) Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical.
Separating (a.) Designed or employed to separate.
Separating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Separate
Separation (n.) Chemical analysis.
Separation (n.) Divorce.
Separation (n.) The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
Separation (n.) The operation of removing water from steam.
Separatism (n.) The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
Separatist (n.) One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
Separatistic (a.) Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
Separative (a.) Causing, or being to cause, separation.
Separator (n.) A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.
Separator (n.) An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
Separator (n.) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.
Separator (n.) One who, or that which, separates.
Separatory (a.) Separative.
Separatory (n.) A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
Separatory (n.) An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.
Separatrix (n.) The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
Sepawn (n.) See Supawn.
Sepelible (a.) Admitting of burial.
Sepelition (n.) Burial.
Sephen (n.) A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially T. sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.
Sepia (a.) Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
Sepia (n.) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
Sepia (n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
Sepia (n.) The common European cuttlefish.
Sepiae (pl. ) of Sepia
Sepias (pl. ) of Sepia
Sepic (a.) Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.
Sepidaceous (a.) Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.
Sepiment (n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
Sepiolite (n.) Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.
Sepiostare (n.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
Sepon (n.) See Supawn.
Sepose (v. t.) To set apart.
Seposit (v. t.) To set aside; to give up.
Seposition (n.) The act of setting aside, or of giving up.
Sepoy (n.) A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.
Seppuku (n.) Same as Hara-kiri.
Sepsin (n.) A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.
Sepsis (n.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
Sept (n.) A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
Septa (pl. ) of Septum
Septaemia (n.) Septicaemia.
Septal (a.) Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.
Septane (n.) See Heptane.
Septangle (n.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.
Septangular (a.) Heptagonal.
Septaria (pl. ) of Septarium
Septarium (n.) A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.
Septate (a.) Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.
September (n.) The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.
Septemberer (n.) A Setembrist.
Septembrist (n.) An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.
Septemfluous (a.) Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents.
Septempartite (a.) Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.
Septemtrioun (n.) Septentrion.
Septemvir (n.) One of a board of seven men associated in some office.
Septemvirate (n.) The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.
Septemviri (pl. ) of Septemvir
Septemvirs (pl. ) of Septemvir
Septenary (a.) Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number.
Septenary (a.) Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
Septenary (n.) The number seven.
Septenate (a.) Having parts in sevens; heptamerous.
Septennate (n.) A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.
Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England.
Septennial (a.) Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.
Septennially (adv.) Once in seven years.
Septentrial (a.) Septentrional.
Septentrio (n.) The constellation Ursa Major.
Septentrion (a.) Alt. of Septentrional
Septentrion (n.) The north or northern regions.
Septentrional (a.) Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
Septentrionality (n.) Northerliness.
Septentrionally (adv.) Northerly.
Septentrionate (v. i.) To tend or point toward the north; to north.
Septet (n.) Alt. of Septette
Septette (n.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.
Septette (n.) A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.
Septfoil (n.) A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.
Septfoil (n.) A typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the Holy Chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, etc.
Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.
Septi- () A combining form meaning seven; as, septifolious, seven-leaved; septi-lateral, seven-sided.
Septic (a.) Alt. of Septical
Septic (a.) Of the seventh degree or order.
Septic (n.) A quantic of the seventh degree.
Septic (n.) A substance that promotes putrefaction.
Septical (a.) Having power to promote putrefaction.
Septically (adv.) In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.
Septicidal (a.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
Septicity (n.) Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.
Septifarious (a.) Turned in seven different ways.
Septiferous (a.) Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.
Septiferous (a.) Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.
Septifluous (a.) Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.
Septifolious (a.) Having seven leaves.
Septiform (a.) Having the form of a septum.
Septifragal (a.) Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.
Septilateral (a.) Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.
Septimole (n.) A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.
Septinsular (a.) Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.
Septisyllable (n.) A word of seven syllables.
Septoic (a.) See Heptoic.
Septomaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts.
Septomaxillary (n.) A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.
Septuagenarian (n.) A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.
Septuagenary (a.) Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old.
Septuagenary (n.) A septuagenarian.
Septuagesima (n.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
Septuagesimal (a.) Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
Septuagint (n.) A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
Septuary (n.) Something composed of seven; a week.
Septula (pl. ) of Septulum
Septulate (a.) Having imperfect or spurious septa.
Septulum (n.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.
Septum (n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
Septum (n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
Septuor (n.) A septet.
Septuple (a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
Septuple (v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.
Septupled (imp. & p. p.) of Septuple
Septupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Septuple
Sepulcher (n.) Alt. of Sepulchre
Sepulcher (v. t.) Alt. of Sepulchre
Sepulchered (imp. & p. p.) of Sepulchre
Sepulchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sepulchre
Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
Sepulchral (a.) Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
Sepulchre (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
Sepulchre (v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
Sepulchred () of Sepulchre
Sepulchring () of Sepulchre
Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
Sequacious (a.) Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
Sequacious (a.) Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
Sequaciousness (n.) Quality of being sequacious.
Sequacity (n.) Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.
Sequel (n.) Conclusion; inference.
Sequel (n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
Sequel (n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
Sequela (n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
Sequela (n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
Sequela (n.) One who, or that which, follows.
Sequela (n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
Sequelae (pl. ) of Sequela
Sequence (n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
Sequence (n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
Sequence (n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
Sequence (n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
Sequence (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
Sequence (n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
Sequence (n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
Sequent (a.) Following as an effect; consequent.
Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Sequent (n.) A follower.
Sequent (n.) That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Sequential (a.) Succeeding or following in order.
Sequester (n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
Sequester (n.) Same as Sequestrum.
Sequester (n.) Sequestration; separation.
Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequester (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
Sequester (v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Sequestered (imp. & p. p.) of Sequester
Sequestering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequester
Sequestra (pl. ) of Sequestrum
Sequestrable (a.) Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Sequestral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.
Sequestrate (v. t.) To sequester.
Sequestrated (imp. & p. p.) of Sequestrate
Sequestrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequestrate
Sequestrator (n.) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequestrator (n.) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Sequoia (n.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
Sequoiene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" (Sequoia gigantea).
Seraglio (n.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
Seraglio (n.) An inclosure; a place of separation.
Seraglio (n.) The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
Serai (n.) A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
Seralbumen (n.) Serum albumin.
Serang (n.) The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
Serape (n.) A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
Seraph (n.) One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
Seraphic (a.) Alt. of Seraphical
Seraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.
Seraphicism (n.) The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.
Seraphim (n.) The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
Seraphim (pl. ) of Seraph
Seraphina (n.) A seraphine.
Seraphs (pl. ) of Seraph
Serapis (n.) An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.
Seraskier (n.) A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
Seraskierate (n.) The office or authority of a seraskier.
Serbonian (a.) Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog.
Sere (a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
Sere (n.) Claw; talon.
Serein (n.) A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
Serenade (n.) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.
Serenade (n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
Serenade (v. i.) To perform a serenade.
Serenade (v. t.) To entertain with a serenade.
Serenaded (imp. & p. p.) of Serenade
Serenader (n.) One who serenades.
Serenading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serenade
Serenata (n.) Alt. of Serenate
Serenate (n.) A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.
Serene (a.) Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky.
Serene (a.) Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul.
Serene (n.) Evening air; night chill.
Serene (n.) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
Serene (v. t.) To make serene.
Serenely (adv.) In a serene manner; clearly.
Serenely (adv.) With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.
Sereneness (n.) Serenity.
Serenitude (n.) Serenity.
Serenity (n.) Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.
Serenity (n.) The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.
Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.
Serfage (n.) Alt. of Serfdom
Serfdom (n.) The state or condition of a serf.
Serfhood (n.) Alt. of Serfism
Serfism (n.) Serfage.
Serge (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
Sergeancies (pl. ) of Sergeancy
Sergeancy (n.) The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
Sergeant (n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
Sergeant (n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
Sergeant (n.) The cobia.
Sergeantcy (n.) Same as Sergeancy.
Sergeantry (n.) See Sergeanty.
Sergeantship (n.) The office of sergeant.
Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
Serial (a.) Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
Serial (a.) Of or pertaining to rows.
Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
Seriality (n.) The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.
Serially (adv.) In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.
Seriate (a.) Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.
Seriatim (adv.) In regular order; one after the other; severally.
Seriation (n.) Arrangement or position in a series.
Sericeous (a.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.
Sericeous (a.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
Sericeous (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
Sericin (n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.
Sericite (n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.
Sericterium (n.) A silk gland, as in the silkworms.
Sericulture (n.) The raising of silkworms.
Serie (n.) Series.
Seriema (n.) A large South American bird (Dicholophus, / Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.
Series (n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
Series (n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
Series (n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
Serin (n.) A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.
Serine (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin.
Serio-comic (a.) Alt. of Serio-comical
Serio-comical (a.) Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.
Serious (a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
Serious (a.) Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
Serious (a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
Serious (a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
Seriph (n.) See Ceriph.
Serjeant () Alt. of Serjeantcy
Serjeantcy () See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc.
Sermocination (n.) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
Sermocinator (n.) One who makes sermons or speeches.
Sermon (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
Sermon (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Sermon (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
Sermon (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
Sermon (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
Sermon (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
Sermoneer (n.) A sermonizer.
Sermoner (n.) A preacher; a sermonizer.
Sermonet (n.) A short sermon.
Sermonic (a.) Alt. of Sermonical
Sermonical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic.
Sermoning (n.) The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.
Sermonish (a.) Resembling a sermon.
Sermonist (n.) See Sermonizer.
Sermonize (v. i.) To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
Sermonize (v. i.) To inculcate rigid rules.
Sermonize (v. t.) To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.
Sermonized (imp. & p. p.) of Sermonize
Sermonizer (n.) One who sermonizes.
Sermonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sermonize
Serolin (n.) A body found in fecal matter and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile; -- called also stercorin, and stercolin.
Serolin (n.) A peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.
Seron (n.) Alt. of Seroon
Seroon (n.) Same as Ceroon.
Serose (a.) Serous.
Serosity (n.) A thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid.
Serosity (n.) The quality or state of being serous.
Serotine (n.) The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).
Serotinous (a.) Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.
Serous (a.) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.
Serous (a.) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
Serow (n.) Alt. of Surrow
Serpens (n.) A constellation represented as a serpent held by Serpentarius.
Serpent (n.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.
Serpent (n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
Serpent (n.) Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
Serpent (n.) Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
Serpent (n.) The constellation Serpens.
Serpent (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
Serpent (v. t.) To wind; to encircle.
Serpent-tongued (a.) Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
Serpentaria (a.) The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria).
Serpentarius (n.) A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
Serpented (imp. & p. p.) of Serpent
Serpentiform (a.) Having the form of a serpent.
Serpentigenous (a.) Bred of a serpent.
Serpentine (a.) Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid.
Serpentine (n.) A kind of ancient cannon.
Serpentine (v. i.) To serpentize.
Serpentinely (adv.) In a serpentine manner.
Serpenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serpent
Serpentinian (n.) See 2d Ophite.
Serpentinize (v. t.) To convert (a magnesian silicate) into serpentine.
Serpentinous (a.) Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
Serpentize (v. i.) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine.
Serpentry (n.) A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
Serpentry (n.) A winding like a serpent's.
Serpet (n.) A basket.
Serpette (n.) A pruning knife with a curved blade.
Serpiginous (a.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
Serpigo (n.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.
Serpolet (n.) Wild thyme.
Serpulae (pl. ) of Serpula
Serpulas (pl. ) of Serpula
Serpulian (n.) Alt. of Serpulidan
Serpulidan (n.) A serpula.
Serpulite (n.) A fossil serpula shell.
Serr (v. t.) To crowd, press, or drive together.
Serranoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Serranidae.
Serranoid (n.) Any fish of the family Serranidae, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.
Serrate (a.) Alt. of Serrated
Serrated (a.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves.
Serrated (a.) Notched on the edge, like a saw.
Serration (n.) Condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.
Serration (n.) One of the teeth in a serrate or serrulate margin.
Serratirostral (a.) Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.
Serrator (n.) The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).
Serrature (n.) A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.
Serrature (n.) One of the teeth in a serrated edge; a serration.
Serricated (a.) Covered with fine silky down.
Serricorn (a.) Having serrated antenn/.
Serricorn (n.) Any one of a numerous tribe of beetles (Serricornia). The joints of the antennae are prominent, thus producing a serrate appearance. See Illust. under Antenna.
Serrifera (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.
Serrirostres (n. pl.) Same as Lamellirostres.
Serrous (a.) Like the teeth off a saw; jagged.
Serrula (n.) The red-breasted merganser.
Serrulate (a.) Alt. of Serrulated
Serrulated (a.) Finely serrate; having very minute teeth.
Serrulation (n.) One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
Serrulation (n.) The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw.
Serry (v. t.) To crowd; to press together.
Serrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serry
Sertularia (n.) A genus of delicate branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecae along the sides of the branches.
Sertularian (n.) Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. Also used adjectively.
Serum (n.) A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum.
Serum (n.) The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc.
Servable (a.) Capable of being preserved.
Servable (a.) Capable of being served.
Servage (n.) Serfage; slavery; servitude.
Serval (n.) An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.
Servaline (a.) Related to, or resembling, the serval.
Servant (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
Servant (n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
Servant (v. t.) To subject.
Servantess (n.) A maidservant.
Servantry (n.) A body of servants; servants, collectively.
Serve (v. i.) To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.
Serve (v. i.) To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.
Serve (v. i.) To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.
Serve (v. i.) To lead off in delivering the ball.
Serve (v. i.) To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.
Serve (v. t.) Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.
Serve (v. t.) To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.
Serve (v. t.) To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.
Serve (v. t.) To be suitor to; to profess love to.
Serve (v. t.) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.
Serve (v. t.) To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.
Serve (v. t.) To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
Serve (v. t.) To lead off in delivering (the ball).
Serve (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.
Serve (v. t.) To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.
Serve (v. t.) To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.
Serve (v. t.) To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.
Serve (v. t.) To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop.
Serve (v. t.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.
Serve (v. t.) To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.
Served (imp. & p. p.) of Serve
Server (n.) A tray for dishes; a salver.
Server (n.) One who serves.
Servian (a.) Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe.
Servian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Servia.
Service () Alt. of Service
Service (n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13.
Service (n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.
Service (n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.
Service (n.) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
Service (n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.
Service (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment.
Service (n.) The act of serving the ball.
Service (n.) The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.
Service (n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.
Service (n.) Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
Serviceable (a.) Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
Serviceable (a.) Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
Serviceage (n.) Servitude.
Servient (a.) Subordinate.
Serviette (n.) A table napkin.
Servifor (n.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.
Servifor (n.) One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.
Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
Servile (a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Servility (n.) The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
Serving () a. & n. from Serve.
Serving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serve
Servite (n.) One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.
Servitorship (n.) The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.
Servitude (n.) A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
Servitude (n.) Servants, collectively.
Servitude (n.) The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.
Serviture (n.) Servants, collectively.
Servitute (n.) Servitude.
Serye (n.) A series.
Sesame (n.) Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne.
Sesamoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.
Sesamoid (a.) Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.
Sesamoid (n.) A sesamoid bone or cartilage.
Sesamoidal (a.) Sesamoid.
Sesban (n.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.
Sesquialter (a.) Sesquialteral.
Sesquialter (n.) Alt. of Sesquialtera
Sesquialtera (n.) A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.
Sesquialteral (a.) Alt. of Sesquialterate
Sesquialterate (a.) Once and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one.
Sesquialterous (a.) Sesquialteral.
Sesquibasic (a.) Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.
Sesquiduplicate (a.) Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one.
Sesquioxide (n.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
Sesquipedal (a.) Alt. of Sesquipedalian
Sesquipedalian (a.) Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.
Sesquipedalianism (n.) Alt. of Sesquipedalism
Sesquipedalism (n.) Sesquipedality.
Sesquisalt (n.) A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.
Sesquisulphide (n.) A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
Sesquitertial (a.) Sesquitertian.
Sesquitertian (a.) Alt. of Sesquitertianal
Sesquitertianal (a.) Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).
Sesquitone (n.) A minor third, or interval of three semitones.
Sesqyipedality (n.) The quality or condition of being sesquipedal.
Sesqyipedality (n.) The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipedalism.
Sess (n.) A tax; an assessment. See Cess.
Sess (v. t.) To lay a tax upon; to assess.
Sessa (interj.) Hurry; run.
Sessile (a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.
Sessile (a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
Sessile (a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
Sessile-eyed (a.) Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed.
Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
Session (n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
Sessional (a.) Of or pertaining to a session or sessions.
Sesspool (n.) Same as Cesspool.
Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.
Sestet (n.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.
Sestet (n.) The last six lines of a sonnet.
Sestetto (n.) A sestet.
Sestine (n.) See Sextain.
Sestuor (n.) A sestet.
Set (a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
Set (a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
Set (a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
Set (a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
Set (a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
Set (imp. & p. p.) of Set
Set (n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
Set (n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Set (n.) A young oyster when first attached.
Set (n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
Set (n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
Set (n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.
Set (n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
Set (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
Set (n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.
Set (n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed.
Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
Set (n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
Set (n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
Set (v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
Set (v. i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
Set (v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
Set (v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
Set (v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
Set (v. i.) To fit music to words.
Set (v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
Set (v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
Set (v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Set (v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
Set (v. t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
Set (v. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
Set (v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
Set (v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
Set (v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
Set (v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
Set (v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
Set (v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
Set (v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
Set (v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.
Set (v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
Set (v. t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
Set (v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
Set (v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
Set (v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
Set (v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
Set (v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
Set (v. t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Set (v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
Set (v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
Set (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Set (v. t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
Set (v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.
Set-fair (n.) In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.
Set-off (n.) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
Set-off (n.) Same as Offset, n., 4.
Set-off (n.) See Offset, 7.
Set-off (n.) That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
Set-off (n.) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.
Set-stitched (a.) Stitched according to a formal pattern.
Set-to (n.) A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
Seta (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.
Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Setaceous (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.
Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
Setae (pl. ) of Seta
Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Setback (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
Setback (n.) Offset, n., 4.
Setbolt (n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.
Setbolt (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together.
Setdown (n.) The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.
Setee (n.) See 2d Settee.
Seten () obs. imp. pl. of Sit. Sat.
Setewale (n.) See Cetewale.
Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.
Sethen (adv. & conj.) See Since.
Sethic (a.) See Sothic.
Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles.
Setiform (a.) Having the form or structure of setae.
Setiger (n.) An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.
Setim (n.) See Shittim.
Setiparous (a.) Producing setae; -- said of the organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Setireme (n.) A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.
Setness (n.) The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.
Seton (n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Setose (a.) Alt. of Setous
Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
Setout (n.) A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.
Sett (n.) See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.
Settee (n.) A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
Settee (n.) A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.
Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
Setter (n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
Setter (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
Setter (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
Setter (n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
Setter (v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
Setting (n.) Something set in, or inserted.
Setting (n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
Setting (n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
Setting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
Setting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set
Settle (n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
Settle (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
Settle (n.) A seat of any kind.
Settle (n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
Settle (n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
Settle (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
Settle (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
Settle (n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
Settle (n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
Settle (n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
Settle (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
Settle (n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Settle (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
Settle (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
Settle (v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
Settle (v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
Settle (v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
Settle (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
Settle (v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
Settle (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
Settled (imp. & p. p.) of Settle
Settledness (n.) The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state.
Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
Settlement (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
Settlement (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
Settler (n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Settler (n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
Settler (n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
Settler (n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
Settling (n.) That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.
Settling (n.) The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
Settling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Settle
Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.
Setulae (pl. ) of Setula
Setule (n.) A setula.
Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.
Setwall (n.) A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or V. Pyrenaica).
Seven (a.) One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.
Seven (n.) A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.
Seven (n.) The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects.
Seven-shooter (n.) A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading.
Seven-up (n.) The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.
Sevenfold (a.) Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount.
Sevenfold (adv.) Seven times as much or as often.
Sevennight (n.) A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty.
Seventeen (a.) One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.
Seventeen (n.) A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
Seventeen (n.) The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
Seventeenth (a.) Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Seventeenth (a.) Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
Seventeenth (n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
Seventeenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
Seventh (a.) Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.
Seventh (a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
Seventh (n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.
Seventh (n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.
Seventh (n.) One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.
Seventh (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
Seventhly (adv.) In the seventh place.
Seventies (pl. ) of Seventy
Seventieth (a.) Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.
Seventieth (a.) Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
Seventieth (n.) One next in order after the sixty-ninth.
Seventieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.
Seventy (a.) Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
Seventy (n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
Seventy (n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
Seventy-four (n.) A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.
Sever (v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
Sever (v. i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
Sever (v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
Sever (v. t.) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
Sever (v. t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
Sever (v. t.) To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
Severable (a.) Capable of being severed.
Several (a.) Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.
Several (a.) Diverse; different; various.
Several (a.) Separate; distinct; particular; single.
Several (adv.) By itself; severally.
Several (n.) An inclosed or separate place; inclosure.
Several (n.) Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual.
Several (n.) Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.
Severalities (pl. ) of Severality
Severality (n.) Each particular taken singly; distinction.
Severalize (v. t.) To distinguish.
Severally (adv.) Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
Severalty (n.) A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
Severance (n.) The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate.
Severance (n.) The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.
Severe (superl.) Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous; as, a severe test.
Severe (superl.) Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.
Severe (superl.) Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.
Severe (superl.) Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment.
Severed (imp. &. p. p.) of Sever
Severing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sever
Severities (pl. ) of Severity
Severity (n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
Severity (n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
Severity (n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
Severity (n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.
Severity (n.) The quality or state of being severe.
Severy (n.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
Sevocation (n.) A calling aside.
Sevres blue () A very light blue.
Sevres ware () Porcelain manufactured at Sevres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.
Sew (n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
Sew (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
Sew (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
Sew (v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.
Sew (v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue.
Sew (v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.
Sew (v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
Sewage (n.) Sewerage, 2.
Sewage (n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
Sewe (v. i.) To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.
Sewed (imp.) of Sew
Sewed (p. p.) of Sew
Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
Sewen (n.) A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.
Sewer (n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
Sewer (n.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)
Sewer (n.) Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.
Sewer (n.) One who sews, or stitches.
Sewerage (n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.
Sewerage (n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.
Sewerage (n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
Sewin (n.) Same as Sewen.
Sewing (n.) That which is sewed with the needle.
Sewing (n.) The act or occupation of one who sews.
Sewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sew
Sewn () of Sew
Sewster (n.) A seamstress.
Sex (n.) One of the groups founded on this distinction.
Sex (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
Sex (n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
Sex- () A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.
Sexagenarian (n.) A person who is sixty years old.
Sexagenary (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
Sexagenary (n.) A sexagenarian.
Sexagenary (n.) Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
Sexagesima (n.) The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
Sexagesimal (a.) Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
Sexagesimal (n.) A sexagesimal fraction.
Sexangle (n.) A hexagon.
Sexangled (a.) Alt. of Sexangular
Sexangular (a.) Having six angles; hexagonal.
Sexangularly (adv.) Hexagonally.
Sexavalent (a.) See Sexivalent.
Sexdigitism (n.) The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
Sexdigitist (n.) One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
Sexed (a.) Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.
Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.
Sexennial (a.) Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.
Sexennial (n.) A sexennial event.
Sexennially (adv.) Once in six years.
Sexfid (a.) Alt. of Sexifid
Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.
Sexisyllabic (a.) Having six syllables.
Sexisyllable (n.) A word of six syllables.
Sexivalent (a.) Hexavalent.
Sexless (a.) Having no sex.
Sexlocular (a.) Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.
Sexly (a.) Pertaining to sex.
Sexradiate (a.) Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.
Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.
Sextain (n.) A stanza of six lines; a sestine.
Sextans (n.) A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.
Sextans (n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as.
Sextant (n.) The constellation Sextans.
Sextant (n.) The sixth part of a circle.
Sextaries (pl. ) of Sextary
Sextary (n.) A sacristy.
Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.
Sextet (n.) Alt. of Sextetto
Sextetto (n.) See Sestet.
Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.
Sextic (a.) Of the sixth degree or order.
Sextic (n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.
Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
Sextile (n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Sexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
Sextodecimo (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.
Sextodecimos (pl. ) of Sextodecimo
Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
Sextonry (n.) Sextonship.
Sextonship (n.) The office of a sexton.
Sextos (pl. ) of Sexto
Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.
Sextuple (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.
Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.
Sexualist (n.) One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.
Sexuality (n.) The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.
Sexualize (v. t.) To attribute sex to.
Sexually (adv.) In a sexual manner or relation.
Sey () Alt. of Seyh
Seye () Alt. of Seyen
Seyen () imp. pl. & p. p. of See.
Seyh () imp. sing. & 2d pers. pl. of See.
Seynd () p. p. of Senge, to singe.
Seynt (n.) A gridle. See 1st Seint.
Sforzando (a.) Alt. of Sforzato
Sforzato (a.) Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.
Sfumato (a.) Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.
Sgraffito (a.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
Shab (n.) The itch in animals; also, a scab.
Shab (v. t.) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.
Shab (v. t.) To scratch; to rub.
Shabbed (a.) Shabby.
Shabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Shab
Shabbily (adv.) In a shabby manner.
Shabbiness (n.) The quality or state of being sghabby.
Shabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shab
Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Shabble (n.) Alt. of Shabble
Shabby (n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
Shabby (n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
Shabrack (n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.
Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Shack (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
Shack (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
Shack (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
Shack (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
Shack (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
Shackatory (n.) A hound.
Shackle (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Shackle (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
Shackle (n.) Stubble.
Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
Shackle (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
Shackled (imp. & p. p.) of Shackle
Shackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shackle
Shacklock (n.) A sort of shackle.
Shackly (a.) Shaky; rickety.
Shad-spirit (n.) See Shadbird (a)
Shad-waiter (n.) A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
Shadbird (n.) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.
Shadbird (n.) The common European sandpiper.
Shadd (n.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.
Shadde () obs. imp. of Shed.
Shaddock (n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Shade (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.
Shade (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
Shade (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
Shade (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.
Shade (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.
Shade (n.) Shadow.
Shade (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.
Shade (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.
Shade (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.
Shade (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color.
Shade (v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
Shade (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
Shade (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
Shade (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.
Shaded (imp. & p. p.) of Shade
Shadeful (a.) Full of shade; shady.
Shadeless (a.) Being without shade; not shaded.
Shader (n.) One who, or that which, shades.
Shadily (adv.) In a shady manner.
Shadiness (n.) Quality or state of being shady.
Shading (n.) Act or process of making a shade.
Shading (n.) That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
Shading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shade
Shadoof (n.) A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.
Shadow (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
Shadow (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
Shadow (n.) A small degree; a shade.
Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.
Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.
Shadow (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.
Shadow (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.
Shadow (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.
Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.
Shadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Shadow
Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.
Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.
Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading.
Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)
Shady (superl.) Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
Shady (superl.) Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt.
Shady (superl.) Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
Shaffle (v. i.) To hobble or limp; to shuffle.
Shaffler (n.) A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer.
Shafiite (n.) A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafei.
Shaft (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.
Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.
Shaft (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
Shaft (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole.
Shaft (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle.
Shaft (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine.
Shaft (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.
Shaft (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.
Shaft (n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.
Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.
Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.
Shaft (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light.
Shaft (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.
Shaft (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill.
Shaft (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
Shaft (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather.
Shaft (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant.
Shafted (a.) Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
Shafted (a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
Shafting (n.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
Shaftman (n.) Alt. of Shaftment
Shaftment (n.) A measure of about six inches.
Shag (a.) Hairy; shaggy.
Shag (n.) A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
Shag (n.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
Shag (n.) Any species of cormorant.
Shag (n.) Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
Shag (v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
Shag-haired (a.) Having shaggy hair.
Shag-rag (n.) The unkempt and ragged part of the community.
Shagbark (n.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.
Shagbark (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.
Shagebush (n.) A sackbut.
Shagged (a.) Shaggy; rough.
Shagged (imp. & p. p.) of Shag
Shagginess (n.) The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.
Shagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shag
Shaggy (n.) Rough with long hair or wool.
Shaggy (n.) Rough; rugged; jaggy.
Shagreen (a.) Alt. of Shagreened
Shagreen (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.
Shagreen (v. t.) To chagrin.
Shagreened (a.) Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.
Shagreened (a.) Made or covered with the leather called shagreen.
Shah (n.) The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.
Shahin (n.) A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.
Shaik (n.) See Sheik.
Shail (v. i.) To walk sidewise.
Shake () obs. p. p. of Shake.
Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.
Shake (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
Shake (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
Shake (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
Shake (n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
Shake (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
Shake (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
Shake (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
Shake (v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
Shake (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
Shake (v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
Shakedown (n.) A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.
Shakefork (n.) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
Shaken (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.
Shaken (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
Shaken (n.) Impaired, as by a shock.
Shaken (p. p.) of Shake
Shaker (n.) A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
Shaker (n.) A variety of pigeon.
Shaker (n.) One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.
Shakeress (n.) A female Shaker.
Shakerism (n.) Doctrines of the Shakers.
Shakespearean (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.
Shakiness (n.) Quality of being shaky.
Shaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shake
Shakings (n. pl.) Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc.
Shako (n.) A kind of military cap or headdress.
Shaky (superl.) Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
Shaky (superl.) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.
Shaky (superl.) Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.
Shale (n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Shale (n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
Shale (v. t.) To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) To be obliged; must.
Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) To owe; to be under obligation for.
Shalli (n.) See Challis.
Shallon (n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
Shalloon (n.) A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.
Shallop (n.) A boat.
Shallot (n.) A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
Shallow (n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
Shallow (n.) The rudd.
Shallow (superl.) Not deep in tone.
Shallow (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
Shallow (superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
Shallow (v. i.) To become shallow, as water.
Shallow (v. t.) To make shallow.
Shallow-bodied (a.) Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
Shallow-brained (a.) Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed.
Shallow-hearted (a.) Incapable of deep feeling.
Shallow-pated (a.) Shallow-brained.
Shallow-waisted (a.) Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
Shallowly (adv.) In a shallow manner.
Shallowness (n.) Quality or state of being shallow.
Sham (n.) A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
Sham (n.) That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
Sham (v. t.) To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
Sham (v. t.) To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.
Shaman (n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Shamanic (a.) Of or pertaining to Shamanism.
Shamanist (n.) An adherent of Shamanism.
Shamble (n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Shamble (n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
Shamble (v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Shambled (imp. & p. p.) of Shamble
Shambling (a.) Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.
Shambling (n.) An awkward, irregular gait.
Shambling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shamble
Shame (n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
Shame (n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
Shame (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.
Shame (n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
Shame (n.) To be ashamed; to feel shame.
Shame (v. t.) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
Shame (v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.
Shame (v. t.) To mock at; to deride.
Shame-proof (n.) Shameless.
Shamed (imp. & p. p.) of Shame
Shamefaced (n.) Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.
Shamefast (a.) Modest; shamefaced.
Shameful (a.) Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.
Shameful (a.) Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight.
Shameless (a.) Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.
Shameless (a.) Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.
Shamer (n.) One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed.
Shaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shame
Shammed (imp. & p. p.) of Sham
Shammer (n.) One who shams; an impostor.
Shamming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sham
Shammy (n.) A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying.
Shammy (n.) The chamois.
Shamois (n.) Alt. of Shamoy
Shamoy (n.) See Shammy.
Shamoying (n.) A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning.
Shampoo (n.) The act of shampooing.
Shampoo (v. t.) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
Shampoo (v. t.) To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.
Shampooed (imp. & p. p.) of Shampoo
Shampooer (n.) One who shampoos.
Shampooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shampoo
Shamrock (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.
Shan't () A contraction of shall not.
Shandrydan (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle.
Shandygaff (n.) A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.
Shanghai (n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
Shanghai (v. t.) To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition.
Shanghaied (imp. & p. p.) of Shanghai
Shanghaiing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shanghai
Shank (n.) See Chank.
Shank (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.
Shank (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
Shank (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button.
Shank (v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.
Shank (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
Shank (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved.
Shank (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.
Shank (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.
Shank (v.) The body of a type.
Shank (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.
Shank (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.
Shank (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
Shank (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
Shankbeer (n.) See Schenkbeer.
Shanked (a.) Having a shank.
Shanker (n.) See Chancre.
Shannies (pl. ) of Shanny
Shanny (n.) The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head.
Shanties (pl. ) of Shanty
Shanty (a.) Jaunty; showy.
Shanty (n.) A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
Shanty (v. i.) To inhabit a shanty.
Shapable (a.) Shapely.
Shapable (a.) That may be shaped.
Shape (n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
Shape (n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
Shape (n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
Shape (n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
Shape (n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
Shape (n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
Shape (n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
Shape (n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
Shape (n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
Shape (n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
Shape (v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
Shaped (imp.) of Shape
Shaped (p. p.) of Shape
Shapeless (a.) Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Shapeliness (n.) The quality or state of being shapely.
Shapely (superl.) Fit; suitable.
Shapely (superl.) Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
Shapen () of Shape
Shaper (n.) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.
Shaper (n.) A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc.
Shaper (n.) One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
Shaper (n.) That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object.
Shaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shape
Shapoo (n.) The oorial.
Shard (n.) A boundary; a division.
Shard (n.) A gap in a fence.
Shard (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
Shard (n.) A plant; chard.
Shard (n.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
Shard-borne (a.) Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.
Sharded (a.) Having elytra, as a beetle.
Shardy (a.) Having, or consisting of, shards.
Share (n.) The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
Share (n.) The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed.
Share (v. i.) To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others.
Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
Share (v. t.) To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide.
Share (v. t.) To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another.
Share (v.) A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.
Share (v.) Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.
Share (v.) Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.
Share (v.) The pubes; the sharebone.
Sharebeam (n.) The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
Sharebone (n.) The public bone.
Sharebroker (n.) A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
Shared (imp. & p. p.) of Share
Shareholder (n.) One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.
Sharer (n.) One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.
Sharewort (n.) A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.
Sharing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Share
Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Shark (v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
Shark (v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
Shark (v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Sharked (imp. & p. p.) of Shark
Sharker (n.) One who lives by sharking.
Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.
Sharking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shark
Sharock (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents.
Sharp (adv.) Precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp.
Sharp (adv.) To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
Sharp (n.) A portion of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
Sharp (n.) A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.
Sharp (n.) A sharp tone or note.
Sharp (n.) A sharp tool or weapon.
Sharp (n.) An expert.
Sharp (n.) Same as Middlings, 1.
Sharp (n.) The character [/] used to indicate that the note before which it is placed is to be raised a half step, or semitone, in pitch.
Sharp (superl.) Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.
Sharp (superl.) High in pitch; acute; as, a sharp note or tone.
Sharp (superl.) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact in dealing; shrewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer.
Sharp (superl.) Of keen perception; quick to discern or distinguish; having nice discrimination; acute; penetrating; sagacious; clever; as, a sharp eye; sharp sight, hearing, or judgment.
Sharp (superl.) Raised a semitone in pitch; as, C sharp (C/), which is a half step, or semitone, higher than C.
Sharp (superl.) So high as to be out of tune, or above true pitch; as, the tone is sharp; that instrument is sharp. Opposed in all these senses to flat.
Sharp (superl.) Steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve.
Sharp (superl.) Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded; somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp features.
Sharp (superl.) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal; aspirated.
Sharp (superl.) Very trying to the feelings; piercing; keen; severe; painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air.
Sharp (v. i.) To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
Sharp (v. i.) To sing above the proper pitch.
Sharp (v. t.) To raise above the proper pitch; to elevate the tone of; especially, to raise a half step, or semitone, above the natural tone.
Sharp (v. t.) To sharpen.
Sharp-cut (a.) Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
Sharp-set (a.) Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.
Sharp-sighted (a.) Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively.
Sharp-witted (a.) Having an acute or nicely discerning mind.
Sharped (imp. & p. p.) of Sharp
Sharpen (a.) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
Sharpen (a.) To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.
Sharpen (a.) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.
Sharpen (a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.
Sharpen (a.) To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
Sharpen (a.) To make sharp.
Sharpen (a.) To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.
Sharpen (a.) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.
Sharpen (a.) To render more shrill or piercing.
Sharpen (v. i.) To grow or become sharp.
Sharpening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sharpen
Sharper (n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
Sharpie (n.) A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
Sharping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sharp
Sharpling (n.) A stickleback.
Sharply (adv.) In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.
Sharpness (n.) The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
Sharpsaw (n.) The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.
Sharpshooter (n.) One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
Sharpshooting (n.) A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
Sharptail (n.) The pintail duck.
Sharptail (n.) The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.
Shash (n.) A sash.
Shash (n.) The scarf of a turban.
Shaster (n.) Alt. of Shastra
Shastra (n.) A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.
Shathmont (n.) A shaftment.
Shatter (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
Shatter (v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
Shatter (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
Shatter (v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
Shatter (v. t.) To scatter about.
Shatter-brained (a.) Alt. of Shatter-pated
Shatter-pated (a.) Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild.
Shattered (imp. & p. p.) of Shatter
Shattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shatter
Shattery (a.) Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
Shave () obs. p. p. of Shave.
Shave (v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.
Shave (v. t.) A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
Shave (v. t.) A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.
Shave (v. t.) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.
Shave (v. t.) A thin slice; a shaving.
Shave (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.
Shave (v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.
Shave (v. t.) To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.
Shave (v. t.) To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.
Shave (v. t.) To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
Shave (v. t.) To strip; to plunder; to fleece.
Shaved (imp.) of Shave
Shaved (p. p.) of Shave
Shaveling (n.) A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.
Shaven () of Shave
Shaver (n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
Shaver (n.) A tool or machine for shaving.
Shaver (n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
Shaver (n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
Shaver (n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
Shaving (n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.
Shaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.
Shaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shave
Shaw (n.) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
Shaw (n.) The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
Shawfowl (n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.
Shawl (n.) A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.
Shawl (v. t.) To wrap in a shawl.
Shawm (n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
Shawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
Shay (n.) A chaise.
She (obj.) A woman; a female; -- used substantively.
She (obj.) This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
Shea tree () An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.
Sheading (v. t.) A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.
Sheaf (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Sheaf (n.) A sheave.
Sheaf (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
Sheaf (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
Sheafy (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
Sheal (n.) A shell or pod.
Sheal (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Sheal (v. t.) To put under a sheal or shelter.
Sheal (v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.
Shealing (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Shealing (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain.
Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
Sheard (n.) See Shard.
Sheared (imp.) of Shear
Sheared (p. p.) of Shear
Shearer (n.) A reaper.
Shearer (n.) One who shears.
Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.
Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear
Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.
Shearman (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
Shearmen (pl. ) of Shearman
Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement.
Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.
Shears (n.) A pair of wings.
Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.
Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
Sheartail (n.) The common tern.
Sheatfish (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.
Sheath (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
Sheath (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
Sheath (n.) One of the elytra of an insect.
Sheath (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
Sheath-winged (a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
Sheathbill (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.
Sheathe (v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.
Sheathe (v. t.) To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.
Sheathe (v. t.) To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
Sheathe (v. t.) To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
Sheathed (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
Sheathed (a.) Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
Sheathed (imp. & p. p.) of Sheathe
Sheather (n.) One who sheathes.
Sheathfish (n.) Same as Sheatfish.
Sheathing (n.) That which sheathes.
Sheathing (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
Sheathing (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
Sheathless (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
Sheathy (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.
Sheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheathe
Sheave (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
Sheaved (a.) Made of straw.
Sheaves (pl. ) of Sheaf
Shebander (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.
Shebang (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
Shebeen (n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
Shechinah (n.) See Shekinah.
Shecklaton (n.) A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton.
Shed (imp. & p. p.) of Shed
Shed (n.) A parting; a separation; a division.
Shed (n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
Shed (n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
Shed (n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
Shed (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
Shed (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
Shed (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
Shed (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
Shed (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
Shed (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
Shed (v. t.) To separate; to divide.
Shed (v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
Shedder (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.
Shedder (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.
Shedding (n.) That which is shed, or cast off.
Shedding (n.) The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.
Shedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shed
Sheeling (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed.
Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Sheep-faced (a.) Over-bashful; sheepish.
Sheep-headed (a.) Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.
Sheep's-eye (n.) A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
Sheep's-foot (n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
Sheepback (n.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
Sheepberry (n.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
Sheepbite (v. i.) To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
Sheepbiter (n.) One who practices petty thefts.
Sheepcot (n.) Alt. of Sheepcote
Sheepcote (n.) A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
Sheepfold (n.) A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.
Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook.
Sheepish (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
Sheepish (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.
Sheepmaster (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep.
Sheeprack (n.) The starling.
Sheepshank (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
Sheepshead (n.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
Sheepskin (n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
Sheepskin (n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
Sheepy (a.) Resembling sheep; sheepish.
Sheer (adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
Sheer (n.) A turn or change in a course.
Sheer (n.) Shears See Shear.
Sheer (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
Sheer (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
Sheer (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
Sheer (v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
Sheer (v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
Sheer (v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
Sheer (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
Sheer (v. t.) To shear.
Sheered (imp. & p. p.) of Sheer
Sheering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheer
Sheerly (adv.) At once; absolutely.
Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
Sheet (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
Sheet (v. t.) A sail.
Sheet (v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
Sheet (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
Sheet (v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
Sheet (v. t.) the book itself.
Sheet (v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
Sheet (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.
Sheet (v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
Sheet anchor (v. t.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
Sheet anchor (v. t.) Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.
Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
Sheet chain () A chain sheet cable.
Sheeted (imp. & p. p.) of Sheet
Sheetful (n.) Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.
Sheetfuls (pl. ) of Sheetful
Sheeting (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.
Sheeting (n.) Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.
Sheeting (n.) The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.
Sheeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheet
Sheik (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade.
Sheil (n.) Alt. of Sheiling
Sheiling (n.) See Sheeling.
Shekel (n.) A jocose term for money.
Shekel (n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Sheldrake (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.
Sheldrake (n.) Any one of the American mergansers.
Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.
Shelf (v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
Shelf (v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
Shelf (v. i.) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
Shelfa (n.) Alt. of Shilfa
Shelfy (a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
Shelfy (a.) Full of strata of rock.
Shell (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
Shell (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
Shell (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
Shell (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
Shell (n.) A pod.
Shell (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Shell (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
Shell (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
Shell (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
Shell (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Shell (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
Shell (n.) The hard covering of an egg.
Shell (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
Shell (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Shell (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
Shell (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
Shell (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
Shell (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
Shell (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
Shell (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
Shell-lac (n.) Alt. of Shellac
Shell-less (a.) Having no shell.
Shellac (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.
Shellapple (n.) See Sheldafle.
Shellbark (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
Shelled (a.) Having a shell.
Shelled (imp. & p. p.) of Shell
Sheller (n.) One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
Shellfish (n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
Shelling (n.) Groats; hulled oats.
Shelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shell
Shellproof (a.) Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
Shellwork (n.) Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.
Shelly (a.) Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell.
Shelter (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
Shelter (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
Shelter (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Shelter (v. i.) To take shelter.
Shelter (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
Shelter (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
Shelter (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
Sheltered (imp. & p. p.) of Shelter
Sheltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelter
Shelterless (a.) Destitute of shelter or protection.
Sheltery (a.) Affording shelter.
Sheltie (n.) Alt. of Shelty
Shelty (n.) A Shetland pony.
Shelve (v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
Shelve (v. t.) To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
Shelve (v. t.) To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.
Shelved (imp. & p. p.) of Shelve
Shelves (pl. ) of Shelf
Shelving (a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.
Shelving (n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
Shelving (n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
Shelving (n.) The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
Shelving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelve
Shelvy (a.) Sloping gradually; shelving.
Shemite (n.) A descendant of Shem.
Shemitic (a.) Alt. of Shemitish
Shemitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.
Shemitism (n.) See Semitism.
Shend (n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.
Shent () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth.
Shent (imp. & p. p.) of Shend
Shent (v. t.) To shend.
Sheol (n.) The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.
Shepen (n.) A stable; a shippen.
Shepherd (n.) A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
Shepherd (n.) The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
Shepherd (v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
Shepherded (imp. & p. p.) of Shepherd
Shepherdess (n.) A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.
Shepherdia (n.) A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
Shepherdias (pl. ) of Shepherdia
Shepherding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shepherd
Shepherdish (n.) Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral.
Shepherdism (n.) Pastoral life or occupation.
Shepherdling (n.) A little shepherd.
Shepherdly (a.) Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Shepster (n.) A seamstress.
Sherbet (n.) A flavored water ice.
Sherbet (n.) A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.
Sherbet (n.) A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.
Sherd (n.) A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.
Shereef (n.) Alt. of Sherif
Sheriat (n.) The sacred law of the Turkish empire.
Sherif (n.) A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.
Sheriff (n.) The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.
Sheriffalty (n.) Alt. of Sheriffwick
Sheriffdom (n.) Alt. of Sheriffwick
Sheriffry (n.) Alt. of Sheriffwick
Sheriffship (n.) Alt. of Sheriffwick
Sheriffwick (n.) The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.
Shern (n.) See Shearn.
Sherris (n.) Sherry.
Sherry (n.) A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
Sherryvallies (n. pl.) Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback.
Shet (imp.) of Shet
Shet (p. pr.) of Shet
Shet (v. t. & i.) To shut.
Shete (v. t. & i.) To shoot.
Sheth (n.) The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.
Shetland pony () One of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane and tail, which originated in the Shetland Islands; a sheltie.
Shette () of Shet
Shetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shet
Shew (n.) Show.
Shew (v. t. & i.) See Show.
Shewbread () See Showbread.
Shewel (n.) A scarecrow.
Shewer (n.) One who shews. See Shower.
Shewn () p. p. of Shew.
Shiah (n.) Same as Shiite.
Shibboleth (n.) A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.
Shibboleth (n.) Also in an extended sense.
Shibboleth (n.) Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.
Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
Shie (v. t.) See Shy, to throw.
Shied () imp. & p. p. of Shy.
Shied (imp. & p. p.) of Shy
Shiel (n.) A sheeling.
Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
Shield (n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
Shield (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
Shield (n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
Shield (n.) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
Shield (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
Shield (n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
Shield (n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
Shield (n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.
Shield (n.) To ward off; to keep off or out.
Shield-bearer (n.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
Shield-bearer (n.) One who, or that which, carries a shield.
Shielddrake (n.) A sheldrake.
Shielded (imp. & p. p.) of Shield
Shielding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shield
Shieldless (a.) Destitute of a shield, or of protection.
Shieldtail (n.) Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.
Shieling (n.) A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.
Shiff (v. i.) To divide; to distribute.
Shiff (v. i.) To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
Shiff (v. i.) To practice indirect or evasive methods.
Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
Shift (v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
Shift (v. t.) The act of shifting.
Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
Shift (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
Shift (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Shift (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.
Shifted (imp. & p. p.) of Shift
Shifter (n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
Shiftiness (n.) The quality or state of being shifty.
Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.
Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shift
Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.
Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
Shiite (n.) Alt. of Shiah
Shikaree (n.) Alt. of Shikari
Shikari (n.) A sportsman; esp., a native hunter.
Shilf (n.) Straw.
Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
Shill (v. t.) To put under cover; to sheal.
Shill (v. t.) To shell.
Shill-I-shall-I (adv.) Alt. of Shilly-shally
Shillalah (n.) Alt. of Shillelah
Shillelah (n.) An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.
Shilling (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
Shilling (n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.
Shilling (n.) The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2.
Shilly-shally (adv.) In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.
Shilly-shally (n.) Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles.
Shilly-shally (v. i.) To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.
Shiloh (n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."
Shily (adv.) See Shyly.
Shim (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.
Shim (n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
Shimmer (n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
Shimmered (imp. & p. p.) of Shimmer
Shimmering (n.) A gleam or glimmering.
Shimmering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shimmer
Shimmy (n.) A chemise.
Shin (n.) A fish plate for rails.
Shin (n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
Shin (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
Shin (v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
Shindies (pl. ) of Shindy
Shindle (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
Shindle (v. t.) To cover or roof with shindles.
Shindy (n.) A fancy or liking.
Shindy (n.) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
Shindy (n.) Hockey; shinney.
Shine (n.) A liking for a person; a fancy.
Shine (n.) Caper; antic; row.
Shine (n.) Sunshine; fair weather.
Shine (n.) The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
Shine (v. i.) Shining; sheen.
Shine (v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
Shine (v. i.) To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
Shine (v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
Shine (v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
Shine (v. t.) To cause to shine, as a light.
Shine (v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
Shined () of Shine
Shiner (n.) A bright piece of money.
Shiner (n.) A luminary.
Shiner (n.) That which shines.
Shiner (n.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Shiness (n.) See Shyness.
Shingle (n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
Shingle (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
Shingle (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shingle (v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
Shingle (v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shingle (v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Shingled (imp. &. p. p.) of Shingle
Shingler (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.
Shingler (n.) One who shingles.
Shingles (n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Shingling (n.) The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
Shingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shingle
Shingly (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
Shinhopple (n.) The hobblebush.
Shining (a.) Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.
Shining (a.) Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.
Shining (a.) Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.
Shining (n.) Emission or reflection of light.
Shining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shine
Shiningness (n.) Brightness.
Shinned (imp. & p. p.) of Shin
Shinney (n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
Shinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shin
Shinplaster (n.) Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
Shintiism (n.) One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
Shinto (n.) Alt. of Shintiism
Shintoist (n.) An adherent of Shintoism.
Shinty (n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.
Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
Ship (n.) Any large seagoing vessel.
Ship (n.) Pay; reward.
Ship (v. i.) To embark on a ship.
Ship (v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
Ship (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
Ship (v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
Ship (v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
Ship (v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
Ship (v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
Ship-rigged (a.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
Shipboard (n.) A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.
Shipbuilder (n.) A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
Shipbuilding (n.) Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
Shipful (n.) As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.
Shipfuls (pl. ) of Shipful
Shipholder (n.) A shipowner.
Shipless (a.) Destitute of ships.
Shiplet (n.) A little ship.
Shipload (n.) The load, or cargo, of a ship.
Shipman (n.) A seaman, or sailor.
Shipmaster (n.) The captain, master, or commander of a ship.
Shipmate (n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.
Shipmen (pl. ) of Shipman
Shipment (n.) That which is shipped.
Shipment (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
Shipowner (n.) Owner of a ship or ships.
Shipped (imp. & p. p.) of Ship
Shippen (n.) A stable; a cowhouse.
Shipper (n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
Shipping (a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
Shipping (a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
Shipping (n.) Navigation.
Shipping (n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
Shipping (n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
Shipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ship
Shippon (n.) A cowhouse; a shippen.
Shipshape (a.) Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Shipshape (adv.) In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
Shipworm (n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
Shipwreck (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
Shipwreck (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
Shipwrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Shipwreck
Shipwrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shipwreck
Shipwright (n.) One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
Shipyard (n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
Shiraz (n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
Shire (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
Shirk (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
Shirk (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
Shirk (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
Shirked (imp. & p. p.) of Shirk
Shirker (n.) One who shirks.
Shirking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirk
Shirky (a.) Disposed to shirk.
Shirl (a.) Shrill.
Shirl (n.) See Schorl.
Shirley (n.) The bullfinch.
Shirr (n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.
Shirred (a.) Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.
Shirred (a.) Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.
Shirt (n.) A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.
Shirt (v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Shirted (imp. & p. p.) of Shirt
Shirting (n.) Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
Shirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirt
Shirtless (a.) Not having or wearing a shirt.
Shist () Alt. of Shistose
Shistose () See Shist, Schistose.
Shittah (n.) Alt. of Shittah tree
Shittim (n.) Alt. of Shittim wood
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree.
Shittle (a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.
Shittle (n.) A shuttle.
Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.
Shittleness (n.) Instability; inconstancy.
Shive (n.) A slice; as, a shive of bread.
Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
Shiver (n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
Shiver (n.) A spindle.
Shiver (n.) A thin slice; a shive.
Shiver (n.) A variety of blue slate.
Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
Shiver (n.) The act of shivering or trembling.
Shiver (v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
Shiver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
Shiver (v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Shiver-spar (n.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
Shivered (imp. & p. p.) of Shiver
Shivering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shiver
Shiveringly (adv.) In a shivering manner.
Shivery (a.) Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
Shivery (a.) Tremulous; shivering.
Shoad (n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines.
Shoading (n.) The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.
Shoal (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
Shoal (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
Shoal (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
Shoal (v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
Shoal (v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoal
Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
Shoaling (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.
Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoal
Shoaly (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places.
Shoar (n.) A prop. See 3d Shore.
Shoat (n.) A young hog. Same as Shote.
Shock (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
Shock (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
Shock (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
Shock (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
Shock (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
Shock (n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
Shock (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
Shock (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
Shock (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
Shock (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
Shock (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Shock (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
Shock (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
Shock-head (a.) Shock-headed.
Shock-headed (a.) Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
Shockdog (n.) See 7th Shock, 1.
Shocked (imp. & p. p.) of Shock
Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
Shocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shock
Shod (imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.
Shod (imp. & p. p.) of Shoe
Shoddy (a.) Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
Shoddy (v. t.) A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.
Shoddy (v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.
Shoddyism (n.) The quality or state of being shoddy.
Shode () Alt. of Shoding
Shode (v. t.) The parting of the hair on the head.
Shode (v. t.) The top of the head; the head.
Shoder (n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.
Shoding () See Shoad, Shoading.
Shoe (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
Shoe (n.) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
Shoe (n.) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
Shoe (n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
Shoe (n.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.
Shoe (n.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Shoe (n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
Shoe (n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
Shoe (n.) Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Shoe (n.) To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.
Shoe (n.) To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.
Shoebill (n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak.
Shoeblack (n.) One who polishes shoes.
Shoehorn (n.) Alt. of Shoeing-horn
Shoeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoe
Shoeing-horn (n.) A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.
Shoeing-horn (n.) Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt.
Shoeing-horn (n.) Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
Shoeless (a.) Destitute of shoes.
Shoemaker (n.) One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
Shoemaker (n.) The runner, 12.
Shoemaker (n.) The threadfish.
Shoemaking (n.) The business of a shoemaker.
Shoer (n.) One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.
Shoes (pl. ) of Shoe
Shog (n.) A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.
Shog (v. i.) To jog; to move on.
Shog (v. t.) To shake; to shock.
Shoggle (v. t.) To joggle.
Shogunate (n.) The office or dignity of a Shogun.
Shola (n.) See Sola.
Shole (n.) A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.
Shole (n.) See Shoal.
Shonde (n.) Harm; disgrace; shame.
Shone () imp. & p. p. of Shine.
Shone (imp. & p. p.) of Shine
Shoo (interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.
Shooi (n.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry.
Shook () imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
Shook () of Shake
Shook (imp.) of Shake
Shook (n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.
Shook (n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
Shook (n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
Shook (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook.
Shoon (n.) pl. of Shoe.
Shoon (pl. ) of Shoe
Shoop () imp. of Shape. Shaped.
Shoot (n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
Shoot (n.) A shoat; a young hog.
Shoot (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
Shoot (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
Shoot (n.) A young branch or growth.
Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
Shoot (v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.
Shoot (v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.
Shoot (v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
Shoot (v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
Shoot (v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
Shoot (v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
Shoot (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
Shoot (v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.
Shoot (v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
Shoot (v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
Shoot (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
Shoot (v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
Shoot (v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
Shoot (v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
Shoot (v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
Shoot (v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
Shoot (v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
Shooter (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter.
Shooter (n.) A shooting star.
Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
Shooter (n.) That which shoots.
Shooting (a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
Shooting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
Shooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoot
Shooty (a.) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
Shop () imp. of Shape. Shaped.
Shop (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
Shop (n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
Shop (v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
Shopboard (n.) A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.
Shopbook (n.) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.
Shopboy (n.) A boy employed in a shop.
Shopen () p. p. of Shape.
Shopgirl (n.) A girl employed in a shop.
Shopkeeper (n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Shoplifter (n.) One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
Shoplifting (n.) Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.
Shoplike (a.) Suiting a shop; vulgar.
Shopmaid (n.) A shopgirl.
Shopman (n.) A shopkeeper; a retailer.
Shopman (n.) One who serves in a shop; a salesman.
Shopman (n.) One who works in a shop or a factory.
Shopmen (pl. ) of Shopman
Shopped (imp. & p. p.) of Shop
Shopper (n.) One who shops.
Shopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shop
Shoppish (a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.
Shoppy (a.) Abounding with shops.
Shoppy (a.) Of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business; as, shoppy talk.
Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.
Shopwalker (n.) One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
Shopwoman (n.) A woman employed in a shop.
Shopwomen (pl. ) of Shopwoman
Shopworn (a.) Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Shorage (n.) Duty paid for goods brought on shore.
Shore () imp. of Shear.
Shore () of Shear
Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
Shore (n.) A sewer.
Shore (v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
Shore (v. t.) To set on shore.
Shore (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
Shored (imp. & p. p.) of Shore
Shoreless (a.) Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean.
Shoreling (n.) See Shorling.
Shorer (n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
Shoreward (adv.) Toward the shore.
Shoring (n.) A system of props; props, collectively.
Shoring (n.) The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.
Shoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shore
Shorl (a.) Alt. of Shorlaceous
Shorlaceous (a.) See Schorl, Schorlaceous.
Shorling (n.) A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.
Shorn () of Shear
Shorn () p. p. of Shear.
Short (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
Short (n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
Short (n.) A summary account.
Short (n.) Breeches; shortclothes.
Short (n.) Short, inferior hemp.
Short (n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
Short (superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
Short (superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
Short (superl.) Brittle.
Short (superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
Short (superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
Short (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
Short (superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Short (superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Short (superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
Short (superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.
Short (superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
Short (superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
Short (v. i.) To fail; to decrease.
Short (v. t.) To shorten.
Short circuit () A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
Short-breathed (a.) Having short life.
Short-breathed (a.) Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
Short-circuit (v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
Short-circuited (imp. & p. p.) of Short-circuit
Short-circuiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Short-circuit
Short-dated (a.) Having little time to run from the date.
Short-handed (a.) Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
Short-jointed (a.) Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
Short-lived (a.) Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
Short-spoken (a.) Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
Short-waisted (a.) Having a short waist.
Short-winded (a.) Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
Short-wited (a.) Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
Shortage (n.) Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
Shortcake (n.) An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
Shortclothes (n.) Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
Shortcoming (n.) Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.
Shortcoming (n.) The act of falling, or coming short
Shortcoming (n.) The failure of a crop, or the like.
Shorten (a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
Shorten (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
Shortened / (imp. & p. p.) of Shorten
Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens.
Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorten
Shorthand (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
Shorthead (n.) A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
Shorthorn (a.) One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
Shortly (adv.) In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
Shortly (adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
Shortsighted (a.) Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
Shortsighted (a.) Having little regard for the future; heedless.
Shortsighted (a.) Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Shortstop (n.) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Shortwing (n.) Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
Shory (a.) Lying near the shore.
Shoshones (n. pl.) A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
Shot () imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
Shot (a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
Shot (imp. & p. p.) of Shoot
Shot (n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
Shot (n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
Shot (n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
Shot (n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
Shot (n.) The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.
Shot (pl. ) of Shot
Shot (v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
Shot (v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun.
Shot-clog (n.) A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
Shot-free (a.) Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free.
Shot-free (a.) Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
Shot-proof (a.) Impenetrable by shot.
Shote (v. t.) A fish resembling the trout.
Shote (v. t.) A young hog; a shoat.
Shotgun (n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
Shots (n. pl.) The refuse of cattle taken from a drove.
Shots (pl. ) of Shot
Shotted (a.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture.
Shotted (a.) Loaded with shot.
Shotted (imp. & p. p.) of Shot
Shotten () of Shoot
Shotten (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
Shotten (n.) Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
Shotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shot
Shough (interj.) See Shoo.
Shough (n.) A shockdog.
Should (imp.) of Shall
Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
Shoulder (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
Shoulder (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
Shoulder (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
Shoulder (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
Shoulder (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
Shoulder (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
Shoulder (v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
Shoulder (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
Shoulder-shotten (a.) Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse.
Shouldered (a.) Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad-shouldered man.
Shouldered (imp. & p. p.) of Shoulder
Shouldering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoulder
Shout (n.) A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
Shout (v. i.) To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
Shout (v. t.) To treat with shouts or clamor.
Shout (v. t.) To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.
Shouted (imp. & p. p.) of Shout
Shouter (n.) One who shouts.
Shouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shout
Shove () p. p. of Shove.
Shove (n.) The act of shoving; a forcible push.
Shove (v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
Shove (v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
Shove (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.
Shove (v. t.) To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
Shoveboard (n.) Alt. of Shovegroat
Shoved (imp. & p. p.) of Shove
Shovegroat (n.) The same as Shovelboard.
Shovel (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
Shovel (v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.
Shovel (v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
Shovel-nosed (a.) Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
Shovelard (n.) Shoveler.
Shovelbill (n.) The shoveler.
Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.
Shovelboard (n.) A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
Shoveled (imp. & p. p.) of Shovel
Shoveler (n.) One who, or that which, shovels.
