| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| sabaean | adjective & noun | Same as Sabian. |
| sabaism | noun | See Sabianism. |
| sabaoth | noun pl. | Armies; hosts., Incorrectly, the Sabbath. |
| sabbath | noun | 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 Lord’s Day., The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival., Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like. |
| sabeism | noun | Same as Sabianism. |
| sabella | noun | A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head. |
| sabered | imp. & past participle | of Sabre |
| sabring | of Sabre | |
| sabling | present participle & vb. noun | of Sable |
| saccade | noun | A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull. |
| saccate | adjective | Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal., Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted. |
| saccule | noun | A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear. |
| sacculi | plural | of Sacculus |
| sacella | plural | of Sacellum |
| saciety | noun | Satiety. |
| sacking | present participle & vb. noun | of Sack, Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made. |
| sackage | noun | The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. |
| sackbut | noun | 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. |
| sackful | noun | As much as a sack will hold., Bent on plunder. |
| sacrate | verb t. | To consecrate. |
| sacring | a. & n. from Sacre. | |
| sacrist | noun | A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books. |
| saddled | imp. & past participle | of Saddle, Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed. |
| saddler | noun | One who makes saddles., A harp seal. |
| sadiron | noun | An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron. |
| sadness | noun | Heaviness; firmness., Seriousness; gravity; discretion., Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. |
| safflow | noun | The safflower. |
| saffron | noun | A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus., The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine., An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus., Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer., To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice. |
| sagging | present participle & vb. noun | of Sag, 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. |
| sagapen | noun | Sagapenum. |
| sagathy | noun | A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric. |
| sagitta | noun | A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow., The keystone of an arch., The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; — so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string., The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes., A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha. |
| sahibah | noun | A lady; mistress. |
| sahidic | adjective | Same as Thebaic. |
| sahlite | noun | See Salite. |
| sailing | present participle & vb. noun | of Sail, 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., The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing. |
| sainted | imp. & past participle | of Saint, Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious., Entered into heaven; — a euphemism for dead. |
| saintly | superl. | Like a saint; becoming a holy person. |
| saivism | noun | The worship of Siva. |
| sakeret | noun | The male of the saker (a). |
| salable | adjective | Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. |
| saliant | adjective | Same as Salient. |
| salicin | noun | 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 | noun | The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds. |
| salient | verb i. | Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping., Shooting out or up; springing; projecting., Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable., Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; — opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion., Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient., A salient angle or part; a projection. |
| saligot | noun | The water chestnut (Trapa natans). |
| salique | adjective | Salic. |
| salival | adjective | Salivary. |
| salices | plural | of Salix |
| sallied | imp. & past participle | of Sally |
| sallies | plural | of Sally |
| salmiac | noun | Sal ammoniac. See under Sal. |
| salmons | plural | of Salmon |
| salogen | noun | A halogen. |
| salpian | noun | Alt. of Salpid |
| salpinx | noun | The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube. |
| salsafy | noun | See Salsify. |
| salsify | noun | See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster. |
| salsoda | noun | See Sal soda, under Sal. |
| salsola | noun | A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort. |
| salting | present participle & vb. noun | of Salt, The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt., A salt marsh. |
| saltant | verb | Leaping; jumping; dancing., In a leaping position; springing forward; — applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc. |
| saltate | verb i. | To leap or dance. |
| saltcat | noun | A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons. |
| saltern | noun | A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works. |
| saltier | noun | See Saltire. |
| saltire | verb | A St. Andrew’s cross, or cross in the form of an X, — one of the honorable ordinaries. |
| saltish | adjective | Somewhat salt. |
| saluted | imp. & past participle | of Salute |
| saluter | noun | One who salutes. |
| salvage | noun | The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea., The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril., That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved., Savage. |
| salving | present participle & vb. noun | of Salve |
| samarra | noun | See Simar. |
| sambuke | noun | An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown. |
| samette | noun | See Samite. |
| sammier | noun | A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning. |
| samovar | noun | 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. |
| sampler | noun | One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler., A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. |
| samshoo | noun | Alt. of Samshu |
| sanable | adjective | Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy. |
