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consists essentially of a vertical wheel to
which earthen pots are attached on project-
ing spokes, a second vertical wheel on the
same axis with cogs, and a large hori-
zontal cogged wheel, which gears with
the other cogged wheel. The large
wheel being turned by oxen or other
draught animals puts in motion the
other two wheels, the one carrying the
pitchers dipping into a well or a deep
pit adjoining and supplied with water
from a river. The pitchers are thus
emptied into a tank at a higher level,
whence the water is led off in a net-
work of channels over the neighbouring
fields. Instead of the pitchers being at-
tached directly to the wheel, when the
level of the water is very low they are
attached to an endless rope. The con-
struction of these machines is usually
very rude.

Saleability (sal-a-bil'i-ti), n. Same as
Saleableness. Carlyle.

Salomonian, Salomonic (sal-o-mo'-
ni-an, sal-o-mon'ik), a. [L. Salomon,
Solomon.] Pertaining or relating to
King Solomon or composed by him.

Beyond doubt many of his aphorisms are to be found in the book of Proverbs. Yet this book is not all Salomonic. Prof. W. R. Smith.

Salopian (sa-lo'pi-an), a. Pertaining or relating to salep or salop; consisting of or prepared from salep; producing or making a preparation of salep. Salopian coffeehouses. C. Lamb.

Salt, n. [add.]-To eat one's salt, to become united by sacred bonds of hospitality: a phrase borrowed from Arab notions.

One does not eat a man's salt, as it were, at these dinners. There is nothing sacred in this kind of Lon. don hospitality. Thackeray.

-To put, cast, or lay salt on the tail of, a phrase equivalent to to capture, to catch, children having been told from hoary antiquity that they can catch birds by putting salt on their tails.

Such great atchievements cannot fail

To cast salt on a woman's tail. Hudibras. Were you coming near him with soldiers and constables... you will never lay salt on his tail. Sir W. Scott. Saltee (sal' të), n. [Corrupted from It. soldi, pl. of soldo, a coin nearly equivalent to a halfpenny.] A penny. [Slang.]

It had rained all day kicks in lieu of saltees. C. Reade. Salvation, n. [add.]-Salvation Army, a society organized for the religious revival of the masses, and having its proceedings conducted by generals, majors, captains, &c., of either sex, their affairs in other respects also being characterized by military forms.

Salvationist (sal-va'shon-ist), n. A member
of the Salvation Army.
Samaritanism (sa-mar'i-tan-izm), n. [See
SAMARITAN, 3.] Charitableness; philan-
thropy; benevolence.

Mankind are getting mad with humanity and Sa-
Sydney Smith.

maritanism.

Sample-room (sam'pl-röm), n. A room where samples are kept and shown. In the United States, often applied to a place where liquor is sold by the glass; a tap-room; a grog-shop.

Sanctanimity (sangk-ta-nim'i-ti), n. [L. sanctus, holy, and animus, the mind.] Holiness of mind.

A hath' or a 'thou,' delivered with conventional unction, well nigh inspires a sensation of solemnity in its hearer, and a persuasion of the sanctanimity of its utterer. Fitzedward Hall.

Sandjak (san'jak), n. Same as Sanjak. Sandlark (sand'lark), n. Probably the rock or shore pipit.

Along the river's stony marge

The sandlark chants a joyous song.

Wordsworth. Sannup (san'nup), n. Among the American Indians, a married male member of the community; the husband of a squaw. 'Mindful still of sannup and of squaw.' Emerson. Sansappel (sanz-a-pel), n. [Fr. sans, without, and appel, appeal] A person from whose decision there is no appeal; one whose opinion is decisive; an infallible person.

He had followed in full faith such a sansappel as he held Frank to be. Kingsley. Sapidless (sap'id-les), a. [A badly formed word.] Without taste, savour, or relish; insipid. Expecting some savoury mess, and to find one quite tasteless and sapidless.' C. Lamb.

Sarcolobe (särkō-lōb), n. [Gr. sarx, sarkos, flesh, and lobos, a lobe.] In bot. a thick

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fleshy cotyledon, as that of the bean or pea.

Sarcosperm (sär'ko-sperm), n. [Gr. sarx,

Sakieh.

sarkos, flesh, and sperma, a seed.] Same as | Sarcoderm.

Sasarara (sas-a-ra'ra), n. [A suggested etymology is certiorari: comp. præmunire in Supp.] A word formerly used to emphasize a threat, much in the same way as 'vengeance.

