(a.) Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secure

(adv.) In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.

(n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.

(n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.

(n.) Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness.

(n.) Freedom from risk; safety.

(n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.

(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.

(n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.

(n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.

(n.) The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

(a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize

(a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

(n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

(n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body.

(n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

(n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

(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.

(n.) Dissension; division; schism.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seduce

(a.) Seductive.

(n.) The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.

(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.

(n.) A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.

(n.) A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

(a.) Without seed or seeds.

(n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

(n.) Seedtime.

(pl. ) of Seedsman

(n.) A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

(n.) A person who deals in seeds.

(a.) Unseemly.

(adv.) In a seemly manner.

(n.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

(n.) A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

(n.) The office or quality of a seer.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seethe

(n.) A lord; the lord of a manor.

(n.) A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.

(n.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

(a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

(v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.

(pl. ) of Sequela

(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) One who, or that which, softens.

(n.) A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.

(n.) The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

(n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

(a.) Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scrub

(a.) Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

(n.) One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.

(n.) A gas washer. See under Gas.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scruple

(n.) One who scruples.

(n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

(n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.

(n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.

(n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.

(v. t.) To scrutinize.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scud

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuff

(imp. & p. p.) of Scuffle

(n.) One who scuffles.

(n.) An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scull

(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.

(n.) Hence, refuse; filth; offal.

(n.) A scalion.

(n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scum

(imp. & p. p.) of Scumble

(n.) The act of taking off scum.

(n.) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) See 2d Scup.

(n.) One who scurries.

(a.) Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

(adv.) In a scurvy manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scutch

(n.) One who scutches.

(n.) An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.

(n. pl.) See Scutellum.

(n.) See Scutellum, n., 2.

(pl. ) of Scutellum

(n.) Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scuttle

(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.

(n.) A beach lying along the sea.

(n.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

(n.) The seashore; seacoast.

(a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

(adv.) Toward the sea.

(a.) Born of the sea; produced by the sea.

(a.) Born at sea.

(a.) Bounded by the sea.

(n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

(n.) Alt. of Sea-gait

(n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea.

(n.) The mermaid.

(n.) A sea nymph.

(a.) Without a seam.

(n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

(n.) A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Search

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slush

(n.) The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.

(a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smack

(n.) A sharp, quick noise; a smack.

(a.) Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.

(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.

(a.) Somewhat small.

(n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

(n.) Alt. of Smaltite

(n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smart

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smear

(n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smell

(n.) The act of one who smells.

(n.) The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smelt

(n.) A house or place for smelting.

() a. & n. from Smelt.

(n.) See Parrilin.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smirk

(n.) The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

(n.) Work done by a smith; smithing.

(n.) The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape.

(a.) Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.

(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

(n.) Smoke; smother.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smooth

(v. t.) To make smooth.

(n.) One who, or that which, smooths.

(adv.) In a smooth manner.

(a.) Tending to smother; stifling.

(v. i.) See Smolder.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smudge

(imp. & p. p.) of Smuggle

(n.) One who smuggles.

(n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.

(n.) The quality or state of being smug.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smut

(imp. & p. p.) of Smutch

(n.) Snuff.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snaffle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snag

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snap

(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.

() a. & n. from Snap, v.

(a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

(a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

(n.) A knapsack.

(n.) See Impatiens.

(p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Snarl

() a. & n. from Snarl, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snatch

(n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly.

(n.) A chip; a alice.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneak

(a.) Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.

(n.) A paltry fellow; a sneak.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneer

(a.) Given to sneering.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneeze

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snick

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniff

(n.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snift

() a. & n. from Snift.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sniggle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snip

(a.) Ridiculously small; petty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snivel

(n.) One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.

(n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

(n.) Snobbery.

(n.) A little snob.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snooze

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snort

(n.) Filth; abomination.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stalk

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stall

(n.) The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

(n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.

(n.) Stabling.

(n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

(pl. ) of Stallman

(n.) One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.

(a.) Alt. of Stalworth

(a.) Destitute of soil or mold.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solace

(n.) See Sallenders.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.

(a.) Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.

(v. t.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

(v. i.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.

(n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.

(n.) A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

(imp. & p. p.) of Solder

(n.) One who solders.

(n.) A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.

(n.) Military service.

(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.

(n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.

(n.) One who commits a solecism.

(v. i.) To commit a solecism.

(adv.) In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.

(n.) The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.

(n.) An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.

(a.) Furnished with stamens.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stamp

(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.

(v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.

(v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

() a. & n. from Stamp, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stanch

(n.) A stanchion.

(n.) One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

(adv.) In a stanch manner.

(n.) A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

(n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.

(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.

(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.

(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.

(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.

(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

(n.) The sheth of a plow.

(n.) A large drinking cup.

(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.

(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.

(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.

(a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.

(n.) One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.

(n.) A tin mine; tin works.

(n.) A salt of stannic acid.

(n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sol-fa

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Staple

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Star

(imp. & p. p.) of Starch

(a.) Stiffened with starch.

(a.) Stiff; precise; formal.

(n.) One who starches.

(adv.) In a starched or starch manner.

(n.) A small piece of money.

(a.) Having community of interests and responsibilities.

(v. t.) To make solid or firm.

(v. t.) To make solid or compact.

(v. i.) To become solid; to harden.

(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.

(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism.

(n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.

(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.

(n.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.

(a.) Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun.

(a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

(a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.

(a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

(a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.

(a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.

(a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.

(n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.

(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

(n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Solifugae.

(n.) One of the Solifugae.

(v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.

(v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.

(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.

(n.) The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

(n.) The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.

(n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.

(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.

(n.) release; deliverance; discharge.

(n.) The termination of a disease; resolution.

(n.) A crisis.

(n.) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.

(a.) Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

(a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.

(a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.

(a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent.

(n.) The quality or state of being solvent.

(n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

(n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.

(n.) See Somite.

(adv.) Alt. of Sombrely

(adv.) In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

(n.) A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America.

(a.) Gloomy; somber.

(n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

(n.) A person of consideration or importance.

(adv.) In some degree; somewhat.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

(n.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.

(a.) Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.

(n.) A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.

(n.) A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.

(adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

(adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

(adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.

(a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

(n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

(n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

(adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.

(adv.) At some indefinite time.

(a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Start

(a.) Apt to start; skittish.

() a. & n. from Start, v.

(a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Startle

(n.) A summoner.

