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Sacrificer
One who sacrifices.
Saliva
The secretion from the salivary glands.
Salmon
Any one of several species of fishes of the genus and allied genera. The common salmon () of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See .
Saltless
Destitute of salt; insipid.
San Jos scale
A very destructive scale insect () that infests the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. So called because first introduced into the United States at , California.
Sauroid
Like or pertaining to the saurians.
Saxon
One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
Say
To try; to assay.
Scentful
Full of scent or odor; odorous.
Schilling
Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
Scholarly
Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; .
Schoolship
A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
Sciamachy
See .
Scobiform
Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.
Scout
To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; .
Scutch grass
A kind of pasture grass (). See : also in Appendix.
Scyphus
A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
Secancy
A cutting; an intersection; .
Seldshewn
Rarely shown or exhibited.
Semidiurnal
Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.
Serpula
Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus and allied genera of the family . They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
Seta
Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.
Settle
To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
Sheller
One who, or that which, shells;
Shiftiness
The quality or state of being shifty.
Shouter
One who shouts.
Shrewd
Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.
Signable
Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; .
Simonian
One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.
Simonist
One who practices simony.
Siphonobranchiate
Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata.
Skald
See 5th .
Skeleton
Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything;
Sleid
To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
Sleightly
Cinningly.
Slipthrift
A spendthrift.
sloam
A layer of earth between coal seams.
Slowback
A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.
Sluggard
Sluggish; lazy.
Smack
Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; . Also used figuratively.
Sob
To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
Solacement
The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces.
So-so
Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.
spaceman
an .
Spavin
A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed.
Sphrenchyma
Vegetable tissue composed of thin-walled rounded cells, -- a modification of parenchyma.
Spikefish
See
Spoilfive
A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be .
Spree
A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Stale
To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
Stall
A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
Stanchless
Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.
Star-crossed
Not favored by the stars; ill-fated.
Stem
To remove the stem or stems from; ; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; .
Stewardly
In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.
Sthenic
Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; .
Stiltbird
See , , 3.
Stolen
of .
Stomate
A stoma.
Stopped
Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (, , , , etc.).
Strapwork
A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
Stroud
A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.
Suavity
Sweetness to the taste.
Subglossal
Situated under the tongue; sublingual.
Subjunctive
Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
Subtilty
The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; .
Successor
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to ; .
Suffrago
The heel joint.
Sulphinide
A white or yellowish crystalline substance, , produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of . It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called ).
Sunfish
A very large oceanic plectognath fish (, , or ) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
Sun-struck
Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; .
Surmountable
Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable.
Surprisal
The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.
Swerve
To turn aside.