Out she shall pack, with a sasarara. Goldsmith. Satinity (sa-tin'i-ti), n. The quality of being satiny, or smooth and glossy; a soft smoothness like that of satin. The smooth satinity of his style.' C. Lamb. Sbirro (zber'ro), n. pl. Sbirri (zber'rë). [It.] An Italian police-officer. Scallop, n. [add.] A lace band or collar, scalloped round the edges.

Made myself fine with Capt. Ferrers's lace band, being loth to wear my own new scallop it is so fine.

Pepys.

Scalpless (skalp'les), a. Without a scalp. The top of his scalpless skull.' Kingsley. Scapulimancy (skap'ul-i-man-si), n. [L. scapula, the shoulder-blade, and Gr. manteia, divination.] Same as Omoplatoscopy (which see in Supp.).

Scare-sinner (skar'sin-èr), n. One who or that which frightens sinners.

Do stop that death-looking, long-striding scoundrel of a scare-sinner (Death) who is posting after me. Sterne.

Scarpines (skär'pinz), n. pl. [Fr. escarpins.] An instrument of torture resembling the boot.

Being twice racked . . . I was put to the scar. pines, whereof I am, as you see, somewhat lame of one leg. Kingsley. Scary (ska'ri), a. Subject to a scare; alarmed; frightened; scared. [Colloq. United States.] Whittier. Sceptral (sep'tral), a. Pertaining to or resembling a sceptre. 'Large red lilies of love, sceptral and tall.' Swinburne. Sceptry (sep'tri), a. Bearing a sceptre; sceptred; royal. His highness Ludolph's sceptry hand.' Keats. Schizognathae (shiz-og'na-the), n. pl. [Gr. schizo, to cleave, and gnathos, jaw-bone.] A sub-order of carinate birds, proposed by Huxley to include the Gallina, Grallæ, and Natatores of Cuvier.

Scholar, n. [add.]-Scholar's mate, in chess, a simple mode of checkmate, frequently practised on inexperienced players, in which the skilled player's queen, supported by a bishop, mates the tyro's king in four moves. 'A simple trip, akin to scholar's mate at chess.' H. Kingsley. Scoundreldom (skoun'drel dum), n. The character, habits, or practices of a scoundrel; the community of scoundrels; scoundrels collectively. High-born scoundrel

dom. Froude.

Scrag (skrag), v t. To put to death by hanging; to hang. 'Intimating by a lively pantomimic representation that scragging and hanging were one and the same thing.' Dickens. [Slang.]

Scrappily (skrap'i-li), adv. In scraps or fragments; fragmentarily; desultorily. Mrs. Cowden Clarke.

Scribet (skrib), v.i. To write. 'Doing nothing but scribble and scribe.' Miss Burney. Scriven (skriv'n), v. t. and i. To write in a scrivener-like manner. A mortgage scriv ened up to ten skins of parchment. Roger North. 'Two or three hours' hard scrivening.' Miss Edgeworth. Scrymet (skrim). v.i. [Fr. escrimer.] To fence. 'Some new-fangled French devil's

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device of scryming and fencing with his point. Kingsley. Scunner (skun'èr), v. t. To affect with loathing, disgust, or nausea; to satiate. 'Scunnered wi' sweets.' Kingsley. [Scotch.] Scutter (skut'èr), n. A hasty, noisy, short run; a scuttle; a scamper. A scutter downstairs.' E. Bronte. [Provin cial.] Scythe-whet (sITH'whet), n. A name

given in the United States to the bird
Turdus fuscescens (Wilson's thrush).
from the sharp metallic ring of its note.
J. R. Lowell.

Sea-island (se'i-land), a. A term ap-
plied to a fine long-stapled variety of
cotton grown on the islands off the coast
of South Carolina and Georgia.
Sea-surgeon (se'sèr-jun), n. Same as
Surgeon-fish.

Secret, n. [add.] A light flexible coat of chain-mail worn under the ordinary outer garments. Sir W. Scott. Segment (segment), v.t. To separate or divide into segments; as, a segmented cell. Seismometry (sis-mom'et-ri), n. The measurement of the force and direction of earthquakes, &c.; the art or practice of using the seismometer.

Selictar (se-lik'tär), n. The sword-bearer of a Turkish chief."

Selictar! unsheathe then our chief's scimitar.
Byron.

Sempstry-work (semp'stri- werk), n. Needle-work; sewing. Henry Brooke. Sense-rhythm (sens'rithm), n. An arrange ment of words characteristic of Hebrew poetry, in which the rhythm consists not in a rise and fall of accent or quantity of syllables, but in a pulsation of sense rising and falling through the parallel, antithetic, or otherwise balanced members of each verse; parallelism. Prof. W. R. Smith. Sensifacient (sen-si-fa'shi-ent), a. [L. sensus, sense, and facio, to make.] Producing sensation; sensific. Huxley.

