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   Sarawak
         n 1: a region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo

English Dictionary: scores by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SARS
n
  1. a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal
    Synonym(s): severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Saurischia
n
  1. extinct terrestrial reptiles: theropods (carnivorous); sauropods (herbivorous)
    Synonym(s): Saurischia, order Saurischia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sawhorse
n
  1. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sayers
n
  1. English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957) [syn: Sayers, Dorothy Sayers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Leigh Sayers]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scarce
adv
  1. only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
    Synonym(s): barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce
adj
  1. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
    Antonym(s): abundant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scherzo
n
  1. a fast movement (usually in triple time)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sciurus
n
  1. type genus of the Sciuridae; typical moderate-sized arboreal squirrels
    Synonym(s): Sciurus, genus Sciurus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scorch
n
  1. a surface burn
    Synonym(s): scorch, singe
  2. a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues
  3. a discoloration caused by heat
v
  1. make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"
    Synonym(s): sear, scorch
  2. become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
    Synonym(s): scorch, sear, singe
  3. destroy completely by or as if by fire; "The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes"; "the invaders scorched the land"
  4. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"
    Synonym(s): char, blacken, sear, scorch
  5. become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; "The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scores
n
  1. a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
    Synonym(s): tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scourge
n
  1. a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
    Synonym(s): scourge, flagellum
  2. something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"
    Synonym(s): bane, curse, scourge, nemesis
  3. a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
    Synonym(s): terror, scourge, threat
v
  1. punish severely; excoriate
  2. whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
    Synonym(s): flagellate, scourge
  3. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
    Synonym(s): lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scours
n
  1. diarrhea in livestock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrag
n
  1. a person who is unusually thin and scrawny [syn: {thin person}, skin and bones, scrag]
    Antonym(s): butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly
  2. lean end of the neck
  3. the lean end of a neck of veal
    Synonym(s): scrag, scrag end
v
  1. strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"
    Synonym(s): garrote, garrotte, garotte, scrag
  2. wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"
    Synonym(s): choke, scrag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scraggy
adj
  1. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
    Synonym(s): scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
  2. having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"
    Synonym(s): jagged, jaggy, scraggy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screak
v
  1. make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"
    Synonym(s): whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak
  2. utter a harsh abrupt scream
    Synonym(s): squawk, screak, skreak, skreigh, screech
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screaky
adj
  1. having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs" [syn: creaky, screaky]
  2. having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge
    Synonym(s): screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screech
n
  1. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes"
    Synonym(s): screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming
  2. sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"
    Synonym(s): scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching
v
  1. make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"
    Synonym(s): whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak
  2. utter a harsh abrupt scream
    Synonym(s): squawk, screak, skreak, skreigh, screech
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screechy
adj
  1. having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge
    Synonym(s): screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
screw key
n
  1. a wrench for turning a screw
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrooge
n
  1. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea horse
n
  1. either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
    Synonym(s): walrus, seahorse, sea horse
  2. small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
    Synonym(s): seahorse, sea horse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea wrack
n
  1. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
    Synonym(s): eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina
  2. growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
    Synonym(s): sea wrack, wrack
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seahorse
n
  1. either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
    Synonym(s): walrus, seahorse, sea horse
  2. small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
    Synonym(s): seahorse, sea horse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
search
n
  1. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
    Synonym(s): search, hunt, hunting
  2. an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
  3. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
    Synonym(s): search, lookup
  4. the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
  5. boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
v
  1. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
    Synonym(s): search, seek, look for
  2. search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
    Synonym(s): search, look
  3. inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
    Synonym(s): research, search, explore
  4. subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Seiurus
n
  1. ovenbirds and water thrushes [syn: Seiurus, {genus Seiurus}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Serax
n
  1. a tranquilizing drug (trade name Serax) used to treat anxiety and insomnia and alcohol withdrawal
    Synonym(s): oxazepam, Serax
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serge
n
  1. a twilled woolen fabric
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
series
n
  1. similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"
  2. a serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series"
    Synonym(s): serial, series
  3. a periodical that appears at scheduled times
    Synonym(s): series, serial, serial publication
  4. (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series"
  5. (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"
  6. a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"
  7. (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serious
adj
  1. concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"
    Antonym(s): frivolous
  2. of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter"
  3. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
    Synonym(s): dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening
  4. appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book"
