(n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.

(n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

(n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.

(n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

(n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.

(n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

(n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

(n.) Devotion to a sect.

(n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.

(a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

(a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.

(a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.

(a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.

(n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

(n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

(n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

(imp. & p. p.) of Secure

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

(n. pl.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.

(imp. & p. p.) of Seduce

(n.) One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.

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

(n.) A capsule.

(n.) A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.

(n.) Alt. of Seedlop

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

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

(n.) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

(adv.) In a silly manner.

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

(a.) Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.

(n.) Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

(n.) Apprehension; judgment.

(n.) Alt. of Sipage

(n.) A female seer; a prophetess.

(imp.) of Seethe

(p. p.) of Seethe

(n.) A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

(n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

(n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

(n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

(n.) A segment gear.

(n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

(n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

(v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

(n. pl.) Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

(n.) Fishing with a seine.

(a.) Alt. of Seismal

(a.) Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.

(a.) See Heptoic.

(pl. ) of Septulum

(n.) A septet.

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

(n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.

(n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.

(n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.

(a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.

(a.) Following as an effect; consequent.

(n.) A follower.

(n.) That which follows as a result; a sequence.

(a.) Somewhat soft.

(n.) See Softener.

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

(a.) Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.

(n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.

(v. t.) To crowd; to squeeze.

(n.) A mean fellow; a wretch.

(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.

(v. t. & v. i.) To scranch; to crunch.

(n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

(n.) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

(n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

(v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

(v. t.) To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

(v. t.) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scud

(v. i.) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scuff

(v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

(v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.

(n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

(n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.

(n.) A child's pinafore or bib.

(n.) A garden hoe.

() See Skulk, Skulker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scull

(n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.

(n.) One who sculls.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.

(n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.

(n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

(imp. & p. p.) of Scum

(v. i.) To void excrement.

(n.) Dung.

(v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.

(v. i.) To scumber.

(n.) Excrement; scumber.

(n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

(v. t.) To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.

(v. i.) To have a feeling of loathing or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance.

(n.) A feeling of disgust or loathing; a strong prejudice; abhorrence; as, to take a scunner against some one.

(v.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

(n.) Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

(a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

(a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

(n.) A broad, shallow basket.

(n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

(v. i.) To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.

(n.) A quick pace; a short run.

(n.) A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.

(n.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.

(n.) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.

(n.) The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.

(v. t.) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

(v. t.) To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.

(n. pl.) Hardened masses of feces.

(pl. ) of Scypha

(n.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

(n.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

(n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen.

(a.) Armed scythes, as a chariot.

(n.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

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

(n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

(n.) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.

(n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

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

(n.) One who sifts or bolts.

(n.) A searce, or sieve.

(a.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slush

(a.) Slushy.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Smack

(n.) The emerald.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smart

(v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.

(adv.) In a smart manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smash

(n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

(n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.

(n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.

(v. i.) To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.

(v. i.) To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

(v. t.) To talk superficially about.

(v. t.) To gain a slight taste of; to acquire a slight, superficial knowledge of; to smack.

(n.) Superficial knowledge; a smattering.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smear

(a.) Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).

(imp. & p. p.) of Smell

(n.) One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.

(n.) The nose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smelt

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

(a.) To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.

(v.) Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.

(n.) A woman's under-garment; a smock.

(adv.) Smugly; finically.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Smirk

(p. p.) of Smite

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

(n.) Light, fine rain.

(n.) Fragments; atoms; finders.

() p. p. of Smite.

(v. t.) To infect.

(n.) Infection.

(a.) Alt. of Smittlish

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

(adv.) In a smoky manner.

() a. & n. from Smoke.

(v. i.) Alt. of Smoulder

(v. t.) Alt. of Smoulder

(n.) Alt. of Smoulder

(v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.

(v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.

(v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.

(v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.

(v. i.) To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.

(v. t.) Stifling smoke; thick dust.

(v. t.) A state of suppression.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smudge

(v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.

(v. t.) Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.

(v. i.) To import or export in violation of the customs laws.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smut

(n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.

(v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snag

(a.) Full of snags; snaggy.

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

(a.) Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snap

(n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.

(n.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.

(n.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.

(n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

(n.) A snap beetle.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Snarl

(n.) One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.

(n.) One who makes use of a snarling iron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sneak

(n.) One who sneaks.

(n.) A vessel of drink.

(n.) See Snath.

(n.) A door latch, or sneck.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sneer

(n.) One who sneers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sneeze

(imp. & p. p.) of Snick

(v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

(v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

(n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sniff

(v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snift

(n.) See Snicker.

(v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.

(v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snip

(n.) One who snips.

(n.) A small part or piece.

(a.) Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

(a.) Wearing or having a snood.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snooze

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

(n.) The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snort

(n.) One who snorts.

(n.) The wheather; -- so called from its cry.

(v. i.) To snivel; to cry or whine.

(n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.

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

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

(adv.) In a state stale manner.

(adv.) Of old; long since.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stalk

(a.) Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stall

(a.) Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted.

(n.) A standard bearer. obtaining

(n.) A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.

(pl. ) of Stamen

(n.) Stain; pollution.

(v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.

(v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

(n.) See Socman.

(imp. & p. p.) of Solace

(n.) Solanine.

(pl. ) of Solarium

(n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.

(n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

(n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.

(n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)

(n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.

(v. i.) To serve as a soldier.

(v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.

(n. pl.) See Stamen.

(n. pl.) The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength.

(n. pl.) Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State.

(n.) A large, clumsy horse.

(n.) A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.

(n.) A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.

(a.) Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.

(v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

(v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.

(n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stamp

(n.) One who stamps.

(n.) An instrument for pounding or stamping.

(n.) A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.

(n.) See Stannel.

(n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tin; derived from or containing tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with stannous compounds.

() A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting relation to, or connection with, tin, or including tin as an ingredient.

(v. t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

(v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.

(v. t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.

(v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

(v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.

(n.) The technical name of tin. See Tin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Staple

(n.) A dealer in staple goods.

(n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Star

(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

(adv.) In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

(n.) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate.

(n.) One who sings or plays a solo.

(a.) Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.

(a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.

(a.) Relaxed; open or readily opened.

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

(n.) A substance to be dissolved.

(a.) Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

(a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.

(n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.

(n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.

(adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

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

(adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.

