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Snub
  • (n.) A check or rebuke
  • (v. i.) To sob with convulsions.
  • (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark

    Snuff
  • (n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose
  • (v. i.) To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose
  • (v. t.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

    Snug
  • (superl.) Close
  • (v. i.) To lie close
  • (v. t.) To place snugly.

    So
  • (adv.) About the number, time, or quantity specified
  • (conj.) Provided that
  • (interj.) Be as you are

    Soak
  • (v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

    Soap
  • (n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent
  • (v. t.) To flatter

    Soar
  • (n.) The act of soaring

    Soave
  • (a.) Sweet.

    Sob
  • (n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.
  • (v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion
  • (v. t.) To soak.

    Sober
  • (superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors
  • (v. i.) To become sober
  • (v. t.) To make sober.

    Sobriety
  • (n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination

    Sobriquet
  • (n.) An assumed name

    Soc
  • (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands

    Socage
  • (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service

    Sociable
  • (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.

    Social
  • (a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.

    Society
  • (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object

    Socinian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Socinus, or the Socinians.
  • (n.) One of the followers of Socinus

    Sociology
  • (n.) That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society

    Sock
  • (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg
  • (v. t.) To hurl, drive, or strike violently

    Socle
  • (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal

    Sod
  • (n.) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface
  • (v. t.) To cover with sod

    Soda
  • (n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.

    Sodden
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sod
  • (p. p.) Boiled
  • (v. i.) To be seethed
  • (v. t.) To soak

    Sodium
  • (n.) A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc

    Sofa
  • (n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends

    Soffit
  • (n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like

    Soft
  • (adv.) Softly
  • (interj.) Be quiet
  • (n.) A soft or foolish person
  • (superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc

    Soggy
  • (superl.) Filled with water

    Soho
  • (interj.) Ho

    Soil
  • (n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge
  • (v. i.) To become soiled
  • (v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck

    Soiree
  • (n.) An evening party

    Sojourn
  • (v. i.) A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

    Sola
  • (fem. a.) Alone
  • (n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies

    Sold
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sell
  • (n.) Solary

    Sole
  • (a.) Being or acting without another
  • (n.) A fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sole

    Solfatara
  • (n.) A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity

    Solfeggio
  • (n.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught

    Solferino
  • (n.) A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline

    Soli
  • (n.) pl. of Solo.

    Solleret
  • (n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor

    Solmization
  • (n.) The act of sol-faing.

    Solo
  • (a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice

    Solstice
  • (v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.

    Solubility
  • (n.) The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable

    Soluble
  • (a.) Relaxed

    Solute
  • (a.) Loose
  • (v. t.) To absolve

    Solution
  • (n.) A crisis.

    Solvable
  • (a.) Able to pay one's debts

    Solve
  • (n.) A solution
  • (v. t.) To explain

    Soma
  • (n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

    Sombre
  • (a.) Dull
  • (n.) Gloom
  • (v. t.) To make somber, or dark

    Sombrous
  • (a.) Gloomy

    Some
  • (a.) About

    Somite
  • (n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed

    Somnambulate
  • (v. i. & t.) To walk when /sleep.

    Somnambulism
  • (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state

    Somniferous
  • (a.) Causing or inducing sleep

    Somnolent
  • (a.) Sleepy

    Son
  • (n.) A male child

    Sonant
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sound
  • (n.) A sonant letter.

    Sonata
  • (n.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements

    Sonatina
  • (n.) A short and simple sonata.

    Sonde
  • (v. t.) That which is sent

    Song
  • (n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music

    Soniferous
  • (a.) Sounding

    Sonnet
  • (n.) A poem of fourteen lines
  • (v. i.) To compose sonnets.

    Sonority
  • (n.) The quality or state of being sonorous

    Sonorous
  • (a.) Giving sound when struck

    Soon
  • (a.) Speedy
  • (adv.) In a short time

    Soot
  • (n.) A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke
  • (v. t.) To cover or dress with soot

    Sop
  • (v. t.) Anything given to pacify

    Soph
  • (n.) A contraction of Soph ister.

