| S: | the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet is a consonant and is often called a sibilant in allusion to its hissing sound It has two principal sounds one a mere hissing as in sack this the other a vocal hissing the same as that of z as in is wise Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh as in sure measure It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage In a few words it is silent as in isle dbris With the letter h it forms the digraph sh See Guide to pronunciation sectsect 255261 |
| s: | The suffix used to form the plural of most words as in roads elfs sides accounts |
| s: | A contraction for is or colloquially for has |
| Saadh: | See Sadh |
| Saan: | Same as Bushmen |
| Sabadilla: | A Mexican liliaceous plant Schd2nocaulon officinale also its seeds which contain the alkaloid veratrine It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative |
| Saban: | Same as Sabian |
| Sabanism: | Same as Sabianism |
| Sabism: | See Sabianism |
| Sabal: | A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States |
| Sabaoth: | Armies hosts |
| Sabbat: | In medival demonology the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies |
| Sabbatarian: | One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue |
| Sabbatarian: | Of or pertaining to the Sabbath or the tenets of Sabbatarians |
| Sabbatarianism: | The tenets of Sabbatarians |
| Sabbath: | A season or day of rest one day in seven appointed for rest or worship the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week which is called also Lords Day |
| Sabbathless: | Without Sabbath or intermission of labor hence without respite or rest |
| Sabbatic: | Of or pertaining to the Sabbath resembling the Sabbath enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor |
| Sabbatism: | Intermission of labor as upon the Sabbath rest |
| Sabbaton: | A roundtoed armed covering for the feet worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress |
| Sabean: | Same as Sabian |
| Sabeism: | Same as Sabianism |
| dSabella: | A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head |
| Sabellian: | Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius See Sabellian n |
| Sabellian: | A follower of Sabellius a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers operations or offices of the one God the Father |
| Sabellianism: | The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius See Sabellian n |
| Sabelloid: | Like or related to the genus Sabella |
| Saber: | A sword with a broad and heavy blade thick at the back and usually more or less curved like a scimiter a cavalry sword |
| Saber: | To strike cut or kill with a saber to cut down as with a saber |
| Saberbill: | The curlew |
| Sabian: | Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia celebrated for producing aromatic plants |
| Sabian: | An adherent of the Sabian religion a worshiper of the heavenly bodies |
| Sabianism: | The doctrine of the Sabians the Sabian religion that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun moon and stars heliolatry |
| dSabicu: | The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree Lysiloma Sabicu valued for shipbuilding |
| Sabine: | Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines a people of Italy |
| Sabine: | See Savin |
| Sable: | A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family Mustela zibellina native of the northern latitudes of Europe Asia and America noted for its fine soft and valuable fur |
| Sable: | Of the color of the sables fur dark black used chiefly in poetry |
| Sable: | To render sable or dark to drape darkly or in black |
| dSabot: | A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France Belgium Sweden and some other European countries |
| dSabotage: | Scamped work |
| dSabotiare: | A kind of freezer for ices |
| Sabre: | See Saber |
| dSabretasche: | A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side suspended from the sword belt |
| Sabrinawork: | A variety of appliqu work for quilts table covers etc |
| Sabulose: | Growing in sandy places |
| Sabulosity: | The quality of being sabulous sandiness grittiness |
| Sabulous: | Sandy gritty |
| Sac: | See Sacs |
| Sac: | The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor of holding courts trying causes and imposing fines |
| Sac: | See 2d Sack |
| Sacalait: | A kind of freshwater bass the crappie |
| Sacar: | See Saker |
| Saccade: | A sudden violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull |
| Saccate: | Having the form of a sack or pouch furnished with a sack or pouch as a petal |
| Saccharate: | A salt of saccharic acid |
| Saccharic: | Of pertaining to or obtained from saccharine substances specifically designating an acid obtained as a white amorphous gummy mass by the oxidation of mannite glucose sucrose etc |
| Sacchariferous: | Producing sugar as sacchariferous canes |
| Saccharify: | To convert into or to impregnate with sugar |
| Saccharilla: | A kind of muslin |
| Saccharimeter: | An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution as the juice of a plant or brewers and distillers worts |
| Saccharimetrical: | Of or pertaining to saccharimetry obtained by saccharimetry |
| Saccharimetry: | The act process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup molasses and the like especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus |
| Saccharin: | A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar saccharose |