(a.) Lighted by the stars; starlight.

(n.) A nobleman who possessed a starosty.

(a.) Adorned or studded with stars; bespangled.

(a.) Influenced in fortune by the stars.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

(imp. & p. p.) of Start

(n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

(n.) A dog that rouses game.

(v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

(v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.

(n.) A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.

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

(n.) The musk shrew. See under Musk.

(a.) Disposed to sing; full of song.

(a.) Being without a son.

(v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.

(n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

(imp. & p. p.) of Starve

(a.) In a standing position; as, a lion statant.

(a.) Fixed; settled.

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

(superl.) Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.

(adv.) Majestically; loftily.

(n.) The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Soothe

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

(n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.

(n.) The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.

(n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.

(n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.

(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.

(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.

(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.

(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.

(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).

(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.

(n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

(n.) Situation; position; location.

(n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.

(n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

(n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

(n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.

(v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.

(adv.) In truth; truly; really; verily.

(a.) Sooty.

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

(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.

(n.) A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.

(n.) A statistician.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

(imp. & p. p.) of Statue

(pl. ) of Soprano

(n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

(n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

(n.) Soreness.

(n.) A salt of sorbic acid.

(n.) An absorbent.

(a.) Fit to be drunk or sipped.

(n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.

(n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sabre

() of Sabre

(n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

(a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

(n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.

(pl. ) of Sacculus

(pl. ) of Sacellum

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

(n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.

(n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.

(n.) As much as a sack will hold.

(a.) Bent on plunder.

(n.) Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

(v. t.) To consecrate.

() a. & n. from Sacre.

(n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

(imp. & p. p.) of Saddle

(a.) Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed.

(n.) Heaviness; firmness.

(n.) Seriousness; gravity; discretion.

(n.) Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.

(n.) See Damper, and 5th Mute.

(n.) pl. of Soredium.

(pl. ) of Soredium

(n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.

(a.) Adorned with statues.

(n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.

(n.) An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.

(a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

(a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.

() Alt. of Staunchness

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

(n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.

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

(n.) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition

(a.) Relating to a sister; sisterly.

(n.) A woman's club; an association of women.

(n.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

(adv.) In a sorry manner; poorly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shock

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

(v. t.) To joggle.

() of Shoot

(n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.

(n.) That which shoots.

(n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter.

(n.) A shooting star.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shop

(n.) A boy employed in a shop.

(pl. ) of Shopman

(n.) A shopkeeper; a retailer.

(n.) One who serves in a shop; a salesman.

(n.) One who works in a shop or a factory.

(n.) One who shops.

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

(n.) The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.

(n.) A system of props; props, collectively.

(a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

(a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.

(a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

(a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.

(v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

(adv.) In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

(adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shot

(a.) Loaded with shot.

(a.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture.

(n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.

(n.) Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shout

(n.) One who shouts.

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

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

(a.) Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a shower or showers.

(adv.) In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

(n.) Appearance; display; exhibition.

(n.) Presentation of facts; statement.

(a.) Showy; ostentatious.

(pl. ) of Showman

(n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.

(a.) Consisting of shreds.

(n.) A sheriff.

(v. t.) To shrive; to question.

(adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.

(a.) Somewhat shrill.

(imp.) of Shrive

(p. p.) of Shrive

() of Shrive

(v. i.) To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

() p. p. of Shrive.

(a.) Affording shelter.

(superl.) Full of shrubs.

(superl.) Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shuck

(n.) One who shucks oysters or clams

(v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.

(n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.

(v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

(v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.

(v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

(v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

(v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

(v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

(v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

(n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

(n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shun

(imp. & p. p.) of Shunt

(n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

(n.) One who shuts or closes.

(n.) A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.

(n.) A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.

(n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.

(n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

(n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

(v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

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

(n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.

(n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

(n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

(v. t.) To dry.

(n.) Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

(adv.) Surely; securely.

(a.) Somewhat sick or diseased.

(a.) Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

(a.) Furnished with a sickle.

(n.) One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

(a.) Relating to the stars.

(a.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.

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

(n.) See Syenite.

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

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

(a.) Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sight

(a.) Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.

(a.) Pleasing to the sight; comely.

(a.) Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.

(a.) Alt. of Sigmoidal

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

(v. t.) Having definite color markings.

(n.) To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.

(n.) To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.

(n.) Sir; Mr. The English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Seor.

(n.) Sir; Mr.; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.

(n.) Alt. of Sikerness

(n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.

(n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.

(n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.

(n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.

(n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.

(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.

(v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

(v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.

(v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.

(v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.

(n.) A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.

() A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.

(n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

(n.) An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

(n.) A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.

(n.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.

(n.) Same as Silique.

(n.) A weight of four grains; a carat; -- a term used by jewelers, and refiners of gold.

(n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

(pl. ) of Silkman

(n.) A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.

(adv.) In a silly manner; foolishly.

(n.) The pollock, or coalfish.

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

(a.) Made of silver.

(a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.

(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.

(a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.

(n.) A grimace.

() See Simar.

(n.) The harness of a drawloom.

(a.) Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.

(a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.

(a.) Homogenous; uniform.

(n.) That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

(pl. ) of Simile

(pl. ) of Saury

(n.) An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

(n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.

(a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being saved.

(pl. ) of Savant

(n.) A kind of dried sausage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Savor

(a.) Savory.

(adv.) In a savory manner.

(n.) The merganser.

(n.) A sawhorse.

(n.) Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

(n.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

(n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scab

(a.) Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

(a.) Fig.: Mean; paltry; vile; worthless.

(v. t.) See Scapple.

(n.) The itch.

(n.) A reddish variety of limestone.

(n.) Alt. of Scalado

(n.) See Escalade.

(a.) Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scald

(n.) A Scandinavian poet; a scald.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.

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

(a.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.

(a.) Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.

(a.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.

(n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.

(a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.

(a.) Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

(a.) Scabby; scurfy; scall.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.

(n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

(n.) One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.

(v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.

(n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scalp

(n.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

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

(n.) Same as Scalping iron, under Scalping.

(n.) A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.

(n.) A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets.

(n.) A person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also, ticket scalper.

(v. i.) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.

(v. i.) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.

(v. t.) To mangle.

(n.) Alt. of Scammel

(n.) The female bar-tailed godwit.

(v. t.) To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away.