Sensificatory (sen-sif'i-ka-to-ri), a. Sensifacient; sensific. Huxley. Sensigenous (sen-sij'e-nus), a. [L. sensus, sense, and gen, root of gigno, to beget.] Originating or causing sensation. The sensitive subject, the sensigenous object.' Huxley.

Same

Sermoner (ser'mon-ér), n. Same as Sermonizer. Thackeray. Serpentinian (sér-pen-tin'i-an), n. as Ophite. Sesquibasic (ses'kwi-ba-sik), a. [L. sesqui, one and a half, and basis, a base.] In chem. a term applied to a salt containing one and a half equivalents of the base for each equivalent of acid.

Sesquipedalianism (ses'kwi-pe-da "li-anizm), n. The state or quality of being sesMasquipedalian; the use of long words. ters of hyperpolysyllabic sesquipedalianism.' Fitzedward Hall. 1. Same as Sestet. Sestette (ses-tet), n. 2. The two concluding stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of three verses each; the last six lines of a sonnet.

Sewellel (se-wel'el), n. [Indian name.] A gregarious American rodent which unites some of the characteristics of the beaver with those of the squirrel family and the prairie-dog. It is remarkable for its rootless molars. It is about the size of a muskrat, and the reddish-brown skin which covers its plump heavy body is much used by the Indians as an article of dress. Shabby-genteel (shab'i-jen-tel"), a. Retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility; aping gentility but really shabby. Thackeray.

Shake-bag (shak'bag), n. A large-sized variety of game-cock.

I would pit her for a cool hundred. . . against the Smollett. best shake-bag of the whole main. Shawl-waistcoat (shal'wast-kōt), n. A vest or waistcoat with a large prominent pattern like a shawl. Thackeray. Shearhog (sher'hog), n. A ram or wether after the first shearing: provincially pronounced as if written sherrug or sharrag To talk of shearhogs and ewes to men who habitually said sharrags and yowes.' George Eliot.

Shedding, n. [add.] A parting or branching off, as of two roads; the angle or place where two roads meet. That shedding of the roads which marks the junction of the highways coming down for Glasgow and Edinburgh.' W. Black.

SHEEP

Sheep, ". [add] Leather prepared from sheep-skin; as, a book bound in sheep or in half-sheep.

Shell, n. [add.] The semicircular hilt which protected part of the hand in some forms of rapiers. Thackeray.

Sheriat (sher'i-at), n. The sacred or rather civil-religious law of Turkey, which is founded on the Koran, the Sunna or tradition, the commentaries of the first four caliphs, &c.

The Ulema declared that the Sultan ruled the empire as Caliph, that he was bound by the sheriat, or sacred law. . . . Civil law can never take the place of the sheriat, and the emancipation of the Christian subjects of the Porte is an impossibility. Contemp. Rev. Shovel, n. [add.] Same as Shovel-hat.

She was a good woman of business, and managed the hat shop for nine years. . . . My uncle the bishop had his shovels there. Thackeray. Shrew-struck (shrö'struk), a. Poisoned or otherwise harmed by what was formerly believed to be the venomous bite or contact of a shrew-mouse. Kingsley. Shutter (shut'èr), v.t. To provide, protect, or cover over with a shutter or shutters.

The school-house windows were all shuttered up. T. Hughes. Side-slip (sid'slip), n. 1. An illegitimate child. This side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark.' George Eliot.-2. A division at the side of the stage of a theatre, where the scenery is slipped off and on. See SLIPS in Supp.

Sightsman, n. [add.] One who points out the sights or objects of interest of a place; a guide. Evelyn.

Silo (si'lō), n. See ENSILAGE in Supp. Simple, ". Used in the plural in the old phrase, to cut for the simples to perform an operation for the cure of silliness or foolishness.

Indeed, Mr. Neverout, you should be cut for the simples this morning. Swift.

Simulacrum (sim-ū-lá ́krum), n. [L] That which is made like, or formed in the likeness of any object; an image; a form; hence, a mere resemblance as opposed to reality. Thackeray.

Sing, v.i. [add.]-To sing small, to adopt a humble tone; to assume the demeanour of a conquered, inferior, or timid person; to play a very subordinate or insignificant part. I must myself sing small in her company. Sing-song (sing'song), v.i. To chant or sing in a monotonous voice; hence, to compose monotonous, dreary poetry. 'You sit singsonging here. Tennyson.

Richardson.