| Saccharinate: | A salt of saccharinic acid |
| Saccharine: | Of or pertaining to sugar having the qualities of sugar producing sugar sweet as a saccharine taste saccharine matter |
| Saccharine: | A trade name for benzoic sulphinide |
| Saccharinic: | Of pertaining to or derived from saccharin specifically designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose invert sugar with milk of lime |
| Saccharize: | To convert into or to impregnate with sugar |
| Saccharoid: | Resembling sugar as in taste appearance consistency or composition as saccharoidal limestone |
| Saccharometer: | A saccharimeter |
| dSaccharomyces: | A genus of budding fungi the various species of which have the power to a greater or less extent or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine beer etc Saccharomyces cerevisi is the yeast of sedimentary beer Also called Torula |
| dSaccharomycetes: | A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces |
| Saccharonate: | A salt of saccharonic acid |
| Saccharone: | A white crystalline substance C6H8O6 obtained by the oxidation of saccharin and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid |
| Saccharonic: | Of pertaining to or derived from saccharone specifically designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone a by hydration and forms a wellknown series of salts |
| Saccharose: | Cane sugar sucrose also in general any one of the group of which saccharose or sucrose proper is the type See Sucrose |
| Saccharous: | Saccharine |
| dSaccharum: | A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane |
| Saccholactate: | A salt of saccholactic acid formerly called also saccholate |
| Saccholactic: | Of pertaining to or designating an acid now called mucic acid saccholic |
| Saccholic: | Saccholactic |
| Sacchulmate: | A salt of sacchulmic acid |
| Sacchulmic: | Of pertaining to or designating an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the longcontinued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid It resembles humic acid |
| Sacchulmin: | An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid and produced together with it |
| Sacciferous: | Bearing a sac |
| Sacciform: | Having the general form of a sac |
| dSaccoglossa: | Same as Pellibranchiata |
| Saccular: | Like a sac sacciform |
| Sacculated: | Furnished with little sacs |
| Saccule: | A little sac specifically the sacculus of the ear |
| Sacculocochlear: | Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear |
| Sacculoutricular: | Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear |
| dSacculus: | A little sac esp a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear |
| dSaccus: | A sac |
| Sacellum: | An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity |
| Sacerdotal: | Of or pertaining to priests or to the order of priests relating to the priesthood priesty as sacerdotal dignity sacerdotal functions |
| Sacerdotalism: | The system style spirit or character of a priesthood or sacerdotal order devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order |
| Sacerdotally: | In a sacerdotal manner |
| Sachel: | A small bag |
| Sachem: | A chief of a tribe of the American Indians a sagamore |
| Sachemdom: | The government or jurisdiction of a sachem |
| Sachemship: | Office or condition of a sachem |
| dSachet: | A scent bag or perfume cushion to be laid among handkerchiefs garments etc to perfume them |
| Saciety: | Satiety |
| Sack: | A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines |
| Sack: | A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material as cloth leather and the like a large pouch |
| Sack: | To put in a sack to bag as to sack corn |
| Sack: | The pillage or plunder as of a town or city the storm and plunder of a town devastation ravage |
| Sack: | To plunder or pillage as a town or city to devastate to ravage |
| Sackage: | The act of taking by storm and pillaging sack |
| Sackbut: | A brass wind instrument like a bass trumpet so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required said to be the same as the trombone |
| Sackcloth: | Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of coarse cloth anciently a cloth or garment worn in mourning distress mortification or penitence |
| Sackclothed: | Clothed in sackcloth |
| Sacker: | One who sacks one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town |
| Sackful: | As much as a sack will hold |
| Sackful: | Bent on plunder |
| Sacking: | Stout coarse cloth of which sacks bags etc are made |
| Sackless: | Quiet peaceable harmless innocent |
| Sackwinged: | Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx |
| Sacque: | Same as 2d Sack 3 |
| Sacral: | Of or pertaining to the sacrum in the region of the sacrum |
| Sacrament: | The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers hence a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation a solemn oathtaking an oath |
| Sacrament: | To bind by an oath |
| Sacramental: | Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments of the nature of a sacrament sacredly or solemnly binding as sacramental rites or elements |
| Sacramental: | That which relates to a sacrament |
| Sacramentalism: | The doctrine and use of sacraments attachment of excessive importance to sacraments |
| Sacramentalist: | One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christs body and blood in the holy eucharist |