Shovelful (n.) As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
Shovelfuls (pl. ) of Shovelful
Shovelhead (n.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
Shoveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shovel
Shovelled () of Shovel
Shovelling () of Shovel
Shovelnose (n.) A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.
Shovelnose (n.) A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
Shovelnose (n.) A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.
Shovelnose (n.) The common sand shark. See under Snad.
Shoven () p. p. of Shove.
Shoving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shove
Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
Show (n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.
Show (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
Show (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
Show (n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
Show (n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.
Show (n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
Show (v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
Show (v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
Show (v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
Show (v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
Show (v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
Show (v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
Showed () of Show
Showed (imp.) of Show
Shower (n.) A copious supply bestowed.
Shower (n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
Shower (n.) One who shows or exhibits.
Shower (n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
Shower (n.) That which shows; a mirror.
Shower (v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
Shower (v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
Shower (v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
Showered (imp. & p. p.) of Shower
Showerful (a.) Full of showers.
Showeriness (n.) Quality of being showery.
Showering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shower
Showerless (a.) Rainless; freo from showers.
Showery (a.) Of or pertaining to a shower or showers.
Showery (a.) Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.
Showily (adv.) In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
Showing (n.) Appearance; display; exhibition.
Showing (n.) Presentation of facts; statement.
Showing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Show
Showish (a.) Showy; ostentatious.
Showman (n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Showmen (pl. ) of Showman
Shown () p. p. of Show.
Shown (p. p.) of Show
Showroom (n.) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
Showroom (n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
Showy (a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
Shrag (n.) A twig of a tree cut off.
Shrag (v. t.) To trim, as trees; to lop.
Shragger (n.) One who lops; one who trims trees.
Shram (v. t.) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.
Shrank () imp. of Shrink.
Shrank (imp.) of Shrink
Shrap (n.) Alt. of Shrape
Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
Shrapnel (n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.
Shred (imp. & p. p.) of Shred
Shred (n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
Shred (n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
Shred (n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
Shred (n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
Shredcook (n.) The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain.
Shredded () of Shred
Shredding (n.) That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
Shredding (n.) The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
Shredding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shred
Shreddy (a.) Consisting of shreds.
Shredless (a.) Having no shreds; without a shred.
Shrew (a.) Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.
Shrew (a.) Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.
Shrew (a.) To beshrew; to curse.
Shrew (a.) Wicked; malicious.
Shrewd (superl.) Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer; a shrewd design; a shrewd reply.
Shrewd (superl.) Artful; wily; cunning; arch.
Shrewd (superl.) Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.
Shrewish (a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Shrewmouse (n.) A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.
Shriek (n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
Shriek (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
Shriek (v. t.) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
Shrieked (imp. & p. p.) of Shriek
Shrieker (n.) One who utters a shriek.
Shrieking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shriek
Shrieval (a.) Of or pertaining to a sheriff.
Shrievalty (n.) The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
Shrieve (n.) A sheriff.
Shrieve (v. t.) To shrive; to question.
Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.
Shrift (n.) The act of shriving.
Shright () imp. & p. p. of Shriek.
Shright (n.) A shriek; shrieking.
Shrill (n.) A shrill sound.
Shrill (v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
Shrill (v. i.) To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
Shrill (v. t.) To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
Shrill-gorged (a.) Having a throat which produces a shrill note.
Shrill-tongued (a.) Having a shrill voice.
Shrilled (imp. & p. p.) of Shrill
Shrilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrill
Shrillness (n.) The quality or state of being shrill.
Shrilly (a.) Somewhat shrill.
Shrilly (adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
Shrimp (v. t.) To contract; to shrink.
Shrimp (v.) Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.
Shrimp (v.) Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
Shrimp (v.) In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.
Shrimp (v.) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
Shrimper (n.) One who fishes for shrimps.
Shrine (n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
Shrine (n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.
Shrine (n.) Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
Shrine (v. t.) To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.
Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
Shrink (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
Shrink (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
Shrink (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
Shrink (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.
Shrinkage (n.) Decrease in value; depreciation.
Shrinkage (n.) The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.
Shrinkage (n.) The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.
Shrinker (n.) One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
Shrinking () a. & n. from Shrink.
Shrinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrink
Shrinkingly (adv.) In a shrinking manner.
Shrivalty (n.) Shrievalty.
Shrive (v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution.
Shrive (v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively.
Shrive (v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.
Shrived () of Shrive
Shrived (imp.) of Shrive
Shrivel (v. i.) To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.
Shrivel (v. t.) To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
Shriveled (imp. & p. p.) of Shrivel
Shriveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrivel
Shrivelled () of Shrivel
Shrivelling () of Shrivel
Shriven () p. p. of Shrive.
Shriven (p. p.) of Shrive
Shriver (n.) One who shrives; a confessor.
Shriving (n.) Shrift; confession.
Shriving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrive
Shroff (n.) A banker, or changer of money.
Shroffage (n.) The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased.
Shrood (v. t.) To trim; to lop.
Shroud (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
Shroud (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
Shroud (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Shroud (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Shroud (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
Shroud (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
Shroud (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
Shroud (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
Shroud (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
Shroud (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.
Shroud-laid (a.) Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.
Shrouded (a.) Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
Shrouded (imp. & p. p.) of Shroud
Shrouding (n.) The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7.
Shrouding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shroud
Shroudless (a.) Without a shroud.
Shroudy (a.) Affording shelter.
Shrove () imp. of Shrive.
Shrove () of Shrive
Shrove (v. i.) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry.
Shrovetide (n.) The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.
Shroving (n.) The festivity of Shrovetide.
Shrow (n.) A shrew.
Shrowd (v. t.) See Shrood.
Shrub (n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Shrub (n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
Shrub (v. t.) To lop; to prune.
Shrubberies (pl. ) of Shrubbery
Shrubbery (n.) A collection of shrubs.
Shrubbery (n.) A place where shrubs are planted.
Shrubbiness (n.) Quality of being shrubby.
Shrubby (superl.) Full of shrubs.
Shrubby (superl.) Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.
Shrubless (a.) having no shrubs.
Shruff (n.) Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.
Shrug (n.) A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
Shrug (v. i.) To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
Shrug (v. t.) To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
Shrugged (imp. & p. p.) of Shrug
Shrugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrug
Shrunk () of Shrink
Shrunk (p. p.) of Shrink
Shrunken () of Shrink
Shrunken () p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
Shuck (n.) A shock of grain.
Shuck (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.
Shuck (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
Shucked (imp. & p. p.) of Shuck
Shucker (n.) One who shucks oysters or clams
Shucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuck
Shudder (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Shudder (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
Shuddered (imp. & p. p.) of Shudder
Shuddering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shudder
Shudderingly (adv.) In a shuddering manner.
Shude (n.) The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.
Shuffle (n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Shuffle (n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
Shuffle (v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
Shuffle (v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Shuffle (v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
Shuffle (v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Shuffle (v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
Shuffleboard (n.) See Shovelboard.
Shufflecap (n.) A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.
Shuffled (imp. & p. p.) of Shuffle
Shuffler (n.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup.
Shuffler (n.) One who shuffles.
Shufflewing (n.) The hedg sparrow.
Shuffling (a.) Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.
Shuffling (a.) Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
Shuffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuffle
Shuffling (v.) In a shuffling manner.
Shug (v. i.) Hence, to crawl; to sneak.
Shug (v. i.) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
Shumac (n.) Sumac.
Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
Shunless (a.) Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.
Shunned (imp. & p. p.) of Shun
Shunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shun
Shunt (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
Shunt (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
Shunt (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
Shunt (v. t.) To shun; to move from.
Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
Shunted (imp. & p. p.) of Shunt
Shunter (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
Shunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shunt
Shut (a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
Shut (a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
Shut (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
Shut (a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
Shut (imp. & p. p.) of Shut
Shut (n.) A door or cover; a shutter.
Shut (n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
Shut (n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
Shut (v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
Shut (v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
Shut (v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
Shut (v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
Shute (n.) Same as Chute, or Shoot.
Shutter (n.) A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.
Shutter (n.) A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.
Shutter (n.) One who shuts or closes.
Shuttered (a.) Furnished with shutters.
Shutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shut
Shuttle (n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
Shuttle (n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.
Shuttlecork (n.) See Shuttlecock.
Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
Shwan-pan (n.) See Schwan-pan.
Shy (a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
Shy (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Shy (n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
Shy (superl.) Cautious; wary; suspicious.
Shy (superl.) Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Shy (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Shy (v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
Shying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shy
Shyly (adv.) In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.
Shyness (n.) The quality or state of being shy.
Shyster (n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.
Si quis () A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.
Siaga (n.) The ahu, or jairou.
Sialogogue (n.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
Siamang (n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
Siamese (a.) Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
Siamese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.
Siamese (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Siamese.
Sib (a.) Related by blood; akin.
Sib (n.) A blood relation.
Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.
Siberian (a.) Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter.
Siberian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Siberia.
Sibilance (n.) Alt. of Sibilancy
Sibilancy (n.) The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
Sibilant (a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
Sibilant (n.) A sibiliant letter.
Sibilate (v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
Sibilation (n.) Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.
Sibilatory (a.) Hissing; sibilant.
Sibilous (a.) Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.
Sibyl (n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.
Sibyl (n.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
Sibylist (n.) One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies.
Sibylline (a.) Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
Sic (a.) Such.
Sic (adv.) Thus.
Sicamore (n.) See Sycamore.
Sicca (n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.
Siccate (v. t.) To dry.
Siccation (n.) The act or process of drying.
Siccative (a.) Drying; causing to dry.
Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.
Siccific (a.) Causing dryness.
Siccity (n.) Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.
Sice (n.) The number six at dice.
Sicer (n.) A strong drink; cider.
Sich (a.) Such.
Sicilian (a.) Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.
Sicilian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sicily.
Siciliano (n.) A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.
Sicilienne (n.) A kind of rich poplin.
Sick (n.) Sickness.
Sick (superl.) Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Sick (superl.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
Sick (superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
Sick (v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken.
Sick-brained (a.) Disordered in the brain.
Sicken (v. i.) To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
Sicken (v. i.) To become disgusting or tedious.
Sicken (v. i.) To become sick; to fall into disease.
Sicken (v. i.) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
Sicken (v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
Sicken (v. t.) To make sick; to disease.
Sickened (imp. & p. p.) of Sicken
Sickening (a.) Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.
Sickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sicken
Sicker (a.) Alt. of Siker
Sicker (adv.) Alt. of Siker
Sicker (v. i.) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
Sickerly (adv.) Alt. of Sikerly
Sickerness (n.) Alt. of Sikerness
Sickish (a.) Somewhat sick or diseased.
Sickish (a.) Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.
Sickle (n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Sickle (n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
Sicklebill (n.) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
Sicklebill (n.) A curlew.
Sicklebill (n.) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.
Sickled (a.) Furnished with a sickle.
Sickleman (n.) One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
Sicklemen (pl. ) of Sickleman
Sickler (n.) One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
Sickless (a.) Free from sickness.
Sicklewort (n.) A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.
Sicklewort (n.) The healall (Brunella vulgaris).
Sicklied (a.) Made sickly. See Sickly, v.
Sickliness (n.) The quality or state of being sickly.
Sickly (adv.) In a sick manner or condition; ill.
Sickly (superl.) Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
Sickly (superl.) Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
Sickly (superl.) Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
Sickly (superl.) Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Sickly (v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
Sickness (n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Sickness (n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
Sicle (n.) A shekel.
Sida (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.
Siddow (a.) Soft; pulpy.
Side (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
Side (a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
Side (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
Side (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
Side (n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.
Side (n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
Side (n.) Long; large; extensive.
Side (n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
Side (n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
Side (v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
Side (v. i.) To lean on one side.
Side (v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
Side (v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.
Side (v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match.
Side (v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
Side-taking (n.) A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.
Side-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
Sided (a.) Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.
Sided (imp. & p. p.) of Side
Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.
Sideling (a.) Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.
Sideling (adv.) Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
Sidelong (a.) Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
Sidelong (adv.) Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
Sidelong (adv.) On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
Sidepiece (n.) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
Sider (n.) Cider.
Sider (n.) One who takes a side.
Sideral (a.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.
Sideral (a.) Relating to the stars.
Siderated (a.) Planet-struck; blasted.
Sideration (n.) The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.
Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
Sidereal (a.) Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.
Siderealize (v. t.) To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.
Sidereous (a.) Sidereal.
Siderite (n.) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.
Siderite (n.) An indigo-blue variety of quartz.
Siderite (n.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.
Siderite (n.) Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron.
Siderite (n.) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.
Siderographic (a.) Alt. of Siderographical
Siderographical (a.) Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
Siderographist (n.) One skilled in siderography.
Siderolite (n.) A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.
Sideromancy (n.) Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
Sideroscope (n.) An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.
Siderosis (n.) A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.
Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
Sideroxylon (n.) A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
Sidesaddle (n.) A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
Sidesman (n.) A party man; a partisan.
Sidesman (n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
Sidesmen (pl. ) of Sidesman
Sidewalk (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
Sideways (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.
Sidewinder (n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
Sidewinder (n.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.
Sidewise (adv.) On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
Siding (n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
Siding (n.) Attaching one's self to a party.
Siding (n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
Siding (n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.
Siding (p. pr.& vb. n.) of Side
Sidle (v. t.) To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Sidled (imp. & p. p.) of Sidle
Sidling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sidle
Siege (n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
Siege (n.) A workman's bench.
Siege (n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
Siege (n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
Siege (n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
Siege (n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Siege (n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
Siege (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
Siegework (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
Siemens-Martin process () See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.
Sienite (n.) See Syenite.
Sienitic (a.) See Syenitic.
Sienna (n.) Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.
Siennese (a.) Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.
Sierra (n.) A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.
Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.
Sieur (n.) Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.
Sieva (n.) A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).
Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.
Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
Sifac (n.) The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.
Sifflement (n.) The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.
Sifilet (n.) The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.
Sift (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sift (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.
Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
Sifted (imp. & p. p.) of Sift
Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.
Sifter (n.) One who, or that which, sifts.
Sifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sift
Sig (v. t.) Urine.
Sigaultian (a.) Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.
Sigger (v. i.) Same as
Sigh (v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
Sigh (v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
Sigh (v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.
Sigh (v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
Sigh (v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.
Sigh (v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
Sigh (v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
Sigh (v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Sigh-born (a.) Sorrowful; mournful.
Sighed (imp. & p. p.) of Sigh
Sigher (n.) One who sighs.
Sighing (a.) Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.
Sighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sigh
Sight (v. i.) To take aim by a sight.
Sight (v. t.) A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
Sight (v. t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
Sight (v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
Sight (v. t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
Sight (v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
Sight (v. t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
Sight (v. t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
Sight (v. t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
Sight (v. t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
Sight (v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
Sight (v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.
Sight (v. t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
Sight (v. t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
Sight-hole (n.) A hole for looking through; a peephole.
Sight-seeing (a.) Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
Sight-seeing (n.) The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
Sight-seer (n.) One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
Sight-shot (n.) Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
Sighted (a.) Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.
Sighted (imp. & p. p.) of Sight
Sightful (a.) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.
Sightfulness (n.) The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
Sighting () a. & n. from Sight, v. t.
Sighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sight
Sightless (a.) Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.
Sightless (a.) That can not be seen; invisible.
Sightless (a.) Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
Sightliness (n.) The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
Sightly (a.) Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
Sightly (a.) Pleasing to the sight; comely.
Sightproof (a.) Undiscoverable to sight.
Sightsman (n.) One who reads or performs music readily at first sight.
Sightsmen (pl. ) of Sightsman
Sigil (n.) A seal; a signature.
Sigilla (pl. ) of Sigillum
Sigillaria (n. pl.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
Sigillaria (n.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.
Sigillarid (n.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.
Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.
Sigillative (a.) Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.
Sigillum (n.) A seal.
Sigla (n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.
Sigma (n.) The Greek letter /, /, or / (English S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.
Sigmas (pl. ) of Sigma
Sigmodont (n.) Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.
Sigmoid (a.) Alt. of Sigmoidal
Sigmoidal (a.) Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek /.
Sigmoidally (adv.) In a sigmoidal manner.
Sign (n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.
Sign (n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.
Sign (n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
Sign (n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.
Sign (n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.
Sign (n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.
Sign (n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.
Sign (n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.
Sign (n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
Sign (n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
Sign (n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
Sign (n.) That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.
Sign (n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.
Sign (n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.
Sign (n.) To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.
Sign (n.) To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.
Sign (n.) To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.
Sign (n.) To mark; to make distinguishable.
Sign (n.) To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.
Sign (v. i.) To be a sign or omen.
Sign (v. i.) To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.
Sign (v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.
Signable (a.) Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.
Signal (a.) Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.
Signal (a.) Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.
Signal (n.) A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.
Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
Signal (v. t.) To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.
Signal (v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.
Signaled (/) or Signalled (imp. & p. p.) of Signal
Signaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signal
Signalist (n.) One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.
Signality (n.) The quality or state of being signal or remarkable.
Signalize (a.) To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.
Signalize (a.) To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.
Signalize (a.) To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
Signalized (imp. & p. p.) of Signalize
Signalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signalize
Signalling () of Signal
Signally (adv.) In a signal manner; eminently.
Signalman (n.) A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.
Signalment (n.) The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.
Signate (v. t.) Having definite color markings.
Signation (v. t.) Sign given; marking.
Signatory (a.) Relating to a seal; used in sealing.
Signatory (a.) Signing; joining or sharing in a signature; as, signatory powers.
Signatory (n.) A signer; one who signs or subscribes; as, a conference of signatories.
Signature (v. t.) A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.
Signature (v. t.) A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
Signature (v. t.) An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.
Signature (v. t.) Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
Signature (v. t.) That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).
Signature (v. t.) The printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.
Signature (v. t.) To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
Signaturist (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.
Signboard (n.) A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.
Signed (imp. & p. p.) of Sign
Signer (n.) One who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.
Signet (n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.
Significancy (n.) That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
Significancy (n.) The quality or state of being significant.
Significant (a.) Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event.
Significant (a.) Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.
Significant (n.) That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
Significantly (adv.) In a significant manner.
Significate (n.) One of several things signified by a common term.
Signification (n.) That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.
Signification (n.) The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
Significative (a.) Betokening or representing by an external sign.
Significative (a.) Having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant.
Significator (n.) One who, or that which, signifies.
Significatory (a.) Significant.
Significatory (n.) That which is significatory.
Significavit (n.) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.
Signified (imp. & p. p.) of Signify
Signify (n.) To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.
Signify (n.) To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.
Signifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signify
Signing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sign
Signiorize (v. i.) To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
Signiorize (v. t.) To exercise dominion over; to lord it over.
Signiorship (n.) State or position of a signior.
Signiory (n.) Same as Seigniory.
Signor (n.) Alt. of Signore
Signora (n.) Madam; Mrs; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians.
Signore (n.) Sir; Mr.; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.
Signorina (n.) Miss; -- a title of address among the Italians.
Signpost (n.) A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.
Sik (a.) Alt. of Sike
Sike (a.) Such. See Such.
Sike (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
Sike (n.) A sick person.
Sike (n.) A sigh.
Sike (v. i.) To sigh.
Siker (a.) Sure; certain; trusty.
Siker (adv.) Surely; certainly.
Siker (n.) Alt. of Sikerness
Sikerly (adv.) Surely; securely.
Sikerly (n.) Alt. of Sikerness
Sikerness (n.) See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc.
Sikerness (n.) The quality or state of being sicker, or certain.
Sikhs (n. pl.) A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.
Silage (n. & v.) Short for Ensilage.
Sile (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
Sile (n.) A young or small herring.
Sile (n.) Filth; sediment.
Sile (v. i.) To drop; to flow; to fall.
Sile (v. t.) To strain, as fresh milk.
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.
Silenced (imp. & p. p.) of Silence
Silencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silence
Silene (n.) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.
Silent (a.) Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
Silent (a.) Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
Silent (a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
Silent (a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
Silent (a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
Silent (n.) That which is silent; a time of silence.
Silentiary (n.) One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.
Silesia (n.) A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.
Silesia (n.) A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.
Silesian (a.) Of or pertaining to Silesia.
Silesian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Silesia.
Silex (n.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.
Silhouette (n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
Silhouette (v. t.) To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
Silica (n.) Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.
Silicate (n.) A salt of silicic acid.
Silicated (a.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks.
Silicatization (n.) Silicification.
Silicea (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.
Siliceous (a.) Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.
Silicic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.
Silicicalcareous (a.) Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.
Silicide (n.) A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.
Siliciferous (a.) Producing silica; united with silica.
Silicification (n.) Thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood.
Silicified (a.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.
Silicified (imp. & p. p.) of Silicify
Silicify (v. i.) To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.
Silicify (v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.
Silicifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silicify
Silicioidea (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.
Silicious (a.) See Siliceous.
Silicispongiae (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.
Silicited (a.) Silicified.
Silicium (n.) See Silicon.
Siliciureted (a.) Combined or impregnated with silicon.
Silicle (n.) A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.
Silico- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.
Silicofluoric (a.) Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides.
Silicofluoride (n.) A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.
Silicoidea (n. pl.) An extensive order of Porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.
Silicotungstic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).
Silicula (n.) A silicle.
Silicule (n.) A silicle.
Siliculose (a.) Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
Siliculose (a.) Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.
Siliginose (a.) Made of fine wheat.
Siling () a. & n. from Sile to strain.
Siliqua (n.) A weight of four grains; a carat; -- a term used by jewelers, and refiners of gold.
Siliqua (n.) Same as Silique.
Siliquae (pl. ) of Siliqua
Silique (n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.
Siliquosa (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques.
Siliquose (a.) Alt. of Siliquous
Siliquous (a.) Bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules.
Siliqyiform (a.) Having the form of a silique.
Silk (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.
Silk (n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
Silk (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
Silken (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
Silken (v. t.) To render silken or silklike.
Silkensides (n.) Same as Slickensides.
Silkiness (n.) Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.
Silkiness (n.) The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
Silkman (n.) A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.
Silkmen (pl. ) of Silkman
Silkness (n.) Silkiness.
Silkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
Silkworm (n.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
Silky (superl.) Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
Silky (superl.) Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
Silky (superl.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
Sill (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
Sill (n.) A young herring.
Sill (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
Sill (n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
Sill (n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
Sill (n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
Sillabub (n.) A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.
Siller (n.) Silver.
Sillily (adv.) In a silly manner; foolishly.
Sillimanite (n.) Same as Fibrolite.
Silliness (n.) The quality or state of being silly.
Sillock (n.) The pollock, or coalfish.
Sillon (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
Silly (n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
Silly (n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
Silly (n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
Silly (n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
Silly (n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
Silly (n.) Weak; helpless; frail.
Sillyhow (a.) A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
Silo (n.) A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.
Silt (n.) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Silt (v. i.) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Silt (v. t.) To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
Silted (imp. & p. p.) of Silt
Silting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silt
Silty (a.) Full of silt; resembling silt.
Silure (n.) A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
Silurian (a.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.
Silurian (n.) The Silurian age.
Siluridan (n.) Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.
Siluroid (n.) A siluroid fish.
Siluroid (n.) Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe.
Siluroidei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.
Silurus (n.) A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.
Silva (n.) A description or history of the forest trees of a country.
Silva (n.) The forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
Silvae (pl. ) of Silva
Silvan (a.) Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
Silvan (n.) See Sylvanium.
Silvanite (n.) See Sylvanite.
Silvas (n. pl.) Alt. of Selvas
Silvas (pl. ) of Silva
Silvate (n.) Same as Sylvate.
Silver (a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
Silver (a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
Silver (a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
Silver (a.) Precious; costly.
Silver (a.) Resembling silver.
Silver (a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
Silver (n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
Silver (n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
Silver (n.) The color of silver.
Silver (v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
Silver (v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
Silver (v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
Silver (v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
Silver-gray (a.) Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
Silverback (n.) The knot.
Silverberry (n.) A tree or shrub (Elaeagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.
Silverbill (n.) An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.
Silverboom (n.) See Leucadendron.
Silvered (imp. & p. p.) of Silver
Silverfin (n.) A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
Silverfish (n.) A white variety of the goldfish.
Silverfish (n.) The tarpum.
Silveriness (n.) The state of being silvery.
Silvering (n.) The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.
Silvering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silver
Silverize (v. t.) To cover with silver.
Silverized (imp. & p. p.) of Silverize
Silverizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silverize
Silverless (a.) Having no silcver; hence, without money; impecunious.
Silverling (n.) A small silver coin.
Silverly (adv.) Like silver in appearance or in sound.
Silvern (a.) Made of silver.
Silversmith (n.) One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
Silverspot (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.
Silverware (n.) Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.
Silverweed (n.) A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.
Silvery (a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.
Silvery (a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.
Silvery (a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
Silviculture (n.) See Sylviculture.
Sima (n.) A cyma.
Simagre (n.) A grimace.
Simar (n.) A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.
Simarre () See Simar.
Simblot (n.) The harness of a drawloom.
Simia (n.) A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.
Simial (a.) Simian; apelike.
Simian (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike.
Simian (n.) Any Old World monkey or ape.
Similar (a.) Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
Similar (a.) Homogenous; uniform.
Similar (a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
Similar (n.) That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
Similarity (n.) The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.
Similarly (adv.) In a similar manner.
Similary (a.) Similar.
Similative (a.) Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance.
Simile (n.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
Similes (pl. ) of Simile
Similiter (n.) The technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- called sometimes a joinder in issue.
Similitude (n.) That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
Similitude (n.) The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
Similitude (n.) The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
Similitudinary (a.) Involving or expressing similitude.
Similize (v. t.) To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.
Similor (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.
Simitar (n.) See Scimiter.
Simmer (v. i.) To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.
Simmer (v. t.) To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.
Simmered (imp. & p. p.) of Simmer
Simmering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Simmer
Simnel (n.) A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.
Simnel (n.) A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Simoniac (n.) One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.
Simoniacal (a.) Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony.
Simonial (a.) Simoniacal.
Simonian (n.) One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.
Simonious (a.) Simoniacal.
Simonist (n.) One who practices simony.
Simony (n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.
Simoom (n.) Alt. of Simoon
Simoon (n.) A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
Simous (a.) Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.
Simpai (n.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.
Simper (n.) A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.
Simper (v. i.) To glimmer; to twinkle.
Simper (v. i.) To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.
Simpered (imp. & p. p.) of Simper
Simperer (n.) One who simpers.
Simpering () a. &. n. from Simper, v.
Simpering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Simper
Simperingly (adv.) In a simpering manner.
Simple (a.) A drawloom.
Simple (a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
Simple (a.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
Simple (a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
Simple (a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
Simple (a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
Simple (a.) Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
Simple (a.) Homogenous.
Simple (a.) Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
Simple (a.) Mere; not other than; being only.
Simple (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.
Simple (a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
Simple (a.) Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
Simple (a.) Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
Simple (a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
Simple (a.) Something not mixed or compounded.
Simple (a.) Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
Simple (a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
Simple (v. i.) To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
Simple-minded (a.) Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.
Simpleness (n.) The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.
Simpler (n.) One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.
Simpless (n.) Simplicity; silliness.
Simpleton (n.) A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
Simplician (n.) One who is simple.
Simplicity (n.) Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
Simplicity (n.) Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
Simplicity (n.) Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
Simplicity (n.) The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
Simplicity (n.) The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
Simplicity (n.) Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
Simplification (n.) The act of simplifying.
Simplified (imp. & p. p.) of Simplify
Simplify (v. t.) To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
Simplifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Simplify
Simplist (n.) One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.
Simplistic (a.) Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.
Simplity (n.) Simplicity.
Simploce (n.) See Symploce.
Simply (adv.) In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
Simply (adv.) Plainly; without art or subtlety.
Simply (adv.) Weakly; foolishly.
Simulacher (n.) Alt. of Simulachre
Simulachre (n.) See Simulacrum.
Simulacra (pl. ) of Simulacrum
Simulacrum (n.) A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
Simular (a.) False; specious; counterfeit.
Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Simulate (v. t.) To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
Simulated (imp. & p. p.) of Simulate
Simulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Simulate
Simulation (n.) The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.
Simulator (n.) One who simulates, or feigns.
Simulatory (a.) Simulated, or capable of being simulated.
Simultaneity (n.) The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.
Simultaneous (a.) Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events.
Simulty (n.) Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties.
Sin (adv., prep., & conj.) Old form of Since.
Sin (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
Sin (n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
Sin (n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
Sin (n.) To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
Sin (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
Sinaic (a.) Alt. of Sinaitic
Sinaitic (a.) Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law.
Sinalbin (n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Sinamine (n.) A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.
Sinapate (n.) A salt of sinapic acid.
Sinapic (a.) Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.
Sinapine (n.) An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.
Sinapis (n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.
Sinapisin (n.) A substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin.
Sinapism (n.) A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.
Sinapoleic (a.) Of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.
Sinapoline (n.) A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C3H5)2, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diallyl urea.
Sincaline (n.) Choline.
Since (adv.) From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since.
Since (adv.) In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.
Since (adv.) When or that.
Since (conj.) Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.
Since (prep.) From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object.
Sincere (superl.) Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness.
Sincere (superl.) Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person.
Sincerely (adv.) Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
Sincerely (adv.) In a sincere manner.
Sincerely (adv.) Purely; without alloy.
Sincereness (n.) Same as Sincerity.
Sincerity (n.) The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness.
Sinch (n.) A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass.
Sinch (v. t.) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.
Sincipital (a.) Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.
Sinciput (n.) The fore part of the head.
Sinciput (n.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.
Sindon (n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.
Sindon (n.) A wrapper.
Sine (n.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.
Sine (n.) The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below.
Sine (prep.) Without.
Sinecural (a.) Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.
Sinecure (n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
Sinecure (n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
Sinecure (v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.
Sinecurism (n.) The state of having a sinecure.
Sinecurist (n.) One who has a sinecure.
Sinew (n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
Sinew (n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
Sinew (n.) Muscle; nerve.
Sinew (v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
Sinew-shrunk (a.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.
Sinewed (a.) Fig.: Equipped; strengthened.
Sinewed (a.) Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.
Sinewed (imp. & p. p.) of Sinew
Sinewiness (n.) Quality of being sinewy.
Sinewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sinew
Sinewish (a.) Sinewy.
Sinewless (a.) Having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.
Sinewous (a.) Sinewy.
Sinewy (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
Sinewy (a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.
Sinful (a.) Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.
Sing (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
Sing (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
Sing (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
Sing (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
Sing (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
Sing (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
Sing (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
Sing-sing (n.) The kob.
Singe (n.) A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
Singe (v. t.) To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
Singe (v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
Singe (v. t.) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
Singed (imp. & p. p.) of Singe
Singeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Singe
Singer (n.) A machine for singeing cloth.
Singer (n.) One employed to singe cloth.
Singer (n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.
Singer (n.) One who, or that which, singes.
Singeress (n.) A songstress.
Singhalese (n. & a.) Same as Cingalese.
Singing () a. & n. from Sing, v.
Singing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sing
Singingly (adv.) With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.
Single (a.) Alone; having no companion.
Single (a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
Single (a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
Single (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
Single (a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
Single (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
Single (a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
Single (a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Single (n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
Single (n.) A handful of gleaned grain.
Single (n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.
Single (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
Single (v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
Single (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
Single (v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
Single (v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.
Single-acting (a.) Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
Single-breasted (a.) Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
Single-foot (n.) An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.
Single-handed (a.) Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
Single-hearted (a.) Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.
Single-minded (a.) Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
Singled (imp. & p. p.) of Single
Singleness (n.) Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
Singleness (n.) The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
Singles (n. pl.) See Single, n., 2.
Singlestick (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
Singlet (n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
Singleton (n.) In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
Singletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
Singling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Single
Singly (adv.) Honestly; sincerely; simply.
Singly (adv.) Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
Singly (adv.) Only; by one's self; alone.
Singly (adv.) Singularly; peculiarly.
Singly (adv.) Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.
Singsong (a.) Drawling; monotonous.
Singsong (n.) A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
Singsong (n.) Bad singing or poetry.
Singsong (v. i.) To write poor poetry.
Singster (n.) A songstress.
Singular (a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
Singular (a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.
Singular (a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.
Singular (a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
Singular (a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
Singular (a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
Singular (a.) Existing by itself; single; individual.
Singular (a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
Singular (a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
Singular (n.) An individual instance; a particular.
Singular (n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
Singularist (n.) One who affects singularity.
Singularities (pl. ) of Singularity
Singularity (n.) Anything singular, rare, or curious.
Singularity (n.) Celibacy.
Singularity (n.) Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
Singularity (n.) The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
Singularize (v. t.) To make singular or single; to distinguish.
Singularly (adv.) In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others.
Singularly (adv.) So as to express one, or the singular number.
Singularly (adv.) Strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.
Singult (n.) A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.
Singultous (a.) Relating to, or affected with, hiccough.
Singultus (n.) Hiccough.
Siniate (a.) Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.
Sinical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.
Sinigrin (n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.
Sinister (a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
Sinister (a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Sinister (a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
Sinister (a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
Sinister-handed (a.) Left-handed; hence, unlucky.
Sinisterly (adv.) In a sinister manner.
Sinistrad (adv.) Toward the left side; sinistrally.
Sinistral (a.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
Sinistral (a.) Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
Sinistrality (n.) The quality or state of being sinistral.
Sinistrally (adv.) Toward the left; in a sinistral manner.
Sinistrin (n.) A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory.
Sinistrorsal (a.) Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.
Sinistrorse (a.) Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.
Sinistrous (a.) Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
Sinistrous (a.) Wrong; absurd; perverse.
Sinistrously (adv.) In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.
Sinistrously (adv.) With a tendency to use the left hand.
Sink (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
Sink (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
Sink (n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
Sink (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Sink (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
Sink (v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
Sink (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
Sink (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
Sink (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
Sink (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
Sink (v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
Sink (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.
Sink (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
Sink (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
Sink (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
Sinker (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
Sinker (n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
Sinker (n.) One who, or that which, sinks.
Sinking () a. & n. from Sink.
Sinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sink
Sinless (a.) Free from sin.
Sinned (imp. & p. p.) of Sin
Sinner (n.) One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
Sinner (v. i.) To act as a sinner.
Sinneress (n.) A woman who sins.
Sinnet (n.) See Sennit .
Sinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sin
Sinological (a.) Relating to the Chinese language or literature.
Sinologist (n.) A sinologue.
Sinologue (n.) A student of Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, and history.
Sinology (n.) That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.
Sinoper (n.) Sinople.
Sinopia (n.) Alt. of Sinopis
Sinopis (n.) A red pigment made from sinopite.
Sinopite (n.) A brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.
Sinople (n.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
Sinople (n.) The tincture vert; green.
Sinque (n.) See Cinque.
Sinsring (n.) Same as Banxring.
Sinter (n.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.
Sinto () Alt. of Sintoist
Sintoc (n.) A kind of spice used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum.
Sintoism () Alt. of Sintoist
Sintoist () See Shinto, etc.
Sintu () Alt. of Sintoist
Sinuate (v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.
Sinuated (a.) Same as Sinuate.
Sinuated (imp. & p. p.) of Sinuate
Sinuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sinuate
Sinuation (n.) A winding or bending in and out.
Sinuose (a.) Sinuous.
Sinuosities (pl. ) of Sinuosity
Sinuosity (n.) A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.
Sinuosity (n.) Quality or state of being sinuous.
Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
Sinupalliate (a.) Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus.
Sinus (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
Sinus (n.) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.
Sinus (n.) A cavity; a depression.
Sinus (n.) A depression between adjoining lobes.
Sinus (n.) A dilated vessel or canal.
Sinus (n.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
Sinus (n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending.
Sinus (pl. ) of Sinus
Sinuses (pl. ) of Sinus
Sinusoid (n.) The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the curve of sines.
Sinusoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.
Siogoon (n.) See Shogun.
Siogoonate (n.) See Shogunate.
Sioux (n. sing. & pl.) See Dakotas.
Sip (n.) A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
Sip (n.) The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
Sip (v. i.) See Seep.
Sip (v. i.) To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
Sip (v. t.) To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
Sip (v. t.) To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.
Sip (v. t.) To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
Sipage (n.) See Seepage.
Sipage (n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
Sipe (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
Siphilis (n.) Syphilis.
Siphoid (n.) A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.
Siphon (n.) A siphon bottle.
Siphon (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.
Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
Siphon (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
Siphon (n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
Siphon (n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.
Siphon (v. t.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
Siphonage (n.) The action of a siphon.
Siphonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
Siphonarid (n.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.
Siphonata (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.
Siphonate (a.) Belonging to the Siphonata.
Siphonate (a.) Having a siphon or siphons.
Siphonet (n.) One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.
Siphonia (n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphonium
Siphoniata (n. pl.) Same as Siphonata.
Siphonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.
Siphonifer (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.
Siphoniferous (a.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.
Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.
Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.
Siphonobranchiate (a.) Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata.
Siphonobranchiate (n.) One of the Siphonobranchiata.
Siphonoglyphe (n.) A gonidium.
Siphonophoran (a.) Belonging to the Siphonophora.
Siphonophoran (n.) One of the Siphonophora.
Siphonophore (n.) One of the Siphonophora.
Siphonopoda (n. pl.) A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.
Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood.
Siphonostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.
Siphonostomatous (a.) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.
Siphonostomatous (a.) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.
Siphonostome (n.) A siphonostomatous shell.
Siphonostome (n.) Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.
Siphorhinal (a.) Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.
Siphorhinian (n.) A siphorhinal bird.
Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
Siphuncled (a.) Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.
Siphuncular (a.) Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.
Siphunculated (a.) Having a siphuncle.
Sipid (a.) Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid.
Sipped (imp. & p. p.) of Sip
Sipper (n.) One whi sips.
Sippet (n.) A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.
Sipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sip
Sipple (v. i.) To sip often.
Sippling (a.) Sipping often.
Sipunculacea (n. pl.) A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.
Sipunculoid (a.) Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea.
Sipunculoid (n.) One of the Sipunculoidea.
Sipunculoidea (n. pl.) In a restricted sense, same as Sipunculacea.
Sipunculoidea (n. pl.) Same as Gephyrea.
Sipy (a.) Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.
Sir (n.) A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.
Sir (n.) A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.
Sir (n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.
Sir (n.) An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.
Siraskier (n.) See Seraskier.
Siraskierate (n.) See Seraskierate.
Sirbonian (a.) See Serbonian.
Sircar (n.) A district or province; a circar.
Sircar (n.) A Hindoo clerk or accountant.
Sircar (n.) The government; the supreme authority of the state.
Sirdar (n.) A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.
Sire (n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
Sire (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
Sire (n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
Sire (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
Sire (n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
Sire (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.
Sired (imp. & p. p.) of Sire
Siren (a.) Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
Siren (n.) A mermaid.
Siren (n.) An enticing, dangerous woman.
Siren (n.) One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
Siren (n.) Something which is insidious or deceptive.
Sirene (n.) See Siren, 6.
Sirenia (n. pl.) An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.
Sirenian (n.) Any species of Sirenia.
Sirenical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive.
Sirenize (v. i.) To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.
Siriasis (n.) A sunstroke.
Siriasis (n.) The act of exposing to a sun bath. [Obs.] Cf. Insolation.
Siring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sire
Sirius (n.) The Dog Star. See Dog Star.
Sirkeer (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee).
Sirloin (n.) A loin of beef, or a part of a loin.
Sirname (n.) See Surname.
Siroc (n.) See Sirocco.
Sirocco (n.) An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.
Siroccos (pl. ) of Sirocco
Sirrah (n.) A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural.
Sirt (n.) A quicksand.
Sirup (n.) Alt. of Syrup
Siruped (a.) Alt. of Syruped
Sirupy (a.) Alt. of Syrupy
Sirvente (n.) A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.
Sis (n.) A colloquial abbreviation of Sister.
Sis (n.) Six. See Sise.
Sisal grass () Alt. of Sisal hemp
Sisal hemp () The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
Siscowet (n.) A large, fat variety of the namaycush found in Lake Superior; -- called also siskawet, siskiwit.
Sise (n.) An assize.
Sise (n.) Six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice.
Sisel (n.) The suslik.
Siser (n.) Cider. See Sicer.
Siserara (n.) Alt. of Siserary
Siserary (n.) A hard blow.
Siskin (n.) A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.
Siskin (n.) The American pinefinch (S. pinus); -- called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch.
Siskiwit (n.) The siscowet.
Sismograph (n.) See Seismograph.
Sismometer (n.) See Seismometer.
Siss (n.) A hissing noise.
Siss (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
Sissoo (n.) A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.
Sist (n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.
Sist (v. t.) To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court.
Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.
Sister (n.) A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
Sister (n.) A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.
Sister (n.) One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.
Sister (v. t.) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
Sister-in-law (n.) The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.
Sisterhood (n.) A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.
Sisterhood (n.) The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
Sistering (a.) Contiguous.
Sisterly (a.) Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse.
Sisters-in-law (pl. ) of Sister-in-law
Sistine (a.) Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus.
Sistren (n. pl.) Sisters.
Sisyphean (a.) Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors.
Sisyphus (n.) A king of Corinth, son of Aeolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.
Sit () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
Sit (v. t.) To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
Sit (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
Sit (v. t.) To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
Sit (v. t.) To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
Sit (v. t.) To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
Sit (v. t.) To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
Sit (v. t.) To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
Sit (v. t.) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
Sit (v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
Sit (v. t.) To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
Sit (v. t.) To suit (well / ill); to become.
Sit (v. t.) To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.
Sit (v. t.) To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
Site (n.) A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
Site (n.) The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
Site (n.) The posture or position of a thing.
Sited (a.) Having a site; situated.
Sitfast (a.) Fixed; stationary; immovable.
Sitfast (n.) A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.
Sithen (adv. & conj.) Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith.
Sithence (adv. & conj.) Alt. of Sithens
Sithens (adv. & conj.) Since. See Sith, and Sithen.
Siththen (adv. & conj.) See Sithen.
Sitology (n.) A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics.
Sitophobia (n.) A version to food; refusal to take nourishment.
Sitten () of Sit
Sitten () p. p. of Sit, for sat.
Sitter (n.) A bird that sits or incubates.
Sitter (n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
Sittine (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.
Sitting (a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
Sitting (n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
Sitting (n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.
Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
Sitting (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
Sitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sit
Situate (a.) Alt. of Situated
Situate (v. t.) To place.
Situated (a.) Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
Situated (a.) Placed; residing.
Situation (n.) Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
Situation (n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.
Situation (n.) Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.
Situation (n.) Relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.
Situs (n.) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.
Sitz bath () A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.
Siva (n.) One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.
Sivan (n.) The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.
Siver (v. i.) To simmer.
Sivvens (n.) See Sibbens.
Siwin (n.) Same as Sewen.
Six (a.) One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.
Six (n.) A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.
Six (n.) The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.
Six-footer (n.) One who is six feet tall.
Six-shooter (n.) A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.
Sixfold (a.) Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.
Sixpence (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Sixpences (pl. ) of Sixpence
Sixpenny (a.) Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.
Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Sixteen (a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
Sixteen (n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Sixteen (n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
Sixteenmo (n.) See Sextodecimo.
Sixteenmos (pl. ) of Sixteenmo
Sixteenth (a.) Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
Sixteenth (n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
Sixteenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
Sixth (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixth (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Sixth (n.) The next in order after the fifth.
Sixth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
Sixthly (adv.) In the sixth place.
Sixties (pl. ) of Sixty
Sixtieth (a.) Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixtieth (a.) Next in order after the fifty-ninth.
Sixtieth (n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.
Sixtieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
Sixty (n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
Sixty (n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
Sixty-fourth (a.) Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.
Sizable (a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.
Sizable (a.) Of considerable size or bulk.
Sizar (n.) One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
Sizarship (n.) The position or standing of a sizar.
Size (n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
Size (n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
Size (n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
Size (n.) Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
Size (n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
Size (n.) Six.
Size (v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
Size (v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Size (v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.
Size (v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
Size (v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
Size (v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.
Size (v. t.) To fix the standard of.
Size (v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Size (v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
Sized (a.) Adjusted according to size.
Sized (a.) Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
Sized (imp. & p. p.) of Size
Sizel (n.) Same as Scissel, 2.
Sizer (n.) An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
Sizer (n.) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
Sizer (n.) See Sizar.
Siziness (n.) The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.
Sizing (n.) A weak glue used in various trades; size.
Sizing (n.) Act of covering or treating with size.
Sizing (n.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
Sizing (n.) The act of bringing anything to a certain size.
Sizing (n.) The act of sorting with respect to size.
Sizzle (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.
Sizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
Sizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Sizzle
Sizzling () a. & n. from Sizzle.
Sizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sizzle
Skaddle (a.) Hurtful.
Skaddle (n.) Hurt; damage.
Skaddon (n.) The larva of a bee.
Skag (n.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.
Skain (n.) See Skean.
Skain (n.) See Skein.
Skainsmate (n.) A messmate; a companion.
Skaith (n.) See Scatch.
Skald (n.) See 5th Scald.
Skaldic (a.) See Scaldic.
Skaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seal
Skall (v. t.) To scale; to mount.
Skar (a.) Alt. of Skare
Skare (a.) Wild; timid; shy.
Skart (n.) The shag.
Skate (n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
Skate (v. i.) To move on skates.
Skated (imp. & p. p.) of Skate
Skater (n.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
Skater (n.) One who skates.
Skating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skate
Skatol (n.) A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N.
Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]
Skedaddle (v. i.) To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.
Skedaddled (imp. & p. p.) of Skedaddle
Skedaddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skedaddle
Skee (n.) A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding.
Skeed (n.) See Skid.
Skeel (n.) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
Skeelduck (n.) Alt. of Skeelgoose
Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Skeet (n.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
Skeg (n.) A kind of oats.
Skeg (n.) A sort of wild plum.
Skeg (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
Skegger (n.) The parr.
Skein (n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
Skein (n.) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
Skein (n.) A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
Skeine (n.) See Skean.
Skelder (n.) A vagrant; a cheat.
Skelder (v. t. & i.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
Skeldrake (n.) Alt. of Skieldrake
Skelet (n.) A skeleton. See Scelet.
Skeletal (a.) Pertaining to the skeleton.
Skeletogenous (a.) Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.
Skeletology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.
Skeleton (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
Skeleton (n.) A very thin or lean person.
Skeleton (n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
Skeleton (n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
Skeleton (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
Skeleton (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
Skeletonize (v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.
Skeletonized (imp. & p. p.) of Skeletonize
Skeletonizer (n.) Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
Skeletonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skeletonize
Skellum (n.) A scoundrel.
Skelly (n.) A squint.
Skelly (v. i.) To squint.
Skelp (n.) A blow; a smart stroke.
Skelp (n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
Skelp (n.) A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
Skelp (v. t.) To strike; to slap.
Skelter (v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
Sken (v. i.) To squint.
Skene (n.) See Skean.
Skep (n.) A beehive.
Skep (n.) A coarse round farm basket.
Skeptic (a.) Alt. of Skeptical
Skeptic (n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.
Skeptic (n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
Skeptical (a.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures.
Skeptical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
Skepticism (n.) A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
Skepticism (n.) An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Skerries (pl. ) of Skerry
Skerry (n.) A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
Sketch (n.) To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
Sketch (n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
Sketch (v. i.) To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Sketchbook (n.) A book of sketches or for sketches.
Sketched (imp. & p. p.) of Sketch
Sketcher (n.) One who sketches.
Sketchily (adv.) In a sketchy or incomplete manner.
Sketchiness (n.) The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
Sketching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sketch
Sketchy (a.) Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.
Skew (a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
Skew (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.
Skew (adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
Skew (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.
Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
Skew (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Skew (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
Skew (v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
Skewbald (a.) Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.
Skewed (imp. & p. p.) of Skew
Skewer (n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
Skewer (v. t.) To fasten with skewers.
Skewered (imp. & p. p.) of Skewer
Skewering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skewer
Skewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skew
Skid (n.) A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.
Skid (n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.
Skid (n.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
Skid (n.) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
Skid (n.) One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.
Skid (v. t.) To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
Skid (v. t.) To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.
Skiddaw (n.) The black guillemot.
Skidded (imp. & p. p.) of Skid
Skidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skid
Skidpan (n.) See Skid, n., 1.
Skied () imp. & p. p. of Sky, v. t.
Skied (imp. & p. p.) of Sky
Skieldrake (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Skieldrake (n.) The oyster catcher.
Skies (pl. ) of Sky
Skiey (a.) See Skyey.
Skiff (n.) A small, light boat.
Skiff (v. t.) To navigate in a skiff.
Skiffed (imp. & p. p.) of Skiff
Skiffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skiff
Skiffling (n.) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
Skill (n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Skill (n.) Knowledge; understanding.
Skill (v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
Skill (v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.
Skill (v. t.) To know; to understand.
Skill-less (a.) Wanting skill.
Skilled (a.) Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
Skillet (n.) A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.
Skillful (a.) Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.
Skilligalee (n.) A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
Skilling (n.) A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage.
Skilling (n.) A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck.
Skilts (n. pl.) A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn.
Skilty (n.) The water rail.
Skim (a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
Skim (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
Skim (v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
Skim (v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
Skim (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
Skim (v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
Skim (v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
Skimmer (n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
Skimmer (n.) One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
Skimmerton (n.) See Skimmington.
Skimming (n.) That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.
Skimming (n.) The act of one who skims.
Skimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skim
Skimmingly (adv.) In a skimming manner.
Skimp (a.) Scanty.
Skimp (v. i.) To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.
Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
Skimp (v. t.) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
Skimped (imp. & p. p.) of Skimp
Skimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skimp
Skin (n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
Skin (n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
Skin (n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
Skin (n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
Skin (n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
Skin (n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
Skin (v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
Skin (v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
Skin (v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
Skin (v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
Skin (v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
Skin-deep (a.) Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial.
Skinbound (a.) Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound.
Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
Skinched (imp. & p. p.) of Skinch
Skinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skinch
Skinflint (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
Skinful (n.) As much as a skin can hold.
Skinfuls (pl. ) of Skinful
Skink (n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.
Skink (n.) Drink; also, pottage.
Skink (v. i.) To serve or draw liquor.
Skink (v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink.
Skinked (imp. & p. p.) of Skink
Skinker (n.) One who serves liquor; a tapster.
Skinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skink
Skinless (a.) Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.
Skinned (imp. & p. p.) of Skin
Skinner (n.) One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
Skinner (n.) One who skins.
Skinniness (n.) Quality of being skinny.
Skinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skin
Skinny (a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.
Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
Skip (n.) A basket. See Skep.
Skip (n.) A beehive; a skep.
Skip (n.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
Skip (n.) A light leap or bound.
Skip (n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
Skip (n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
Skip (v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
Skip (v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
Skip (v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
Skip (v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
Skip (v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Skipjack (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
Skipjack (n.) An upstart.
Skipped (imp. & p. p.) of Skip
Skipper (n.) A ship boy.
Skipper (n.) A young, thoughtless person.
Skipper (n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
Skipper (n.) One who, or that which, skips.
Skipper (n.) The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
Skipper (n.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
Skipper (n.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
Skippet (n.) A small boat; a skiff.
Skippet (n.) A small round box for keeping records.
Skipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skip
Skippingly (adv.) In a skipping manner; by skips, or light leaps.
Skirl (n.) A shrill cry or sound.
Skirl (v. t.& i.) To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.
Skirlcock (n.) The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.
Skirlcrake (n.) The turnstone.
Skirling (n.) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
Skirling (n.) A small trout or salmon; -- a name used loosely.
Skirmish (v. i.) A slight contest.
Skirmish (v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.
Skirmish (v. i.) To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
Skirmished (imp. & p. p.) of Skirmish
Skirmisher (n.) One who skirmishes.
Skirmisher (n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column.
Skirmishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skirmish
Skirr (n.) A tern.
Skirr (v. i.) To scour; to scud; to run.
Skirr (v. t.) To ramble over in order to clear; to scour.
Skirret (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Sium, / Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.
Skirrhus (n.) See Scirrhus.
Skirt (n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
Skirt (n.) A petticoat.
Skirt (n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
Skirt (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
Skirt (n.) The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
Skirt (v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Skirt (v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
Skirt (v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Skirted (imp. & p. p.) of Skirt
Skirting (n.) A skirting board.
Skirting (n.) Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts.
Skirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skirt
Skit (n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
Skittles (v. t.) An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.
Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
Skive (v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
Skiver (n.) The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.
Skiving (n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
Skiving (n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.
Sklayre (n.) A vell.
Sklere (v. t.) To shelter; to cover.
Skolecite (n.) Alt. of Skolezite
Skolezite (n.) See Scolecite.
Skonce (n.) See Sconce.
Skorodite (n.) See Scorodite.
Skout (n.) A guillemot.
Skowitz (n.) The silver salmon.
Skreen (n. & v.) See Screen.
Skrike (n.) The missel thrush.
Skrike (v. i. & t.) To shriek.
Skrim (n.) Scum; refuse.
Skrimmage (n.) See Scrimmage.
Skrimp (v. t.) See Scrimp.
Skringe (v. i.) See Scringe.
Skrite (n.) The skrike.
Skrupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scruple
Skua (n.) Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
Skue (a. & n.) See Skew.
Skulk (n.) A number of foxes together.
Skulk (n.) Alt. of Skulker
Skulk (v. i.) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk.
Skulked (imp. & p. p.) of Skulk
Skulker (n.) One who, or that which, skulks.
Skulking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skulk
Skulkingly (adv.) In a skulking manner.
Skull (n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal.
Skull (n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
Skull (n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
Skull (n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
Skullcap (n.) A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.
Skullcap (n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.
Skullcap (n.) The Lophiomys.
Skullfish (n.) A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
Skulpin (n.) See Sculpin.
Skun (n. & v.) See Scum.
Skunk (n.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.
Skunkball (n.) The surf duck.
Skunkhead (n.) A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.
Skunkhead (n.) The surf duck.
Skunkish (a.) Like the skunk, especially in odor.
Skunktop (n.) The surf duck.
Skunkweed (n.) Skunk cabbage.
Skurry (n. & v.) See Scurry.
Skute (n.) A boat; a small vessel.
Skutterudite (n.) A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consists of arsenic and cobalt.
Sky (n.) A cloud.
Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow.
Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
Sky (n.) The wheather; the climate.
Sky (v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.
Sky (v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.
Sky-blue (a.) Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
Sky-high (adv. & a.) Very high.
Skye terrier () See Terrier.
Skyed () of Sky
Skyed (a.) Surrounded by sky.
Skyey (a.) Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky.
Skying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sky
Skyish (a.) Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.
Skylark (n.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.
Skylarking (n.) The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing.
Skylight (n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
Skyrocket (n.) A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
Skysail (n.) The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
Skyward (a. & adv.) Toward the sky.
Slab (a.) Thick; viscous.
Slab (n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
Slab (n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Slab (n.) The slack part of a sail.
Slab (n.) The wryneck.
Slab-sided (a.) Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.
Slabber (n.) A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
Slabber (n.) A slabbing machine.
Slabber (n.) Spittle; saliva; slaver.
Slabber (v. i.) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.
Slabber (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking.
Slabber (v. t.) To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.
Slabbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slabber
Slabberer (n.) One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.
Slabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slabber
Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
Slabbiness (n.) Quality of being slabby.
Slabbing (a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.
Slabby (a.) Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy.
Slabby (a.) Thick; viscous.
Slack (a.) Alt. of Slacken
Slack (adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops.
Slack (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
Slack (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
Slack (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
Slack (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.
Slack (superl.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.
Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
Slack (superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
Slack (v. t.) Alt. of Slacken
Slacked (imp. & p. p.) of Slacken
Slacken (a.) To abate; to become less violent.
Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
Slacken (a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
Slacken (a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
Slacken (a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.
Slacken (a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
Slacken (a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
Slacken (v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
Slacken (v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.
Slacken (v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
Slackened () of Slacken
Slackening () of Slacken
Slacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slacken
Slackly (adv.) In a slack manner.
Slackness (n.) The quality or state of being slack.
Slade (n.) A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
Slade (n.) The sole of a plow.
Slag (v. t.) The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
Slag (v. t.) The scoria of a volcano.
Slaggy (a.) Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.
Slaie (n.) A weaver's reed; a sley.
Slain (p. p.) of Slay
Slake (a.) To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
Slake (a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
Slake (v. i.) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.
Slake (v. i.) To go out; to become extinct.
Slake (v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.
Slaked (imp. & p. p.) of Slake
Slakeless (a.) Not capable of being slaked.
Slakin (n.) Slacken.
Slaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slake
Slam (n.) The act of one who, or that which, slams.
Slam (n.) The refuse of alum works.
Slam (n.) The shock and noise produced in slamming.
Slam (n.) Winning all the tricks of a deal.
Slam (v. i.) To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.
Slam (v. t.) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
Slam (v. t.) To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.
Slam (v. t.) To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
Slam (v. t.) To strike down; to slaughter.
Slam (v. t.) To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.
Slam-bang (adv.) With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.
Slamkin (n.) Alt. of Slammerkin
Slammed (imp. & p. p.) of Slam
Slammerkin (n.) A slut; a slatternly woman.
Slamming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slam
Slander (n.) A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another.
Slander (v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.
Slander (v. t.) To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
Slandered (imp. & p. p.) of Slander
Slanderer (n.) One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.
Slandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slander
Slanderous (a.) Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports.
Slanderous (a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.
Slang () imp. of Sling. Slung.
Slang () of Sling
Slang (n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
Slang (n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
Slang (n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
Slang (v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
Slang-whanger (n.) One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.
Slanged (imp. & p. p.) of Slang
Slanginess (n.) Quality of being slangy.
Slanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slang
Slangous (a.) Slangy.
Slangy (a.) Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.
Slank () imp. & p. p. of Slink.
Slank () of Slink
Slant (n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
Slant (n.) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
Slant (v. i.) Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.
Slant (v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
Slant (v. t.) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
Slanted (imp. & p. p.) of Slant
Slanting (a.) Oblique; sloping.
Slanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slant
Slantly (adv.) In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.
Slantwise (adv.) Alt. of Slantly
Slap (n.) A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.
Slap (n.) With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.
Slap (v. t.) To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.
Slapdash (adv.) In a bold, careless manner; at random.
Slapdash (adv.) With a slap; all at once; slap.
Slapdash (v. t.) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.
Slapjack (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
Slapped (imp. & p. p.) of Slap
Slapper (a.) Alt. of Slapping
Slapper (n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Slapper (n.) One who, or that which, slaps.
Slapping (a.) Very large; monstrous; big.
Slapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slap
Slash (n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
Slash (n.) A long cut; a cut made at random.
Slash (n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
Slash (v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
Slash (v. t.) To crack or snap, as a whip.
Slash (v. t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
Slash (v. t.) To lash; to ply the whip to.
Slash pine () A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."
Slashed (a.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.
Slashed (a.) Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.
Slashed (imp. & p. p.) of Slash
Slasher (n.) A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
Slashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slash
Slashy (a.) Wet and dirty; slushy.
Slat (n.) A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
Slat (v. t.) To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.
Slat (v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
Slat (v. t.) To split; to crack.
Slatch (n.) An interval of fair weather.
Slatch (n.) The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.
Slatch (n.) The period of a transitory breeze.
Slate (v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
Slate (v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.
Slate (v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.
Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
Slate (v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
Slate (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
Slate (v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
Slate (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Slate (v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
Slate (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
Slate (v. t.) To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
Slate-color () A dark bluish gray color.
Slate-gray (a.) Of a dark gray, like slate.
Slated (imp. & p. p.) of Slate
Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
Slater (n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
Slating (n.) Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.
Slating (n.) The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.
Slating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slate
Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
Slatted (imp. & p. p.) of Slat
Slatter (v. i.) To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.
Slattern (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.
Slattern (n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
Slatternliness (n.) The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
Slatternly (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
Slatternly (adv.) In a slatternly manner.
Slatterpouch (n.) A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.
Slatting () Slats, collectively.
Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.
Slatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slat
Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture.
Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing.
Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Slaughter (v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
Slaughtered (imp. & p. p.) of Slaughter
Slaughterer (n.) One who slaughters.
Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Slaughtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slaughter
Slaughterman (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
Slaughtermen (pl. ) of Slaughterman
Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.
Slav (n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
Slave (n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
Slave (n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
Slave (n.) An abject person; a wretch.
Slave (n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
Slave (n.) See Slav.
Slave (v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
Slave (v. t.) To enslave.
Slaveborn (a.) Born in slavery.
Slaved (imp. & p. p.) of Slave
Slaveholder (n.) One who holds slaves.
Slaveholding (a.) Holding persons in slavery.
Slaveocracy (n.) See Slavocracy.
Slaver (n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
Slaver (n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
Slaver (n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Slaver (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
Slaver (v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Slavered (imp. & p. p.) of Slaver
Slaverer (n.) A driveler; an idiot.
Slaveries (pl. ) of Slavery
Slavering (a.) Drooling; defiling with saliva.
Slavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slaver
Slavery (n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
Slavery (n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
Slavery (n.) The holding of slaves.
