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Run
  • (a.) Melted, or made from molten material
  • (n.) A continuing urgent demand
  • (p. p.) of Run
  • (v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing
  • (v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.)

    Runaway
  • (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight
  • (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.

    Rune
  • (n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians

    Rung
  • (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
  • (p. p.) of Ring

    Runlet
  • (n.) A little run or stream

    Runnel
  • (n.) A rivulet or small brook.

    Runner
  • (n.) A detective.

    Running
  • (a.) Continuous
  • (n.) That which runs or flows

    Runway
  • (n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds

    Rupee
  • (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.

    Rupture
  • (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion.
  • (v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.
  • (v. t.) To part by violence

    Rural
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture

    Ruse
  • (n.) An artifice

    Rush
  • (n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness
  • (v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation
  • (v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence

    Rusk
  • (n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.

    Russ
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Russians.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A Russian, or the Russians.

    Rust
  • (n.) A composition used in making a rust joint.
  • (v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust
  • (v. t.) To cause to contract rust

    Rut
  • (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything
  • (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period
  • (v. t.) To cover in copulation.

    Ruth
  • (v.) Sorrow for the misery of another

    Rutilant
  • (a.) Having a reddish glow

    Rutile
  • (n.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals

    Rutty
  • (a.) Full of ruts

    Rye
  • (n.) A disease in a hawk.

    Sabadilla
  • (n.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale)

    Sabbat
  • (n.) In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies

    Sabine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy.
  • (n.) One of the Sabine people.

    Sable
  • (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur
  • (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America
  • (v. t.) To render sable or dark

    Sabot
  • (n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries

    Sabre
  • (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter
  • (v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber

    Sabulous
  • (a.) Sandy

    Sac
  • (n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior

    Saccade
  • (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull

    Saccate
  • (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch

    Saccharate
  • (n.) A salt of saccharic acid.

    Saccharify
  • (v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

    Saccharimeter
  • (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts

    Saccharin
  • (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid

    Saccharometer
  • (n.) A saccharimeter.

    Saccharose
  • (n.) Cane sugar

    Saccular
  • (a.) Like a sac

    Saccule
  • (n.) A little sac

    Sacerdotal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests

    Sachem
  • (n.) A chief of a tribe of the American Indians

    Sachet
  • (n.) A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them

    Sack
  • (n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind
  • (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

    Sacral
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum

    Sacrament
  • (n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers
  • (v. t.) To bind by an oath.

    Sacrarium
  • (n.) A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.

    Sacred
  • (a.) Consecrated

    Sacrifice
  • (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity
  • (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar

    Sacrificial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices

    Sacrilege
  • (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things

    Sacrilegious
  • (a.) Violating sacred things

    Sacristan
  • (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general

    Sacristy
  • (n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept

    Sacrosanct
  • (a.) Sacred

    Sacrum
  • (n.) That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis

    Sad
  • (supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness
  • (v. t.) To make sorrowful

    Sadden
  • (v. i.) To become, or be made, sad.
  • (v. t.) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.

    Saddle
  • (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar
  • (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon

    Sadducee
  • (n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels

    Sadiron
  • (n.) An iron for smoothing clothes

    Safe
  • (n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
  • (superl.) Conferring safety
  • (v. t.) To render safe

    Safflower
  • (n.) A dyestuff from these flowers.

    Saffron
  • (a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers
  • (n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas
  • (v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron

    Safranine
  • (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool

    Sag
  • (n.) State of sinking or bending
  • (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way

    Saga
  • (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people

    Sage
  • (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc
  • (superl.) Grave

    Sagitta
  • (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly

    Sago
  • (n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick

    Said
  • (a.) Before-mentioned
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Say

    Saiga
  • (n.) 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

    Sail
  • (n.) 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
  • (v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel

    Sainfoin
  • (n.) A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).

    Saint
  • (n.) A person sanctified
  • (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.
  • (v. t.) To make a saint of

    Saiva
  • (n.) One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration.