(n.) A short and simple sonata.

(a.) Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

(n.) One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

(n.) A singing bird.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starve

(n.) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.

(n.) A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.

(n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

(a.) That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.

(adv.) At stated times; regularly.

(a.) Full of state; stately.

(n.) The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

(a.) Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

(a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.

(a.) Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.

(a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.

(a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.

(n.) Same as Souchong.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soothe

(a.) Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.

(a.) Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.

() a. & n. from Soothe, v.

(v. i.) To foretell; to predict.

(n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.

(n.) Omen; portent. Having

(a.) Teaching wisdom.

(n.) One who practices the art of making statues.

(n.) The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.

(n.) A collection of statues; statues, collectively.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Statue

(n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.

(v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

(a.) Alt. of Soporous

(a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.

(pl. ) of Soprano

(n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.

(n.) A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sabre

(a.) Growing in sandy places.

(a.) Sandy; gritty.

(a.) Like a sac; sacciform.

(n.) A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.

(n.) An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity.

(n.) A small monumental chapel in a church.

(pl. ) of Sackful

(a.) Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent.

(n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sadden

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saddle

(n.) The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.

(n.) The trade or employment of a saddler.

(n.) Sordidness.

(adv.) In a sordid manner.

(n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

(n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.

(n.) The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

(a.) Arrived at full stature.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidae); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

(v. i.) To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize.

(n.) Same as Sorance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sorrow

(a.) Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shock

(a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Shoeing-horn

(a.) Destitute of shoes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoot

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

(n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.

(n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.

(a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shop

(n.) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.

(n.) A girl employed in a shop.

(a.) Suiting a shop; vulgar.

(n.) A shopgirl.

(a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

(a.) Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

(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.

(n.) A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.

(n.) Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shot

(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.

(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.

(n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.

(n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.

(n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.

(n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.

(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.

(v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shout

(imp. & p. p.) of Shovel

(n.) One who, or that which, shovels.

(n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shower

(n.) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

(n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.

(a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

(n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.

() of Shred

(a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shriek

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sheriff.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shrill

(n.) One who fishes for shrimps.

() of Shrink

(n.) One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrive

(n.) Shrift; confession.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shroud

(a.) Provided with a shroud or shrouds.

(n.) The festivity of Shrovetide.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shrug

() p. p. & a. from Shrink.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuck

(imp. & p. p.) of Shuffle

(n.) One who shuffles.

(n.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shun

(a.) Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shunt

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shut

(a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.

(n.) A sibiliant letter.

(v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

(a.) Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sicken

(adv.) Alt. of Sikerly

(a.) Free from sickness.

(a.) Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

(n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

(n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

(n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

(adv.) Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.

(a.) Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

(adv.) Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.

(adv.) On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.

(a.) Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

(a.) Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.

(n.) An indigo-blue variety of quartz.

(n.) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.

(pl. ) of Sidesman

(n.) A party man; a partisan.

(n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.

(adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

(adv.) On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.

(a.) See Syenitic.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sight

(a.) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.

() a. & n. from Sight, v. t.

(n.) A seal.

(a.) Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

(/) or Signalled (imp. & p. p.) of Signal

(adv.) In a signal manner; eminently.

(a.) Stamped or marked with a signet.

(a.) Bearing signs.

(n.) Same as Seigniory.

(imp. & p. p.) of Silence

(adv.) In a silent manner.

(n.) A salt of silicic acid.

(n.) A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.

(v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.

(v. i.) To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

(n.) See Silicon.

(n.) A silicle.

(n.) A silicle.

(n.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

(pl. ) of Siliqua

(n.) Silkiness.

(n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

(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.

(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.

(a.) A caul. See Caul, n., 3.

(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.

(n.) A siluroid fish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Silver

(adv.) Like silver in appearance or in sound.

(a.) Similar.

(n.) A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.

(adv.) In a savage manner.

(n.) The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

(n.) An act of cruelty; barbarity.

(n.) Wild growth, as of plants.

(n.) The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

(a.) See Savable.

(n.) Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.

(n.) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.

(n.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.

(n.) The act of saving.

(adv.) In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.

(adv.) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Savor

(adv.) In a savory manner.

(n.) Having a savor; savory.

(n.) The alewife.

(n.) A nickname for a surgeon.

(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.

(n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.

(n.) A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.

(n.) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scab

(n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.

(v. t.) To put in a scabbard.

(adv.) In a scabby manner.

(a.) Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions.

(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.

(a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.

(a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.

(n.) Elecampane.

(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.

(n.) Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.

(n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

(v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

(a.) Capable of being scaled.

(n.) A scamp; a scapegrace.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scald

(n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.

(n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scalp

() a. & n. from Scalp.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scamble

(n.) 1. One who scambles.

(n.) A bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.

(n.) A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (C. Scammonia).

(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.

(a.) Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scan

(a.) Climbing.

(n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44.

(n.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scant

(adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

(n.) A small pattern; a small quantity.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped.

(n.) The scaphoid bone.

(pl. ) of Scapula

(pl. ) of Scapula

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.

(n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.

(n.) Alt. of Scapulary

(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.

() 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scar

(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).

(n.) A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved stone itelf].

(adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

(adv.) Frugally; penuriously.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarf

(a.) Alt. of Scarious

(a.) Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.

(a.) Free from scar.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scarp

(n.) A scar; a mark.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scath

(a.) Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.

(v. t.) To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

(n.) A villain; a criminal.

(n.) A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

(a.) Having much scenery.

(n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.

(a.) Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scent

(a.) Full of scent or odor; odorous.

(a.) Of quick or keen smell.

() of Sceptre

(a.) Of or pertaining to a scepter; like a scepter.

(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.

(v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.

(n.) Scheelium.

(pl. ) of Schema

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scheme

(a.) Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing.

(n.) A schemer.

(a.) Schistose.

(n.) A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.

(n.) Holland gin.

(n.) A 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.

(n.) A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.

(imp. & p. p.) of School

(n.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

(n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.

(adv.) Knowingly; willfully.

(adv.) To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss.

(n.) A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

(n.) Alt. of 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.

(n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Scincidae, or skinks.

(n.) A scincoidian.

(n.) The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.

(n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

(a.) Knowing superficially or imperfectly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.

(n.) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.

(n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.

(a.) Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.

(n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

(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.

(n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.

(n.) A rodent of the Squirrel family.

(a.) Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.

(n.) Induration of the cellular tissue.

