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Sandalwood
The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian and , the Australian , etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
sandbag
To treat harshly or unfairly.
Sanguification
The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.
Sap
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Savableness
Capability of being saved.
Saxifragaceous
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants () of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.
Scalloped
Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.
Scaphite
Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus , belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.
Scaphognathite
A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.
Scar
To form a scar.
Schelly
The powan.
Screw
To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
Scrip
A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.
Scutage
Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See .
Sea-born
Born of the sea; produced by the sea.
Sea louse
Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of , , and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
Sea wall
A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
Securipalp
One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.
Self-contradictory
Contradicting one's self or itself.
Semisteel
Puddled steel.
Septentrionally
Northerly.
Seraphim
The Hebrew plural of . Cf. .
Sere
Claw; talon.
Service station
a business where automobiles may be serviced and repaired, usually also having a gasoline vending apparatus, in which case it is also called a or . Facilities for repair of automobiles but without a gasoline dispensing function are commonly called .
Shadiness
Quality or state of being shady.
Sheldfowl
The common sheldrake.
Shendful
Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.
Shew
See .
Shirk
To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
Silvics
The science treating of the life of trees in the forest.
Singly
Individually; particularly; severally; .
Sixpenny
Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; .
Skellum
A scoundrel.
Slave
To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
Snare
A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
Snivel
Mucus from the nose; snot.
Softening
from ,
Sollar
See ,
Sordidly
In a sordid manner.
Specificate
To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.
Spere
To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
Splash
Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
Stack
A large and to some degree orderly pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
Startfulness
Aptness to start.
Stew
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
Stone
To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
Stooper
One who stoops.
Strumpet
To debauch.
Strut
To swell; to bulge out.
Stylet
A small poniard; a stiletto.
Styliform
Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.
Suave
Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
Subereous
Of or pertaining to cork; of the nature of cork; suberose.
Subglobular
Nearly globular.
Sudoriparous
Same as .
Suffer
To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; .
Sumption
A taking.
Superregal
More than regal; worthy of one greater than a king.
Swimming
Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; .
Swindler
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Sycophant
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
Syncopal
Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.
Syndication
Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.
Syncious
Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.