    Synonym(s): good, serious
  5. completely lacking in playfulness
    Synonym(s): unplayful, serious, sober
    Antonym(s): playful
  6. requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serosa
n
  1. a thin membrane lining the closed cavities of the body; has two layers with a space between that is filled with serous fluid
    Synonym(s): serous membrane, serosa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serous
adj
  1. of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sewerage
n
  1. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewage, sewerage]
  2. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
    Synonym(s): sewer, sewerage, cloaca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shark
n
  1. any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
  2. a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
  3. a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark"
v
  1. play the shark; act with trickery
  2. hunt shark
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shears
n
  1. large scissors with strong blades
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Shiraz
n
  1. a city in central southwestern Iran; ruins of ancient Persepolis are nearby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shirk
v
  1. avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
    Synonym(s): fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
  2. avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shrewish
adj
  1. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"
    Synonym(s): shrewish, nagging
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shriek
n
  1. sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"
    Synonym(s): scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching
  2. a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes"
    Synonym(s): screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming
v
  1. utter a shrill cry [syn: shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shrike
n
  1. any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shrug
n
  1. a gesture involving the shoulders
v
  1. raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sirach
n
  1. an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)
    Synonym(s): Ben Sira, Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SIRC
n
  1. an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies
    Synonym(s): Security Intelligence Review Committee, SIRC
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
siris
n
  1. large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind
    Synonym(s): siris, siris tree, Albizia lebbeck, Albizzia lebbeck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sirius
n
  1. the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major [syn: Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sirocco
n
  1. a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand; "it was the kind of duster not experienced in years"
    Synonym(s): dust storm, duster, sandstorm, sirocco
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skew arch
n
  1. an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ski race
n
  1. a race between people wearing skis [syn: ski race, skiing race]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ski rack
n
  1. a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skreak
v
  1. make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"
    Synonym(s): whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak
  2. utter a harsh abrupt scream
    Synonym(s): squawk, screak, skreak, skreigh, screech
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skreigh
v
  1. utter a harsh abrupt scream [syn: squawk, screak, skreak, skreigh, screech]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sorex
n
  1. type genus of the family Soricidae: shrews [syn: Sorex, genus Sorex]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorgho
n
  1. any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup
    Synonym(s): sorgo, sorgho, sweet sorghum, sugar sorghum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorgo
n
  1. any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup
    Synonym(s): sorgo, sorgho, sweet sorghum, sugar sorghum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorus
n
  1. a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi
  2. cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
source
n
  1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
    Synonym(s): beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
  2. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
  3. anything that provides inspiration for later work
    Synonym(s): source, seed, germ
  4. a facility where something is available
  5. a person who supplies information
    Synonym(s): informant, source
  6. someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
    Synonym(s): generator, source, author
  7. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
    Antonym(s): sink
  8. anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
    Synonym(s): reservoir, source
  9. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
    Synonym(s): reference, source
v
  1. get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
  2. specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sourish
adj
  1. tasting sour like a lemon [syn: lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squarish
adj
  1. somewhat square in appearance or form
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squark
n
  1. a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
    Synonym(s): strange quark, squark
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surge
n
  1. a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, spate, surge, upsurge]
  2. a sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime"
    Synonym(s): surge, upsurge
  3. a large sea wave
    Synonym(s): billow, surge
v
  1. rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward"
    Synonym(s): billow, surge, heave
  2. rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen"
    Synonym(s): soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom
  3. rise or move forward; "surging waves"
    Synonym(s): tide, surge
    Antonym(s): ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out
  4. rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged"
    Synonym(s): scend, surge
  5. see one's performance improve; "He levelled the score and then surged ahead"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whitethroat \White"throat`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the
      common European species ({Sylvia cinerea}), called also
      {strawsmear}, {nettlebird}, {muff}, and {whitecap}, the
      garden whitethroat, or golden warbler ({S. hortensis}), and
      the lesser whitethroat ({S. curruca}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Sargo \[d8]Sar"go\, n. [Sp. sargo, L. sargus a kind of fish.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to
      {Sargus}, {Pomadasys}, and related genera; -- called also
      {sar}, and {saragu}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarco- \Sar"co-\
      A combining form from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as,
      sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sark \Sark\, n. [AS. serce, syrce, a shirt; akin to Icel. serkr,
      Sw. s[84]rk.]
      A shirt. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sark \Sark\, v. t. (Carp.)
      To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saros \Sa"ros\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]] (Astron)
      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. --Brande & C.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cycle \Cy"cle\ (s?"k'l), n. [F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr.
      ky`klos ring or circle, cycle; akin to Skr. cakra wheel,
      circle. See {Wheel}.]
      1. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the
            celestial spheres. --Milton.
  