(n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.

(a.) Having a hard texture, as nutshells.

(n.) Induration of the tissues. See Sclerema, Scleroderma, and Sclerosis.

(a.) Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoff

(n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scold

() a. & n. from Scold, v.

(pl. ) of Scolex

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sconce

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scoop

(n.) A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.

(n.) Same as Scopuliped.

(pl. ) of Scopula

(pl. ) of Scopula

(n.) Scurvy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scorch

(a.) Scoriaceous.

(a.) Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.

(a.) Treated with scorn; exciting scorn.

(n.) A marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena, as the European hogfish (S. scrofa), and the California species (S. guttata).

(imp. & p. p.) of Scotch

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scour

(n.) Refuse water after scouring.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scourge

(n.) One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scowl

(v. i.) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.

(a.) Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

(a.) Lean and rough; scraggy.

(v. i.) To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

(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.

(v. t.) To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.

(v. t.) To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.

(n.) The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.

(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.

(a.) Slight; thin; lean; poor.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrape

(n.) The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.

(n.) Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.

(a.) Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.

(a.) Characterized by scratches.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scrawl

(n.) One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Screak

(imp. & p. p.) of Scream

(n.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

(a.) Like a screech; shrill and harsh.

(imp. & p. p.) of Screen

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Screw

() a. & n. from Screw, v. t.

(n.) A painter's pencil.

(v. t.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

(v. t.) To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

(v. t.) To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

(v. i.) To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

(n.) Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scribe

(n.) The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ.

(v. i.) To wriggle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scrimp

(v. t.) To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.

(imp. & p. p.) of Simmer

(n.) One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.

(a.) Simoniacal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Simper

(n.) One who simpers.

(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.

(n.) One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.

(a.) Feigned; pretended.

(v. t.) To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

(n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.

(n.) A salt of sinapic acid.

(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.

(n.) A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.

(n.) The fore part of the head.

(n.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.

(n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.

(n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.

(v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sinew

(a.) Sinewy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Singe

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Single

(a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.

(a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.

(a.) Existing by itself; single; individual.

(a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.

(a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.

(a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.

(a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.

(a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.

(a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.

(n.) An individual instance; a particular.

(n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

(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.

(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.

(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.

(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.

(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.

(n.) A brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.

(n.) Same as Banxring.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sinuate

(a.) Same as Sinuate.

(n.) A lace for fastening stays.

(a.) Without stop or delay.

(n.) Any sail extended on a stay.

(adv.) In a steady manner.

(n.) The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Steady

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steal

(n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

(a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.

(n.) A quaking of the sea.

(n.) A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.

(n.) A small box for carrying snuff about the person.

(n.) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.

(n.) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.

(n.) One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.

(a.) Resembling a swan.

(n.) A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan.

(n.) A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.

(n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

(a.) Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted.

(n.) The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

(n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swab

(imp. & p. p.) of Swaddle

(n.) A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swag

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swamp

(n.) One who tends or marks swans; as, the royal swanherd of England.

(n.) A place where swans are bred.

(n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

(n.) A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swap

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sward

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swarm

(a.) Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swash

(a.) Swaggering; hectoring.

(a.) Resounding; crushing.

(n.) Same as 4th Swash, 2.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swathe

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swear

() a. & n. from Swear, v.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweat

(adv.) In a sweaty manner.

() a. & n. from Sweat, v.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweep

(n.) The crop of hay got in a meadow.

(a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.

(v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

(v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

(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.

(adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

(adv.) Closely; intimately.

(n.) Sparling.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit

(v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.

(n.) A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.

(n.) Stramonium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strand

(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.

(v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

(v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

(v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strap

(n.) One who uses strap.

(n.) A person or thing of uncommon size.

(v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.

(pl. ) of Strategus

(n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

(n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.

(v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

(pl. ) of Stratum

() imp. & p. p. of Stretch.

(v. t.) To stretch; to make straight.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stray

(imp. & p. p.) of Streak

(a.) Marked or variegated with stripes.

(a.) Uncomfortable; out of sorts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stream

(n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.

(n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

(n.) A searcher for stream tin.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spit

(a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.

(n.) A violent, irascible, or passionate person.

(n.) A spitbox; a cuspidor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Splash

(n.) The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

(n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

(n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

(n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

(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.

(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?

(n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

(n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color.

(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.

(n.) A strong place; a stronghold.

(v. t.) To strengthen.

(a.) Noisy; loud.

(n.) One who, or that which, splashes.

(n.) One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

(n.) A guard to keep off splashes from anything.

(v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.

(a.) Deprived of the spleen.

(a.) Angered; annoyed.

(a.) Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

(a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.

(a.) Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.

(n.) Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.

(n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like.

(n.) Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.

(a.) Designating the splenial bone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.

(n.) The splenial bone.

(n.) The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.

(n.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck.

(a.) Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splice

(a.) Of or pertaining to a spline.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strew

(n.) The act of scattering or spreading.

(n.) Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(imp. & p. p.) of Striate

(a.) Marked with striaae, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.

(n.) The corpus striatum.

(p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.

(n.) Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.

(v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.

(n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

(n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.

(n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.

(n.) A templet; a pattern.

(n.) An instrument used in dressing flax.

(adv.) In a strict manner; closely; precisely.

(p. p.) of Stride

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stride

(a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.

(imp. & p. p.) of Splint

(n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.

(n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

(v. i.) To become split into long pieces.

(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.

() of Split

(n.) One who, or that which, splits.

(a.) Covered or marked with splotches.

(v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.

(n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.

(a.) Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spoil

(a.) Wasteful; rapacious.

(a.) Having transverse bands of color.

(a.) Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.

(a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

(a.) Strigose.

() of Strike

() of Strike

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strike

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to despoil; to rob.

(a.) Alt. of Spondaical

(n.) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

() a. & n. from Strike, v.

(a.) Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sponge

() a. & n. from Sponge, v.

(a.) Resembling sponge; like sponge.

() of String

(a.) Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.

(a.) Produced by strings.

(n.) The act of becoming surety for another.

(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.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spool

(imp. & p. p.) of Strip

(n.) The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.

(n.) Hence, a small quantity.

(adv.) In a spoony manner.

(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.

(pl. ) of Sporidium

(n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport

(a.) Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.

(a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.

(a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.

(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.

(n.) A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spot

(a.) Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.