| Sacramentally: | In a sacramental manner |
| Sacramentarian: | A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist |
| Sacramentarian: | Of or pertaining a sacrament or to the sacramentals sacramental |
| Sacramentary: | Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments sacramental |
| Sacramentary: | An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church written by Pope Gelasius and revised corrected and abridged by St Gregory in which were contained the rites for Mass the sacraments the dedication of churches and other ceremonies There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany |
| Sacramentize: | To administer the sacraments |
| dSacrarium: | A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans devoted to a special divinity |
| Sacrate: | To consecrate |
| Sacration: | Consecration |
| Sacre: | See Saker |
| Sacre: | To consecrate to make sacred |
| Sacred: | Set apart by solemn religious ceremony especially in a good sense made holy set apart to religious use consecrated not profane or common as a sacred place a sacred day sacred service |
| Sacrific: | Employed in sacrifice |
| Sacrificable: | Capable of being offered in sacrifice |
| Sacrificant: | One who offers a sacrifice |
| Sacrificator: | A sacrificer one who offers a sacrifice |
| Sacrificatory: | Offering sacrifice |
| Sacrifice: | The offering of anything to God or to a god consecratory rite |
| Sacrifice: | To make an offering of to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving to immolate on the altar of God in order to atone for sin to procure favor or to express thankfulness as to sacrifice an ox or a sheep |
| Sacrifice: | To make offerings to God or to a deity of things consumed on the altar to offer sacrifice |
| Sacrificer: | One who sacrifices |
| Sacrificial: | Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices consisting in sacrifice performing sacrifice |
| Sacrilege: | The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things the alienating to laymen or to common purposes what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses |
| Sacrilegious: | Violating sacred things polluted with sacrilege involving sacrilege profane impious |
| Sacrilegist: | One guilty of sacrilege |
| Sacring: | a n from Sacre |
| Sacrist: | A sacristan also a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books |
| Sacristan: | An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables and of the church in general a sexton |
| Sacristy: | An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils vestments etc are kept a vestry |
| Sacro: | A combining form denoting connection with or relation to the sacrum as in sacrococcygeal sacroiliac sacrosciatic |
| Sacrosanct: | Sacred inviolable |
| Sacrosciatic: | Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip as the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone |
| Sacrovertebral: | Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it as the sacrovertebral angle |
| dSacrum: | That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with or forms a part of the pelvis |
| Sacs: | A tribe of Indians which together with the Foxes formerly occupied the region about Green Bay Wisconsin |
| Sad: | Sated satisfied weary tired |
| Sad: | To make sorrowful to sadden |
| SAD: | Seasonal affective disorder |
| dSadda: | A work in the Persian tongue being a summary of the ZendAvesta or sacred books |
| Sadden: | To make sad |
| Sadden: | To become or be made sad |
| Sadder: | Same as Sadda |
| Saddle: | A seat for a rider usually made of leather padded to span comfortably a horses back furnished with stirrups for the riders feet to rest in and fastened in place with a girth also a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle |
| Saddle: | To put a saddle upon to equip a beast for riding |
| Saddleback: | Same as Saddlebacked |
| Saddleback: | Anything saddlebacked esp a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top |
| Saddlebacked: | Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle |
| Saddlebags: | Bags usually of leather united by straps or a band formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles one bag hanging on each side |
| Saddlebow: | The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle or the pieces which form the front |
| Saddlecloth: | A cloth under a saddle and extending out behind a housing |
| Saddled: | Having a broad patch of color across the back like a saddle saddlebacked |
| Saddler: | One who makes saddles |
| Saddlery: | The materials for making saddles and harnesses the articles usually offered for sale in a saddlers shop |
| Saddleshaped: | Shaped like a saddle |
| Saddletree: | The frame of a saddle |
| Sadducaic: | Pertaining to or like the Sadducees as Sadducaic reasonings |
| Sadducee: | One of a sect among the ancient Jews who denied the resurrection a future state and the existence of angels |
| Sadduceeism: | The tenets of the Sadducees |
| Sadducize: | To adopt the principles of the Sadducees |
| Sadh: | A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects |
| Sadiron: | An iron for smoothing clothes a flatiron |
| Sadly: | Wearily heavily firmly |
| Sadness: | Heaviness firmness |
| dSadr: | A plant of the genus Ziziphus Z lotus so called by the Arabs of Barbary who use its berries for food See Lotus b |
| dSaengerbund: | A singers union an association of singers or singing clubs esp German |