      2. An interval of time in which a certain succession of
            events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again
            and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a
            periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of
            something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of
            the year.
  
                     Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the
                     medium of provision during the last bad cycle of
                     twenty years.                                    --Burke.
  
      3. An age; a long period of time.
  
                     Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      4. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. [Obs.]
  
                     We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle
                     of what is requisite to be done throughout every
                     month of the year.                              --Evelyn.
  
      5. The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the
            hero or heroes of some particular period which have served
            as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and
            the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne
            and his paladins.
  
      6. (Bot.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a
            cycle or set of leaves. --Gray.
  
      7. A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
  
      {Calippic cycle}, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic
            cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an
            improvement on the Metonic cycle.
  
      {Cycle of eclipses}, a period of about 6,586 days, the time
            of revolution of the moon's node; -- called {Saros} by the
            Chaldeans.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarsa \Sar"sa\, n.
      Sarsaparilla. [Written also {sarza}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarse \Sarse\, n. [F. sas, OF. saas, LL. setatium, fr. L. seta a
      stiff hair.]
      A fine sieve; a searce. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarse \Sarse\, v. t.
      To sift through a sarse. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sarsa \Sar"sa\, n.
      Sarsaparilla. [Written also {sarza}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and
      America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
      {billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack},
      {skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sawhorse \Saw"horse`\, n.
      A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on
      which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called
      also {buck}, and {sawbuck}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scarce \Scarce\ (sk[acir]rs), a. [Compar. {Scarcer}
      (sk[acir]r"s[etil]r); superl. {Scarcest}.] [OE. scars, OF.
      escars, eschars, LL. scarpsus, excarpsus, for L. excerptus,
      p. p. of excerpere to pick out, and hence to contract, to
      shorten; ex (see {Ex-}) + carpere. See {Carpet}, and cf.
      {Excerp}.]
      1. Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion
            to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
  
                     You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and
                     therefore risen one fifth in value.   --Locke.
  
                     The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a
                     medallion well preserved.                  --Addison.
  
      2. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
            [Obs.] [bd]A region scarce of prey.[b8] --Milton.
  
      3. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs.] [bd]Too
            scarce ne too sparing.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {To make one's self scarce}, to decamp; to depart. [Slang]
  
      Syn: Rare; infrequent; deficient. See {Rare}.

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   Scarce \Scarce\, Scarcely \Scarce"ly\, adv.
      1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
  
                     With a scarce well-lighted flame.      --Milton.
  
                     The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer.
  
                     Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived
                     who had been sent for my ransom.         --W. Irving.
  
      2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Scariose \Sca"ri*ose\, Scarious \Sca"ri*ous\, a. [F. scarieux,
      NL. scariosus. Cf. {Scary}.] (Bot.)
      Thin, dry, membranous, and not green. --Gray.

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   Scariose \Sca"ri*ose\, Scarious \Sca"ri*ous\, a. [F. scarieux,
      NL. scariosus. Cf. {Scary}.] (Bot.)
      Thin, dry, membranous, and not green. --Gray.