    Sopor
  • (n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

    Soppy
  • (a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture

    Soprano
  • (n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

    Sora
  • (n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored

    Sorb
  • (n.) The fruit of these trees.

    Sorcerer
  • (n.) A conjurer

    Sorceress
  • (n.) A female sorcerer.

    Sorcery
  • (n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits

    Sordid
  • (a.) Filthy

    Sore
  • (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful
  • (n.) A young buck in the fourth year.
  • (superl.) Criminal

    Sorghum
  • (n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S

    Sorgo
  • (n.) Indian millet and its varieties.

    Sori
  • (n.) pl. of Sorus.

    Sororicide
  • (n.) The murder of one's sister

    Sorrel
  • (a.) Of a yellowish or redish brown color
  • (n.) A yellowish or redish brown color.

    Sorrow
  • (n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good

    Sorry
  • (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good

    Sort
  • (n.) A chance group
  • (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species
  • (v. t.) To choose from a number

    Sorus
  • (n.) In lichens, a heap of soredia on the thallus.

    Sostenuto
  • (a.) Sustained

    Sot
  • (a.) Sottish
  • (n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking
  • (v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.
  • (v. t.) To stupefy

    Soteriology
  • (n.) A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

    Sottish
  • (a.) Like a sot

    Sou
  • (n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou

    Soubrette
  • (n.) A female servant or attendant

    Souchong
  • (n.) A kind of black tea of a fine quality.

    Souffle
  • (a.) Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of color, as if blown from a bellows.
  • (n.) A murmuring or blowing sound

    Sough
  • (n.) A small drain
  • (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.

    Soul
  • (a.) Sole.
  • (n.) A human being
  • (v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (v. t.) To indue with a soul

    Sound
  • (adv.) Soundly.
  • (n.) A cuttlefish.
  • (superl.) Firm
  • (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

    Soup
  • (n.) A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water
  • (v. t.) To breathe out.

    Sour
  • (n.) A sour or acid substance
  • (superl.) Afflictive
  • (v. i.) To become sour
  • (v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.

    Souse
  • (adv.) With a sudden swoop
  • (n.) A corrupt form of Sou.
  • (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion

    Soutache
  • (n.) A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk

    Soutane
  • (n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom

    Souterrain
  • (n.) A grotto or cavern under ground.

    South
  • (a.) Lying toward the south
  • (adv.) From the south
  • (n.) A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another
  • (v. i.) To come to the meridian

    Souvenir
  • (n.) That which serves as a reminder

    Sovereign
  • (a.) Efficacious in the highest degree
  • (n.) A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4

    Sow
  • (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
  • (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop
  • (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth

    Sown
  • (p. p.) of Sow

    Soy
  • (n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water

    Spa
  • (n.) A spring or mineral water

    Space
  • (n.) A quantity or portion of extension

    Spacious
  • (n.) Extending far and wide

    Spade
  • (n.) A castrated man or beast.
  • (v. t.) To dig with a spade

    Spadiceous
  • (a.) Bearing flowers on a spadix

    Spadille
  • (n.) The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

    Spadix
  • (n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.

    Spaghetti
  • (n.) A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.

    Spall
  • (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge
  • (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.

    Spalpeen
  • (n.) A scamp

    Span
  • (imp.) of Spin
  • (v. i.) To be matched, as horses.
  • (v. t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together

    Spar
  • (n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
  • (v. i.) To contest in words
  • (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.

    Spasm
  • (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

    Spat
  • (n.) A kind of short cloth or leather gaiter worn over the upper part of the shoe and fastened beneath the instep
  • (v. i.) To dispute.
  • (v. i. & t.) To emit spawn
  • (v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand

    Spavin
  • (n.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones

    Spawn
  • (v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
  • (v. t.) Any product or offspring

    Spay
  • (v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year

    Speak
  • (v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance
  • (v. t.) To address

    Spear
  • (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing
  • (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a spear

    Special
  • (a.) Appropriate
  • (n.) A particular.

