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Salifiable
Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is .
Salivary
Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva;
Sally
To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
Satisfy
In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
Saturable
Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.
Saucepan
A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
Savorly
Savory.
Scald
One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
Scandalize
To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.
Scepterellate
Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See under .
Scud
To pass over quickly.
Scuttle
To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
Sealer
One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.
Seaport
A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; .
Searchless
Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
Sea swallow
The common tern.
Sebic
See .
Seem
To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.
Semipellucid
Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; .
Semiphlogisticated
Partially impregnated with phlogiston.
Separatory
An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.
Sericulture
The raising of silkworms.
Settee
A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.
Sextant
The sixth part of a circle.
Sharewort
A composite plant () growing along the seacoast of Europe.
Sheaved
Made of straw.
Shoplifter
One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
Shortclothes
Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
Shuffling
Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
Shuttered
Furnished with shutters.
Simular
False; specious; counterfeit.
Sixpence
An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Sliver
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter.
Sludge
Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
Soft-headed
Weak in intellect.
Sorel
A young buck in the third year. See the Note under .
Spadassin
A bravo; a bully; a duelist.
Spatangus
A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the .
Spellful
Abounding in spells, or charms.
Sphenoidal
Sphenoid.
Spineted
Slit; cleft.
Sporophore
A placenta.
Squiffy
Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.
Stand
To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
Startingly
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
State socialism
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain equality of opportunity, as compulsory state insurance, old-age pensions, etc., answering closely to socialism of the chair.
Stateswoman
A woman concerned in public affairs.
Steading
The barns, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also , , , or .
Steen
A vessel of clay or stone.
Steepiness
Steepness.
Stem
To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
Stepson
A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
Stintless
Without stint or restraint.
Stipitiform
Having the shape of a stalk; stalklike.
Stitch
A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
Streaming
The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
Strengthy
Having strength; strong.
Striation
The quality or condition of being striated.
Strong-water
An acid.
Subdented
Indented beneath.
Subdiaconate
Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.
Subjectist
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
Subvitalized
Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.
Succinous
Succinic.
Suckling
A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
Suffisant
Sufficient.
Sully
To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; .
Sunshine
The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
Superb
Grand; magnificent; august; stately; .
Surgeful
Abounding in surges; surgy.
Surgeoncy
The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.
Suttle
The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.
Swathe
A bandage; a band; a swath.