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   Schirrhus \Schir"rhus\, n.
      See {Scirrhus}.

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   Scirrhus \Scir"rhus\, n.; pl. L. {Scirrhi}, E. {Scirrhuses}.
      [NL., from L. scirros, Gr. [?], [?], fr. [?], [?], hard.]
      (Med.)
      (a) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated
            gland. [Obs.]
      (b) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray
            or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
            [Sometimes incorrectly written {schirrus}; written also
            {skirrhus}.]

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   Scirrhous \Scir"rhous\ (sk[icr]r"r[ucr]s), a. [NL. scirrhosus.]
      (Med.)
      Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus;
      indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous
      disease. [Written also {skirrhous}.]

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   Scirrhus \Scir"rhus\, n.; pl. L. {Scirrhi}, E. {Scirrhuses}.
      [NL., from L. scirros, Gr. [?], [?], fr. [?], [?], hard.]
      (Med.)
      (a) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated
            gland. [Obs.]
      (b) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray
            or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
            [Sometimes incorrectly written {schirrus}; written also
            {skirrhus}.]

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   Scorce \Scorce\, n.
      Barter. [Obs.] See {Scorse}.

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   Scorch \Scorch\ (sk[ocir]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorched};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Scorching}.] [OE. scorchen, probably akin to
      scorcnen; cf. Norw. skrokken shrunk up, skrekka, skr[94]kka,
      to shrink, to become wrinkled up, dial. Sw. skr[86]kkla to
      wrinkle (see {Shrug}); but perhaps influenced by OF.
      escorchier to strip the bark from, to flay, to skin, F.
      [82]corcher, LL. excorticare; L. ex from + cortex, -icis,
      bark (cf. {Cork}); because the skin falls off when scorched.]
      1. To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface
            of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color
            and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
  
                     Summer drouth or sing[8a]d air Never scorch thy
                     tresses fair.                                    --Milton.
  
      2. To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up
            with heat; to affect as by heat.
  
                     Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
                                                                              --Prior.
  
      3. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
  
                     Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
                                                                              --Rev. xvi. 8.
  
                     The fire that scorches me to death.   --Dryden.

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   Scorch \Scorch\, v. i.
      1. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
  
                     Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your
                     seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
                                                                              --Mortimer.
  
      2. To burn or be burnt.
  
                     He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter,
                     which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's
                     breast, as if it had been red hot.      --Hawthorne.

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   Scorch \Scorch\, v. i.
      To ride or drive at great, usually at excessive, speed; --
      applied chiefly to automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.] --
      {Scorch"er}, n. [Colloq.]

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   Scoriac \Sco"ri*ac\, a.
      Scoriaceous. --E. A. Poe.

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   Scorious \Sco"ri*ous\, a.
      Scoriaceous. --Sir T. Browne.

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   Scorse \Scorse\ (? [or] ?), n. [Cf. It. scorsa a course, and E.
      discourse.]
      Barter; exchange; trade. [Obs.]
  
               And recompensed them with a better scorse. --Spenser.

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   Scorse \Scorse\, v. t. [Written also scourse, and scoss.]
      1. To barter or exchange. [Obs.] --Spenser.
  
      2. To chase. [Obs.] --Spenser.

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   Scorse \Scorse\, v. i.
      To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.
      [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

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   Scourage \Scour"age\ (?; 48), n.
      Refuse water after scouring.

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   Scourge \Scourge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scourged}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Scourging}.] [From {Scourge}, n.: cf. OF. escorgier.]
      1. To whip severely; to lash.
  
                     Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman?
                                                                              --Acts xxii.
                                                                              25.
  
      2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for
            sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
  
                     Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
                     every son whom he receiveth.               --Heb. xii. 6.
  
      3. To harass or afflict severely.
  
                     To scourge and impoverish the people. --Brougham.

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   Scourge \Scourge\, n. [F. escourg[82]e, fr. L. excoriata (sc.
      scutica) a stripped off (lash or whip), fr. excoriare to
      strip, to skin. See {Excoriate}.]
      1. A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to
            inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or
            discipline; a whip.
  