(v. t.) Espousal.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spout

(imp. & p. p.) of Sprag

(imp. & p. p.) of Sprain

(v. t.) The dung of an otter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sprawl

(n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

(n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sprig

(a.) Having sprigs.

(a.) Alt. of Springall

(n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

(n.) A springe.

(v. i.) To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

(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.

(v. i.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.

(v. i.) To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.

(v. i.) To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.

(v. i.) To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.

(n.) A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.

(n.) A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sprint

(n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

(a.) See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sprout

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spruce

(adv.) In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.

(n.) See Spulzie.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spur

(a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

(a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

(a.) Having no spurs.

(n.) A tern.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spurn

(n.) One whose occupation is to make spurs.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spurt

(a.) That may be seized.

(n.) Rarely known; unusual; strange.

(a.) Seldom seen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Select

(n.) One who selects.

(n.) A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.

(n.) A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.

() 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.

(n.) A salt of selenious acid.

(n.) A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.

(n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.

(a.) Having no regard to self; unselfish.

(n.) Selfishness.

(a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

(n.) The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

(n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.

(n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.

(a.) Alt. of Selvedged

(n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

(a.) Like; resembling.

(a.) Seeming, rather than real; apparent.

(n.) Show; appearance; figure; semblance.

(n.) The face.

(n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

(a.) Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.

(n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

(a.) Slightly acid; subacid.

(n.) One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.

(n.) A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.

(n.) A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.

(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.

(n.) The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

(n.) The half of a lune.

(n.) A semimute person.

(n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

(n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.

(n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

(n.) Seminal state.

(n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.

(n.) A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.

(a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.

(v. t.) To sow; to spread; to propagate.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Partially nude; half naked.

(a.) Same as Semeiotic.

(a.) Half oval.

(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.

(n.) A half sound; a low tone.

(n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

(n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.

(n.) A seamster.

(n.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.

(n.) The houseleek.

(n.) The quality or state of being senile; old age.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sensate

(a.) Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.

(a.) Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

(a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

(a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.

(n.) Sensation; sensibility.

(n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

(n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

(n.) An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.

(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.

(n.) The fieldfare.

(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.

(a.) Destitute of snow.

(n.) Alt. of Snowplough

(n.) A shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snub

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuff

(n. pl.) An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snuffle

(n.) One who snuffles; one who uses cant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snug

(n.) A snug, cozy place.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snuggle

(n.) The quality or state of being snug.

(n.) Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

(n.) A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.

(n. pl.) Suds made with soap.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sober

(v. t. & i.) To sober.

(adv.) In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

(adv.) With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.

(a.) Exciting sensation.

(pl. ) of Sensorium

(n.) Sensualism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

(a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.

(n.) Sense; meaning; significance.

(n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

(n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

(n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

(n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

(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.

(v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

(v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.

(v. t.) To utter sententiously.

(n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.

(n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.

(n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.

(n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.

(adv.) In a sociable manner.

(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.

(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

(a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

(n.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

(a.) Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

(a.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

(v. t.) To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

(v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

(v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

(v. i.) To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

(p. a.) Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

(p. a.) Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.

(p. a.) Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

(adv.) In a social manner; sociably.

(n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.

(pl. ) of Septarium

(a.) Having a socket.

(a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.

(n.) Tenure by socage.

(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.

(n.) A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

(n.) Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.

(n.) A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

(n.) A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.

(n.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.

(n.) A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.

(n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.

(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.

(a.) Having power to promote putrefaction.

(imp. & p. p.) of Soften

(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.

(a.) Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.

(n.) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.

(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.

(n.) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.

(n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

(n.) The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

(n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

(v. t.) To make fat; to pamper.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

(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.

(a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.

(n.) A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

(a.) Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.

(n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

(n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)

(n.) The basking, or liver, shark.

(n.) The quillback.

(a.) Destitute of sails.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saint

(n.) The state or character of a saint.

(n.) A female saint.

(a.) Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

(n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness.

(n.) Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

(n.) Vegetables for salad.

(a.) Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.

(pl. ) of Salary

(imp. & p. p.) of Salary

(adv.) Alt. of Saleably

(adv.) See Salable, Salably, etc.

(pl. ) of Salesman

(n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

(n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly.

(n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

(n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.

(n.) Quality of being salient; hence, vigor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Salify

(n.) Salineness.

(a.) Producing salivation.

(n.) That which produces salivation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.

(v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.

(v. i.) To produce saliva, esp. in excess.

(a.) Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sally

(n.) The velella; -- called also saleeman.

(n.) A salmon of small size; a samlet.

(n.) Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce.

(n.) An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

(n.) A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.

(a.) Destitute of salt; insipid.

(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.

(n.) A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.

(a.) Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

(a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Salute

(a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.

(a.) Tending to save or secure safety.

(n.) A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.

(a.) Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.

(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.

(n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.

(n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.

(n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.

(n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies.

(n.) The act of healing or curing.

(a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.

(a.) Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.

(v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

(v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.

(v. t.) To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.

(v. t.) To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

(n.) The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.

(n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.

(n.) A saint or holy being.

(a.) Wearing sandals.

(a.) Made like a sandal.

(n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

(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.

(n.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

(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.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.

(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.

(n.) The chigoe, a species of flea.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.)

(n.) The state of being sane; sanity.

(n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

(v. t.) To produce blood from.

(a.) Having the color of blood; red.

(a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.

(a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.

(a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.

(n.) Blood color; red.

(n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.

(n.) Bloodstone.

(n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.

(v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

(n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Santalic acid. See Santalic.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

(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.

(n.) The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.

(n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

(a.) Saponaceous.

(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.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

(a.) Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.

(n.) A saphead.

(n.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.

(n.) A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.

(n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.

(n.) A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Sarcocolla

(a.) Of or pertaining to sarcode.

(pl. ) of Sarcoma

(n.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.

(n.) Abnormal formation of flesh.

(n.) Sarcoma.

(a.) Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.

(n.) A sarcotic medicine.

(a.) Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.

(n.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

(n.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf.

(n.) Alt. of Sarrasine

(n.) See Sarcenet.

(n.) Alt. of Sassoline

(a.) Insatiable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Satiate

(n.) One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.

(v. t.) To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.

(a.) Impregnating to the full; saturating.

(n.) A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.

(n.) An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach.

(v. t.) To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

(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.

(p. a.) Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

(n.) The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.

(n.) Any one of several kinds of orchids.

(n.) A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.

(n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

(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.

(n.) A fascine of more than ordinary length.

