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Sabbatarian
One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.
Sabbath
A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also .
Sabbatism
Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.
Sacramentarian
A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.
Sacrarium
A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
Saddle-shaped
Shaped like a saddle.
Salamandroidea
A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela.
Sastra
Same as .
Scoliosis
A lateral curvature of the spine.
Scornful
Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
Screaming
Uttering screams; shrieking.
Scruple
A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
Sea cob
The black-backed gull.
Sea jelly
A medusa, or jellyfish.
Sea rat
A pirate.
Seduce
To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
Selenhydric
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, , regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.
Self-enjoyment
Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.
Self-fertilization
The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.
Semisolid
Partially solid.
Sepelible
Admitting of burial.
Seraph
One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
Seriality
The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.
Sextry
See .
Sheer
To shear.
Signalman
A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.
Signify
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; .
Similize
To liken; to compare; .
Skilful
See .
slit-shell
Any species of , a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
Smeller
One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.
Smugness
The quality or state of being smug.
Snarler
One who makes use of a snarling iron.
Snatcher
One who snatches, or takes abruptly.
Snow
A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
Snowshoe
A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
Soldering
from ,
Somewhat
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
Soubrette
A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.
Spad
A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.
Sparely
In a spare manner; sparingly.
Spawling
That which is spawled, or spit out.
Speculate
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize;
Speedily
In a speedy manner.
Spunk
Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
Spurgewort
Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Stamp
To strike; to beat; to crush.
Steinkirk
Same as .
Stephanite
A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also , and .
Stereopticon
An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.
Sternebra
One of the segments of the sternum.
Still water
a section of a stream that is flat and moves slowly.
Stirrage
The act of stirring; stir; commotion.
Stomatogastric
Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; .
Subaid
To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.
Subconformable
Partially conformable.
Subgelatinous
Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
Suborder
A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; .
Subpna
To serve with a writ of subpna; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.
Success
Act of succeeding; succession.
Supersedeas
A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
Supraglotic
Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.
Surface
To rise from the depths of a liquid to the surface; .
Surrogate
To put in the place of another; to substitute.
Sustenance
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; .
Swagbelly
A prominent, overhanging belly.
Synovitis
Inflammation of the synovial membrane.
Synthesis
Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.
Systemization
The act or process of systematizing; systematization.