                     Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both
                     the scourge and reins.                        --Chapman.
  
      2. Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or
            suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
  
                     Sharp scourges of adversity.               --Chaucer.
  
                     What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy
                     afford false Clarence?                        --Shak.

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   Scourse \Scourse\ (sk[omac]rs), v. t.
      See {Scorse}. [Obs.]

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   Scrag \Scrag\ (skr[acr]g), n. [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry
      tree, a long, lean man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled,
      rocky. See {Shrink}, and cf. {Scrog}, {Shrag}, n.]
      1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially,
            a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in
            contempt, the neck.
  
                     Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton
                     on silver.                                          --Thackeray.
  
      2. A rawboned person. [Low] --Halliwell.
  
      3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch.
  
      {Scrag whale} (Zo[94]l.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale
            ({Agaphelus gibbosus}). By some it is considered the young
            of the right whale.

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   Scrag \Scrag\, v. t. [Cf. {Scrag}.]
      To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the
      neck; to kill by hanging. [Colloq.]
  
               An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the
               day war breaks out.                                 --Pall Mall
                                                                              Mag.

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   Scraggy \Scrag"gy\, a. [Compar. {Scragger}; superl.
      {Scraggiest}.]
      1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. [bd]A scraggy
            rock.[b8] --J. Philips.
  
      2. Lean and rough; scragged. [bd]His sinewy, scraggy
            neck.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.

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   Screak \Screak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Screaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Screaking}.] [Cf. Icel. skr[91]kja to screech. Cf. {Creak},
      v., {Screech}.]
      To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to
      creak, as a door or wheel.

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   Screak \Screak\, n.
      A creaking; a screech; a shriek. --Bp. Bull.

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   Screech \Screech\ (skr[emac]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
      {Screeched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Screeching}.] [Also formerly,
      scritch, OE. skriken, skrichen, schriken, of Scand. origin;
      cf. Icel. skr[ae]kja to shriek, to screech, skr[imac]kja to
      titter, Sw. skrika to shriek, Dan. skrige; also Gael.
      sgreach, sgreuch, W. ysgrechio, Skr. kharj to creak. Cf.
      {Shriek}, v., {Scream}, v.]
      To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in
      terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. [bd]The screech
      owl, screeching loud.[b8] --Shak.

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   Screech \Screech\, n.
      A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a
      shriek; a scream.
  
      {Screech bird}, [or] {Screech thrush} (Zo[94]l.), the
            fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain.
  
      {Screech rain}.
  
      {Screech hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the European goatsucker; -- so
            called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Screech owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) A small American owl ({Scops asio}), either gray or
            reddish in color.
      (b) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other
            species.

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   Screechy \Screech"y\, a.
      Like a screech; shrill and harsh.

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   Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe,
      female screw, F. [82]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in
      LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a
      screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[umac]fa.]
      1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a
            continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it
            spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a
            continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, --
            used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or
            pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of
            the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the
            threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being
            distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more
            usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female
            screw, or, more usually, the nut.
  
      Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of
               the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a
               right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the
               hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the
               screw, its base equaling the circumference of the
               cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.
  
      2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a
            head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver.
            Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to
            fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw
            nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below.
  
      3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of
            wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the
            stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal
            surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a
            screw. See {Screw propeller}, below.
  
      4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a
            screw steamer; a propeller.
  
      5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
            --Thackeray.
  
      6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary
            severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a
            student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]
  
      7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew.
  
      8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and
            commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton.
  
      9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite
            linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th
            {Pitch}, 10
            (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid
                  body, which may always be made to consist of a
                  rotation about an axis combined with a translation
                  parallel to that axis.
  
      10. (Zo[94]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw
            ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}.
  
      {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See
            under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc.
  
      {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not
            done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H.
            Martineau.
  
      {Endless, [or] perpetual, {screw}, a screw used to give
            motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads
            between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}.
           
  
      {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}.
  
      {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the
            measurement of very small spaces.
  
      {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the
            opposite ends which wind in opposite directions.
  
      {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}.
  
