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Sadr
A plant of the genus (); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See .
Samite
A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.
Sawfly
Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family . The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larv resemble those of Lepidoptera.
Scaly-winged
Scale-winged.
Scar
An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
Scattering
Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; .
Schappe
A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.
Scrub
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; .
Sea captain
The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
Sea daffodil
A European amaryllidaceous plant ().
Sejein
To separate.
Self-delation
Accusation of one's self.
Self-repellency
The quality or state of being self-repelling.
Self-righteousness
The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
Sempstress
A seamstress.
Setout
A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.
Sextuple
Six times as much; sixfold.
Shamer
One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed.
Shibboleth
A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce , called the word . See
Shieldless
Destitute of a shield, or of protection.
Shock
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
Shock
Bushy; shaggy; .
Shortstop
The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Sift
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse;
Signate
Having definite color markings.
Siliculose
Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
Silvan
See .
Sinapic
Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid () related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.
Singeress
A songstress.
Singularity
The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
Skilling
A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Luuml;beck.
Slavic
Slavonic.
Slurred
Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
Small
In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
Smooch
See .
Snapshot
A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
Snowslip
A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.
Snuffer
One who snuffs.
Sociate
Associated.
Soma
The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
Speechless
Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
Spermatin
A substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.
Splice
A junction or joining made by splicing.
Sporosac
A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See under .
Sputter
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
Squaloid
Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.
Squashiness
The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.
Squat
Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
Stain
A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; .
Stipel
The stipule of a leaflet.
Stipendiarian
Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary.
Strait
Narrow; not broad.
Strait-waistcoat
Same as .
Strigine
Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.
Strobilation
The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See under .
Strombuliform
Formed or shaped like a top.
Stubby
Abounding with stubs.
Sturionian
One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
Subliminal
Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.
Suboxide
An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; .
Subtense
A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; .
Successor
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to ; .
Sudd
A tangled mass of floating vegetal matter obstructing navigation.
Sudorific
Causing sweat; .
Sugaring
The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.
Sumatra leaf
A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.
Summons
The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
Supererogatory
Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; .
Superfluitant
Floating above or on the surface.
Supper
To supply with supper.
Suspected
Distrusted; doubted.
Sway-bracing
The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents its swaying.
Sweet-sop
A kind of custard apple (). See under .
Sympodium
An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.