(n.) A scampering; a hasty flight.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scan

(n.) Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.

(n.) Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.

(n.) Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.

(v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

(v. t.) To scandalize; to offend.

(a.) Of or pertaining to scandium; derived from, or containing, scandium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scant

(v. i.) To be deficient; to fail.

(v. t.) To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

(adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

(adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.

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

(v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.

(v. t.) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone.

(n.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

(n.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scar

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

(pl. ) of Scarf

(imp. & p. p.) of Scarf

(v. t.) To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.

(v. t.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Scaridae, a family of marine fishes including the parrot fishes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scarp

(adv.) Scarcely; hardly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scath

(v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

(v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.

(v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.

(v. i.) To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.

(n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.

(n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

(n.) Scenery.

(n.) Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.

(n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scent

(n.) Skepticism; skeptical philosophy.

(n.) Alt. of Sceptre

(n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.

(n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sceptre

(v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.

(n.) The powan.

(pl. ) of Schema

(imp. & p. p.) of Scheme

(n.) One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

(n.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.

(n.) General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.

(n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.

(n.) An interval equal to half a comma.

(n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

(n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.

(n.) A man of books.

(n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

(n. pl.) See Scholium.

(pl. ) of Scholium

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.

(n.) Sciatica.

(n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

(n.) Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.

(n.) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.

(n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

(n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.

(v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

(n.) Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.

(pl. ) of Scirrhus

(n.) The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

(n.) The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.

(n.) See Scissel.

(v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scoff

(n.) One who scoffs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scold

(n.) One who scolds.

(n.) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.

(n.) The old squaw.

(n. & v.) See Scallop.

(n. & v.) Discomfit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sconce

(imp. & p. p.) of Scoop

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

(n.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.

(a.) Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.

(n.) A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.

(n.) A special tuft of hairs on the leg of a bee.

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

(pl. ) of Scoria

(a.) Scoriaceous.

(v. t.) To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scorn

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

(n.) One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion.

(n.) Same as Scauper.

(n.) The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

(n.) Scotomy.

(n.) Dizziness with dimness of sight.

(n.) Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scour

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

(n.) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.

(n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

(n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.

(n.) To whip severely; to lash.

(n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.

(n.) To harass or afflict severely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scout

(imp. & p. p.) of Scowl

(n.) The Manx shearwater.

(n.) The black guillemot.

(superl.) Rough with irregular points; scragged.

(superl.) Lean and rough; scragged.

(v. t.) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

(a.) Thin; lean.

(a.) Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scrape

(n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.

(n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.

(n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.

(n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.

(n.) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression.

(n.) One who scrapes.

(n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.

(n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.

(a.) Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.

(a.) Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

(v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

(n.) A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

(imp. & p. p.) of Screw

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Scribe

(n.) A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.

(n.) A fencing master.

(n.) A screech.

(n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.

(n.) See Scimiter.

(n.) One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.

(n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.

(a.) False; specious; counterfeit.

(n.) Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.

(superl.) Pure; unmixed; unadulterated.

(superl.) Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured.

(superl.) Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness.

(superl.) Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sinew

(a.) Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.

(a.) Fig.: Equipped; strengthened.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Single

(n. pl.) See Single, n., 2.

(n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.

(n.) A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.

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

() a. & n. from Sink.

(a.) Free from sin.

(n.) Sinople.

(n.) Alt. of Sinopis

(n.) A red pigment made from sinopite.

(n.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.

(n.) The tincture vert; green.

(v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.

(a.) Sinuous.

(a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

(n.) The European starling.

(n.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

() A combining form denoting division or cleavage; as, schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or cell division.

(n.) Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.

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

() a. & n. from Soar.

(pl. ) of Studio

(n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.

(n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

(n.) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

(n.) The opah.

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

(n.) Any large jellyfish.

(v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

(v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.

(v. t.) To bully.

(n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.

(n.) The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.

(v. i.) To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.

(n.) A long, deep breath; a sigh.

(v. t.) To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

(v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support.

(v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

(v. t.) To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

(v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

(v. t.) To suffer; to bear; to undergo.

(v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

(v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition.

(n.) One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.

(a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence.

(a.) Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swab

(v. t.) To swab.

(n.) One who swabs a floor or desk.

(n.) Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.

(n.) Same as Swobber, 2.

(n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

(v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.

(v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swag

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

(n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

(n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

(v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.

(v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

(v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

(v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

(v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.

(v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

(v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.

(v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

(v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.

(n.) The act of swallowing.

(n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

(n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

(n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

(n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.

(n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swamp

(n.) Alt. of Swanky

(imp. & p. p.) of Swap

(imp. & p. p.) of Sward

(a.) Covered with sward.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swarm

(a.) Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.

(v. t.) To make swarthy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swash

(n.) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swathe

(n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

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

(a.) Able to sway.

(n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.

(n.) One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration.

(n.) A profane person; one who uses profane language.

() of Sweat

(n.) One who sweats.

(n.) One who, or that which, causes to sweat

(n.) A sudorific.

(n.) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.

(n.) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.

(n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.

(pl. ) of Strait

(v. t.) To spirt in a scattering manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spit

(superl.) Belonging to another country; foreign.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

(superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

(superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.

(superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.

(superl.) Backward; slow.

(superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

(adv.) Strangely.

(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.

(v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.

(v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.

(n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.

(n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.

(n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

() imp. & p. p. of Straw.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stray

(n.) One who strays; a wanderer.

(a.) Same as Streaked, 1.

(a.) Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.

(a.) Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.

(adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

(n.) A vessel to receive spittle.

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

(n.) A spadeful.

(a.) Having spite; spiteful.

(a.) Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.

(a.) Shot out long; -- said of antlers.

() p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit.

(n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

(n.) One who puts meat on a spit.

(n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

(n.) See Spital.

(v. t.) To dig or stir with a small spade.

(n.) A small sort of spade.

(n.) The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit.

(a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

(a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.

(a.) Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.

(imp. & p. p.) of Splice

(n.) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.

(n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.

(imp. & p. p.) of Strew

(a.) To mark with striaae.

(a.) Alt. of Striated

(n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.

(n.) A spot; a stain; a daub.

(n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.

(v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spoil

(n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

(n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.

(n.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

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

(n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

(n.) Alt. of Spondyle

(n.) One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.

(n.) A harpoon; also, a harpooner.

