Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
sating |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Sate |
sateen |
noun |
A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin. |
satiny |
adjective |
Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture. |
sation |
noun |
A sowing or planting. |
satire |
adjective |
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal., Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. |
sative |
adjective |
Sown; propagated by seed. |
satrap |
noun |
The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot. |
saturn |
noun |
One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time., One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites., The metal lead. |