Slavey (n.) A maidservant.
Slavic (a.) Slavonic.
Slavic (n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.
Slaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slave
Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.
Slavism (n.) The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race.
Slavocracy (n.) The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.
Slavonian (a.) Alt. of Slavonic
Slavonian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav.
Slavonic (a.) Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.
Slavonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language.
Slavophil (n.) Alt. of Slavophile
Slavophile (n.) One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.
Slavs (pl. ) of Slav
Slaw () Alt. of Slawen
Slaw (n.) Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.
Slawen () p. p. of Slee, to slay.
Slay (v. t.) To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
Slayer (n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
Slaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slay
Slazy (a.) See Sleazy.
Sle (v. t.) To slay.
Sleave (n.) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
Sleave (n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
Sleave (v. t.) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
Sleaved (a.) Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk.
Sleaved (imp. & p. p.) of Sleave
Sleaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleave
Sleaziness (n.) Quality of being sleazy.
Sleazy (a.) Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Sled (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
Sled (n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
Sled (v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.
Sledded (imp. & p. p.) of Sled
Sledding (n.) The act of transporting or riding on a sled.
Sledding (n.) The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
Sledding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sled
Sledge (n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
Sledge (n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
Sledge (n.) A sleigh.
Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
Sledge (v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
Sledge (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.
Sledged (imp. & p. p.) of Sledge
Sledging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sledge
Slee (v. t.) To slay.
Sleek (adv.) With ease and dexterity.
Sleek (n.) That which makes smooth; varnish.
Sleek (superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.
Sleek (superl.) Not rough or harsh.
Sleek (v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.
Sleeked (imp. & p. p.) of Sleek
Sleeking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleek
Sleekly (adv.) In a sleek manner; smoothly.
Sleekness (n.) The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
Sleeky (a.) Fawning and deceitful; sly.
Sleeky (a.) Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.
Sleep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.
Sleep (v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Sleep (v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
Sleep (v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Sleep (v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
Sleep (v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
Sleep-at-noon (n.) A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.
Sleep-charged (a.) Heavy with sleep.
Sleeper (n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.
Sleeper (n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
Sleeper (n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
Sleeper (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
Sleeper (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law.
Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
Sleepful (a.) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.
Sleepily (adv.) In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
Sleepiness (n.) The quality or state of being sleepy.
Sleeping () a. & n. from Sleep.
Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleep
Sleepish (a.) Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.
Sleepless (a.) Having no rest; perpetually agitated.
Sleepless (a.) Having no sleep; wakeful.
Sleepmarken (n.) See 1st Hag, 4.
Sleepwaker (n.) On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
Sleepwaking (n.) The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
Sleepwalker (n.) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
Sleepwalking (n.) Walking in one's sleep.
Sleepy (n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.
Sleepy (n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
Sleepy (n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
Sleepy (n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
Sleepyhead (n.) A sleepy person.
Sleepyhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
Sleer (n.) A slayer.
Sleet (n.) Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
Sleet (n.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Sleet (v. i.) To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Sleetch (n.) Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers.
Sleeted (imp. & p. p.) of Sleet
Sleetiness (n.) The state of being sleety.
Sleeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleet
Sleety (a.) Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.
Sleeve (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
Sleeve (n.) A narrow channel of water.
Sleeve (n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
Sleeve (n.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.
Sleeve (n.) See Sleave, untwisted thread.
Sleeve (n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.
Sleeve (v. t.) To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Sleeved (a.) Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.
Sleeved (imp. & p. p.) of Sleeve
Sleevefish (n.) A squid.
Sleevehand (n.) The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.
Sleeveless (a.) Having no sleeves.
Sleeveless (a.) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.
Sleeving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleeve
Sleid (v. t.) To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
Sleided (imp. & p. p.) of Sleid
Sleiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleid
Sleigh (a.) Sly.
Sleigh (n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.
Sleighing (n.) The act of riding in a sleigh.
Sleighing (n.) The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.
Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
Slender (superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
Slender (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
Slender (superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
Slender (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
Slender (superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
Slender (superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
Slent (n. & v.) See Slant.
Slep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.
Slepez (n.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat.
Slept () imp. & p. p. of Sleep.
Slept (imp. & p. p.) of Sleep
Sleuth (n.) The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.
Sleuthhound (n.) A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
Slew () imp. of Slay.
Slew (imp.) of Slay
Slew (v. t.) See Slue.
Slewed (a.) Somewhat drunk.
Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.
Sley (v. t.) A guideway in a knitting machine.
Sley (v. t.) A weaver's reed.
Sley (v. t.) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid.
Slibber (a.) Slippery.
Slice (v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
Slice (v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
Slice (v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.
Slice (v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
Slice (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
Slice (v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
Slice (v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
Slice (v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
Slice (v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
Sliced (imp. & p. p.) of Slice
Slicer (n.) One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.
Slich (n.) Alt. of Slick
Slicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slice
Slick (a.) Sleek; smooth.
Slick (n.) A wide paring chisel.
Slick (n.) See Schlich.
Slick (v. t.) To make sleek or smoth.
Slicken (a.) Sleek; smooth.
Slickens (n.) The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
Slickensides (n.) A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.
Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.
Slicker (n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
Slicker (n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.
Slicker (n.) A waterproof coat.
Slicker (n.) That which makes smooth or sleek.
Slicking (n.) Narrow veins of ore.
Slicking (n.) The act or process of smoothing.
Slickness (n.) The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
Slid () imp. & p. p. of Slide.
Slid () of Slide
Slid (imp.) of Slide
Slidden () p. p. of Slide.
Slidden (p. p.) of Slide
Slidder (v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery
Slidder (v. t.) To slide with interruption.
Slidderly (v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery
Sliddery (v. t.) Slippery.
Slidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slide
Slide (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
Slide (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
Slide (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
Slide (n.) A slide valve.
Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
Slide (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
Slide (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Slide (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
Slide (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
Slide (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
Slide (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
Slide (n.) That which operates by sliding.
Slide (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
Slide (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
Slide (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
Slide (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
Slide (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
Slidegroat (n.) The game of shovelboard.
Slider (a.) See Slidder.
Slider (n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
Slider (n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
Sliding (a.) Slippery; elusory.
Sliding (a.) That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.
Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
Slight (adv.) Slightly.
Slight (n.) Sleight.
Slight (n.) The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
Slight (superl.) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
Slight (superl.) Not stout or heavy; slender.
Slight (v. t.) To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
Slight (v. t.) To make even or level.
Slight (v. t.) To overthrow; to demolish.
Slight (v. t.) To throw heedlessly.
Slighted (imp. & p. p.) of Slight
Slighten (v. t.) To slight.
Slighter (n.) One who slights.
Slightful (a.) See Sleightful.
Slighting (a.) Characterized by neglect or disregard.
Slighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slight
Slightingly (adv.) In a slighting manner.
Slightly (adv.) In a slight manner.
Slightly (adv.) Slightingly; negligently.
Slightness (n.) The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
Slighty (a.) Slight.
Slik (a.) Such.
Slily (adv.) See Slyly.
Slim (superl.) Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
Slim (superl.) Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
Slim (superl.) Worthless; bad.
Slime (n.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
Slime (n.) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
Slime (n.) Bitumen.
Slime (n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
Slime (n.) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
Slime (v. t.) To smear with slime.
Slimed (imp. & p. p.) of Slime
Slimily (adv.) In a slimy manner.
Sliminess (n.) The quality or state of being slimy.
Sliming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slime
Slimly (adv.) In a state of slimness; in a slim manner; slenderly.
Slimness (n.) The quality or state of being slim.
Slimsy (a.) Flimsy; frail.
Slimy (superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
Sliness (n.) See Slyness.
Sling (n.) A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
Sling (v. t.) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
Sling (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension
Sling (v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
Sling (v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
Sling (v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
Sling (v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
Sling (v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
Sling (v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
Sling (v. t.) To throw with a sling.
Sling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast.
Slinger (n.) One who slings, or uses a sling.
Slinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sling
Slink (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.
Slink (a.) Thin; lean.
Slink (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
Slink (a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
Slink (n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
Slink (n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
Slink (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.
Slinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slink
Slinky (a.) Thin; lank.
Slip (n.) A child's pinafore.
Slip (n.) A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver.
Slip (n.) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
Slip (n.) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.
Slip (n.) A fish, the sole.
Slip (n.) A leash or string by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
Slip (n.) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
Slip (n.) A loose garment worn by a woman.
Slip (n.) A narrow passage between buildings.
Slip (n.) A particular quantity of yarn.
Slip (n.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
Slip (n.) A slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper.
Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine.
Slip (n.) An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip.
Slip (n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair.
Slip (n.) An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip.
Slip (n.) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip.
Slip (n.) An unintentional error or fault; a false step.
Slip (n.) Any covering easily slipped on.
Slip (n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
Slip (n.) Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handles and other applied parts.
Slip (n.) The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice.
Slip (n.) The slip or sheath of a sword, and the like.
Slip (n.) To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work.
Slip (n.) To err; to fall into error or fault.
Slip (n.) To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
Slip (n.) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.
Slip (n.) To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.
Slip (v. t.) To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
Slip (v. t.) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
Slip (v. t.) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper.
Slip (v. t.) To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound.
Slip (v. t.) To omit; to loose by negligence.
Slip-on (n.) A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.
Slipboard (n.) A board sliding in grooves.
Slipcoat cheese () A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white.
Slipes (v.) Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
Slipknot (n.) knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.
Slippage (n.) The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
Slipped (imp. & p. p.) of Slip
Slipper (a.) Slippery.
Slipper (n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
Slipper (n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
Slipper (n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
Slipper (n.) One who, or that which, slips.
Slippered (a.) Wearing slippers.
Slipperily (adv.) In a slippery manner.
Slipperiness (n.) The quality of being slippery.
Slipperness (n.) Slipperiness.
Slipperwort (n.) See Calceolaria.
Slippery (a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
Slippery (a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
Slippery (a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
Slippery (a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
Slipshod (a.) Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.
Slipshod (a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
Slipshoe (n.) A slipper.
Slipskin (a.) Evasive.
Slipslop (n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.
Slipstring (n.) One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal.
Slipthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Slish (n.) A cut; as, slish and slash.
Slit () 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
Slit (imp. & p. p.) of Slit
Slit (n.) A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
Slit (n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
Slit (n.) To cut; to sever; to divide.
Slit-shell (n.) Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
Slither (v. i.) To slide; to glide.
Slitted () of Slit
Slitter (n.) One who, or that which, slits.
Slitting () a. & n. from Slit.
Slitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slit
Slive (v. i.) To sneak.
Slive (v. t.) To cut; to split; to separate.
Sliver (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
Sliver (n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
Sliver (v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
Slivered (imp. & p. p.) of Sliver
Slivering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sliver
Sloakan (n.) A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.
Sloam (n.) A layer of earth between coal seams.
Sloat (n.) A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.
Slobber (n.) A jellyfish.
Slobber (n.) Salivation.
Slobber (n.) See Slabber.
Slobber (v. t. & i.) See Slabber.
Slobberer (n.) A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor.
Slobberer (n.) One who slobbers.
Slobbery (a.) Wet; sloppy, as land.
Slock (v. t.) Alt. of Slocken
Slocken (v. t.) To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
Slocking () a. & n. from Slock.
Sloe (n.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
Slogan (n.) The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry.
Sloggy (a.) Sluggish.
Sloke (n.) See Sloakan.
Sloo (n.) Alt. of Slue
Sloom (n.) Slumber.
Sloomy (a.) Sluggish; slow.
Slop (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
Slop (n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
Slop (n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
Slop (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
Slop (v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
Slop (v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Slop (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
Slop (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
Slop (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
Slope (a.) Sloping.
Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.
Slope (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slope
Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.
Slopewise (adv.) Obliquely.
Sloping (a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.
Sloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slope
Slopped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop
Sloppiness (n.) The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
Slopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slop
Sloppy (superl.) Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
Slopseller (n.) One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.
Slopshop (n.) A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
Slopwork (n.) The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
Slopy (a.) Sloping; inclined.
Slosh () Alt. of Sloshy
Sloshy () See Slush, Slushy.
Slot (n.) A bolt or bar for fastening a door.
Slot (n.) A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
Slot (n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
Slot (n.) The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind.
Slot (v. t.) To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door.
Sloth (n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
Sloth (n.) Slowness; tardiness.
Sloth (v. i.) To be idle.
Slothful (a.) Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.
Slothhound (n.) See Sleuthhound.
Slotted (a.) Having a slot.
Slotting (n.) The act or process of making slots, or mortises.
Slouch (n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
Slouch (n.) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
Slouch (v. i.) To droop, as the head.
Slouch (v. i.) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
Slouch (v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
Slouched (imp. & p. p.) of Slouch
Slouching (a.) Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
Slouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slouch
Slouchy (a.) Slouching.
Slough () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
Slough (a.) Slow.
Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Slough (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
Slough (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
Slough (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.
Sloughed (imp. & p. p.) of Slough
Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
Sloughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slough
Sloughy (a.) Full of sloughs, miry.
Sloughy (a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
Sloven (n.) A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.
Slovenliness (n.) The quality or state of being slovenly.
Slovenly (adv.) a slovenly manner.
Slovenness (n.) Slovenliness.
Slovenry (n.) Slovenliness.
Slow () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
Slow (adv.) Slowly.
Slow (n.) A moth.
Slow (superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
Slow (superl.) Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
Slow (superl.) Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
Slow (superl.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
Slow (superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
Slow (superl.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
Slow (superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
Slow (v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
Slow (v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
Slow-witted (a.) Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.
Slowback (n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.
Slowed (imp. & p. p.) of Slow
Slowenly (a.) Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
Slowenly (a.) Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress.
Slowh () imp. of Slee,to slay.
Slowhound (n.) A sleuthhound.
Slowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slow
Slowly (adv.) In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
Slowness (n.) The quality or state of being slow.
Slows (n.) Milk sickness.
Slowworm (v. t.) A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.
Slub (n.) A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.
Slub (v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.
Slubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Slub
Slubber (n.) A slubbing machine.
Slubber (v. t.) To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
Slubber (v. t.) To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
Slubberdegullion (n.) A mean, dirty wretch.
Slubbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slubber
Slubbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slubber
Slubberingly (adv.) In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner.
Slubbing () a. & n. from Slub.
Slubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slub
Sludge (n.) Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
Sludge (n.) See Slime, 4.
Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.
Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Sludy (a.) Miry; slushy.
Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
Slue (n.) See Sloough, 2.
Slue (v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.
Slue (v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round.
Slue (v. t.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.
Slued (imp. & p. p.) of Slue
Slug (n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
Slug (n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.
Slug (n.) A ship that sails slowly.
Slug (n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
Slug (n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
Slug (n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
Slug (v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
Slug (v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.
Slug (v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
Slug (v. t.) To make sluggish.
Slug (v. t.) To strike heavily.
Slug-horn (a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
Slugabed (n.) One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
Sluggard (a.) Sluggish; lazy.
Sluggard (n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
Sluggardize (v. t.) To make lazy.
Sluggardy (n.) The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
Slugged (imp. & p. p.) of Slug
Slugger (n.) One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
Slugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slug
Sluggish (a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
Sluggish (a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Sluggish (a.) Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Sluggish (a.) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
Sluggy (a.) Sluggish.
Slugs (n. pl.) Half-roasted ore.
Slugworm (n.) Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.
Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
Sluiced (imp. & p. p.) of Sluice
Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
Sluicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sluice
Sluicy (a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.
Sluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slue
Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
Slum (n.) Same as Slimes.
Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
Slumber (v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
Slumber (v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
Slumber (v. t.) To lay to sleep.
Slumber (v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.
Slumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slumber
Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
Slumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slumber
Slumberingly (adv.) In a slumbering manner.
Slumberless (a.) Without slumber; sleepless.
Slumberous (a.) Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.
Slumberous (a.) Inviting slumber; soporiferous.
Slumbery (a.) Sleepy.
Slumbrous (a.) Slumberous.
Slumming (vb. n.) Visiting slums.
Slump (n.) A boggy place.
Slump (n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
Slump (n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
Slump (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
Slur (n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
Slur (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Slur (v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Slur (v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
Slur (v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
Slur (v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
Slur (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
Slur (v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
Slur (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
Slurred (a.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
Slurred (imp. & p. p.) of Slur
Slurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slur
Slush (n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
Slush (n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
Slush (n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
Slush (n.) Soft mud.
Slush (n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
Slush (v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Slush (v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
Slushed (imp. & p. p.) of Slush
Slushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slush
Slushy (a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.
Slut (n.) A female dog; a bitch.
Slut (n.) A servant girl; a drudge.
Slut (n.) An untidy woman; a slattern.
Slutch (n.) Slush.
Slutchy (a.) Slushy.
Sluthhound (n.) Sleuthhound.
Sluttery (n.) The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.
Sluttish (a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
Sly (v. t.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.
Sly (v. t.) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Sly (v. t.) Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Slyboots (n.) A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
Slyly (adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Slyness (n.) The quality or state of being sly.
Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.
Smack (adv.) As if with a smack or slap.
Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
Smack (n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
Smack (n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
Smack (n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Smack (n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
Smack (v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.
Smack (v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Smack (v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.
Smack (v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.
Smack (v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
Smack (v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Smack (v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
Smack (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
Smacked (imp. & p. p.) of Smack
Smacking (a.) Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.
Smacking (n.) A sharp, quick noise; a smack.
Smacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smack
Small (adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
Small (adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
Small (n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
Small (n.) Smallclothes.
Small (n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
Small (superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
Small (superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
Small (superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
Small (superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
Small (superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
Small (v. t.) To make little or less.
Smallage (n.) A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
Smallclothes (n. pl.) A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
Smallish (a.) Somewhat small.
Smallness (n.) The quality or state of being small.
Smalls (n. pl.) See Small, n., 2, 3.
Smallsword (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
Smally (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.
Smalt (v. t.) A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.
Smalt-blue (a.) Deep blue, like smalt.
Smaltine (n.) Alt. of Smaltite
Smaltite (n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.
Smaragd (n.) The emerald.
Smaragdine (a.) Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
Smaragdite (n.) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
Smart (v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
Smart (v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
Smart (v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Smart (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
Smart (v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Smart (v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
Smart (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
Smart (v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
Smart (v. i.) Smart money (see below).
Smart (v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
Smart (v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
Smart (v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
Smart (v. t.) To cause a smart in.
Smarted (imp. & p. p.) of Smart
Smarten (v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.
Smarting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smart
Smartle (v. i.) To waste away.
Smartly (adv.) In a smart manner.
Smartness (n.) The quality or state of being smart.
Smartweed (n.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Smash (n.) Hence, bankruptcy.
Smash (v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
Smash (v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Smashed (imp. & p. p.) of Smash
Smasher (n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.
Smasher (n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.
Smasher (n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
Smashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smash
Smatch (n.) Taste; tincture; smack.
Smatch (v. i.) To smack.
Smatter (n.) Superficial knowledge; a smattering.
Smatter (v. i.) To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.
Smatter (v. i.) To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.
Smatter (v. t.) To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack.
Smatter (v. t.) To talk superficially about.
Smatterer (n.) One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
Smattering (n.) A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism.
Smear (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.
Smear (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
Smear (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
Smear (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
Smear dab () The sand fluke (b).
Smeared (a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).
Smeared (imp. & p. p.) of Smear
Smearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smear
Smeary (a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.
Smeath (n.) The smew.
Smectite (n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.
Smee (n.) The pintail duck.
Smee (n.) The poachard.
Smee (n.) The smew.
Smee (n.) The widgeon.
Smeeth (v. t.) To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.
Smeeth (v. t.) To smooth.
Smegma (n.) The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.
Smegma (n.) The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands.
Smegma (n.) The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.
Smegmatic (a.) Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.
Smeir (n.) A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.
Smell (n.) To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
Smell (n.) To give heed to.
Smell (n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
Smell (v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
Smell (v. i.) To exercise sagacity.
Smell (v. i.) To exercise the sense of smell.
Smell (v. i.) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
Smell (v. t.) The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
Smell (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
Smell-feast (n.) A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
Smell-feast (n.) One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.
Smell-less (a.) Destitute of smell; having no odor.
Smelled (imp. & p. p.) of Smell
Smeller (n.) One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.
Smeller (n.) The nose.
Smelling (n.) The act of one who smells.
Smelling (n.) The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell.
Smelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smell
Smelt () imp. & p. p. of Smell.
Smelt () of Smell
Smelt (n.) A gull; a simpleton.
Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
Smelt (v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
Smelted (imp. & p. p.) of Smelt
Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts.
Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib.
Smelting () a. & n. from Smelt.
Smelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smelt
Smerk (a.) Alt. of Smerky
Smerk (n. & v.) See Smirk.
Smerky (a.) Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a.
Smerlin (n.) A small loach.
Smew (n.) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.
Smew (n.) The hooded merganser.
Smicker (a.) To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.
Smicker (v.) Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.
Smickering (n.) Amorous glance or inclination.
Smicket (n.) A woman's under-garment; a smock.
Smickly (adv.) Smugly; finically.
Smiddy (n.) A smithy.
Smift (n.) A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
Smight (v. t.) To smite.
Smilacin (n.) See Parrilin.
Smilax (n.) A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Smilax (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.
Smile (v. i.) A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.
Smile (v. i.) Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence.
Smile (v. i.) Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.
Smile (v. i.) The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.
Smile (v. i.) To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors.
Smile (v. i.) To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
Smile (v. i.) To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
Smile (v. i.) To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty.
Smile (v. t.) To affect in a certain way with a smile.
Smile (v. t.) To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.
Smiled (imp. & p. p.) of Smile
Smileless (a.) Not having a smile.
Smiler (n.) One who smiles.
Smilet (n.) A little smile.
Smiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smile
Smilingly (adv.) In a smiling manner.
Smilingness (n.) Quality or state of being smiling.
Smilodon (n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.
Smilt (v. i.) To melt.
Sminthurid (n.) Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family Sminthuridae, -- usually found on flowers. See Illust. under Collembola.
Smirch (n.) A smutch; a dirty stain.
Smirch (v. t.) To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
Smirk (v. i.) To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.
Smirked (imp. & p. p.) of Smirk
Smirking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smirk
Smirkingly (adv.) With smirking; with a smirk.
Smirky (a.) Smirk; smirking.
Smit () 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.
Smit () imp. & p. p. of Smite.
Smit () of Smite
Smit () of Smite
Smite (n.) The act of smiting; a blow.
Smite (v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
Smite (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
Smite (v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
Smite (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
Smite (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
Smite (v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
Smite (v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
Smite (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
Smiter (n.) One who smites.
Smith (n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.
Smith (n.) One who makes or effects anything.
Smith (n.) To beat into shape; to forge.
Smithcraft (n.) The art or occupation of a smith; smithing.
Smither (n.) Fragments; atoms; finders.
Smither (n.) Light, fine rain.
Smithereens (n. pl.) Fragments; atoms; smithers.
Smithery (n.) The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.
Smithery (n.) Work done by a smith; smithing.
Smithing (n.) The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape.
Smithsonian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports.
Smithsonian (n.) The Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonite (n.) Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
Smithy (n.) The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.
Smiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smite
Smitt (v. t.) Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
Smitten () p. p. of Smite.
Smitten (p. p.) of Smite
Smittle (a.) Alt. of Smittlish
Smittle (n.) Infection.
Smittle (v. t.) To infect.
Smittlish (a.) Infectious; catching.
Smock (a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
Smock (n.) A blouse; a smoock frock.
Smock (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
Smock (v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
Smock frock () A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers.
Smock-faced (a.) Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish.
Smockless (a.) Wanting a smock.
Smokable (a.) Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.
Smoke (n.) Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
Smoke (n.) Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
Smoke (n.) That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
Smoke (n.) The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
Smoke (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
Smoke (n.) To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
Smoke (n.) To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
Smoke (n.) To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
Smoke (n.) To suffer severely; to be punished.
Smoke (v. t.) To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
Smoke (v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
Smoke (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
Smoke (v. t.) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
Smoke (v. t.) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
Smoke (v. t.) To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.
Smoke-dry (v. t.) To dry by or in smoke.
Smoked (imp. & p. p.) of Smoke
Smokehouse (n.) A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
Smokejack (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
Smokeless (a.) Making or having no smoke.
Smoker (n.) A smoking car or compartment.
Smoker (n.) One who dries or preserves by smoke.
Smoker (n.) One who smokes tobacco or the like.
Smokestack (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
Smokily (adv.) In a smoky manner.
Smokiness (n.) The quality or state of being smoky.
Smoking () a. & n. from Smoke.
Smoking (p. pr. & vb n.) of Smoke
Smoky (superl.) Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.
Smoky (superl.) Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.
Smoky (superl.) Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.
Smoky (superl.) Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.
Smoky (superl.) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
Smoky (superl.) Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.
Smolder (n.) Alt. of Smoulder
Smolder (v. i.) Alt. of Smoulder
Smolder (v. t.) Alt. of Smoulder
Smoldered (imp. & p. p.) of Smoulder
Smoldering (a.) Alt. of Smouldering
Smoldering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smoulder
Smolderingness (n.) Alt. of Smoulderingness
Smoldry (a.) Alt. of Smouldry
Smolt (n.) A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.
Smooch (v. t.) See Smutch.
Smoor (v. t.) To suffocate or smother.
Smooth (a.) To ease; to regulate.
Smooth (a.) To free from harshness; to make flowing.
Smooth (a.) To free from obstruction; to make easy.
Smooth (a.) To give a smooth or calm appearance to.
Smooth (a.) To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.
Smooth (a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.
Smooth (adv.) Smoothly.
Smooth (n.) That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.
Smooth (n.) The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.
Smooth (superl.) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.
Smooth (superl.) Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.
Smooth (superl.) Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.
Smooth (superl.) Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.
Smooth (superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.
Smooth (v. i.) To flatter; to use blandishment.
Smooth-chinned (a.) Having a smooth chin; beardless.
Smooth-tongued (a.) Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
Smoothbore (a.) Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled.
Smoothbore (n.) A smoothbore firearm.
Smoothed (imp. & p. p.) of Smooth
Smoothen (v. t.) To make smooth.
Smoother (n.) One who, or that which, smooths.
Smoothing (a. & n.) fr. Smooth, v.
Smoothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smooth
Smoothly (adv.) In a smooth manner.
Smoothness (n.) Quality or state of being smooth.
Smore (v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.
Smorsato (a.) Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.
Smorzando (a.) Alt. of Smorsato
Smote () imp. (/ rare p. p.) of Smite.
Smote () of Smite
Smote (imp.) of Smite
Smoterlich (a.) Dirty; foul.
Smother (v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.
Smother (v. i.) To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
Smother (v. t.) A state of suppression.
Smother (v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
Smother (v. t.) Stifling smoke; thick dust.
Smother (v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
Smother (v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
Smothered (imp. & p. p.) of Smother
Smotheriness (n.) The quality or state of being smothery.
Smothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smother
Smotheringly (adv.) In a smothering manner.
Smothery (a.) Tending to smother; stifling.
Smouch (n.) A dark soil or stain; a smutch.
Smouch (v. t.) To kiss closely.
Smouch (v. t.) To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.
Smoulder (n.) Smoke; smother.
Smoulder (v. i.) See Smolder.
Smoulder (v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
Smoulder (v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
Smouldered () of Smoulder
Smouldering () of Smoulder
Smouldering (a.) Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
Smoulderingness (n.) The state of smoldering.
Smouldry (a.) See Smoldry.
Smouldry (a.) Smoldering; suffocating; smothery.
Smudge (n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
Smudge (n.) A suffocating smoke.
Smudge (n.) That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
Smudge (v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Smudge (v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
Smudged (imp. & p. p.) of Smudge
Smudginess (n.) The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.
Smudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smudge
Smug (a.) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
Smug (v. t.) To make smug, or spruce.
Smugged (imp. & p. p.) of Smug
Smugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smug
Smuggle (v. i.) To import or export in violation of the customs laws.
Smuggle (v. t.) Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.
Smuggle (v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.
Smuggled (imp. & p. p.) of Smuggle
Smuggler (n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.
Smuggler (n.) One who smuggles.
Smuggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smuggle
Smugly (adv.) In a smug manner.
Smugness (n.) The quality or state of being smug.
Smut (v. i.) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
Smut (v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.
Smut (v. t.) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
Smut (v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
Smut (v. t.) To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.
Smut (v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
Smut (v. t.) To taint with mildew, as grain.
Smutch (n.) A stain; a dirty spot.
Smutch (v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.
Smutched (imp. & p. p.) of Smutch
Smutchin (n.) Snuff.
Smutching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smutch
Smutted (imp. & p. p.) of Smut
Smutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smut
Smutty (superl.) Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying.
Smutty (superl.) Soiled with smut; smutted.
Smutty (superl.) Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.
Smyrniot (a.) Of or pertaining to Smyrna.
Smyrniot (n.) A native or inhabitant of Smyrna.
Snack (v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
Snack (v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.
Snacket (n.) See Snecket.
Snacot (n.) A pipefish of the genus Syngnathus. See Pipefish.
Snaffle (n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.
Snaffle (v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
Snaffled (imp. & p. p.) of Snaffle
Snaffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snaffle
Snag (n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
Snag (n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Snag (n.) One of the secondary branches of an antler.
Snag (v. t.) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
Snag (v. t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
Snagged (a.) Full of snags; snaggy.
Snagged (imp. & p. p.) of Snag
Snagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snag
Snaggy (a.) Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.
Snaggy (a.) Snappish; cross; ill-tempered.
Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
Snail (n.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
Snail (n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
Snail (n.) The pod of the sanil clover.
Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.
Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.
Snail-paced (a.) Slow-moving, like a snail.
Snailfish (n.) See Sea snail (a).
Snake (n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
Snake (v. i.) To crawl like a snake.
Snake (v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
Snake (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
Snake's-head (n.) The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
Snake's-tongue (n.) Same as Adder's-tongue.
Snakebird (n.) Any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus Anhinga or Plotus. They are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills.
Snakebird (n.) The wryneck.
Snaked (imp. & p. p.) of Snake
Snakefish (n.) The band fish.
Snakefish (n.) The lizard fish.
Snakehead (n.) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
Snakehead (n.) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
Snakehead (n.) The turtlehead.
Snakeneck (n.) The snakebird, 1.
Snakeroot (n.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.
Snakestone (n.) A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
Snakestone (n.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.
Snakeweed (n.) A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta).
Snakeweed (n.) The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
Snakewood (n.) A tropical American shrub (Plumieria rubra) which has very fragrant red blossoms.
Snakewood (n.) An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.
Snakewood (n.) An East Indian climbing shrub (Ophioxylon serpentinum) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents.
Snakewood (n.) Same as Letterwood.
Snakewood (n.) Same as Trumpetwood.
Snaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snake
Snakish (a.) Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.
Snaky (a.) Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand.
Snaky (a.) Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.
Snaky (a.) Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
Snap (n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
Snap (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
Snap (n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
Snap (n.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
Snap (n.) To project with a snap.
Snap (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
Snap (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
Snap (v. i.) To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
Snap (v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
Snap (v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
Snap (v. t.) A greedy fellow.
Snap (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
Snap (v. t.) A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
Snap (v. t.) A snap beetle.
Snap (v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
Snap (v. t.) A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
Snap (v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
Snap (v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
Snap (v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Snap (v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
Snap (v. t.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
Snap (v. t.) That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
Snapdragon (n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.
Snapdragon (n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
Snapdragon (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
Snape (v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Snaphance (n.) A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.
Snaphance (n.) A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
Snaphead (n.) A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.
Snapped (imp. & p. p.) of Snap
Snapper (n.) A snap beetle.
Snapper (n.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
Snapper (n.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.
Snapper (n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
Snapper (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
Snapping () a. & n. from Snap, v.
Snapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snap
Snappish (a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
Snappish (a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
Snappy (a.) Snappish.
Snapsack (n.) A knapsack.
Snapweed (n.) See Impatiens.
Snar (v. i.) To snarl.
Snare (n.) A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
Snare (n.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
Snare (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
Snare (v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.
Snared (imp. & p. p.) of Snare
Snarer (n.) One who lays snares, or entraps.
Snaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snare
Snarl (n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
Snarl (n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
Snarl (v. i.) To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
Snarl (v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
Snarl (v. t.) To embarrass; to insnare.
Snarl (v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
Snarl (v. t.) To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
Snarled (imp. & p. p.) of Snarl
Snarler (n.) One who makes use of a snarling iron.
Snarler (n.) One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
Snarling () a. & n. from Snarl, v.
Snarling (p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Snarl
Snary (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.
Snast (v. t.) The snuff, or burnt wick, of a candle.
Snatch (n.) A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
Snatch (n.) A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
Snatch (n.) A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
Snatch (n.) The handle of a scythe; a snead.
Snatch (n.) To seize and transport away; to rap.
Snatch (n.) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
Snatch (v. i.) To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
Snatch block () a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
Snatched (imp. & p. p.) of Snatch
Snatcher (n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly.
Snatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snatch
Snatchingly (adv.) By snatching; abruptly.
Snathe (v. t.) To lop; to prune.
Snattock (n.) A chip; a alice.
Snaw (n.) Snow.
Snead (n.) A line or cord; a string.
Snead (n.) A snath.
Sneak (imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
Sneak (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
Sneak (n.) A mean, sneaking fellow.
Sneak (v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
Sneak (v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
Sneak-cup (n.) One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass.
Sneaked (imp. & p. p.) of Sneak
Sneaker (n.) A vessel of drink.
Sneaker (n.) One who sneaks.
Sneakiness (n.) The quality of being sneaky.
Sneaking (a.) Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.
Sneaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneak
Sneaksby (n.) A paltry fellow; a sneak.
Sneaky (n.) Like a sneak; sneaking.
Sneap (n.) A reprimand; a rebuke.
Sneap (v. t.) To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
Sneap (v. t.) To nip; to blast; to blight.
Sneath (n.) Alt. of Sneathe
Sneathe (n.) See Snath.
Sneb (v. t.) To reprimand; to sneap.
Sneck (n.) A door latch.
Sneck (v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.
Snecket (n.) A door latch, or sneck.
Sned (n.) Alt. of Sneed
Sned (v. t.) To lop; to snathe.
Sneed (n.) See Snath.
Sneer (n.) A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.
Sneer (n.) The act of sneering.
Sneer (v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
Sneer (v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
Sneer (v. i.) To show mirth awkwardly.
Sneer (v. t.) To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.
Sneer (v. t.) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
Sneered (imp. & p. p.) of Sneer
Sneerer (n.) One who sneers.
Sneerful (a.) Given to sneering.
Sneering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneer
Sneeringly (adv.) In a sneering manner.
Sneeze (n.) A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.
Sneeze (v. i.) To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.
Sneezed (imp. & p. p.) of Sneeze
Sneezeweed (n.) A yellow-flowered composite plant (Helenium autumnale) the odor of which is said to cause sneezing.
Sneezewood (n.) The wood of a South African tree. See Neishout.
Sneezewort (n.) A European herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.
Sneezing (n.) The act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
Sneezing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneeze
Snell (a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.
Snell (n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.
Snet (n.) The fat of a deer.
Snet (v. t.) The clear of mucus; to blow.
Snew (v. i.) To snow; to abound.
Snib (n.) A reprimand; a snub.
Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.
Snick (n. & v. t.) See Sneck.
Snick (n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn.
Snick (n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.
Snick (n.) A small cut or mark.
Snick (n.) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.
Snick (v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.
Snick (v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly.
Snicked (imp. & p. p.) of Snick
Snicker (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh.
Snicker (v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
Sniff (n.) The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
Sniff (v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
Sniff (v. t.) To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
Sniff (v. t.) To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
Sniffed (imp. & p. p.) of Sniff
Sniffing (n.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.
Sniffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniff
Sniffle (v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.
Snift () of Sniff
Snift (n.) A moment.
Snift (n.) Slight snow; sleet.
Snift (v. i.) To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
Snift (v. i.) To snort.
Snifted (imp. & p. p.) of Snift
Snifting () a. & n. from Snift.
Snifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snift
Snig (n.) Alt. of Snigg
Snig (v. i.) To sneak.
Snig (v. t.) To chop off; to cut.
Snigg (n.) A small eel.
Snigger (n.) See Snicker.
Sniggger (v. i.) See Snicker.
Sniggle (v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.
Sniggle (v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.
Sniggled (imp. & p. p.) of Sniggle
Sniggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniggle
Snip (n.) A share; a snack.
Snip (n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
Snip (n.) A small shred; a bit cut off.
Snip (n.) A tailor.
Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
Snip-snap (a.) Quick; short; sharp; smart.
Snip-snap (n.) A tart dialogue with quick replies.
Snipe (n.) A fool; a blockhead.
Snipe (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Snipebill (n.) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
Snipebill (n.) A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.
Snipefish (n.) A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.
Snipefish (n.) The bellows fish.
Snippack (n.) The common snipe.
Snipped (imp. & p. p.) of Snip
Snipper (n.) One who snips.
Snipper-snaper (n.) A small, insignificant fellow.
Snippet (n.) A small part or piece.
Snippety (a.) Ridiculously small; petty.
Snipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snip
Snite (n.) A snipe.
Snite (v. t.) To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle.
Snithe (a.) Alt. of Snithy
Snithy (a.) Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.
Snivel (v. i.) Mucus from the nose; snot.
Snivel (v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
Snivel (v. i.) To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
Sniveled (imp. & p. p.) of Snivel
Sniveler (n.) One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.
Sniveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snivel
Snivelled () of Snivel
Snivelling () of Snivel
Snively (a.) Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.
Snob (n.) A journeyman shoemaker.
Snob (n.) A townsman.
Snob (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
Snob (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Snobbery (n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
Snobbish (a.) Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.
Snobbishness (n.) Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.
Snoff (n.) A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.
Snood (n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
Snood (n.) The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.
Snood (v. t.) To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.
Snooded (a.) Wearing or having a snood.
Snook (n.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.
Snook (n.) The cobia.
Snook (n.) The garfish.
Snook (v. i.) To lurk; to lie in ambush.
Snooze (n.) A short sleep; a nap.
Snooze (v. i.) To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.
Snoozed (imp. & p. p.) of Snooze
Snoozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snooze
Snore (n.) A harsh nasal noise made in sleep.
Snore (v. i.) To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.
Snored (imp. & p. p.) of Snore
Snorer (n.) One who snores.
Snoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snore
Snort (n.) The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
Snort (v. i.) To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
Snort (v. i.) To laugh out loudly.
Snort (v. i.) To snore.
Snort (v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
Snorted (imp. & p. p.) of Snort
Snorter (n.) One who snorts.
Snorter (n.) The wheather; -- so called from its cry.
Snorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snort
Snot (n.) A mean, insignificant fellow.
Snot (n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.
Snot (v. t.) To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.
Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
Snotter (v. i.) To snivel; to cry or whine.
Snottery (n.) Filth; abomination.
Snotty (a.) Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.
Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
Snout (n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
Snout (n.) The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
Snout (n.) The nose of a man; -- in contempt.
Snout (n.) The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
Snout (v. t.) To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Snouty (a.) Resembling a beast's snout.
Snow (n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
Snow (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
Snow (n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.
Snow (v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
Snow (v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.
Snow-blind (a.) Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.
Snow-bound (a.) Enveloped in, or confined by, snow.
Snow-broth (n.) Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor.
Snow-capped (a.) Having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains.
Snow-white (a.) White as snow; very white.
Snowball (n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
Snowball (n.) The Guelder-rose.
Snowball (v. i.) To throw snowballs.
Snowball (v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
Snowballed (imp. & p. p.) of Snowball
Snowballing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snowball
Snowberry (n.) A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America.
Snowbird (n.) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco.
Snowbird (n.) The fieldfare.
Snowcap (n.) A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.
Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Snowdrop (n.) A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty.
Snowed (imp. & p. p.) of Snow
Snowflake (n.) A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
Snowflake (n.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.
Snowflake (n.) See Snowbird, 1.
Snowfleck (n.) See Snowbird, 1.
Snowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snow
Snowl (n.) The hooded merganser.
Snowless (a.) Destitute of snow.
Snowplough (n.) An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
Snowplow (n.) Alt. of Snowplough
Snowshed (n.) A shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.
Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
Snowshoeing (n.) Traveling on snowshoes.
Snowshoer (n.) One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.
Snowslip (n.) A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.
Snowstorm (n.) A storm with falling snow.
Snowy (a.) Abounding with snow; covered with snow.
Snub (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
Snub (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
Snub (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
Snub-nosed (a.) Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.
Snubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Snub
Snubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snub
Snudge (n.) A miser; a sneaking fellow.
Snudge (v. i.) To lie snug or quiet.
Snuff (n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
Snuff (n.) Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
Snuff (n.) The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
Snuff (v. i.) To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
Snuff (v. i.) To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
Snuff (v. i.) To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
Snuff (v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
Snuff (v. t.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
Snuff (v. t.) To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
Snuffbox (n.) A small box for carrying snuff about the person.
Snuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Snuff
Snuffer (n.) One who snuffs.
Snuffer (n.) The common porpoise.
Snuffers (n. pl.) An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.
Snuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuff
Snuffingly (adv.) In a snuffing manner.
Snuffle (n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
Snuffle (n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
Snuffle (n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
Snuffle (v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
Snuffled (imp. & p. p.) of Snuffle
Snuffler (n.) One who snuffles; one who uses cant.
Snuffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuffle
Snuffy (a.) Soiled with snuff.
Snuffy (a.) Sulky; angry; vexed.
Snug (n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
Snug (superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
Snug (superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
Snug (superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
Snug (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
Snug (v. t.) To place snugly.
Snug (v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.
Snugged (imp. & p. p.) of Snug
Snuggeries (pl. ) of Snuggery
Snuggery (n.) A snug, cozy place.
Snugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snug
Snuggle (v. t.) To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.
Snuggled (imp. & p. p.) of Snuggle
Snuggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuggle
Snugly (adv.) In a snug manner; closely; safely.
Snugness (n.) The quality or state of being snug.
Sny (n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.
Snying (n.) A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.
Snypy (a.) Like a snipe.
So (adv.) About the number, time, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, I will spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so.
So (adv.) In like manner or degree; in the same way; thus; for like reason; whith equal reason; -- used correlatively, following as, to denote comparison or resemblance; sometimes, also, following inasmuch as.
So (adv.) In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape.
So (adv.) In that manner or degree; as, indicated (in any way), or as implied, or as supposed to be known.
So (adv.) In the same manner; as has been stated or suggested; in this or that condition or state; under these circumstances; in this way; -- with reflex reference to something just asserted or implied; used also with the verb to be, as a predicate.
So (adv.) Is it thus? do you mean what you say? -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? So?
So (adv.) It is well; let it be as it is, or let it come to pass; -- used to express assent.
So (adv.) The case being such; therefore; on this account; for this reason; on these terms; -- used both as an adverb and a conjuction.
So (adv.) Very; in a high degree; that is, in such a degree as can not well be expressed; as, he is so good; he planned so wisely.
So (adv.) Well; the fact being as stated; -- used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it?
So (conj.) Provided that; on condition that; in case that; if.
So (interj.) Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.
So-called (a.) So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).
So-so (a.) Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.
So-so (adv.) Tolerably; passably.
Soak (v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
Soak (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
Soak (v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
Soak (v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
Soak (v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
Soak (v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
Soak (v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
Soakage (n.) The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
Soaked (imp. & p. p.) of Soak
Soaker (n.) A hard drinker.
Soaker (n.) One who, or that which, soaks.
Soaking (a.) Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.
Soaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soak
Soaky (a.) Full of moisture; wet; soppy.
Soal (n.) A dirty pond.
Soal (n.) See Sole, the fish.
Soal (n.) The sole of a shoe.
Soam (n.) A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.
Soap (v. t.) To flatter; to wheedle.
Soap (v. t.) To rub or wash over with soap.
Soapberry tree () Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
Soaped (imp. & p. p.) of Soap
Soapfish (n.) Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.
Soapiness (n.) Quality or state of being soapy.
Soaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soap
Soaproot (n.) A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.
Soapstone (n.) See Steatite, and Talc.
Soapsuds (n. pl.) Suds made with soap.
Soapwort (n.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
Soapy (superl.) Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.
Soapy (superl.) Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
Soar (a.) See 3d Sore.
Soar (a.) See Sore, reddish brown.
Soar (n.) The act of soaring; upward flight.
Soar (v. i.) Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
Soar (v. i.) To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
Soared (imp. & p. p.) of Soar
Soaring () a. & n. from Soar.
Soaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soar
Soave (a.) Sweet.
Soavemente (adv.) Sweetly.
Sob (n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.
Sob (n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
Sob (v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
Sob (v. t.) To soak.
Sobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Sob
Sobbing (n.) A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
Sobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sob
Sober (superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
Sober (superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
Sober (superl.) Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
Sober (superl.) Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
Sober (superl.) Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
Sober (v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.
Sober (v. t.) To make sober.
Sober-minded (a.) Having a disposition or temper habitually sober.
Sobered (imp. & p. p.) of Sober
Sobering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sober
Soberize (v. t. & i.) To sober.
Soberly (a.) Grave; serious; solemn; sad.
Soberly (adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
Soberness (n.) The quality or state of being sober.
Soboles (n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.
Soboles (n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub.
Soboliferous (a.) Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.
Sobriety (n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.
Sobriety (n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.
Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
Soc (n.) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
Soc (n.) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
Socager (n.) A tennant by socage; a socman.
Sociability (n.) The quality of being sociable; sociableness.
Sociable (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.
Sociable (n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
Sociableness (n.) The quality of being sociable.
Sociably (adv.) In a sociable manner.
Social (a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
Social (a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
Social (a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
Social (a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
Social (a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
Social (a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
Socialist (a.) Alt. of Socialistic
Socialist (n.) One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.
Socialistic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
Sociality (n.) The quality of being social; socialness.
Socialize (v. t.) To render social.
Socialize (v. t.) To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
Socially (adv.) In a social manner; sociably.
Socialness (n.) The quality or state of being social.
Sociate (a.) Associated.
Sociate (n.) An associate.
Sociate (v. i.) To associate.
Societarian (a.) Of or pertaining to society; social.
Societary (a.) Societarian.
Societies (pl. ) of Society
Society (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
Society (n.) Connection; participation; partnership.
Society (n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
Society (n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
Socinian (a.) Of or pertaining to Socinus, or the Socinians.
Socinian (n.) One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.
Socinianize (v. t.) To cause to conform to Socinianism; to regulate by, or imbue with, the principles of Socinianism.
Socinianized (imp. & p. p.) of Socinianize
Socinianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Socinianize
Sociologic (a.) Alt. of Sociological
Sociological (a.) Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.
Sociologist (n.) One who treats of, or devotes himself to, the study of sociology.
Sociology (n.) That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.
Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
Sock (n.) A plowshare.
Sock (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.
Sock (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.
Sockdolager (n.) That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.
Socket (n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
Socket (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
Socketed (a.) Having a socket.
Sockless (a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.
Socky (a.) Wet; soaky.
Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.
Socle (n.) A plain face or plinth at the lower part of a wall.
Socman (n.) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.
Socmen (pl. ) of Socman
Socome (n.) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.
Socotrine (a.) Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa.
Socotrine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Socotra.
Socratic (a.) Alt. of Socratical
Socratical (a.) Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.
Socratically (adv.) In the Socratic method.
Socratism (n.) The philosophy or the method of Socrates.
Socratist (n.) A disciple or follower of Socrates.
Sod () imp. of Seethe.
Sod () of Seethe
Sod (n.) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
Sod (n.) The rock dove.
Sod (v. t.) To cover with sod; to turf.
Soda (n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.
Soda (n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
Sodaic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, soda.
Sodalite (n.) A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.
Sodalities (pl. ) of Sodality
Sodality (n.) A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.
Sodality (n.) Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.
Sodamide (n.) A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.
Sodden () of Seethe
Sodden (imp. & p. p.) of Sod
Sodden (p. p.) Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.
Sodden (v. i.) To be seethed; to become sodden.
Sodden (v. t.) To soak; to make heavy with water.
Sodden-witted (a.) Heavy; dull.
Sodding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sod
Soddy (a.) Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy.
Soder (n. & v. t.) See Solder.
Sodic (a.) Of or pertaining to sodium; containing sodium.
Sodio- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sodium or one of its compounds.
Sodomite (n.) An inhabitant of Sodom.
Sodomite (n.) One guilty of sodomy.
Sodomitical (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.
Sodomy (n.) Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.
Soe (n.) A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.
Soecificness (n.) The quality or state of being specific.
Sofa (n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Sofas (pl. ) of Sofa
Soffit (n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.
Sofi (n.) Same as Sufi.
Sofis (pl. ) of Sofi
Sofism (n.) Same as Sufism.
Soft (adv.) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
Soft (interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
Soft (n.) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
Soft (superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.
Soft (superl.) Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.
Soft (superl.) Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.
Soft (superl.) Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.
Soft (superl.) Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.
Soft (superl.) Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.
Soft (superl.) Gentle in action or motion; easy.
Soft (superl.) Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.
Soft (superl.) Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.
Soft (superl.) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.
Soft (superl.) Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.
Soft (superl.) Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.
Soft (superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.
Soil (n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
Soil (n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
Soil (n.) Land; country.
Soil (n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
Soil (n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
Soil (n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
Soil (n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
Soil (v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
Soil (v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Soiled (imp. & p. p.) of Soil
Soiliness (n.) Stain; foulness.
Soiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soil
Soilless (a.) Destitute of soil or mold.
Soilure (n.) Stain; pollution.
Soily (a.) Dirty; soiled.
Soiree (n.) An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinee.
Soja (n.) An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.
Sojourn (v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Sojourn (v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
Sojourned (imp. & p. p.) of Sojourn
Sojourner (n.) One who sojourns.
Sojourning (n.) The act or state of one who sojourns.
Sojourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sojourn
Sojournment (n.) Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler.
Soke (n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.
Soke (n.) See Soc.
Sokeman (n.) See Socman.
Sokemanry (n.) See Socmanry.
Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Soken (n.) A toll. See Soc, n., 2.
Soko (n.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.
Sol (n.) A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
Sol (n.) A sou.
Sol (n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.
Sol (n.) Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.
Sol (n.) The sun.
Sol (n.) The tone itself.
Sol-fa (n.) The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.
Sol-fa (v. i.) To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
Sol-faed (imp. & p. p.) of Sol-fa
Sol-faing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sol-fa
Sola (a.) See Solus.
Sola (fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.
Sola (n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.
Solace (n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
Solace (n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
Solace (v. i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.
Solace (v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
Solace (v. t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.
Solaced (imp. & p. p.) of Solace
Solacement (n.) The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces.
Solacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solace
Solacious (a.) Affording solace; as, a solacious voice.
Solan goose () The common gannet.
Solanaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.
Soland (n.) A solan goose.
Solander (n.) See Sallenders.
Solania (n.) Solanine.
Solanicine (n.) An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.
Solanidine (n.) An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.
Solano () A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.
Solanoid (a.) Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.
Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
Solar (a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.
Solar (a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
Solar (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
Solar (a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.
Solar (a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
Solaria (pl. ) of Solarium
Solarium (n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.
Solarium (n.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.
Solarization (n.) Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.
Solarize (v. i.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.
Solarize (v. t.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
Solarized (imp. & p. p.) of Solarize
Solarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solarize
Solary (a.) Solar.
Solas (n.) Solace.
Solatium (n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.
Sold () imp. & p. p. of Sell.
Sold (imp. & p. p.) of Sell
Sold (n.) Solary; military pay.
Soldan (n.) A sultan.
Soldanel (n.) A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.
Soldanrie (n.) The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan.
Solder (n.) A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.
Solder (n.) anything which unites or cements.
Solder (n.) To mend; to patch up.
Solder (n.) To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.
Soldered (imp. & p. p.) of Solder
Solderer (n.) One who solders.
Soldering () a. & n. from Solder, v. t.
Soldering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solder
Soldi (pl. ) of Soldo
Soldier (n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
Soldier (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
Soldier (n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Soldier (n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
Soldier (v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
Soldier (v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
Soldieress (n.) A female soldier.
Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
Soldiering (n.) The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.
Soldierlike (a.) Like a soldier; soldierly.
Soldierly (a.) Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike.
Soldiership (n.) Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.
Soldierwood (n.) A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
Soldiery (n.) A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.
Soldiery (n.) Military service.
Soldo (n.) A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.
Sole (a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
Sole (a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
Sole (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
Sole (n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
Sole (n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
Sole (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
Sole (n.) The bottom of an embrasure.
Sole (n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
Sole (n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
Sole (n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
Sole (n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Sole (v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
Solecism (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.
Solecism (n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
Solecist (n.) One who commits a solecism.
Solecistic (a.) Solecistical.
Solecistical (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.
Solecistically (adv.) In a solecistic manner.
Solecize (v. i.) To commit a solecism.
Soled (imp. & p. p.) of Sole
Solely (adv.) Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.
Solemn (a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
Solemn (a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.
Solemn (a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.
Solemn (a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.
Solemn (a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.
Solemn (a.) Real; earnest; downright.
Solemn (a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.
Solemness (n.) Solemnness.
Solemnities (pl. ) of Solemnity
Solemnity (n.) A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.
Solemnity (n.) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
Solemnity (n.) ceremony adapted to impress with awe.
Solemnity (n.) Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.
Solemnity (n.) Solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.
Solemnizate (v. t.) To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony.
Solemnization (n.) The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
Solemnize (n.) Solemnization.
Solemnize (v. t.) To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate.
Solemnize (v. t.) To make grave, serious, and reverential.
Solemnize (v. t.) To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.
Solemnized (imp. & p. p.) of Solemnize
Solemnizer (n.) One who solemnizes.
Solemnizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solemnize
Solemnly (adv.) In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.
Solemnness (n.) The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.
Solen (n.) A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6.
Solen (n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen or allied genera of the family Solenidae; a razor shell.
Solenacean (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.
Solenaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to the solens or family Solenidae.
Soleness (n.) The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.
Solenette (n.) A small European sole (Solea minuta).
Solenoconcha (n. pl.) Same as Scaphopoda.
Solenodon (n.) Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (S. Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique.
Solenogastra (n. pl.) An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.
Solenoglyph (a.) Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia.
Solenoglyph (n.) One of the Selenoglypha.
Solenoglypha (n. pl.) A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.
Solenostomi (n. pl.) A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.
Soleplate (n.) A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine.
Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
Soler (n.) Alt. of Solere
Solere (n.) A loft or garret. See Solar, n.
Solert (a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.
Solertiousness (n.) The quality or state of being solert.
Soleship (n.) The state of being sole, or alone; soleness.
Solfanaria (n.) A sulphur mine.
Solfatara (n.) A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.
Solfeggiare (v. i.) To sol-fa. See Sol-fa, v. i.
Solfeggio (n.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
Solferino (n.) A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.
Soli (n.) pl. of Solo.
Soli (pl. ) of Solo
Solicit (v. t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
Solicit (v. t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.
Solicit (v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.
Solicit (v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.
Solicit (v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
Solicitant (n.) One who solicits.
Solicitate (a.) Solicitous.
Solicited (imp. & p. p.) of Solicit
Soliciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solicit
Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney.
Solicitor (n.) One who solicits.
Solicitor (n.) The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
Solicitor-general (n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain; also, a similar officer under the United States government, who is associated with the attorney-general; also, the chief law officer of some of the States.
Solicitous (v. t.) Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
Solicitress (n.) A woman who solicits.
Solicitude (n.) The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Solid (a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
Solid (a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
Solid (a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
Solid (a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
Solid (a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
Solid (a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
Solid (a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
Solid (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
Solid (a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.
Solid (a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
Solid (n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
Solid (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
Solidago (n.) A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.
Solidare (n.) A small piece of money.
Solidarity (n.) An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.
Solidary (a.) Having community of interests and responsibilities.
Solidate (v. t.) To make solid or firm.
Solidifiable (a.) Capable of being solidified.
Solidification (n.) Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.
Solidified (imp. & p. p.) of Solidify
Solidify (v. i.) To become solid; to harden.
Solidify (v. t.) To make solid or compact.
Solidifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solidify
Solidism (n.) The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
Solidist (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism.
Solidity (n.) Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.
Solidity (n.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.
Solidly (adv.) In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
Solidness (n.) Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
Solidness (n.) State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.
Solidungula (n. pl.) A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidae.
Solidungular (a.) Solipedous.
Solidungulate (n.) Same as Soliped.
Solidungulous (a.) Solipedous.
Solifidian (a.) Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.
Solifidian (n.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian.
Solifidianism (n.) The state of Solifidians.
Soliform (a.) Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun.
Solifugae (n. pl.) A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.
Soliitariety (n.) The state of being solitary; solitariness.
Soliitation (n.) Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses.
Soliitation (n.) The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity.
Soliloquies (pl. ) of Soliloquy
Soliloquize (v. i.) To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.
Soliloquized (imp. & p. p.) of Soliloquize
Soliloquizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soliloquize
Soliloquy (n.) A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.
Soliloquy (n.) The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.
Soling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sole
Soliped (n.) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate.
Solipedous (a.) Having single hoofs.
Solipsism (n.) Egoism.
Solipsism (n.) Egotism.
Solisequious (a.) Following the course of the sun; as, solisequious plants.
Solitaire (n.) A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
Solitaire (n.) A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
Solitaire (n.) A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
Solitaire (n.) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
Solitarian (n.) A hermit; a solitary.
Solitarily (adv.) In a solitary manner; in solitude; alone.
Solitariness (n.) Condition of being solitary.
Solitary (a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
Solitary (a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
Solitary (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
Solitary (a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
Solitary (a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
Solitary (a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
Solitary (n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.
Solitude (a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
Solitude (a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
Solitude (a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Solivagant (a.) Wandering alone.
Solivagous (a.) Solivagant.
Sollar (n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.
Sollar (n.) See Solar, n.
Sollar (v. t.) To cover, or provide with, a sollar.
Sollein (a.) Sullen; sad.
Solleret (n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.
Solmization (n.) The act of sol-faing.
Solo (a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
Soloist (n.) One who sings or plays a solo.
Solomon (n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.
Solon (n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Solos (pl. ) of Solo
Solpugid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Solifugae.
Solpugid (n.) One of the Solifugae.
Solpugidea (n. pl.) Same as Solifugae.
Solstice (v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.
Solstice (v. i.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
Solstitial (a.) Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer.
Solstitial (a.) Of or pertaining to a solstice.
Solubility (n.) The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.
Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.
Soluble (a.) Relaxed; open or readily opened.
Soluble (a.) Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.
Soluble (a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.
Solubleness (n.) Quality or state of being soluble.
Solus (fem. a.) Alt. of Sola
Solute (a.) Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation.
Solute (a.) Not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.
Solute (a.) Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.
Solute (a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt.
Solute (v. t.) To absolve; as, to solute sin.
Solute (v. t.) To dissolve; to resolve.
Solution (n.) A crisis.
Solution (n.) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.
Solution (n.) release; deliverance; discharge.
Solution (n.) The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
Solution (n.) The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.
Solution (n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
Solution (n.) The termination of a disease; resolution.
Solutive (a.) Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.
Solvability (n.) The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.
Solvability (n.) The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.
Solvable (a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent.
Solvable (a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.
Solvable (a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
Solvableness (n.) Quality of being solvable.
Solve (n.) A solution; an explanation.
Solve (v. t.) To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
Solved (imp. & p. p.) of Solve
Solvency (n.) The quality or state of being solvent.
Solvend (n.) A substance to be dissolved.
Solvent (a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.
Solvent (a.) Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.
Solvent (n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.
Solvent (n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.
Solver (n.) One who, or that which, solves.
Solvible (a.) See Solvable.
Solving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solve
Soly (adv.) Solely.
Soma (n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
Somaj (n.) Alt. of Samaj
Somal (n.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.
Somali (n.) Alt. of Somal
Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.
Somatical (a.) Somatic.
Somatics (n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.
Somatist (n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.
Somatocyst (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Somatology (n.) A treatise on the human body; anatomy.
Somatology (n.) The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.
Somatome (n.) See Somite.
Somatopleure (n.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure.
Somatopleuric (a.) Of or pertaining to the somatopleure.
Somatotropism (n.) A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs.
Somber (a.) Alt. of Sombre
Somber (n.) Alt. of Sombre
Somber (v. t.) Alt. of Sombre
Somberly (adv.) Alt. of Sombrely
Somberness (n.) Alt. of Sombreness
Sombre (a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.
Sombre (v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady.
Sombrely (adv.) In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.
Sombreness (n.) The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
Sombrero (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America.
Sombrous (a.) Gloomy; somber.
Some (a.) A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man.
Some (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.
Some (a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence.
Some (a.) Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.
Some (a.) Considerable in number or quality.
Some (a.) Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
Some (a.) Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.
Somebody (n.) A person of consideration or importance.
Somebody (n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
Somedeal (adv.) In some degree; somewhat.
Somehow (adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.