    Sake
  • (n.) Final cause

    Saki
  • (n.) 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

    Sal
  • (n.) An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable

    Salaam
  • (v. i.) To make or perform a salam.

    Salable
  • (a.) Capable of being sold

    Salacious
  • (n.) Having a propensity to venery

    Salad
  • (n.) A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments

    Salamander
  • (n.) A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc

    Salaried
  • (a.) Receiving a salary

    Sale
  • (v. t.) Opportunity of selling

    Salian
  • (a.) Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala
  • (n.) A Salian Frank.

    Salic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.

    Salience
  • (n.) The quality or condition of being salient

    Salient
  • (a.) A salient angle or part
  • (v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention

    Saliferous
  • (a.) Producing, or impregnated with, salt.

    Salimeter
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.

    Salina
  • (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

    Saline
  • (a.) A salt spring
  • (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.

    Salinometer
  • (n.) A salimeter.

    Salique
  • (a.) Salic.

    Saliva
  • (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands.

    Sallet
  • (n.) A light kind of helmet, with or without a visor, introduced during the 15th century.

    Sallow
  • (n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S
  • (superl.) Having a yellowish color
  • (v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.

    Sally
  • (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like
  • (v. i.) To leap or rush out

    Salmagundi
  • (n.) A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.

    Salmon
  • (a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
  • (v.) 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

    Salon
  • (n.) An apartment for the reception and exhibition of works of art

    Saloon
  • (n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art

    Saloop
  • (n.) An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London

    Salp
  • (n.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.

    Salt
  • (n.) A dish for salt at table
  • (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution
  • (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber

    Salubrious
  • (a.) Favorable to health

    Salutary
  • (a.) Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose

    Salutation
  • (n.) The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions

    Salutatorian
  • (n.) The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college

    Salutatory
  • (a.) Containing or expressing salutations
  • (n.) A place for saluting or greeting

    Salute
  • (v.) A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc
  • (v. t.) Hence, to give a sign of good will

    Salvable
  • (a.) Capable of being saved

    Salvage
  • (a. & n.) Savage.
  • (n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.

    Salvation
  • (n.) Saving power

    Salve
  • (interj.) Hail!
  • (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores
  • (v. t.) To say "Salve" to
  • (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

    Salvia
  • (n.) A genus of plants including the sage.

    Salvific
  • (a.) Tending to save or secure safety.

    Salvo
  • (n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification

    Sam
  • (a.) Together.

    Samara
  • (n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm

    Samaritan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samaria

    Samarium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.

    Samarskite
  • (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals

    Sambo
  • (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro

    Sambur
  • (n.) An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs

    Same
  • (v. i.) Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.

    Samian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Samos.

    Samiel
  • (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria

    Samisen
  • (n.) A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.

    Samite
  • (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.

    Samlet
  • (n.) The parr.

    Samoan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants
  • (n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.

    Samovar
  • (n.) A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn

    Samp
  • (n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk

    Samson
  • (n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength

    Samurai
  • (n. pl. & sing.) In the former feudal system of Japan, the class or a member of the class, of military retainers of the daimios, constituting the gentry or lesser nobility

    Sanative
  • (a.) Having the power to cure or heal

    Sanatorium
  • (n.) An establishment for the treatment of the sick

    Sanbenito
  • (n.) A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fe

    Sanctify
  • (v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to

    Sanctimonious
  • (a.) Making a show of sanctity

    Sanction
  • (n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another
  • (v. t.) To give sanction to

    Sanctity
  • (n.) A saint or holy being.

    Sanctuary
  • (n.) A house consecrated to the worship of God

    Sanctum
  • (n.) A sacred place

    Sanctus
  • (n.) An anthem composed for these words.

    Sand
  • (n.) A single particle of such stone.
  • (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

    Sane
  • (a.) Being in a healthy condition

    Sangaree
  • (n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced

    Sanguinaria
  • (n.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family.