| sanctum | noun | A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor’s sanctum. |
| sanctus | noun | A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; — called also Tersanctus., An anthem composed for these words. |
| sanding | present participle & vb. noun | of Sand |
| sanders | noun | An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood. |
| sandish | adjective | Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact. |
| sandman | noun | A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them. |
| sandpit | noun | A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken. |
| sangiac | noun | See Sanjak. |
| sanhita | noun | A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda. |
| sanicle | noun | Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers. |
| sanious | adjective | Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer., Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer. |
| sankhya | noun | 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. |
| santees | noun pl. | One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas. |
| sapping | present participle & vb. noun | of Sap |
| sapajou | noun | Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin. |
| saphead | noun | A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. |
| sapient | adjective | Wise; sage; discerning; — often in irony or contempt. |
| sapless | adjective | Destitute of sap; not juicy., Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. |
| sapling | noun | A young tree. |
| saponin | noun | A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type. |
| saponul | noun | A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil. |
| sappare | noun | Kyanite. |
| sapphic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse., Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; — said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl., A Sapphic verse. |
| sapsago | noun | A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot. |
| sapwood | noun | 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; — distinguished from heartwood. |
| saracen | noun | Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. |
| sarasin | noun | See Sarrasin. |
| sarcasm | noun | A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. |
| sarcina | noun | A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. |
| sarcode | noun | A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm. |
| sarcoid | adjective | Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode. |
| sarcoma | noun | A tumor of fleshy consistence; — formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance. |
| sarcous | adjective | Fleshy; — applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed. |
| sardine | noun | Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden., See Sardius. |
| sardius | noun | A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron’s breastplate. |
| sardoin | noun | Sard; carnelian. |
| sarigue | noun | A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face. |
| sarking | noun | Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes. |
| sarment | noun | A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner. |
| sarplar | noun | A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight. |
| sashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Sash |
| sashery | noun | A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes. |
| sashoon | noun | A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot. |
| sassaby | noun | Alt. of Sassabye |
| satanic | adjective | Alt. of Satanical |
| satchel | noun | A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag. |
| satiate | adjective | Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; — followed by with or of., To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense., To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut., To saturate. |
| satiety | noun | The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. |
| satinet | noun | A thin kind of satin., A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers. |
| satiric | adjective | Alt. of Satirical |
| satisfy | adjective | In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for., To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor., To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution., To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one’s self by inquiry., To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired., To make payment or atonement; to atone. |
| satrapy | noun | The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality. |
| satyric | adjective | Alt. of Satyrical |
| saucing | present participle & vb. noun | of Sauce |
| saucily | adverb | In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness. |
| saunter | noun & verb | To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter., A sauntering, or a sauntering place. |
| saurian | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria., One of the Sauria. |
| sauroid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the saurians., Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish. |
| sauries | plural | of Saury |
| sausage | noun | 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., A saucisson. See Saucisson. |
| sautrie | noun | Psaltery. |
| savable | adjective | Capable of, or admitting of, being saved. |
| savanna | noun | A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, — as grass or reeds, — but destitute of trees. |
| savants | plural | of Savant |
| saveloy | noun | A kind of dried sausage. |
| savored | imp. & past participle | of Savor |
| savorly | adjective | Savory., In a savory manner. |
| sawbill | noun | The merganser. |
| sawbuck | noun | A sawhorse. |
| sawdust | noun | Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw. |
| sawfish | noun | 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. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey. |
| sawmill | noun | A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber. |
| saw-set | noun | An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; — called also saw-wrest. |
| saxhorn | noun | 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. |
| saxonic | adjective | Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons. |
| sayette | noun | A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy. |