      {Screw bean}. (Bot.)
            (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree
                  ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to
                  California. It is used for fodder, and ground into
                  meal by the Indians.
            (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for
                  fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties.
  
      {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in
            distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3.
  
      {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the
            thread on a wooden screw.
  
      {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}.
  
      {Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw
            propeller.
  
      {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}.
  
      {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}.
  
      {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner
            wrench.
  
      {Screw machine}.
            (a) One of a series of machines employed in the
                  manufacture of wood screws.
            (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of
                  cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work
                  successively, for making screws and other turned
                  pieces from metal rods.
  
      {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus
            {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species,
            natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; --
            named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like
            leaves.
  
      {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws,
            consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of
            perforations with internal screws forming dies.
  
      {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means
            of a screw.
  
      {Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in
            the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel
            propelled by a screw.
  
      {Screw shell} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod
            shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied
            genera. See {Turritella}.
  
      {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw.
  
      {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw.
  
      {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite.
  
      {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres},
            consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs,
            with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled
            capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}.
  
      {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a
            screw.
  
      {Screw worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American fly
            ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which
            sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about
            wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results.
  
      {Screw wrench}.
            (a) A wrench for turning a screw.
            (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a
                  screw.
  
      {To put the} {screw, [or] screws}, {on}, to use pressure
            upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.
  
      {To put under the} {screw [or] screws}, to subject to
            pressure; to force.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse
            pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of
            {Wood screw}, under {Wood}.

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   Scrog \Scrog\, n. [Cf. {Scrag}, or Gael. sgrogag anything
      shriveled, from sgrag to compress, shrivel.]
      A stunted shrub, bush, or branch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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   Scroggy \Scrog"gy\, a.
      Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted. [Prov. Eng. &
      Scot.] --Halliwell.

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   Scrouge \Scrouge\, v. t. [Etymol. uncertain.]
      To crowd; to squeeze. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

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   Scruze \Scruze\, v. t. [Cf. {Excruciate}.]
      To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise. [Obs. or Low]
      --Spenser.

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   Sea horse \Sea" horse`\
      1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented
            in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by
            the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See
            {Hippocampus}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The walrus.
            (b) Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
  
      Note: In a passage of Dryden's, the word is supposed to refer
               to the hippopotamus.

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      2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several
            species in which the head and neck have some resemblance
            to those of a horse; -- called also {sea horse}.
  
      Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling
               to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.
               The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the
               eggs till hatched.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white
            matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger
            is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The
            smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also {ergot} and
            {calcar}.

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   Sea horse \Sea" horse`\
      1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented
            in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by
            the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See
            {Hippocampus}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The walrus.
            (b) Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
  
      Note: In a passage of Dryden's, the word is supposed to refer
               to the hippopotamus.

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      2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several
            species in which the head and neck have some resemblance
            to those of a horse; -- called also {sea horse}.
  
      Note: They swim slowly, in an erect position, and often cling
               to seaweeds by means of the incurved prehensile tail.
               The male has a ventral pouch, in which it carries the
               eggs till hatched.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) A name applied to either of two ridges of white
            matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger
            is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The
            smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also {ergot} and
            {calcar}.

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   Sea risk \Sea" risk\
      Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at
      sea.

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   d8Zostera \[d8]Zos"te*ra\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
      A genus of plants of the {Naiadace[91]}, or Pondweed family.
      {Zostera marina} is commonly known as {sea wrack}, and
      {eelgrass}.

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   Sea wrack \Sea" wrack`\ (Bot.)
      See {Wrack}.

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   d8Zostera \[d8]Zos"te*ra\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
      A genus of plants of the {Naiadace[91]}, or Pondweed family.
      {Zostera marina} is commonly known as {sea wrack}, and
      {eelgrass}.

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   Sea wrack \Sea" wrack`\ (Bot.)
      See {Wrack}.

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   Searce \Searce\, n. [See {Sarse}.]
      A fine sieve. [Obs.]

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   Searce \Searce\, v. t.
      To sift; to bolt. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

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   Search \Search\, v. i.
      To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration,
      or examination; to hunt.
  