| dSaengerfest: | A festival of singers a German singing festival |
| Safe: | Free from harm injury or risk untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury unharmed unhurt secure whole as safe from disease safe from storms safe from foes |
| Safe: | A place for keeping things in safety |
| Safe: | To render safe to make right |
| Safeconduct: | That which gives a safe passage |
| Safeconduct: | To conduct safely to give safeconduct to |
| Safeguard: | One who or that which defends or protects defense protection |
| Safeguard: | To guard to protect |
| Safekeeping: | The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape care custody |
| Safely: | In a safe manner danger injury loss or evil consequences |
| Safeness: | The quality or state of being safe freedom from hazard danger harm or loss safety security as the safeness of an experiment of a journey or of a possession |
| Safepledge: | A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time |
| Safety: | The condition or state of being safe freedom from danger or hazard exemption from hurt injury or loss |
| Safetybicycle: | A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels usually about 28 inches diameter driven by pedals connected to the rear driving wheel by a multiplying gear Since the 1930s this has been the most common type of bicycle now simply called bicycle The older highwheelers are often referred to as bonerattlers |
| Safetychain: | A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing |
| Safflow: | The safflower |
| Safflower: | An annual composite plant Carthamus tinctorius the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge bastard or false saffron |
| Saffron: | A bulbous iridaceous plant Crocus sativus having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas See Crocus |
| Saffron: | Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers deep orangeyellow as a saffron face a saffron streamer |
| Saffron: | To give color and flavor to as by means of saffron to spice |
| Saffrony: | Having a color somewhat like saffron yellowish |
| Safranin: | An orangered dyestuff extracted from the saffron |
| Safranine: | An orangered nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives and used in dyeing silk and wool also any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type |
| Sag: | To sink in the middle by its weight or under applied pressure below a horizontal line or plane as a line or cable supported by its ends sags though tightly drawn the floor of a room sags hence to lean give way or settle from a vertical position as a building may sag one way or another a door sags on its hinges |
| Sag: | To cause to bend or give way to load |
| Sag: | State of sinking or bending sagging |
| Saga: | A Scandinavian legend or heroic or mythic tradition among the Norsemen and kindred people a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time |
| Sagacious: | Of quick sense perceptions keenscented skilled in following a trail |
| Sagacity: | The quality of being sagacious quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment shrewdness |
| Sagamore: | The head of a tribe among the American Indians a chief generally used as synonymous with sachem but some writters distinguished between them making the sachem a chief of the first rank and a sagamore one of the second rank |
| Sagapen: | Sagapenum |
| dSagapenum: | A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula It has been used in hysteria etc but is now seldom met with |
| Sagathy: | A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton or silk and wool sayette also a light woolen fabric |
| Sage: | A suffruticose labiate plant Salvia officinalis with grayish green foliage much used in flavoring meats etc The name is often extended to the whole genus of which many species are cultivated for ornament as the scarlet sage and Mexican red and blue sage |
| Sage: | Having nice discernment and powers of judging prudent grave sagacious |
| Sage: | A wise man a man of gravity and wisdom especially a man venerable for years and of sound judgment and prudence a grave philosopher |
| Sagebrush: | A low irregular shrub Artemisia tridentata of the order Composit covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains called also sagebush and wild sage |
| SagebrushState: | Nevada a nickname |
| Sagely: | In a sage manner wisely |
| Sagene: | A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet |
| Sageness: | The quality or state of being sage wisdom sagacity prudence gravity |
| Sagenite: | Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz |
| Sagenitic: | Resembling sagenite applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals most commonly rutile also tourmaline actinolite and the like |
| Sagger: | A pot or case of fire clay in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln a seggar |
| Sagging: | A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing in consequence of its own or an imposed weight an arching downward in the middle as of a ship after straining Cf Hogging |
| Saginate: | To make fat to pamper |
| Sagination: | The act of fattening or pampering |
| dSagitta: | A small constellation north of Aquila the Arrow |
| Sagittal: | Of or pertaining to an arrow resembling an arrow furnished with an arrowlike appendage |
| dSagittarius: | The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac which the sun enters about November 22 marked thus sagittarius in almanacs the Archer |