(n.) A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

(v. t.) To crush; to quash; to squash.

(v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

(v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.

(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.

(n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

(pl. ) of Squacco

(n.) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.

(n.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.

(n.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squall

(n.) One who squalls; a screamer.

(a.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

(a.) Alt. of Squamated

(a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

() Alt. of 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.

() Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.

(n.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

(n.) Same as Squamula.

(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.

(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.

(v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

(v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.

(n.) The act of squandering; waste.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Square

(adv.) In a square form or manner.

(a.) Nearly square.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squash

(n.) One who, or that which, squashes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squat

(n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.

(n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squawk

(n.) One who, or that which, squeaks.

(n.) The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squeal

(n.) One who, or that which, squeals.

(n.) The European swift.

(n.) The harlequin duck.

(n.) The American golden plover.

(n.) Same as Squilgee.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squeeze

(n.) One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon 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.

(n.) A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.

(n.) An inclosure; a place of separation.

(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.

(n.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

(a.) Alt. of Seraphical

(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.

(n.) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.

(v. t.) To entertain with a serenade.

(v. i.) To perform a serenade.

(n.) Alt. of Serenate

(n.) A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.

(adv.) In a serene manner; clearly.

(adv.) With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.

(n.) Alt. of Serfism

(adv.) In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.

(adv.) In regular order; one after the other; severally.

(n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

() Alt. of Serjeantcy

(n.) A preacher; a sermonizer.

(n.) A short sermon.

(a.) Alt. of Sermonical

(n.) The quality or state of being serous.

(n.) A thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid.

(n.) The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).

(n.) A pruning knife with a curved blade.

(n.) Wild thyme.

(a.) Notched on the edge, like a saw.

(a.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serry

(a.) Capable of being served.

(a.) Capable of being preserved.

(a.) Subordinate.

(a.) Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.

(n.) A sesamoid bone or cartilage.

(n.) Same as Cesspool.

(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.

(n.) A sestet.

(n.) In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.

(a.) Having the form or structure of setae.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Settle

(n.) The season proper for sowing.

(n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.

(n.) A half form; an imperfect form.

(n.) A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.

(n.) The space of seven nights and days; a week.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sheathe

(a.) Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

(a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.

(n.) That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

(a.) Having small bristles or setae.

(n.) The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sever

(imp. & p. p.) of Squib

(v. i.) To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.

(v. i.) To move about like an eel; to squirm.

(n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.

(pl. ) of Squilla

(pl. ) of Squilla

(imp. & p. p.) of Squint

(n.) One who squints.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squire

(n.) One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.

(a. & adv.) Becoming a squire; like a squire.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squirm

(v. i.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the family Sciuridae. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows.

(v. i.) One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squirt

(n.) One who, or that which, squirts.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stab

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stable

(n.) The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.

(n.) A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.

(v. t.) To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.

(a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.

(a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stack

(n.) Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.

(n.) A tax on things stacked.

() a. & n. from Stack.

(n.) An estafet.

(n.) An attendant bearing a staff.

(a.) Stiff; harsh.

(pl. ) of Staffman

(n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.

(n.) The male red deer when four years old.

(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.

(a.) Not active or brisk; dull; as, business in stagnant.

(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.

(v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.

(a.) Stagnant.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stain

(n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.

(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.

(n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.

(pl. ) of Siphonium

(n.) Any species of Sirenia.

(v. i.) To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

(n.) A sunstroke.

(n.) The act of exposing to a sun bath. [Obs.] Cf. Insolation.

(pl. ) of Sirocco

(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.

(n.) A large, fat variety of the namaycush found in Lake Superior; -- called also siskawet, siskiwit.

(n.) Alt. of Siserary

(n.) A hard blow.

(a.) Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse.

(adv. & conj.) Alt. of Sithens

(n.) A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics.

(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.

(a.) Placed; residing.

(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

(a.) Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

(a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

(a.) Next in order after the fifty-ninth.

(a.) Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

(n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

(n.) The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sizzle

() a. & n. from Sizzle.

(n.) A picture representing a scene at sea.

(n.) The shell of any marine mollusk.

(n.) The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

(n.) All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks.

(a.) Pertaining to the skeleton.

(n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

(n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.

(n.) A very thin or lean person.

(n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

(n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

(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.

(pl. ) of Skerry

(imp. & p. p.) of Sketch

(n.) One who sketches.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skewer

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skid

(a.) Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.

(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.

(n.) A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skim

(n.) The quillback.

(n.) The act of one who skims.

(n.) That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skimp

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skin

(pl. ) of Skinful

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skink

(a.) Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skip

(n.) An upstart.

(n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.

(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.

(n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

(n.) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.

(n.) A small trout or salmon; -- a name used loosely.

(v. i.) To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.

(v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.

(v. i.) A slight contest.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skirt

(n.) A skirting board.

(n.) Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts.

(v. t.) Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.

(v. t.) Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.

(v. t.) An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skulk

(a.) Like the skunk, especially in odor.

(n.) The surf duck.

(a.) Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.

(adv. & a.) Very high.

(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.

(a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

(a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slacken

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slam

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slang

(a.) Slangy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slant

(a.) Oblique; sloping.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slap

(n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.

(a.) Very large; monstrous; big.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slat

(n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.

(a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.

(v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

() Slats, collectively.

(n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slaver

(n.) A driveler; an idiot.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleave

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sled

(n.) The act of transporting or riding on a sled.

(n.) The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sledge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleek

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleep

(a.) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.

(adv.) In a sleepy manner; drowsily.

() a. & n. from Sleep.

(a.) Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleet

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleeve

(a.) Cinning; sly.

(n.) The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

(n.) The act or process of smoothing.

(n.) Narrow veins of ore.

(v. t.) Slippery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slight

(v. t.) To slight.

(n.) One who slights.

(adv.) In a slight manner.

(adv.) Slightingly; negligently.

(n.) The quality or state of being slim.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sling

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slink

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slip

(n.) The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

(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.

(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.

(a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.

(a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.

(a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.

(a.) Uncertain in effect.

(a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

(a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.

(a.) Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slit

() a. & n. from Slit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sliver

(a.) Wet; sloppy, as land.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slop

(n.) A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.

(n.) The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.

(a.) Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

(n.) The act or process of making slots, or mortises.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slouch

(imp. & p. p.) of Slough

(adv.) a slovenly manner.

(n.) Slovenliness.