Sit, vi. [add.]-To sit under, to attend church for the purpose of hearing; to be a member of the congregation of.

There would then also appear in pulpits other visages... than what we now sit under. Milton. The household marched away in separate couples ... each to sit under his or her favourite minister. Thackeray.

Skeary (skeri), a. Alarmed; frightened; scared; scary. [Provincial.]

It is not to be marvelled at that amid such a place as this for the first time visited, the horses were a little skeary. R. D. Blackmore.

Skein (sken), n. A sportman's term applied strictly to a flock or collection of wild geese when on the wing, and also sometimes loosely to wild ducks.

The cur ran into them as a falcon does into a skein of ducks. Kingsley. Skeltering (skel'ter-ing), a. Hurrying; driving; rushing The long dry skeltering wind of March.' R D. Blackmore. Skimpingly (skimp'ing li), adv. In a skimping, niggardly, insufficient manner; parsimoniously; illiberally. Lord Lytton. Skip, n. [add] A place skipped over; espe cially, a dry, uninteresting passage or portion of a book passed intentionally over in reading. [Colloq.]

No man who has written so much is so seldom tiresome. In his books there are scarcely any of those passages which in our school days we used to call skip Macaulay.

Skip (skip), n. In the games of bowls and curling, an experienced player chosen by each of the rival parties or sides as their leader, director, or captain, and who usually plays the last bowl or stone which his team has to play.

Skyless (skiles), a. Without sky; cloudy; dark; thick. A soulless, skyless, catarrhal day. Kingsley. Sky-parlour (ski' pär-lêr), n. The room next the sky, or at the top of a building; hence, an attic. Dickens. [Humorous.]

They lived in the same street... dined at the same slap-bang every day. Dickens.

Sleek (slěk), v.i. To move in a smooth man-
ner; to glide; to sweep. As the racks came
sleeking on.' L. Hunt. [Rare.]
Sleeken (slek'n), v. t. To make smooth, soft,
or gentle; to sleek. [Rare.]

And all voices that address her
Soften, sleeken every word.

E. B. Browning.

Slips (slips), n. pl. That part of a theatre at the sides of the stage where the wooden scenes are slipped on and off, and where the players may stand before appearing on the scene. Dickens.

Slip-sloppy (slip'slop-i), a. Slushy; wet; muddy. A slip-sloppy day.' R. H. Barham. Slop-dash (slop'dash), n. Weak, cold tea, or other inferior trashy beverage; slip-slop. Does he expect tea can be keeping hot for him to the end of time? He shall have nothing but slop dash. Miss Edgeworth. Slued (slud), a. Intoxicated; drunk. [Slang.] He came into our place at night to take her home; rather sined, but not much. Dickens.

Slughorn (slughorn), n. Same as Slogan. Small-beer. [add.]- To think small beer of, to have a low opinion of; to hold in slight

esteem.

She thinks small beer of painters, J. J.-well, well, we don't think small beer of ourselves, my noble friend. Thackeray.

Smell-trap (smel'trap), n. A drain-trap; a stink-trap. Kingsley. See DRAIN-TRAP. Smithereens, Smithers (smiTH ́ér-énz, smiTH'érz), n. pl. Small fragments. Knocked heaps of things to smithereens. W. Black. 'Smash the bottle to smithers.' Tennyson. [Provincial or colloq.] Snaffling-lay (snaf'ling-la). n. The practice of highway-robbery. Fielding. [Slang.] Snick (snik), v.t. [See the noun.] To cut; to clip. Snicking the corner of her foot off with nurse's scissors. H. Kingsley. Snippetiness (snip'et-i-nes), n. The state or quality of being snippety or fragmentary. Spectator newspaper. Snowbreak (sno brak), n. A melting of snow; a thaw. Carlyle.

Snubbish (snub'ish), a. Tending to snub, check, or repress.

Spirit of Kant, have we not had enough To make religion sad, and sour, and snubbish! Hood. Snubby (snub'i), a. Short or flat. 'Snubby noses. Thackeray. Snuffler, n. [add.] One who makes a pretentious assumption of religion; a religious

canter.

Sollar, n. [add.] In arch. an elevated chamber in a church from which to watch the lamps burning before the altars. Ency. Brit. Sollevate t (solle-vät), v.t. Same as Sullevate. To... sollevate the mob.' Roger North.

Somniatory (som'ni-a-to-ri), a. [L. somnium, a dream.] Of or pertaining to dreams or dreaming; relating to or producing dreams; somniative. Somniatory exercitations.' Urquhart. 'Somniatory vaticinations and predictions.' Southey. Somnivolency (som-niv'o-len-si), n. [L somnus, sleep, and volo, to wish.] Something to induce sleep; a soporific. [Rare.]