Somersault (n.) Alt. of Somerset
Somerset (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Something (adv.) In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
Something (n.) A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
Something (n.) A person or thing importance.
Something (n.) Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
Sometime (a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Sometime (adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
Sometime (adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.
Sometime (adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.
Sometimes (a.) Former; sometime.
Sometimes (adv.) At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally.
Sometimes (adv.) Formerly; sometime.
Somewhat (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.
Somewhat (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Somewhat (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
Somewhen (adv.) At some indefinite time.
Somewhere (adv.) In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.
Somewhile (adv.) Once; for a time.
Somewhither (adv.) To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.
Somite (n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.
Sommeil (n.) Slumber; sleep.
Sommerset (n.) See Somersault.
Sommonour (n.) A summoner.
Somnambular (a.) Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.
Somnambulate (v. i. & t.) To walk when /sleep.
Somnambulation (n.) The act of walking in sleep.
Somnambulator (n.) A somnambulist.
Somnambule (n.) A somnambulist.
Somnambulic (a.) Somnambulistic.
Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
Somnambulist (n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Somnambulistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
Somne (v. t.) To summon.
Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
Somnial (a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.
Somniative (a.) Somnial; somniatory.
Somniatory (a.) Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial.
Somniculous (a.) Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy.
Somniferous (a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.
Somnific (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.
Somnifugous (a.) Driving away sleep.
Somniloquence (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
Somniloquist (n.) One who talks in his sleep.
Somniloquous (a.) Apt to talk in sleep.
Somniloquy (n.) A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.
Somnipathist (n.) A person in a state of somniapathy.
Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.
Somnolence (n.) Alt. of Somnolency
Somnolency (n.) Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Somnolent (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
Somnolism (n.) The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism.
Somnopathy (n.) Somnipathy.
Somnour (n.) A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour.
Somonaunce (n.) Alt. of Somonce
Somonce (n.) A summons; a citation.
Sompne (v. t.) To summon; to cite.
Sompnour (n.) A summoner.
Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
Son (n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.
Son (n.) A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.
Son (n.) Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent.
Son (n.) Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man.
Son (n.) The produce of anything.
Son-in-law (n.) The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.
Sonance (n.) A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.
Sonance (n.) The quality or state of being sonant.
Sonant (a.) Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
Sonant (n.) A sonant letter.
Sonata (n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.
Sonatina (n.) A short and simple sonata.
Soncy (a.) Alt. of Sonsy
Sond (v. t.) Alt. of Sonde
Sonde (v. t.) That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial.
Sondeli (n.) The musk shrew. See under Musk.
Song (n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
Song (n.) A trifle.
Song (n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
Song (n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
Song (n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
Song (n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
Songcraft (n.) The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification.
Songful (a.) Disposed to sing; full of song.
Songish (a.) Consisting of songs.
Songless (a.) Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
Songster (n.) A singing bird.
Songster (n.) One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.
Songstress (n.) A woman who sings; a female singing bird.
Sonifer (n.) A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
Sonification (n.) The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
Sonless (a.) Being without a son.
Sonnet (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
Sonnet (n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.
Sonnet (v. i.) To compose sonnets.
Sonneteer (n.) A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt.
Sonneteer (v. i.) To compose sonnets.
Sonneter (n.) A composer of sonnets.
Sonnetist (n.) A sonneter, or sonneteer.
Sonnetize (v. i.) To compose sonnets.
Sonnish (a.) Like the sun; sunny; golden.
Sonnite (n.) See Sunnite.
Sonometer (n.) An instrument for testing the hearing capacity.
Sonorific (a.) Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body.
Sonority (n.) The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
Sonorous (a.) Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
Sonorous (a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
Sonorous (a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
Sonorous (a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.
Sonorous (a.) Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
Sons-in-law (pl. ) of Son-in-law
Sonship (n.) The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.
Sonsy (a.) Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.
Sonsy (a.) See Soncy.
Sontag (n.) A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
Sonties (n.) Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath.
Soochong (n.) Same as Souchong.
Soodra () Same as Sudra.
Soofee () Alt. of Soofeeism
Soofeeism () Same as Sufi, Sufism.
Soojee (n.) Same as Suji.
Soon (a.) Speedy; quick.
Soon (adv.) In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise.
Soon (adv.) Promptly; quickly; easily.
Soon (adv.) Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.
Soon (adv.) Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.
Soonee (n.) See Sunnite.
Soonly (adv.) Soon.
Soord (n.) Skin of bacon.
Soorma (n.) A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.
Sooshong (n.) See Souchong.
Soosoo (n.) A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak.
Soot (a.) Alt. of Soote
Soot (v. t.) To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
Soote (a.) Sweet.
Sooted (imp. & p. p.) of Soot
Sooterkin (n.) A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme.
Sooth (a.) Augury; prognostication.
Sooth (a.) Blandishment; cajolery.
Sooth (a.) Truth; reality.
Sooth (superl.) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
Sooth (superl.) True; faithful; trustworthy.
Soothe (a.) To assent to as true.
Soothe (a.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
Soothe (a.) To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.
Soothed (imp. & p. p.) of Soothe
Soother (n.) One who, or that which, soothes.
Soothfast (a.) Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful.
Soothfast (adv.) Soothly; really; in fact.
Soothing () a. & n. from Soothe, v.
Soothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soothe
Soothingly (adv.) In a soothing manner.
Soothly (adv.) In truth; truly; really; verily.
Soothness (n.) Truth; reality.
Soothsay (n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.
Soothsay (n.) Omen; portent. Having
Soothsay (v. i.) To foretell; to predict.
Soothsayer (n.) A mantis.
Soothsayer (n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Soothsaying (n.) A true saying; truth.
Soothsaying (n.) The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
Sootiness (n.) The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.
Sooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soot
Sootish (a.) Sooty.
Sooty (superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
Sooty (superl.) Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
Sooty (v. t.) To black or foul with soot.
Sop (v. t.) A thing of little or no value.
Sop (v. t.) Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
Sop (v. t.) Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
Sop (v. t.) To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sope (n.) See Soap.
Soph (n.) A contraction of Soph ister.
Soph (n.) A contraction of Sophomore.
Sophi (n.) See Sufi.
Sophic (a.) Alt. of Sophical
Sophical (a.) Teaching wisdom.
Sophime (n.) Sophism.
Sophis (pl. ) of Sophi
Sophism (n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Sophister (n.) A sophist. See Sophist.
Sophister (n.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.
Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.
Sophistic (a.) Alt. of Sophistical
Sophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
Sophisticate (a.) Alt. of Sophisticated
Sophisticate (v. t.) To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.
Sophisticated (a.) Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
Sophisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticate
Sophisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sophisticate
Sophistication (n.) The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
Sophisticator (n.) One who sophisticates.
Sophistry (n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Sophomore (n.) One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman.
Sophomoric (a.) Alt. of Sophomorical
Sophomorical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation.
Sophora (n.) A genus of leguminous plants.
Sophora (n.) A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
Sophta (n.) See Softa.
Sopite (v. t.) To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.
Sopition (n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.
Sopor (n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.
Soporate (v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Soporific (n.) A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
Soporose (a.) Alt. of Soporous
Soporous (a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.
Sopped (imp. & p. p.) of Sop
Sopper (n.) One who sops.
Sopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sop
Soppy (a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
Sopra (adv.) Above; before; over; upon.
Soprani (pl. ) of Soprano
Sopranist (n.) A treble singer.
Soprano (n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Soprano (n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
Sopranos (pl. ) of Soprano
Sopsavine (n.) See Sops of wine, under Sop.
Sorance (n.) Soreness.
Sorb (n.) The fruit of these trees.
Sorb (n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
Sorbate (n.) A salt of sorbic acid.
Sorbefacient (a.) Producing absorption.
Sorbefacient (n.) A medicine or substance which produces absorption.
Sorbent (n.) An absorbent.
Sorbet (n.) A kind of beverage; sherbet.
Sorbic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Sorbile (a.) Fit to be drunk or sipped.
Sorbin (n.) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Sorbite (n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.
Sorbition (n.) The act of drinking or sipping.
Sorbonical (a.) Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
Sorcerer (n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.
Sorceress (n.) A female sorcerer.
Sorceries (pl. ) of Sorcery
Sorcering (n.) Act or practice of using sorcery.
Sorcerous (a.) Of or pertaining to sorcery.
Sorcery (n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Sord (n.) See Sward.
Sordes (n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.
Sordidness (n.) The quality or state of being sordid.
Sordiferous (a.) Alt. of Sorediiferous
Sordine (n.) See Damper, and 5th Mute.
Sore (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
Sore (a.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
Sore (n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
Sore (n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
Sore (n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.
Sore (superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.
Sore (superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Sore (superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
Sore (superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
Soredia (n.) pl. of Soredium.
Soredia (pl. ) of Soredium
Sorediate (a.) Sorediiferous.
Sorediiferous (a.) Bearing soredia; sorediate.
Soredium (n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.
Soree (n.) Same as Sora.
Sorehead (n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.
Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.
Sorel (n.) A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.
Sorel (n.) A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.
Sorely (adv.) In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.
Sorema (n.) A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.
Soreness (n.) The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.
Sorex (n.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.
Sorghum (n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).
Sorghum (n.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
Sorgne (n.) The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish.
Sorgo (n.) Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.
Sori (n.) pl. of Sorus.
Sori (pl. ) of Sorus
Soricine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidae); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).
Soritical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.
Sorn (v. i.) To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board.
Sorner (n.) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
Sororal (a.) Relating to a sister; sisterly.
Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister.
Sororize (v. i.) To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize.
Sorosis (n.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.
Sorosis (n.) A woman's club; an association of women.
Sorrage (n.) The blades of green or barley.
Sorrance (n.) Same as Sorance.
Sorrel (a.) Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
Sorrel (n.) A yellowish or redish brown color.
Sorrel (n.) One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc.
Sorrento work () Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.
Sorrily (adv.) In a sorry manner; poorly.
Sorriness (n.) The quality or state of being sorry.
Sorrow (n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.
Sorrow (n.) To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.
Sorrowed (a.) Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful.
Sorrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Sorrow
Sorrowful (a.) Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Sorry (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
Sorry (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
Sors (n.) A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sort (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
Sort (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
Sort (n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
Sort (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.
Sort (n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
Sort (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
Sort (n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
Sort (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
Sort (v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
Sort (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
Sort (v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
Sort (v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
Sort (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
Sort (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
Sortable (a.) Capable of being sorted.
Sortable (a.) Suitable; befitting; proper.
Sortably (adv.) Suitable.
Sortal (a.) Pertaining to a sort.
Sortance (v. i.) Suitableness; agreement.
Sorted (imp. & p. p.) of Sort
Sorter (n.) One who, or that which, sorts.
Sortes (n.) pl. of Sors.
Sortes (pl. ) of Sors
Sortie (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
Sortilege (n.) The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots.
Sortilegious (a.) Pertaining to sortilege.
Sortilegy (n.) Sortilege.
Sorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sort
Sortition (n.) Selection or appointment by lot.
Sortment (n.) Assortiment.
Sorus (n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.
Sorwe (n. & v.) Sorrow.
Sorweful (a.) Sorrowful.
Sory (n.) Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.
Soss (n.) A heavy fall.
Soss (n.) A lazy fellow.
Soss (n.) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
Soss (v. i.) To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.
Soss (v. t.) To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.
Sostenuto (a.) Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.
Sot (a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.
Sot (n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.
Sot (n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
Sot (v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.
Sot (v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
Sotadean (a.) Sotadic.
Sotadic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades.
Sotadic (n.) A Sotadic verse or poem.
Sote (a.) Sweet.
Sotel (a.) Alt. of Sotil
Soteriology (n.) A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
Soteriology (n.) The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.
Sothe (a.) Sooth.
Sothiac (a.) Alt. of Sothic
Sothic (a.) Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.
Sotil (a.) Subtile.
Sotilte (n.) Subtlety.
Sotted () a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted.
Sottery (n.) Folly.
Sottish (a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.
Sotto voce () Spoken low or in an undertone.
Sotto voce () With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.
Sou (n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.
Souari nut () The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut.
Soubah (n.) See Subah.
Soubahdar (n.) See Subahdar.
Soubrette (n.) A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.
Soubriquet (n.) See Sobriquet.
Souce (n.) See 1st Souse.
Souce (v. t. & i.) See Souse.
Souchong (n.) A kind of black tea of a fine quality.
Soudan (n.) A sultan.
Souded (a.) Alt. of Soudet
Soudet (a.) United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened.
Souffle (n.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.
Souffle (n.) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.
Sough (n.) A small drain; an adit.
Sough (n.) A sow.
Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
Sough (v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.
Sough (v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Sought () imp. & p. p. of Seek.
Sought (imp. & p. p.) of Seek
Souir (v. t.) To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost.
Souke (v. t. & i.) To suck.
Soul (a.) Sole.
Soul (a.) Sole.
Soul (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
Soul (n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.
Soul (n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
Soul (n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
Soul (n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
Soul (v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.
Soul (v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
Souled (a.) Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector.
Soulili (n.) A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.
Soulless (a.) Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.
Soullessly (adv.) In a soulless manner.
Soun (n. & v.) Sound.
Sound (adv.) Soundly.
Sound (n.) A cuttlefish.
Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound.
Sound (n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
Sound (n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
Sound (superl.) Firm; strong; safe.
Sound (superl.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
Sound (superl.) Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
Sound (superl.) Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
Sound (superl.) Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.
Sound (superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.
Sound (superl.) Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.
Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Sound (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
Sound (v. i.) To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
Sound (v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
Sound (v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
Sound (v. t.) To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
Sound (v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
Sound (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
Sound (v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.
Sound (v. t.) To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.
Sound (v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
Sound (v. t.) To signify; to import; to denote.
Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board.
Soundable (a.) Capable of being sounded.
Soundage (n.) Dues for soundings.
Sounded (imp. & p. p.) of Sound
Sounder (n.) A herd of wild hogs.
Sounder (n.) One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
Sounding (a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
Sounding (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
Sounding (n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
Sounding (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
Sounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sound
Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
Soundless (a.) Having no sound; noiseless; silent.
Soundless (a.) Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
Soundly (adv.) In a sound manner.
Soundness (n.) The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
Soune (v. t. & i.) To sound.
Sounst (a.) Soused. See Souse.
Soup (n.) A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
Soup (v. t.) To breathe out.
Soup (v. t.) To sup or swallow.
Soup (v. t.) To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.
Soupe-maigre (n.) Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
Souple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.
Soupy (a.) Resembling soup; souplike.
Sour (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
Sour (superl.) Afflictive; painful.
Sour (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
Sour (superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
Sour (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
Sour (superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
Sour (v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
Sour (v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
Sour (v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
Sour (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
Sour (v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
Sour (v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
Source (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
Source (n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
Sourcrout (n.) See Sauerkraut.
Sourde (v. i.) To have origin or source; to rise; to spring.
Soursop (n.) The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.
Sourt (n.) A shoot; a bud.
Sourt (n.) A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.
Sourt (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.
Sourwood (n.) The sorrel tree.
Sous (n.) Alt. of Souse
Sous (pl. ) of Sou
Souse (adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently.
Souse (n.) A corrupt form of Sou.
Souse (n.) Pickle made with salt.
Souse (n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
Souse (n.) The act of sousing, or swooping.
Souse (n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
Souse (n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
Souse (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
Souse (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
Souse (v. t.) To pounce upon.
Souse (v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.
Souse (v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
Soused (imp. & p. p.) of Souse
Sousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Souse
Souslik (n.) See Suslik.
Sout (n.) Soot.
Soutache (n.) A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.
Soutage (n.) That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops.
Soutane (n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.
Souter (n.) A shoemaker; a cobbler.
Souterly (a.) Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
Souterrain (n.) A grotto or cavern under ground.
South (a.) Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
South (adv.) From the south; as, the wind blows south.
South (adv.) Toward the south; southward.
South (n.) A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.
South (n.) Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
South (n.) That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
South (n.) The wind from the south.
South (v. i.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
South (v. i.) To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
South southerly () the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
Southcottian (n.) A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
Southdown (a.) Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.
Southdown (n.) A Southdown sheep.
Southeast (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind.
Southeast (n.) The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
Southeaster (adv.) Toward the southeast.
Southeaster (n.) A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.
Southeastern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
Southeastward (adv.) Alt. of Southeastwardly
Southeastwardly (adv.) Toward the southeast.
Southed (imp. & p. p.) of South
Souther (n.) A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
Southerliness (n.) The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.
Southerly (a.) Southern.
Southern (a.) Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
Southern (n.) A Southerner.
Southerner (n.) An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
Southernliness (n.) Southerliness.
Southernly (a.) Somewhat southern.
Southernly (adv.) In a southerly manner or course; southward.
Southernmost (a.) Farthest south.
Southernwood (n.) A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
Southing (n.) Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.
Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing.
Southing (n.) Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun.
Southing (n.) The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place.
Southing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of South
Southly (adv.) Southerly.
Southmost (a.) Farthest toward the south; southernmost.
Southness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.
Southren (a.) Southern.
Southron (n.) An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.
Southsay (v. i.) See Soothsay.
Southsayer (n.) See Soothsayer.
Southward (a.) Toward the south.
Southward (adv.) Alt. of Southwards
Southward (n.) The southern regions or countries; the south.
Southwardly (adv.) In a southern direction.
Southwards (adv.) Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.
Southwest (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
Southwest (n.) The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
Southwester (n.) A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.
Southwester (n.) A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.
Southwesterly (a.) To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
Southwestern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.
Southwestward (adv.) Alt. of Southwestwardly
Southwestwardly (adv.) Toward the southwest.
Souvenance (n.) Alt. of Sovenaunce
Souvenir (n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
Sovenaunce (n.) Remembrance.
Sovereign (a.) Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
Sovereign (a.) Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
Sovereign (a.) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
Sovereign (a.) Princely; royal.
Sovereign (a.) Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
Sovereign (n.) A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.
Sovereign (n.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
Sovereign (n.) The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
Sovereignize (v. i.) To exercise supreme authority.
Sovereignly (adv.) In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely.
Sovereignties (pl. ) of Sovereignty
Sovran (a.) A variant of Sovereign.
Sow (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
Sow (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
Sow (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
Sow (n.) A sow bug.
Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
Sow (n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
Sow (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Sow (v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
Sow (v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
Sow (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
Sowans (n. pl.) See Sowens.
Sowar (n.) In India, a mounted soldier.
Sowbane (n.) The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.
Sowce (n. & v.) See Souse.
Sowdan (n.) Sultan.
Sowdanesse (n.) A sultaness.
Sowed () of Sow
Sowed (imp.) of Sow
Sowens (n. pl.) A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England.
Sower (n.) One who, or that which, sows.
Sowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sow
Sowins (n. pl.) See Sowens.
Sowl (v. i.) See Soul, v. i.
Sowl (v. t.) Alt. of Sowle
Sowle (v. t.) To pull by the ears; to drag about.
Sown () p. p. of Sow.
Sown (p. p.) of Sow
Sowne (v. t. & i.) To sound.
Sowse (n. & v.) See Souse.
Sowter (n.) See Souter.
Soy (n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
Soy (n.) The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.
Soyle (n.) Prey.
Soyle (v. t.) To solve, to clear up; as, to soyl all other texts.
Soyned (a.) Filled with care; anxious.
Sozzle (n.) A mass, or heap, confusedly mingled.
Sozzle (n.) One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman.
Sozzle (v. t.) To heap up in confusion.
Sozzle (v. t.) To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water.
Spa (n.) A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.
Spaad (n.) A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus.
Space (n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
Space (n.) A short time; a while.
Space (n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.
Space (n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
Space (n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
Space (n.) Place, having more or less extension; room.
Space (n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.
Space (n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.
Space (n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Space (n.) To walk; to rove; to roam.
Space (n.) Walk; track; path; course.
Spaced (imp. & p. p.) of Space
Spaceful (a.) Wide; extensive.
Spacelate (v. i.) To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
Spaceless (a.) Without space.
Spacial (a.) See Spatial.
Spacially (adv.) See Spatially.
Spacious (n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent.
Spacious (n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.
Spacong (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Space
Spadassin (n.) A bravo; a bully; a duelist.
Spaddle (n.) A little spade.
Spade (n.) A castrated man or beast.
Spade (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Spade (n.) A hart or stag three years old.
Spade (n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
Spade (n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
Spade (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Spadebone (n.) Shoulder blade.
Spaded (imp. & p. p.) of Spade
Spadefish (n.) An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
Spadefoot (n.) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.
Spadeful (n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.
Spadefuls (pl. ) of Spadeful
Spader (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
Spadiceous (a.) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.
Spadiceous (a.) Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.
Spadices (pl. ) of Spadix
Spadicose (a.) Spadiceous.
Spadille (n.) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.
Spading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spade
Spadix (n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.
Spadix (n.) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.
Spadixes (pl. ) of Spadix
Spado (n.) An impotent person.
Spado (n.) Same as Spade, 2.
Spadones (pl. ) of Spado
Spadroon (n.) A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.
Spae (v. i.) To foretell; to divine.
Spaed (imp. & p. p.) of Spae
Spaeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spae
Spaeman (n.) A prophet; a diviner.
Spaewife (n.) A female fortune teller.
Spaghetti (n.) A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.
Spagyric (a.) Alt. of Spagyrical
Spagyric (n.) A spagyrist.
Spagyrical (a.) Chemical; alchemical.
Spagyrist (n.) A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits.
Spagyrist (n.) One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists.
Spahee (n.) An Algerian cavalryman in the French army.
Spahee (n.) Formerly, one of the Turkish cavalry.
Spahi (n.) Alt. of Spahee
Spaid (n.) See 1st Spade.
Spake () imp. of Speak.
Spake () of Speak
Spakenet (n.) A net for catching crabs.
Spaky (a.) Specky.
Spalding knife () A spalting knife.
Spale (n.) A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
Spale (n.) A strengthening cross timber.
Spall (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
Spall (n.) The shoulder.
Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
Spall (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.
Spalt (a.) Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
Spalt (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
Spalt (a.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.
Spalt (n.) Spelter.
Spalting knife () A knife used in splitting codfish.
Span () imp. & p. p. of Spin.
Span (imp.) of Spin
Span (v. i.) To be matched, as horses.
Span (v. t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
Span (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
Span (v. t.) Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
Span (v. t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
Span (v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.
Span (v. t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
Span (v. t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
Span (v. t.) To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
Span-new (a.) Quite new; brand-new; fire-new.
Spanaemia (n.) A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.
Spanaemic (a.) Of or pertaining to spanaemia; having impoverished blood.
Spancel (n.) A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow.
Spancel (v. t.) To tie or hobble with a spancel.
Spanceled (imp. & p. p.) of Spancel
Spanceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spancel
Spancelled () of Spancel
Spancelling () of Spancel
Spandogs (n. pl.) A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.
Spandrel (n.) A narrow mat or passe partout for a picture.
Spandrel (n.) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.
Spane (v. t.) To wean.
Spang (n.) A bound or spring.
Spang (n.) A spangle or shining ornament.
Spang (v. i.) To spring; to bound; to leap.
Spang (v. t.) To spangle.
Spangle (n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.
Spangle (n.) Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless.
Spangle (v. i.) To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.
Spangle (v. t.) To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.
Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.
Spaniel (v. i.) To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.
Spaniel (v. t.) To follow like a spaniel.
Spanish (a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
Spanish (n.) The language of Spain.
Spank (n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.
Spank (v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
Spank (v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
Spanked (imp. & p. p.) of Spank
Spanker (n.) A small coin.
Spanker (n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
Spanker (n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.
Spanker (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.
Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
Spanking (a.) Large; considerable.
Spanking (a.) Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.
Spanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spank
Spanking breeze () a strong breeze.
Spanless (a.) Incapable of being spanned.
Spanned (imp. & p. p.) of Span
Spanner (n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
Spanner (n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.
Spanner (n.) One who, or that which, spans.
Spanner (n.) The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.
Spanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Span
Spannishing (n.) The full blooming of a flower.
Spanpiece (n.) The collar of a roof; sparpiece.
Spanworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.
Spar (n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
Spar (n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
Spar (n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
Spar (v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.
Spar (v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
Spar (v. i.) To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
Spar (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
Spar (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
Spar (v. t.) The bar of a gate or door.
Spar (v. t.) To bolt; to bar.
Spar (v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
Spar-hung (a.) Hung with spar, as a cave.
Sparable (n.) A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.
Sparada (n.) A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.
Sparadrap (n.) A cerecloth.
Sparadrap (n.) Any adhesive plaster.
Sparage (n.) Alt. of Sparagrass
Sparagrass (n.) Obs. or corrupt forms of Asparagus.
Sparagus (n.) Alt. of Sparagrass
Sparble (v. t.) To scatter; to disperse; to rout.
Spare (a.) To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
Spare (a.) To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
Spare (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
Spare (a.) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
Spare (a.) To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
Spare (n.) An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
Spare (n.) Parsimony; frugal use.
Spare (n.) That which has not been used or expended.
Spare (n.) The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
Spare (v. i.) To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
Spare (v. i.) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
Spare (v. i.) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
Spare (v. t.) Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.
Spare (v. t.) Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
Spareness (n.) The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.
Sparer (n.) One who spares.
Sparerib (n.) A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.
Sparge (v. t.) To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.
Spargefaction (n.) The act of sprinkling.
Sparger (n.) A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.
Sparhawk (n.) The sparrow hawk.
Sparing (a.) Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.
Sparing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spare
Spark (n.) A brisk, showy, gay man.
Spark (n.) A lover; a gallant; a beau.
Spark (n.) A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.
Spark (n.) A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
Spark (n.) That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle.
Spark (v. i.) To play the spark, beau, or lover.
Spark (v. i.) To sparkle.
Sparker (n.) A spark arrester.
Sparkful (a.) Lively; brisk; gay.
Sparkish (a.) Like a spark; airy; gay.
Sparkish (a.) Showy; well-dresed; fine.
Sparkle (n.) A little spark; a scintillation.
Sparkle (n.) Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
Sparkle (n.) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.
Sparkle (n.) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
Sparkle (n.) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
Sparkle (v. t.) To disperse.
Sparkle (v. t.) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
Sparkle (v. t.) To scatter on or over.
Sparkled (imp. & p. p.) of Sparkle
Sparkler (n.) A tiger beetle.
Sparkler (n.) One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
Sparling (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Sparlyre (n.) The calf of the leg.
Sparoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream.
Sparoid (n.) One of the Sparidae.
Sparpiece (n.) The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece.
Sparpoil (v. t.) To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
Sparred (imp. & p. p.) of Spar
Sparring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spar
Sparrow (n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.
Sparrowgrass (n.) Asparagus.
Sparrowwort (n.) An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica (E. passerina).
Sparry (a.) Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose.
Sparse (superl.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
Sparse (superl.) Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
Sparse (v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.
Sparsedly (adv.) Sparsely.
Sparsely (adv.) In a scattered or sparse manner.
Sparseness (n.) The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.
Sparsim (adv.) Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.
Spartan (a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
Spartan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.
Sparteine (n.) A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.
Sparth (n.) An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd.
Sparve (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Spary (a.) Sparing; parsimonious.
Spasm (v. t.) A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
Spasm (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
Spasmatical (a.) Spasmodic.
Spasmodic (a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
Spasmodic (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
Spasmodic (n.) A medicine for spasm.
Spasmodical (a.) Same as Spasmodic, a.
Spastic (a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
Spastically (adv.) Spasmodically.
Spasticity (n.) A state of spasm.
Spasticity (n.) The tendency to, or capability of suffering, spasm.
Spat () imp. of Spit.
Spat () of Spit
Spat (n.) A light blow with something flat.
Spat (n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
Spat (n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
Spat (v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
Spat (v. i.) To dispute.
Spat (v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
Spatangoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea.
Spatangoid (n.) One of the Spatangoidea.
Spatangoidea (n. pl.) An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.
Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
Spatchcock (n.) See Spitchcock.
Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
Spatha (n.) A spathe.
Spathaceous (a.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.
Spathae (pl. ) of Spatha
Spathal (a.) Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.
Spathe (n.) A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.
Spathed (a.) Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.
Spathic (a.) Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.
Spathiform (a.) Resembling spar in form.
Spathose (a.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.
Spathose (a.) See Spathic.
Spathous (a.) Spathose.
Spathulate (a.) See Spatulate.
Spatial (a.) Of or pertaining to space.
Spatially (adv.) As regards space.
Spatiate (v. t.) To rove; to ramble.
Spatted (imp. & p. p.) of Spat
Spatter (v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
Spatter (v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
Spatter (v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
Spatter (v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
Spatter-dock (n.) The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).
Spatterdashed (a.) Wearing spatterdashes.
Spatterdashes (n. pl.) Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
Spattered (imp. & p. p.) of Spatter
Spattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spatter
Spatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spat
Spattle (n.) A spatula.
Spattle (n.) A tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter
Spattle (n.) Spawl; spittle.
Spattling-poppy (n.) A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.
Spatula (n.) An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
Spatulate (a.) Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
Spauld (n.) The shoulder.
Spavin (n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.
Spavined (a.) Affected with spavin.
Spaw (n.) See Spa.
Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.
Spawl (n.) Scattered or ejected spittle.
Spawl (v. i. & t.) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.
Spawled (imp. & p. p.) of Spawl
Spawling (n.) That which is spawled, or spit out.
Spawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spawl
Spawn (v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Spawn (v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
Spawn (v. t.) The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
Spawn (v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
Spawn (v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
Spawn (v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
Spawned (imp. & p. p.) of Spawn
Spawner (n.) A mature female fish.
Spawner (n.) Whatever produces spawn of any kind.
Spawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spawn
Spay (v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.
Spay (v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
Spayad (n.) Alt. of Spayade
Spayade (n.) A spay.
Spayed (imp. & p. p.) of Spay
Spaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spay
Speak (v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
Speak (v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Speak (v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
Speak (v. i.) To give sound; to sound.
Speak (v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
Speak (v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Speak (v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Speak (v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
Speak (v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
Speak (v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
Speak (v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
Speakable (a.) Able to speak.
Speakable (a.) Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.
Speaker (n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Speaker (n.) One who speaks.
Speaker (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
Speakership (n.) The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
Speaking (a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.
Speaking (a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
Speaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak
Spear (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.
Spear (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals.
Spear (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
Spear (n.) Fig.: A spearman.
Spear (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4.
Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
Spear (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire.
Spear (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.
Speared (imp. & p. p.) of Spear
Spearer (n.) One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish.
Spearfish (n.) A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean.
Spearfish (n.) The carp sucker.
Spearhead (n.) The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
Spearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spear
Spearman (n.) One who is armed with a spear.
Spearmen (pl. ) of Spearman
Spearmint (n.) A species of mint (Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
Spearwood (n.) An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
Spearwort (n.) A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves.
Speary (a.) Having the form of a spear.
Spece (n.) Species; kind.
Specht (n.) A woodpecker.
Special (a.) Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon.
Special (a.) Chief in excellence.
Special (a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.
Special (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.
Special (a.) Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.
Special (n.) A particular.
Special (n.) One appointed for a special service or occasion.
Specialism (n.) Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
Specialist (n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
Specialities (pl. ) of Speciality
Speciality (n.) A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
Speciality (n.) An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
Speciality (n.) See Specialty, 3.
Speciality (n.) The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty.
Specialization (n.) The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
Specialization (n.) The setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function.
Specialize (v. t.) To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge.
Specialize (v. t.) To mention specially; to particularize.
Specialize (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions.
Specially (adv.) For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.
Specially (adv.) In a special manner; particularly; especially.
Specialties (pl. ) of Specialty
Specialty (n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
Specialty (n.) A particular or peculiar case.
Specialty (n.) Particularity.
Specialty (n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
Specie () abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.
Specie (n.) Coin; hard money.
Species (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
Species (n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.
Species (n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
Species (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
Species (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
Species (n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
Species (n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.
Species (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
Specifiable (a.) Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
Specific (a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
Specific (a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
Specific (a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
Specific (n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.
Specifical (a.) Specific.
Specifically (adv.) In a specific manner.
Specificalness (n.) The quality of being specific.
Specificate (v. t.) To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.
Specification (n.) The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
Specification (n.) The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.
Specified (imp. & p. p.) of Specify
Specify (v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.
Specifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Specify
Speciocities (pl. ) of Speciosity
Speciosity (n.) That which is specious.
Speciosity (n.) The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.
Specious (a.) Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
Specious (a.) Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
Speck (n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
Speck (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
Speck (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
Speck (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
Speck (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
Specked (imp. & p. p.) of Speck
Specking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speck
Speckle (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
Speckle (v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
Speckled (a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.
Speckled (imp. & p. p.) of Speckle
Speckled-belly (n.) The gadwall.
Speckled-bill (n.) The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
Speckledness (n.) The quality of being speckled.
Speckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speckle
Specksioneer (n.) The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.
Speckt (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Specollum (n.) See Stylet, 2.
Spectacle (n.) A spy-glass; a looking-glass.
Spectacle (n.) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
Spectacle (n.) Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
Spectacle (n.) Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
Spectacled (a.) Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.
Spectacled (a.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.
Spectacular (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
Spectacular (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
Spectacular (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
Spectant (a.) Looking forward.
Spectation (n.) Regard; aspect; appearance.
Spectator (n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.
Spectatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectator.
Spectatorship (n.) The act of beholding.
Spectatorship (n.) The office or quality of a spectator.
Spectatress (n.) Alt. of Spectatrix
Spectatrix (n.) A female beholder or looker-on.
Specter (n.) Alt. of Spectre
Spectioneer (n.) Same as Specsioneer.
Spectra (pl. ) of Spectrum
Spectral (a.) Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.
Spectral (a.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.
Spectrally (adv.) In the form or manner of a specter.
Spectre (n.) A stick insect.
Spectre (n.) See Specter.
Spectre (n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
Spectre (n.) The tarsius.
Spectrological (a.) Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.
Spectrology (n.) The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.
Spectrometer (n.) A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.
Spectrophotometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.
Spectroscopic (a.) Alt. of Spectroscopical
Spectroscopical (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy.
Spectroscopist (n.) One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.
Spectroscopy (n.) The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.
Spectrum (n.) An apparition; a specter.
Specula (pl. ) of Speculum
Specular (a.) Affording view.
Specular (a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
Specular (a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.
Specular (a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
Speculate (v. i.) To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.
Speculate (v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
Speculate (v. t.) To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
Speculated (imp. & p. p.) of Speculate
Speculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speculate
Speculation (n.) A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
Speculation (n.) Examination by the eye; view.
Speculation (n.) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
Speculation (n.) Power of sight.
Speculation (n.) The act of speculating.
Speculation (n.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
Speculatist (n.) One who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist.
Speculative (a.) Given to speculation; contemplative.
Speculative (a.) Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
Speculator (n.) One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
Speculator (n.) One who forms theories; a theorist.
Speculator (n.) One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
Speculatory (a.) Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.
Speculist (n.) One who observes or considers; an observer.
Speculum (n.) A bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
Speculum (n.) A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archaeology.
Speculum (n.) A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below.
Speculum (n.) An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations.
Speculum (pl. ) of Speculum
Sped () imp. & p. p. of Speed.
Sped (imp. & p. p.) of Speed
Speece (n.) Species; sort.
Speech (n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
Speech (n.) formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
Speech (n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.
Speech (n.) ny declaration of thoughts.
Speech (n.) Talk; mention; common saying.
Speech (n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
Speech (v. i. & t.) To make a speech; to harangue.
Speechful (a.) Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
Speechification (n.) The act of speechifying.
Speechified (imp. & p. p.) of Speechify
Speechifier (n.) One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer.
Speechify (v. i.) To make a speech; to harangue.
Speechifying (n.) The act of making a speech or speeches.
Speechifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speechify
Speeching (n.) The act of making a speech.
Speechless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
Speechless (a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Speechmaker (n.) One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
Speed (n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
Speed (n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
Speed (n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
Speed (n.) To be expedient.
Speed (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
Speed (n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
Speed (n.) To go; to fare.
Speed (n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
Speed (v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
Speed (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
Speed (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
Speed (v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
Speed (v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Speeded () of Speed
Speeder (n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
Speeder (n.) One who, or that which, speeds.
Speedful (a.) Full of speed (in any sense).
Speedfully (adv.) In a speedful manner.
Speedily (adv.) In a speedy manner.
Speediness (n.) The quality or state of being speedy.
Speeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speed
Speedless (a.) Being without speed.
Speedwell (n.) Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
Speedy (superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
Speer (n.) A sphere.
Speer (v. t.) To ask.
Speet (v. t.) To stab.
Speight (n.) A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight.
Speir (v. i.) To ask. See Spere.
Speiskobalt (n.) Smaltite.
Speiss (n.) A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.
Spekboom (n.) The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.
Speke (v. i. & t.) To speak.
Spekehouse (n.) The parlor or reception room of a convent.
Speking (n.) Public declamation; oratory.
Speking (n.) The act of uttering words.
Spelding (n.) A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.
Spelicans (n. pl.) See Spilikin.
Spelk (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
Spell (n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
Spell (n.) A spelk, or splinter.
Spell (n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
Spell (n.) A story; a tale.
Spell (n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
Spell (n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
Spell (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
Spell (v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
Spell (v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
Spell (v. t.) To constitute; to measure.
Spell (v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
Spell (v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
Spell (v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
Spell (v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
Spell (v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.
Spellable (a.) Capable of being spelt.
Spellbound (a.) Bound by, or as by, a spell.
Spelled (imp. & p. p.) of Spell
Spelled (imp. & p. p.) of Spell
Speller (n.) A spelling book.
Speller (n.) One who spells.
Spellful (a.) Abounding in spells, or charms.
Spelling (a.) Of or pertaining to spelling.
Spelling (n.) The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
Spelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
Spelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
Spellken (n.) A theater.
Spellwork (n.) Power or effect of magic; that which is wrought by magic; enchantment.
Spelt () imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
Spelt () of Spell
Spelt (n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
Spelt (n.) Spelter.
Spelt (v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
Spelter (n.) Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.
Spelunc (n.) A cavern; a cave.
Spence (n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
Spence (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
Spencer (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
Spencer (n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
Spend (v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.
Spend (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.
Spend (v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
Spend (v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
Spend (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
Spend (v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
Spend (v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
Spender (n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
Spending (n.) The act of expending; expenditure.
Spending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spend
Spendthrift (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Spendthrift (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
Spendthrifty (a.) Spendthrift; prodigal.
Spenserian (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."
Spent (a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
Spent (a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
Spent (imp. & p. p.) of Spend
Sper (v. t.) Alt. of Sperre
Sperable (a.) Within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for.
Sperable (n.) See Sperable.
Sperage (n.) Asperagus.
Sperate (a.) Hoped for, or to be hoped for.
Spere (n.) A sphere.
Spere (v. i.) To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
Sperge (n.) A charge of wash for the still.
Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.
Sperling (n.) A young herring.
Sperm (n.) Spermaceti.
Sperm (n.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.
Spermalist (n.) See Spermist.
Spermaphore (n.) That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.
Spermary (n.) An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
Spermatheca (n.) A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.
Spermathecae (pl. ) of Spermatheca
Spermatia (pl. ) of Spermatium
Spermatic (a.) Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.
Spermatical (a.) Spermatic.
Spermatin (n.) A substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.
Spermatism (n.) The emission of sperm, or semen.
Spermatium (n.) One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
Spermatize (v. i.) To yield seed; to emit seed, or sperm.
Spermato- () Alt. of Spermo-
Spermatoa (pl. ) of Spermatoon
Spermatoblast (n.) Same as Spermoblast.
Spermatocyte (n.) Same as Spermoblast.
Spermatogemma (n.) Same as Spermosphere.
Spermatogenesis (n.) The development of the spermatozoids.
Spermatogenetic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.
Spermatogenous (a.) Sperm-producing.
Spermatogonium (n.) A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.
Spermatoid (a.) Spermlike; resembling sperm, or semen.
Spermatoon (n.) A spermoblast.
Spermatophore (n.) A capsule or pocket inclosing a number of spermatozoa. They are present in many annelids, brachiopods, mollusks, and crustaceans. In cephalopods the structure of the capsule is very complex.
Spermatophore (n.) Same as Spermospore.
Spermatophorous (a.) Producing seed, or sperm; seminiferous; as, the so-called spermatophorous cells.
Spermatorrhea (n.) Alt. of Spermatorrhoea
Spermatorrhoea (n.) Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.
Spermatospore (n.) Same as Spermospore.
Spermatozoa (pl. ) of Spermatozoon
Spermatozooid (n.) A spermatozoid.
Spermatozoon (n.) Same as Spermatozoid.
Spermic (a.) Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.
Spermidia (pl. ) of Spermidium
Spermidium (n.) An achenium.
Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
Spermo- () Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.
Spermoblast (n.) One of the cells formed by the division of the spermospore, each of which is destined to become a spermatozoid; a spermatocyte; a spermatoblast.
Spermococcus (n.) The nucleus of the sperm cell.
Spermoderm (n.) The covering of a seed; -- sometimes limited to the outer coat or testa.
Spermogonium (n.) A conceptacle of certain lichens, which contains spermatia.
Spermologist (n.) One who treats of, or collects, seeds.
Spermophile (n.) Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; a gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.
Spermophore (n.) A spermatophore.
Spermophyta (n. pl.) Plants which produce seed; phaenogamia. These plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.
Spermophyte (n.) Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace ph/nogam.
Spermophytic (a.) Capable of producing seeds; ph/nogamic.
Spermoplasma (n.) The protoplasm of the sperm cell.
Spermosphere (n.) A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma.
Spermospore (n.) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore.
Spermule (n.) A sperm cell.
Sperre (v. t.) To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten.
Sperrylite (n.) An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.
Sperse (v. t.) To disperse.
Spessartite (n.) A manganesian variety of garnet.
Spet (n.) Spittle.
Spet (v. t.) To spit; to throw out.
Spetches (n. pl.) Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.
Spew (n.) That which is vomited; vomit.
Spew (v. i.) To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
Spew (v. i.) To vomit.
Spew (v. t.) To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
Spew (v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
Spewed (imp. & p. p.) of Spew
Spewer (n.) One who spews.
Spewiness (n.) The state of being spewy.
Spewing (p. pr.& vb. n.) of Spew
Spewy (a.) Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.
Sphacel (n.) Gangrene.
Sphacelate (a.) Alt. of Sphacelated
Sphacelate (v. t.) To affect with gangrene.
Sphacelated (a.) Affected with gangrene; mortified.
Sphacelated (imp. & p. p.) of Spacelate
Sphacelating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spacelate
Sphacelation (n.) The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.
Sphacelus (n.) Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.
Sphaerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of thin-walled rounded cells, -- a modification of parenchyma.
Sphaeridia (pl. ) of Sphaeridium
Sphaeridium (n.) A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ.
Sphaerospore (n.) One of the nonsexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.
Sphaerulite (n.) Same as Spherulite.
Sphagnicolous (a.) Growing in moss of the genus Sphagnum.
Sphagnous (a.) Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.
Sphagnum (n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.
Sphalerite (n.) Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).
Sphene (n.) A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite.
Sphenethmoid (a.) Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal.
Sphenethmoid (n.) The sphenethmoid bone.
Sphenethmoidal (a.) Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.
Spheniscan (n.) Any species of penguin.
Spheno- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.
Sphenodon (n.) Same as Hatteria.
Sphenoethmoidal (a.) Sphenethmoid.
Sphenogram (n.) A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.
Sphenographer (n.) One skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist.
Sphenographic (a.) Of or pertaining to sphenography.
Sphenographist (n.) A sphenographer.
Sphenography (n.) The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters.
Sphenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.
Sphenoid (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.
Sphenoid (n.) A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
Sphenoid (n.) The sphenoid bone.
Sphenoidal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a sphenoid.
Sphenoidal (a.) Sphenoid.
Sphenotic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the sphenotic bone.
Sphenotic (n.) The sphenotic bone.
Spheral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.
Spheral (a.) Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.
Sphere (n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
Sphere (n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
Sphere (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
Sphere (n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
Sphere (n.) Rank; order of society; social positions.
Sphere (n.) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
Sphere (v. t.) To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
Sphere (v. t.) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
Sphered (imp. & p. p.) of Sphere
Spheric (a.) Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.
Spheric (a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere.
Spheric (a.) Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.
Spherical (a.) Alt. of Spheric
Sphericity (n.) The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.
Sphericle (n.) A small sphere.
Spherics (n.) The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.
Sphering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sphere
Spherobacteria (n. pl.) See the Note under Microbacteria.
Spheroconic (n.) A nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.
Spheroid (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.
Spheroidal (a.) Having the form of a spheroid.
Spheroidic (a.) Alt. of Spheroidical
Spheroidical (a.) See Spheroidal.
Spheroidicity (n.) Alt. of Spheroidity
Spheroidity (n.) The quality or state of being spheroidal.
Spheromere (n.) Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.
Spherometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.
Spherosiderite (n.) Siderite occuring in spheroidal masses.
Spherosome (n.) The body wall of any radiate animal.
Spherulate (a.) Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.
Spherule (n.) A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.
Spherulite (n.) A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.
Spherulitic (a.) Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.
Sphery (a.) Of or pertaining to the spheres.
Sphery (a.) Round; spherical; starlike.
Sphex (n.) Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand.
Sphigmometer (n.) See Sphygmometer.
Sphincter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle.
Sphincter (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.
Sphingid (a.) Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae.
Sphingid (n.) A sphinx.
Sphinx (n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
Sphinx (n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
Sphinx (n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
Sphinx (n.) On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
Sphinx (n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
Sphragide (n.) Lemnian earth.
Sphragistics (n.) The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents.
Sphrigosis (n.) A condition of vegetation in which there is too abundant growth of the stem and leaves, accompanied by deficiency of flowers and fruit.
Sphygmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulse.
Sphygmogram (n.) A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.
Sphygmograph (n.) An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram.
Sphygmographic (a.) Relating to, or produced by, a sphygmograph; as, a sphygmographic tracing.
Sphygmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.
Sphygmophone (n.) An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
Sphygmoscope (n.) Same as Sphygmograph.
Sphyraenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sphyraenidae, a family of marine fishes including the barracudas.
Spial (n.) A spy; a scout.
Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
Spica (n.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
Spicae (pl. ) of Spica
Spicate (a.) Alt. of Spicated
Spicated (a.) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
Spiccato (a.) Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
Spice (n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.
Spice (n.) Species; kind.
Spice (v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.
Spice (v. t.) To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.
Spice (v. t.) To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit.
Spicebush (n.) Spicewood.
Spiced (imp. & p. p.) of Spice
Spicenut () A small crisp cake, highly spiced.
Spicer (n.) One who deals in spice.
Spicer (n.) One who seasons with spice.
Spicery (n.) A repository of spices.
Spicery (n.) Spices, in general.
Spicewood (n.) An American shrub (Lindera Benzoin), the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.
Spiciferous (a.) Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate.
Spiciform (a.) Spike-shaped.
Spicily (adv.) In a spicy manner.
Spiciness (n.) The quality or state of being spicy.
Spicing (p. p. & vb. n.) of Spice
Spick (n.) A spike or nail.
Spicknel (n.) An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.
Spicose (a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.
Spicosity (n.) The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn.
Spicous (a.) See Spicose.
Spicula (n.) A little spike; a spikelet.
Spicula (n.) A pointed fleshy appendage.
Spicula (pl. ) of Spiculum
Spiculae (pl. ) of Spicula
Spicular (a.) Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
Spiculate (a.) Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.
Spiculate (a.) Covered with, or having, spicules.
Spiculate (v. t.) To sharpen to a point.
Spicule (n.) A minute, slender granule, or point.
Spicule (n.) Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.
Spicule (n.) Same as Spicula.
Spiculiform (a.) Having the shape of a spicule.
Spiculigenous (a.) Producing or containing spicules.
Spiculispongiae (n. pl.) A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.
Spiculum (n.) Same as Spicule.
Spicy (superl.) Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
Spicy (superl.) Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
Spicy (superl.) Producing, or abounding with, spices.
Spider (n.) A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.
Spider (n.) An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.
Spider (n.) Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).
Spider web () Alt. of Spider's web
Spider's web () The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
Spidered (a.) Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.
Spiderlike (a.) Like a spider.
Spiderwort (n.) An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
Spied () imp. & p. p. of Spy.
Spied (imp. & p. p.) of Spy
Spiegeleisen (n.) See Spiegel iron.
Spies (pl. ) of Spy
Spight (n. & v.) Spite.
Spight (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Spignel (n.) Same as Spickenel.
Spignet (n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.
Spigot (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Spigurnel (n.) Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.
Spike (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
Spike (n.) An ear of corn or grain.
Spike (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
Spike (n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.
Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
Spike (v. t.) To fix on a spike.
Spike (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.
Spike (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
Spikebill (n.) The hooded merganser.
Spikebill (n.) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
Spiked (a.) Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes.
Spiked (imp. & p. p.) of Spike
Spikefish (n.) See Sailfish (a)
Spikelet (n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.
Spikenard (n.) A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi.
Spiketail (n.) The pintail duck.
Spiking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spike
Spiky (a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
Spiky (a.) Like a spike; spikelike.
Spile (n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
Spile (n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
Spile (n.) A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
Spile (v. t.) To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins
spilikins (pl. ) of Spilikin
Spill (n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
Spill (n.) A little sum of money.
Spill (n.) A metallic rod or pin.
Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
Spill (n.) A slender piece of anything.
Spill (n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
Spill (n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
Spill (v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
Spill (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
Spill (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
Spill (v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
Spill (v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
Spill (v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
Spill (v. t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
Spilled (imp. & p. p.) of Spill
Spiller (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
Spiller (n.) One who, or that which, spills.
Spillet fishing () Alt. of Spilliard fishing
Spilliard fishing () A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
Spillikin (n.) See Spilikin.
Spilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spill
Spilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spill
Spillway (n.) A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Spilt () imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.
Spilt () of Spill
Spilt (imp. & p. p.) of Spill
Spilter (n.) Any one of the small branches on a stag's head.
Spilth (n.) Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.
Spin (n.) The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
Spin (n.) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
Spin (v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
Spin (v. i.) To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
Spin (v. i.) To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
Spin (v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
Spin (v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
Spin (v. t.) To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
Spin (v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
Spin (v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
Spin (v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
Spina bifida () A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.
Spinaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.
Spinach (n.) Alt. of Spinage
Spinage (n.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.
Spinal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.
Spinal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
Spinate (a.) Bearing a spine; spiniform.
Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
Spindle (n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch.
Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs.
Spindle-shanked (a.) Having long, slender legs.
Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle.
Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
Spindled (imp. & p. p.) of Spindle
Spindlelegs (n.) A spindleshanks.
Spindleshanks (n.) A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
Spindletail (n.) The pintail duck.
Spindleworm (n.) The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
Spindling (a.) Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
Spindling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spindle
Spine (n.) A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
Spine (n.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
Spine (n.) Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
Spine (n.) One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
Spine (n.) The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
Spine-finned (a.) Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
Spine-tailed (a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips.
Spineback (n.) A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.
Spinebill (n.) Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.
Spined (a.) Furnished with spines; spiny.
Spinel (n.) Alt. of Spinelle
Spinel (n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
Spineless (a.) Having no spine.
Spinescent (a.) Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines.
Spinet (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
Spinet (n.) A spinny.
Spinetail (n.) Any one of several species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds belonging to Synallaxis and allied genera of the family Dendrocolaptidae. They are allied to the ovenbirds.
Spinetail (n.) Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chaetura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines.
Spinetail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.
Spiniferous (a.) Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.
Spiniform (a.) Shaped like a spine.
Spinigerous (a.) Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.
Spinii-spirulate (a.) Having spines arranged spirally. See Spicule.
Spininess (n.) Quality of being spiny.
Spink (n.) The chaffinch.
Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
Spinner (n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
Spinner (n.) A spider.
Spinner (n.) A spinneret.
Spinner (n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
Spinnerule (n.) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
Spinney (n.) Same as Spinny.
Spinneys (pl. ) of Spinney
Spinnies (pl. ) of Spinny
Spinning () a. & n. from Spin.
Spinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spin
Spinny (a.) Thin and long; slim; slender.
Spinny (n.) A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.
Spinose (a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.
Spinosity (n.) The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.
Spinous (a.) Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.
Spinous (a.) Spinose; thorny.
Spinozist (n.) A believer in Spinozism.
Spinster (n.) A man who spins.
Spinster (n.) A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
Spinster (n.) A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
Spinster (n.) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
Spinstress (n.) A woman who spins.
Spinstry (n.) The business of one who spins; spinning.
Spinule (n.) A minute spine.
Spinulescent (a.) Having small spines; somewhat thorny.
Spinulose (a.) Alt. of Spinulous
Spinulous (a.) Covered with small spines.
Spiny (a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
Spiny (a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
Spiny (a.) Like a spine in shape; slender.
Spiny (n.) See Spinny.
Spiodea (n. pl.) An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes.
Spirable (a.) Capable of being breathed; respirable.
Spiracle (n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
Spiracle (n.) Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.
Spiracle (n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.
Spiracular (a.) Of or pertaining to a spiracle.
Spiraea (n.) A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.
Spiraeic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (Spiraea); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.
Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
Spiral (a.) Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
Spiral (a.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
Spiral (a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
Spiral (a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
Spirality (n.) The quality or states of being spiral.
Spirally (adv.) In a spiral form, manner, or direction.
Spiralozooid (n.) One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
Spiranthy (n.) The occasional twisted growth of the parts of a flower.
Spiration (n.) The act of breathing.
Spire (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
Spire (n.) A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
Spire (n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
Spire (n.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
Spire (n.) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
Spire (v. i.) To breathe.
Spire (v. i.) To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
Spired (a.) Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple.
Spired (imp. & p. p.) of Spire
Spiricle (n.) One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.
Spirifer (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.
Spirillum (n.) A genus of common motile microorganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.
Spiring (a.) Shooting up in a spire or spires.
Spiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spire
Spirit (n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
Spirit (n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
Spirit (n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
Spirit (n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.
Spirit (n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
Spirit (n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
Spirit (n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
Spirit (n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
Spirit (n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
Spirit (n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
Spirit (n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
Spirit (n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
Spirit (n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
Spirit (n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
Spirit (n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
Spirit (v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.
Spirit (v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
Spiritally (adv.) By means of the breath.
Spirited (a.) Animated or possessed by a spirit.
Spirited (a.) Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer.
Spirited (imp. & p. p.) of Spirit
Spiritful (a.) Full of spirit; spirited.
Spiritielle (a.) Of the nature, or having the appearance, of a spirit; pure; refined; ethereal.
Spiritless (a.) Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
Spiritless (a.) Having no breath; extinct; dead.
Spiritoso (a. & adv.) Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.
Spiritous (a.) Ardent; active.
Spiritous (a.) Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.
Spiritousness (n.) Quality of being spiritous.
Spiritual (a.) Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
Spiritual (a.) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal.
Spiritual (n.) A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.
Spiritual-minded (a.) Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections.
Spiritualism (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual.
Spiritualist (a.) Spiritualistic.
Spiritualist (n.) One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.
Spiritualist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
Spiritualistic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
Spiritualities (pl. ) of Spirituality
Spirituality (n.) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
Spirituality (n.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
Spirituality (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.
Spiritualization (n.) The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.
Spiritualize (v. t.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.
Spiritualize (v. t.) To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.
Spiritualize (v. t.) To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul.
Spiritualized (imp. & p. p.) of Spiritualize
Spiritualizer (n.) One who spiritualizes.
Spiritualizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spiritualize
Spiritually (adv.) In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.
Spiritualness (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality.
Spiritualty (n.) An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality.
Spirituosity (n.) The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
Spirituous (a.) Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors.
Spirituous (a.) Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.
Spirituous (a.) Lively; gay; vivid; airy.
Spirituousness (n.) The quality or state of being spirituous.
Spirketing (n.) The planking from the waterways up to the port sills.
Spirling (n.) Sparling.
Spirobacteria (n. pl.) See the Note under Microbacteria.
Spirochaeta (n.) Alt. of Spirochaete
Spirochaete (n.) A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochaete Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.
Spirograph (n.) An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.
Spirometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer.
Spirometry (n.) The act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.
Spiroscope (n.) A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
Spiroylic (a.) Alt. of Spiroylous
Spiroylous (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal.
Spirt (v. & n.) Same as Spurt.
Spirtle (v. t.) To spirt in a scattering manner.
Spirula (n.) A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.
Spirulate (n.) Having the color spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.
Spiry (a.) Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
Spiry (a.) Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.
Spiss (a.) Thick; crowded; compact; dense.
Spissated (a.) Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened.
Spissitude (n.) The quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum.
Spit (imp. & p. p.) of Spit
Spit (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
Spit (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
Spit (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
Spit (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
Spit (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
Spit (n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
Spit (n.) To spade; to dig.
Spit (n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
Spit (v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
Spit (v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
Spit (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
Spit curl () A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance.
Spit-venom (n.) Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth.
Spital (n.) A hospital.
Spitalhouse (n.) A hospital.
Spitball (n.) Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.
Spitbox (n.) A vessel to receive spittle.
Spitchcock (n.) An eel split and broiled.
Spitchcock (v. t.) To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.
Spitchcocked (a.) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.
Spite (n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
Spite (n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
Spite (v. t.) To be angry at; to hate.
Spite (v. t.) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Spite (v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
Spited (imp. & p. p.) of Spite
Spiteful (a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.
Spitfire (n.) A violent, irascible, or passionate person.
Spitful (n.) A spadeful.
Spitfuls (pl. ) of Spitful
Spiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spite
Spitous (a.) Having spite; spiteful.
Spitously (adv.) Spitefully.
Spitscocked (a.) Spitchcocked.
Spitted () p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.
Spitted (a.) Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.
Spitted (a.) Shot out long; -- said of antlers.
Spitted (imp. & p. p.) of Spit
Spitter (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
Spitter (n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
Spitter (n.) One who puts meat on a spit.
Spitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit
Spitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit
Spittle (n.) A small sort of spade.
Spittle (n.) See Spital.
Spittle (n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.
Spittle (v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.
Spittly (a.) Like spittle; slimy.
Spittoon (n.) A spitbox; a cuspidor.
Spitz dog () A breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usually white; -- called also Pomeranian dog, and louploup.
Spitzenburgh (n.) A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.
Splanchnapophyses (pl. ) of Splanchnapophysis
Splanchnapophysis (n.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus.
Splanchnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.
Splanchno-skeleton (n.) That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera.
Splanchnography (n.) Splanchnology.
Splanchnology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.
Splanchnopleure (n.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure.
Splanchnotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.
Splandrel (n.) See Spandrel.
Splash (n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.
Splash (n.) Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
Splash (v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
Splash (v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
Splash (v. t.) To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
Splashboard (n.) A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.
Splashed (imp. & p. p.) of Splash
Splasher (n.) A guard to keep off splashes from anything.
Splasher (n.) One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
Splasher (n.) One who, or that which, splashes.
Splashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splash
Splashy (a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Splatter (v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.
Splatterdash (n .) Uproar.
Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
Splayfeet (pl. ) of Splayfoot
Splayfoot (a.) Alt. of Splayfooted
Splayfoot (n.) A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
Splayfooted (a.) Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.
Splaymouth (n.) A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.
Splaymouthed (a.) Having a splaymouth.
Splaymouths (pl. ) of Splaymouth
Spleen (n.) A fit of anger; choler.
Spleen (n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
Spleen (n.) A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
Spleen (n.) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.
Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
Spleenless (a.) Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild.
Spleenwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.
Spleeny (a.) Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Spleget (n.) A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore.
Splenalgia (n.) Pain over the region of the spleen.
Splenculi (pl. ) of Splenculus
Splenculus (n.) A lienculus.
Splendent (a.) Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4.
Splendent (a.) Very conspicuous; illustrious.
Splendid (a.) Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.
Splendid (a.) Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.
Splendid (a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.
Splendidious (a.) Splendid.
Splendidly (adv.) In a splendid manner; magnificently.
Splendidness (n.) The quality of being splendid.
Splendidous (a.) Splendid.
Splendiferous (a.) Splendor-bearing; splendid.
Splendor (n.) Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.
Splendor (n.) Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.
Splendor (n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like.
Splendorous (a.) Splendid.
Splendrous (a.) Alt. of Splendorous
Splenetic (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
Splenetic (n.) A person affected with spleen.
Splenetical (a.) Splenetic.
Splenetically (adv.) In a splenetical manner.
Splenial (a.) Designating the splenial bone.
Splenial (a.) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.
Splenial (n.) The splenial bone.
Splenic (a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.
Splenical (a.) Splenic.
Splenish (a.) Spleenish.
Splenitis (n.) Inflammation of the spleen.
Splenitive (a.) Splenetic.
Splenium (n.) The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.
Splenius (n.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck.
Splenization (n.) A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.
Splenocele (n.) Hernia formed by the spleen.
Splenography (n.) A description of the spleen.