| Sagittary: | A centaur a fabulous being half man half horse armed with a bow and quiver |
| Sagittary: | Pertaining to or resembling an arrow |
| Sagittate: | Shaped like an arrowhead triangular with the two basal angles prolonged downward |
| Sagittated: | Sagittal sagittate |
| Sagittocyst: | A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria |
| Sago: | A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick also as starch for stiffening textile fabrics It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu also from several cycadaceous plants Cycas revoluta Zamia integrifolia etc |
| Sagoin: | A marmoset called also sagouin |
| dSagum: | The military cloak of the Roman soldiers |
| dSagus: | A genus of palms from which sago is obtained |
| Sagy: | Full of sage seasoned with sage |
| dSahib: | A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank |
| dSahibah: | A lady mistress |
| Sahidic: | Same as Thebaic |
| Sahlite: | See Salite |
| dSahui: | A marmoset |
| dSai: | See Capuchin 3 a |
| dSaibling: | A European mountain trout Salvelinus alpinus called also Bavarian charr |
| Saic: | A kind of ketch very common in the Levant which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail |
| Said: | imp p p of Say |
| Said: | Beforementioned already spoken of or specified aforesaid used chiefly in legal style |
| dSaiga: | An antelope Saiga Tartarica native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia The male has erect annulated horns and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears |
| Saikyr: | Same as Saker |
| Sail: | An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water |
| Sail: | To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails as a ship on water to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power |
| Sail: | To pass or move upon as in a ship by means of sails hence to move or journey upon the water by means of steam or other force |
| Sailable: | Capable of being sailed over navigable as a sailable river |
| Sailboat: | A boat propelled by a sail or sails |
| Sailcloth: | Duck or canvas used in making sails |
| Sailer: | A sailor |
| Sailfish: | The banner fish or spikefish Histiophorus |
| Sailing: | The act of one who or that which sails the motion of a vessel on water impelled by wind or steam the act of starting on a voyage |
| Sailless: | Destitute of sails |
| Sailmaker: | One whose occupation is to make or repair sails |
| Sailor: | One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels one who understands the practical management of ships one of the crew of a vessel a mariner a common seaman |
| Saily: | Like a sail |
| Saim: | Lard grease |
| dSaimir: | The squirrel monkey |
| Sain: | Said |
| Sain: | To sanctify to bless so as to protect from evil influence |
| Sainfoin: | A leguminous plant Onobrychis sativa cultivated for fodder |
| Saint: | A person sanctified a holy or godly person one eminent for piety and virtue any true Christian as being redeemed and consecrated to God |
| Saint: | To make a saint of to enroll among the saints by an offical act as of the pope to canonize to give the title or reputation of a saint to some one |
| Saint: | To act or live as a saint |
| Saintdom: | The state or character of a saint |
| Sainted: | Consecrated sacred holy pious |
| Saintess: | A female saint |
| Sainthood: | The state of being a saint the condition of a saint |
| Saintish: | Somewhat saintlike used ironically |
| Saintism: | The character or quality of saints also hypocritical pretense of holiness |
| Saintlike: | Resembling a saint suiting a saint becoming a saint saintly |
| Saintliness: | Quality of being saintly |
| Saintly: | Like a saint becoming a holy person |
| SaintNicholas: | A Dutch saint who was reputed to bring gifts to children on Christmas even giving rise to the modern legend of Santa Claus |
| Saintologist: | One who writes the lives of saints |
| Saintship: | The character or qualities of a saint |
| SaintSimonian: | A follower of the Count de St Simon who died in 1825 and who maintained that the principle of property held in common and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society are the true remedy for the social evils which exist |
| SaintSimonianism: | The principles doctrines or practice of the SaintSimonians called also Saint Simonism |
| SaintSimonism: | A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitled to share according to the quality and amount of his work founded by Saint Simon 17601825 called also Saint Simonianism |
| Saith: | 3d pers sing pres of Say |
| Saithe: | The pollock or coalfish called also sillock |
| Saiva: | One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration |
| Saivism: | The worship of Siva |
| Sajene: | Same as Sagene |
| Sajou: | Same as Sapajou |
| Sake: | Final cause end purpose of obtaining cause motive reason interest concern account regard or respect used chiefly in such phrases as for the sake of for his sake for mans sake for mercys sake and the like as to commit crime for the sake of gain to go abroad for the sake of ones health |
| Sake: | a traditional alcoholic drink of Japan It is made from rice |
| Saker: | A falcon Falco sacer native of Southern Europe and Asia closely resembling the lanner |
| Sakeret: | The male of the saker a |
| Saki: | Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia They have large ears and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile |
| Saki: | The alcoholic drink of Japan It is made from rice it is usually spelled sake |
| Sakieh: | A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water from wells or pits in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope |
| Sakti: | The divine energy personified as the wife of a deity Brahma Vishnu Siva etc the female principle |
| dSal: | An East Indian timber tree Shorea robusta much used for building purposes It is of a light brown color closegrained heavy and durable |
| Sal: | Salt |
| dSalaam: | Same as Salam |
| Salaam: | To make or perform a salam |
| Salability: | The quality or condition of being salable salableness |
| Salable: | Capable of being sold fit to be sold finding a ready market |
| Salacious: | Having a propensity to venery lustful lecherous |
| Salacity: | Strong propensity to venery lust lecherousness |
| Salad: | A preparation of vegetables as lettuce celery water cress onions etc usually dressed with salt vinegar oil and spice and eaten for giving a relish to other food as lettuce salad tomato salad etc |
| Saladdays: | a period when a person is young and inexperienced |
| Salade: | A helmet See Sallet |
| Salading: | Vegetables for salad |
| Salratus: | See Saleratus |
| Salagane: | The esculent swallow See under Esculent |
| Salalberry: | The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color |
| dSalam: | A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act an obeisance performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead |
| Salamander: | Any one of numerous species of Urodela belonging to Salamandra Amblystoma Plethodon and various allied genera especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits |
| dSalamandrina: | A suborder of Urodela comprising salamanders |
| Salamandrine: | Of pertaining to or resembling a salamander enduring fire |
| Salamandroid: | Like or pertaining to the salamanders |
| dSalamandroidea: | A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups the Urodela |
| Salamstone: | A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon |
| Salangana: | The salagane |
| Salaried: | Receiving a salary paid by a salary having a salary attached as a salaried officer a salaried office |
| Salary: | Saline |
| Salary: | The recompense or consideration paid or stipulated to be paid to a person at regular intervals for services fixed wages as by the year quarter or month stipend hire |
| Salary: | To pay or agree to pay a salary to to attach salary to as to salary a clerk to salary a position |
| Sale: | See 1st Sallow |
| Sale: | The act of selling the transfer of property or a contract to transfer the ownership of property from one person to another for a valuable consideration or for a price in money |
| Saleable: | See Salable Salably etc |
| Saleb: | See Salep |
| Salebrosity: | Roughness or ruggedness |
| Salebrous: | Rough rugged |
| Salep: | The dried tubers of various species of Orchis and Eulophia It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water |
| Saleratus: | A89rated salt a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction consisting of sodium bicarbonate see under Sodium It is largely used in cooking with sour milk lactic acid or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast It is also an ingredient of most baking powders and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks |
| Salesman: | One who sells anything one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise |
| Salestax: | a tax imposed upon the retail sale of goods or the sale of services usually collected by the seller at the time of purchase it is typically calculated as a percentage of the price of the object sold being commonly from 3 to 7 of the base price |
| Saleswoman: | A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise |
| Salework: | Work or things made for sale hence work done carelessly or slightingly |
| Salian: | Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala now Yssel Salic |
| Saliant: | Same as Salient |
| Saliaunce: | Salience onslaught |
| Salic: | Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks or to the Salic law so called |
| Salicaceous: | Belonging or relating to the willow |
| Salicin: | A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several species of willow Salix and poplar and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance |
| Salicyl: | The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds |
| Salicylal: | A thin fragrant colorless oil HOC6H4CHO found in the flowers of meadow sweet Spira and also obtained by oxidation of salicin saligenin etc It reddens on exposure Called also salicylol salicylic aldehyde and formerly salicylous acid or spiroylous acid |
| Salicylate: | A salt of salicylic acid |
| Salicylic: | Pertaining to derived from or designating an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide and now made in large quantities from phenol carbolic acid by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate It is a white crystalline substance It is used as an antiseptic and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism Called also hydroxybenzoic acid |
| Salicylide: | A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid |
| Salicylite: | A compound of salicylal named after the analogy of a salt |
| Salicylol: | Same as Salicylal |