(n.) A wencher; a lewd man.

(n.) A workman who is on a strike.

(n.) A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sponge

(n.) One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

(n.) One employed in gathering sponges.

(n.) Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.

(n.) The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.

(a.) Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.

(n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.

(n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.

(n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.

(n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.

(n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spool

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

(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

(a.) Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers.

(n.) A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.

(n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sport

(n.) One who sports; a sportsman.

(n.) A small spore; a spore.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spot

(a.) Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.

(n.) One who spots.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.

(n.) Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spout

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

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

(a.) Full of sprigs or small branches.

(n.) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.

(n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.

(n.) A kind of short arrow.

(v. t.) To haunt, as a spright.

(v. i.) A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.

(v. t.) To catch in a springe; to insnare.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Spruce

(n.) Plunder, or booty.

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

(a.) Alt. of Spumy

(imp. & p. p.) of Spur

(imp. & p. p.) of Spurn

(n.) One who spurns.

(a.) Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

(a.) Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.

(n.) One who spurs.

(n.) See Spurry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spurt

(v. t.) To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

(n.) A bridle path.

(v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

(v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

(v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

(v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

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

(n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

(n.) The operation of fastening together or lashing.

(n.) The cord or lashing used for such fastening.

(n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

(n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.

(n.) That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

(a.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast.

(a.) Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.

(a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

(a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

(n.) Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.

(n.) A selfish person.

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

(n.) Alt. of Selvedge

(n.) A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See Simplor.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

(a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

(n.) A seed.

(pl. ) of Semita

(n.) Same as Semolina.

(n.) A member of a senate.

(n.) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.

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

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

(n.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

(n.) Seniority.

(n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

(v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

(a.) Alt. of Sensated

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

(n.) A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snub

(imp. & p. p.) of Snuff

(n.) One who snuffs.

(n.) The common porpoise.

(v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.

(n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.

(n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.

(n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snug

(v. t.) To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.

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

(n.) The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

(a.) Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.

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

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

(n.) A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sober

(adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.

(n.) Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.

(n.) One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

(a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

(a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.

(a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.

(a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

(a.) Grave; serious; solemn; sad.

(n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.

(n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub.

(n.) A tennant by socage; a socman.

(n.) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

(a.) Having one or more sepals.

(a.) Associated.

(n.) An associate.

(v. i.) To associate.

(n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

(n.) Connection; participation; partnership.

(n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

(n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

(n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

(n.) Same as Hara-kiri.

(n.) See Heptane.

(a.) Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

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

(n.) The safflower.

(n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.

(n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.

(n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.

(a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.

(v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

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

(n.) Sagapenum.

(n.) A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

(n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

(n.) See Salite.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

(n.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Saint

(a.) Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious.

(a.) Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.

(superl.) Like a saint; becoming a holy person.

(n.) The male of the saker (a).

(a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.

(a.) Same as Salient.

(n.) A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.

(n.) The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.

(v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.

(v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.

(v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.

(v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.

(v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.

(a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.

(n.) The water chestnut (Trapa natans).

(a.) Salivary.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sally

(pl. ) of Sally

(n.) Sal ammoniac. See under Sal.

(pl. ) of Salmon

(n.) Alt. of Salpid

(n.) See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.

(n.) See Sal soda, under Sal.

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

(v.) Leaping; jumping; dancing.

(v.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.

(v. i.) To leap or dance.

(n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

(n.) See Saltire.

(n.) The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

(n.) A salt marsh.

(v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.

(a.) Somewhat salt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Salute

(n.) One who salutes.

(n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

(n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.

(n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.

(a. & n.) Savage.

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

(n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

(n.) A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning.

(n.) A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn.

(n.) One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.

(n.) A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.

(n.) Alt. of Samshu

(a.) Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

(n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.

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

(n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.

(n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

(n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.

(a.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.

(a.) Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer.

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

(n.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.

(n.) A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.

(a.) Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.

(a.) Destitute of sap; not juicy.

(a.) Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.

(n.) A young tree.

(n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.

(n.) A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.

(n.) Kyanite.

(n.) A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

(n.) A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.

(n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

(a.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.

(n.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.

(a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.

(n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

(n.) See Sardius.

(n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate.

(n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.

(n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.

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

(n.) A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes.

(n.) A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot.

(n.) Alt. of Sassabye

(a.) Alt. of Satanical

(n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.

(a.) Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

(v. t.) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.

(v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.

(v. t.) To saturate.

(n.) The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.

(n.) A thin kind of satin.

(n.) A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.

(a.) Alt. of Satirical

(a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.

(a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.

(a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.

(a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.

(v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.

(v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.

(n.) The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.

(a.) Alt. of Satyrical

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

(adv.) In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.

(n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.

(n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria.

(n.) One of the Sauria.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the saurians.

(a.) Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.

(n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

(n.) A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

(a.) Short and thick; suqabbish.

(n.) A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

(a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

(a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

(a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.

(a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.

(n.) Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.

(pl. ) of Squama

(imp. & p. p.) of Square

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

(n.) One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow.

(a.) Easily squashed; soft.

(a.) Squat; dumpy.

(v. t.) To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.

(v. t.) Fig.: To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.

(v. t.) To force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.

(v. i.) To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd; -- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.

(n.) The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.

(n.) A facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.

(pl. ) of Seraph

(n.) Alt. of Serfdom

(n.) The state or condition of a serf.

(n.) Serfage.

(a.) Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.

(n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

(n.) A large South American bird (Dicholophus, / Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.

(a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

(a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.

(a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.

(a.) Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.

(n.) A peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.

(n.) A body found in fecal matter and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile; -- called also stercorin, and stercolin.

(n.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.

(a.) Alt. of Serrated

(a.) Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together.

(n.) The red-breasted merganser.

(imp. & p. p.) of Serry

(n.) Serfage; slavery; servitude.

(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.

(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.

(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.

(v. t.) To subject.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.

(a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.

(a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.

(a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

(n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

() a. & n. from Serve.

() A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting that three atoms or equivalents of the substance to the name of which it is prefixed are combined with two of some other element or radical; as, sesquibromide, sesquicarbonate, sesquichloride, sesquioxide.

(a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.

(a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

(a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

(n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

(n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.

(n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

(n.) See Sextain.

(n.) A sestet.

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

(n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together.

(n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.

(n.) An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.