(n.) The quality or state of being slow.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slub

() a. & n. from Slub.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slug

(n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.

(a.) Sluggish; lazy.

(a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

(a.) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

(a.) Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.

(a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sluice

(a.) Sleepy.

(vb. n.) Visiting slums.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slump

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slur

(n.) The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

(n.) That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steam

(n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.

(n.) A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

(n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

(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.

(n.) A cyst containing matter like suet.

(adv.) Alt. of Stedfastly

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steel

(n.) The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.

(n.) Same as Steinbock.

(n.) A lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steep

(a.) Somewhat steep.

(a.) Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.

(a.) Lofty and precipitous.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steer

(n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.

(n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.

(n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.

(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.

(n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.

(n.) That by which a course is directed.

() a. & n. from Steer, v.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steeve

(n.) The act or practice of one who steeves.

(n.) See Steeve, n. (a).

(a.) Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.

(a.) Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.

(a.) Alt. of Stellated

(v. t.) To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.

(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.

(a.) Capable of being sorted.

(a.) Suitable; befitting; proper.

(adv.) Suitable.

(v. i.) Suitableness; agreement.

(n.) Assortiment.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stem

(a.) Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.

(pl. ) of Stemma

(n.) A large building in which tobacco is stemmed.

(a.) Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

(n.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.

(n.) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Step

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sound

(n.) A stepmother.

(n.) Dues for soundings.

(a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).

(n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.

(n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

(n.) The quality or state of being sour.

(n.) The sorrel tree.

(n.) A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of South

(n.) Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun.

(n.) The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place.

(n.) Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.

(n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing.

(n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.

(n.) Stern.

(n.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.

(n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

(pl. ) of Sternum

(a.) Wide; extensive.

(n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent.

(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.

(n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.

(n.) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

(pl. ) of Spadix

(pl. ) of Spadix

(pl. ) of Spado

(n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stet

(n.) A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

(n.) A female fortune teller.

(a.) Alt. of Spagyrical

(n.) A spagyrist.

(n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Span

(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.

(n.) A narrow mat or passe partout for a picture.

(a.) Antimonious.

(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.

(n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spangle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spank

(a.) Moving with a quick, lively pace, or capable of so doing; dashing.

(a.) Large; considerable.

(a.) Incapable of being spanned.

(a.) Quite new; brand-new; fire-new.

(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stick

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spar

(n.) A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

(n.) Alt. of Sparagrass

(a.) Sparing; chary.

(n.) As much set type as fills a composing stick.

() a. & n. from Stick, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stickle

(v. t.) One who stickles.

(v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.

(v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.

(a.) Like a spark; airy; gay.

(a.) Showy; well-dresed; fine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sparkle

(n.) One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.

(n.) One who, or that which, sparkles.

(n.) A tiger beetle.

(n.) A small spark.

(n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

(n.) A young salmon.

(n.) A tern.

(adv.) In a scattered or sparse manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spat

(a.) Somewhat stiff.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stifle

(pl. ) of Stigma

(a.) See Spathic.

(a.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.

(a.) Spathose.

(v. t.) To rove; to ramble.

(a.) Affected with spavin.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spawl

(n.) That which is spawled, or spit out.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spawn

(n.) pl. of Stigma.

(n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.

(n.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak

(a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.

(a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.

(n.) A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.

(n.) A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.

(n.) A beard trimmed into a pointed form.

(v. t.) To stab or kill with a stiletto.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Still

(n.) A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor.

(pl. ) of Spearman

(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.

(a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.

(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.

(n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.

(a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.

(n.) A stillion.

(n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stilt

(v. t.) To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.

(n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.

(a.) Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speck

(imp. & p. p.) of Speckle

(a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.

(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.

(v. t.) That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sting

(adv.) In a stingy manner.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stink

(n.) A mean, stinking, paltry fellow.

(a.) Looking forward.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.

(n.) An apparition; a specter.

(n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope.

(n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum.

(n.) The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.

() a. & n. from Stink, v.

(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.

(n.) A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

(n.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stint

(pl. ) of Stipes

(imp. & p. p.) of Stipple

(pl. ) of Stipula

(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.

(a.) Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stir

(a.) Without stirring; very quiet; motionless.

(n.) The act of stirring; stir; commotion.

(a.) Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stitch

(n.) One who stitches; a seamstress.

(a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.

(a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.

(a.) Affording view.

(n.) A stab; a thrust with a rapier.

(pl. ) of Speculum

(n.) A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archaeology.

(n.) A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below.

(n.) An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speed

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stock

(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.

(v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.

(v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

(n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.

(a.) Full of speed (in any sense).

(adv.) In a speedy manner.

(n.) The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.

(n.) A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell

(a.) Abounding in spells, or charms.

(n.) The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.

(a.) Of or pertaining to spelling.

(n.) A theater.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spend

(n.) The act of expending; expenditure.

(a.) Within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for.

(v. t.) To dress in GBs.

(a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

(pl. ) of Stockman

(n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.

(n.) See Sperable.

(n.) An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.

(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.

(n.) A sperm cell.

(n. pl.) Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

(a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.

(n.) A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.

(n.) The sphenoid bone.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sphere

(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.

(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.

(n.) A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

(n.) A sphinx.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulse.

(a.) Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.

(a.) Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

(a.) Obstinate; sullen; haughty.

(n.) One of the Stomapoda.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a stoma; of the nature of a stoma.

(n.) A medicine for diseases of the mouth.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stook

(n.) An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.

(pl. ) of Spicula

(a.) Resembling a dart; having sharp points.

(n.) Same as Spicule.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoop

() a. & n. from Stoop.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop

(a.) Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.

(n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

(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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spill

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spill

(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.

(n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.

(a.) Not to be stopped.

(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.

(n.) A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spin

(n.) Material for filling a cavity.

(n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

(n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stopple

(n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

(n.) The quality or state of being severe.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

(n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.

(n.) A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.

(n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.

(n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.

(n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers.

(n.) A hexagon.

(a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

(n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

(a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

(a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.

(adv.) In a sexual manner or relation.

(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 /.

(adv.) In a shabby manner.

(n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shackle

(n.) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.

(n.) The common European sandpiper.

(a.) Full of shade; shady.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shadow

(n.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

(n.) Alt. of Shaftment

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shag

(n.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.

(n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.

(n.) The unkempt and ragged part of the community.

(v. t.) To chagrin.

(n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.

(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.

(a.) Alt. of Shagreened

(n. pl.) Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc.