These somnivolencies (I hate the word opiates on this occasion) have turned her head. Richardson. Sonnetize (son'et-iz), v.t. To make the subject of a sonnet; to celebrate in a sonnet. Now could I sonnetize thy piteous plight. Southey. Soothingness (söTH'ing-nes), n. The state or quality of being soothing. J. R. Lowell. Sorabian, Sorbian (so-ra'bi-an, sor'bi-an), n. The language of the Wends; Wendic: used also adjectively. Sow-drunk (sou'drungk), a. Drunk as a sow; beastly drunk. Tennyson. Spalpeen (spal'pēn), n. An Irish term of contempt or of very slight commiseration. The poor spalpeen of a priest.' Kingsley. Spasmodist (spaz'mod-ist), n. A spasmodic person; one whose work is of a spasmodic

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character, or marked by an overstrained and unnatural style. Poe.

Spectrality (spek-tral'i-ti), n. Something of a spectral or ghastly nature. 'Nothing but ghastly spectralities prowling round him. Carlyle.

Spellable (spel'a-bl), a. Capable of being spelt or formed by letters. Europe in all its spellable dialects.' Carlyle. Spiflicate (spif'li-kát), v. t. 1. To confound; to dismay; to beat severely. Halliwell. ['mvincial English. 1-2. To stifle; to suffocate; to kill. Scrag Jane while I spificate Johnny.' RH. Barham [Slang ] Spiflication (spif-li-ka'shon), n. The act of spiflicating or state of being spiflicated. [Slang.]

Whose blood he vowed to drink-the Oriental form of threatening spiflication. R. F. Burton,

Spindle-bead (spin'dl-bēd), n. See Reel and bead, under REEL, Supp. Spineless (spin'les), a. Having no spine, or apparently without a spine; limp; flexible. A whole family of Sprites, consisting of a remarkably stout father and three spineless sons.' Dickens.

Spinstress (spin'stres), n. A woman who spins or whose occupation is to spin; a spinster. The good Grecian spinstress (Penelope).' Tom Brown.

Spitz-dog (spitz'dog), n. [G. spitz, pointed.] A small variety of the Pomeranian dog. which has become a favourite lapdog. It has short and erect ears, a pointed muzzle, a curved bushy tail, and long hair, usually white. It is a handsome animal, brisk in its movements, quick of apprehension, but somewhat snappish.

Split-new (split'nú), a. Quite new; brannew; span-new. A split-new democratical system. Bp. Sage. [Scotch.] Spoon-net (spon'net), n. A form of angler's landing-net Kingsley.

Spoony (spon'i), n. Same as Spooney. Like any other spoony.' Charlotte Bronte [Slang.]

Springe (sprinj), a. Active; nimble; brisk; agile. [Provincial English.]

The squire's pretty springe, considering his weight. George Eliot.

Sprucify (spròs′i-fi), v.t. To make spruce or trim; to make brisk, bright, or lively; to smarten. Cotton Squab, a. [add.] Short and dry; tart; abrupt; curt.

We have returned a squab answer, retorting the infraction of treaties. H. Walpole. Squad (skwod), n. 1. Soft slimy mud [Provincial English.]-2. In Cornwall, a miner's term for loose ore of tin mixed with earth.

Squail (skwal), v.i. To throw sticks at a cock; a barbarous sport formerly practised on Shrove Tuesday. Southey. [Provincial English.]

Squireage (skwir'āj),n. The untitled landed gentry; the squires of a country taken collectively. The English Peerage and Squireage. De Morgan. Squirelet (skwir'let), n. A petty squire; a squireling. Carlyle. That class of squirelets... of which Devonshire in the days of Elizabeth was very full.' Fraser's Mag Squirrel-shrew (skwir'rel-shro), n. An animal of the genus Tupaia; a banxring See TUPAIA.

Stag (stag), v.t. To follow warily, as a deerstalker does a deer; to dog or watch. [Slang ] You've been stagging this gentleman and me and listening, have you? H. Kingsity.

Stag, n. [add.] A young cock trained for cock-fighting.

Stageyness (stāj'i-nes), n. The character or quality of being stagey; theatricality. Written also Staginess. To make stark, stiff, or Stark (stärk), v. t. rigid, as in death.

Arise, if horror have not stark'd your limbs. Sir H. Taylor. Starken (stärkn), v.t. To make unbending or inflexible; to stiffen; to make obstinate. Sir H. Taylor. Star-moulding (stärʼmōld-ing), n. In arch

Star-moulding, Romsey Church, Hampshire,

a Norman moulding ornamented with rayed or pointed figures representing stars

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Stereo (ster'ė-o), n. A contraction of Stereotype: used also adjectively; as, a stereo plate.