               Once more search with me.                        --Shak.
  
               It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the
               matter, and searched into all the particulars. --Locke.

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   Search \Search\, n. [Cf. OF. cerche. See {Search}, v. t.]
      The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry;
      pursuit for finding something; examination.
  
               Thus the orb he roamed With narrow search, and with
               inspection deep Considered every creature. --Milton.
  
               Nor did my search of liberty begin Till my black hairs
               were changed upon my chin.                     --Dryden.
  
      {Right of search} (Mar. Law), the right of the lawfully
            commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine
            and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for
            the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war.
  
      {Search warrant} (Law), a warrant legally issued, authorizing
            an examination or search of a house, or other place, for
            goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.
  
      Syn: Scrutiny; examination; exploration; investigation;
               research; inquiry; quest; pursuit.

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   Search \Search\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Searched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Searching}.] [OE. serchen, cerchen, OF. cerchier, F.
      chercher, L. circare to go about, fr. L. circum, circa,
      around. See {Circle}.]
      1. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding
            something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
            [bd]Search the Scriptures.[b8] --John v. 39.
  
                     They are come to search the house.      --Shak.
  
                     Search me, O God, and know my heart.   --Ps. cxxxix.
                                                                              23.
  
      2. To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
  
                     I will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
                                                                              --Ezek. xxxiv.
                                                                              11.
  
                     Enough is left besides to search and know. --Milton.
  
      3. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to
            probe; as, to search a wound.
  
      4. To examine; to try; to put to the test.
  
      {To search out}, to seek till found; to find by seeking; as,
            to search out truth.
  
      Syn: To explore; examine; scrutinize; seek; investigate; pry
               into; inquire.

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   Seeress \Seer"ess\, n.
      A female seer; a prophetess.

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   Serge \Serge\, n. [F. serge, sarge, originally, a silken stuff,
      fr. L. serica, f. or neut. pl. of sericus silken. See
      {Sericeous}, {Silk}.]
      A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing
      for both sexes.
  
      {Silk serge}, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors
            for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

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   Serge \Serge\, n. [F. cierge.]
      A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various
      churches.

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   Series \Se"ries\, n. [L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or
      bind together; cf. Gr. [?][?][?] to fasten, Skr. sarit
      thread. Cf. {Assert}, {Desert} a solitude, {Exert}, {Insert},
      {Seraglio}.]
      1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in
            order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order;
            course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of
            calamitous events.
  
                     During some years his life a series of triumphs.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
      2. (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants
            including several subordinate related groups.
  
      Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes
               only orders or families; in other cases only species.
  
      3. (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one
            another, each of which is derived from one or more of the
            preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series;
            as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

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   Series \Se"ries\, n.
      1. (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group
            of families showing certain structural or morphological
            relationships. It corresponds to the {cohort} of some
            writers, and to the {order} of many modern systematists.
  
      2. (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a
            circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form
            a single path for the current; -- opposed to {parallel}.
            The parts so arranged are said to be
  
      {in series}.
  
      3. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.

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   Serious \Se"ri*ous\, a. [L. serius: cf. F. s[82]rieux, LL.
      seriosus.]
      1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful;
            solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
  
                     He is always serious, yet there is about his manner
                     a graceful ease.                                 --Macaulay.
  
      2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not
            jesting or deceiving. --Beaconsfield.
  
      3. Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
  
                     The holy Scriptures bring to our ears the most
                     serious things in the world.               --Young.
  
      4. Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger;
            as, a serious injury.
  
      Syn: Grave; solemn; earnest; sedate; important; weighty. See
               {Grave}. -- {Se"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Se"ri*ous*ness}, n.

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   Serose \Se"rose`\, a.
      Serous. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.

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   Serous \Se"rous\, a. [Cf. F. s[82]reux. See {Serum}.] (Physiol.)
      (a) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
      (b) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands,
            membranes, layers. See {Serum}.
  
      {Serous membrane}. (Anat.) See under {Membrane}.