| Salicylous: | Pertaining to or designating a substance formerly called salicylous acid and now salicylal |
| Salience: | The quality or condition of being salient a leaping a springing forward an assaulting |
| Saliency: | Quality of being salient hence vigor |
| Salient: | Moving by leaps or springs leaping bounding jumping |
| Salient: | A salient angle or part a projection |
| Saliently: | In a salient manner |
| Saliferous: | Producing or impregnated with salt |
| Salifiable: | Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt said of bases thus ammonia is salifiable |
| Salification: | The act process or result of salifying the state of being salified |
| Salify: | To combine or impregnate with a salt |
| Saligenin: | A phenol alcohol obtained by the decomposition of salicin as a white crystalline substance called also hydroxybenzyl alcohol |
| Saligot: | The water chestnut Trapa natans |
| Salimeter: | An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution |
| Salimetry: | The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance |
| Salina: | A salt marsh or salt pond inclosed from the sea |
| Salinaperiod: | The period in which the American Upper Silurian system containing the brineproducing rocks of central New York was formed See the Chart of Geology |
| Salination: | The act of washing with salt water |
| Saline: | Consisting of salt or containing salt as saline particles saline substances a saline cathartic |
| Saline: | A salt spring a place where salt water is collected in the earth |
| Saline: | A crude potash obtained from beetroot residues and other similar sources |
| Salineness: | The quality or state of being salt saltness |
| Saliniferous: | Same as Saliferous |
| Saliniform: | Having the form or the qualities of a salt especially of common salt |
| Salinity: | Salineness |
| Salinometer: | A salimeter |
| Salinous: | Saline |
| Salique: | Salic |
| Saliretin: | A yellow amorphous resinoid substance obtained by the action of dilute acids on saligenin |
| dSalisburia: | The ginkgo tree Ginkgo biloba or Salisburia adiantifolia |
| Salite: | To season with salt to salt |
| Salite: | A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene of a dingy green color |
| Saliva: | The secretion from the salivary glands |
| Salival: | Salivary |
| Salivant: | Producing salivation |
| Salivant: | That which produces salivation |
| Salivary: | Of or pertaining to saliva producing or carrying saliva as the salivary ferment the salivary glands the salivary ducts etc |
| Salivate: | To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in to produce salivation or ptyalism in as by the use of mercury |
| Salivation: | The act or process of salivating an excessive secretion of saliva often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums ptyalism |
| Salivous: | Pertaining to saliva of the nature of saliva |
| dSalix: | A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow osier and the like growing usually in wet grounds |
| Sallenders: | An eruption on the hind leg of a horse |
| Sallet: | A light kind of helmet with or without a visor introduced during the 15th century |
| Sallet: | Salad |
| Salliance: | Salience |
| Sallow: | The willow willow twigs |
| Sallow: | Having a yellowish color of a pale sickly color tinged with yellow as a sallow skin |
| Sallow: | To tinge with sallowness |
| Sallowish: | Somewhat sallow |
| Sallowness: | The quality or condition of being sallow |
| 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 |
| Sally: | A leaping forth a darting a spring |
| SallyLunn: | A tea cake slighty sweetened and raised with yeast baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf and eaten hot with butter |
| Sallyman: | The velella called also saleeman |
| Salm: | Psalm |
| Salmagundi: | A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring with oil vinegar pepper and onions |
| Salmi: | Same as Salmis |
| Salmiac: | Sal ammoniac See under Sal |
| dSalmis: | A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce wine bread and condiments suited to provoke appetite |
| Salmon: | Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera The common salmon Salmo salar 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 Quinnat |
| Salmon: | Of a reddish yellow or orange color like that of the flesh of the salmon |
| Salmonet: | A salmon of small size a samlet |
| Salmonoid: | Like or pertaining to the Salmonid a family of fishes including the trout and salmon |
| Salogen: | A halogen |
| Salol: | A white crystalline substance consisting of phenol salicylate |
| salometer: | See Salimeter |
| Salometry: | Salimetry |
| dSalon: | An apartment for the reception of company hence in the plural fashionable parties circles of fashionable society |
| Saloon: | A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art a hall of reception esp a hall for public entertainments or amusements a large room or parlor as the saloon of a steamboat |
| Saloop: | An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients at one time much used in London |
| Salp: | Any species of Salpa or of the family Salpid |
| dSalpa: | A genus of transparent tubular freeswimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes See Illustration in Appendix |
| Salpian: | A salpa |
| Salpicon: | Chopped meat bread etc used to stuff legs of veal or other joints stuffing farce |
| dSalpingitis: | Inflammation of the salpinx |
| dSalpinx: | The Eustachian tube or the Fallopian tube |
