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Saccholic
Saccholactic.
Sacrilege
The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
SAD
Seasonal affective disorder.
Saddlery
The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.
Sakti
The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.
Sanatorium
An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See .
Saxifragous
Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.
Scheelite
Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.
Sciagraphical
Pertaining to sciagraphy.
Scombriformes
A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.
Scrawl
To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Scrofulide
Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.
Scruple
To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
Sea drake
The pewit gull.
Seerfish
A scombroid food fish of Madeira ().
Selfishness
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.
Self-suspicious
Suspicious or distrustful of one's self.
Semined
Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds.
Semiotics
Same as .
Sensitive
Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; .
Seraskierate
The office or authority of a seraskier.
Serricorn
Having serrated antenn.
Setula
A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.
Sew
Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
Shapeless
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to .
Sheeting
Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.
Shelvy
Sloping gradually; shelving.
Shifting
Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; .
Shindle
A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
Shiver
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Shock
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; .
Shoestring
same as .
Signation
Sign given; marking.
Sinistrous
Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
Sinople
Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
Skyey
Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky.
Slaver
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Sloppiness
The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
Slubberingly
In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner.
Slugging average
a measure of the effectiveness of a batter at reaching base and advancing other runners, calculated as the sum of the number of bases reached on each hit, divided by the total number of times at bat. A double counts two bases, a triple three, a home run four. Thus a batter with four singles, two doubles and a triple in 20 official times at bat would have a of 0.550, and a of 0.350. Also called . Compare .
Snakewood
An East Indian climbing plant () having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.
Snowball
A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
Soave
Sweet.
Soss
To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.
Sottish
Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.
Speckled-bill
The American white-fronted goose ().
Spellbound
Bound by, or as by, a spell.
Spenserian
Of or pertaining to the English poet ; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem The Farie Queene.
Spew
To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
Spheno-
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate , or , ; as in maxillary, palatine.
Spiller
One who, or that which, spills.
Spirifer
Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus , or , and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.
Spissated
Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened.
Spleeny
Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Spot
A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
Stannate
A salt of stannic acid.
Steed
A horse, especially a spirited horse for state or war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
Stelene
Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar.
Sternbergite
A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible lamin varying in color from brown to black.
Stirrer
One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; .
Stomachless
Being without a stomach.
Straightforward
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
Strutting
from ,
Study
A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
Stuke
Stucco.
Subarctic
Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
Subpetiolar
Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.
Substance
That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.
Suine
A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See .
Summer
The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
Swelling
The act of that which swells;