Splenoid (a.) Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.
Splenology (n.) The branch of science which treats of the spleen.
Splenotomy (n.) An incision into the spleen; removal of the spleen by incision.
Splenotomy (n.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.
Splent (n.) See Splent coal, below.
Splent (n.) See Splent.
Spleuchan (n.) A pouch, as for tobacco.
Splice (n.) A junction or joining made by splicing.
Splice (v. t.) To unite in marrige.
Splice (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
Splice (v. t.) To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
Spliced (imp. & p. p.) of Splice
Splicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splice
Spline (n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.
Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
Splining (a.) Of or pertaining to a spline.
Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
Splint (v. t.) A splint bone.
Splint (v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
Splint (v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
Splint (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splint
Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinter
Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinter
Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.
Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
Splinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splint
Split (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
Split (a.) Divided; cleft.
Split (imp. & p. p.) of Split
Split (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
Split (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
Split (n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
Split (v. i.) To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
Split (v. i.) To burst with laughter.
Split (v. i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
Split (v. i.) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
Split (v. i.) To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
Split (v. i.) To separate into parties or factions.
Split (v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
Split (v. t.) To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
Split (v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
Split (v. t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
Split-tail (n.) A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family.
Split-tail (n.) The pintail duck.
Split-tongued (a.) Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
Splitfeet (n. pl.) The Fissipedia.
Splitted () of Split
Splitter (n.) One who, or that which, splits.
Splitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Split
Splotch (n.) A spot; a stain; a daub.
Splotchy (a.) Covered or marked with splotches.
Splurge (n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
Splurge (v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.
Splutter (n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.
Splutter (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
Spluttered (imp. & p. p.) of Splutter
Splutterer (n.) One who splutters.
Spluttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splutter
Spnsorial (a.) Pertaining to a sponsor.
Spodomancy (n.) Divination by means of ashes.
Spodomantic (a.) Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes.
Spodumene (n.) A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite.
Spoffish (a.) Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.
Spoil (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
Spoil (n.) Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
Spoil (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
Spoil (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
Spoil (n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
Spoil (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
Spoil (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
Spoil (v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
Spoil (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
Spoil (v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
Spoil (v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
Spoil (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
Spoilable (a.) Capable of being spoiled.
Spoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Spoil
Spoiler (n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
Spoiler (n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
Spoilfive (n.) A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.
Spoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoil
Spoilsmen (pl. ) of Spoilsman
Spoilsmonger (n.) One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
Spoilt () of Spoil
Spoke () imp. of Speak.
Spoke () of Speak
Spoke (imp.) of Speak
Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.
Spoke (n.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
Spoke (n.) A rung, or round, of a ladder.
Spoke (n.) The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
Spoke (v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.
Spoked (imp. & p. p.) of Spoke
Spoken (a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
Spoken (a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
Spoken (p. p.) of Speak
Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.
Spokesman (n.) One who speaks for another.
Spokesmen (pl. ) of Spokesman
Spoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoke
Spoliate (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.
Spoliated (imp. & p. p.) of Spoliate
Spoliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoliate
Spoliation (v. t.) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.
Spoliation (v. t.) Injury done to a document.
Spoliation (v. t.) Robbery or plunder in war; especially, the authorized act or practice of plundering neutrals at sea.
Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title.
Spoliation (v. t.) The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
Spoliative (a.) Serving to take away, diminish, or rob; esp. (Med.), serving to diminish sensibily the amount of blood in the body; as, spoliative bloodletting.
Spoliator (n.) One who spoliates; a spoiler.
Spoliatory (a.) Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.
Spondaic (a.) Alt. of Spondaical
Spondaical (a.) Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.
Spondaical (a.) Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.
Spondee (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
Spondulics (n.) Money.
Spondyl (n.) Alt. of Spondyle
Spondyle (n.) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.
Spong (n.) An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field.
Sponge (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
Sponge (n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
Sponge (n.) Any spongelike substance.
Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
Sponge (n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
Sponge (n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
Sponge (n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
Sponge (v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.
Sponge (v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
Sponge (v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
Sponge (v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
Sponged (imp. & p. p.) of Sponge
Spongelet (n.) See Spongiole.
Spongeous (a.) Resembling sponge; having the nature or qualities of sponge.
Sponger (n.) Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.
Sponger (n.) One employed in gathering sponges.
Sponger (n.) One who sponges, or uses a sponge.
Spongiae (n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.
Spongida (n. pl.) Spongiae.
Spongiform (a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
Spongilla (n.) A genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.
Spongin (n.) The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.
Sponginess (n.) The quality or state of being spongy.
Sponging () a. & n. from Sponge, v.
Sponging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sponge
Spongiole (n.) A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.
Spongiolite (n.) One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as in flints.
Spongiopilin (n.) A kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of rubber. When moistend with hot water it is used as a poultice.
Spongiose (a.) Alt. of Spongious
Spongious (a.) Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.
Spongiozoa (n. pl.) See Sponglae.
Spongoblast (n.) One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.
Spongoid (a.) Resembling sponge; like sponge.
Spongy (a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
Spongy (a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
Sponk (n.) See Spunk.
Sponsal (a.) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Sponsible (a.) responsible; worthy of credit.
Sponsion (n.) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
Sponsion (n.) The act of becoming surety for another.
Sponsional (a.) Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.
Sponson (n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.
Sponson (n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.
Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.
Sponsor (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
Sponsor (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
Sponsorship (n.) State of being a sponsor.
Spontaneities (pl. ) of Spontaneity
Spontaneity (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force.
Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.
Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment.
Spontaneous (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
Spontaneous (a.) Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.
Spontaneous (a.) Produced without being planted, or without human labor; as, a spontaneous growth of wood.
Spontoon (n.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
Spook (n.) A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
Spook (n.) The chimaera.
Spool (n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
Spool (v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
Spooled (imp. & p. p.) of Spool
Spooler (n.) One who, or that which, spools.
Spooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spool
Spoom (v. i.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
Spoon (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
Spoon (n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
Spoon (n.) Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
Spoon (v. i.) See Spoom.
Spoon (v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
Spoon (v. t.) To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
Spoon-billed (a.) Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
Spoon-meat (n.) Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
Spoonbill (n.) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.
Spoonbill (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.
Spoonbill (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.
Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
Spooney (n.) A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.
Spooneye (pl. ) of Spooney
Spoonful (n.) Hence, a small quantity.
Spoonful (n.) The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
Spoonfuls (pl. ) of Spoonful
Spoonily (adv.) In a spoony manner.
Spoonwood (n.) The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).
Spoonworm (n.) A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.
Spoonwort (n.) Scurvy grass.
Spoony (a. & n.) Same as Spooney.
Spoor (n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
Spoor (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.
Sporades (n. pl.) Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.
Sporadial (a.) Sporadic.
Sporadic (a.) Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.
Sporadical (a.) Sporadic.
Sporadically (adv.) In a sporadic manner.
Sporangia (pl. ) of Sporangium
Sporangiophore (n.) The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.
Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Spore (n.) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
Spore (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
Spore (n.) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
Spore (n.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
Sporid (n.) A sporidium.
Sporidia (pl. ) of Sporidium
Sporidiferous (a.) Bearing sporidia.
Sporidium (n.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
Sporidium (n.) A spore.
Sporiferous (a.) Bearing or producing spores.
Sporification (n.) Spore formation. See Spore formation (b), under Spore.
Sporocarp (n.) A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.
Sporocarp (n.) A sporangium.
Sporocyst (n.) Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
Sporogenesis (n.) reproduction by spores.
Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Sporophore (n.) A placenta.
Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
Sporophoric (a.) Having the nature of a sporophore.
Sporosac (n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.
Sporosac (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
Sporozoa (n. pl.) An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
Sporozoid (n.) Same as Zoospore.
Sporran (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
Sport (n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
Sport (n.) A sportsman; a gambler.
Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Sport (n.) Play; idle jingle.
Sport (n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
Sport (n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
Sport (v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
Sport (v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
Sport (v. i.) To trifle.
Sport (v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
Sport (v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
Sport (v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
Sport (v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
Sportability (n.) Sportiveness.
Sportal (a.) Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.
Sported (imp. & p. p.) of Sport
Sporter (n.) One who sports; a sportsman.
Sportful (a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.
Sportful (a.) Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
Sporting (a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
Sporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport
Sportingly (adv.) In sport; sportively.
Sportive (a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Sportless (a.) Without sport or mirth; joyless.
Sportling (n.) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Sportsman (n.) One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Sportsmanship (n.) The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
Sportsmen (pl. ) of Sportsman
Sportula (n.) A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
Sportulae (pl. ) of Sportula
Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
Sportule (n.) A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.
Sporulation (n.) The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.
Sporule (n.) A small spore; a spore.
Sporuliferous (a.) Producing sporules.
Spot (n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
Spot (n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
Spot (n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
Spot (n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Spot (n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
Spot (n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
Spot (n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
Spot (v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Spot (v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
Spot (v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
Spot (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
Spotless (a.) Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.
Spotted (a.) Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.
Spotted (imp. & p. p.) of Spot
Spottedness (n.) State or quality of being spotted.
Spotter (n.) One who spots.
Spottiness (n.) The state or quality of being spotty.
Spotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spot
Spotty (a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.
Spousage (v. t.) Espousal.
Spousal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.
Spousal (n.) Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita.
Spouse (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
Spouse (n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
Spouse (n.) To wed; to espouse.
Spouse-breach (n.) Adultery.
Spouseless (a.) Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
Spousess (n.) A wife or bride.
Spout (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Spout (v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
Spout (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Spout (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
Spout (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
Spout (v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Spouted (imp. & p. p.) of Spout
Spouter (n.) One who, or that which, spouts.
Spoutfish (n.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
Spouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spout
Spoutless (a.) Having no spout.
Spoutshell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
Sprack (a.) Quick; lively; alert.
Sprad () p. p. of Spread.
Spradde () imp. of Spread.
Sprag (a.) See Sprack, a.
Sprag (n.) A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.
Sprag (n.) A young salmon.
Sprag (v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
Sprag (v. t.) To prop or sustain with a sprag.
Spragged (imp. & p. p.) of Sprag
Spragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprag
Sprain (n.) The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
Sprained (imp. & p. p.) of Sprain
Spraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprain
Spraints (v. t.) The dung of an otter.
Sprang () imp. of Spring.
Sprang (imp.) of Spring
Sprat (n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
Sprat (n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Sprawl (v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
Sprawl (v. i.) To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
Sprawl (v. i.) To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
Sprawled (imp. & p. p.) of Sprawl
Sprawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprawl
Spray (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
Spray (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Spray (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
Spray (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
Spray (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
Spray (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
Spray (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
Sprayboard (n.) See Dashboard, n., 2 (b).
Spread () imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
Spread (imp. & p. p.) of Spread
Spread (n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
Spread (n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
Spread (n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
Spread (n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Spread (n.) Expansion of parts.
Spread (n.) Extent; compass.
Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
Spread (v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
Spread (v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
Spread (v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
Spread (v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
Spread (v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
Spread (v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
Spread (v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
Spread (v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
Spread (v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
Spread (v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
Spread-eagle (a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
Spreader (n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
Spreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spread
Spreadingly (adv.) Increasingly.
Sprechery (n.) Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.
Spree (n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Sprenge (v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.
Sprengel pump () A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
Sprent () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
Sprew (n.) Thrush.
Spreynd () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head.
Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
Sprig (n.) A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
Sprig (n.) A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
Sprig (v. t.) To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
Sprigged (a.) Having sprigs.
Sprigged (imp. & p. p.) of Sprig
Sprigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprig
Spriggy (a.) Full of sprigs or small branches.
Spright (n.) A kind of short arrow.
Spright (n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
Spright (n.) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
Spright (v. t.) To haunt, as a spright.
Sprightful (a.) Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.
Sprightless (a.) Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.
Sprightliness (n.) The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
Sprightly (superl.) Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
Sprigtail (n.) The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.
Sprigtail (n.) The sharp-tailed grouse.
Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
Spring (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
Spring (v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.
Spring (v. i.) A race; lineage.
Spring (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
Spring (v. i.) A youth; a springal.
Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
Spring (v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
Spring (v. i.) Elastic power or force.
Spring (v. i.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
Spring (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
Spring (v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
Spring (v. i.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
Spring (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Spring (v. i.) To grow; to prosper.
Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
Spring (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.
Spring (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.
Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
Spring (v. t.) To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
Spring (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
Springal (a.) Alt. of Springall
Springal (n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
Springald (a.) Alt. of Springall
Springall (a.) An active, springly young man.
Springboard (n.) An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
Springbok (n.) Alt. of Springbuck
Springe (v. i.) A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.
Springe (v. t.) To catch in a springe; to insnare.
Springe (v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.
Springer (n.) A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.
Springer (n.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
Springer (n.) A young plant.
Springer (n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
Springer (n.) The grampus.
Springer (n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
Springhalt (n.) A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt.
Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
Springiness (n.) The state or quality of being springly.
Springing (n.) Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant.
Springing (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.
Springing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spring
Springle (n.) A springe.
Springlet (n.) A little spring.
Springtide (n.) The time of spring; springtime.
Springtime (n.) The season of spring; springtide.
Springy (superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.
Springy (superl.) Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.
Sprinkle (n.) A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.
Sprinkle (n.) A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
Sprinkled (imp. & p. p.) of Sprinkle
Sprinkler (n.) An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
Sprinkler (n.) One who sprinkles.
Sprinkling (n.) A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
Sprinkling (n.) Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like drops.
Sprinkling (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.
Sprinkling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprinkle
Sprint (n.) The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.
Sprint (v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
Sprinted (imp. & p. p.) of Sprint
Sprinter (n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.
Sprinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprint
Sprit (n.) A shoot; a sprout.
Sprit (v. i.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.
Sprit (v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
Sprit (v. t.) To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
Sprite (n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.
Sprite (n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
Sprite (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
Spriteful (a.) Alt. of Spritely
Spritefully (a.) Alt. of Spritely
Spriteliness (a.) Alt. of Spritely
Spritely (a.) See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
Spritsail (n.) A sail extended by a sprit.
Spritsail (n.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.
Sprocket wheel () Same as Chain wheel.
Sprod (n.) A salmon in its second year.
Sprong () imp. of Spring. Sprung.
Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
Sprout (v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Sprout (v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
Sprout (v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
Sprout (v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
Sprout (v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
Sprouted (imp. & p. p.) of Sprout
Sprouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprout
Spruce (a.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
Spruce (a.) Prussia leather; pruce.
Spruce (a.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
Spruce (n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
Spruce (n.) Sprightly; dashing.
Spruce (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
Spruce (v. t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
Spruced (imp. & p. p.) of Spruce
Sprucing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spruce
Sprue (n.) Same as Sprew.
Sprue (n.) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
Sprue (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
Sprug (v. t.) To make smart.
Sprung () imp. & p. p. of Spring.
Sprung () of Spring
Sprung (a.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
Sprung (p. p.) of Spring
Sprunt (a.) Active; lively; vigorous.
Sprunt (n.) A leap; a spring.
Sprunt (n.) A steep ascent in a road.
Sprunt (n.) Anything short and stiff.
Sprunt (v. i.) To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
Spruntly (adv.) In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.
Spry (superl.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
Spud (n.) A dagger.
Spud (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
Spud (n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
Spue (v. t. & i.) See Spew.
Spuilzie (n.) See Spulzie.
Spuke (n.) See Spook.
Spuller (n.) One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.
Spulzie (n.) Plunder, or booty.
Spume (n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.
Spume (v. i.) To froth; to foam.
Spumed (imp. & p. p.) of Spume
Spumeous (a.) Spumous.
Spumescence (n.) The state of being foamy; frothiness.
Spumescent (a.) Resembling froth or foam; foaming.
Spumid (a.) Spumous; frothy.
Spumiferous (a.) Producing foam.
Spuminess (n.) The quality or condition of being spumy; spumescence.
Spuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spume
Spumous (a.) Alt. of Spumy
Spumy (a.) Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy.
Spun () imp. & p. p. of Spin.
Spun (imp. & p. p.) of Spin
Spunge (n.) A sponge.
Spunk (n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.
Spunk (n.) Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
Spunky (superl.) Full of spunk; quick; spirited.
Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
Spur (n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
Spur (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
Spur (n.) A sparrow.
Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
Spur (n.) A tern.
Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
Spur (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
Spur (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.
Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Spur (n.) Something that projects; a snag.
Spur (n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.
Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.
Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
Spur (v. t.) To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
Spur (v. t.) To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
Spur (v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.
Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
Spurgall (n.) A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.
Spurgall (v. t.) To gall or wound with a spur.
Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Spurging (n.) A purging.
Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.
Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
Spurless (a.) Having no spurs.
Spurling (n.) A tern.
Spurling-line (n.) The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.
Spurn (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
Spurn (v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
Spurn (v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
Spurn (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
Spurn-water (n.) A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
Spurned (imp. & p. p.) of Spurn
Spurner (n.) One who spurns.
Spurning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spurn
Spurred (a.) Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
Spurred (a.) Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
Spurred (imp. & p. p.) of Spur
Spurrer (n.) One who spurs.
Spurrey (n.) See Spurry.
Spurrier (n.) One whose occupation is to make spurs.
Spurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spur
Spurry (n.) An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.
Spurt (n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
Spurt (v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
Spurt (v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
Spurt (v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
Spurted (imp. & p. p.) of Spurt
Spurting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spurt
Spurtle (v. t.) To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.
Spurway (n.) A bridle path.
Sput (n.) An annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.
Sputa (pl. ) of Sputum
Sputation (n.) The act of spitting; expectoration.
Sputative (a.) Inclined to spit; spitting much.
Spute (v. t.) To dispute; to discuss.
Sputter (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
Sputter (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
Sputter (v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
Sputter (v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
Sputter (v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
Sputtered (imp. & p. p.) of Sputter
Sputterer (n.) One who sputters.
Sputtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sputter
Sputum (n.) That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.
Spy (n.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.
Spy (n.) One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.
Spy (v. i.) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
Spy (v. t.) To discover by close search or examination.
Spy (v. t.) To explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country; -- usually with out.
Spy (v. t.) To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
Spyboat (n.) A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.
Spyglass (n.) A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
Spying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spy
Spyism (n.) Act or business of spying.
Spynace (n.) Alt. of Spyne
Spyne (n.) See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).
Squab (a.) Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
Squab (a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.
Squab (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.
Squab (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
Squab (n.) A person of a short, fat figure.
Squab (n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
Squab (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
Squab-chick (n.) A young chicken before it is fully fledged.
Squabash (v. t.) To crush; to quash; to squash.
Squabbish (a.) Thick; fat; heavy.
Squabble (n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.
Squabble (v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
Squabble (v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
Squabble (v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.
Squabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Squabble
Squabbler (n.) One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.
Squabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squabble
Squabby (a.) Short and thick; suqabbish.
Squacco (n.) A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.
Squaccos (pl. ) of Squacco
Squad (n.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.
Squad (n.) Hence, any small party.
Squad (n.) Sloppy mud.
Squadron (n.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.
Squadron (n.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron.
Squadron (n.) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.
Squadroned (a.) Formed into squadrons, or squares.
Squail (v. i.) To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.
Squaimous (a.) Squeamish.
Squaked (imp.& p. p.) of Squeak
Squali (n. pl.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.
Squalid (a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
Squalidity (n.) The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
Squalidly (adv.) In a squalid manner.
Squalidness (n.) Quality or state of being squalid.
Squall (n.) A loud scream; a harsh cry.
Squall (n.) A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
Squall (v. i.) To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.
Squalled (imp. & p. p.) of Squall
Squaller (n.) One who squalls; a screamer.
Squalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squall
Squally (a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
Squally (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
Squally (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Squalodon (n.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.
Squalodont (a.) Pertaining to Squalodon.
Squaloid (a.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.
Squama (n.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.
Squamaceous (a.) Squamose.
Squamae (pl. ) of Squama
Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.
Squamate (a.) Alt. of Squamated
Squamated (a.) Same as Squamose.
Squamduck () The American eider duck.
Squame (n.) A scale.
Squame (n.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
Squamellae (pl. ) of Squamella
Squamellate (a.) Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.
Squamiform (a.) Having the shape of a scale.
Squamigerous (a.) Bearing scales.
Squamipen (n.) Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.
Squamipennes (pl. ) of Squamipen
Squamoid (a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.
Squamosal (a.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.
Squamosal (a.) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.
Squamosal (n.) The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.
Squamose () Alt. of Squamous
Squamous () Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.
Squamous () Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.
Squamozygomatic (a.) Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls.
Squamozygomatic (n.) A squamozygomatic bone.
Squamula (n.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
Squamulae (pl. ) of Squamula
Squamulate (a.) Same as Squamulose.
Squamule (n.) Same as Squamula.
Squamulose (a.) Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.
Squander (n.) The act of squandering; waste.
Squander (v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
Squander (v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.
Squander (v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.
Squander (v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
Squandered (imp. & p. p.) of Squander
Squanderer (n.) One who squanders.
Squandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squander
Squanderingly (adv.) In a squandering manner.
Square (a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
Square (a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
Square (a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
Square (a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
Square (a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
Square (n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
Square (n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
Square (n.) A pane of glass.
Square (n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
Square (n.) A square piece or fragment.
Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
Square (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
Square (n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
Square (n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
Square (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.
Square (n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
Square (n.) One hundred superficial feet.
Square (n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
Square (n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.
Square (n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
Square (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
Square (n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
Square (n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
Square (n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
Square (n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.
Square (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
Square (n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
Square (n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
Square (n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
Square (n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
Square (v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
Square (v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
Square (v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
Square-rigged (a.) Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
Square-toed (n.) Having the toe square.
Square-toes (n.) A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.
Squared (imp. & p. p.) of Square
Squarely (adv.) In a square form or manner.
Squareness (n.) The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
Squarer (n.) One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow.
Squarer (n.) One who, or that which, squares.
Squaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Square
Squarish (a.) Nearly square.
Squarrose (a.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem.
Squarrose (a.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
Squarrose (a.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.
Squarrose (a.) Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged
Squarroso-dentate (a.) Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.
Squash (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
Squash (n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
Squash (n.) An American animal allied to the weasel.
Squash (n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
Squash (n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
Squash (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
Squashed (imp. & p. p.) of Squash
Squasher (n.) One who, or that which, squashes.
Squashiness (n.) The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.
Squashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squash
Squashy (a.) Easily squashed; soft.
Squat (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
Squat (a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
Squat (n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
Squat (n.) A small vein of ore.
Squat (n.) A sudden or crushing fall.
Squat (n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
Squat (n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
Squat (v. t.) To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
Squat (v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
Squat (v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
Squaterole (n.) The black-bellied plover.
Squatted (imp. & p. p.) of Squat
Squatter (n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.
Squatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squat
Squatty (a.) Squat; dumpy.
Squaw (n.) A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
Squawberry (n.) A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.
Squawk (n.) Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.
Squawk (n.) The American night heron. See under Night.
Squawk (v. i.) To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
Squawked (imp. & p. p.) of Squawk
Squawking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squawk
Squawl (v. i.) See Squall.
Squawroot (n.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
Squawweed (n.) The golden ragwort. See under Ragwort.
Squeak (n.) A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.
Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.
Squeak (v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.
Squeaker (n.) One who, or that which, squeaks.
Squeaker (n.) The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.
Squeaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squeak
Squeakingly (adv.) In a squeaking manner.
Squeal (n.) A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.
Squeal (v. i.) To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
Squeal (v. i.) To turn informer; to betray a secret.
Squealed (imp. & p. p.) of Squeal
Squealer (n.) One who, or that which, squeals.
Squealer (n.) The American golden plover.
Squealer (n.) The European swift.
Squealer (n.) The harlequin duck.
Squealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squeal
Squeamish (a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
Squeamous (a.) Squeamish.
Squeasiness (n.) Queasiness.
Squeegee (n.) Same as Squilgee.
Squeeze (n.) A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.
Squeeze (n.) The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.
Squeeze (v. i.) To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.
Squeeze (v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.
Squeeze (v. t.) To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.
Squeeze (v. t.) To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.
Squeezed (imp. & p. p.) of Squeeze
Squeezer (n.) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural.
Squeezer (n.) A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.
Squeezer (n.) One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.
Squeezing (n.) Same as Squeeze, n., 2.
Squeezing (n.) That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.
Squeezing (n.) The act of pressing; compression; oppression.
Squeezing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squeeze
Squelch (n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.
Squelch (v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
Squib (a.) A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
Squib (a.) A paltry fellow.
Squib (a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.
Squib (a.) A writer of lampoons.
Squib (v. i.) To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
Squibbed (imp. & p. p.) of Squib
Squibbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squib
Squid (n.) A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
Squid (n.) Any one of numerous species of ten-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of Loligo, Ommastrephes, and related genera. See Calamary, Decacerata, Dibranchiata.
Squier (n.) A square. See 1st Squire.
Squierie (n.) Alt. of Squiery
Squiery (n.) A company of squires; the whole body of squires.
Squiggle (v. i.) To move about like an eel; to squirm.
Squiggle (v. i.) To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
Squill (n.) A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion.
Squill (n.) A mantis.
Squill (n.) A squilla.
Squill (n.) Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S. mutans).
Squilla (n.) Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.
Squillae (pl. ) of Squilla
Squillas (pl. ) of Squilla
Squillitic (a.) Of or pertaining to squills.
Squinance (n.) Alt. of Squinancy
Squinancy (n.) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort.
Squinancy (n.) The quinsy. See Quinsy.
Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
Squinsy (n.) See Quinsy.
Squint (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
Squint (n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
Squint (n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
Squint (n.) Same as Hagioscope.
Squint (n.) The act or habit of squinting.
Squint (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Squint (v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
Squint (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
Squint (v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
Squint (v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
Squint-eye (n.) An eye that squints.
Squint-eyed (a.) Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.
Squirarchy (n.) The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.
Squire (n.) A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
Squire (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
Squire (n.) A square; a measure; a rule.
Squire (n.) A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire.
Squire (n.) A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
Squire (v. t.) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.
Squire (v. t.) To attend as a squire.
squired (imp. & p. p.) of Squire
Squireen (n.) One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.
Squirehood (n.) The rank or state of a squire; squireship.
squireling (n.) A petty squire.
Squirely (a. & adv.) Becoming a squire; like a squire.
squireship (n.) Squirehood.
squiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squire
Squirm (v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
Squirmed (imp. & p. p.) of Squirm
Squirming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squirm
Squirr (v. t.) See Squir.
Squirrel (v. i.) One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
Squirt (n.) A small, quick stream; a jet.
Squirt (n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
Squirt (v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
Squirt (v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
Squirt (v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
Squirted (imp. & p. p.) of Squirt
Squirter (n.) One who, or that which, squirts.
Squirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squirt
Squiry (n.) The body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy.
Squitch grass () Quitch grass.
Squitee (n.) The squeteague; -- called also squit.
Srawls (n. pl.) Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays.
SSociable (a.) Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party.
SSociable (a.) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
SSociable (a.) Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social.
SSociable (a.) No longer hostile; friendly.
SSociable (a.) Ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or reserved.
Stab (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
Stab (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
Stab (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
Stab (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
Stab (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
Stab (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
Stab (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
Stabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Stab
Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.
Stabber (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.
Stabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stab
Stabbingly (adv.) By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.
Stabiliment (a.) The act of making firm; firm support; establishment.
Stabilitate (v. t.) To make stable; to establish.
Stability (a.) Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.
Stability (a.) Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
Stability (a.) The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
Stable (v. i.) A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
Stable (v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
Stable (v. i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
Stable (v. i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
Stable (v. i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Stable (v. t.) To fix; to establish.
Stable (v. t.) To put or keep in a stable.
Stableboy (n.) Alt. of Stableman
Stabled (imp. & p. p.) of Stable
Stableman (n.) A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
Stableness (n.) The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
Stabler (n.) A stable keeper.
Stabling (n.) A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.
Stabling (n.) The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.
Stabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stable
Stablish (v. t.) To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.
Stablishment (n.) Establishment.
Stably (adv.) In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.
Stabulation (n.) A place for lodging beasts; a stable.
Stabulation (n.) The act of stabling or housing beasts.
Staccato (a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Stack (a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
Stack (a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
Stack (a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
Stack (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
Stack (a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
Stack (a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
Stack (a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
Stack (n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
Stack-guard (n.) A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
Stackage (n.) A tax on things stacked.
Stackage (n.) Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.
Stacked (imp. & p. p.) of Stack
Stacket (n.) A stockade.
Stacking () a. & n. from Stack.
Stacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stack
Stackstand (n.) A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.
Stackyard (n.) A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.
Stacte (n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
Staddle (v. i.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
Staddle (v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
Staddle (v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
Staddle (v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
Staddle (v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay.
Staddle (v. t.) To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
Stade (n.) A landing place or wharf.
Stade (n.) A stadium.
Stadia (pl. ) of Stadium
Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
Stadium (n.) Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
Stadtholder (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
Stadtholderate (n.) Alt. of Stadtholdership
Stadtholdership (n.) The office or position of a stadtholder.
Stafette (n.) An estafet.
Staff (n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Staff (n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
Staff (n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Staff (n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
Staff (n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Staff (n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
Staff (n.) The round of a ladder.
Staffier (n.) An attendant bearing a staff.
Staffish (a.) Stiff; harsh.
Staffman (n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.
Staffmen (pl. ) of Staffman
Staffs (pl. ) of Staff
Staffs (pl. ) of Staff
Stag (n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
Stag (n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
Stag (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
Stag (n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
Stag (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
Stag (n.) The European wren.
Stag (n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.
Stag (v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
Stag (v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Stag-evil (n.) A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.
Stag-horn coral () Alt. of Stag-horn fern
Stag-horn fern () See under Stag.
Stag-horned (a.) Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
Stage (n.) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.
Stage (n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
Stage (n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
Stage (n.) A floor or story of a house.
Stage (n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
Stage (n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
Stage (n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
Stage (n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
Stage (n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
Stage (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
Stage (n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
Stage (v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
Stage-struck (a.) Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
Stagecoach (n.) A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
Stagecoachman (n.) One who drives a stagecoach.
Stagecoachmen (pl. ) of Stagecoachman
Stagehouse (n.) A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
Stagely (a.) Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.
Stageplay (n.) A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.
Stageplayer (n.) An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
Stager (n.) A horse used in drawing a stage.
Stager (n.) A player.
Stager (n.) One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
Stagery (n.) Exhibition on the stage.
Staggard (n.) The male red deer when four years old.
Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
Stagger (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
Stagger (n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
Stagger (n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
Stagger (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Stagger (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Staggerbush (n.) An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.
Staggered (imp. & p. p.) of Stagger
Staggering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stagger
Staggeringly (adv.) In a staggering manner.
Staggerwort (n.) A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea).
Staghound (n.) A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
Staging (n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
Staging (n.) The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.
Stagirite (n.) A native of, or resident in, Stagira, in ancient Macedonia; especially, Aristotle.
Stagnancy (n.) State of being stagnant.
Stagnant (a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.
Stagnant (a.) That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.
Stagnantly (adv.) In a stagnant manner.
Stagnate (a.) Stagnant.
Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
Stagnated (imp. & p. p.) of Stagnate
Stagnating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stagnate
Stagnation (n.) The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.
Stagnation (n.) The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors.
Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.
Stahlian (a.) Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.
Stahlian (n.) A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.
Stahlianism (n.) The Stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul.
Stahlism (n.) Alt. of Stahlianism
Staid () of Stay
Staid (a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
Staidly (adv.) In a staid manner, sedately.
Staidness (n.) The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or levity.
Stail () imp. & p. p. of Stay.
Stail (n.) A handle, as of a mop; a stale.
Stain (n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
Stain (n.) A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
Stain (n.) A tincture; a tinge.
Stain (n.) Cause of reproach; shame.
Stain (n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
Stain (v. i.) To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
Stain (v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
Stain (v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
Stain (v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
Stained (imp. & p. p.) of Stain
Stainer (n.) A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
Stainer (n.) One who stains or tarnishes.
Staining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stain
Stainless (a.) Free from stain; immaculate.
Stainlessly (adv.) In a stainless manner.
Stair (n.) A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.
Stair (n.) One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
Staircase (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
Stairhead (n.) The head or top of a staircase.
Stairway (n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
Staith (n.) A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
Staithman (n.) A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.
Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
Stake (v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
Stake (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Stake (v. t.) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.
Stake (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
Stake (v. t.) To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
Stake (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.
Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
Staked (imp. & p. p.) of Stake
Stakehead (n.) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
Staking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stake
Staktometer (n.) A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette.
Stal (imp.) Stole.
Stalactic (a.) Alt. of Stalactical
Stalactical (a.) Stalactic.
Stalactite (n.) In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava.
Stalactites (n.) A stalactite.
Stalactites (pl. ) of Stalactite
Stalactitic (a.) Alt. of Stalactitical
Stalactitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.
Stalactitiform (a.) Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.
Stalactoform (a.) Like a stalactite; resembling a stalactite.
Stalagmite (n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.
Stalagmitic (a.) Alt. of Stalagmitical
Stalagmitical (a.) Having the form or structure of stalagmites.
Stalder (n.) A wooden frame to set casks on.
Stale (a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
Stale (n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
Stale (v. i.) A prostitute.
Stale (v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
Stale (v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
Stale (v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
Stale (v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.
Stale (v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
Stale (v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
Stale (v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.
Stale (v. t.) A stalemate.
Stale (v. t.) A stalking-horse.
Stale (v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
Stale (v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
Staled (imp. & p. p.) of Stale
Stalely (adv.) In a state stale manner.
Stalely (adv.) Of old; long since.
Stalemate (n.) The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
Stalemate (v. t.) To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.
Staleness (n.) The quality or state of being stale.
Staling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stale
Stalk (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
Stalk (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
Stalk (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
Stalk (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
Stalk (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
Stalk (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
Stalk (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
Stalk-eyed (a.) Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans.
Stalked (a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.
Stalked (imp. & p. p.) of Stalk
Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.
Stalker (n.) One who stalks.
Stalking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stalk
Stalking-horse (n.) A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.
Stalking-horse (n.) Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.
Stalkless (a.) Having no stalk.
Stalky (a.) Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk.
Stall (v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
Stall (v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
Stall (v. i.) A stable; a place for cattle.
Stall (v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
Stall (v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
Stall (v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
Stall (v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
Stall (v. i.) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
Stall (v. i.) To kennel, as dogs.
Stall (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
Stall (v. t.) To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
Stall (v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Having
Stall (v. t.) To keep close; to keep secret.
Stall (v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
Stall (v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
Stall (v. t.) To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
Stall-fed (imp. & p. p.) of Stall-feed
Stall-feed (v. t.) To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox.
Stall-feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stall-feed
Stallage (n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.
Stallage (n.) The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.
Stallation (n.) Installation.
Stalled (a.) Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.
Stalled (imp. & p. p.) of Stall
Staller (n.) A standard bearer. obtaining
Stalling (n.) Stabling.
Stalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stall
Stallion (n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
Stallman (n.) One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.
Stallmen (pl. ) of Stallman
Stallon (n.) A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.
Stalworthness (n.) The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring.
Stamen (n.) A thread; especially, a warp thread.
Stamen (n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.
Stamened (a.) Furnished with stamens.
Stamens (pl. ) of Stamen
Stamin (n.) A kind of woolen cloth.
Stamina (n. pl.) See Stamen.
Stamina (n. pl.) The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.
Stamina (n. pl.) Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State.
Stamina (pl. ) of Stamen
Staminal (a.) Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.
Staminate (a.) Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.
Staminate (a.) Having stamens, but lacking pistils.
Staminate (v. t.) To indue with stamina.
Stamineal (a.) Alt. of Stamineous
Stamineous (a.) Consisting of stamens or threads.
Stamineous (a.) Of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.
Staminiferous (a.) Bearing or having stamens.
Staminode (n.) A staminodium.
Staminodia (pl. ) of Staminodium
Staminodium (n.) An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.
Stammel (a.) Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.
Stammel (n.) A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.
Stammel (n.) A large, clumsy horse.
Stammel (n.) A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Stammer (n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
Stammer (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
Stammer (v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
Stammered (imp. & p. p.) of Stammer
Stammerer (n.) One who stammers.
Stammering (a.) Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.
Stammering (n.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
Stammering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stammer
Stamp (n.) that which is marked; a thing stamped.
Stamp (n.) The act of stamping, as with the foot.
Stamp (n.) The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
Stamp (n.) The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
Stamp (v. i.) Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
Stamp (v. i.) To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
Stamp (v. i.) To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
Stamp (v. i.) To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
Stamp (v. i.) To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
Stamp (v. i.) To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
Stamp (v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
Stamp (v. i.) To strike the foot forcibly downward.
Stamp (v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.
Stamp (v. t.) A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
Stamp (v. t.) A half-penny.
Stamp (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
Stamp (v. t.) A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
Stamp (v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
Stamp (v. t.) An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
Stamp (v. t.) Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
Stamp (v. t.) Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
Stamp (v. t.) Money, esp. paper money.
Stamped (imp. & p. p.) of Stamp
Stampede (v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
Stampede (v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
Stampede (v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
Stamper (n.) An instrument for pounding or stamping.
Stamper (n.) One who stamps.
Stamping () a. & n. from Stamp, v.
Stamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stamp
Stance (n.) A stanza.
Stance (n.) A station; a position; a site.
Stanch (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Stanch (n.) That which stanches or checks.
Stanch (v. i.) To cease, as the flowing of blood.
Stanch (v. t.) Close; secret; private.
Stanch (v. t.) Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
Stanch (v. t.) Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
Stanch (v. t.) To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
Stanch (v. t.) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
Stanch (v. t.) To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
Stanched (imp. & p. p.) of Stanch
Stanchel (n.) A stanchion.
Stancher (n.) One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.
Stanching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stanch
Stanchion (n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
Stanchion (n.) A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
Stanchion (n.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
Stanchless (a.) Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.
Stanchless (a.) Unquenchable; insatiable.
Stanchly (adv.) In a stanch manner.
Stanchness (n.) The quality or state of being stanch.
Stand (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
Stand (n.) To appear in court.
Stand (n.) To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
Stand (n.) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
Stand (n.) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
Stand (n.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
Stand (n.) To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
Stand (n.) To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
Stand (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
Stand (n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
Stand (n.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
Stand (n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
Stand (n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Stand (n.) To measure when erect on the feet.
Stand (n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
Stand (n.) To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
Stand (n.) To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
Stand (n.) To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
Stand (v. i.) A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
Stand (v. i.) A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
Stand (v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
Stand (v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
Stand (v. i.) A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
Stand (v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
Stand (v. i.) A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
Stand (v. i.) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.
Stand (v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
Stand (v. i.) Rank; post; station; standing.
Stand (v. i.) The act of standing.
Stand (v. i.) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
Stand (v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
Stand (v. t.) To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
Stand (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat.
Stand (v. t.) To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand.
Stand (v. t.) To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
Stand-by (n.) One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.
Standage (n.) A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
Standard (a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
Standard (a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
Standard (a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
Standard (n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
Standard (n.) A large drinking cup.
Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
Standard (n.) The sheth of a plow.
Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
Standardize (v. t.) To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
Standel (n.) A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.
Stander (n.) One who stands.
Stander (n.) Same as Standel.
Stander-by (n.) One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
Standergrass (n.) A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
Standgale (n.) See Stannel.
Standing (a.) Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.
Standing (a.) Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.
Standing (a.) Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed).
Standing (a.) Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.
Standing (a.) Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.
Standing (n.) Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing.
Standing (n.) Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing.
Standing (n.) Place to stand in; station; stand.
Standing (n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.
Standing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stand
Standish (n.) A stand, or case, for pen and ink.
Standpipe (n.) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.
Standpoint (n.) A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Stane (n.) A stone.
Stang () imp. of Sting.
Stang () of Sting
Stang (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
Stang (n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
Stang (v. i.) To shoot with pain.
Stanhope (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
Staniel (n.) See Stannel.
Stanielry (n.) Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry.
Stank () of Stink
Stank (a.) Weak; worn out.
Stank (imp.) Stunk.
Stank (n.) A dam or mound to stop water.
Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
Stank (v. i.) To sigh.
Stannaries (pl. ) of Stannary
Stannary (a.) Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.
Stannary (n.) A tin mine; tin works.
Stannate (n.) A salt of stannic acid.
Stannel (n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.
Stannic (a.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.
Stanniferous (a.) Containing or affording tin.
Stannine (n.) Alt. of Stannite
Stannite (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.
Stanno- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.
Stannofluoride (n.) Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.
Stannoso- (a.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.
Stannotype (n.) A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.
Stannous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.
Stannum (n.) The technical name of tin. See Tin.
Stannyel (n.) Alt. of Stanyel
Stant (3d pers. sing. pres.) Alt. of Stont
Stanyel (n.) See Stannel.
Stanza (n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Stanzaic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.
Stanzas (pl. ) of Stanza
Stapedial (a.) Of or pertaining to stapes.
Stapes (n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
Staphyline (a.) Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
Staphylinid (n.) Any rove beetle.
Staphyloma (n.) A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.
Staphylomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to staphyloma; affected with staphyloma.
Staphyloplasty (n.) The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost.
Staphyloraphy (n.) Alt. of Staphylorrhaphy
Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.
Staphylotomy (n.) The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.
Staple (a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
Staple (a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
Staple (a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
Staple (a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
Staple (n.) A district granted to an abbey.
Staple (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
Staple (n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
Staple (n.) A small pit.
Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
Staple (n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
Staple (n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
Staple (n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
Staple (n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
Staple (v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
stapled (imp. & p. p.) of Staple
Stapler (n.) A dealer in staple goods.
Stapler (n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
stapling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Staple
Star (n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
Star (n.) A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.
Star (n.) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.
Star (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
Star (n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
Star (n.) That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.
Star (n.) The polestar; the north star.
Star (v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.
Star (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.
Star-blind (a.) Half blind.
Star-crossed (a.) Not favored by the stars; ill-fated.
Star-read (n.) Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy.
Star-spangled (a.) Spangled or studded with stars.
Starblowlines (n. pl.) The men in the starboard watch.
Starboard (a.) Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard quarter; starboard tack.
Starboard (v. t.) That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port.
Starboard (v. t.) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.
Starch (a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
Starch (n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
Starch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
Starched (a.) Stiff; precise; formal.
Starched (a.) Stiffened with starch.
Starched (imp. & p. p.) of Starch
Starchedness (n.) The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.
Starcher (n.) One who starches.
Starching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starch
Starchly (adv.) In a starched or starch manner.
Starchness (n.) Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
Starchwort (n.) The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.
Starchy (a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
Starcraft (n.) Astrology.
Stare (n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
Stare (n.) The starling.
Stare (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
Stare (v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
Stare (v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
stared (imp. & p. p.) of Stare
Starer (n.) One who stares, or gazes.
Starf (imp.) Starved.
Starfinch (n.) The European redstart.
Starfish (n.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.
Stargaser (n.) One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.
Stargasing (n.) The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.
staring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stare
Staringly (adv.) With a staring look.
Stark (adv.) Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
Stark (n.) Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.
Stark (n.) Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
Stark (n.) Severe; violent; fierce.
Stark (n.) Stiff; rigid.
Stark (n.) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
Stark (v. t.) To stiffen.
Starkly (adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.
Starkness (n.) The quality or state of being stark.
Starless (a.) Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.
Starlight (a.) Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
Starlight (n.) The light given by the stars.
Starlike (a.) Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Starlike (a.) Shining; bright; illustrious.
Starling (n.) A California fish; the rock trout.
Starling (n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Starlit (a.) Lighted by the stars; starlight.
Starmonger (n.) A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt.
Starn (n.) The European starling.
Starnose (n.) A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.
Starost (n.) A nobleman who possessed a starosty.
Starosty (n.) A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.
Starproof (a.) Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm.
Starred (a.) Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.
Starred (a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars.
Starred (imp. & p. p.) of Star
Starriness (n.) The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.
Starring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Star
Starry (a.) Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
Starry (a.) Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.
Starry (a.) Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
Starry (a.) Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
Starshine (n.) The light of the stars.
Starshoot (n.) See Nostoc.
Starstone (n.) Asteriated sapphire.
Start (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
Start (n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
Start (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
Start (n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.
Start (v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
Start (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Start (v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
Start (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
Start (v. i.) To leap; to jump.
Start (v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
Start (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
Start (v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Start (v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
Start (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
Start (v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
Start (v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
Start-up (a.) Upstart.
Start-up (n.) A kind of high rustic shoe.
Start-up (n.) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
started (imp. & p. p.) of Start
Starter (n.) A dog that rouses game.
Starter (n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
Startful (a.) Apt to start; skittish.
Startfulness (n.) Aptness to start.
Starthroat (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
Starting () a. & n. from Start, v.
starting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Start
Startingly (adv.) By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
Startish (a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
Startle (n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
Startle (v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.
Startle (v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
Startle (v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Startled (imp. & p. p.) of Startle
Startling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startle
Startlingly (adv.) In a startling manner.
Startlish (a.) Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
Starvation (n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
Starve (v. i.) To die; to perish.
Starve (v. i.) To perish or die with cold.
Starve (v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
Starve (v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
Starve (v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
Starve (v. t.) To destroy with cold.
Starve (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
Starved (imp. & p. p.) of Starve
Starvedly (adv.) In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
Starveling (a.) Hungry; lean; pining with want.
Starveling (n.) One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.
Starving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starve
Starwort (n.) A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.
Starwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.
Stasimon (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.
Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
Stasmia (pl. ) of Stasimon
Statable (a.) That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
Statal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government.
Statant (a.) In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
Statarian (a.) Fixed; settled; steady; statary.
Statarianly (adv.) Fixedly; steadly.
Statary (a.) Fixed; settled.
State (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
State (a.) Stately.
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
State (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
State (n.) A person of high rank.
State (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
State (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
State (n.) Estate, possession.
State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
State (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
State (n.) The principal persons in a government.
State (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
State (v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
Statecraft (n.) The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
Stated (a.) Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.
Stated (a.) Settled; established; fixed.
Stated (imp. & p. p.) of State
Statedly (adv.) At stated times; regularly.
Stateful (a.) Full of state; stately.
Statehood (n.) The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
Statehouse (n.) The building in which a State legislature holds its sessions; a State capitol.
Stateless (a.) Without state or pomp.
Statelily (adv.) In a stately manner.
Stateliness (n.) The quality or state of being stately.
Stately (adv.) Majestically; loftily.
Stately (superl.) Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.
Statement (n.) That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital.
Statement (n.) The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
Statemonger (n.) One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
Stateprison () See under State, n.
Stater (n.) One who states.
Stateroom (n.) A magnificent room in a place or great house.
Stateroom (n.) A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.
States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
States-general (n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.
Statesman (n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
Statesman (n.) A small landholder.
Statesman (n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
Statesmanlike (a.) Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
Statesmanly (a.) Becoming a statesman.
Statesmanship (n.) The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
Statesmen (pl. ) of Statesman
Stateswoman (n.) A woman concerned in public affairs.
Stateswomen (pl. ) of Stateswoman
Stathmograph (n.) A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.
Static (a.) Alt. of Statical
Statical (a.) Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.
Statical (a.) Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.
Statically (adv.) In a statical manner.
Statics (n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.
Stating (n.) The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.
Stating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of State
Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Station (n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
Station (n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
Station (n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
Station (n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
Station (n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
Station (n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
Station (n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
Station (n.) Situation; position; location.
Station (n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.
Station (n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
Station (n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
Station (n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
Station (n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
Station (n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
Station (n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
Station (v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
Stational (a.) Of or pertaining to a station.
Stationariness (n.) The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
Stationary (a.) Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
Stationary (a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
Stationary (a.) Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
Stationary (n.) One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
Stationed (imp. & p. p.) of Station
Stationer (a.) A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.
Stationer (a.) One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
Stationery (a.) Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
Stationery (n.) The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
Stationing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Station
Statism (n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.
Statist (n.) A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.
Statist (n.) A statistician.
Statistic (a.) Alt. of Statistical
Statistical (a.) Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.
Statistically (adv.) In the way of statistics.
Statistician (n.) One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.
Statistics (n.) The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
Statistics (n.) The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
Statistology (n.) See Statistics, 2.
Stative (a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.
Statocracy (n.) Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power.
Statua (n.) A statue.
Statuaries (pl. ) of Statuary
Statuary (n.) A collection of statues; statues, collectively.
Statuary (n.) One who practices the art of making statues.
Statuary (n.) The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.
Statue (n.) A portrait.
Statue (n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
Statue (v. t.) To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.
Statued (a.) Adorned with statues.
Statued (imp. & p. p.) of Statue
Statueless (a.) Without a statue.
Statuelike (a.) Like a statue; motionless.
Statuesque (a.) Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
Statuesquely (adv.) In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.
Statuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Statue
Statuminate (v. t.) To prop or support.
Stature (n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
Statured (a.) Arrived at full stature.
Status (n.) State; condition; position of affairs.
Status in quo () Alt. of Status quo
Statutable (a.) Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.
Statutable (a.) Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.
Statutably (adv.) Conformably to statute.
Statute (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
Statute (a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
Statutory (a.) Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
Staunch () Alt. of Staunchness
Staunchly () Alt. of Staunchness
Staunchness () See Stanch, Stanchly, etc.
Staurolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
Stauroscope (n.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
Staurotide (n.) Staurolite.
Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Stave (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
Stave (n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
Stave (n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
Stave (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
Stave (n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Staved (imp. & p. p.) of Stave
Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.
Staves (pl. ) of Staff
Staves (pl.) pl. of Stave.
Stavesacre (n.) A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.
Stavewood (n.) A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
Staving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stave
Staw (v. i.) To be fixed or set; to stay.
Stay (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
Stay (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
Stay (n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.
Stay (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
Stay (n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Stay (n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.
Stay (v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
Stay (v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.
Stay (v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.
Stay (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.
Stay (v. i.) To continue in a state.
Stay (v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.
Stay (v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
Stay (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
Stay (v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.
Stay (v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
Stay (v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.
Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
Stay (v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
Stay (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
Stay (v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
Stay (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
Stayed (a.) Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.
Stayed (imp. & p. p.) of Stay
Stayedly (adv.) Staidly. See Staidly.
Stayedness (n.) Solidity; weight.
Stayedness (n.) Staidness.
Stayer (n.) One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.
Staying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stay
Staylace (n.) A lace for fastening stays.
Stayless (a.) Without stop or delay.
Staymaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make stays.
Staynil (n.) The European starling.
Staysail (n.) Any sail extended on a stay.
Stayship (n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Stead (n.) A farmhouse and offices.
Stead (n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
Stead (n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
Stead (n.) Place, or spot, in general.
Stead (v. t.) To fill place of.
Stead (v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
Steadfast (a.) Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm.
Steadfast (a.) Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady.
Steadfastly (adv.) In a steadfast manner; firmly.
Steadfastness (n.) The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.
Steadied (imp. & p. p.) of Steady
Steadily (adv.) In a steady manner.
Steadiness (n.) The quality or state of being steady.
Steading (n.) The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.
Steady (n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
Steady (n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
Steady (n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
Steady (v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
Steady (v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
Steadying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steady
Steak (v. t.) A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.
Steal (n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.
Steal (v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
Steal (v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
Steal (v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
Steal (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
Steal (v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
Steal (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
Stealer (n.) One who steals; a thief.
Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Stealing (n.) That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Stealing (n.) The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
Stealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steal
Stealingly (adv.) By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion.
Stealth (v. t.) The act of stealing; theft.
Stealth (v. t.) The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
Stealth (v. t.) The thing stolen; stolen property.
Stealthful (a.) Given to stealth; stealthy.
Stealthily (adv.) In a stealthy manner.
Stealthiness (n.) The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
Steam (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
Steam (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
Steam (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.
Steam (v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
Steam (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam.
Steam (v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
Steam (v. t.) To exhale.
Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
Steam engine () An engine moved by steam.
Steamboat (n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
Steamboating (n.) The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards.
Steamed (imp. & p. p.) of Steam
Steamer (n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
Steamer (n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
Steamer (n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
Steamer (n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
Steamer (n.) The steamer duck.
Steaminess (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
Steaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steam
Steamship (n.) A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
Steamy (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.
Stean (n. & v.) See Steen.
Steaningp (n.) See Steening.
Steapsin (n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.
Stearate (n.) A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
Stearic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.
Stearolic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.
Stearone (n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
Stearoptene (n.) The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elaeoptene.
Stearrhea (n.) seborrhea.
Stearyl (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.
Steatite (n.) A massive variety of talc, of a grayish green or brown color. It forms extensive beds, and is quarried for fireplaces and for coarse utensils. Called also potstone, lard stone, and soapstone.
Steatitic (n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.
Steatoma (n.) A cyst containing matter like suet.
Steatomatous (a.) Of the nature of steatoma.
Steatopyga (n.) A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.
Steatopygous (a.) Having fat buttocks.
Sted (adv.) Alt. of Stedfastly
Stedfast (adv.) Alt. of Stedfastly
Stedfastly (adv.) See Stead, Steadfast, etc.
Stee (n.) A ladder.
Steed (n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
Steedless (a.) Having no steed; without a horse.
Steek (v. t.) Alt. of Steik
Steel (n.) A chalybeate medicine.
Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
Steel (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
Steel (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
Steel (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
Steel (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
Steel (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
Steel (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
Steelbow goods () Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
Steeled (imp. & p. p.) of Steel
Steeler (n.) One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
Steeler (n.) Same as Stealer.
Steelhead (n.) A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
Steelhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
Steeliness (n.) The quality of being steely.
Steeling (n.) The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
Steeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steel
Steely (a.) Made of steel; consisting of steel.
Steely (a.) Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.
Steem (n. & v.) See 1st and 2nd Stem.
Steem (n. & v.) See Esteem.
Steem (n.) A gleam of light; flame.
Steem (v. i.) To gleam.
Steen (n.) A vessel of clay or stone.
Steen (n.) A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.
Steen (v. t.) To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.
Steenbok (n.) Same as Steinbock.
Steening (n.) A lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well.
Steenkirk (n.) Alt. of Steinkirk
Steep (a.) Bright; glittering; fiery.
Steep (n.) A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
Steep (n.) A rennet bag.
Steep (n.) Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.
Steep (v. i.) To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.
Steep (v. t.) Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
Steep (v. t.) Excessive; as, a steep price.
Steep (v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
Steep-down (a.) Deep and precipitous, having steep descent.
Steep-up (a.) Lofty and precipitous.
Steeped (imp. & p. p.) of Steep
Steepen (v. i.) To become steep or steeper.
Steepened (imp. & p. p.) of Steepen
Steepening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steepen
Steeper (n.) A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
Steepiness (n.) Steepness.
Steeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steep
Steepish (a.) Somewhat steep.
Steeple (n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
Steeple-crowned (a.) Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.
Steeple-crowned (a.) Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown.
Steeplechasing (n.) The act of riding steeple chases.
Steepled (a.) Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.
Steeply (adv.) In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
Steepness (n.) Height; loftiness.
Steepness (n.) Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.
Steepy (a.) Steep; precipitous.
Steer (a.) A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.
Steer (n.) A helmsman, a pilot.
Steer (n.) To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water.
Steer (v. i.) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.
Steer (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.
Steer (v. i.) To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.
Steer (v. t.) A rudder or helm.
Steer (v. t.) To castrate; -- said of male calves.
Steerable (a.) Capable of being steered; dirigible.
Steerage (n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
Steerage (n.) That by which a course is directed.
Steerage (n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
Steerage (n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
Steerage (n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
Steerageway (n.) A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.
Steered (imp. & p. p.) of Steer
Steerer (n.) One who steers; as, a boat steerer.
Steering () a. & n. from Steer, v.
Steering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steer
Steerless (a.) Having no rudder.
Steerling (n.) A young small steer.
Steersman (n.) One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel.
Steersmate (n.) One who steers; steersman.
Steersmen (pl. ) of Steersman
Steeve (n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.
Steeve (n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving.
Steeve (v. i.) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
Steeve (v. t.) To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
Steeve (v. t.) To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).
Steeved (imp. & p. p.) of Steeve
Steeving (n.) See Steeve, n. (a).
Steeving (n.) The act or practice of one who steeves.
Steeving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steeve
Steg (n.) A gander.
Steganographist (n.) One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.
Steganography (n.) The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.
Steganophthalmata (n. pl.) The Discophora, or Phanerocarpae. Called also Steganophthalmia.
Steganopod (n.) One of the Steganopodes.
Steganopodes (n. pl.) A division of swimming birds in which all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans, cormorants, gannets, and others.
Steganopodous (a.) Having all four toes webbed together.
Stegnosis (n.) Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.
Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally.
Stegnotic (n.) A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.
Stegocephala (n. pl.) An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.
Stegosauria (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.
Stegosaurus (n.) A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.
Steik (v. t.) See Steek.
Steik (v. t.) To pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to sew; also, to fix; to fasten.
Stein (n. & v.) See Steen.
Steinbock (n.) A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.
Steinbock (n.) The European ibex.
Steingale (n.) The stannel.
Steining (n.) See Steening.
Steinkirk (n.) A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.
Steinkirk (n.) Same as Steenkirk.
Steinkle (n.) The wheater.
Stela (n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.
Stelae (pl. ) of Stela
Stele (n.) A stale, or handle; a stalk.
Stele (n.) Same as Stela.
Stelene (a.) Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.
Stell (v. t.) A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
Stell (v. t.) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
Stell (v. t.) To place or fix firmly or permanently.
Stellar (a.) Alt. of Stellary
Stellary (a.) Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.
Stellary (a.) Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.
Stellate (a.) Alt. of Stellated
Stellated (a.) Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
Stellated (a.) Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.
Stellation (n.) Radiation of light.
Stelled (a.) Firmly placed or fixed.
Steller (n.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine.
Stellerid (n.) A starfish.
Stellerida (n. pl.) An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
Stelleridan (n.) Alt. of Stelleridean
Stelleridean (n.) A starfish, or brittle star.
Stelliferous (a.) Having, or abounding with, stars.
Stelliform (a.) Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.
Stellify (v. t.) To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.
Stellion (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.
Stellionate (n.) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
Stellular (a.) Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.
Stellular (a.) Marked with starlike spots of color.
Stellulate (a.) Minutely stellate.
Stelmatopoda (n. pl.) Same as Gymnolaemata.
Stelography (n.) The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
Stem (n.) A branch of a family.
Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
Stem (n.) Alt. of Steem
Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
Stem (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Stem (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Stem (n.) The entire central axis of a feather.
Stem (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
Stem (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
Stem (v. i.) Alt. of Steem
Stem (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
Stem (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
Stem-clasping (a.) Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch.
Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
Stemless (a.) Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.
Stemlet (n.) A small or young stem.
Stemma (n.) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
Stemma (n.) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.
Stemmata (pl. ) of Stemma
Stemmed (imp. & p. p.) of Stem
Stemmer (n.) One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).
Stemmery (n.) A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.
Stemming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stem
Stemmy (a.) Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc.
Stemple (n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
Stemson (n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
Stench (n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
Stench (v. i.) A smell; an odor.
Stench (v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
Stench (v. t.) To stanch.
Stenchy (a.) Having a stench.
Stencil (n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
Stencil (v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Stenciled (imp. & p. p.) of Stencil
Stenciler (n.) One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil.
Stenciling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stencil
Stencilled () of Stencil
Stencilling () of Stencil
Stenoderm (n.) Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.
Stenodermine (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.
Stenograph (n.) A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
Stenograph (v. t.) To write or report in stenographic characters.
Stenographed (imp. & p. p.) of Stenograph
Stenographer (n.) One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.
Stenographic (a.) Alt. of Stenographical
Stenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to stenography.
Stenographing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stenograph
Stenographist (n.) A stenographer.
Stenography (n.) The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.
Stenophyllous (a.) Having narrow leaves.
Stenostome (a.) Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.
Stent (n.) An allotted portion; a stint.
Stent (obs. p. p.) of Stent
Stent (v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
Stent (v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
Stente (Obs. imp.) of Stent
Stenting (n.) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.
Stentor (n.) A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.
Stentor (n.) A howling monkey, or howler.
Stentorian (a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Stentorin (n.) A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.
Stentorious (a.) Stentorian.
Stentoronic (a.) Stentorian.
Stentorophonic (a.) Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.
Step (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
Step (a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
Step (a.) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Step (a.) To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
Step (v. i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
Step (v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Step (v. i.) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Step (v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
Step (v. i.) A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
Step (v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
Step (v. i.) Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
Step (v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
Step (v. i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
Step (v. i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
Step (v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
Step (v. i.) Walk; passage.
Step (v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
Step (v. t.) To set, as the foot.
Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.
Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
Stepchild (n.) A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Stepdame (n.) A stepmother.
Stepdaughter (n.) A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Stepfather (n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
Stephanion (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.
Stephanite (n.) A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.
Stephanotis (n.) A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.
Stephanotis (n.) A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.
Stepladder (n.) A portable set of steps.
Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Stepparent (n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
Steppe (n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
Stepped (a.) Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
Stepped (imp. & p. p.) of Step
Stepper (n.) One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
Stepping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Step
Stepping-stone (n.) A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.