    Sanguinary
  • (a.) Attended with much bloodshed

    Sanguine
  • (a.) Anticipating the best
  • (n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
  • (v. t.) To stain with blood

    Sanicle
  • (n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.

    Sanidine
  • (n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte

    Sanitarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health
  • (n.) An advocate of sanitary measures

    Sanitarium
  • (n.) A health station or retreat

    Sanitary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to health

    Sanitation
  • (n.) The act of rendering sanitary

    Sanity
  • (n.) The condition or quality of being sane

    Sankhya
  • (n.) A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness

    Sannup
  • (n.) A male Indian

    Sans
  • (prep.) Without

    Santonin
  • (n.) A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic

    Sap
  • (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc
  • (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining
  • (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm

    Sapajou
  • (n.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails

    Sapid
  • (a.) Having the power of affecting the organs of taste

    Sapient
  • (a.) Wise

    Sapindaceous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera

    sapling
  • (n.) A young tree.

    Sapodilla
  • (n.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota)

    Saponaceous
  • (a.) Resembling soap

    Saponify
  • (v. t.) To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat

    Saponin
  • (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc

    Saponite
  • (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock

    Sapor
  • (n.) Power of affecting the organs of taste

    Sapota
  • (n.) The sapodilla.

    Sapper
  • (n.) One who saps

    Sapphic
  • (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho
  • (n.) A Sapphic verse.

    Sapphire
  • (a.) Of or resembling sapphire
  • (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue

    Sapphirine
  • (n.) Resembling sapphire

    Saprophagous
  • (a.) Feeding on carrion.

    Saprophyte
  • (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe

    Sapsago
  • (n.) A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

    Sapwood
  • (n.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely

    Saraband
  • (n.) A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time

    Saracen
  • (n.) Anciently, an Arab

    Sarcasm
  • (n.) A keen, reproachful expression

    Sarcenet
  • (n.) A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.

    Sarcoid
  • (a.) Resembling flesh, or muscle

    Sarcolemma
  • (n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber

    Sarcoma
  • (n.) A tumor of fleshy consistence

    Sarcophagus
  • (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above

    Sarcous
  • (a.) Fleshy

    Sard
  • (n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.

    Saree
  • (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder

    Sargasso
  • (n.) The gulf weed.

    Sargassum
  • (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed.

    Sarmentose
  • (a.) Bearing sarments

    Sarong
  • (n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.

    Saros
  • (n.) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years

    Sarracenia
  • (n.) A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs

    Sarsaparilla
  • (n.) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.

    Sarsen
  • (n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs

    Sartorial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.

    Sartorius
  • (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee

    Sash
  • (n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise
  • (v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.

    Sasin
  • (n.) The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, / cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness

    Sassafras
  • (n.) An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale)

    Sat
  • (imp.) of Sit
  • (p. p.) of Sit

    Satan
  • (n.) The grand adversary of man

    Satchel
  • (n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel

    Sate
  • (v. t.) To satisfy the desire or appetite of

    Satiate
  • (a.) Filled to satiety
  • (v. t.) To full beyond natural desire

    Satiety
  • (n.) The state of being satiated or glutted

    Satin
  • (n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.

    Satire
  • (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation

    Satirical
  • (a.) Censorious

    Satirist
  • (n.) One who satirizes

    Satirize
  • (v. t.) To make the object of satire

    Satisfaction
  • (n.) Settlement of a claim, due, or demand

    Satisfactory
  • (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction

    Satisfy
  • (a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing)
  • (v. i.) To give satisfaction

    Satrap
  • (n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia

    Saturable
  • (a.) Capable of being saturated

    Saturant
  • (a.) Impregnating to the full
  • (n.) An antacid, as magnesia, used to correct acidity of the stomach.