(n.) A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sham

(a.) Of or pertaining to Shamanism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shamble

(a.) Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.

(a.) Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight.

(pl. ) of Shanny

(pl. ) of Shanty

(a.) That may be shaped.

(a.) Shapely.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shark

(n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sharp

(n.) The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.

(a.) Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.

(n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.

(n.) Same as Sheeling.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear

(n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

(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.

(n.) Same as Shearling.

(n.) The act or operation of reaping.

(n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.

(n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

(n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

(n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

(n.) One who sheathes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shed

(n.) The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.

(n.) That which is shed, or cast off.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Sheepcote

(a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.

(a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheer

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheet

(n.) Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.

(n.) Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

(n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

(n.) The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.

(n.) See Sheeling.

(n.) The sheldrake.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shell

(n.) Groats; hulled oats.

(a.) Affording shelter.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelve

(a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.

(n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.

(n.) The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.

(n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shend

(a.) Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.

(n.) A seamstress.

(n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.

(n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.

(n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.

(n.) An inspector of leather.

(n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.

(n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.

(n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Season

(a.) Of or pertaining to the seasons.

(n.) One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shield

(a.) Having no seat.

(n.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secede

(imp. & p. p.) of Secern

(imp. & p. p.) of Seclude

(imp. & p. p.) of Second

(n.) One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

(adv.) In the second place.

(imp. & p. p.) of Secrete

(n.) A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shift

(a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

(a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.

(n.) Alt. of Shikari

(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.

(n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shin

(pl. ) of Shindy

(imp. &. p. p.) of Shingle

(n.) One who shingles.

(n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.

(adv.) In a secret manner.

(n.) A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ship

(pl. ) of Shipful

(a.) Destitute of ships.

(n.) The load, or cargo, of a ship.

(n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

(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.

(n.) That which is shipped.

(a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.

(a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.

(n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.

(n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.

(n.) Navigation.

(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.

(n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirk

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirt

(n.) Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shiver

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoal

(a.) Becoming shallow gradually.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spindle

(n.) A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Storm

(a.) Abounding with storms.

(adv.) In a stormy manner.

() a. & n. from Storm, v.

(pl. ) of Spinney

() a. & n. from Spin.

(pl. ) of Spinny

(n.) A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.

(n.) A man who spins.

(n.) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.

(n.) A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.

(n.) The business of one who spins; spinning.

(a.) Capable of being breathed; respirable.

(n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

(n.) One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

(n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Story

(a.) Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

(n.) Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.

(adv.) In a spiral form, manner, or direction.

(n.) One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.

(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.

(n.) Strabismus.

(v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

(v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.

(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.

(n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.

(n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.

(n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spirit

(a.) Animated or possessed by a spirit.

(a.) Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer.

(v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.

(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.

(v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

(n.) The act of straggling.

(a.) A variant of Strait, a.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.

(superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.

(superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.

(adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.

(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.

(v. t.) To straighten.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strain

(a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

(a.) Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.

(n.) One who strains.

(n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stripe

(n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strive

() a. & n. from Strive.

(n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.

(n.) A mature tapeworm.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Same as Strobila.

(n.) A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.

(n.) The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.

(n.) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.

(n.) See Stripping, 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stroll

(n.) One who strolls; a vagrant.

(pl. ) of Stroma

(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.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strop

(pl. ) of Strophe

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.

() p. p. of Strike.

(v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

(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.

(v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

(n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

(n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

(n.) Contest; contention; strife.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strum

(a.) Strumous.

(a.) Having a struma.

(a.) Scrofulous; having struma.

(n.) A prostitute; a harlot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.

(v. t.) To debauch.

(v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strut

(n.) One who struts.

(n.) A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stub

(a.) Covered with stubble.

(a.) Stubbed; as, stubbled legs.

(a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.

(pl. ) of Stucco

(imp. & p. p.) of Stucco

(n.) One who stuccoes.

(a.) Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stud

(n.) A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

(n.) A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.

(n.) Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

(n.) Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.

(a.) Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

(a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.

(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.

(a.) Planned with study; deliberate; studied.

(a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Study

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stuff

(n.) That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

(n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.

(n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

(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.

(v. t.) To regard as a fool, or as foolish.

(v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stum

(imp. & p. p.) of Stumble

(n.) One who stumbles.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stump

(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.

(n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun

(a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

(a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.

(n.) A contraction of Studding sail.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stunt

(a.) Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

(v. t.) To ravish; to debauch.

(adv.) In a sturdy manner.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the starlings.

(n.) A corruption of Nasturtion.

(n.) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

(n.) A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.

(a.) Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.

(a.) Moderalely acrid or harsh.

(a.) Moderalely acute.

(a.) Near the base.

(n.) The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

(n.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.

(n.) One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subdue

(a.) Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two.

(a.) Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.

(a.) Nearly equal.

(n.) A salt of suberic acid.

(n.) Any sponge of the genus Suberites and allied genera. These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules.

(n.) The hypothetical ketone of suberic acid.

(n.) A colorless liquid, analogous suberone proper, having a pleasant peppermint odor. It is obtained by the distillation of calcium suberate.

(a.) Alt. of Suberous

(a.) Having a corky texture.

(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.

(n.) A subdivision of a group, as of animals.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Subitaneous; sudden; hasty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sublime

(a.) Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified.

(a.) Alt. of Sublunary

(pl. ) of Submentum

(v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.

(v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.

(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.

(a.) Submersed.

(a.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Suborn

(n.) One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

(a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

(n.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Situated below the poles.

(n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

(a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.

(a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff.

(v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.

(v. i.) To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Subside

(n.) An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.

(a.) Substantial; firm.

(n.) See 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.

(a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

(a.) Slightly tepid.

(n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

(n.) Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.

(n.) Cunning; skill; craft.

(n.) Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.

(n.) The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.

(n.) Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.

(n.) Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.

(a.) Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202.

(n.) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.

(n.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.

(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.

(n.) A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.

(v. t.) To place under; to insert.

(n.) An under tutor.

(a.) Alt. of Subulated

(a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.

(n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.

(a.) Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.

(imp. & p. p.) of Subvene

(v. t.) To subvert.

(a. & n.) Same as Subtonic.

(a.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

(a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

(a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.

(n.) A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.

(imp. & p. p.) of Succor

(n.) One who affords succor; a helper.

(pl. ) of Succuba

(adv.) In a such a manner; so.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sucker

(n.) A sucker fish.