Stiff (stif), n. In commercial slang, negotiable paper, as a bill, promissory note, or the like. To do a bit of stiff, to accept or discount a bill.

I wish you'd do me a bit of stiff, and just tell your father if I may overdraw iny account I'll vote with him. Thackeray.

Stockbroking (stok'bro-king), n. The business of a stockbroker, or one who, acting for a client, buys or sells stocks or shares, and is paid by commission. Stodgy (stod'ji), a. Crude and indigestible; crammed together roughly, [Colloq. or slang.]

The book has too much the character of a stodgy summary of facts. Sat. Rev.

Stog (stog), v.t. To plunge and fix in mire; to stall in mud; to mire. [Colloq. or slang.] They'll be stogged till the day of judgment; there are bogs in the bottom twenty feet deep. Kingsley. Stone-jug (ston'jug), n. A prison; a jail. See JUG. [Slang.]

C. Reade.

I will sell the bed from under your wife's back, and send you to the stone-jug. Stoop (stop), n. A pillar. Quarles.-Stoop and room, a system of mining coal, where the coal is taken out in parallel spaces, intersected by a similar series of passages at right angles. Between these 'rooms' stoops' of coal are left for the support of the roof of the seam. Called also Pillar and Stall or Post and Stall.

Studentry (stū'dent-ri), n. Students collectively; a body of students. Kingsley. Stumpy (stump'i), n. Money. Forked out

the stumpy. Dickens. 'Down with the stumpy. Kingsley. [Slang.] See under STUMP, v.i.

Stylet, n. [add.] A stiletto. Browning. Subantichrist (sub-an'ti-krist), n. A person or power partially antagonistic to Christ; a lesser antichrist. The very womb for a new subantichrist to breed in." Milton. Sub-blush (sub-blush'), v. i. To blush slightly. 'Raising up her eyes, sub-blushing as she did it." Sterne.

Sub

Subterrestrial (sub-tér-res'tri-al), a. terranean. This subterrestrial country.' Tom Brown.

Subtilizer (sub-til-iz'èr), n. One who subtilizes or makes very nice distinctions; a hair-splitter. A subtilizer, and inventor of unheard-of distinctions.' Roger North. Subventitious (sub-ven-tish'us), a. Affording subvention or relief; aiding; supporting. Urquhart.

Succubine (suk'u-bin), a. Of or pertaining to a succuba, one of a race of demons in female form, akin to the male demons Incubi, supposed to be one of the causes of nightmare. R. H. Barham.

Succumbent (suk-kum'bent), a. Yielding; submissive. Not only succumbent and passive,. but actually subservient and pliable.' Howell. Suitor (sut'or), v.i.

To act as a suitor; to solicit a woman in marriage; to woo; to make love. R. H. Barham. Sumerian (sum-ē'ri-an), n. See ACCADIAN in Supp.

Summerly (sum'ér-li), a. Such as is suitable to summer; like summer. 'As summerly as June and Strawberry-hill.' H. Walpole.

Sunderment (sun'dér-ment), n. The state of being parted or separated; separation.

It was therefore apparent who must be the survivor in case of sunderment. Miss Burney.

Superiorness (su-pe'ri-or-nes), n. Superiority. The great superiorness of learning.' Miss Burney.

Supper (sup'èr), v.t. To give supper to. 'Kester was suppering the horses." Mrs. Gaskell.

Surmisant (sér-miz'ant), n. One who surmises; a surmiser. 'Informants or rather surmisants.' Richardson. Susurrant (su-sur' ant), a. [L. susurro, to hum.] Whispering; susurrous.

kiss.

The soft susurrant sigh, and gently murmuring Antijacobin. Swab, n. [add.] A term applied by sailors to an awkward, clumsy fellow. 'Called him. . . swab and lubbard.' Smollett. Swabbers (swob'èrz), n. pl. An old name for certain cards at whist by which the holder was entitled to a part of the stakes. -Whisk and swabbers, a particular form of whist formerly played.

Whisk and swabbers was the game then in chief
Fielding.

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Swear, v.i. [add.]-To swear by, to treat as an infallible authority; to place great confidence in.

Mrs. Charles quite swears by her, I know.
Miss Austen.

I simply meant to ask if you are one of those who swear by Lord Verulam. Miss Edgeworth.