    Saturate
  • (p. a.) Filled to repletion
  • (v. t.) To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked

    Saturation
  • (n.) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white

    Saturday
  • (n.) The seventh or last day of the week

    Saturn
  • (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter

    Satyr
  • (n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings

    Sauce
  • (n.) A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish
  • (v. t.) To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish

    Saucy
  • (superl.) Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence

    Sauerkraut
  • (n.) Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt

    Sauger
  • (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense)

    Sault
  • (n.) A rapid in some rivers

    Saunter
  • (n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.
  • (n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner

    Saurel
  • (n.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T

    Saurian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria.
  • (n.) One of the Sauria.

    Saury
  • (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws

    Sausage
  • (n.) An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal

    Sauterne
  • (n.) A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.

    Savanna
  • (n.) A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate

    Savant
  • (a.) A man of learning

    Save
  • (a.) Except
  • (conj.) Except
  • (n.) The herb sage, or salvia.
  • (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure

    Saving
  • (a.) Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste
  • (n.) Exception
  • (participle) With the exception of

    Savior
  • (v.) One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

    Savor
  • (a.) Hence, specific flavor or quality
  • (n.) To have a particular smell or taste
  • (v. t.) To have the flavor or quality of

    Savoy
  • (n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves

    Saw
  • (imp.) of See
  • (n.) An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing
  • (v. i.) To be cut with a saw
  • (v. t.) Also used figuratively

    Sawbones
  • (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.

    Sawbuck
  • (n.) A sawhorse.

    Sawdust
  • (n.) Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

    Sawfish
  • (n.) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays

    Sawfly
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae

    Sawhorse
  • (n.) A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand

    Sawmill
  • (n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

    Sawtooth
  • (n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated

    Sawyer
  • (n.) A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current

    Sax
  • (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

    Saxatile
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rocks

    Saxhorn
  • (n.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras

    Saxicolous
  • (a.) Growing on rocks.

    Saxifrage
  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions

    Saxon
  • (a.) Anglo-Saxon.
  • (n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.

    Saxophone
  • (n.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet

    Say
  • (imp.) Saw.
  • (n.) A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth.
  • (v. i.) To speak
  • (v. t.) A speech

    Saying
  • (n.) That which is said

    Scabbard
  • (n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept
  • (v. t.) To put in a scabbard.

    Scabby
  • (superl.) Affected with scabs

    Scabies
  • (n.) The itch.

    Scabious
  • (a.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected

    Scad
  • (n.) A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American

    Scaffold
  • (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace
  • (v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

    Scagliola
  • (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc

    Scalable
  • (a.) Capable of being scaled.

    Scalar
  • (n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction

    Scalawag
  • (n.) A scamp

    Scald
  • (a.) Affected with the scab
  • (n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
  • (v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam

    Scale
  • (n.) A basis for a numeral system
  • (v. i.) To lead up by steps
  • (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

    Scaling
  • (a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish

    Scallion
  • (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine

    Scallop
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae
  • (v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell

    Scalp
  • (n.) A bed of oysters or mussels.
  • (v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market
  • (v. t.) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.

    Scaly
  • (a.) Composed of scales lying over each other

    Scammony
  • (n.) An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste

    Scamp
  • (a.) To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner
  • (n.) A rascal

    Scan
  • (v. t.) To mount by steps

    Scape
  • (n.) A freak
  • (v. t. & i.) To escape.

    Scaphoid
  • (a.) Resembling a boat in form
  • (n.) The scaphoid bone.

    Scapolite
  • (n.) A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda

    Scapula
  • (n.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.

    Scar
  • (n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
  • (v. i.) To form a scar.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.

    Scat
  • (interj.) Go away

    Scaup
  • (n.) A bed or stratum of shellfish

    Scaur
  • (n.) A precipitous bank or rock

    Scavenge
  • (v. i.) To remove the burned gases from the cylinder after a working stroke
  • (v. t.) To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

    Scena
  • (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria

    Scene
  • (n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape
  • (v. t.) To exhibit as a scene

    Scenography
  • (n.) The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane

    Scent
  • (n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it
  • (v. i.) To have a smell.
  • (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor

    Sceptre
  • (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority
  • (v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority


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