(n.) The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

(n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.

(n.) Something set in, or inserted.

(n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Settle

(n.) A half foot in poetry.

(n.) Offset, n., 4.

(n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

(n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

(n.) The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.

(n.) That which is set off against another thing; an offset.

(n.) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.

(n.) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.

(n.) Same as Offset, n., 4.

(n.) See Offset, 7.

(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.

(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.

(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.

(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

(pl. ) of Setula

(n.) A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or V. Pyrenaica).

(a.) Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

(a.) Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.

(n.) One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

(n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

(imp. &. p. p.) of Sever

(v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

(n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.

(n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

(n.) See Quinsy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Squire

(imp. & p. p.) of Stab

(n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

(n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stable

(n.) A stable keeper.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stack

(n.) A stockade.

(v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.

(v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.

(v. i.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc.

(v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.

(v. t.) To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.

(v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay.

(n.) A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.

(n.) Hence, a race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

(n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.

(n.) Exhibition on the stage.

(n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.

(n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

(n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

(v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.

(v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

(v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.

(n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

(n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.

(n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.

(n.) A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

(n.) The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.

(adv.) In a staid manner, sedately.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stain

(n.) One who stains or tarnishes.

(n.) A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.

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

(pl. ) of Sinus

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

(n.) A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

(n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee).

(n.) A loin of beef, or a part of a loin.

(n.) An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.

(a.) Alt. of Syruped

(a.) Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.

(n. pl.) Sisters.

() An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. It was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia.

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

(a.) Fixed; stationary; immovable.

(n.) A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

(adv. & conj.) Since. See Sith, and Sithen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.

(a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

(n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

(n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

(n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

(n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.

(n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

(n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

(a.) Alt. of Situated

(v. t.) To place.

(n.) See Sibbens.

(a.) Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.

(a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

(adv.) In the sixth place.

(pl. ) of Sixty

(a.) Of considerable size or bulk.

(a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sizzle

(n.) Hurt; damage.

(a.) Hurtful.

(a.) Affected with seasickness.

(n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

(a.) See Scaldic.

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

(n.) [Ã159.] Skittles.

(n.) The parr.

(v. t. & i.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.

(n.) A vagrant; a cheat.

(n.) A scoundrel.

(v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.

(n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.

(n.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.

(n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.

(a.) Alt. of Skeptical

(a.) Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Skid

(n.) See Skid, n., 1.

(v. i.) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.

(a.) See Skilful.

(a.) Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.

(n.) A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skim

(n.) One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.

(n.) Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.

(n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skimp

(imp. & p. p.) of Skin

(n.) As much as a skin can hold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skink

(n.) One who serves liquor; a tapster.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skip

(n.) A small boat; a skiff.

(n.) A small round box for keeping records.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Sium, / Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skirt

(a.) Pertaining to the game of skittles.

(n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.

(n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.

(imp. & p. p.) of Skulk

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

(n.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.

(a. & adv.) Toward the sky.

(v. i.) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.

(v. t.) To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.

(v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking.

(n.) Spittle; saliva; slaver.

(n.) A saw for cutting slabs from logs.

(n.) A slabbing machine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slacken

(a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

(a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

(a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.

(a.) To abate; to become less violent.

(a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.

(a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.

(a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

(v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.

(v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.

(v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.

(v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.

(v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

(n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

(adv.) In a slack manner.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Slam

(n.) A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another.

(n.) Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.

(n.) Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.

(v. t.) To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.

(v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slang

(imp. & p. p.) of Slant

(adv.) In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slap

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

(n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.

(a.) Alt. of Slapping

(imp. & p. p.) of Slash

(a.) Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.

(a.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

(n.) A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slat

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

(n.) The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.

(n.) Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.

(v. i.) To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.

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

(n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.

(n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.

(n.) The holding of slaves.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Sleave

(a.) Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sled

(imp. & p. p.) of Sledge

(imp. & p. p.) of Sleek

(adv.) In a sleek manner; smoothly.

(n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

(n.) That which lies dormant, as a law.

(n.) A sleeping car.

(n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.

(n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).

(n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

(n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.

(n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.

(n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.

(n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

(n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sleet

(imp. & p. p.) of Sleeve

(a.) Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sleid

(n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.

(n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.

(n.) Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

(superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.

(superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.

(superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.

(superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.

(superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

(superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

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

(a.) Sleek; smooth.

(n.) That which makes smooth or sleek.

(n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.

(n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.

(n.) A waterproof coat.

() p. p. of Slide.

(v. t.) To slide with interruption.

(v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery

(p. p.) of Slide

(a.) That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

(a.) Slippery; elusory.

(a.) Slight.

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

(adv.) In a slimy manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slip

(n.) A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.

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

(n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.

(n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

(n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

(n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.

(a.) Slippery.

() of Slit

(v. i.) To slide; to glide.

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

(v. t. & i.) See Slabber.

(n.) See Slabber.

(n.) A jellyfish.

(n.) Salivation.

(v. t.) To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slop

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

(a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

(a.) Having a slot.

(a.) Slouching.

(a.) Full of sloughs, miry.

(a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Slub

(v. t.) To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.

(v. t.) To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.

(n.) A slubbing machine.

(n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slug

(n.) One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sluice

(v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

(v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.

(v. t.) To lay to sleep.

(v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.

(n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Slump

(imp. & p. p.) of Slur

(n.) One who steals; a thief.

(n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

(v. t.) The act of stealing; theft.

(v. t.) The thing stolen; stolen property.

(v. t.) The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.

(imp. & p. p.) of Steam

(n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.

(n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.

(n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.

(n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.

(n.) The steamer duck.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.

(n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

(n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

(imp. & p. p.) of Steel

(n.) One who points, edges, or covers with steel.

(n.) Same as Stealer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Steep

(v. i.) To become steep or steeper.

(n.) A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.

(n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.

(adv.) In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Steer

(n.) One who steers; as, a boat steerer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Steeve

(a.) Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.

(a.) Alt. of Stellary

(a.) Firmly placed or fixed.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Stem

(n.) A small or young stem.

(n.) One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

(n.) Folly.

(a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

(n.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

(n.) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

(n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

(n.) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

(a.) Having a stench.

(n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

(v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

(imp. & p. p.) of Step

(imp. & p. p.) of Sound

(a.) Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.

(n.) One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.

(n.) A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.