Stepping-stone (n.) Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
Stepsister (n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Stepson (n.) A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
Stepstone (n.) A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
Stercobilin (n.) A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.
Stercolin (n.) Same as Serolin (b).
Stercoraceous (a.) Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.
Stercoranism (n.) The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.
Stercoranist (n.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.
Stercorarian (n.) A Stercoranist.
Stercorary (n.) A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.
Stercorate (n.) Excrement; dung.
Stercoration (n.) Manuring with dung.
Stercorianism (n.) The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.
Stercorin (n.) Same as Serolin (b).
Stercory (n.) Excrement; dung.
Sterculiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.
Stere (n.) A rudder. See 5th Steer.
Stere (n.) A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.
Stere (n.) Helmsman. See 6th Steer.
Stere (v. t. & i.) To stir.
Sterelmintha (n. pl.) Same as Platyelminthes.
Stereo- () A combining form meaning solid, hard, firm, as in stereo-chemistry, stereography.
Stereo-chemic (a.) Alt. of Stereo-chemical
Stereo-chemical (a.) Pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.
Stereo-chemistry (n.) Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.
Stereobate (n.) The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.
Stereochrome (n.) Stereochromic picture.
Stereochromic (a.) Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy.
Stereochromy (n.) A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).
Stereoelectric (a.) Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.
Stereogram (n.) A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.
Stereograph (n.) Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.
Stereographic (a.) Alt. of Stereographical
Stereographical (a.) Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth.
Stereographically (adv.) In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
Stereography (n.) The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.
Stereometer (n.) An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.
Stereometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.
Stereometric (a.) Alt. of Stereometrical
Stereometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry.
Stereometry (n.) The art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.
Stereomonoscope (n.) An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.
Stereoplasm (n.) The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm.
Stereoscopic (a.) Alt. of Stereoscopical
Stereoscopical (a.) Of or pertaining to the stereoscope; characteristic of, or adapted to, the stereoscope; as, a stereoscopic effect; the stereoscopic function of the eyeglasses; stereoscopic views.
Stereoscopist (n.) One skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.
Stereoscopy (n.) The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.
Stereostatic (a.) Geostatic.
Stereotomic (a.) Alt. of Stereotomical
Stereotomical (a.) Of or pertaining to stereotomy; performed by stereotomy.
Stereotomy (n.) The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.
Stereotype (n.) A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.
Stereotype (n.) The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.
Stereotype (v. t.) Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Stereotype (v. t.) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
Stereotyped (a.) Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.
Stereotyped (a.) Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.
Stereotyped (imp. & p. p.) of Stereotype
Stereotyper (n.) One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
Stereotypery (n.) A place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.
Stereotypery (n.) The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.
Stereotypic (a.) Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.
Stereotyping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stereotype
Stereotypist (n.) A stereotyper.
Stereotypographer (n.) A stereotype printer.
Stereotypography (n.) The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
Stereotypy (n.) The art or process of making stereotype plates.
Sterhydraulic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.
Sterile (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
Sterile (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
Sterility (n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
Sterility (n.) The quality or condition of being sterile.
Sterilization (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.
Sterilize (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
Sterilize (v. t.) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
Sterilize (v. t.) To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.
Sterilized (imp. & p. p.) of Sterilize
Sterilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sterilize
Sterlet (n.) A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.
Sterling (a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
Sterling (n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.
Sterling (n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
Sterling (n.) Same as Starling, 3.
Stern (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Stern (n.) The black tern.
Stern (v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
Stern (v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
Stern (v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
Stern (v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
Stern (v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
Stern-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.
Stern-wheeler (n.) A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.
Sterna (pl. ) of Sternum
Sternage (n.) Stern.
Sternal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.
Sternbergite (n.) A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.
Sternebra (n.) One of the segments of the sternum.
Sternebrae (pl. ) of Sternebra
Sterned (a.) Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
Sterner (n.) A director.
Sternforemost (adv.) With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.
Sternite (n.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.
Sternly (adv.) In a stern manner.
Sternmost (a.) Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
Sternness (n.) The quality or state of being stern.
Sterno- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.
Sternocoracoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.
Sternocostal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
Sternohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
Sternomastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
Sternothyroid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
Sternsman (n.) A steersman.
Sternson (n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
Sternum (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
Sternum (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Sternums (pl. ) of Sternum
Sternutation (n.) The act of sneezing.
Sternutative (a.) Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
Sternutatory (a.) Sternutative.
Sternutatory (n.) A sternutatory substance or medicine.
Sternway (n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
Sterquilinous (a.) Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.
Sterre (n.) A star.
Sterrink (n.) The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.
Sterrometal (n.) Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.
Stert (p. p.) Started.
Sterte () p. p. of Start.
Stertorious (a.) Stertorous.
Stertorous (a.) Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
Sterve (v. t. & i.) To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.
Stet (subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
Stet (v. t.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
Stethal (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.
Stethograph (n.) See Pneumatograph.
Stethometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.
Stethoscope (n.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
Stethoscope (v. t.) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
Stethoscopic (a.) Alt. of Stethoscopical
Stethoscopical (a.) Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.
Stethoscopist (n.) One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.
Stethoscopy (n.) The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.
Stetted (imp. & p. p.) of Stet
Stetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stet
Steve (v. t.) To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.
Stevedore (n.) One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.
Steven (n.) An outcry; a loud call; a clamor.
Steven (n.) Voice; speech; language.
Stew (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
Stew (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
Stew (v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
Stew (v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
Stew (v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
Stew (v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
Stew (v. t.) A prostitute.
Stew (v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
Stew (v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
Steward (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
Steward (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
Steward (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
Steward (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
Steward (v. t.) To manage as a steward.
Stewardess (n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
Stewardly (adv.) In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.
Stewardship (n.) The office of a steward.
Stewartry (n.) An overseer or superintendent.
Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.
Stewartry (n.) The office of a steward; stewardship.
Stewed (imp. & p. p.) of Stew
Stewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stew
Stewish (a.) Suiting a stew, or brothel.
Stewpan (n.) A pan used for stewing.
Stewpot (n.) A pot used for stewing.
Stey (n.) See Stee.
Sthenic (a.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.
Stiacciato (n.) The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Stian (n.) A sty on the eye. See Styan.
Stibborn (a.) Stubborn.
Stibial (a.) Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.
Stibialism (n.) Antimonial intoxication or poisoning.
Stibiated (a.) Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).
Stibic (a.) Antimonic; -- used with reference to certain compounds of antimony.
Stibiconite (n.) A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.
Stibine (n.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.
Stibious (a.) Antimonious.
Stibium (n.) Stibnite.
Stibium (n.) The technical name of antimony.
Stibnite (n.) A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.
Stibonium (n.) The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.
Stich (n.) A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
Stich (n.) A row, line, or rank of trees.
Stich (n.) A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
Stichic (a.) Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
Stichida (pl. ) of Stichidium
Stichidium (n.) A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.
Stichomancy (n.) Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.
Stichometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.
Stichometry (n.) Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
Stichometry (n.) Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
Stichwort (n.) A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea).
Stick (n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
Stick (n.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.
Stick (n.) To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.
Stick (n.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
Stick (n.) To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.
Stick (n.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
Stick (n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
Stick (n.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.
Stick (n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
Stick (n.) To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.
Stick (n.) To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.
Stick (v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.
Stick (v. i.) To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.
Stick (v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
Stick (v. i.) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
Stick (v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
Stick (v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
Stick (v. t.) A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
Stick (v. t.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
Stick (v. t.) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
Stick (v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
Stick (v. t.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
Stick-lac (n.) See the Note under Lac.
Stick-seed (n.) A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
Stick-tight (n.) Beggar's ticks.
Sticked () of Stick
Sticked (imp.) Stuck.
Sticker (n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
Sticker (n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
Sticker (n.) Same as Paster, 2.
Sticker (n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
Stickful (n.) As much set type as fills a composing stick.
Stickfuls (pl. ) of Stickful
Stickiness (n.) The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
Sticking () a. & n. from Stick, v.
Sticking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stick
Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.
Stickle (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickle
Stickler (v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
Stickler (v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
Stickler (v. t.) One who stickles.
Stickling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stickle
Sticktail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Sticky (superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Stiddy (n.) An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.
Stied (imp. & p. p.) of Sty
Sties (pl. ) of Sty
Stiff (superl.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Stiff (superl.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Stiff (superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Stiff (superl.) Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Stiff (superl.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Stiff (superl.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Stiff (superl.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Stiff-neckedness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
Stiff-tailed (a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
Stiffen (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
Stiffen (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
Stiffen (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.
Stiffened (imp. & p. p.) of Stiffen
Stiffener (n.) One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Stiffening (n.) Act or process of making stiff.
Stiffening (n.) Something used to make anything stiff.
Stiffening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiffen
Stiffish (a.) Somewhat stiff.
Stiffly (adv.) In a stiff manner.
Stiffness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Stifle (n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
Stifle (v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
Stifle (v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
Stifled (a.) Stifling.
Stifled (imp. & p. p.) of Stifle
Stifler (n.) One who, or that which, stifles.
Stifler (n.) See Camouflet.
Stifling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stifle
Stigma (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
Stigma (v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
Stigma (v. t.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
Stigma (v. t.) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
Stigma (v. t.) Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
Stigma (v. t.) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
Stigma (v. t.) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
Stigma (v. t.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
Stigma (v. t.) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
Stigmaria (n.) The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Stigmas (pl. ) of Stigma
Stigmata (n.) pl. of Stigma.
Stigmata (pl. ) of Stigma
Stigmatic (a.) Alt. of Stigmatical
Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
Stigmatic (n.) A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
Stigmatic (n.) A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
Stigmatical (a.) Impressing with infamy or reproach.
Stigmatical (a.) Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
Stigmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
Stigmatically (adv.) With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.
Stigmatist (n.) One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8.
Stigmatization (n.) The act of stigmatizing.
Stigmatization (n.) The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma, 8.
Stigmatize (v. t.) To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
Stigmatize (v. t.) To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
Stigmatized (imp. & p. p.) of Stigmatize
Stigmatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stigmatize
Stigmatose (a.) Same as Stigmatic.
Stigonomancy (n.) Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.
Stike (n.) Stanza.
Stilar (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of a dial.
Stilbene (n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.
Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style.
Stile (n.) Mode of composition. See Style.
Stile (v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall.
Stile (v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.
Stilet (n.) A stiletto.
Stilet (n.) See Stylet, 2.
Stiletto (n.) A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
Stiletto (n.) A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
Stiletto (n.) A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
Stiletto (v. t.) To stab or kill with a stiletto.
Stilettoed (imp. & p. p.) of Stiletto
Stilettoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stiletto
Stilettos (pl. ) of Stiletto
Still (a.) After that; after what is stated.
Still (a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.
Still (a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
Still (a.) In the future as now and before.
Still (a.) Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.
Still (a.) To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
Still (a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.
Still (a.) To stop, as noise; to silence.
Still (a.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
Still (adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
Still (adv.) Constant; continual.
Still (adv.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
Still (adv.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
Still (adv.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
Still (adv.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
Still (n.) A steep hill or ascent.
Still (n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
Still (v. i.) To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.
Still (v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.
Still (v. t.) To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
Still (v.) A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
Still (v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.
Still-burn (p. pr. & vb. n.) To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
Still-closing (a.) Ever closing.
Still-hunt (n.) A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously.
Stillage (n.) A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.
Stillatitious (a.) Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
Stillatory (a.) A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed.
Stillatory (a.) An alembic; a vessel for distillation.
Stillbirth (n.) The birth of a dead fetus.
Stillborn (a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
Stillborn (a.) Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.
Stilled (imp. & p. p.) of Still
Stiller (n.) One who stills, or quiets.
Stillhouse (n.) A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.
Stillicide (n.) A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.
Stillicidious (a.) Falling in drops.
Stilliform (a.) Having the form of a drop.
Stilling (n.) A stillion.
Stilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Still
Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
Stillness (n.) Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
Stillness (n.) The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
Stillroom (n.) A room for distilling.
Stillroom (n.) An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept.
Stillstand (n.) A standstill.
Stilly (a.) Still; quiet; calm.
Stilly (adv.) In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly.
Stilpnomelane (n.) A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.
Stilt (n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
Stilt (n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
Stilt (n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
Stilt (v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.
Stiltbird (n.) See Stilt, n., 3.
Stilted (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
Stilted (imp. & p. p.) of Stilt
Stiltify (v. t.) To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.
Stilting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stilt
Stilty (a.) Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
Stime (n.) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.
Stimulant (a.) Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
Stimulant (a.) Serving to stimulate.
Stimulant (n.) An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.
Stimulant (n.) That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.
Stimulate (v. t.) To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.
Stimulate (v. t.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.
Stimulated (imp. & p. p.) of Stimulate
Stimulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stimulate
Stimulation (n.) The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.
Stimulative (a.) Having the quality of stimulating.
Stimulative (n.) That which stimulates.
Stimulator (n.) One who stimulates.
Stimulatress (n.) A woman who stimulates.
Stimuli (pl. ) of Stimulus
Stimulism (n.) The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants.
Stimulism (n.) The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.
Stimulus (v. t.) A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.
Sting (v. t.) A goad; incitement.
Sting (v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
Sting (v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
Sting (v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
Sting (v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
Sting (v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
Sting (v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
Sting (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
Stingaree (n.) Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.
Stingbull (n.) The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco), which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
Stinger (n.) One who, or that which, stings.
Stingfish (n.) The weever.
Stingily (adv.) In a stingy manner.
Stinginess (n.) The quality or state of being stingy.
Stinging (a.) Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.
Stinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sting
Stingless (a.) Having no sting.
Stingo (n.) Old beer; sharp or strong liquor.
Stingtail (n.) A sting ray.
Stingy (a.) Stinging; able to sting.
Stingy (superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
Stink (n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
Stink (v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
Stink (v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
Stinkard (n.) A mean, stinking, paltry fellow.
Stinkard (n.) The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.
Stinkball (n.) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
Stinker (n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
Stinker (n.) One who, or that which, stinks.
Stinkhorn (n.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.
Stinking () a. & n. from Stink, v.
Stinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stink
Stinkingly (adv.) In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.
Stinkpot (n.) A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.
Stinkpot (n.) An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.
Stinkpot (n.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.
Stinkstone (n.) One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.
Stinkweed (n.) Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
Stinkwood (n.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Stint (n.) A phalarope.
Stint (n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
Stint (v. i.) To stop; to cease.
Stint (v. t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
Stint (v. t.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Stint (v. t.) To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
Stint (v. t.) To put an end to; to stop.
Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Stint (v. t.) To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.
Stinted (imp. & p. p.) of Stint
Stintedness (n.) The state of being stinted.
Stinter (n.) One who, or that which, stints.
Stinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stint
Stintless (a.) Without stint or restraint.
Stipe (n.) The stalk of a pistil.
Stipe (n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
Stipe (n.) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
Stipe (n.) The trunk of a tree.
Stipel (n.) The stipule of a leaflet.
Stipellate (a.) Having stipels.
Stipend (n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
Stipend (v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Stipendiarian (a.) Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary.
Stipendiaries (pl. ) of Stipendiary
Stipendiary (a.) Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation.
Stipendiary (n.) One who receives a stipend.
Stipendiate (v. t.) To provide with a stipend, or salary; to support; to pay.
Stipendless (a.) Having no stipend.
Stipes (n.) An eyestalk.
Stipes (n.) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
Stipitate (a.) Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.
Stipites (pl. ) of Stipes
Stipitiform (a.) Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.
Stipple (n.) Alt. of Stippling
Stipple (v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
Stipple (v. t.) To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
Stippled (imp. & p. p.) of Stipple
Stippling (n.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
Stippling (n.) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
Stippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stipple
Stiptic (a. & n.) See Styptic.
Stipula (n.) A newly sprouted feather.
Stipula (n.) A stipule.
Stipulaceous (a.) Alt. of Stipular
Stipulae (pl. ) of Stipula
Stipular (a.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.
Stipulary (a.) Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.
Stipulas (pl. ) of Stipula
Stipulate (a.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
Stipulate (v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.
Stipulated (imp. & p. p.) of Stipulate
Stipulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stipulate
Stipulation (n.) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
Stipulation (n.) The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
Stipulation (n.) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
Stipulator (n.) One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.
Stipule (n.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.
Stipuled (a.) Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.
Stir (n.) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Stir (n.) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
Stir (n.) The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
Stir (v. i.) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
Stir (v. i.) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
Stir (v. i.) To move; to change one's position.
Stir (v. i.) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
Stir (v. t.) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
Stir (v. t.) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
Stir (v. t.) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
Stir (v. t.) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
Stirabout (n.) A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
Stiriated (a.) Adorned with pendants like icicles.
Stirious (a.) Resembling icicles.
Stirk (n.) A young bullock or heifer.
Stirless (a.) Without stirring; very quiet; motionless.
Stirp (n.) Stock; race; family.
Stirpes (pl. ) of Stirps
Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.
Stirps (n.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Stirps (n.) Stock; race; family.
Stirrage (n.) The act of stirring; stir; commotion.
Stirred (imp. & p. p.) of Stir
Stirrer (n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.
Stirring (a.) Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.
Stirring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stir
Stirrup (v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
Stirrup (v. i.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.
Stirt (v. i.) Started; leaped.
Stirte () imp. of Start, v. i. & t.
Stitch (v. i.) A contortion, or twist.
Stitch (v. i.) A furrow.
Stitch (v. i.) A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
Stitch (v. i.) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
Stitch (v. i.) A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
Stitch (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
Stitch (v. i.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.
Stitch (v. i.) To practice stitching, or needlework.
Stitch (v. t.) To form land into ridges.
Stitch (v. t.) To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
Stitch (v. t.) To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
Stitched (imp. & p. p.) of Stitch
Stitchel (n.) A kind of hairy wool.
Stitcher (n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.
Stitchery (n.) Needlework; -- in contempt.
Stitching (n.) The act of one who stitches.
Stitching (n.) Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.
Stitching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stitch
Stitchwort (n.) See Stichwort.
Stith (a.) Strong; stiff; rigid.
Stith (n.) An anvil; a stithy.
Stithy (n.) A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge.
Stithy (n.) An anvil.
Stithy (v. t.) To forge on an anvil.
Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
Stive (v. i.) To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive (v. t.) To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
Stived (imp. & p. p.) of Stive
Stiver (n.) A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.
Stives (n. pl.) Stews; a brothel.
Stiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stive
Stoak (v. t.) To stop; to choke.
Stoat (n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
Stocah (n.) A menial attendant.
Stoccade (n. & v.) See Stockade.
Stoccado (n.) A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
Stochastic (a.) Conjectural; able to conjecture.
Stock (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.
Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
Stock (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
Stock (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
Stock (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
Stock (n.) A race or variety in a species.
Stock (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
Stock (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
Stock (n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
Stock (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Stock (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
Stock (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
Stock (n.) Same as Stock account, below.
Stock (n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
Stock (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
Stock (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
Stock (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
Stock (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
Stock (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
Stock (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
Stock (v. t.) To put in the stocks.
Stock (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
Stock-blind (a.) Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
Stock-still (a.) Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
Stockade (v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
Stockade (v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
Stockade (v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
Stockaded (imp. & p. p.) of Stockade
Stockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stockade
Stockbroker (n.) A broker who deals in stocks.
Stockdove (n.) A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.
Stocked (imp. & p. p.) of Stock
Stocker (n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
Stockfish (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
Stockfish (n.) Young fresh cod.
Stockholder (n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
Stockinet (n.) An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
Stocking (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
Stocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stock
Stocking (v. t.) To dress in GBs.
Stockinger (n.) A stocking weaver.
Stockish (a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
Stockjobber (n.) One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
Stockjobbing (n.) The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
Stockman (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.
Stockmen (pl. ) of Stockman
Stockwork (n.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.
Stockwork (n.) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
Stocky (a.) Headstrong.
Stocky (a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
Stodgy (a.) Wet.
Stoechiology (n.) Alt. of Stoechiometry
Stoechiometry (n.) See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc.
Stoic (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
Stoic (n.) Alt. of Stoical
Stoic (n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
Stoical (n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
Stoical (n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
Stoichiological (a.) Of or pertaining to stoichiology.
Stoichiology (n.) That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.
Stoichiology (n.) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought.
Stoichiology (n.) The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.
Stoichiometric (a.) Alt. of Stoichiometrical
Stoichiometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.
Stoichiometry (n.) The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.
Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Stoicism (n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
Stoicity (n.) Stoicism.
Stoke (v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
Stoke (v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
Stoke (v. t.) To stick; to thrust; to stab.
Stokehole (n.) The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.
Stoker (v. t.) A fire poker.
Stoker (v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
Stokey (a.) Close; sultry.
Stola (n.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.
Stolae (pl. ) of Stola
Stole () imp. of Steal.
Stole (imp.) of Steal
Stole (n.) A long, loose garment reaching to the feet.
Stole (n.) A stolon.
Stoled (a.) Having or wearing a stole.
Stolen () p. p. of Steal.
Stolen (p. p.) of Steal
Stolid (a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Stolidity (n.) The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.
Stolidness (n.) Same as Stolidity.
Stolon (n.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
Stoma (n.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.
Stoma (n.) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.
Stoma (n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
Stomach (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
Stomach (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
Stomach (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
Stomach (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
Stomachic (n.) A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
Stomachical (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.
Stomachical (a.) Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
Stomaching (n.) Resentment.
Stomaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stomach
Stomachless (a.) Being without a stomach.
Stomachless (a.) Having no appetite.
Stomachous (a.) Stout; sullen; obstinate.
Stomachy (a.) Obstinate; sullen; haughty.
Stomapod (n.) One of the Stomapoda.
Stomata (pl. ) of Stoma
Stomate (n.) A stoma.
Stomatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.
Stomatic (n.) A medicine for diseases of the mouth.
Stomatiferous (a.) Having or producing stomata.
Stomatitis (n.) Inflammation of the mouth.
Stomatoda (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.
Stomatodaeum (n.) Same as Stomodaeum.
Stomatode (a.) Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa.
Stomatode (n.) One of the Stomatoda.
Stomatogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.
Stomatoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
Stomatopod (n.) One of the Stomatopoda.
Stomatopoda (n. pl.) Same as Stomapoda.
Stomatopodous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda.
Stomatoscope (n.) An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.
Stomatous (a.) Having a stoma.
Stomodaeum (n.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.
Stomodaeum (n.) The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods.
Stomp (v. i.) To stamp with the foot.
Stond (n.) A stand; a post; a station.
Stond (n.) Stop; halt; hindrance.
Stond (v. i.) To stand.
Stone (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Stone (n.) A precious stone; a gem.
Stone (n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
Stone (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
Stone (n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
Stone (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
Stone (n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
Stone (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
Stone (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
Stone (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
Stone (n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
Stone (n.) To make like stone; to harden.
Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
Stone (n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Stone (n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
Stone-blind (a.) As blind as a stone; completely blind.
Stone-cold (a.) Cold as a stone.
Stone-dead (a.) As dead as a stone.
Stone-deaf (a.) As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
Stonebird (n.) The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Stonebrash (n.) A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Stonebuck (n.) See Steinbock.
Stonechat (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
Stonechat (n.) The blue titmouse.
Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.
Stonecray (n.) A distemper in hawks.
Stonecrop (n.) A sort of tree.
Stonecrop (n.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine.
Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
Stonecutting (n.) Hewing or dressing stone.
Stoned (imp. & p. p.) of Stone
Stonegall (n.) See Stannel.
Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel.
Stonehenge (n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Stoner (n.) One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.
Stoner (n.) One who walls with stones.
Stoneroot (n.) A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
Stonerunner (n.) The dotterel.
Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel.
Stonesmickle (n.) The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
Stoneware (n.) A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
Stoneweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
Stonework (n.) Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
Stonewort (n.) Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
Stonily (adv.) In a stony manner.
Stoniness (n.) The quality or state of being stony.
Stoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stone
Stonish (a.) Stony.
Stont () 3d pers. sing. present of Stand.
Stont (3d pers. sing. pres.) Stands.
Stony (superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
Stony (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Stony (superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
Stood () imp. & p. p. of Stand.
Stood (imp. & p. p.) of Stand
Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
Stook (v. t.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Stooked (imp. & p. p.) of Stook
Stooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stook
Stool (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
Stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
Stool (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
Stool (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
Stool (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
Stoolball (n.) A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
Stoom (v. t.) To stum.
Stoop (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Stoop (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Stoop (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Stoop (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Stoop (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Stoop (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoop
Stooper (n.) One who stoops.
Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Stooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoop
Stoor (a.) Alt. of Stor
Stoor (v. i.) To rise in clouds, as dust.
Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
Stop (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
Stop (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
Stop (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Stop (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Stop (v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
Stop (v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
Stop-over (a.) Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
Stopcock (n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.
Stopcock (n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
Stope (p. p.) Alt. of Stopen
Stope (v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stope (v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
Stope (v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Stoped (imp. & p. p.) of Stope
Stopen (p. p.) Stepped; gone; advanced.
Stoping (n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Stoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stope
Stopless (a.) Not to be stopped.
Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
Stopped (a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
Stopped (imp. & p. p.) of Stop
Stopper (n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
Stopper (n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
Stopper (n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
Stopper (v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
Stoppered (imp. & p. p.) of Stopper
Stoppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stopper
Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
Stopping (n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
Stopping (n.) Material for filling a cavity.
Stopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop
Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
Stopple (v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.
Stoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Stopple
Stoppling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stopple
Stopship (n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Stor (a.) See Stoor.
Stor (a.) Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.
Storage (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.
Storage (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
Storage (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
Store (a.) Accumulated; hoarded.
Store (v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
Store (v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
Store (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
Store (v. t.) That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
Store (v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Store (v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Store (v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Stored (a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.
Stored (imp. & p. p.) of Store
Storehouse (n.) A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
Storehouse (n.) A mass or quality laid up.
Storekeeper (n.) A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
Storekeeper (n.) One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.
Storer (n.) One who lays up or forms a store.
Storeroom (n.) Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
Storeship (n.) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
Storey (n.) See Story.
Storge (n.) Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.
Storial (a.) Historical.
Storied (a.) Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.
Storied (a.) Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.
Storied (a.) Told in a story.
Storied (imp. & p. p.) of Story
Storier (n.) A relater of stories; an historian.
Stories (pl. ) of Story
Storify (v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
Storing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Store
Stork-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of the stork.
Storm (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
Storm (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
Storm (n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
Storm (n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
Storm (v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
Storm (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
Storm (v. i.) To raise a tempest.
Storm (v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
Storm-beat (a.) Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms.
Stormcock (n.) The fieldfare.
Stormcock (n.) The green woodpecker.
Stormcock (n.) The missel thrush.
Stormed (imp. & p. p.) of Storm
Stormfinch (n.) The storm petrel.
Stormful (a.) Abounding with storms.
Stormglass (n.) A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
Stormily (adv.) In a stormy manner.
Storminess (n.) The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
Storming () a. & n. from Storm, v.
Storming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Storm
Stormless (a.) Without storms.
Stormwind (n.) A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
Stormy (superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
Stormy (superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
Storven () p. p. of Starve.
Story (n.) A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story.
Story (n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
Story (n.) The relation of an incident or minor event; a short narrative; a tale; especially, a fictitious narrative less elaborate than a novel; a short romance.
Story (v. t.) A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
Story (v. t.) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
Story-teller (n.) A euphemism or child's word for
Story-teller (n.) An historian; -- in contempt.
Story-teller (n.) One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.
Story-telling (a.) Being accustomed to tell stories.
Story-telling (n.) The act or practice of telling stories.
Story-writer (n.) An historian; a chronicler.
Story-writer (n.) One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
Storybook (n.) A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
Storying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Story
Stot (n.) A horse.
Stot (n.) A young bull or ox, especially one three years old.
Stote (n.) See Stoat.
Stound (n.) A brief space of time; a moment.
Stound (n.) A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm.
Stound (n.) A vessel for holding small beer.
Stound (n.) Astonishment; amazement.
Stound (n.) Hour; time; season.
Stound (v. i.) Stunned.
Stound (v. i.) To be in pain or sorrow.
Stoup (n.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also holy-water stoup.
Stoup (n.) A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.
Stour (a.) Tall; strong; stern.
Stour (n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
Stout (n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
Stout (superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
Stout-hearted (a.) Having a brave heart; courageous.
Stoutish (a.) Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.
Stoutly (adv.) In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.
Stoutness (n.) The state or quality of being stout.
Stove () imp. of Stave.
Stove () of Stave
Stove (n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
Stove (v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Stove (v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
Stoved (imp. & p. p.) of Stove
Stovehouse (n.) A hothouse.
Stovepipe (n.) Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
Stover (n.) Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Stoving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stove
Stow (v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.
Stow (v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
Stow (v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
Stowage (n.) Money paid for stowing goods.
Stowage (n.) Room in which things may be stowed.
Stowage (n.) The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
Stowage (n.) The state of being stowed, or put away.
Stowage (n.) Things stowed or packed.
Stowaway (n.) One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
Stowboard (n.) A place into which rubbish is put.
Stowce (n.) A windlass.
Stowce (n.) A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.
Stowed (imp. & p. p.) of Stow
Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
Stowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stow
Stowre (a.) See Stour, a.
Stowre (n.) See Stour, n.
Strabism (n.) Strabismus.
Strabismometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.
Strabotomy (n.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Straddle (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
Straddle (n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
Straddle (v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
Straddle (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Straddle (v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
Straddled (imp. & p. p.) of Straddle
Straddling (a.) Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.
Straddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straddle
Stradometrical (a.) Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads.
Straggle (n.) The act of straggling.
Straggle (v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
Straggle (v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
Straggle (v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
Straggle (v. t.) To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
Straggled (imp. & p. p.) of Straggle
Straggler (n.) A roving vagabond.
Straggler (n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
Straggler (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Straggler (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Straggling () a. & n. from Straggle, v.
Straggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straggle
Stragglingly (adv.) In a straggling manner.
Stragula (pl. ) of Stragulum
Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a.
Straight (adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
Straight (n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
Straight (superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.
Straight (superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
Straight (superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
Straight (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.
Straight (superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
Straight (v. t.) To straighten.
Straight-joint (a.) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
Straight-joint (a.) Having straight joints.
Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
Straight-lined (a.) Having straight lines.
Straight-out (a.) Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
Straight-pight (a.) Straight in form or upright in position; erect.
Straight-spoken (a.) Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
Straighted (imp. & p. p.) of Straighten
Straightedge (n.) A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.
Straighten (v. t.) To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.
Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Straightener (n.) One who, or that which, straightens.
Straightforth (adv.) Straightway.
Straightforward (a.) Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
Straightforward (adv.) In a straightforward manner.
Straighthorn (n.) An orthoceras.
Straighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straighten
Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.
Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.
Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.
Straightness (n.) The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
Straightway (adv.) Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
Straightways (adv.) Straightway.
Straik (n.) A strake.
Strain (a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
Strain (a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
Strain (a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
Strain (a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
Strain (a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
Strain (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
Strain (a.) To squeeze; to press closely.
Strain (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
Strain (a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
Strain (n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
Strain (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
Strain (n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.
Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.
Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.
Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.
Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.
Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.
Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.
Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straiten
Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straiten
Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.
Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
Straits (pl. ) of Strait
Strake () imp. of Strike.
Strake (n.) A streak.
Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
Strake (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.
Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.
Strale (n.) Pupil of the eye.
Stram (v. t.) To dash down; to beat.
Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
Stramash (n.) A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.
Stramash (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
Stramazoun (n.) A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Stramineous (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw.
Stramonium (n.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
Stramony (n.) Stramonium.
Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
Strand (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
Strand (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
Stranded (imp. & p. p.) of Strand
Stranding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strand
Strang (a.) Strong.
Strange (adv.) Strangely.
Strange (superl.) Backward; slow.
Strange (superl.) Belonging to another country; foreign.
Strange (superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.
Strange (superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
Strange (superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
Strange (superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
Strange (superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.
Strange (v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.
Strange (v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.
Strange (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.
Strangely (adv.) As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.
Strangely (adv.) In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.
Strangely (adv.) In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.
Strangeness (n.) The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Stranger (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
Stranger (n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
Stranger (n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
Stranger (n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
Stranger (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
Stranger (v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.
Strangle (v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.
Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Strangle (v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
Strangleable (a.) Capable of being strangled.
Strangled (imp. & p. p.) of Strangle
Strangler (n.) One who, or that which, strangles.
Strangles (n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
Strangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strangle
Strangulate (a.) Strangulated.
Strangulated (a.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.
Strangulation (n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
Strangulation (n.) The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
Strangurious (a.) Of or pertaining to strangury.
Strangury (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.
Strany (n.) The guillemot.
Strap (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
Strap (n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
Strap (n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
Strap (n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
Strap (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
Strap (n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
Strap (n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
Strap (n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
Strap (n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
Strap (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
Strap (v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
Strap (v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
Strap-shaped (a.) Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.
Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.
Strappadoes (pl. ) of Strappado
Strapped (imp. & p. p.) of Strap
Strapper (n.) A person or thing of uncommon size.
Strapper (n.) One who uses strap.
Strapping (a.) Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
Strapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strap
Strapple (v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
Strapwork (n.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
Strass (n.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.
Strata (n.) pl. of Stratum.
Strata (pl. ) of Stratum
Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Stratagemical (a.) Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
Stratarithmetry (n.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
Strategetic (a.) Alt. of Strategetical
Strategetical (a.) Strategic.
Strategetics (n.) Strategy.
Strategi (pl. ) of Strategus
Strategic (a.) Alt. of Strategical
Strategical (a.) Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.
Strategics (n.) Strategy.
Strategist (n.) One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.
Strategus (n.) The leader or commander of an army; a general.
Strategy (n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Strath (n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.
Strathspey (n.) A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
Straticulate (a.) Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
Stratification (n.) The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
Stratification (n.) The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
Stratified (a.) Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
Stratified (imp. & p. p.) of Stratify
Stratiform (a.) Having the form of strata.
Stratify (v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Stratifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stratify
Stratigraphic (a.) Alt. of -ical
Stratigraphic (a.) Alt. of Stratigraphical
Stratigraphical (a.) Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence.
Stratigraphy (n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.
Stratocracy (n.) A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.
Stratographic (a.) Alt. of Stratographical
Stratographical (a.) Of or pertaining to stratography.
Stratography (n.) A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.
Stratonic (a.) Of or pertaining to an army.
Stratotic (a.) Warlike; military.
Stratum (n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
Stratum (n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
Stratums (pl. ) of Stratum
Stratus (n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.
Straught () imp. & p. p. of Stretch.
Straught (v. t.) To stretch; to make straight.
Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
Straw (n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
Straw (v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
Straw-colored (a.) Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
Straw-cutter (n.) An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
Strawboard (n.) Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
Strawed () imp. & p. p. of Straw.
Strawworm (n.) A caddice worm.
Strawy (a.) Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.
Stray (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
Stray (a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
Stray (a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
Stray (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
Stray (n.) The act of wandering or going astray.
Stray (v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
Stray (v. t.) To cause to stray.
Strayed (imp. & p. p.) of Stray
Strayer (n.) One who strays; a wanderer.
Straying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stray
Stre (n.) Straw.
Streak (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
Streak (n.) A strake.
Streak (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
Streak (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
Streak (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
Streak (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Streak (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Streaked (a.) Marked or variegated with stripes.
Streaked (a.) Uncomfortable; out of sorts.
Streaked (imp. & p. p.) of Streak
Streaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Streak
Streaky (a.) Same as Streaked, 1.
Stream (n.) A beam or ray of light.
Stream (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
Stream (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
Stream (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
Stream (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
Stream (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
Stream (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
Stream (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
Stream (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
Stream (v. t.) To unfurl.
Streamed (imp. & p. p.) of Stream
Streamer (n.) A searcher for stream tin.
Streamer (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
Streamer (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
Streamful (a.) Abounding in streams, or in water.
Streaminess (n.) The state of being streamy; a trailing.
Streaming (a.) Sending forth streams.
Streaming (n.) The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
Streaming (n.) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.
Streaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stream
Streamless (a.) Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.
Streamlet (n.) A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
Streamy (a.) Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.
Streamy (a.) Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.
Stree (n.) Straw.
Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.
Streel (v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
Streen (n.) See Strene.
Street (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
Streetwalker (n.) A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.
Streetward (a.) Facing toward the street.
Streetward (n.) An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.
Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait.
Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.
Strein (v. t.) To strain.
Streit (a.) Close; narrow; strict.
Streit (a.) Drawn.
Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.
Strelitz (n. sing. & pl.) A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.
Strelitzia (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.
Strengest () the original compar. & superl. of Strong.
Strength (n.) A strong place; a stronghold.
Strength (n.) Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?
Strength (n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.
Strength (n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color.
Strength (n.) One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.
Strength (n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
Strength (n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.
Strength (v. t.) To strengthen.
Strengthen (v. i.) To grow strong or stronger.
Strengthen (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
Strengthen (v. t.) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.
Strengthened (imp. & p. p.) of Strengthen
Strengthener (n.) One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.
Strengthening (a.) That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.
Strengthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strengthen
Strengthful (a.) Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong.
Strengthing (n.) A stronghold.
Strengthless (a.) Destitute of strength.
Strengthner (n.) See Strengthener.
Strengthy (a.) Having strength; strong.
Strenuity (n.) Strenuousness; activity.
Strenuous (a.) Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
Strepent (a.) Noisy; loud.
Streperous (a.) Loud; boisterous.
Strepitores (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
Strepsipter (n.) Alt. of Strepsipteran
Strepsipteran (n.) One of the Strepsiptera.
Strepsipterous (a.) Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.
Strepsorhina (n. pl.) Same as Lemuroidea.
Strepsorhine (a.) Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs.
Strepsorhine (n.) One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.
Streptobacteria (n. pl.) A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.
Streptococci (pl. ) of Streptococcus
Streptococcus (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.
Streptoneura (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.
Streptothrix (n.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
Stress (n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
Stress (n.) Distress.
Stress (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
Stress (n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
Stress (v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
Stress (v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
Stressful (a.) Having much stress.
Stretch (n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
Stretch (n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
Stretch (n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
Stretch (n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
Stretch (n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
Stretch (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
Stretch (v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
Stretch (v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
Stretch (v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
Stretch (v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
Stretch (v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
Stretch (v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
Stretch (v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
Stretch (v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
Stretch (v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
Stretch (v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
Stretched (imp. & p. p.) of Stretch
Stretcher (n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
Stretcher (n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
Stretcher (n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
Stretcher (n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
Stretcher (n.) A piece of timber used in building.
Stretcher (n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
Stretcher (n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
Stretcher (n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
Stretcher (n.) One who, or that which, stretches.
Stretcher (n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Stretching () a. & n. from Stretch, v.
Stretching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stretch
Stretto (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
Stretto (n.) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
Strew (v. t.) To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
Strew (v. t.) To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
Strew (v. t.) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
Strewed (imp. & p. p.) of Strew
Strewing (n.) Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Strewing (n.) The act of scattering or spreading.
Strewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strew
Strewment (n.) Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration.
Strewn () p. p. of Strew.
strewn (p. p.) of Strew
Stria (n.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
Striae (pl. ) of Stria
Striate (a.) Alt. of Striated
Striate (a.) To mark with striaae.
Striated (a.) Marked with striaae, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
Striated (imp. & p. p.) of Striate
Striating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Striate
Striation (n.) A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
Striation (n.) The quality or condition of being striated.
Striatum (n.) The corpus striatum.
Striature (n.) A stria.
Strich (n.) An owl.
Strick (n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Stricken () of Strike
Stricken (n.) Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.
Stricken (p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Stricken (v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
Strickle (n.) A templet; a pattern.
Strickle (n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
Strickle (n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
Strickle (n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
Strickle (n.) An instrument used in dressing flax.
Strickler (n.) See Strickle.
Strickless (n.) See Strickle.
Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Strict (a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
Strict (a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
Strict (a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
Strict (a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
Strict (a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Striction (n.) The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.
Strictly (adv.) In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
Strictness (n.) Quality or state of being strict.
Stricture (n.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
Stricture (n.) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
Stricture (n.) A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
Stricture (n.) Strictness.
Strictured (a.) Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
Strid () of Stride
Strid () of Stride
Strid (n.) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
Stridden (p. p.) of Stride
Stride (n.) The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
Stride (v. t.) To pass over at a step; to step over.
Stride (v. t.) To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
Stride (v. t.) To straddle; to bestride.
Stride (v. t.) To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
Strident (a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
Striding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stride
Stridor (n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.
Stridulate (v. t.) to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Stridulate (v. t.) To make a shrill, creaking noise
Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
Stridulation (n.) The act of stridulating.
Stridulation (n.) The noise itself.
Stridulator (n.) That which stridulates.
Stridulatory (a.) Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.
Strife (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
Strife (n.) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
Strife (n.) The act of striving; earnest endeavor.
Strifeful (a.) Contentious; discordant.
Strigate (a.) Having transverse bands of color.
Striges (n. pl.) The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.
Strigil (n.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender bristles.
Strigine (a.) Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.
Strigment (n.) Scraping; that which is scraped off.
Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
Strigous (a.) Strigose.
Strike (n.) A bushel; four pecks.
Strike (n.) A puddler's stirrer.
Strike (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
Strike (n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels.
Strike (n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
Strike (n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
Strike (n.) The act of striking.
Strike (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
Strike (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
Strike (v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
Strike (v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
Strike (v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
Strike (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
Strike (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
Strike (v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
Strike (v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
Strike (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
Strike (v. i.) To steal money.
Strike (v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
Strike (v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
Strike (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
Strike (v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
Strike (v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
Strike (v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
Strike (v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
Strike (v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
Strike (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
Strike (v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
Strike (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
Strike (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
Strike (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
Strike (v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
Strike (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
Strike (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
Strike (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Strike (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
Strike (v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
Striker (n.) A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.
Striker (n.) A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
Striker (n.) A wencher; a lewd man.
Striker (n.) A workman who is on a strike.
Striker (n.) One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
Striking () a. & n. from Strike, v.
Striking (a.) Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
Striking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strike
Strikle (n.) See Strickle.
String (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
String (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
String (n.) A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
String (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
String (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
String (n.) Same as Stringcourse.
String (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
String (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
String (n.) The points made in a game.
String (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
String (v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
String (v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
String (v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
String (v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
String (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
Stringboard (n.) Same as Stringpiece.
Stringcourse (n.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.
Stringed () of String
Stringed (a.) Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.
Stringed (a.) Produced by strings.
Stringency (n.) The quality or state of being stringent.
Stringendo (a.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.
Stringer (n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
Stringer (n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
Stringhalt (n.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
Stringiness (n.) Quality of being stringy.
Stringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of String
Stringless (a.) Having no strings.
Stringpiece (n.) A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:
Stringpiece (n.) One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
Stringy (a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Stringy (a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
Strip (n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
Strip (n.) A trough for washing ore.
Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
Strip (v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
Strip (v. t.) To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
Strip (v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
Strip (v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Strip (v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
Strip (v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
Strip (v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
Strip (v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
Strip (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
Strip (v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
Strip-leaf (n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
Stripe (n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
Stripe (n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.
Stripe (n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Stripe (n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.
Stripe (n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.
Stripe (n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
Stripe (n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
Stripe (v. t.) To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
Stripe (v. t.) To strike; to lash.
Striped (a.) Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
Striped (imp. & p. p.) of Stripe
Striping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stripe
Stripling (n.) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
Stripped (imp. & p. p.) of Strip
Stripper (n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Strippet (n.) A small stream.
Stripping (n.) The act of one who strips.
Stripping (n.) The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
Stripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strip
Strisores (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.
Strive (n.) An effort; a striving.
Strive (n.) Strife; contention.
Strive (v. i.) To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
Strive (v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
Strive (v. i.) To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
Strived (p. p.) Striven.
Striven () p. p. of Strive.
Striven (p. p.) of Strive
Striver (n.) One who strives.
Striving () a. & n. from Strive.
Striving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strive
Strix (n.) One of the flutings of a column.
Stroam (v. i.) To take long strides in walking.
Stroam (v. i.) To wander about idly and vacantly.
Strobila (n.) A mature tapeworm.
Strobilaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone.
Strobilaceous (a.) Producing strobiles.
Strobilae (pl. ) of Strobila
Strobilation (n.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.
Strobile (n.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
Strobile (n.) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
Strobile (n.) Same as Strobila.
Strobiliform (a.) Shaped like a strobile.
Strobiline (a.) Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.
Stroboscope (n.) An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.
Stroboscope (n.) An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.
Strockle (n.) A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.
Strode () imp. of Stride.
Strode (imp.) of Stride
Strode (n.) See Strude.
Stroke (imp.) Struck.
Stroke (v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
Stroke (v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
Stroke (v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
Stroke (v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
Stroke (v. t.) Appetite.
Stroke (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
Stroke (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
Stroke (v. t.) Power; influence.
Stroke (v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
Stroke (v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
Stroke (v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
Stroke (v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
Stroke (v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
Stroke (v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
Stroke (v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
Stroke (v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
Stroke (v. t.) To strike.
Strokeed (imp. & p. p.) of Stroke
Strokeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stroke
Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.
Strokesman (n.) The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
Strokesman (pl. ) of Strokesman
Stroking (n.) See Stripping, 2.
Stroking (n.) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.
Stroking (n.) The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.
Stroll (n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
Stroll (v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
Strolled (imp. & p. p.) of Stroll
Stroller (n.) One who strolls; a vagrant.
Strolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stroll
Stroma (n.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.
Stroma (n.) The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.
Stroma (n.) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
Stromata (pl. ) of Stroma
Stromatic (a.) Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
Stromatology (n.) The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
Stromb (n.) Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.
Strombite (n.) A fossil shell of the genus Strombus.
Stromboid (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, Strombus.
Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
Strombuliform (a.) Formed or shaped like a top.
Strombus (n.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.
Stromeyerite (n.) A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.
Strond (n.) Strand; beach.
Strong (superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
Strong (superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
Strong (superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
Strong (superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
Strong (superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
Strong (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
Strong (superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
Strong (superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
Strong (superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
Strong (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
Strong (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
Strong (superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
Strong (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
Strong (superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
Strong (superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
Strong-minded (a.) Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.
Strong-water (n.) An acid.
Strong-water (n.) Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
Stronghand (n.) Violence; force; power.
Stronghold (n.) A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
Strongish (a.) Somewhat strong.
Strongly (adv.) In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
Strongylid (a. & n.) Strongyloid.
Strongyloid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.
Strongyloid (n.) A strongyloid worm.
Strontia (n.) An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.
Strontian (n.) Strontia.
Strontianite (n.) Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.
Strontic (a.) Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.
Strontitic (a.) Strontic.
Strontium (n.) A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.
Stroock () of Strike
Strook () imp. of Strike.
Strook (n.) A stroke.
Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.
Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Strop (n.) A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
Strop (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
Strophes (pl. ) of Strophe
Strophic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.
Strophiolate (a.) Alt. of Strophiolated
Strophiolated (a.) Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.
Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Strophulus (n.) See Red-gum, 1.
Stropped (imp. & p. p.) of Strop
Stropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strop
Stroud (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.
Strouding (n.) Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.
Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
Strove () imp. of Strive.
Strove () of Strive
Strove (imp.) of Strive
Strow (v. t.) Same as Strew.
Strowed () of Strow
Strowed (imp.) of Strow
Strowl (v. i.) To stroll.
Strown () p. p. of Strow.
Strown (p. p.) of Strow
Stroy (v. i.) To destroy.
Struck () imp. & p. p. of Strike.
Struck (imp.) of Strike
Struck (p. p.) of Strike
Strucken () of Strike
Strucken () p. p. of Strike.
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
Structure (n.) Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.
Structure (n.) Manner of building; form; make; construction.
Structure (n.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.
Structure (n.) That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
Structure (n.) The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
Structured (a.) Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.
Structureless (a.) Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.
Structurist (n.) One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor.
Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Struggle (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
Struggle (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
Struggle (v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.
Struggled (imp. & p. p.) of Struggle
Struggler (n.) One who struggles.
Struggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Struggle
Strull (n.) A bar so placed as to resist weight.
Strum (v. t. & i.) To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Struma (n.) Scrofula.
Strumatic (a.) Scrofulous; strumous.
Strummed (imp. & p. p.) of Strum
Strumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strum
Strumose (a.) Having a struma.
Strumose (a.) Strumous.
Strumous (a.) Scrofulous; having struma.
Strumousness (n.) The state of being strumous.
Strumpet (a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.
Strumpet (n.) A prostitute; a harlot.
Strumpet (v. t.) To debauch.
Strumpet (v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.
Strumstrum (n.) A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern.
Strung () imp. & p. p. of String.
Strung (imp.) of String
Strung (p. p.) of String
Strunt (n.) Spirituous liquor.
Struntian (n.) A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad.
Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Strut (a.) Protuberant.
Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
Strut (n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
Strut (n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
Strut (v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.
Strut (v. t.) To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
Struthian (a.) Struthious.
Struthio (n.) A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
Struthioidea (n. pl.) Same as Struthiones.
Struthiones (n. pl.) A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.
Struthiones (n. pl.) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitae, or Dromaeognathae.
Struthiones (pl. ) of Struthio
Struthionine (a.) Struthious.
Struthious (a.) Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
Strutted (imp. & p. p.) of Strut
Strutter (n.) One who struts.
Strutting () a. & n. from Strut, v.
Strutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strut
Struvite (n.) A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
Strychnia (n.) Strychnine.
Strychnic (a.) Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning
Strychnic (a.) used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.
Strychnos (n.) A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Loganiaceae. See Nux vomica.
Stryphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.
Stub (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.
Stub (n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
Stub (n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib.
Stub (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
Stub (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
Stub (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
Stub (v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
Stub (v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
Stubbed (a.) Abounding in stubs; stubby.
Stubbed (a.) Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.
Stubbed (a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
Stubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Stub
Stubbedness (n.) The quality or state of being stubbed.
Stubbiness (n.) The state of being stubby.
Stubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stub
Stubble (n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
Stubbled (a.) Covered with stubble.
Stubbled (a.) Stubbed; as, stubbled legs.
Stubbly (a.) Covered with stubble; stubbled.
Stubby (a.) Abounding with stubs.
Stubby (a.) Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.
Stucco (n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.
Stucco (n.) Work made of stucco; stuccowork.
Stucco (v. t.) To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.
Stuccoed (imp. & p. p.) of Stucco
Stuccoer (n.) One who stuccoes.
Stuccoes (pl. ) of Stucco
Stuccoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stucco
Stuccos (pl. ) of Stucco
Stuccowork (n.) Work done in stucco.
Stuck () imp. & p. p. of Stick.
Stuck (imp. & p. p.) of Stick
Stuck (n.) A thrust.
Stuck-up (a.) Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
Stuckle (n.) A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.
Stud (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
Stud (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.
Stud (n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
Stud (n.) A stem; a trunk.
Stud (n.) A stud bolt.
Stud (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
Stud (n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
Stud (v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.
Stud (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.
Stud-horse (n.) A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.
Studbook (n.) A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.
Studded (imp. & p. p.) of Stud
Studdery (n.) A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.
Studding (n.) Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
Studding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stud
Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail.
Student (n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.
Studentry (n.) A body of students.
Studentship (n.) The state of being a student.
Studfish (n.) Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.
Studied (a.) Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.
Studied (a.) Intent; inclined.
Studied (a.) Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult.
Studied (a.) Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.
Studied (imp. & p. p.) of Study
Studiedly (adv.) In a studied manner.
Studier (n.) A student.
Studies (pl. ) of Study
Studio (n.) The working room of an artist.
Studios (pl. ) of Studio
Studious (a.) Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.
Studious (a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.
Studious (a.) Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.
Studious (a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
Studious (a.) Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
Study (n.) To apply the mind to books or learning.
Study (n.) To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
Study (n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
Study (v. i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.
Study (v. i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude.
Study (v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.
Study (v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
Study (v. i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
Study (v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
Study (v. t.) To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.
Study (v. t.) To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.
Study (v. t.) To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.
Study (v. t.) To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.
Studying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Study
Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
Stuff (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
Stuff (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
Stuff (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
Stuff (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
Stuff (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
Stuff (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
Stuff (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
Stuff (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
Stuff (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
Stuff (v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Stuff (v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
Stuff (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
Stuff (v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
Stuff (v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
Stuff (v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
Stuff (v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
Stuff (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
Stuff (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
Stuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Stuff
Stuffer (n.) One who, or that which, stuffs.
Stuffiness (n.) The quality of being stuffy.
Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
Stuffing (n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
Stuffing (n.) That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
Stuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stuff
Stuffy (a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
Stuffy (a.) Ill-ventilated; close.
Stuffy (a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Stuke (n.) Stucco.
Stull (n.) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Stulp (n.) A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.
Stultification (n.) The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.
Stultified (imp. & p. p.) of Stultify
Stultifier (n.) One who stultifies.
Stultify (v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Stultify (v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
Stultify (v. t.) To regard as a fool, or as foolish.
Stultifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stultify
Stultiloquence (n.) Silly talk; babbling.
Stultiloquent (a.) Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling.
Stum (n.) Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
Stum (n.) Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must.
Stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
Stumble (n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
Stumble (n.) A trip in walking or running.
Stumble (v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
Stumble (v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
Stumble (v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
Stumble (v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
Stumble (v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
Stumble (v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.
Stumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Stumble
Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.
Stumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stumble
Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
Stumbling-stone (n.) A stumbling-block.
Stumblingly (adv.) In a stumbling manner.
Stummed (imp. & p. p.) of Stum
Stumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stum
Stump (n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Stump (n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Stump (n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
Stump (n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
Stump (n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
Stump (v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus.
Stump (v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Stump (v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
Stump (v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
Stump-tailed (a.) Having a short, thick tail.
Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.
Stumpage (n.) Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.
Stumped (imp. & p. p.) of Stump
Stumper (n.) A boastful person.
Stumper (n.) A puzzling or incredible story.
Stumper (n.) One who stumps.
Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.
Stumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stump
Stumpy (a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Stumpy (a.) Short and thick; stubby.
Stun (n.) The condition of being stunned.
Stun (v. t.) To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
Stun (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
Stun (v. t.) To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
Stung () imp. & p. p. of Sting.
Stung (imp. & p. p.) of Sting
Stunk () imp. & p. p. of Stink.
Stunk (imp. & p. p.) of Stink
Stunned (imp. & p. p.) of Stun
Stunner (n.) One who, or that which, stuns.
Stunner (n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.
Stunning (a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
Stunning (a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
Stunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun
Stunsail (n.) A contraction of Studding sail.
Stunt (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
Stunt (n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Stunt (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
Stunted (a.) Dwarfed.
Stunted (imp. & p. p.) of Stunt
Stunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stunt
Stuntness (n.) Stuntedness; brevity.
Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Stupa (n.) See 1st Stupe.
Stupe (n.) A stupid person.
Stupe (v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.
Stupidity (n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
Stupify (v. t.) See Stupefy.
Stuping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stupe
Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Stupor (n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Stupose (a.) Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.
Stuprate (v. t.) To ravish; to debauch.
Stupration (n.) Violation of chastity by force; rape.
Stuprum (n.) Stupration.
Sturb (v. t.) To disturb.
Sturdily (adv.) In a sturdy manner.
Sturdiness (n.) Quality of being sturdy.
Sturdy (n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.
Sturdy (superl.) Characterized by physical strength or force; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout.
Sturdy (superl.) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern.
Sturdy (superl.) Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality; as, a man of sturdy piety or patriotism.
Sturdy (superl.) Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
Sturiones (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the sturgeons.
Sturionian (n.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
Sturk (n.) See Stirk.
Sturnoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the starlings.
Sturt (n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Sturt (n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.
Sturt (v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
Sturtion (n.) A corruption of Nasturtion.
Stut (v. i.) To stutter.
Stutter (n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.
Stutter (n.) The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
Stutter (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
Stuttered (imp. & p. p.) of Stutter
Stutterer (n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.
Stuttering (a.) Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering.
Stuttering (n.) The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.
Stuttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stutter
Sty (v. i.) A pen or inclosure for swine.
Sty (v. i.) A place of bestial debauchery.
Sty (v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
Sty (v. i.) To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.
Sty (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a sty.
Styan (n.) See Sty, a boil.
Styca (n.) An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing.
Stycerin (n.) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
Stye (n.) See Sty, a boil.
Stygial (a.) Stygian.
Stygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
Stying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sty
Stylagalmaic (a.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images.
Stylar (a.) See Stilar.
Stylaster (n.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
Style (v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Style (v. t.) A pen; an author's pen.
Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
Style (v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
Style (v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
Style (v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
Style (v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
Style (v. t.) To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
Styled (imp. & p. p.) of Style
Stylet (n.) A small poniard; a stiletto.
Stylet (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
Stylet (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.
Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.
Styliferous (a.) Bearing one or more styles.
Styliform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.
Styling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Style
Stylish (a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.
Stylist (n.) One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.
Stylistic (a.) Of or pertaining to style in language.
Stylite (n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.
Stylo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.
Stylobate (n.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Styloglossal (a.) Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.
Stylograph (n.) A stylographic pen.
Stylographic (a.) Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.
Stylographic (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.
Stylographical (a.) Same as Stylographic, 1.
Stylography (n.) A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.
Stylohyal (n.) A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.
Stylohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.
Styloid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
Styloid (a.) Styliform; as, the styloid process.
Stylomastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
Stylomaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.
Stylometer (n.) An instrument for measuring columns.
Stylommata (n. pl.) Same as Stylommatophora.
Stylommatophora (n. pl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
Stylommatophorous (a.) Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.
Stylopodia (pl. ) of Stylopodium
Stylopodium (n.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
Stylops (n.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
Stylus (n.) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
Stylus (n.) An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
Stylus (n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.
Styphnate (n.) A salt of styphnic acid.
Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Styptic (n.) A styptic medicine.
Styptical (a.) Styptic; astringent.
Stypticity (n.) The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
Styracin (n.) A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
Styrax (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.
Styrax (n.) Same as Storax.
Styrol (n.) See Styrolene.
Styrone (n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol.
Styryl (n.) A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.
Stythe (n.) Choke damp.
Stythy (n. & v.) See Stithy.
Styx (n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Suability (n.) Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.
Suable (a.) Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.
Suade (v. t.) To persuade.
Suadible (a.) Suasible.
Suage (v. t.) To assuage.
Suant (a.) Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even.
Suasible (a.) Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.
Suasion (n.) The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.
Suasive (a.) Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.
Suasory (a.) Tending to persuade; suasive.
Suave (a.) Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
Suavified (imp. & p. p.) of Suavify
Suavify (v. t.) To make affable or suave.
Suavifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suavify
Suaviloquent (a.) Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech.
Suaviloquy (n.) Sweetness of speech.
Suavity (n.) Sweetness to the taste.
Suavity (n.) The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
Sub (n.) A subordinate; a subaltern.
Sub judice () Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration.
Sub-base (n.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.
Sub-bass (n.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.
Subacid (a.) Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.
Subacid (n.) A substance moderately acid.
Subacrid (a.) Moderalely acrid or harsh.
Subacromial (a.) Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.
Subact (v. t.) To reduce; to subdue.
Subaction (n.) The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.
Subacute (a.) Moderalely acute.
Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.
Subadvocate (n.) An under or subordinate advocate.
Subaerial (a.) Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.
Subagency (n.) A subordinate agency.
Subagent (n.) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.
Subagitation (n.) Unlawful sexual intercourse.
Subaid (v. t.) To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.
Subalmoner (n.) An under almoner.
Subalpine (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.
Subaltern (a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
Subaltern (a.) Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
Subaltern (n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
Subaltern (n.) A subaltern proposition.
Subalternant (n.) A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2.
Subalternate (a.) Succeeding by turns; successive.
Subalternate (n.) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2.
Subalternating (a.) Subalternate; successive.
Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
Subangular (a.) Slightly angular.
Subapennine (a.) Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.
Subapical (a.) Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.
Subaquaneous (a.) Subaqueous.
Subaquatic (a.) Alt. of Subaqueous
Subaqueous (a.) Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.
Subaqueous (a.) Formed in or under water; as, subaqueous deposits.
Subarachnoid (a.) Alt. of Subarachnoidal
Subarachnoidal (a.) Situated under the arachnoid membrane.
Subarctic (a.) Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
Subarcuate (a.) Alt. of Subarcuated
Subarcuated (a.) Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.
Subarration (n.) The ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.
Subarytenoid (a.) Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
Subash (n.) A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.
Subashdar (n.) A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.
Subashdary (n.) Alt. of Subashship
Subashship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.
Subastral (a.) Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.
Subastringent (a.) Somewhat astringent.
Subatom (n.) A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.
Subaud (v. t.) To understand or supply in an ellipsis.
Subaudition (n.) The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.
Subaxillary (a.) Placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch.
Subaxillary (a.) Situated under the axilla, or armpit.
Subbasal (a.) Near the base.
Subbeadle (n.) An under beadle.
Subbrachial (a.) Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.
Subbrachiales (n. pl.) A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.