    Specie
  • (n.) Coin

    Specifiable
  • (a.) Admitting specification

    Specific
  • (a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
  • (n.) A specific remedy.

    Specify
  • (v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing

    Specimen
  • (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited

    Specious
  • (a.) Apparently right

    Speck
  • (n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance
  • (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes

    Spectacle
  • (n.) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light

    Spectacular
  • (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects

    Spectator
  • (n.) One who on

    Spectral
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a specter

    Spectre
  • (n.) A stick insect.

    Spectrogram
  • (n.) A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.

    Spectrograph
  • (n.) An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

    Spectroheliogram
  • (n.) A photograph of the sun made by monochromatic light, usually of the calcium line (k), and showing the sun's faculae and prominences

    Spectroheliograph
  • (n.) An apparatus for making spectroheliograms, consisting of a spectroscopic camera used in combination with a telescope, and provided with clockwork for moving the sun's image across the slit

    Spectrometer
  • (n.) A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.

    Spectrophotometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum

    Spectroscope
  • (n.) An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance

    Spectroscopy
  • (n.) The production and investigation of spectra

    Spectrum
  • (n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object

    Specular
  • (a.) Affording view.

    Speculate
  • (v. i.) To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations
  • (v. t.) To consider attentively

    Speculation
  • (n.) A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating

    Speculative
  • (a.) Given to speculation

    Speculator
  • (n.) One who engages in speculation

    Speculum
  • (n.) A bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female

    Speech
  • (n.) A particular language, as distinct from others
  • (v. i. & t.) To make a speech

    Speed
  • (n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper

    Speiss
  • (n.) A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt

    Spell
  • (n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work
  • (v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
  • (v. t.) To constitute

    Spelt
  • (n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland
  • (v. t. & i.) To split

    Spencer
  • (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom

    Spend
  • (v. i.) To be diffused
  • (v. t.) To bestow

    Spenserian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser

    Spent
  • (a.) Exhausted
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spend

    Sperm
  • (n.) Spermaceti.

    Sperrylite
  • (n.) An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color

    Spew
  • (n.) That which is vomited
  • (v. i.) To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
  • (v. t.) To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust

    Sphagnum
  • (n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places

    Sphalerite
  • (n.) Zinc sulphide

    Sphene
  • (n.) A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color

    Sphenogram
  • (n.) A cuneiform, or arrow-headed, character.

    Sphenoid
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone.
  • (n.) A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid

    Spheral
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.

    Sphere
  • (n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center
  • (v. t.) To form into roundness

    Spherics
  • (n.) The doctrine of the sphere

    Spheroid
  • (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical

    Spherometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc

    Spherule
  • (n.) A little sphere or spherical body

    Spherulite
  • (n.) A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone

    Sphery
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the spheres.

    Sphincter
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter
  • (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening

    Sphinx
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae

    Sphragistics
  • (n.) The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents

    Sphygmic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulse.

    Sphygmograph
  • (n.) An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse

    Spica
  • (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk

    Spiccato
  • (a.) Detached

    Spice
  • (n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc
  • (v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.

    Spicule
  • (n.) A minute, slender granule, or point.

    Spider
  • (n.) An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth

    Spigot
  • (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask

    Spike
  • (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
  • (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails

    Spiky
  • (a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points

    Spile
  • (n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure
  • (v. t.) To supply with a spile or a spigot

    Spill
  • (n.) A bit of wood split off
  • (v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted
  • (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted

    Spilt
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spill

    Spin
  • (n.) The act of spinning
  • (v. i.) To move round rapidly
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly

    Spiracle
  • (n.) Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.

    Spiraea
  • (n.) A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.

    Spiral
  • (a.) Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.

    Spirant
  • (n.) A term used differently by different authorities

    Spire
  • (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation
  • (v. i.) To breathe.