Swelldom (swel'dum), n. The fashionable world; swells collectively. Thackeray. [Colloq. or humorous.] Swimmable (swim'a-bl), a. Capable of being swum. 'I swam everything swimmable. M. W. Savage. Swindlery (swin'dler-i), n. The acts or practices of a swindler; roguery. Carlyle. Swinery (swin'êr-i), n. A place where swine are kept; a piggery; also, a flock of swine inhabiting such a place. 'And Windsor Park so glorious made a swinery.' Dr. Wolcot. 'The enlightened public one huge Gadarenes' swinery.' Carlyle.

Sword (sōrd), v. t. To strike or slash with a sword. Tennyson.

Sword-stick (sörd'stik), n. A walking-stick in which is concealed a sword or rapier. Syllabize (sil'lab-iz), v. t. To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Tail-end, n. [add.] pl. Inferior corn separated from grain of a superior quality. 'Bread made o' tail-ends.' George Eliot. Talkee-talkee (ta'ke-ta'ke), n. An expres

sion borrowed from the broken English of some barbaric races, and used to denote (1) a corrupt dialect. "The talkee talkee of the slaves in the Sugar Islands.' Southey. (2) Incessant chatter or talk. 'A woman who thinks of nothing living but herselfall talkee talkee.' Miss Edgworth. (3) Bombastic or inflated language. The inflated bulletins of Napoleon, the talkee-talkee of a North American Indian.' S. Phillips. Tambourgi (tam-bör'ji), n. A Turkish drummer. Byron.

Tasar (tas'ar), n. Same as Tusseh-silk. Tavern-token (tav'érn-to-kn), n. A coin of low value, struck by a tavern-keeper in former times, and current among his customers and others on sufferance, owing to the scarcity of legal small currency.-To swallow a tavern-token, a euphemism for to get drunk. B. Jonson.

Teagle (te'gl), n. [Perhaps akin to tug or tackle.] A hoist; an elevator; a lift, such as is used for raising or lowering goods or persons from flat to flat in large establishments. [North of England.] Tellurian (tel-lu'ri-an), a. [L. tellus, telluris, the earth.] Pertaining or relating to the earth or to an inhabitant of the earth. De Quincey. Tellurian (tel-lü'ri-an), n. An inhabitant of the earth. 'If any distant worlds so far ahead of us Tellurians.' De Quincey. Tendriled (ten'drild). a. Furnished with tendrils. The thousand-tendril'd vine.' Southey.

are

Textlet (tekst let), n. A short or small text. Carlyle.

Thersitical (thér-sit'i-kal), a. Resembling or characteristic of Thersites, a scurrilous character in Homer's Iliad; hence, grossly abusive; scurrilous; foul-mouthed. A pelting kind of thersitical satire, as black as the very ink 'tis wrote with.' Sterne. Thirdsman (thérdz'man), n. An umpire; an arbitrator; a mediator.

There should be somebody to come in thirdsman between Death and my principal. Sir W. Scott. Thomasite (tom'as-it), n. One of a religious body of recent origin, who believe that God will raise all who love him to an endless

life in this world, but that those who do not shall absolutely perish in death; that Christ is the Son of God, inheriting moral perfection from the Deity, our human nature from his mother; and that there is no personal devil. Called also Christadelphian. Thornless (thorn'les), a. Free from thorns. 'Youth's gay prime and thornless paths.' Coleridge.

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Tinglish (ting'glish), a. Having a tingling sensation; keenly sensitive. Alive and tinglish, Browning.

To-year,t adv. [Comp. to-day. ] For the present year; this year. J. Webster. Trabecula (tra-bek'ü-la), n. pl. Trabeculæ (tra-bek'u-le). [Dim. of L. trabs, a beam.] In physiol. (a) one of the cartilaginous plates in the embryo lying in front of the parachordals, and from which the vertebrate skull is developed. (b) A bar of supporting tissue penetrating some softer structure. Trabecular (tra-bek'ü-lér), a. Of, pertaining to, or connected with trabecule. Tranquillize (tran'kwil-iz), v. i. To become tranquil.

I'll try, as I ride in my chariot, to tranquillize. Richardson. Transpontine (trans-pon'tin), a. [L. trans, beyond, and pons, pontis, bridge.] Situated beyond the bridge; across the bridge. Transposer (trans-poz'ér), n. One who transposes; as, the transposer has written the tune two tones higher. Transpositor (transpoz'it-ér), n. One who transposes; a transposer. Landor. Trisula (tri-sö'la), n. [Skr.] A kind of trident; in Hind. antiq. a Brahminical and Buddhist threepointed symbol or ornament, representing the trident of Siva, which is considered to be in continual motion over the face of the un

Trisula, from gateway of verse. It is found reSanchi Tope. presented on the end of flagstaffs or standards and on sword-scabbards, and also, more prominently, over the gateways of topes, where it is frequently represented as an object of adoration, surrounded with groups of worshippers. Written also Trisul. Tryma. [add.] May be more accurately defined as a one-seeded fruit with a welldefined stony endocarp, and with the outer portion of the pericarp fleshy, leathery, or fibrous; distinguished from the drupe by being derived from an inferior instead of a superior ovary: exemplified in the walnut. Tsech (chek), n. Same as Czech in Supp.