Subbrachian (n.) One of the Subbrachiales.
Subbreed (n.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.
Subbronchial (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
Subcaliber (a.) Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.
Subcarboniferous (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone.
Subcarboniferous (n.) The Subcarboniferous period or formation.
Subcarbureted (a.) United with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion.
Subcartilaginous (a.) Partially cartilaginous.
Subcartilaginous (a.) Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.
Subcaudal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.
Subcelestial (a.) Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories.
Subcentral (a.) Nearly central; not quite central.
Subcentral (a.) Under the center.
Subchanter (n.) An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.
Subcircular (a.) Nearly circular.
Subclass (n.) One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.
Subclavian (a.) Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.
Subcolumnar (a.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.
Subcommittee (n.) An under committee; a part or division of a committee.
Subcompressed (a.) Not fully compressed; partially or somewhat compressed.
Subconcave (a.) Slightly concave.
Subconformable (a.) Partially conformable.
Subconical (a.) Slightly conical.
Subconjunctival (a.) Situated under the conjunctiva.
Subconscious (a.) Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.
Subconstellation (n.) A subordinate constellation.
Subcontract (n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.
Subcontracted (a.) Betrothed for the second time.
Subcontracted (a.) Contracted after a former contract.
Subcontractor (n.) One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
Subcontraries (pl. ) of Subcontrary
Subcontrary (a.) Contrary in an inferior degree.
Subcontrary (a.) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
Subcontrary (n.) A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.
Subcoracoid (a.) Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.
Subcordate (a.) Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.
Subcorneous (a.) Partially horny.
Subcorneous (a.) Situated under a horny part or layer.
Subcostal (a.) Situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles.
Subcostal (n.) A subcostal muscle.
Subcostal (n.) One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.
Subcranial (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.
Subcrustaceous (a.) Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.
Subcrystalline (a.) Imperfectly crystallized.
Subcultrate (a.) Alt. of Subcultrated
Subcultrated (a.) Having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.
Subcutaneous (a.) Situated under the skin; hypodermic.
Subcuticular (a.) Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.
Subcylindric (a.) Imperfectly cylindrical; approximately cylindrical.
Subcylindrical (a.) Alt. of Subcylindric
Subdeacon (n.) One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.
Subdeaconry (n.) Alt. of Subdeaconship
Subdeaconship (n.) The order or office of subdeacon.
Subdean (n.) An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
Subdeanery (n.) Office or rank of subdean.
Subdecanal (a.) Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery.
Subdecuple (a.) Containing one part of ten.
Subdelegate (n.) A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
Subdelegate (v. t.) To appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete.
Subdented (a.) Indented beneath.
Subdepartment (n.) A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau.
Subdeposit (n.) That which is deposited beneath something else.
Subderisorious (a.) Ridiculing with moderation.
Subderivative (n.) A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, "friendliness" is a subderivative, being derived from "friendly", which is in turn a derivative from "friend."
Subdiaconate (a.) Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.
Subdiaconate (n.) The office or rank of a subdeacon.
Subdial (a.) Of or pertaining to the open air; being under the open sky.
Subdialect (n.) A subordinate dialect.
Subdichotomy (n.) A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision.
Subdilated (a.) Partially dilated.
Subdititious (a.) Put secretly in the place of something else; foisted in.
Subdiversify (v. t.) To diversify aggain what is already diversified.
Subdivide (v. i.) To be, or to become, subdivided.
Subdivide (v. t.) To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided.
Subdivided (imp. & p. p.) of Subdivide
Subdividing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subdivide
Subdivine (a.) Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree.
Subdivisible (a.) Susceptible of subdivision.
Subdivision (n.) A part of a thing made by subdividing.
Subdivision (n.) The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.
Subdolous (a.) Sly; crafty; cunning; artful.
Subdominant (n.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.
Subduable (a.) Able to be subdued.
Subdual (n.) Act of subduing.
Subduce (v. t.) Alt. of Subduct
Subduct (v. t.) To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
Subduct (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away.
Subduction (n.) Arithmetical subtraction.
Subduction (n.) The act of subducting or taking away.
Subdue (v. t.) To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
Subdue (v. t.) To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.
Subdue (v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.
Subdue (v. t.) To overcome, as by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
Subdue (v. t.) To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.
Subdue (v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.
Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.
Subdue (v. t.) To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.
Subduer (n.) One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror.
Subduing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subdue
Subdulcid (a.) Somewhat sweet; sweetish.
Subduple (a.) Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two.
Subduplicate (a.) Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios.
Subdural (a.) Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.
Subeditor (n.) An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.
Subelongate (a.) Not fully elongated; somewhat elongated.
Subendocardial (a.) Situated under the endocardium.
Subendymal (a.) Situated under the endyma.
Subepidermal (a.) Situated immediately below the epidermis.
Subepiglottic (a.) Situated under the epiglottis.
Subepithelial (a.) Situated under the epithelium.
Subequal (a.) Nearly equal.
Suberate (n.) A salt of suberic acid.
Subereous (a.) Of or pertaining to cork; of the nature of cork; suberose.
Suberic (a.) Of or pertaining to cork; specifically, designating an acid, C6H12.(CO2H)2, homologous with oxalic acid, and obtained from cork and certain fatty oils, as a white crystalline substance.
Suberin (n.) A material found in the cell walls of cork. It is a modification of lignin.
Suberite (n.) Any sponge of the genus Suberites and allied genera. These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules.
Suberone (n.) A colorless liquid, analogous suberone proper, having a pleasant peppermint odor. It is obtained by the distillation of calcium suberate.
Suberone (n.) The hypothetical ketone of suberic acid.
Suberose (a.) Alt. of Suberous
Suberous (a.) Having a corky texture.
Subesophageal (a.) Situated beneath the esophagus.
Subfamily (n.) One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
Subgelatinous (a.) Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
Subgenera (pl. ) of Subgenus
Subgeneric (a.) Of or pertaining to a subgenus.
Subgenus (n.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
Subglacial (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.
Subglobose (a.) Not quite globose.
Subglobular (a.) Nearly globular.
Subglossal (a.) Situated under the tongue; sublingual.
Subglottic (a.) Situated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords.
Subglumaceous (a.) Somewhat glumaceous.
Subgovernor (n.) A subordinate or assistant governor.
Subgranular (a.) Somewhat granular.
Subgroup (n.) A subdivision of a group, as of animals.
Subhastation (n.) A public sale or auction.
Subhepatic (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.
Subhornblendic (a.) Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.
Subhumerate (v. t.) To place the shoulders under; to bear.
Subhyaloid (a.) Situated under the hyaliod membrane.
Subhyoidean (a.) Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
Subibfer (v. t. & i.) To infer from an inference already made.
Subimago (n.) A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago.
Subincusation (n.) A slight charge or accusation.
Subindex (n.) A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.
Subindicate (v. t.) To indicate by signs or hints; to indicate imperfectly.
Subindication (n.) The act of indicating by signs; a slight indication.
Subindices (pl. ) of Subindex
Subindividual (n.) A division of that which is individual.
Subinduce (v. t.) To insinuate; to offer indirectly.
Subinfeudation (n.) The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure.
Subingression (n.) Secret entrance.
Subintestinal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.
Subinvolution (n.) Partial or incomplete involution; as, subinvolution of the uterus.
Subitaneous (a.) Sudden; hasty.
Subitany (a.) Subitaneous; sudden; hasty.
Subito (adv.) In haste; quickly; rapidly.
Subjacent (a.) Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.
Subjacent (a.) Lying under or below.
Subject (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
Subject (a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.
Subject (a.) Obedient; submissive.
Subject (a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Subject (a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
Subject (a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.
Subject (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
Subject (a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.
Subject (a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
Subject (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
Subject (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
Subject (a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
Subject (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
Subject (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
Subject (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
Subject (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Subject (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
Subject (v. t.) To make subservient.
Subject (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
Subject-matter (n.) The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
Subjected (a.) Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.
Subjected (a.) Subjacent.
Subjected (imp. & p. p.) of Subject
Subjecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subject
Subjection (a.) The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.
Subjection (a.) The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws.
Subjectist (n.) One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
Subjective (a.) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
Subjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a subject.
Subjectivism (n.) Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.
Subjectivist (n.) One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
Subjectivity (n.) The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.
Subjectless (a.) Having no subject.
Subjectness (n.) Quality of being subject.
Subjicible (a.) Capable of being subjected.
Subjoin (v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.
Subjoinder (n.) An additional remark.
Subjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Subjoin
Subjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subjoin
Subjugate (v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.
Subjugated (imp. & p. p.) of Subjugate
Subjugating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subjugate
Subjugation (n.) The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.
Subjugator (n.) One who subjugates; a conqueror.
Subjunction (n.) Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.
Subjunction (n.) Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.
Subjunctive (a.) Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
Subjunctive (n.) The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.
Sublapsarian (n. & a.) Same as Infralapsarian.
Sublapsarianism (n.) Infralapsarianism.
Sublapsary (a.) Sublapsarian.
Sublate (v. t.) To take or carry away; to remove.
Sublation (n.) The act of taking or carrying away; removal.
Sublative (a.) Having power, or tending, to take away.
Sublease (n.) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.
Sublessee (n.) A holder of a sublease.
Sublet (imp. & p. p.) of Sublet
Sublet (v. t.) To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.
Subletting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sublet
Sublevation (n.) An uprising; an insurrection.
Sublevation (n.) The act of raising on high; elevation.
Sublibrarian (n.) An under or assistant librarian.
Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
Subligation (n.) The act of binding underneath.
Sublimable (v. t.) Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.
Sublimate (a.) Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.
Sublimate (n.) A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.
Sublimate (v. t.) To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
Sublimate (v. t.) To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
Sublimated (a.) Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.
Sublimated (imp. & p. p.) of Sublimate
Sublimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sublimate
Sublimation (n.) That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
Sublimation (n.) The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
Sublimation (n.) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
Sublimatory (a.) Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels.
Sublimatory (n.) A vessel used for sublimation.
Sublime (n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
Sublime (n.) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
Sublime (n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article
Sublime (superl.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.
Sublime (superl.) Elevated by joy; elate.
Sublime (superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Sublime (superl.) Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
Sublime (v. t.) To dignify; to ennoble.
Sublime (v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
Sublime (v. t.) To raise on high.
Sublime (v. t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.
Sublimed (a.) Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified.
Sublimed (imp. & p. p.) of Sublime
Sublimely (adv.) In a sublime manner.
Sublimeness (n.) The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.
Sublimification (n.) The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime.
Subliming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sublime
Sublimities (pl. ) of Sublimity
Sublimity (n.) That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature.
Sublimity (n.) The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).
Sublineation (n.) A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.
Sublingua (n.) A process or fold below the tongue in some animals.
Sublinguae (pl. ) of Sublingua
Sublingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the sublingual gland; as, sublingual salvia.
Sublingual (a.) Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland.
Sublition (n.) The act or process of laying the ground in a painting.
Sublittoral (a.) Under the shore.
Sublobular (a.) Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.
Sublumbar (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.
Sublunar (a.) Alt. of Sublunary
Sublunary (a.) Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.
Sublunary (n.) Any worldly thing.
Subluxation (n.) An incomplete or partial dislocation.
Submammary (a.) Situated under the mammae; as, submammary inflammation.
Submarine (a.) Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.
Submarine (n.) A submarine plant or animal.
Submarshal (n.) An under or deputy marshal.
Submaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to submaxillary gland; as, submaxillary salvia.
Submaxillary (a.) Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary; as, the submaxillary gland.
Submedial (a.) Lying under the middle.
Submedian (a.) Next to the median (on either side); as, the submedian teeth of mollusks.
Submediant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.
Submenta (pl. ) of Submentum
Submental (a.) Situated under the chin; as, the submental artery.
Submentum (n.) The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.
Submerge (v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.
Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Submerge (v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
Submerged (imp. & p. p.) of Submerge
Submergence (n.) The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
Submerging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Submerge
Submerse (a.) Submersed.
Submersed (a.) Being or growing under water, as the leaves of aquatic plants.
Submersion (n.) The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.
Submersion (n.) The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.
Submetallic (a.) Imperfectly metallic; as, a submetallic luster.
Subminister (v. i.) To be subservient; to be useful.
Subminister (v. t.) To supply; to afford.
Subministrant (a.) Subordinate; subservient.
Subministrate (v. t.) To supply; to afford; to subminister.
Submission (n.) Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
Submission (n.) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.
Submission (n.) The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
Submission (n.) The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Submissive (a.) Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
Submissive (a.) Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor.
Submissly (adv.) In a submissive manner; with a submission.
Submissness (n.) Submissiveness.
Submit (v. i.) To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
Submit (v. i.) To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
Submit (v. i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
Submit (v. t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
Submit (v. t.) To let down; to lower.
Submit (v. t.) To put or place under.
Submit (v. t.) To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
Submitted (imp. & p. p.) of Submit
Submitter (n.) One who submits.
Submitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Submit
Submonish (v. t.) To suggest; to prompt.
Submonition (n.) Suggestion; prompting.
Submucous (a.) Situated under a mucous membrane.
Submultiple (a.) Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a submultiple; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.
Submultiple (n.) A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.
Submuscular (a.) Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
Subnarcotic (a.) Moderately narcotic.
Subnasal (a.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.
Subnascent (a.) Growing underneath.
Subnect (v. t.) To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath.
Subnex (v. t.) To subjoin; to subnect.
Subnormal (n.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
Subnotation (n.) A rescript.
Subnotochordal (a.) Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.
Subnuvolar (a.) Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy.
Subobscurely (adv.) Somewhat obscurely or darkly.
Subobtuse (a.) Partially obtuse.
Suboccipital (a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve.
Suboctave (a.) Alt. of Suboctuple
Suboctuple (a.) Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight.
Subocular (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.
Subofficer (n.) An under or subordinate officer.
Subopercular (a.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum.
Subopercular (n.) The suboperculum.
Suboperculum (n.) The lower opercular bone in fishes.
Suborbicular (a.) Alt. of Suborbiculate
Suborbiculate (a.) Almost orbiculate or orbicular.
Suborbital (a.) Alt. of Suborbitar
Suborbitar (a.) Situated under or below the orbit.
Suborder (n.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae.
Subordinacy (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason.
Subordinance (a.) Alt. of Subordinancy
Subordinancy (a.) Subordinacy; subordination.
Subordinary (n.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.
Subordinate (a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
Subordinate (a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
Subordinate (n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
Subordinate (v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Subordinate (v. t.) To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
Subordinated (imp. & p. p.) of Subordinate
Subordinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subordinate
Subordination (n.) Place of inferior rank.
Subordination (n.) The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.
Subordination (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.
Subordinative (a.) Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.
Suborn (v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
Suborn (v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
Subornation (n.) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
Subornation (n.) The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.
Suborned (imp. & p. p.) of Suborn
Suborner (n.) One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
Suborning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suborn
Suboval (a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval.
Subovate (a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.
Subovated (a.) Subovate.
Suboxide (n.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.
Subpeduncular (a.) Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.
Subpedunculate (a.) Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.
Subpentangular (a.) Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
Subpericardial (a.) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.
Subperiosteal (a.) Situated under the periosteum.
Subperitoneal (a.) Situated under the peritoneal membrane.
Subpetiolar (a.) Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.
Subpleural (a.) Situated under the pleural membrane.
Subpodophyllous (a.) Situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.
Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill.
Subpoena (v. t.) To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.
Subpoenaed (imp. & p. p.) of Subpoena
Subpoenaing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subpoena
Subpoenal (a.) Required or done under penalty.
Subpolar (a.) Situated below the poles.
Subpolygonal (a.) Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.
Subprehensile (a.) Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.
Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
Subpubic (a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.
Subpulmonary (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs.
Subpurchaser (n.) A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.
Subpyriform (a.) Somewhat pyriform.
Subquadrate (a.) Nearly or approximately square; almost square.
Subquadruple (a.) Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four; as, subquadruple proportion.
Subquinquefid (a.) Almost quinquefid; nearly quinquefid.
Subquintuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion.
Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
Subrector (n.) An assistant restor.
Subreligion (n.) A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration.
Subreption (n.) The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
Subreptitious (a.) Surreptitious.
Subreptive (a.) Surreptitious.
Subrigid (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff.
Subriguous (a.) Watered or wet beneath; well-watered.
Subrogate (v. t.) To put in the place of another; to substitute.
Subrogation (n.) The act of subrogating.
Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor.
Subrotund (a.) Somewhat rotund.
Subsacral (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.
Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.
Subsalt (n.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.
Subsannation (n.) Derision; mockery.
Subscapular (a.) Alt. of Subscapulary
Subscapulary (a.) Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
Subscribable (a.) Capable of being subscribed.
Subscribe (v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.
Subscribe (v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
Subscribe (v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
Subscribe (v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
Subscribe (v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
Subscribe (v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
Subscribe (v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
Subscribe (v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
Subscribe (v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
Subscribe (v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
Subscribe (v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
Subscribe (v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
Subscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Subscribe
Subscriber (n.) One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like.
Subscriber (n.) One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
Subscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subscribe
Subscript (n.) Anything written below.
Subscription (n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.
Subscription (n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
Subscription (n.) Submission; obedience.
Subscription (n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
Subscription (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
Subscription (n.) That which is subscribed.
Subscription (n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
Subscription (n.) The act of subscribing.
Subscription (n.) The signature attached to a paper.
Subscriptive (a.) Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
Subsecute (v. t.) To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.
Subsecutive (a.) Following in a train or succession.
Subsellia (pl. ) of Subsellium
Subsellium (n.) One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.
Subsemitone (n.) The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.
Subsensible (a.) Deeper than the reach of the senses.
Subseptuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to seven.
Subsequence (n.) Alt. of Subsequency
Subsequency (n.) The act or state of following; -- opposed to precedence.
Subsequent (a.) Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent clause in a treaty.
Subsequent (a.) Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.
Subsequently (adv.) At a later time; afterwards.
Subserous (a.) Situated under a serous membrane.
Subserve (v. i.) To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.
Subserve (v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.
Subserved (imp. & p. p.) of Subserve
Subservience (n.) Alt. of Subserviency
Subserviency (n.) The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.
Subservient (a.) Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Subserviently (adv.) In a subservient manner.
Subserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subserve
Subsextuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to six; as, a subsextuple proportion.
Subside (v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.
Subside (v. i.) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
Subside (v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
Subsided (imp. & p. p.) of Subside
Subsidence (n.) Alt. of Subsidency
Subsidency (n.) The act or process of subsiding.
Subsidiaries (pl. ) of Subsidiary
Subsidiarily (adv.) In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.
Subsidiary (a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
Subsidiary (a.) Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
Subsidiary (n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
Subsidies (pl. ) of Subsidy
Subsiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subside
Subsidize (v. t.) To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.
Subsidized (imp. & p. p.) of Subsidize
Subsidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsidize
Subsidy (n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.
Subsidy (n.) Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
Subsign (v. t.) To sign beneath; to subscribe.
Subsigned (imp. & p. p.) of Subsign
Subsigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsign
Subsilicate (n.) A basic silicate.
Subsinnation (n.) The act of writing the name under something, as for attestation.
Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
Subsist (v. i.) To be; to have existence; to inhere.
Subsist (v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.
Subsist (v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.
Subsisted (imp. & p. p.) of Subsist
Subsistence (n.) Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
Subsistence (n.) Real being; existence.
Subsistence (n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.
Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
Subsistency (n.) Subsistence.
Subsistent (a.) Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.
Subsistent (a.) Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.
Subsisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsist
Subsizar (n.) An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
Subsoil (n.) The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.
Subsoil (v. t.) To turn up the subsoil of.
Subsolary (a.) Being under the sun; hence, terrestrial; earthly; mundane.
Subspecies (n.) A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
Subsphenoidal (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
Subspherical (a.) Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
Subspinous (a.) Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.
Subspinous (a.) Subvertebral.
Substance (n.) Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.
Substance (n.) Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
Substance (n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.
Substance (n.) The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.
Substance (v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
Substanceless (a.) Having no substance; unsubstantial.
Substant (a.) Substantial; firm.
Substantial (a.) Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
Substantial (a.) Corporeal; material; firm.
Substantial (a.) Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
Substantial (a.) Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.
Substantial (a.) Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.
Substantiality (n.) The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality.
Substantialize (v. t.) To make substantial.
Substantialized (imp. & p. p.) of Substantialize
Substantializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Substantialize
Substantially (adv.) In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially.
Substantialness (n.) The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.
Substantials (n. pl.) Essential parts.
Substantiate (v. t.) To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration.
Substantiate (v. t.) To make to exist; to make real.
Substantiated (imp. & p. p.) of Substantiate
Substantiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Substantiate
Substantiation (n.) The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.
Substantival (a.) Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.
Substantive (a.) Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.
Substantive (a.) Depending on itself; independent.
Substantive (a.) Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive.
Substantive (n.) A noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives.
Substantive (v. t.) To substantivize.
Substantively (adv.) As a substantive, name, or noun; as, an adjective may be used substantively.
Substantively (adv.) In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.
Substantiveness (n.) The quality or state of being substantive.
Substantivize (v. t.) To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective.
Substile (n.) See Substyle.
Substituent (n.) Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
Substitute (n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.
Substitute (n.) One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else
Substitute (n.) To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.
Substituted (a.) Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia.
Substituted (a.) Exchanged; put in the place of another.
Substituted (imp. & p. p.) of Substitute
Substituting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Substitute
Substitution (n.) The act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so substituted. See Metathesis.
Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.
Substitution (n.) The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.
Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.
Substitution (n.) The state of being substituted for another.
Substitutional (a.) Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.
Substitutionary (a.) Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.
Substitutive (a.) Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.
Substract (v. t.) To subtract; to withdraw.
Substraction (n.) See Subtraction, 3.
Substraction (n.) Subtraction; deduction.
Substractor (n.) A detractor; a slanderer.
Substractor (n.) One who subtracts.
Substrata (pl. ) of Substratum
Substrate (a.) Having very slight furrows.
Substrate (n.) A substratum.
Substrate (v. t.) To strew or lay under anything.
Substratum (n.) That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.
Substratum (n.) The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.
Substruct (v. t.) To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.
Substruction (n.) Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.
Substructure (n.) An under structure; a foundation; groundwork.
Substructure (n.) Same as Substruction.
Substylar (a.) Pertaining to the substyle.
Substyle (n.) A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
Subsulphate (n.) A sulphate with an excess of the base.
Subsulphide (n.) A nonacid compound consisting of one equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body, as a metal.
Subsultive (a.) Subsultory.
Subsultory (a.) Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
Subsultus (n.) A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.
Subsumable (a.) Capable of being subsumed.
Subsume (v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.
Subsumption (n.) That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.
Subsumption (n.) The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
Subsumptive (a.) Relating to, or containing, a subsumption.
Subtangent (n.) The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
Subtartarean (a.) Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.
Subtectacle (n.) A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling.
Subtegulaneous (a.) Under the roof or eaves; within doors.
Subtenant (n.) One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.
Subtend (v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
Subtended (imp. & p. p.) of Subtend
Subtending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtend
Subtense (a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
Subtepid (a.) Slightly tepid.
Subterete (a.) Somewhat terete.
Subterfluent (a.) Alt. of Subterfluous
Subterfluous (a.) Running under or beneath.
Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Subterrane (n.) A cave or room under ground.
Subterraneal (a.) Subterranean.
Subterranean (a.) Alt. of Subterraneous
Subterraneous (a.) Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.
Subterranity (n.) A place under ground; a subterrany.
Subterrany (a.) Subterranean.
Subterrany (n.) A subterranean place.
Subterrene (a.) Subterraneous.
Subterrestrial (a.) Subterranean.
Subthalamic (a.) Situated under the optic thalamus.
Subtile (a.) Acute; piercing; searching.
Subtile (a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.
Subtilty (n.) Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.
Subtilty (n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.
Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.
Subtle (superl.) Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.
Subtle (superl.) Smooth and deceptive.
Subtleness (n.) The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.
Subtleties (pl. ) of Subtlety
Subtlety (n.) Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.
Subtlety (n.) Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.
Subtlety (n.) The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.
Subtly (adv.) Deceitfully; delusively.
Subtly (adv.) In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
Subtly (adv.) Nicely; delicately.
Subtonic (n.) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.
Subtonic (n.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
Subtorrid (a.) Nearly torrid.
Subtract (v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
Subtracted (imp. & p. p.) of Subtract
Subtracter (n.) One who subtracts.
Subtracter (n.) The subtrahend.
Subtracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtract
Subtraction (n.) The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
Subtraction (n.) The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.
Subtraction (n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
Subtractive (a.) Having the negative sign, or sign minus.
Subtractive (a.) Tending, or having power, to subtract.
Subtrahend (n.) The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another.
Subtranslucent (a.) Not perfectly translucent.
Subtransparent (a.) Not perfectly transparent.
Subtreasurer (n.) The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.
Subtreasuries (pl. ) of Subtreasury
Subtreasury (n.) A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York.
Subtriangular (a.) Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular.
Subtribe (n.) A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
Subtrihedral (a.) Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth.
Subtriple (a.) Containing a third, or one part to three.
Subtriplicate (a.) Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios.
Subtropical (a.) Nearly tropical.
Subtrude (v. t.) To place under; to insert.
Subtruded (imp. & p. p.) of Subtrude
Subtruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtrude
Subturriculate (a.) Somewhat turriculate.
Subtutor (n.) An under tutor.
Subtypical (a.) Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.
Subulate (a.) Alt. of Subulated
Subulated (a.) Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
Subulicornes (n. pl.) A division of insects having slender or subulate antennae. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.
Subuliform (a.) Subulate.
Subulipalp (n.) One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.
Subumbonal (a.) Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.
Subumbrella (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
Subundation (n.) A flood; a deluge.
Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Suburb (n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.
Suburb (n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
Suburban (a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
Suburban (n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
Suburbed (a.) Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.
Suburbial (a.) Alt. of Suburbian
Suburbian (a.) Suburban.
Suburbicarian (a.) Alt. of Suburbicary
Suburbicary (a.) Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
Suburethral (a.) Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.
Subvaginal (a.) Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.
Subvariety (n.) A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
Subvene (v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.
Subvened (imp. & p. p.) of Subvene
Subvening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subvene
Subventaneous (a.) Produced by the wind.
Subvention (n.) A government aid or bounty.
Subvention (n.) The act of coming under.
Subvention (n.) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
Subvention (v. t.) To subventionize.
Subventionize (v. t.) To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.
Subventitious (a.) Helping; aiding; supporting.
Subverant (a.) Reserved.
Subverse (v. t.) To subvert.
Subversionary (a.) Promoting destruction.
Subversive (a.) Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.
Subvert (v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.
Subvert (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
Subvert (v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
Subvertebral (a.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
Subverted (imp. & p. p.) of Subvert
Subverter (n.) One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower.
Subvertible (a.) That may be subverted.
Subverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subvert
Subvitalized (a.) Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.
Subvocal (a. & n.) Same as Subtonic.
Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.
Subworker (n.) A subordinate worker or helper.
Subzigomatic (a.) Situated under the zygoma or zygomatic process.
Subzonal (a.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.
Succade (n.) A sweetmeat.
Succade (n.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections.
Succedane (n.) A succedaneum.
Succedanea (pl. ) of Succedaneum
Succedaneous (a.) Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.
Succedaneum (n.) a remedy used as a substitute for another.
Succedaneum (n.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute
Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
Succeed (v. i.) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
Succeed (v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
Succeed (v. i.) To go under cover.
Succeed (v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
Succeed (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
Succeed (v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.
Succeedant (a.) Succeeding one another; following.
Succeeded (imp. & p. p.) of Succeed
Succeeder (n.) A successor.
Succeeding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.
Succeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succeed
Succentor (n.) A subchanter.
Success (n.) Act of succeeding; succession.
Success (n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
Success (n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
Success (n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Successary (n.) Succession.
Successful (a.) Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
Successional (a.) Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.
Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
Successively (adv.) In a successive manner.
Successiveness (n.) The quality or state of being successive.
Successless (a.) Having no success.
Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.
Succi (pl. ) of Succus
Succiduous (a.) Ready to fall; falling.
Succiferous (a.) Producing or conveying sap.
Succinamate (n.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Succinamic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.
Succinate (n.) A salt of succinic acid.
Succinct (a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
Succinimide (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.
Succinite (n.) A garnet of an amber color.
Succinite (n.) Amber.
Succinous (a.) Succinic.
Succinurate (n.) A salt of succinuric acid.
Succinuric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.
Succinyl (n.) A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.
Succise (a.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.
Succision (n.) The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off.
Succor (v. t.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
Succor (v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.
Succor (v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.
Succorable (a.) Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.
Succored (imp. & p. p.) of Succor
Succorer (n.) One who affords succor; a helper.
Succoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succor
Succorless (a.) Destitute of succor.
Succory (n.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.
Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
Succoteague (n.) The squeteague.
Succuba (n.) A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.
Succubae (pl. ) of Succuba
Succubi (pl. ) of Succubus
Succubine (a.) Of or pertaining to succuba.
Succubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
Succubus (n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
Succubus (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.
Succula (n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
Succulence (n.) Alt. of Succulency
Succulency (n.) The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.
Succulent (a.) Full of juice; juicy.
Succulently (adv.) In a succulent manner.
Succulous (a.) Succulent; juicy.
Succumb (v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Succumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Succumb
Succumbent (a.) Submissive; yielding.
Succumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succumb
Succursal (v. t.) Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.
Succus (n.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.
Succussation (n.) A shaking; succussion.
Succussation (n.) A trot or trotting.
Succussion (n.) The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
Succussive (a.) Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.
Such (a.) Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
Such (a.) Having the particular quality or character specified.
Such (a.) The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.
Suchospondylous (a.) Having dorsal vertebrae with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.
Suchwise (adv.) In a such a manner; so.
Suck (n.) A small draught.
Suck (n.) Juice; succulence.
Suck (n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
Suck (n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.
Suck (v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
Suck (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
Suck (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
Suck (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
Suck (v. t.) To draw or drain.
Suck (v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
Suckanhock (n.) A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
Suckatash (n.) See Succotash.
Sucked (imp. & p. p.) of Suck
Sucken (n.) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
Sucker (n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
Sucker (n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.
Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
Sucker (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
Sucker (n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
Sucker (n.) The hagfish, or myxine.
Sucker (n.) The lumpfish.
Sucker (n.) The remora.
Sucker (v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
Suckered (imp. & p. p.) of Sucker
Suckering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sucker
Sucket (v. t.) A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.
Suckfish (n.) A sucker fish.
Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
Sucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck
Suckle (n.) A teat.
Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
Suckled (imp. & p. p.) of Suckle
Suckler (n.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
Suckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suckle
Suckling (v. t.) A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.
Suckling (v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
Sucrate (n.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.
Sucre (n.) A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.
Suction (v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Suctoria (n. pl.) An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.
Suctoria (n. pl.) Same as Rhizocephala.
Suctorial (a.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.
Suctorial (a.) Capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes.
Suctorian (n.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.
Suctorian (n.) One of the Suctoria.
Suctorious (a.) Suctorial.
Sudamina (n. pl) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.
Sudarium (n.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.
Sudary (n.) A napkin or handkerchief.
Sudation (n.) A sweating.
Sudatoria (pl. ) of Sudatorium
Sudatories (pl. ) of Sudatory
Sudatorium (n.) A sudatory.
Sudatory (a.) Sweating; perspiring.
Sudatory (n.) A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
Sudden (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.
Sudden (a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
Sudden (a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
Sudden (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.
Sudden (n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Suddenty (n.) Suddenness; a sudden.
Sudoral (a.) Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.
Sudoriferous (a.) Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.
Sudorific (a.) Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.
Sudorific (n.) A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.
Sudoriparous (a.) Same as Sudoriferous.
Sudorous (a.) Consisting of sweat.
Sudra (n.) The lowest of the four great castes among the Hindoos. See Caste.
Suds (n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
Sue (v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
Sue (v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
Sue (v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
Sue (v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
Sue (v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
Sue (v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
Sue (v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
Sue (v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
Sue (v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
Sued (imp. & p. p.) of Sue
Suent (a.) Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth. See Suant.
Suently (adv.) Evenly; smoothly.
Suer (n.) One who sues; a suitor.
Suet (n.) The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
Suety (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, suet; as, a suety substance.
Suf- () A form of the prefix Sub-.
Suffer (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
Suffer (v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.
Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
Suffer (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
Suffer (v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
Suffer (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
Sufferable (a.) Able to suffer or endure; patient.
Sufferable (a.) That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
Sufferance (n.) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
Sufferance (n.) Loss; damage; injury.
Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.
Sufferance (n.) Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.
Sufferance (n.) The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.
Suffered (imp. & p. p.) of Suffer
Sufferer (n.) One who permits or allows.
Sufferer (n.) One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.
Suffering (a.) Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
Suffering (n.) The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.
Suffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffer
Suffice (v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
Suffice (v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.
Suffice (v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
Sufficed (imp. & p. p.) of Suffice
Sufficience (n.) Sufficiently.
Sufficiency (n.) Adequate substance or means; competence.
Sufficiency (n.) Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
Sufficiency (n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
Sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
Sufficient (a.) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
Sufficient (a.) Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
Sufficient (a.) Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
Sufficiently (adv.) To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.
Suffix (n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
Suffix (n.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
Suffix (v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
Suffixed (imp. & p. p.) of Suffix
Suffixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffix
Suffixion (n.) The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
Suffixment (n.) Suffixion.
Sufflaminate (v. t.) Hence, to stop; to impede.
Sufflaminate (v. t.) To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise.
Sufflate (v. t.) To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.
Sufflation (n.) The act of blowing up or inflating.
Suffocate (a.) Suffocated; choked.
Suffocate (v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered.
Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.
Suffocate (v. t.) To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.
Suffocated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffocate
Suffocating () a. & n. from Suffocate, v.
Suffocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffocate
Suffocation (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
Suffocative (a.) Tending or able to choke or stifle.
Suffossion (n.) A digging under; an undermining.
Suffragan (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.
Suffragan (a.) An assistant.
Suffragan (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.
Suffraganship (n.) The office of a suffragan.
Suffragant (a. & n.) Suffragan.
Suffragate (a.) To vote or vote with.
Suffragated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffragate
Suffragating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffragate
Suffragator (n.) One who assists or favors by his vote.
Suffrage (n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.
Suffrage (n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
Suffrage (n.) A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote.
Suffraginous (a.) Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast.
Suffragist (n.) One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.
Suffragist (n.) One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.
Suffrago (n.) The heel joint.
Suffrance (n.) Sufferance.
Suffrutescent (a.) Slightly woody at the base.
Suffruticose (a.) Woody in the lower part of the stem, but with the yearly branches herbaceous, as sage, thyme, hyssop, and the like.
Suffruticous (a.) Suffruticose.
Suffumigate (v. t.) To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
Suffumigated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffumigate
Suffumigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffumigate
Suffumigation (n.) The operation of suffumigating.
Suffumige (n.) A medical fume.
Suffuse (v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
Suffused (imp. & p. p.) of Suffuse
Suffusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suffuse
Suffusion (n.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
Suffusion (n.) That with which a thing is suffused.
Suffusion (n.) The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
Sufi (n.) A title or surname of the king of Persia.
Sufi (n.) One of a certain order of religious men in Persia.
Sufism (n.) A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives.
Sufragette. (n.) A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.
Sug (n.) A kind of worm or larva.
Sugar (n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
Sugar (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
Sugar (v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
Sugar (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
Sugar (v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
Sugared (a.) Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
Sugared (a.) Sweetened.
Sugared (imp. & p. p.) of Sugar
Sugariness (n.) The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
Sugaring (n.) The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.
Sugaring (n.) The act or process of making sugar.
Sugaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sugar
Sugarless (a.) Without sugar; free from sugar.
Sugarplum (n.) A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
Sugary (a.) Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
Sugary (a.) Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.
Sugescent (a.) Of or pertaining to sucking.
Suggest (v. i.) To make suggestions; to tempt.
Suggest (v. t.) To inform secretly.
Suggest (v. t.) To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
Suggest (v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
Suggest (v. t.) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Suggested (imp. & p. p.) of Suggest
Suggester (n.) One who suggests.
Suggesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suggest
Suggestion (n.) Charge; complaint; accusation.
Suggestion (n.) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.
Suggestion (n.) That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.
Suggestion (n.) The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.
Suggestion (n.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.
Suggestive (a.) Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.
Suggestment (n.) Suggestion.
Suggestress (n.) A woman who suggests.
Suggil (v. t.) To defame.
Suggillate (v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue.
Suggillation (n.) A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.
Sui generis () Of his or its own kind.
Suicidal (a.) Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.
Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
Suicide (adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
Suicidical (a.) Suicidal.
Suicidism (n.) The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering.
Suicism (n.) Selfishness; egoism.
Suigothus (n. pl.) The Scandinavian Goths. See the Note under Goths.
Suillage (n.) A drain or collection of filth.
Suilline (a.) Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidae).
Suine (n.) A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See Butterine.
Suing (n.) The process of soaking through anything.
Suing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sue
Suingly (adv.) In succession; afterwards.
Suint (n.) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.
Suist (n.) One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.
Suit (n.) A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.
Suit (n.) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.
Suit (n.) Regular order; succession.
Suit (n.) That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
Suit (n.) The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
Suit (n.) The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.
Suit (n.) The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
Suit (n.) Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
Suit (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
Suit (v. t.) To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
Suit (v. t.) To dress; to clothe.
Suit (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
Suit (v. t.) To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
Suitability (n.) The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
Suitable (a.) Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.
Suite (n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
Suite (n.) A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.
Suited (imp. & p. p.) of Suit
Suiting (n.) Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
Suiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suit
Suitor (n.) Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
Suitor (n.) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
Suitor (n.) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
Suitor (n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
Suitress (n.) A female supplicant.
Suji (n.) Indian wheat, granulated but not pulverized; a kind of semolina.
Sula (n.) A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.
Sulcate (a.) Alt. of Sulcated
Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.
Sulcation (n.) A channel or furrow.
Sulci (pl. ) of Sulcus
Sulciform (a.) Having the form of a sulcus; as, sulciform markings.
Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.
Suleah fish () A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.
Sulk (n.) A furrow.
Sulk (v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
Sulker (n.) One who sulks.
Sulkies (pl. ) of Sulky
Sulkily (adv.) In a sulky manner.
Sulkiness (n.) The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.
Sulks (n. pl.) The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
Sulky (a.) A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.
Sullage (n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.
Sullage (n.) Silt; mud deposited by water.
Sullage (n.) That which sullies or defiles.
Sullage (n.) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
Sullen (a.) Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
Sullen (a.) Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
Sullen (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.
Sullen (a.) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
Sullen (a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Sullen (a.) Obstinate; intractable.
Sullen (n.) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
Sullen (n.) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
Sullen (v. t.) To make sullen or sluggish.
Sullevate (v. t.) To rouse; to excite.
Sulliage (v. t.) Foulness; filth.
Sullied (imp. & p. p.) of Sully
Sullies (pl. ) of Sully
Sully (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Sully (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.
Sully (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
Sullying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sully
Sulphacid (n.) An acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids; -- called also sulphoacid. See the Note under Acid, n., 2.
Sulphamate (n.) A salt of sulphamic acid.
Sulphamide (n.) Any one of a series of amido compounds obtained by treating sulphuryl chloride with various amines.
Sulphanilic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anilene sulphonic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Sulphantimonate (n.) A salt of sulphantimonic acid.
Sulphantimonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonic acid) analogous to sulpharsenic acid.
Sulphantimonious (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.
Sulphantimonite (n.) A salt of sulphantimonious acid.
Sulpharsenate (n.) A salt of sulpharsenic acid.
Sulpharsenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenic acid) analogous to arsenic acid, and known only in its salts.
Sulpharsenious (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid (called also thioarsenious acid) analogous to arsenious acid, and known only in its salts.
Sulpharsenite (n.) A salt of sulpharsenious acid.
Sulphate (n.) A salt of sulphuric acid.
Sulphatic (a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.
Sulphato- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting a sulphate as an ingredient in certain double salts; as, sulphato-carbonate.
Sulphaurate (n.) A salt of sulphauric acid.
Sulphauric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of gold (aurum), known only in its salts.
Sulphide (n.) A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.
Sulphinate (n.) A salt of a sulphinic acid.
Sulphindigotic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.
Sulphinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of acids regarded as acid ethereal salts of hyposulphurous acid; as, methyl sulphinic acid, CH3.SO.OH, a thick unstable liquid.
Sulphion (n.) A hypothetical radical, SO4, regarded as forming the acid or negative constituent of sulphuric acid and the sulphates in electrolytic decomposition; -- so called in accordance with the binary theory of salts.
Sulphionide (n.) A binary compound of sulphion, or one so regarded; thus, sulphuric acid, H/SO/, is a sulphionide.
Sulphite (n.) A salt of sulphurous acid.
Sulpho- () A prefix (also used adjectively) designating sulphur as an ingredient in certain compounds. Cf. Thio-.
Sulphoarsenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen.
Sulphocarbonate (n.) A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.
Sulphocarbonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
Sulphocyanate (n.) A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide.
Sulphocyanic (a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a sulphacid, HSCN, analogous to cyanic acid, and obtained as a colorless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.
Sulphocyanide (n.) See Sulphocyanate.
Sulphocyanogen (n.) See Persulphocyanogen.
Sulphonal (n.) A substance employed as a hypnotic, produced by the union of mercaptan and acetone.
Sulphonate (n.) A salt of sulphonic acid.
Sulphone (n.) Any one of a series of compounds analogous to the ketones, and consisting of the sulphuryl group united with two hydrocarbon radicals; as, dimethyl sulphone, (CH/)/.SO/.
Sulphonium (n.) A hypothetical radical, SH3, regarded as the type and nucleus of the sulphines.
Sulphophosphate (n.) A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.
Sulphophosphite (n.) A salt of sulphophosphorous acid.
Sulphophosphoric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.
Sulphophosphorous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.
Sulphosalt (n.) A salt of a sulphacid.
Sulphostannate (n.) A salt of sulphostannic acid.
Sulphostannic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H/SnS/, forming a well-known series of salts.
Sulphotungstate (n.) A salt of sulphotungstic acid.
Sulphotungstic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.
Sulphovinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, and formerly designating, ethylsulphuric acid.
Sulphur (n.) Any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae; as, the clouded sulphur (Eurymus, / Colias, philodice), which is the common yellow butterfly of the Eastern United States.
Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
Sulphurate (a.) Sulphureous.
Sulphurate (v. t.) To sulphurize.
Sulphurated (imp. & p. p.) of Sulphurate
Sulphurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sulphurate
Sulphuration (n.) The act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur or its compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.
Sulphurator (n.) An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.
Sulphureity (n.) The quality or state of being sulphureous.
Sulphureous (a.) Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.
Sulphuret (n.) A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.
Sulphureted (a.) Combined or impregnated with sulphur; sulphurized.
Sulphuric (a.) Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the sulphurous compounds; as, sulphuric acid.
Sulphuric (a.) Of or pertaining to sulphur; as, a sulphuric smell.
Sulphurine (a.) Sulphureous.
Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.
Sulphurize (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with sulphur or any of its compounds; as, to sulphurize caoutchouc in vulcanizing.
Sulphurous (a.) Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the sulphuric compounds.
Sulphurous (a.) Having the characteristic odor of sulphur dioxide, or of hydrogen sulphide, or of other sulphur compounds.
Sulphurous (a.) Of or pertaining to sulphur.
Sulphurwort (n.) The hog's fennel. See under Fennel.
Sulphury (a.) Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.
Sulphuryl (n.) The hypothetical radical SO2; -- called also sulphon.
Sulphydric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen sulphide, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
Sulpician (n.) One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. The order was introduced soon afterwards into Canada, and in 1791 into the United States.
Sultan (n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.
Sultan-red (a.) Having a deep red color.
Sultana (n.) A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey.
Sultana (n.) The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.
Sultanate (n.) The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
Sultaness (n.) A sultana.
Sultanic (a.) Pertaining to a sultan.
Sultanry (n.) The dominions of a sultan.
Sultanship (n.) The office or dignity of a sultan.
Sultany (n.) Sultanry.
Sultriness (n.) The quality or state of being sultry.
Sultry (superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.
Sultry (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.
Sultryly (adv.) In a sultry manner.
Sum (n.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
Sum (n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
Sum (n.) Height; completion; utmost degree.
Sum (n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
Sum (n.) The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
Sum (v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
Sum (v. t.) To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
Sum (v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
Sumac (n.) Alt. of Sumach
Sumach (n.) The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.
Sumatran (a.) Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants.
Sumatran (n.) A native of Sumatra.
Sumbul (n.) The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.
Sumless (a.) Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.
Summaries (pl. ) of Summary
Summarily (adv.) In a summary manner.
Summarist (n.) One who summarized.
Summarize (v. t.) To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
Summary (a.) A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.
Summary (a.) Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
Summary (a.) Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.
Summation (v. t.) The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.
Summed (imp. & p. p.) of Sum
Summer (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
Summer (v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
Summer (v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
Summer (v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.
Summer-fallow (v. t.) To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.
Summered (imp. & p. p.) of Summer
Summerhouse (n.) A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.
Summerhouses (pl. ) of Summerhouse
Summering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Summer
Summerliness (n.) The quality or state of being like summer.
Summersault (n.) Alt. of Summerset
Summerset (n.) See Somersault, Somerset.
Summerstir (v. t.) To summer-fallow.
Summertide (n.) Summer time.
Summertree (n.) A summer. See 2d Summer.
Summery (a.) Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.
Summing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sum
Summist (n.) One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.
Summit (n.) The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.
Summit (n.) The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.
Summit (n.) The top; the highest point.
Summitless (a.) Having no summit.
Summity (n.) The height or top of anything.
Summity (n.) The utmost degree; perfection.
Summon (v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort.
Summon (v. t.) To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.
Summon (v. t.) To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.
Summoned (imp. & p. p.) of Summon
Summoner (v. t.) One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.
Summoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Summon
Summons (v. t.) To summon.
Summons (v.) A demand to surrender.
Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.
Summons (v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
Summonses (pl. ) of Summons
Sumner (n.) A summoner.
Sumoom (n.) See Simoom.
Sump (n.) A pond of water for salt works.
Sump (n.) A puddle or dirty pool.
Sump (n.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.
Sump (n.) The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.
Sumph (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.
Sumpitan (n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.
Sumpter (a.) Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule.
Sumpter (n.) A pack; a burden.
Sumpter (n.) An animal, especially a horse, that carries packs or burdens; a baggage horse.
Sumpter (n.) The driver of a pack horse.
Sumption (n.) A taking.
Sumption (n.) The major premise of a syllogism.
Sumptuary (a.) Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure.
Sumptuous (a.) Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.
Sun (n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
Sun (n.) See Sunn.
Sun (n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
Sun (n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
Sun (v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
Sun star () See Sun star, under Sun.
Sun-burner (n.) A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.
Sunbonnet (n.) A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.
Sunbow (n.) A rainbow; an iris.
Sunburn (n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.
Sunburn (v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.
Sunburned (imp. & p. p.) of Sunburn
Sunburning (n.) Sunburn; tan.
Sunburning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sunburn
Sunburnt () of Sunburn
Sunburst (n.) A burst of sunlight.
Sundart (n.) Sunbeam.
Sunday (a.) Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.
Sunday (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day.
Sunder (v. i.) To part; to separate.
Sunder (v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
Sunder (v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.
Sunder (v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.
Sundered (imp. & p. p.) of Sunder
Sundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sunder
Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
Sundog (n.) A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos.
Sundown (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.
Sundown (n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.
Sundries (n. pl.) Many different or small things; sundry things.
Sundrily (adv.) In sundry ways; variously.
Sundry (v. t.) Separate; diverse.
Sundry (v. t.) Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
Sundryman (n.) One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles.
Sundrymen (pl. ) of Sundryman
Sunfish (n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
Sunfish (n.) Any large jellyfish.
Sunfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark.
Sunfish (n.) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
Sunfish (n.) The opah.
Sunflower (n.) Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
Sung () imp. & p. p. of Sing.
Sung (imp.) of Sing
Sung (p. p.) of Sing
Sunglass (n.) A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus.
Sunglasses (pl. ) of Sunglass
Sunglow (n.) A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.
Sunk () imp. & p. p. of Sink.
Sunk (imp.) of Sink
Sunk (p. p.) of Sink
Sunken () of Sink
Sunken (a.) Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.
Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
Sunlight (n.) The light of the sun.
Sunlike (a.) Like or resembling the sun.
Sunlit (a.) Lighted by the sun.
Sunn (n.) An East Indian leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea) and its fiber, which is also called sunn hemp.
Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.
Sunned (imp. & p. p.) of Sun
Sunniah (n.) One of the sect of Sunnites.
Sunniness (n.) The quality or state of being sunny.
Sunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sun
Sunnite (n.) One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran.
Sunnud (n.) A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift.
Sunny (n.) See Sunfish (b).
Sunny (superl.) Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition.
Sunny (superl.) Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill.
Sunny (superl.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant.
Sunproof (a.) Impervious to the rays of the sun.
Sunrise (n.) Alt. of Sunrising
Sunrising (n.) Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east.
Sunrising (n.) The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise.
Sunset (n.) Alt. of Sunsetting
Sunsetting (n.) Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west.
Sunsetting (n.) The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively.
Sunshade (n.) A small parasol.
Sunshade (n.) An awning.
Sunshade (n.) Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays.
Sunshine (a.) Sunshiny; bright.
Sunshine (n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.
Sunshine (n.) The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
Sunshiny (a.) Beaming with good spirits; cheerful.
Sunshiny (a.) Bright like the sun; resplendent.
Sunshiny (a.) Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.
Sunsquall (n.) Any large jellyfish.
Sunsted (n.) Solstice.
Sunstone (n.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.
Sunup (n.) Sunrise.
Sunward (adv.) Toward the sun.
Sunwise (adv.) In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.
Sup (n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
Sup (v. i.) To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
Sup (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
Sup (v. t.) To treat with supper.
Supawn (n.) Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush.
Supe (n.) A super.
Super (n.) A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.
Super- () A prefix signifying above, over, beyond, and hence often denoting in a superior position, in excess, over and above, in addition, exceedingly; as in superimpose, supersede, supernatural, superabundance.
Superable (a.) Capable of being overcome or conquered; surmountable.
Superabound (v. i.) To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.
Superabundance (n.) The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
Superabundant (a.) Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal.
Superacidulated (a.) Acidulated to excess.
Superadd (v. t.) To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.
Superadded (imp. & p. p.) of Superadd
Superadding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superadd
Superaddition (n.) The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.
Superadvenient (a.) Coming upon; coming in addition to, or in assistance of, something.
Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.
Superaltar (n.) A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
Superangelic (a.) Superior to the angels in nature or rank.
Superannuate (v. i.) To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants.
Superannuate (v. t.) To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
Superannuate (v. t.) To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
Superannuated (imp. & p. p.) of Superannuate
Superannuating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superannuate
Superannuation (n.) The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude.
Superb (a.) Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.
Superb (a.) Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.
Superb (a.) Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.
Superbiate (v. t.) To make (a person) haughty.
Supercarbonate (n.) A bicarbonate.
Supercarbureted (a.) Bicarbureted.
Supercargo (n.) An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.
Supercarpal (a.) Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.
Supercelestial (a.) Higher than celestial; superangelic.
Supercelestial (a.) Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven.
Supercharge (n.) A bearing charged upon another bearing.
Supercharge (v. t.) To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.
Supercharged (imp. & p. p.) of Supercharge
Supercharging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supercharge
Superchemical (a.) Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws.
Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.
Superciliary (a.) Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker.
Superciliary (a.) Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.
Supercilious (a.) Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior.
Supercilium (n.) The eyebrow, or the region of the eyebrows.
Supercolumniation (n.) The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.
Superconception (n.) Superfetation.
Superconsequence (n.) Remote consequence.
Supercrescence (n.) That which grows upon another growing thing; a parasite.
Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.
Supercretaceous (a.) Same as Supracretaceous.
Supercurious (a.) Excessively curious or inquisitive.
Superdominant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.
Supereminence (n.) Alt. of Supereminency
Supereminency (n.) The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman.
Supereminent (a.) Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.
Supererogant (a.) Supererogatory.
Supererogate (v. i.) To do more than duty requires; to perform works of supererogation; to atone (for a dificiency in another) by means of a surplus action or quality.
Supererogated (imp. & p. p.) of Supererogate
Supererogating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supererogate
Supererogation (n.) The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.
Supererogative (a.) Supererogatory.
Supererogatory (a.) Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services.
Superessential (a.) Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing.
Superethical (a.) More than ethical; above ethics.
Superexalt (v. t.) To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others.
Superexaltation (n.) Elevation above the common degree.
Superexalted (imp. & p. p.) of Superexalt
Superexalting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superexalt
Superexcellence (n.) Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence.
Superexcellent (a.) Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent.
Superexcination (n.) Excessive, or more than normal, excitation.
Superfamily (n.) A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
Superfecundation (n.) Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.
Superfecundity (n.) Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.
Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring.
Superfete (v. i.) To superfetate.
Superfete (v. t.) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.
Superfice (n.) A superficies.
Superficial (a.) Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.
Superficial (a.) Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious or apparent; not deep or profound; shallow; -- said especially in respect to study, learning, and the like; as, a superficial scholar; superficial knowledge.
Superficialist (n.) One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.
Superficiality (n.) The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial.
Superficialize (v. t.) To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way.
Superficiary (a.) Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; superficial.
Superficiary (a.) Situated or built on another man's land, as a house.
Superficiary (n.) One to whom a right of surface occupation is granted; one who pays quitrent for a house built upon another man's ground.
Superficies (n.) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.
Superficies (n.) The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.
Superfine (a.) Excessively fine; too nice; over particular; as, superfine distinctions; superfine tastes.
Superfine (a.) Very fine, or most fine; being of surpassing fineness; of extra nice or fine quality; as, superfine cloth.
Superfineness (n.) The state of being superfine.
Superfinical (a.) Extremely finical.
Superfluence (n.) Superfluity.
Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.
Superfluities (pl. ) of Superfluity
Superfluity (n.) A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
Superfluity (n.) Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Superfluity (n.) The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
Superfluous (a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
Superflux (n.) Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.
Superfoetation (n.) Superfetation.
Superfoliation (n.) Excess of foliation.
Superfrontal (n.) A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.
Superfuse (a.) To pour (something) over or on something else.
Superheat (n.) The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.
Superheat (v. t.) To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.
Superheat (v. t.) To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas.
Superheated (imp. & p. p.) of Superheat
Superheater (n.) An apparatus for superheating steam.
Superheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superheat
Superhive (n.) A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.
Superhuman (a.) Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
Superimpose (v. t.) To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.
Superimposed (imp. & p. p.) of Superimpose
Superimposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superimpose
Superincumbence (n.) Alt. of Superincumbency
Superincumbency (n.) The quality or state of being superincumbent.
Superincumbent (a.) Lying or resting on something else.
Superinduce (v. t.) To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.
Superinduced (imp. & p. p.) of Superinduce
Superinducement (n.) Superinduction.
Superinducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superinduce
Superinduction (n.) The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.
Superinfuse (v. t.) To infuse over.
Superinjection (n.) An injection succeeding another.
Superinpregnation (n.) The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.
Superinspect (v. t.) To over see; to superintend by inspection.
Superinstitution (n.) One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another.
Superintellectual (a.) Being above intellect.
Superintend (v. t.) To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort.
Superintended (imp. & p. p.) of Superintend
Superintendence (n.) The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision.
Superintendency (n.) The act of superintending; superintendence.
Superintendent (a.) Overseeing; superintending.
Superintendent (n.) One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.
Superintender (n.) A superintendent.
Superintending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superintend
Superinvestiture (n.) An outer vestment or garment.
Superior (a.) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
Superior (a.) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.
Superior (a.) Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
Superior (a.) Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.
Superior (a.) More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.
Superior (a.) More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
Superior (a.) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.
Superior (n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.
Superior (n.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.
Superioress (n.) A woman who acts as chief in a convent, abbey, or nunnery; a lady superior.
Superiority (n.) The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.
Superiorly (adv.) In a superior position or manner.
Superlation (n.) Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety.
Superlative (a.) Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
Superlative (a.) Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character.
Superlative (n.) That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree.
Superlative (n.) The superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, a form or word by which the superlative degree is expressed; as, strongest, wisest, most stormy, least windy, are all superlatives.
Superlucration (n.) Excessive or extraordinary gain.
Superlunar (a.) Alt. of Superlunary
Superlunary (a.) Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary.
Supermaterial (a.) Being above, or superior to, matter.
Supermaxilla (n.) The supermaxilla.
Supermaxillary (a.) Supermaxillary.
Supermedial (a.) Above the middle.
Supermundane (a.) Being above the world; -- opposed to inframundane.
Supermundial (a.) Supermundane.
Supernacular (a.) Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine.
Supernaculum (adv. & n.) A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers.
Supernaculum (adv. & n.) Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail.
Supernal (a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions.
Supernal (a.) Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace.
Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water.
Supernatant (n.) The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet.
Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.
Supernatural (a.) Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.
Supernaturalism (n.) The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.
Supernaturalist (n.) One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism.
Supernaturalistic (a.) Of or pertaining to supernaturalism.
Supernaturality (n.) The quality or state of being supernatural.
Supernaturalize (v. t.) To treat or regard as supernatural.
Supernaturally (adv.) In a supernatural manner.
Supernaturalness (n.) The quality or state of being supernatural.
Supernumeraries (pl. ) of Supernumerary
Supernumerary (a.) Exceeding a necessary, usual, or required number or quality; superfluous; as, supernumerary addresses; supernumerary expense.
Supernumerary (a.) Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.
Supernumerary (n.) A person or thing beyond the number stated.
Superoccipital (a.) Supraoccipital.
Superorder (n.) A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
Superordination (n.) The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
Superoxide (n.) See Peroxide.
Superparticular (a.) Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.
Superpartient (a.) Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10.
Superphosphate (n.) An acid phosphate.
Superphysical (a.) Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
Superplant (n.) A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte.
Superplease (v. t.) To please exceedingly.
Superplus (n.) Surplus.
Superplusage (n.) Surplusage.
Superpolitic (a.) More than politic; above or exceeding policy.
Superponderate (v. t.) To wiegh over and above.
Superposable (a.) Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.
Superpose (v. t.) To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another.
Superpose (v. t.) To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
Superposed (imp. & p. p.) of Superpose
Superposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superpose
Superposition (n.) The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
Superpraise (v. t.) To praise to excess.
Superproportion (n.) Overplus or excess of proportion.
Superpurgation (n.) Excessive purgation.
Superreflection (n.) The reflection of a reflected image or sound.
Superregal (a.) More than regal; worthy of one greater than a king.
Superreward (v. t.) To reward to an excessive degree.
Superroyal (a.) Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
Supersacral (a.) Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.
Supersaliency (n.) The act of leaping on anything.
Supersalient (a.) Leaping upon.
Supersalt (n.) An acid salt. See Acid salt (a), under Salt, n.
Supersaturate (v. t.) To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
Supersaturation (n.) The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.
Superscribe (v. t.) To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.
Superscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Superscribe
Superscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Superscribe
Superscript (n.) Superscription.
Superscription (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the Latin word recipe (Take) or the sign /.
Superscription (n.) That which is written or engraved on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, or the like.
Superscription (n.) The act of superscribing.
Supersecular (a.) Being above the world, or secular things.
Supersede (v. t.) To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
Supersede (v. t.) To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.
Supersede (v. t.) To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay.
Supersede (v. t.) To omit; to forbear.
Supersedeas (n.) A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
Superseded (imp. & p. p.) of Supersede
Superseding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supersede
Supersedure (n.) The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury.
Superseminate (v. t.) To sow, as seed, over something previously sown.
Supersemination (n.) The sowing of seed over seed previously sown.
Supersensible (a.) Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.
Superserviceable (a.) Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.
Supersession (n.) The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure.
Supersolar (a.) Above the sun.
Supersphenoidal (a.) Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
Superspinous (a.) Supraspinuos.
Superstatum (n.) A stratum, or layer, above another.
Superstition (n.) An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
Superstition (n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
Superstition (n.) The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
Superstitionist (n.) One addicted to superstition.
Superstitious (a.) Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion.
Superstitious (a.) Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
Superstruct (v. t.) To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.
Superstruction (n.) That which id superstructed, or built upon some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure.
Superstruction (n.) The act of superstructing, or building upon.
Superstructive (a.) Built or erected on something else.
Superstructor (n.) One who builds a superstructure.
Superstructure (n.) all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
Superstructure (n.) Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis
Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
Supersubstantial (a.) More than substantial; spiritual.
Supersubtle (a.) To subtle.
Supersulphate (n.) An acid sulphate.
Supersulphureted (a.) Supersulphurized.
Supersulphurize (v. t.) To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.
Supertemporal (n.) That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
Superterranean (a.) Being above ground.
Superterrene (a.) Being above ground, or above the earth.