    Spirillum
  • (n.) A genus of common motile microorganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments

    Spirit
  • (n.) Air set in motion by breathing
  • (v. t.) To animate with vigor

    Spirograph
  • (n.) An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse

    Spirometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration

    Spiry
  • (a.) Of a spiral form

    Spit
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spit
  • (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
  • (v. i.) To attend to a spit

    Splanchnic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera

    Splash
  • (n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.
  • (v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.
  • (v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon

    Splatter
  • (v. i. & t.) To spatter

    Splay
  • (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them
  • (v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

    Spleen
  • (n.) A fit of anger
  • (v. t.) To dislke.

    Splendent
  • (a.) Shining

    Splendid
  • (a.) Illustrious

    Splendiferous
  • (a.) Splendor-bearing

    Splendor
  • (n.) Brilliancy

    Splenetic
  • (a.) Affected with spleen
  • (n.) A person affected with spleen.

    Splenic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen

    Splenius
  • (n.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck.

    Splice
  • (n.) A junction or joining made by splicing.
  • (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast

    Spline
  • (n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.

    Splint
  • (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

    Split
  • (a.) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Split
  • (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party
  • (v. i.) To be broken
  • (v. t.) To burst

    Splotch
  • (n.) A spot

    Splurge
  • (n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort
  • (v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

    Splutter
  • (n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.
  • (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly

    Spodumene
  • (n.) A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emerald-green color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size

    Spoil
  • (n.) Corruption
  • (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities
  • (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish

    Spoke
  • (imp.) of Speak
  • (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill
  • (v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

    Spoliation
  • (v. t.) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.

    Spondee
  • (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

    Sponge
  • (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff

    Spongin
  • (n.) The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll

    Spongy
  • (a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.

    Sponson
  • (n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.

    Sponsor
  • (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education

    Spontaneity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force

    Spontaneous
  • (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint

    Spontoon
  • (n.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers

    Spook
  • (n.) A spirit

    Spool
  • (n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon
  • (v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.

    Spoon
  • (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food
  • (v. i.) In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
  • (v. t.) In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock

    Spoor
  • (n.) The track or trail of any wild animal
  • (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.

    Sporades
  • (n. pl.) Stars not included in any constellation

    Sporadic
  • (a.) Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances

    Sporangium
  • (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

    Spore
  • (n.) A minute grain or germ

    Sporiferous
  • (a.) Bearing or producing spores.

    Sporocarp
  • (n.) A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

    Sporogenesis
  • (n.) reproduction by spores.

    Sporogony
  • (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

    Sporophore
  • (n.) A placenta.

    Sporophyte
  • (n.) In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores

    Sporozoite
  • (n.) In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amoeboid spore, esp

    Sporran
  • (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress

    Sport
  • (n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species
  • (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species
  • (v. t.) To divert

    Spot
  • (a.) Lit., being on the spot, or place
  • (n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter
  • (v. i.) To become stained with spots.
  • (v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter

    Spousal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage
  • (n.) Marriage

    Spouse
  • (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock

    Spout
  • (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column

    Sprain
  • (n.) The act or result of spraining
  • (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching

    Sprang
  • (imp.) of Spring

    Sprat
  • (n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes)

    Sprawl
  • (v. i.) To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs

    Spray
  • (n.) A collective body of small branches
  • (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer

    Spread
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spread
  • (n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
  • (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating
  • (v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia

    Spree
  • (n.) A merry frolic

    Sprig
  • (n.) A brad, or nail without a head.
  • (v. t.) To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches

    Spring
  • (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
  • (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong

    Sprinkle
  • (n.) A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed
  • (v. i.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water

    Sprinkling
  • (n.) A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles

    Sprint
  • (n.) The act of sprinting
  • (v. i.) To run very rapidly

    Sprit
  • (n.) A shoot
  • (v. i.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate
  • (v. t.) To sprout

    Sprocket
  • (n.) A sprocket wheel.

    Sprout
  • (v. i.) The shoot of a plant
  • (v. t.) To cause to sprout

    Spruce
  • (a.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P
  • (n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity
  • (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness
  • (v. t.) To dress with affected neatness

    Sprung
  • (a.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
  • (p. p.) of Spring

    Spry
  • (superl.) Having great power of leaping or running


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