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Sabean
Same as .
Sagitta
A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.
Sajene
Same as .
Saltern
A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Salty
Somewhat salt; saltish.
Sand
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
Sandpaper
To smooth or polish with sandpaper; .
Sanguinary
The yarrow.
Satirize
To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
Scandia
A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.
Scard
A shard or fragment.
Scarlet
A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.
Scomber
A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
Scotia
Scotland
Scud
To pass over quickly.
Seaman
One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to , or .
Self-destroyer
One who destroys himself; a suicide.
Self-willedness
Obstinacy.
Serge
A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
Seventieth
One next in order after the sixty-ninth.
Sgraffito
Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
Shacklock
A sort of shackle.
Shelling
Groats; hulled oats.
Shepherd
A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
Shizoku
The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class, formerly called ; also, any member of this class.
Shough
See .
Shrovetide
The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.
Signer
One who signs or subscribes his name; .
Siluroidei
An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.
Simulatory
Simulated, or capable of being simulated.
Siphonal
Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
Sitting
Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
Situate
To place.
sloakan
A species of seaweed. See 3d .
Slobberer
One who slobbers.
Smokiness
The quality or state of being smoky.
Sniggle
To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.
Solo
A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
Soprano
The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
Sorceress
A female sorcerer.
Sorema
A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.
Soyle
To solve, to clear up; .
Speckle
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.
Speckledness
The quality of being speckled.
Sphragistics
The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents.
Sponger
One who sponges, or uses a sponge.
Squilla
Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also . See under .
Staircase
A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
Stanchless
Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.
Statable
That can be stated;
Stellerid
A starfish.
Stercoraceous
Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.
Stipend
Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
Stipulation
The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
Stipule
An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.
Strategetics
Strategy.
Streamful
Abounding in streams, or in water.
Streptothrix
A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
Stulty
Foolish; silly.
Substructure
Same as .
Subtangent
The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
Suggester
One who suggests.
Survivorship
The state of being a survivor.
Swabber
To swab.
Swagbelly
A prominent, overhanging belly.
Sweet
Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to and ;
Swelt
To die; to perish.
Swindlery
Swindling; rougery.
Switch
To walk with a jerk.
Syndactylous
Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.