Superterrestrial (a.) Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.
Supertonic (n.) The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.
Supertragical (a.) Tragical to excess.
Supertuberation (n.) The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
Supervacaneous (a.) Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless.
Supervene (v. i.) To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
Supervened (imp. & p. p.) of Supervene
Supervenient (a.) Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.
Supervening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supervene
Supervention (n.) The act of supervening.
Supervisal (n.) Supervision.
Supervise (n.) Supervision; inspection.
Supervise (v. t.) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
Supervise (v. t.) To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.
Supervised (imp. & p. p.) of Supervise
Supervising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supervise
Supervision (n.) The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.
Supervisive (a.) Supervisory.
Supervisor (n.) A spectator; a looker-on.
Supervisor (n.) One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
Supervisory (a.) Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
Supervive (v. t.) To survive; to outlive.
Supervolute (a.) Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.
Supination (n.) The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.
Supination (n.) The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to pronation.
Supinator (n.) A muscle which produces the motion of supination.
Supine (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
Supine (a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
Supine (n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
Supinity (n.) Supineness.
Suppage (n.) What may be supped; pottage.
Suppalpation (n.) The act of enticing by soft words; enticement.
Supparasitation (n.) The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
Supparasite (v. t.) To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite.
Suppawn (n.) See Supawn.
Supped (imp. & p. p.) of Sup
Suppedaneous (a.) Being under the feet.
Suppeditate (v. t.) To supply; to furnish.
Suppeditation (n.) Supply; aid afforded.
Supper (n.) A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
Supper (v. i.) To take supper; to sup.
Supper (v. t.) To supply with supper.
Supperless (a.) Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed.
Supping (n.) That which is supped; broth.
Supping (n.) The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
Supping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sup
Supplace (v. t.) To replace.
Supplant (n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
Supplant (n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
Supplant (n.) To trip up.
Supplantation (n.) The act of supplanting or displacing.
Supplanted (imp. & p. p.) of Supplant
Supplanter (n.) One who supplants.
Supplanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supplant
Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
Supple (a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
Supple (v. i.) To become soft and pliant.
Supple (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
Supple-chapped (a.) Having a limber tongue.
Supple-jack (n.) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem.
Supple-jack (n.) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem.
Suppled (imp. & p. p.) of Supple
Supplely (adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
Supplement (v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
Supplement (v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Supplemental (a.) Alt. of Supplementary
Supplementary (a.) Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
Supplementation (n.) The act of supplementing.
Supplemented (imp. & p. p.) of Supplement
Supplementing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supplement
Suppleness (n.) The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
Suppletive (a.) Alt. of Suppletory
Suppletories (pl. ) of Suppletory
Suppletory (a.) Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
Suppletory (n.) That which is to supply what is wanted.
Supplial (n.) The act of supplying; a supply.
Suppliance (n.) Supplication; entreaty.
Suppliance (n.) That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction.
Suppliant (a.) Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
Suppliant (a.) Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
Suppliant (n.) One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Supplicancy (n.) Supplication.
Supplicant (a.) Entreating; asking submissively.
Supplicant (n.) One who supplicates; a suppliant.
Supplicat (n.) A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
Supplicate (v. i.) To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
Supplicate (v. t.) To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity.
Supplicate (v. t.) To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.
Supplicated (imp. & p. p.) of Supplicate
Supplicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supplicate
Supplicatingly (adv.) In a supplicating manner.
Supplication (n.) A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.
Supplication (n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
Supplication (n.) The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
Supplicator (n.) One who supplicates; a supplicant.
Supply (a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Supply (n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
Supply (n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
Supply (n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
Supply (n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
Supply (n.) The act of supplying; supplial.
Supply (n.) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
Supply (v. t.) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
Supply (v. t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
Supply (v. t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
Supplying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supply
Supplyment (n.) A supplying or furnishing; supply.
Support (n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.
Support (n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.
Support (v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.
Support (v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
Support (v. t.) To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.
Support (v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.
Support (v. t.) To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.
Support (v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.
Support (v. t.) To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.
Support (v. t.) To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.
Support (v. t.) To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.
Supportable (a.) Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.
Supportance (n.) Support.
Supportation (n.) Maintenance; support.
Supported (imp. & p. p.) of Support
Supporter (n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.
Supporter (n.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.
Supporter (n.) A knee placed under the cathead.
Supporter (n.) Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.
Supporter (n.) One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.
Supportful (a.) Abounding with support.
Supporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Support
Supportless (a.) Having no support.
Supportment (n.) Support.
Supportress (n.) A female supporter.
Supposable (a.) Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case.
Supposal (n.) The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.
Suppose (n.) Supposition.
Suppose (v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
Suppose (v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
Suppose (v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.
Suppose (v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
Supposed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppose
Supposeer (n.) One who supposes.
Supposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppose
Supposition (n.) That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence.
Supposition (n.) The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
Suppositional (a.) Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
Supposititious (a.) Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.
Supposititious (a.) Suppositional; hypothetical.
Suppositive (a.) Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.
Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc.
Suppositor (n.) An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
Suppositories (pl. ) of Suppository
Suppository (n.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.
Suppress (v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.
Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Suppress (v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.
Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.
Suppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppress
Suppressible (a.) That may be suppressed.
Suppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppress
Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.
Suppression (n.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
Suppression (n.) The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.
Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
Suppressor (n.) One who suppresses.
Supprise (v. t.) To surprise.
Suppurant (n.) A suppurative.
Suppurate (v. i.) To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
Suppurate (v. t.) To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.
Suppurated (imp. & p. p.) of Suppurate
Suppurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppurate
Suppuration (n.) The act or process of suppurating.
Suppuration (n.) The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
Suppurative (a.) Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.
Suppurative (n.) A suppurative medicine.
Supputate (v. t.) To suppute.
Supputation (n.) Reckoning; account.
Suppute (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute.
Supra (adv.) Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Supra-acromial (a.) Situated above the acromial process of the scapula.
Supra-angular (a.) See Surangular.
Supra-auricular (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
Supra-auricular (n.) A supra-auricular feather.
Supra-axillary (a.) Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
Supra-esophagal (a.) Alt. of Supra-esophageal
Supra-esophageal (a.) Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea.
Supra-ethmoid (a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
Supra-ilium (n.) The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.
Supra-oesophagal (a.) See Supra-esophagal.
Suprabranchial (a.) Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.
Suprachoroid (a.) Alt. of Suprachoroidal
Suprachoroidal (a.) Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.
Supraciliary (a.) Superciliary.
Supraclavicle (n.) A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.
Supraclavicular (a.) Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle.
Supraclavicular (a.) Situated above the clavicle.
Supracondylar (a.) Alt. of Supracondyloid
Supracondyloid (a.) Situated above a condyle or condyles.
Supracostal (a.) Situated above, or on the outside of, the ribs.
Supracranial (a.) Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium.
Supracretaceous (a.) Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.
Supradecompound (a.) More than decompound; divided many times.
Suprafoliaceous (a.) Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.
Supraglotic (a.) Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.
Suprahepatic (a.) Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins.
Suprahyoid (a.) Hyomental.
Supralapsarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.
Supralapsarianism (n.) The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.
Supralapsary (a.) Supralapsarian.
Supralapsary (n.) A Supralapsarian.
Supraloral (a.) Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird.
Supraloral (n.) A supraloral feather.
Supralunar (a.) Alt. of Supralunary
Supralunary (a.) Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.
Supramaxilla (n.) The upper jaw or maxilla.
Supramaxillae (pl. ) of Supramaxilla
Supramaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
Supramaxillary (a.) Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.
Supramundane (a.) Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.
Supranaturalism (n.) The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.
Supranaturalist (a.) Alt. of Supranaturalistic
Supranaturalist (n.) A supernaturalist.
Supranaturalistic (a.) Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.
Supraoccipital (a.) Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone.
Supraoccipital (n.) The supraoccipital bone.
Supraocular (a.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.
Supraorbital (a.) Alt. of Supraorbitar
Supraorbitar (a.) Situated above the orbit of the eye.
Suprapedal (a.) Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.
Supraprotest (n.) An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee.
Suprapubian (a.) Alt. of Suprapubic
Suprapubic (a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.
Suprarenal (a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys.
Suprarenal (n.) A suprarenal capsule.
Suprascalpular (a.) Alt. of Suprascalpulary
Suprascalpulary (a.) Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula.
Suprasphenoidal (a.) Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.
Supraspinal (a.) Situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.
Supraspinal (a.) Situated above the vertebral column.
Supraspinate (a.) Alt. of Supraspinous
Supraspinous (a.) Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
Suprastapedial (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that part of the columella of the ear which projects above the connection with the stapes, as in many animals.
Suprastapedial (n.) The suprastapedial part of the columella.
Suprasternal (a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
Supratemporal (a.) Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa.
Supratemporal (n.) A supratemporal bone.
Supratrochlear (a.) Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
Supravaginal (a.) Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
Supravision (n.) Supervision.
Supravisor (n.) A supervisor.
Supravulgar (a.) Being above the vulgar or common people.
Supremacy (n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
Supreme (a.) Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.
Supreme (a.) Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
Supreme (a.) Situated at the highest part or point.
Supremely (adv.) In a supreme manner.
Supremity (n.) Supremacy.
Sur- () A prefix signifying over, above, beyond, upon.
Sura (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.
Suradanni (n.) A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.
Suraddition (n.) Something added or appended, as to a name.
Surah (n.) A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.
Sural (a.) Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.
Surance (n.) Assurance.
Surangular (a.) Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.
Surangular (n.) The surangular bone.
Surbase (n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.
Surbase (n.) A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column.
Surbased (a.) Having a surbase, or molding above the base.
Surbased (a.) Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased.
Surbate (v. t.) To harass; to fatigue.
Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
Surbated (imp. & p. p.) of Surbate
Surbating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surbate
Surbeat (v. t.) Same as Surbate.
Surbed (v. t.) To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
Surbedded (imp. & p. p.) of Surbed
Surbedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surbed
Surbet (a.) Surbated; bruised.
Surbet (v. t.) Same as Surbate.
Surcease (n.) Cessation; stop; end.
Surcease (v. i.) To cease.
Surcease (v. t.) To cause to cease; to end.
Surceaseance (n.) Cessation.
Surcharge (n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
Surcharge (n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
Surcharge (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
Surcharge (v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
Surcharge (v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
Surcharge (v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
Surcharged (imp. & p. p.) of Surcharge
Surchargement (n.) The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus.
Surcharger (n.) One who surcharges.
Surcharging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surcharge
Surcingle (n.) A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.
Surcingle (n.) The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist.
Surcingled (a.) Bound with the surcingle.
Surcle (n.) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
Surcloy (v. t.) To surfeit.
Surcloyed (imp. & p. p.) of Surcloy
Surcloying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surcloy
Surcoat (n.) A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer.
Surcoat (n.) A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.
Surcrew (n.) Increase; addition; surplus.
Surculate (v. t.) To purne; to trim.
Surculation (n.) Act of purning.
Surculose (a.) Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.
Surd (a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
Surd (a.) Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
Surd (a.) Unheard.
Surd (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
Surd (n.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.
Surdal (a.) Same as Surd, a., 3.
Surdiny (n.) A sardine.
Surdity (n.) Deafness.
Sure (adv.) In a sure manner; safely; certainly.
Sure (superl.) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
Sure (superl.) Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.
Sure (superl.) Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring.
Sure (superl.) Free from danger; safe; secure.
Sure-footed (a.) Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.
Surely (adv.) In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly.
Surely (adv.) Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely.
Surement (n.) A making sure; surety.
Sureness (n.) The state of being sure; certainty.
Suresby (n.) One to be sure of, or to be relied on.
Sureties (pl. ) of Surety
Suretiship (n.) Suretyship.
Surety (n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
Surety (n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
Surety (n.) Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
Surety (n.) That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
Surety (n.) The state of being sure; certainty; security.
Surety (v. t.) To act as surety for.
Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.
Surf (n.) The bottom of a drain.
Surf (n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
Surface (n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
Surface (n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
Surface (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
Surface (n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
Surface (v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
Surface (v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
Surfaced (imp. & p. p.) of Surface
Surfacer (n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
Surfacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surface
Surfboat (n.) A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.
Surfeit (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Surfeit (n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
Surfeit (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
Surfeit (v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
Surfeit (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
Surfeit (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
Surfeit (v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
Surfeit-water (n.) Water for the cure of surfeits.
Surfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Surfeit
Surfeiter (n.) One who surfeits.
Surfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surfeit
Surfel (v. t.) Alt. of Surfle
Surfer (n.) The surf duck.
Surfle (v. t.) To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur.
Surfman (n.) One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.
Surfoot (a.) Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed.
Surfy (a.) Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore.
Surge (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
Surge (n.) A spring; a fountain.
Surge (n.) The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
Surge (n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
Surge (n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
Surge (v. i.) To slip along a windlass.
Surge (v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
Surged (imp. & p. p.) of Surge
Surgeful (a.) Abounding in surges; surgy.
Surgeless (a.) Free from surges; smooth; calm.
Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood.
Surgeon (n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
Surgeoncy (n.) The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.
Surgeonry (n.) Surgery.
Surgery (n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
Surgical (a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
Surgically (adv.) By means of surgery.
Surging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surge
Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
Suricat (n.) Same as Zenick.
Surinam toad () A species of toad native of Surinam. See Pipa.
Surintendant (n.) Superintendent.
Surlily (adv.) In a surly manner.
Surliness (n.) The quality or state of being surly.
Surling (n.) A sour, morose fellow.
Surloin (n.) A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.
Surly (a.) Arrogant; haughty.
Surly (a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.
Surly (a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.
Surmark (n.) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.
Surmen (pl. ) of Surfman
Surmisable (a.) Capable of being surmised; as, a surmisable result.
Surmisal (n.) Surmise.
Surmise (n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
Surmise (n.) Reflection; thought.
Surmise (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
Surmised (imp. & p. p.) of Surmise
Surmiser (n.) One who surmises.
Surmising () a. & n. from Surmise, v.
Surmising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surmise
Surmount (v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.
Surmount (v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
Surmount (v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.
Surmountable (a.) Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable.
Surmounted (a.) Having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch.
Surmounted (a.) Partly covered by another charge; -- said of an ordinary or other bearing.
Surmounted (imp. & p. p.) of Surmount
Surmounter (n.) One who, or that which, surmounts.
Surmounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surmount
Surmullet (a.) Any one of various species of mullets of the family Millidae, esp. the European species (Millus surmulletus), which is highly prized as a food fish. See Mullet.
Surmulot (n.) The brown, or Norway, rat.
Surname (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
Surname (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
Surname (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
Surnamed (imp. & p. p.) of Surname
Surnaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surname
Surnominal (a.) Of or pertaining to a surname or surnames.
Suroxidate (v. t.) To combine with oxygen so as to form a suroxide or peroxide.
Suroxide (n.) A peroxide.
Surpass (v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
Surplice (n.) A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.
Surpliced (a.) Wearing a surplice.
Surplus (a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
Surplus (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
Surplus (n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Surplusage (n.) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
Surplusage (n.) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.
Surplusage (n.) Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.
Surprisal (n.) The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.
Surprise (n.) A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.
Surprise (n.) Anything that causes such a state or emotion.
Surprise (n.) The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.
Surprise (n.) The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.
Surprise (n.) To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.
Surprise (n.) To hold possession of; to hold.
Surprise (n.) To lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state; -- with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity.
Surprise (n.) To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me.
Surprised (imp. & p. p.) of Surprise
Surprisement (n.) Surprisal.
Surpriser (n.) One who surprises.
Surprising (a.) Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger.
Surprising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surprise
Surquedous (a.) Alt. of Surquedrous
Surquedrous (a.) Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent.
Surrebound (v. i.) To give back echoes; to reecho.
Surrebut (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
Surrebuter (n.) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
Surrein (v. t.) To override; to exhaust by riding.
Surrejoin (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Surrejoinder (n.) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Surrender (n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Surrender (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
Surrender (v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
Surrender (v. t.) To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
Surrendered (imp. & p. p.) of Surrender
Surrenderee (n.) The person to whom a surrender is made.
Surrenderer (n.) One who surrenders.
Surrendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surrender
Surrenderor (n.) One who makes a surrender, as of an estate.
Surrendry (n.) Surrender.
Surreption (n.) A coming unperceived or suddenly.
Surreption (n.) The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
Surreptitious (a.) Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods.
Surrey (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.
Surrogate (n.) A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
Surrogate (n.) The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
Surrogate (v. t.) To put in the place of another; to substitute.
Surrogateship (n.) The office of a surrogate.
Surrogation (n.) The act of substituting one person in the place of another.
Surround (n.) A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
Surround (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
Surround (v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
Surround (v. t.) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
Surround (v. t.) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
Surrounded (imp. & p. p.) of Surround
Surrounding (a.) Inclosing; encircling.
Surrounding (n.) An encompassing.
Surrounding (n.) The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.
Surrounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surround
Surrow (n.) The thar.
Surroyal (n.) One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
Sursanure (n.) A wound healed or healing outwardly only.
Surseance (n.) Peace; quiet.
Sursolid (n.) The fifth power of a number; as, a/ is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2.
Surstyle (v. t.) To surname.
Surtax (n.) An additional or extra tax.
Surtax (v. t.) To impose an additional tax on.
Surtout (n.) A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.
Surturbrand (n.) A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
Surveillant (n.) One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.
Surveillants (pl. ) of Surveillant
Survene (v. t.) To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
Survened (imp. & p. p.) of Survene
Survening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survene
Survenue (n.) A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on.
Survey (n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above.
Survey (n.) The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it.
Survey (v. t.) To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
Survey (v. t.) To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.
Survey (v. t.) To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.
Survey (v. t.) To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
Surveyal (n.) Survey.
Surveyance (n.) Survey; inspection.
Surveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Survey
Surveying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survey
Surveyor (n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Surveyor (n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
Surveyor (n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
Surveyor (n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
Surveyorship (n.) The office of a surveyor.
Surview (n.) A survey.
Surview (v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.
Survise (v. t.) To look over; to supervise.
Survival (n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
Survival (n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.
Survivance (n.) Alt. of Survivancy
Survivancy (n.) Survivorship.
Survive (v. i.) To remain alive; to continue to live.
Survive (v. t.) To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
Survived (imp. & p. p.) of Survive
Survivency (n.) Survivorship.
Surviver (n.) One who survives; a survivor.
Surviving (a.) Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
Surviving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survive
Survivor (n.) One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
Survivor (n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything.
Survivorship (n.) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other.
Survivorship (n.) The state of being a survivor.
Susceptibilities (pl. ) of Susceptibility
Susceptibility (n.) Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
Susceptibility (n.) The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
Susceptible (a.) Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
Susceptible (a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Susception (n.) The act of taking; reception.
Susceptive (a.) Susceptible.
Susceptivity (n.) Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.
Susceptor (n.) One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
Suscipiency (n.) Admission.
Suscipient (a.) Receiving; admitting.
Suscipient (n.) One who takes or admits; one who receives.
Suscitability (n.) Capability of being suscitated; excitability.
Suscitate (v. t.) To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.
Suscitated (imp. & p. p.) of Suscitate
Suscitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suscitate
Suscitation (n.) The act of raising or exciting.
Suslik (n.) A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.
Suspect (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
Suspect (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
Suspect (a.) Suspicion.
Suspect (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
Suspect (v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Suspect (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
Suspect (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
Suspectable (a.) That may be suspected.
Suspected (a.) Distrusted; doubted.
Suspected (imp. & p. p.) of Suspect
Suspecter (n.) One who suspects.
Suspectful (a.) Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others.
Suspecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspect
Suspection (n.) Suspicion.
Suspectiousness (n.) Suspiciousness; cause for suspicion.
Suspectless (a.) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
Suspectless (a.) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
Suspend (n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
Suspend (n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
Suspend (n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
Suspend (n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.
Suspend (n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).
Suspended (imp. & p. p.) of Suspend
Suspender (n.) One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.
Suspending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspend
Suspensation (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.
Suspense (a.) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
Suspense (a.) Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
Suspense (a.) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
Suspense (a.) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
Suspense (a.) The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.
Suspensely (adv.) In suspense.
Suspensibility (n.) The quality or state of being suspensible.
Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.
Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
Suspension (n.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
Suspension (n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
Suspension (n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
Suspension (n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc.
Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
Suspension (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
Suspension (n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
Suspensive (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.
Suspensor (n.) A suspensory.
Suspensor (n.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
Suspensoria (pl. ) of Suspensorium
Suspensorium (n.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
Suspensory (a.) Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.
Suspensory (a.) Of or pertaining to a suspensorium.
Suspensory (a.) Suspended; hanging; depending.
Suspensory (n.) a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.
Suspensory (n.) That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss
Suspicable (v. t.) Liable to suspicion; suspicious.
Suspiciency (v. t.) Suspiciousness; suspicion.
Suspicion (n.) Slight degree; suggestion; hint.
Suspicion (n.) The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.
Suspicion (v. t.) To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.
Suspicious (a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
Suspicious (a.) Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
Suspicious (a.) Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
Suspiral (n.) A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.
Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
Suspiration (n.) The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.
Suspire (n.) A long, deep breath; a sigh.
Suspire (v. i.) To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.
Suspired (a.) Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted.
Sustain (n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.
Sustain (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.
Sustain (v. t.) To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.
Sustain (v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.
Sustain (v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.
Sustain (v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
Sustainable (a.) Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
Sustained (a.) Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.
Sustained (imp. & p. p.) of Sustain
Sustainer (n.) One who, or that which, sustains.
Sustaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sustain
Sustainment (n.) The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.
Sustaltic (a.) Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks.
Sustenance (n.) That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.
Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
Sustentacle (n.) Sustenance.
Sustentacular (a.) Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.
Sustentate (v. t.) To sustain.
Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.
Sustentation (n.) The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
Sustentative (a.) Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations.
Sustention (n.) Sustentation.
Suster (n.) Alt. of Sustre
Susters (pl. ) of Sustre
Sustre (n.) Sister.
Sustren (pl. ) of Sustre
Sustres (pl. ) of Sustre
Susu (n.) See Soosoo.
Susurrant (a.) Whispering.
Susurration (n.) A whispering; a soft murmur.
Susurringly (adv.) In the manner of a whisper.
Susurrous (a.) Whispering; rustling; full of whispering sounds.
Susurrus (n.) The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.
Sutile (a.) Done by stitching.
Sutler (n.) A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.
Sutlership (n.) The condition or occupation of a sutler.
Sutling (a.) Belonging to sutlers; engaged in the occupation of a sutler.
Sutor (n.) A kind of sirup made by the Indians of Arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the Cereus giganteus).
Sutra (n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
Sutra (n.) A collection of such aphorisms.
Sutra (n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
Sutras (pl. ) of Sutra
Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character.
Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.
Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.
Suttle (n.) The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.
Suttle (v. i.) To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.
Sutural (a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.
Sutural (a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.
Suturally (adv.) In a sutural manner.
Suturated (a.) Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.
Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
Suture (n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
Suture (n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.
Suture (n.) The stitch by which the parts are united.
Suture (n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
Sutured (a.) Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.
Suwarrow (n.) The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.
Suzerain (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.
Suzerainty (n.) The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.
Swa (adv.) So.
Swab (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.
Swab (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
Swab (n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.
Swab (n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
Swab (n.) An epaulet.
Swab (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
Swabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Swab
Swabber (n.) Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.
Swabber (n.) One who swabs a floor or desk.
Swabber (n.) Same as Swobber, 2.
Swabber (v. t.) To swab.
Swabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swab
Swad (n.) A clown; a country bumpkin.
Swad (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
Swad (n.) A lump of mass; also, a crowd.
Swad (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
Swaddle (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
Swaddle (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.
Swaddle (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
Swaddlebill (n.) The shoveler.
Swaddled (imp. & p. p.) of Swaddle
Swaddler (n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.
Swaddling () a. & n. from Swaddle, v.
Swaddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swaddle
Swag (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.
Swag (n.) A swaying, irregular motion.
Swag (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
Swag (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.
Swag-bellied (a.) Having a prominent, overhanging belly.
Swagbelly (n.) A prominent, overhanging belly.
Swagbelly (n.) Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous.
Swage (v. t. & i.) See Assuage.
Swage (v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
Swaged (imp. & p. p.) of Swage
Swagged (imp. & p. p.) of Swag
Swagger (n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.
Swagger (v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
Swagger (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
Swagger (v. t.) To bully.
Swaggered (imp. & p. p.) of Swagger
Swaggerer (n.) One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.
Swaggering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swagger
Swagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swag
Swaggy (a.) Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight.
Swaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swage
Swain (n.) A servant.
Swain (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.
Swainish (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.
Swainling (n.) A little swain.
Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury.
Swainship (n.) The condition of a swain.
Swaip (v. i.) To walk proudly; to sweep along.
Swal (imp.) Swelled.
Swale (n.) A gutter in a candle.
Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
Swallet (n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.
Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
Swallow (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
Swallow (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
Swallow (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
Swallow (n.) The act of swallowing.
Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
Swallow (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
Swallow (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
Swallow (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
Swallow (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
Swallow (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
Swallow (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
Swallow (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
Swallow-tailed (a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
Swallow-tailed (a.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
Swallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Swallow
Swallower (n.) One who swallows; also, a glutton.
Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Swallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swallow
Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
Swallowtail (n.) A species of willow.
Swallowtail (n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
Swallowtail (n.) An arrow.
Swallowtail (n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
Swallowtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
Swallowwort (n.) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort.
Swallowwort (n.) See Celandine.
Swam () imp. of Swim.
Swam (imp.) of Swim
Swamp (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
Swamp (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
Swamp (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Swamped (imp. & p. p.) of Swamp
Swamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swamp
Swampy (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
Swan (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon.
Swan (n.) The constellation Cygnus.
Swan-hopping (n.) A corruption of Swan-upping.
Swan-upping (n.) A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping.
Swan's-down (n.) Alt. of Swans-down
Swang () imp. of Swing.
Swang (Archaic imp.) of Swing
Swang (n.) A swamp.
Swanherd (n.) One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.
Swanimote (n.) See Swainmote.
Swank (imp.) of Swink
Swankie (n.) Alt. of Swanky
Swanky (n.) An active and clever young fellow.
Swanlike (a.) Resembling a swan.
Swanmark (n.) A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan.
Swannery (n.) A place where swans are bred.
Swanny (a.) Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck.
Swanpan (n.) The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.
Swans-down (n.) A fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin.
Swans-down (n.) The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
Swanskin (n.) A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.
Swanskin (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
Swap (n.) A blow; a stroke.
Swap (n.) An exchange; a barter.
Swap (n.) Hastily.
Swap (v. i.) To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop.
Swap (v. i.) To strike; -- with off.
Swap (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
Swap (v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
Swape (n.) See Sweep, n., 12.
Swapped (imp. & p. p.) of Swap
Swapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swap
Sward (n.) Skin; covering.
Sward (n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
Sward (v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
Sward-cutter (n.) A lawn mower.
Sward-cutter (n.) A plow for turning up grass land.
Swarded (a.) Covered with sward.
Swarded (imp. & p. p.) of Sward
Swarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sward
Swardy (a.) Covered with sward or grass.
Sware () imp. of Swear.
Sware () of Swear
Swarf (n.) The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
Swarf (v. i.) To grow languid; to faint.
Swarm (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
Swarm (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
Swarm (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
Swarm (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
Swarm (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
Swarm (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
Swarm (v. i.) To breed multitudes.
Swarm (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
Swarm (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
Swarm (v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Swarmed (imp. & p. p.) of Swarm
Swarming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swarm
Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
Swarmspore (n.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
Swart (a.) Gloomy; malignant.
Swart (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
Swart (n.) Sward.
Swart (v. t.) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
Swartback (n.) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie.
Swarth (a.) Swart; swarthy.
Swarth (n.) An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
Swarth (n.) See Swath.
Swarth (n.) Sward; short grass.
Swarthily (adv.) In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
Swarthiness (n.) The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
Swarthness (n.) Swarthiness.
Swarthy (a.) Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.
Swarthy (v. t.) To make swarthy.
Swartiness (n.) Swarthiness.
Swartish (a.) Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.
Swartness (n.) The quality or state of being swart.
Swarty (a.) Swarthy; tawny.
Swarve (v. i.) To climb.
Swarve (v. i.) To swerve.
Swash (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
Swash (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
Swash (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
Swash (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
Swash (v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
Swash (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
Swash (v. i.) To fall violently or noisily.
Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Swash (v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
Swashbuckler (n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Swashed (imp. & p. p.) of Swash
Swasher (n.) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.
Swashing (a.) Swaggering; hectoring.
Swashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swash
Swashway (n.) Same as 4th Swash, 2.
Swashy (a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
Swat () imp. of Sweat.
Swat () of Sweat
Swatch (n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.
Swatch (n.) A swath.
Swate () imp. of Sweat.
Swath (v. t.) A band or fillet; a swathe.
Swath (v. t.) A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
Swath (v. t.) The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.
Swathe (n.) A bandage; a band; a swath.
Swathe (n.) To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
Swathed (imp. & p. p.) of Swathe
Swather (n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
Swathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swathe
Swatte () imp. of Sweat.
Sway (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
Sway (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
Sway (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
Sway (n.) Rule; dominion; control.
Sway (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
Sway (v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
Sway (v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
Sway (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
Sway (v. i.) To have weight or influence.
Sway (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
Sway (v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
Sway (v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
Sway-backed (a.) Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
Sway-bracing (n.) The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.
Swayed (a.) Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse.
Swayed (imp. & p. p.) of Sway
Swayful (a.) Able to sway.
Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.
Swaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sway
Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame.
Sweal (v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair.
Swealed (imp. & p. p.) of Sweal
Swealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweal
Swear (v. i.) To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.
Swear (v. i.) To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
Swear (v. t.) To appeal to by an oath.
Swear (v. t.) To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend.
Swear (v. t.) To put to an oath; to cause to take an oath; to administer an oath to; -- ofetn followed by in or into; as, to swear witnesses; to swear a jury; to swear in an officer; he was sworn into office.
Swear (v. t.) To utter or affirm with a solemn appeal to God for the truth of the declaration; to make (a promise, threat, or resolve) under oath.
Swearer (n.) A profane person; one who uses profane language.
Swearer (n.) One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.
Swearing () a. & n. from Swear, v.
Swearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swear
Sweat (imp. & p. p.) of Sweat
Sweat (v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Sweat (v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
Sweat (v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
Sweat (v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
Sweat (v. i.) The sweating sickness.
Sweat (v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Sweat (v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
Sweat (v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
Sweat (v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
Sweat (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
Sweat (v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
Sweated () of Sweat
Sweater (n.) A sudorific.
Sweater (n.) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.
Sweater (n.) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
Sweater (n.) One who sweats.
Sweater (n.) One who, or that which, causes to sweat
Sweaty (superl.) Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
Sweaty (superl.) Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
Swede (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
Swede (n.) A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
Swedenborgian (a.) Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
Swedenborgianism (n.) The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
Swedish (a.) Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
Swedish (n.) The language of Swedes.
Sweeny (n.) An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.
Sweep (n.) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
Sweep (n.) A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
Sweep (n.) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
Sweep (n.) Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
Sweep (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
Sweep (n.) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
Sweep (n.) One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
Sweep (n.) The act of sweeping.
Sweep (n.) The almond furnace.
Sweep (n.) The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
Sweep (n.) The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
Sweep (n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
Sweep (n.) The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
Sweep (v. i.) To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
Sweep (v. i.) To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
Sweep (v. i.) To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
Sweep (v. i.) To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
Sweep (v. i.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
Sweep (v. i.) To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
Sweep (v. i.) To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
Sweep (v. i.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
Sweep (v. i.) To strike with a long stroke.
Sweep-saw (n.) A bow-saw.
Sweepage (n.) The crop of hay got in a meadow.
Sweeper (n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
Sweeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweep
Sweepings (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
Sweepstake (n.) A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.
Sweepstake (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
Sweepstakes (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.
Sweepwasher (n.) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
Sweepy (a.) Moving with a sweeping motion.
Sweet (adv.) Sweetly.
Sweet (n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
Sweet (n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
Sweet (n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
Sweet (n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
Sweet (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
Sweet (n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Sweet (superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
Sweet (superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
Sweet (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
Sweet (superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
Sweet (v. t.) To sweeten.
Sweet-breasted (a.) Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6.
Sweet-scented (a.) Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant.
Sweet-sop (n.) A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.
Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
Sweetbread (n.) The pancreas.
Sweetbrier (n.) A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Sweeten (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
Sweeten (a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
Sweeten (a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
Sweeten (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
Sweeten (a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
Sweeten (a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
Sweeten (a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweeten (a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
Sweeten (v. i.) To become sweet.
Sweetened (imp. & p. p.) of Sweeten
Sweetener (n.) One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
Sweetening (n.) That which sweetens.
Sweetening (n.) The act of making sweet.
Sweetening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweeten
Sweetheart (n.) A lover of mistress.
Sweethearting (n.) Making love.
Sweeting (n.) A darling; -- a word of endearment.
Sweeting (n.) A sweet apple.
Sweetish (a.) Somewhat sweet.
Sweetly (adv.) In a sweet manner.
Sweetmeat (n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
Sweetmeat (n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
Sweetness (n.) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Sweetroot (n.) Licorice.
Sweetwater (n.) A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
Sweetweed (n.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
Sweetwood (n.) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
Sweetwood (n.) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)
Sweetwort (n.) Any plant of a sweet taste.
Sweigh (n.) Sway; movement.
Sweinmote (n.) See Swainmote.
Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
Swell (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
Swell (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy.
Swell (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
Swell (n.) Gradual increase.
Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
Swell (n.) The act of swelling.
Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
Swell (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
Swell (v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten.
Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.
Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
Swelldom (n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
Swelled (imp.) of Swell
Swelled (p. p.) of Swell
Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
Swelling (n.) A protuberance; a prominence
Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
Swelling (n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell
Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish.
Swelltoad (n.) A swellfish.
Swelt () imp. of Swell.
Swelt (v. i.) To die; to perish.
Swelt (v. i.) To faint; to swoon.
Swelt (v. t.) To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter.
Swelter (v. i.) To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
Swelter (v. i.) To welter; to soak.
Swelter (v. t.) To exude, like sweat.
Swelter (v. t.) To oppress with heat.
Sweltered (imp. & p. p.) of Swelter
Sweltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swelter
Sweltry (v. i.) Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.
Swelve (v. t.) To swallow.
Swept () imp. & p. p. of Sweep.
Swept (imp. & p. p.) of Sweep
Swerd (n. & v.) See Sward, n. & v.
Swerd (n.) Sword.
Swerve (v. i.) To bend; to incline.
Swerve (v. i.) To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
Swerve (v. i.) To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
Swerve (v. i.) To stray; to wander; to rope.
Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
Swerve (v. t.) To turn aside.
Swerved (imp. & p. p.) of Swerve
Swerving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swerve
Sweven (n.) A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
Swich (a.) Such.
Swietenia (n.) A genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.
Swift (adv.) Swiftly.
Swift (n.) A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Swift (n.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
Swift (n.) The current of a stream.
Swift (n.) The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
Swift (n.) The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
Swift (v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
Swift (v. i.) Of short continuance; passing away quickly.
Swifter (n.) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.
Swifter (n.) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
Swifter (n.) The forward shroud of a lower mast.
Swifter (v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.
Swiftfoot (a.) Nimble; fleet.
Swiftfoot (n.) The courser.
Swiftlet (n.) Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
Swiftly (adv.) In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
Swiftness (n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
Swig (n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
Swig (n.) A long draught.
Swig (n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
Swig (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
Swig (v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Swig (v. t.) To suck.
Swill (n.) Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Swill (n.) The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
Swill (n.) To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
Swill (n.) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
Swill (v. i.) To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
Swill (v. t.) To wash; to drench.
Swilled (imp. & p. p.) of Swill
Swiller (n.) One who swills.
Swilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swill
Swillings (n. pl.) See Swill, n., 1.
Swim (n.) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
Swim (n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
Swim (n.) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
Swim (v. i.) To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
Swim (v. i.) To be filled with swimming animals.
Swim (v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
Swim (v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
Swim (v. t.) To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
Swimbel (n.) A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.
Swimmer (n.) A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
Swimmer (n.) A swimming bird; one of the natatores.
Swimmer (n.) One who swims.
Swimmeret (n.) One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
Swimming (a.) Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
Swimming (a.) Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
Swimming (a.) That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
Swimming (n.) The act of one who swims.
Swimming (n.) Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.
Swimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swim
Swimmingly (adv.) In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.
Swimmingness (n.) Act or state of swimming; suffusion.
Swinck (v. & n.) See Swink.
Swindle (n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
Swindled (imp. & p. p.) of Swindle
Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Swindlery (n.) Swindling; rougery.
Swindling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swindle
Swine (n.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
Swine-pox (n.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.
Swinebread (n.) The truffle.
Swinecase (n.) A hogsty.
Swinecote (n.) A hogsty.
Swinecrue (n.) A hogsty.
Swineery (n.) Same as Piggery.
Swinefish (n.) The wolf fish.
Swineherd (n.) A keeper of swine.
Swinepipe (n.) The European redwing.
Swinestone (n.) See Stinkstone.
Swinesty (n.) A sty, or pen, for swine.
Swing (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
Swing (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
Swing (n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
Swing (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
Swing (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
Swing (n.) To be hanged.
Swing (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
Swing (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
Swing (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
Swing (v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
Swing (v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
Swing (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
Swing (v. t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
Swingdevil (n.) The European swift.
Swinge (n.) Power; sway; influence.
Swinge (n.) The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing.
Swinge (v. & n.) See Singe.
Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.
Swinge (v. t.) To move as a lash; to lash.
Swingebuckler (n.) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
Swinged (imp. & p. p.) of Swinge
Swingeing (a.) Huge; very large.
Swingeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swinge
Swingel (n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
Swinger (n.) A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
Swinger (n.) A person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.
Swinger (n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
Swinger (n.) One who swinges.
Swinger (n.) One who swings or whirls.
Swinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swing
Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.
Swingle (v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.
Swingle (v. i.) To swing for pleasure.
Swingle (v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
Swingle (v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.
Swinglebar (n.) A swingletree.
Swingled (imp. & p. p.) of Swingle
Swingletail (n.) The thrasher, or fox shark. See Thrasher.
Swingletree (v. i.) A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
Swingling () a. & n. from Swingle, v. t.
Swingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swingle
Swingtree (n.) The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.
Swinish (a.) Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.
Swink (n.) Labor; toil; drudgery.
Swink (v. i.) To labor; to toil; to salve.
Swink (v. t.) To acquire by labor.
Swink (v. t.) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
Swinker (n.) A laborer.
Swinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swink
Swinney (n.) See Sweeny.
Swipe (n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
Swipe (n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
Swipe (n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
Swipe (v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
Swipe (v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.
Swiped (imp. & p. p.) of Swipe
Swiping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swipe
Swiple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
Swipper (a.) Nimble; quick.
Swirl (n.) A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
Swirl (n.) To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
Swirled (imp. & p. p.) of Swirl
Swirling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swirl
Swish (n.) A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
Swish (n.) Light driven spray.
Swish (v. i.) To dash; to swash.
Swish (v. t.) To flog; to lash.
Swish (v. t.) To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
Swiss (a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
Swiss (n.sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
Switch (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
Switch (n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
Switch (n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
Switch (v. i.) To walk with a jerk.
Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
Switch (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
Switch (v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
Switch (v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
Switch (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
Switched (imp. & p. p.) of Switch
Switchel (n.) A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
Switching () a. & n. from Switch, v.
Switching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Switch
Switchman (n.) One who tends a switch on a railway.
Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
Swooned (imp. & p. p.) of Swoon
Swooning () a. & n. from Swoon, v.
Swooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoon
Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
Swoop (n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
Swoop (n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
Swoop (v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
Swooped (imp. & p. p.) of Swoop
Swooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoop
Swoopstake (adv.) Altogether; indiscriminately.
Swoopstake (n.) See Sweepstake.
Swop (v. & n.) Same as Swap.
Sword (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
Sword (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
Sword (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
Sword (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Sword (n.) The military power of a country.
Sword-shaped (a.) Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
Swordbill (n.) A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
Sworded (a.) Girded with a sword.
Sworder (n.) One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
Swordfish (n.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.
Swordfish (n.) The cutlass fish.
Swordfish (n.) The gar pike.
Swordick (n.) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).
Swording (n.) Slashing with a sword.
Swordless (a.) Destitute of a sword.
Swordman (n.) A swordsman.
Swordmen (pl. ) of Swordman
Swordplay (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.
Swordplayer (n.) A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
Swordsman (n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
Swordsman (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Swordsmanship (n.) The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword.
Swordsmen (pl. ) of Swordsman
Swordtail (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Uroxiphus, found upon forest trees.
Swordtail (n.) The limulus.
Swore () imp. of Swear.
Swore (imp.) of Swear
Sworn () p. p. of Swear.
Sworn (p. p.) of Swear
Swough (n.) A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.
Swough (n.) A swoon.
Swound (v. & n.) See Swoon, v. & n.
Swown (v. & n.) Swoon.
Swum () imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Swum () of Swim
Swum (p. p.) of Swim
Swung () imp. & p. p. of Swing.
Swung (imp. & p. p.) of Swing
Swythe (adv.) Quickly. See Swithe.
Sy (imp.) Saw.
Syb (a.) See Sib.
Sybarite (n.) A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary.
Sybaritic (a.) Alt. of Sybaritical
Sybaritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate.
Sycamore (n.) A large European species of maple (Acer Pseudo-Platanus).
Sycamore (n.) A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.
Sycamore (n.) The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
Syce (n.) A groom.
Sycee (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
Sychnocarpous (a.) Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.
Sycite (n.) A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig.
Sycoceric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.
Sycoceryl (n.) A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.
Sycock (n.) The missel thrush.
Sycones (n. pl.) A division of calcareous sponges.
Syconium (n.) Alt. of Syconus
Syconus (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.
Sycophancy (n.) The character or characteristic of a sycophant.
Sycophant (n.) A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
Sycophant (n.) An informer; a talebearer.
Sycophant (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Sycophant (v. t.) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
Sycophant (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Sycophantcy (n.) Sycophancy.
Sycophantic (a.) Alt. of Sycophantical
Sycophantical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.
Sycophantish (a.) Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.
Sycophantism (n.) Sycophancy.
Sycophantize (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Sycophantry (n.) Sycophancy.
Sycosis (n.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.
Syderolite (n.) A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.
Sye (imp.) Saw.
Syenite (n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.
Syenitic (a.) Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.
Syenitic (a.) Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.
Syke (n. & v.) See Sike.
Syker (a. & adv.) See Sicker.
Syle (n.) A young herring (Clupea harengus).
Syllabaria (pl. ) of Syllabarium
Syllabarium (n.) A syllabary.
Syllabary (n.) A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.
Syllabe (n.) Syllable.
Syllabi (pl. ) of Syllabus
Syllabic (a.) Alt. of Syllabical
Syllabical (a.) Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment.
Syllabical (a.) Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.
Syllabically (adv.) In a syllabic manner.
Syllabicate (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.
Syllabicated (imp. & p. p.) of Syllabicate
Syllabicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Syllabicate
Syllabication (n.) The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., /275.
Syllabification (n.) Same as Syllabication.
Syllabified (imp. & p. p.) of Syllabify
Syllabify (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables.
Syllabifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Syllabify
Syllabism (n.) The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.
Syllabist (n.) One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.
Syllabize (v. t.) To syllabify.
Syllable (n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
Syllable (n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
Syllable (v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
Syllabub (n.) Same as Syllabub.
Syllabus (n.) A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
Syllabuses (pl. ) of Syllabus
Syllepsis (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
Syllepsis (n.) The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
Sylleptic (a.) Alt. of Sylleptical
Sylleptical (a.) Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis.
Syllidian (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidae.
Syllogistic (a.) Alt. of Syllogistical
Syllogistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.
Syllogistically (adv.) In a syllogistic manner.
Syllogization (n.) A reasoning by syllogisms.
Syllogize (v. i.) To reason by means of syllogisms.
Syllogized (imp. & p. p.) of Syllogize
Syllogizer (n.) One who syllogizes.
Syllogizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Syllogize
Sylph (n.) An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
Sylph (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).
Sylph (n.) Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
Sylphid (n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.
Sylphine (a.) Like a sylph.
Sylphish (a.) Sylphlike.
Sylphlike (a.) Like a sylph; airy; graceful.
Sylva (n.) Same as Silva.
Sylvae (pl. ) of Sylva
Sylvan (a.) A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
Sylvan (a.) Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
Sylvan (a.) Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
Sylvan (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
Sylvanite (n.) A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium.
Sylvanium (n.) An old name for tellurium.
Sylvate (n.) A salt of sylvic acid.
Sylvatic (a.) Sylvan.
Sylvestrian (a.) Sylvan.
Sylvic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pine or its products; specifically, designating an acid called also abeitic acid, which is the chief ingredient of common resin (obtained from Pinus sylvestris, and other species).
Sylvicoline (a.) Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidae). See Warbler.
Sylviculture (n.) The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.
Sylviculturist (n.) One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.
Sylvine (n.) Alt. of Sylvite
Sylvite (n.) Native potassium chloride.
Sym- () See Syn-.
Symar (n.) Alt. of Symarr
Symarr (n.) See Simar.
Symbal (n.) See Cimbal.
Symbol (n.) An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
Symbol (n.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
Symbol (n.) Share; allotment.
Symbol (n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
Symbol (v. t.) To symbolize.
Symbolic (a.) Alt. of Symbolical
Symbolic (a.) See Symbolics.
Symbolical (a.) Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.
Symbolics (n.) that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.
Symbolics (n.) The study of ancient symbols
Symbolism (n.) A combining together of parts or ingredients.
Symbolism (n.) A system of symbols or representations.
Symbolism (n.) The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.
Symbolism (n.) The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby.
Symbolism (n.) The science of creeds; symbolics.
Symbolist (n.) One who employs symbols.
Symbolistic (a.) Alt. of Symbolistical
Symbolistical (a.) Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
Symbolization (n.) The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.
Symbolize (v. i.) To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
Symbolize (v. i.) To hold the same faith; to agree.
Symbolize (v. i.) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
Symbolize (v. t.) To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.
Symbolize (v. t.) To make to agree in properties or qualities.
Symbolize (v. t.) To represent by a symbol or symbols.
Symbolized (imp. & p. p.) of Symbolize
Symbolizer (n.) One who symbolizes.
Symbolizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symbolize
Symbological (a.) Pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterized by, symbology.
Symbologist (n.) One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology.
Symbology (n.) The art of expressing by symbols.
Symmetral (a.) Commensurable; symmetrical.
Symmetrian (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
Symmetric (a.) Symmetrical.
Symmetrical (a.) Having a common measure; commensurable.
Symmetrical (a.) Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.
Symmetrical (a.) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.
Symmetrical (a.) Having corresponding parts or relations.
Symmetrical (a.) Having the organs or parts of one side corresponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry. See Symmetry, 2.
Symmetrical (a.) Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.
Symmetrician (n.) Same as Symmetrian.
Symmetrist (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
Symmetrize (v. t.) To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.
Symmetrized (imp. & p. p.) of Symmetrize
Symmetrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symmetrize
Symmetry (n.) A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.
Symmetry (n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.
Symmetry (n.) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.
Symmetry (n.) The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.
Sympathetic (a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.
Sympathetical (a.) Sympathetic.
Sympathetically (adv.) In a sympathetic manner.
Sympathies (pl. ) of Sympathy
Sympathist (n.) One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
Sympathize (v. i.) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
Sympathize (v. i.) To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
Sympathize (v. i.) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
Sympathize (v. t.) To ansew to; to correspond to.
Sympathize (v. t.) To experience together.
Sympathized (imp. & p. p.) of Sympathize
Sympathizer (n.) One who sympathizes.
Sympathizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sympathize
Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
Sympathy (n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
Sympathy (n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
Sympetalous (a.) Having the petals united; gamopetalous.
Symphonic (a.) Relating to, or in the manner of, symphony; as, the symphonic form or style of composition.
Symphonic (a.) Symphonious.
Symphonies (pl. ) of Symphony
Symphonious (a.) Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious.
Symphonious (a.) Symphonic.
Symphonist (n.) A composer of symphonies.
Symphonize (v. i.) To agree; to be in harmony.
Symphonized (imp. & p. p.) of Symphonize
Symphonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symphonize
Symphony (n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
Symphony (n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.
Symphony (n.) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
Symphyla (n. pl.) An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
Symphyseal (a.) Of or pertaining to to symphysis.
Symphyseotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.
Symphyses (pl. ) of Symphysis
Symphysis (n.) An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.
Symphysis (n.) The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation.
Symphysotomy (n.) Symphyseotomy.
Symphytism (n.) Coalescence; a growing into one with another word.
Sympiesometer (n.) A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.
Symplectic (a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
Symplectic (n.) The symplectic bone.
Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
Sympode (n.) A sympodium.
Sympodia (pl. ) of Sympodium
Sympodial (a.) Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.
Sympodium (n.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.
Symposia (pl. ) of Symposium
Symposiac (a.) Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.
Symposiac (n.) A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.
Symposiarch (n.) The master of a feast.
Symposiast (n.) One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.
Symposion (n.) A drinking together; a symposium.
Symposium (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
Symposium (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
Symptom (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.
Symptomatic (a.) Alt. of Symptomatical
Symptomatical (a.) According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.
Symptomatical (a.) Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
Symptomatology (n.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Syn- () A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l.
Synacme (n.) Alt. of Synacmy
Synacmy (n.) Same as Synanthesis.
Synaeresis (n.) Alt. of Syneresis
Synagogical (a.) Of or pertaining to a synagogue.
Synagogue (n.) A congregation in the early Christian church.
Synagogue (n.) A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
Synagogue (n.) Any assembly of men.
Synagogue (n.) The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.
Synagogue (n.) The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.
Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.
Synallagmatic (a.) Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract.
Synallaxine (a.) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.
Synaloepha (n.) Same as Synalepha.
Synangia (pl. ) of Synangium
Synangium (n.) The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
Synantherous (a.) Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.
Synanthesis (n.) The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.
Synanthous (a.) Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.
Synanthrose (n.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae.
Synapta (n.) A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.
Synaptase (n.) A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.
Synapticula (n.) One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.
Synapticulae (pl. ) of Synapticula
Synarchy (n.) Joint rule or sovereignity.
Synartesis (n.) A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.
Synarthrodia (n.) Synarthrosis.
Synarthroses (pl. ) of Synarthrosis
Synarthrosis (n.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.
Synastry (n.) Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.
Synaxis (n.) A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.
Syncarp (n.) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.
Syncarpia (pl. ) of Syncarpium
Syncarpium (n.) Same as Syncarp.
Syncarpous (a.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.
Syncategorematic (a.) Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.
Synchondroses (pl. ) of Synchondrosis
Synchondrosis (n.) An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.
Synchondrotomy (n.) Symphyseotomy.
Synchoresis (n.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.
Synchronal (a.) Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous.
Synchronal (n.) A synchronal thing or event.
Synchronical (a.) Happening at the same time; synchronous.
Synchronism (n.) A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.
Synchronism (n.) The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.
Synchronism (n.) The tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates.
Synchronistic (a.) Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.
Synchronization (n.) The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.
Synchronize (v. i.) To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
Synchronize (v. t.) To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history.
Synchronize (v. t.) To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.
Synchronized (imp. & p. p.) of Synchronize
Synchronizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Synchronize
Synchronology (n.) Contemporaneous chronology.
Synchronous (a.) Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
Synchrony (n.) The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.
Synchysis (n.) A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.
Syncitia (pl. ) of Syncytium
Synclastic (a.) Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.
Synclinal (a.) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.
Synclinal (a.) Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.
Synclinal (n.) A synclinal fold.
Syncline (n.) A synclinal fold.
Synclinical (a.) Synclinal.
Synclinoria (pl. ) of Synclinorium
Synclinorium (n.) A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.
Syncopal (a.) Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.
Syncopate (v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
Syncopate (v. t.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
Syncopated (imp. & p. p.) of Syncopate
Syncopating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Syncopate
Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
Syncope (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.
Syncope (n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.
Syncope (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.
Syncope (n.) Same as Syncopation.
Syncopist (n.) One who syncopates.
Syncopize (v. t.) To syncopate.
Syncotyledonous (a.) Having united cotyledonous.
Syncretic (a.) Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.
Syncretism (n.) Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.
Syncretist (n.) One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;
Syncretistic (a.) Of or pertaining to Syncretists.
Syncretistic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.
Syncrisis (n.) A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.
Syncytium (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.
Syncytium (n.) Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.
Syndactyle (n.) Any bird having syndactilous feet.
Syndactylic (a.) Syndactilous.
Syndactylous (a.) Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.
Syndesmography (n.) A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.
Syndesmology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.
Syndesmoses (pl. ) of Syndesmosis
Syndesmosis (n.) An articulation formed by means of ligaments.
Syndetic (a.) Alt. of Syndetical
Syndetical (a.) Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary.
Syndic (n.) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.
Syndic (n.) An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.
Syndicate (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
Syndicate (v. t.) To judge; to censure.
Syndrome (n.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
Syndrome (n.) Concurrence.
Syndyasmian (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
Syne (adv.) Afterwards; since; ago.
Syne (adv.) Late, -- as opposed to soon.
Syne (conj.) Since; seeing.
Synecdochical (a.) Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.
Synecdochically (adv.) By synecdoche.
Synechia (n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
Synecphonesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.
Synedral (a.) Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.
Synentognathi (n. pl.) An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.
Synepy (n.) The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.
Syneresis (n.) Same as Synaeresis.
Syneresis (n.) The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.
Synergetic (a.) Working together; cooperating; as, synergetic muscles.
Synergism (n.) The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.
Synergist (n.) A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.
Synergist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of synergism.
Synergistic (a.) Cooperating; synergetic.
Synergistic (a.) Of or pertaining to synergism.
Synergy (n.) An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism.
Synergy (n.) Combined action
Synergy (n.) the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
Syngenesia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.
Syngenesian (a.) Alt. of Syngenesious
Syngenesious (a.) Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.
Syngenesis (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.
Syngnathi (n. pl.) A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples.
Syngraph (n.) A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.
Synizesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.
Synizesis (n.) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
Synneorosis (n.) Syndesmosis.
Synneuroses (pl. ) of Synneorosis
Synocha (n.) See Synochus.
Synochal (a.) Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha.
Synochus (n.) A continuous fever.
Synocil (n.) A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.
Synod (n.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
Synod (n.) An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.
Synod (n.) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
Synodal (a.) Synodical.
Synodal (n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
Synodal (n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
Synodic (a.) Alt. of Synodical
Synodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.
Synodically (adv.) In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.
Synodist (n.) An adherent to a synod.
Synoecious (a.) Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
Synomocy (n.) Sworn brotherhood; a society in ancient Greece nearly resembling a modern political club.
Synonym (n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
Synonyma (n. pl.) Synonyms.
Synonymal (a.) Synonymous.
Synonymally (adv.) Synonymously.
Synonyme (n.) Same as Synonym.
Synonymic (a.) Alt. of Synonymical
Synonymic (n.) The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.
Synonymical (a.) Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.
Synonymicon (n.) A dictionary of synonyms.
Synonymist (n.) One who collects or explains synonyms.
Synonymize (v. t.) To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.
Synonymized (imp. & p. p.) of Synonymize
Synonymizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Synonymize
Synonymous (a.) Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea.
Synonyms (pl. ) of Synonym
Synonymy (n.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.
Synonymy (n.) A system of synonyms.
Synonymy (n.) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
Synopses (pl. ) of Synopsis
Synopsis (n.) A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
Synoptic (a.) Alt. of Synoptical
Synoptic (n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.
Synoptical (a.) Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument.
Synoptist (n.) Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.
Synosteology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.
Synosteoses (pl. ) of Synosteosis
Synosteosis (n.) Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.
Synostosis (n.) Same as Synosteosis.
Synovia (n.) A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.
Synovial (a.) Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia.
Synovitis (n.) Inflammation of the synovial membrane.
Synpelmous (a.) Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.
Synsepalous (a.) Having united sepals; gamosepalous.
Syntactic (a.) Alt. of Syntactical
Syntactical (a.) Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.
Syntax (n.) Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.
Syntax (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
Syntaxis (n.) Syntax.
Synteresis (n.) Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty.
Synteresis (n.) Prophylaxis.
Synteretic (a.) Preserving health; prophylactic.
Synteretics (n.) That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis.
Synthermal (a.) Having the same degree of heat.
Syntheses (pl. ) of Synthesis
Synthesis (n.) Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
Synthesis (n.) The combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis.
Synthesist (n.) One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods.
Synthesize (v. t.) To combine by synthesis; to unite.
Synthesize (v. t.) To produce by synthesis; as, to synthesize albumin.
Synthetic (a.) Alt. of Synthetical
Synthetical (a.) Artificial. Cf. Synthesis, 2.
Synthetical (a.) Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive, 3.
Synthetical (a.) Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical.
Synthetically (adv.) In a synthetic manner.
Synthetize (v. t.) To combine; to unite in regular structure.
Syntomy (n.) Brevity; conciseness.
Syntonin (n.) A proteid substance (acid albumin) formed from the albuminous matter of muscle by the action of dilute acids; -- formerly called musculin. See Acid albumin, under Albumin.
Syphering (n.) The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.
Syphilide (n.) A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.
Syphilitic (a.) Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.
Syphilitic (n.) A syphilitic patient.
Syphilitically (adv.) In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.
Syphilization (n.) Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.
Syphilize (v. t.) To inoculate with syphilis.
Syphiloderm (n.) A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.
Syphilodermatous (a.) Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.
Syphiloid (a.) Resembling syphilis.
Syphilologist (n.) One skilled in syphilology.
Syphilology (n.) That branch of medicine which treats of syphilis.
Syphon (n.) See Syphon.
Syracuse (n.) A red wine of Italy.
Syren (n.) See Siren.
Syriac (a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.
Syriac (n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
Syriacism (n.) A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
Syrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac.
Syrian (n.) A native of Syria.
Syrianism (n.) A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism.
Syriasm (n.) A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism.
Syringa (n.) A genus of plants; the lilac.
Syringa (n.) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
Syringe (v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
Syringe (v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Syringeal (a.) Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.
Syringed (imp. & p. p.) of Syringe
Syringes (pl. ) of Syrinx
Syringin (n.) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.
Syringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Syringe
Syringocoele (n.) The central canal of the spinal cord.
Syringotome (n.) A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.
Syringotomy (n.) The operation of cutting for anal fistula.
Syrinx (n.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
Syrinx (n.) The lower larynx in birds.
Syrma (n.) A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.
Syrphian (a.) Of or pertaining to the syrphus flies.
Syrphian (n.) A syrphus fly.
Syrt (n.) A quicksand; a bog.
Syrtes (pl. ) of Syrtis
Syrtic (a.) Of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand.
Syrtis (n.) A quicksand.
Syrup (a.) Alt. of Syrupy
Syrup (n.) A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.
Syruped (a.) Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.
Syrupy (a.) Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.
Syrupy (a.) Same as Sirup, Sirupy.
Syssarcosis (n.) The junction of bones by intervening muscles.
Systaltic (a.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.
Systasis (n.) A political union, confederation, or league.
System (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
System (n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
System (n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
Systematic (a.) Alt. of Systematical
Systematical (a.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration.
Systematical (a.) Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical.
Systematical (a.) Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.
Systematically (adv.) In a systematic manner; methodically.
Systematism (n.) The reduction of facts or principles to a system.
Systematist (n.) One who adheres to a system.
Systematist (n.) One who forms a system, or reduces to system.
Systematization (n.) The act or operation of systematizing.
Systematize (v. t.) To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.
Systematized (imp. & p. p.) of Systematize
Systematizer (n.) One who systematizes.
Systematizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Systematize
Systematology (n.) The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems.
Systemic (a.) Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases.
Systemic (a.) Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.
Systemization (n.) The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
Systemize (v. t.) To reduce to system; to systematize.
Systemized (imp. & p. p.) of Systemize
Systemizer (n.) One who systemizes, or reduces to system; a systematizer.
Systemizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Systemize
Systemless (a.) Being without system.
Systemless (a.) Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification.
Systemless (a.) Not having any of the distinct systems or types of structure, as the radiate, articulate, etc., characteristic of organic nature; as, all unicellular organisms are systemless.
Systole (n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.
Systole (n.) The shortening of the long syllable.
Systolic (a.) Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur.
Systyle (a.) Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation.
Systyle (n.) A systyle temple or other edifice.
Syth (prep., adv., conj. & n.) Alt. of Sythe
Sythe (n.) Scythe.
Sythe (prep., adv., conj. & n.) See Sith, Sithe.
Syzygial (a.) Pertaining to a syzygy.
Syzygies (pl. ) of Syzygy
Syzygy (n.) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.
Syzygy (n.) The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
Syzygy (n.) The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.
Syzygy (n.) The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
