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Sarcophaga
A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
Sarcophile
A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.
Sarcotic
Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.
Scare
To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
Schooner
A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
Scomberoid
Same as .
Scripturally
In a scriptural manner.
Scrouge
To crowd; to squeeze.
Scutal
Of or pertaining to a shield.
Scutibranchiate
Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or pertaining to the Scutibranchiata.
Sectarianism
The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
Seirfish
Same as .
Seld
Rare; uncommon; unusual.
Selfless
Having no regard to self; unselfish.
Self-regulated
Regulated by one's self or by itself.
Semiindurated
Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
Sepawn
See .
Sequestrator
One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
Serricorn
Any one of a numerous tribe of beetles (). The joints of the antenn are prominent, thus producing a serrate appearance. See under .
Setim
See .
Shakudo
An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.
Shieling
A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See .
Shop
To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
Silicify
To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.
Sleightful
Cunning; dexterous.
Slight
To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; .
Slugabed
One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
Smithcraft
The art or occupation of a smith; smithing.
Sneck
To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.
Snobbery
The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
Sock in
to cause (an airport) to cease functioning, by severe weather conditions, such as fog or a snowstorm. Used often in the passive; .
Sophi
See .
sote
Sweet.
Soul
To afford suitable sustenance.
Southern
A Southerner.
Splice
A junction or joining made by splicing.
Spongoblast
One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.
Sportling
A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Squint
The act or habit of squinting.
Staphylotomy
The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.
Starch
To stiffen with starch.
Stele
A stale, or handle; a stalk.
Stereograph
Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.
Stonebuck
See .
Story
A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
Stramineous
Strawy; consisting of straw.
Strawboard
Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
Stretching
from ,
Stucco
To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.
Stuffy
Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Subtenant
One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.
Succor
Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
Succussive
Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; .
Suffering
The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred;
Sully
To become soiled or tarnished.
Summer
The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
Superfineness
The state of being superfine.
Swimmeret
One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.
Swimming
The act of one who swims.
Syntaxis
Syntax.