| Salsafy: | See Salsify |
| Salsamentarious: | Salt salted saline |
| Salse: | A mud volcano the water of which is often impregnated with salts whence the name |
| Salsify: | See Oyster plant a under Oyster |
| Salsoacid: | Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity both salt and acid |
| Salsoda: | See Sal soda under Sal |
| dSalsola: | A genus of plants including the glasswort See Glasswort |
| salsuginous: | Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes |
| Salt: | The chloride of sodium a substance used for seasoning food for the preservation of meat etc It is found native in the earth and is also produced by evaporation and crystallization from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles |
| Salt: | Of or relating to salt abounding in or containing salt prepared or preserved with or tasting of salt salted as salt beef salt water |
| Salt: | To sprinkle impregnate or season with salt to preserve with salt or in brine to supply with salt as to salt fish beef or pork to salt cattle |
| Salt: | To deposit salt as a saline solution as the brine begins to salt |
| Salt: | The act of leaping or jumping a leap |
| Saltant: | Leaping jumping dancing |
| dSaltarella: | See Saltarello |
| dSaltarello: | A popular Italian dance in quick 34 or 68 time running mostly in triplets but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure See Tarantella |
| Saltate: | To leap or dance |
| Saltation: | A leaping or jumping |
| dSaltatoria: | A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers locusts and crickets |
| Saltatorial: | Relating to leaping saltatory as saltatorial exercises |
| Saltatorious: | Capable of leaping formed for leaping saltatory as a saltatorious insect or leg |
| Saltatory: | Leaping or dancing having the power of or used in leaping or dancing |
| Saltbush: | An Australian plant Atriplex nummularia of the Goosefoot family |
| Saltcat: | A mixture of salt coarse meal lime etc attractive to pigeons |
| Saltcellar: | Formerly a large vessel now a small vessel of glass or other material used for holding salt on the table |
| Salter: | One who makes sells or applies salt one who salts meat or fish |
| Saltern: | A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation salt works |
| Saltfoot: | A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot |
| Saltgreen: | Seagreen in color |
| Saltie: | The European dab |
| Saltier: | See Saltire |
| dSaltigrad: | A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey the leaping spiders called also Salticidae |
| Saltigrade: | Having feet or legs formed for leaping |
| Saltigrade: | One of the Saltigrad a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey |
| Saltimbanco: | A mountebank a quack |
| Salting: | The act of sprinkling impregnating or furnishing with salt |
| Saltire: | A St Andrews cross or cross in the form of an X one of the honorable ordinaries |
| Saltirewise: | In the manner of a saltire said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister and crossing at the center |
| Saltish: | Somewhat salt |
| Saltless: | Destitute of salt insipid |
| Saltly: | With taste of salt in a salt manner |
| Saltmouth: | A widemouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals especially crystallized salts |
| Saltness: | The quality or state of being salt or state of being salt or impregnated with salt salt taste as the saltness of sea water |
| Saltpeter: | Potassium nitrate niter a white crystalline substance KNO3 having a cooling saline taste obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification see Nitrification 2 It is a strong oxidizer is the chief constituent of gunpowder and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat and in medicine as a diuretic diaphoretic and refrigerant |
| Saltpetrous: | Pertaining to saltpeter or partaking of its qualities impregnated with saltpeter |
| Saltrheum: | A popular name esp in the United States for various cutaneous eruptions particularly for those of eczema See Eczema |
| Saltwort: | A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore as the Batis maritima and the glasswort See Glasswort |
| Salty: | Somewhat salt saltish |
| Salubrious: | Favorable to health healthful promoting health as salubrious air water or climate |
| Salubrity: | The quality of being salubrious favorableness to the preservation of health salubriousness wholesomeness healthfulness as the salubrity of the air of a country or a climate |
| Salue: | To salute |
| Salutary: | Wholesome healthful promoting health as salutary exercise |
| Salutation: | The act of saluting or paying respect or reverence by the customary words or actions the act of greeting or expressing good will or courtesy also that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting |
| Salutatorian: | The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship |
| Salutatorily: | By way of salutation |
| Salutatory: | Containing or expressing salutations speaking a welcome greeting applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements or similar public exhibitions in American colleges |
| Salutatory: | A place for saluting or greeting a vestibule a porch |
| Salute: | To address as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy to greet to hail |
| Salute: | The act of saluting or expressing kind wishes or respect salutation greeting |
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