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Sacchulmic
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid.
Saliretin
A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin.
Salvationist
An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.
Saturnicentric
Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.
Scopiform
Having the form of a broom or besom.
Scortatory
Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.
Scroyle
A mean fellow; a wretch.
Secernent
That which promotes secretion.
Sectional
Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
Seemly
In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.
Seesaw
To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
Self-repetition
Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.
Self-restrained
Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.
Semaphorist
One who manages or operates a semaphore.
Semiflosculous
Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.
Semiphlogisticated
Partially impregnated with phlogiston.
Sesban
A leguminous shrub () which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.
Setulose
Having small bristles or set.
Seven
One more than six; six and one added; .
Sheep
Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus , native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
Shekel
An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Shindle
To cover or roof with shindles.
Sice
The number six at dice.
Sicilienne
A kind of rich poplin.
Sick-brained
Disordered in the brain.
Sicker
To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
Sienitic
See .
Sitophobia
A version to food; refusal to take nourishment.
Skulpin
See .
Skurry
See .
Slakeless
Not capable of being slaked.
Sleep
of Sleep. Slept.
Sleevehand
The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.
Slur
A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
Sneck
To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.
Sniffle
To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.
Solfeggiare
To sol-fa. See ,
Sonority
The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
Soph
A contraction of .
Sopition
The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.
Sorbefacient
Producing absorption.
Sough
The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
Soul
The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from . In a more general sense, an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence.
Southwardly
In a southern direction.
Spinozism
The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict , that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God.
Splasher
One who, or that which, splashes.
Sprig
To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; .
Squarroso-dentate
Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.
Squelch
To make a sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; to make a kind of swashing sound; to squish; also, to move with such a sound.
squireship
Squirehood.
Stet
To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word , or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; .
Stint
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Stolid
Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Stoom
To stum.
Storthing
The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
Story
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
Striker
One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
Strive
To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
Stroke
Struck.
Stroll
To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
Struntian
A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad.
Strychnic
Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine;
Stumble
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.
Stuprate
To ravish; to debauch.
Subaltern
A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
Sublapsarianism
Infralapsarianism.
Succinct
Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
Superflux
Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.
Surdity
Deafness.
Surnominal
Of or pertaining to a surname or surnames.
Surpassing
Eminently excellent; exceeding others.
Swag
A swaying, irregular motion.
Swingletail
The thrasher, or fox shark. See .
Synapta
A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See in Appendix.
Syphilide
A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.
Syringin
A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac () and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also .