U.

Uglyt (ug'li), v. t. To make ugly; to disfigure; to uglify. His vices all ugly him over." Richardson.

Unascendable (un-as-send'a-bl), a. Incapable of being ascended, climbed, or mounted; unscaleable. 'Impending crags, rocks unascendable.' Southey.

Unblissful (un-blis'ful), a. Infelicitous; unhappy; miserable. That unblissful clime.' Tennyson.

Unboding (un-bōd'ing), ppr. Not anticipating; not looking for.

Tennyson.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen. Unconformist (un-kon-form'ist), n. A nonconformist. 'An assault of unconformists on church discipline.' Fuller. Of or pertaining Uncular (ung'ku-lér), a. to an uncle; avuncular. [Humorous.] The grave Don... clasped the young gentleman ... to his uncular and rather angular breast. De Quincey. Undulous (un'du-lus), a. Undulating; rising and falling like waves.

He felt the undulous readiness under him.

of her volatile paces R. D. Blackmore. Unfilleted (un-fil'let-ed), a. Not bound up with or as with a fillet. 'Its small handful of wild flowers unfilleted.' Coleridge. Not fleshly; not Unfleshly (un-flesh'li), a. human; incorporeal; spiritual. Those unfleshly eyes, with which they say the very air is thronged. C. Reade.

Unguided Unpiloted (un-pilot-ed), a. through dangers or difficulties. Unpiloted by principle or faith.' Charlotte Bronte. Unquestionability (un-kwest'yun-a-bil"iti), n. That which cannot be questioned

Vaagmar (vägʻmar), n. [Icel. vág-meri, lit. wave-mare.] A northern fish remarkable for the extreme compression of the body, and hence sometimes called the Riband-shaped Vaagmar, and Deal-fish. See DEAL-FISH. Valetudinous † (val-e-tú'di-nus), a. Valetudinarian. "The valetudinous condition of King Edward.' Fuller.

Venerer (ven'èr-ér), n. [See VENERY.] One who watches game; a gamekeeper; a hunter. Our venerers, prickers, and verderers.' Browning

Vert (vert), n. One who goes over from one

Fate, fär, fat, fall; mě, met. her; ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch; g, go;

Old friends call me a pervert; new acquaintances a convert; the other day I was addressed as a 'vert. It took my fancy as offending nobody, if pleasing nobody. Experiences of a 'Vert (1865). Viparious (vi-pā'ri-us), a. [From L. vita, life, or vivus, alive, and pario, to produce.] Life-producing or life-renewing. [Rare.] A cat the most viparious is limited to nine lives. Lord Lytton. Voltaic, a. [add.]-Voltaic arc, in electric lighting, same as Electric Arc. See under ELECTRIC, Supp.

W.

Wave-shell (wav'shel), n.

In earthquake shocks, one of the waves of alternate compression and expansion, having theoretically the form of concentric shells, which are propagated in all directions through the solid materials of the earth's crust from the seismic focus to the earth's surface. Ency. Brit.

Wax, n. [add.] A fit of anger or rage. [Slang.]

She's in a terrible wax, but she'll be all right by the time he comes back from his holidays. H. Kingsley.

nant. [Slang.]

It would cheer him up more than anything if I could make him a little waxy with me. Dickens. Weber (va'ber), n. [From Wilhelm Edouard Weber, a German physicist.] In the system of electro-magnetic units, the unit of magnetic quantity=108 C.G.S. units. Whitwall (whit'wal), n. Same as Witwall.

Y.

Yew, n. [add.] A shooting bow made of the wood of the yew; a yew-bow. Wing'd arrows from the twanging yew.' Gay.

Z.

Zoon (zō'on), n. [Gr., an animal.] An animal having a distinct and independent existence. See extract.

A zoological individual is constituted either by any such single animal as a mammal or bird, which may properly claim the title of a zoon, or by any such group of animals as the numerous medusa that have been developed from the same egg, which are to be severally distinguished as zooids.

oil, pound: u, Sc. abune: w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.

H. Spencer.

y, Sc. fey.

See KEY.