(n.) One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

(n.) A herd of wild hogs.

(adv.) In a sound manner.

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

(n.) Any sour apple.

(a.) Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

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

(n.) See Suslik.

(n.) That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops.

(n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

(imp. & p. p.) of South

(n.) A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.

(adv.) Southerly.

(a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

(a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

(a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

(a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

(n.) The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.

(n.) A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

(a.) Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.

(adv.) In a stern manner.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.

(n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

(a.) See Spatial.

(n.) A little spade.

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

(n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stet

(n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Span

(n.) A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow.

(v. t.) To tie or hobble with a spancel.

(a.) Suiting a stew, or brothel.

(n.) A pan used for stewing.

(n.) A pot used for stewing.

(a.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.

(a.) Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.

(n.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.

(n.) The technical name of antimony.

(n.) Stibnite.

(n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

(n.) Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless.

(v. t.) To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.

(v. i.) To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.

(a.) Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.

(n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.

(n.) A cringing, fawning person.

(a.) Cringing; fawning.

(v. i.) To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.

(v. t.) To follow like a spaniel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spank

(n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.

(n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.

(n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.

(n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.

(n.) A small coin.

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

(n.) The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.

(n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.

(n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.

() of Stick

(imp. & p. p.) of Spar

(n.) A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.

(n.) Alt. of Sparagrass

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

(adv.) In a spare manner; sparingly.

(imp.) Stuck.

(n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

(n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.

(n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

(n.) Same as Paster, 2.

(a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.

(v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.

(v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

(v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

(v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

(v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.

(v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

(n.) A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.

(a.) Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.

(n.) A spark arrester.

(n.) A little spark; a scintillation.

(n.) Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.

(n.) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.

(n.) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.

(n.) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine.

(v. t.) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.

(v. t.) To disperse.

(v. t.) To scatter on or over.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream.

(n.) One of the Sparidae.

(adv.) Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.

(a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spat

(v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

(v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

(v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.

(v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

(adv.) In a stiff manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stifle

(a.) Stifling.

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

(n.) See Camouflet.

(pl. ) of Stigma

(pl. ) of Spatha

(a.) Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers.

(a.) Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.

(a.) Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to space.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.

(v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.

(v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

(v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

(n.) Spawl; spittle.

(n.) A spatula.

(n.) A tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter

(imp. & p. p.) of Spawn

(n.) A mature female fish.

(n.) Whatever produces spawn of any kind.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Still

(n.) One who stills, or quiets.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spear

(n.) One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.

(a.) Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.

(a.) Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon.

(a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.

(a.) Chief in excellence.

(n.) A particular.

(n.) One appointed for a special service or occasion.

(n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

(n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.

(n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

(n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

(n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

(n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.

(n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

(n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

(n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stilt

(a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.

(v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.

(imp. & p. p.) of Speck

(n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

(v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.

(pl. ) of Stimulus

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

(n.) Alt. of Spectre

(n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.

(n.) The tarsius.

(n.) A stick insect.

(n.) See Specter.

(pl. ) of Spectrum

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

(n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stint

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

(n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.

(v. t.) To pay by settled wages.

(v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.

(v. t.) To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.

(n.) Alt. of Stippling

(n.) A stipule.

(n.) A newly sprouted feather.

(n.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stir

(pl. ) of Stirps

(n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.

(v. i.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.

(v. i.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.

(v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.

(pl. ) of Speculum

() of Speed

(imp. & p. p.) of Stock

(n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.

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

(n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

(imp. & p. p.) of Spell

(imp. & p. p.) of Spell

(n.) One who spells.

(n.) A spelling book.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

(n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.

(n.) Asperagus.

(a.) Hoped for, or to be hoped for.

() Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.

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

(n.) Gangrene.

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.

(a.) Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sphere

(a.) Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set.

(a.) Alt. of Spicated

(p. p. & vb. n.) of Spice

(pl. ) of Stoma

(n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

(n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

(n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

(n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

(n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.

(v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

(v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.

(v. i.) To be angry.

(n.) A stoma.

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

(adv.) In a stony manner.

(a.) Stony.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stook

(n.) Spices, in general.

(n.) A repository of spices.

(adv.) In a spicy manner.

(a.) Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes.

(a.) See Spicose.

(n.) A little spike; a spikelet.

(n.) A pointed fleshy appendage.

(n.) A minute, slender granule, or point.

(n.) Same as Spicula.

(n.) Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria.

(pl. ) of Spiculum

(imp. & p. p.) of Stoop

(n.) One who stoops.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stop

(n.) Same as Spickenel.

(n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Spill

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

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

(n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

(a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).

(n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

(n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

(n.) Alt. of Spinage

(n.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.

(a.) Bearing a spine; spiniform.

(n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

(n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.

(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

(n.) The fusee of a watch.

(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

(n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.

(n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.

(v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.

(v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.

(v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.

(n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

(n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.

(n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

(a.) Separate; distinct; particular; single.

(a.) Diverse; different; various.

(a.) Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.

(adv.) By itself; severally.

(n.) Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual.

(n.) Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.

(n.) An inclosed or separate place; inclosure.

(n.) A seamstress.

(a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

(a.) Having no sex.

(n.) A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

(n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.

(n.) A sacristy.

(a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.

(n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.

(a.) Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shab

(a.) Shabby.

(n.) Alt. of Shabble

(n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.

(n.) Stubble.

(n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.

(n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.

(n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.

(n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.

(n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.

(n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.

(v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.

(v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.

(a.) Shaky; rickety.

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

(adv.) In a shady manner.

(n.) Act or process of making a shade.

(n.) That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

(n.) A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

(a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

(a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.

(a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

(a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical.

(a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.

(v. i.) To hobble or limp; to shuffle.

(a.) Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.

(a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shag

(a.) Shaggy; rough.

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

(n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.

(n.) A boat.

(n.) A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

(superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

(superl.) Not deep in tone.

(superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.

(n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.

(n.) The rudd.

(v. t.) To make shallow.

(v. i.) To become shallow, as water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sham

(n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

(n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.

(n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.

(v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

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

(n.) One who shams; an impostor.

(n.) Alt. of Shamoy

(v. t.) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.

(v. t.) To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.

(n.) The act of shampooing.

(a.) Having a shank.

(n.) See Chancre.

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

(superl.) Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.

(superl.) Fit; suitable.