(n. pl) Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

(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.

(n.) A sweating.

(a.) Sweating; perspiring.

(n.) A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.

(n.) Suddenness; a sudden.

(a.) Consisting of sweat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Suffer

(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.

(n.) One who permits or allows.

(imp. & p. p.) of Suffice

(imp. & p. p.) of Suffix

(v. t.) To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.

(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.

(n.) Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.

(n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.

(n.) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed.

(n.) Aid; assistance.

(n.) The right to vote; franchise.

(v. t.) To vote for; to elect.

(n.) The heel joint.

(imp. & p. p.) of Suffuse

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sugar

(n.) The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

(n.) The act or process of making sugar.

(a.) Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidae).

(a.) Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.

(n.) A female supplicant.

(a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.

(v. t.) Foulness; filth.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sully

(n.) A salt of sulphuric acid.

(n.) A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.

(n.) Any one of a series of basic compounds which consist essentially of sulphur united with hydrocarbon radicals. In general they are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (CH3)3S.OH. Cf. Sulphonium.

(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.

(n.) A salt of sulphurous acid.

(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/.

(a.) Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.

(a.) Pertaining to a sultan.

(n.) The dominions of a sultan.

(imp. & p. p.) of Summer

(imp. & p. p.) of Summon

(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.

(n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

(n.) A taking.

(n.) The major premise of a syllogism.

(n.) A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.

(n.) Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

(n.) A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.

(v. t.) To gall or wound with a spur.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swerve

(n.) A sty, or pen, for swine.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swirl

(n.) A glimpse or flash of the sun.

() of Sunburn

(imp. & p. p.) of Sunder

(n. pl.) Many different or small things; sundry things.

(adv.) In sundry ways; variously.

(n.) A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus.

(n.) The light of the sun.

(a.) Impervious to the rays of the sun.

(n.) Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays.

(n.) A small parasol.

(n.) An awning.

(a.) Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.

(a.) Bright like the sun; resplendent.

(a.) Beaming with good spirits; cheerful.

(n.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.

(v. t.) To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.

(a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions.

(a.) Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace.

(n.) Supineness.

(v. t.) To replace.

(n.) To trip up.

(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.

(n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supple

(adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.

(n.) The act of supplying; a supply.

(n.) One who supplies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Supply

(pl. ) of Supply

(n.) A sweet apple.

(n.) A darling; -- a word of endearment.

(a.) Somewhat sweet.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell

(n.) The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Suppose

(v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

(v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.

(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.

(v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.

(n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.

(n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.

(n.) A protuberance; a prominence

(n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.

(a.) Dandified; stylish.

(v. t.) To surprise.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swill

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swim

(a.) That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

(a.) Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

(n.) The act of one who swims.

(a.) Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

(n.) Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swindle

(n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swing

(a.) Having a surbase, or molding above the base.

(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.

(n.) Cessation; stop; end.

(v. t.) To cause to cease; to end.

(v. i.) To cease.

(n.) A making sure; surety.

(n.) The state of being sure; certainty.

(pl. ) of Surety

(imp. & p. p.) of Surface

(n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

(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.

(a.) Abounding in surges; surgy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swingle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swink

(imp. & p. p.) of Switch

(a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.

(n.) Surmise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Surmise

(n.) One who surmises.

(v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

(v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.

(v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Surname

(n.) A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoon

() a. & n. from Swoon, v.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swoop

(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.

(n.) The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by 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.

(n.) Anything that causes such a state or emotion.

(n.) A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.

(n.) To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.

(n.) To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me.

(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.

(n.) To hold possession of; to hold.

(v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

(n.) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).

(n.) Slashing with a sword.

(pl. ) of Swordman

(n.) A swordsman.

(n.) See Sycamore.

(n.) Alt. of Syconus

(v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

(v. t.) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.

(v. t.) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.

(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.

(a.) Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.

(a.) Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.

(a.) Alt. of Syllabical

(n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.

(n.) A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.

(n.) The fifth power of a number; as, a/ is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2.

(v. t.) To surname.

(n.) See Bush master, under Bush.

(imp. & p. p.) of Survey

(n.) Survey.

(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.

(n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

(v. t.) To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

(n.) Same as Syllabub.

(a.) Like a sylph.

(a.) Sylphlike.

(n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

(n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.

(imp. & p. p.) of Survive

(n.) One who survives; a survivor.

(n.) One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.

(n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything.

(a.) Sylvan.

(a.) See Symbolics.

(a.) Alt. of Symbolical

(a.) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.

(a.) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.

(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.

(a.) Cessation for a time; stop; pause.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.

(n.) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

(n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

(n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.

(n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.

(n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.

(n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.

(n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.

(n.) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.

(n.) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.

(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.

(pl. ) of Sympodium

(pl. ) of Symposium

(pl. ) of Synangium

(n.) Joint rule or sovereignity.

(n.) Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.

(n.) A synclinal fold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

(a.) Alt. of Syndetical

(n.) Concurrence.

(n.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.

(n.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

(a.) Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

(n.) A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

(a.) Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha.

(n.) A continuous fever.

(n.) An adherent to a synod.

(pl. ) of Synonym

(n.) Same as Synonym.

(n.) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.

(n.) A system of synonyms.

(n.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.

(pl. ) of 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.

(a.) Alt. of Synoptical

(n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

(a.) Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia.

(n.) Syntax.

(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.

(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

(imp. & p. p.) of Syringe

(n.) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.

(pl. ) of Syrinx

(a.) Of or pertaining to the syrphus flies.

(n.) A syrphus fly.

(n.) A political union, confederation, or league.

(a.) Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur.

(a.) Pertaining to a syzygy.

(pl. ) of Syzygy

(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.

(n.) One who utters a shriek.

(n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

(n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

(n.) A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

(n.) Bad singing or poetry.

(n.) A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

(a.) Drawling; monotonous.

(v. i.) To write poor poetry.

(n.) A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

(n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

(n.) The Lophiomys.

(adv.) In a bold, careless manner; at random.

(adv.) With a slap; all at once; slap.

(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.

(n.) knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

(n.) A slipper.

(a.) Evasive.

(n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

(n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

(v. t.) A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

(n.) One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.

(n.) A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.

(a.) Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.

(a.) Shining; bright; illustrious.

(n.) One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.

(n.) A kind of high rustic shoe.

(a.) Upstart.

(n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

(n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

(n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.