(a.) Having elytra, as a beetle.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Shark

(n.) One who lives by sharking.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sharp

(a.) To make sharp.

(a.) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.

(a.) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.

(a.) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.

(a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.

(a.) To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.

(a.) To render more shrill or piercing.

(a.) To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.

(a.) To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.

(v. i.) To grow or become sharp.

(n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.

(n.) A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.

(adv.) In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.

(n.) Alt. of Shastra

(n.) A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.

(v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.

(v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.

(v. t.) To scatter about.

(v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.

(n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

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

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.

(n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.

(pl. ) of Sheaf

(imp.) of Shear

(p. p.) of Shear

(v. t.) To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.

(v. t.) To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.

(v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.

(v. t.) To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.

(a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.

(a.) Made of straw.

(n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.

(n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.

(n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.

(n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.

(adv.) Brightly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sheer

(adv.) At once; absolutely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sheet

(pl. ) of Shelf

(imp. & p. p.) of Shell

(n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.

(a.) Having a shell.

(n.) One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.

(n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

(n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.

(n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.

(v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.

(v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.

(v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To take shelter.

(n.) Alt. of Shelty

(imp. & p. p.) of Shelve

(n.) A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.

(n.) A flavored water ice.

(n.) A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.

(n.) Alt. of Sherif

(n.) The sacred law of the Turkish empire.

(n.) The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.

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

(n.) The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

(n.) The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

(n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

(a.) Directed or situated toward the sea.

(adv.) Toward the sea.

(n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

(n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.

(n.) A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).

(a.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Secede

(v. t.) To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

(v. t.) To shut or keep out; to exclude.

(n.) The second part in a concerted piece.

(n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

(n.) That which is concealed; a secret.

(n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.

(n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

(v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shift

(n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

(n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

(n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

(n.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

(n.) A sportsman; esp., a native hunter.

(v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

(n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shin

(n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.

(v. t.) To cover or roof with shindles.

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

(n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

(n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.

(n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.

(v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

(v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

(a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

(a.) Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.

(a.) Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.

(a.) Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.

(n.) Emission or reflection of light.

(n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

(v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.

(a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ship

(n.) As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.

(n.) A little ship.

(pl. ) of Shipman

(n.) A stable; a cowhouse.

(n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

(n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

(n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

(n.) A cowhouse; a shippen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shirk

(n.) One who shirks.

(a.) Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.

(a.) Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.

(n.) Alt. of Shittah tree

(n.) A shuttle.

(a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.

(a.) Tremulous; shivering.

(a.) Easily broken; brittle; shattery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Shoal

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

(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

(a.) Historical.

(a.) Told in a story.

(a.) Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.

(a.) Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.

(n.) A relater of stories; an historian.

(v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.

(imp. & p. p.) of Storm

(pl. ) of Story

(n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

(n.) A spider.

(n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

(n.) A spinneret.

(n.) Same as Spinny.

(a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

(a.) Spinose; thorny.

(a.) Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.

(n.) A minute spine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Story

(adv.) In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

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

(n.) A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208.

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

(a.) Shooting up in a spire or spires.

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

(n.) The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

(n.) Room in which things may be stowed.

(n.) The state of being stowed, or put away.

(n.) Things stowed or packed.

(n.) Money paid for stowing goods.

(n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

(n.) Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stripe

(a.) Having stripes of different colors; streaked.

(p. p.) of Strive

(p. p.) Striven.

() p. p. of Strive.

(n.) One who strives.

(n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.

(n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

(imp.) of Strow

() of Strow

(imp. & p. p.) of Stub

(a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

(a.) Abounding in stubs; stubby.

(a.) Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.

(n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.

(a.) Covered with stubble; stubbled.

(pl. ) of Stucco

(imp. & p. p.) of Stud

(n.) A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

(n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

(a.) Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

(a.) Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.

(a.) Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult.

(a.) Intent; inclined.

(n.) A student.

(pl. ) of Study

(imp. & p. p.) of Study

(imp. & p. p.) of Stuff

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Stum

(v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

(v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

(v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.

(v. i.) To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.

(v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.

(v. t.) Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

(n.) A trip in walking or running.

(n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stump

(n.) One who stumps.

(n.) A boastful person.

(n.) A puzzling or incredible story.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stun

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

(n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stunt

(a.) Dwarfed.

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

(v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

(v. t.) To deprive of material mobility.

(a.) Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

(n.) Stupration.

(v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

(n.) The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.

(n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.

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

(a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

(n.) One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.

(n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

(a.) Styliform; as, the styloid process.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

(a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

(n.) A styptic medicine.

(n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol.

(n.) The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.

(a.) Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.

(a.) Tending to persuade; suasive.

(v. t.) To make affable or suave.

(n.) Sweetness to the taste.

(n.) The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.

(a.) Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.

(n.) A substance moderately acid.

(n.) A hypothetical component of a chemical atom, on the theory that the elements themselves are complex substances; -- called also atomicule.

(n.) An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the open air; being under the open sky.

(n.) Act of subduing.

(v. t.) Alt. of Subduct

(v. t.) To withdraw; to take away.

(v. t.) To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.

(imp. & p. p.) of Subdue

(a.) Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.

(a.) Not glaring in color; soft in tone.

(n.) One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cork; specifically, designating an acid, C6H12.(CO2H)2, homologous with oxalic acid, and obtained from cork and certain fatty oils, as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A material found in the cell walls of cork. It is a modification of lignin.

(a.) Subfuscous.

(a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

(a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

(a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.

(a.) Obedient; submissive.

(a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

(a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.

(a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.

(a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.

(a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

(a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.

(a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.

(a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.

(n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.

(n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

(v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

(v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.

(v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.

(v. t.) To make subservient.

(v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

(v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.

(v. t.) To take or carry away; to remove.

(a.) Submissive; humble; obsequious.

(a.) Gentle; soft; calm; as, submiss voices.

(v. t.) To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath.

(a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

(n. & v. t.) See Subpoena.

(n.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.

(v. i.) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.

(v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.

(v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.

(n.) Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.

(n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.

(n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.

(v. t.) To sign beneath; to subscribe.

(v. i.) To be; to have existence; to inhere.

(v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.

(v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

(v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.

(n.) The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.

(v. t.) To turn up the subsoil of.

(v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

(v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.

(a.) Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.

(a.) Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.

(a.) Acute; piercing; searching.

(a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.

(a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.

(v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.

(v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

(v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.

(v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

(n.) A sweetmeat.

(n.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections.

(v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.

(v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.

(v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

(v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.

(v. i.) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.

(v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

(v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

(v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.

(v. i.) To go under cover.

(n.) Act of succeeding; succession.

(n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.

(n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.

(n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.

(a.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.

(n.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.

(n.) A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.

(pl. ) of Succubus

(n.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.

(v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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

(a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

(imp. & p. p.) of Suckle

(n.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.

(n.) A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.

(n.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.

(v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

(v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.

(v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

(v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.

(v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sugar

(a.) Sweetened.

(a.) Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

(v. t.) To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

(v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

(v. t.) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

(v. t.) To inform secretly.

(v. i.) To make suggestions; to tempt.

(adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.

(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.

(n.) Selfishness; egoism.

(adv.) In succession; afterwards.

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

(n.) Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

(a.) Alt. of Sulcated

(adv.) In a sulky manner.

(pl. ) of Sulky

(n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.

(n.) That which sullies or defiles.

(n.) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.

(n.) Silt; mud deposited by water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sully

(pl. ) of Sully

() A prefix (also used adjectively) designating sulphur as an ingredient in certain compounds. Cf. Thio-.

(n.) Sultanry.

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

(a.) Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.

(a.) Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

(a.) Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.

(a.) A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

(a.) Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.

(n.) One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.

(n.) The height or top of anything.

(n.) The utmost degree; perfection.

(n.) The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.

(n.) A prophet; a diviner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swerve

(v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.

(v. i.) To swing for pleasure.

(v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

(v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.

(n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swirl

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

(n.) A beam or ray of the sun.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines).

(n.) The sun bittern.

(v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

(n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

(n.) The setting of the sun; sunset.

(n.) A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

(n.) A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

(a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

(a.) Like or resembling the sun.

(n.) Alt. of Sunrising

(adv.) Toward the sun.

(adv.) In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

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

(n.) What may be supped; pottage.

(n.) The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.

(n.) That which is supped; broth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Supple

(a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

(a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.

(a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.

(a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.

(a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.

(v. t.) To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.

(v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.

(v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.

(v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.

(v. t.) To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.

(v. t.) To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.

(v. t.) To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.

(v. t.) To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.

(v. t.) To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.

(v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.

(n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.

(n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.

(n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.

(a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.

(a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.

(a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

(v. i.) To become sweet.

(adv.) In a sweet manner.

(imp.) of Swell

(p. p.) of Swell

() of Swell

(v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?

(v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

(v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.

(v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.

(v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.

(n.) Supposition.

(v. i.) To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.

(v. i.) To welter; to soak.

(v. t.) To oppress with heat.

(v. t.) To exude, like sweat.

(v. i.) Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.

(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to suppose; to impute.

(n.) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.

(n.) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.

(n.) The forward shroud of a lower mast.

(v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer.

(adv.) In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swill

(n.) One who swills.

(n.) A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.

(n.) One who swims.

(n.) A protuberance on the leg of a horse.

(n.) A swimming bird; one of the natatores.

(v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

(n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swinge

(a.) Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.

(a.) Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.

(a.) Situated at the highest part or point.

(n.) Assurance.

(n.) A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.

(v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.

(v. t.) To harass; to fatigue.

(v. t.) To surfeit.

(n.) A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer.

(n.) A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.

(n.) Deafness.

(n.) One to be sure of, or to be relied on.

(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.

(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.

(n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.

(n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

(v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.

(v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.

(n.) Excess in eating and drinking.

(n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.

(n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

(v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

(v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

(v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

(n.) One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.

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

(a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood.

(n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.

(n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.

(n.) One who swings or whirls.

(n.) One who swinges.

(n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.

(n.) A person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.

(n.) A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.

(p. p.) of Swink

(n.) A laborer.

(n.) See Sweeny.

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

(a.) Nimble; quick.

(n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

(n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

(n.) Same as Zenick.

(adv.) In a surly manner.

(n.) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.

(n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

(n.) Reflection; thought.

(v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

(n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.

(n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.

(v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

(a.) Whisking.

(v. t.) To drink; to swill.

(n.) Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.

(n.) See Swabber.

(n.) Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist.

() p. p. of Swell.

(a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

(imp. & p. p.) of Swoon

(imp. & p. p.) of Swoop

(a.) Girded with a sword.

(n.) One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.

(v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

(v. t.) To surfel.

(n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

(n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.

(a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.

(v. t.) To override; to exhaust by riding.

(n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig.

(n.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

(n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

(n.) A granular, crystalline, ingeous rock composed of orthoclase and hornblende, the latter often replaced or accompanied by pyroxene or mica. Syenite sometimes contains nephelite (elaeolite) or leucite, and is then called nephelite (elaeolite) syenite or leucite syenite.

(n.) Syllable.

(n.) A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.

(pl. ) of Syllabus

(n.) A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.

(n.) A salt of sylvic acid.

(v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.

(n.) A survey.

(v. t.) To look over; to supervise.

(v. t.) To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

(v. i.) To remain alive; to continue to live.

(a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

(a.) Suspected; distrusted.

(a.) Suspicion.

(a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.

(n.) Alt. of Sylvite

(n.) Native potassium chloride.

(v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.

(v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.

(v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.

(v. t.) To look up to; to respect.

(v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

(n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

(n.) To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life.

(n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

(n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.

(n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.

(n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.

(n.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.

(v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank).

(n.) A sympodium.

(n.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

(n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.

(n.) Alt. of Synacmy

(n.) Same as Synanthesis.

(n.) A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.

(n.) A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

(n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.

(n.) Same as Syncopation.

(n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.

(n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.

(n.) Combined action

(n.) the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

(n.) An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism.

(n.) See Synochus.

(a.) Synodical.

(n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.

(n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

(a.) Alt. of Synodical

(n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.

(n.) A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.

(n.) Brevity; conciseness.

(n.) A genus of plants; the lilac.

(n.) The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.

(n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.

(v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.

(v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.

(n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

(n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

(a.) Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation.

(n.) A systyle temple or other edifice.

(n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

(n.) The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

(pl. ) of Stamen

(pl. ) of Stanza

() A combining form meaning solid, hard, firm, as in stereo-chemistry, stereography.