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   Serrous \Ser"rous\, a. [L. serra a saw.]
      Like the teeth off a saw; jagged. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

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   d8Masseur \[d8]Mas`seur"\ (m[adot]`s[ucir]r"), n.; pl. {-seurs}
      (-s[ucir]rz"; F. -s[ucir]r"). [F. See {Massage}.]
      1. A man who practices massage.
  
      2. An instrument used in the performance of massage.

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   Sewerage \Sew"er*age\, n.
      1. The construction of a sewer or sewers.
  
      2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general
            drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
  
      3. The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In
            this sense {sewage} is preferable and common.]

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   Granger stocks \Granger stocks\ [or] shares \shares\
      Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.

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   Stock \Stock\ (st[ocr]k), n. [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick;
      akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw.
      stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to
      urge, thrust. Cf. {Stokker}, {Stucco}, and {Tuck} a rapier.]
      1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed,
            strong, firm part; the trunk.
  
                     Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and
                     the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the
                     scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs
                     like a plant.                                    --Job xiv.
                                                                              8,9.
  
      2. The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
  
                     The scion overruleth the stock quite. --Bacon.
  
      3. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a
            firm support; a post.
  
                     All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven
                     shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or
                     metal, and in no case of brick.         --Fuller.
  
      4. Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or
            post; one who has little sense.
  
                     Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.      --Shak.
  
      5. The principal supporting part; the part in which others
            are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically:
           
            (a) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket
                  or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular
                  piece of wood, which is an important part of several
                  forms of gun carriage.
            (b) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in
                  boring; a bitstock; a brace.
            (c) (Joinery) The block of wood or metal frame which
                  constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the
                  plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
            (d) (Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the
                  shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of
                  {Anchor}.
            (e) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed,
                  or of the anvil itself.
            (f) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for
                  cutting screws; a diestock.
            (g) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer,
                  which was delivered to the person who had lent the
                  king money on account, as the evidence of
                  indebtedness. See {Counterfoil}. [Eng.]
  
      6. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a
            family; the progenitor of a family and his direct
            descendants; lineage; family.
  
                     And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All
                     told their stock.                              --Chapman.
  
                     Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From
                     Dardanus.                                          --Denham.
  
      7. Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in
            business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a
            bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares,
            each of a certain amount; money funded in government
            securities, called also {the public funds}; in the plural,
            property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or
            in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; --
            so in the United States, but in England the latter only
            are called {stocks}, and the former {shares}.
  
      8. (Bookkeeping) Same as {Stock account}, below.
  
      9. Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a
            merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in
            a stock of provisions.
  
                     Add to that stock which justly we bestow. --Dryden.
  
      10. (Agric.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or
            raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep,
            etc.; -- called also {live stock}.
  
      11. (Card Playing) That portion of a pack of cards not
            distributed to the players at the beginning of certain
            games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from
            afterward as occasion required; a bank.
  
                     I must buy the stock; send me good cardings.
                                                                              --Beau. & Fl.
  
      12. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. [Obs.]
  
      13. [Cf. {Stocking}.] A covering for the leg, or leg and
            foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks
            (stockings). [Obs.]
  
                     With a linen stock on one leg.         --Shak.
  
      14. A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a
            silk stock.
  
      15. pl. A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or
            the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined
            by way of punishment.
  
                     He shall rest in my stocks.               --Piers
                                                                              Plowman.
  
      16. pl. (Shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship
            rests while building.
  
      17. pl. Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls
            and the front of buildings. [Eng.]
  
      18. (Bot.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus {Matthiola};
            as, common stock ({Matthiola incana}) (see
            {Gilly-flower}); ten-weeks stock ({M. annua}).
  
      19. (Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large
            cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore
            deposited in limestone.
  
      20. A race or variety in a species.
  
      21. (Biol.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons
            (see {Person}), as trees, chains of salp[91], etc.
  
      22. The beater of a fulling mill. --Knight.
  
      23. (Cookery) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and
            soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc.,
            extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
  
      {Bit stock}. See {Bitstock}.
  
      {Dead stock} (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and
            produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live
            stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10,
            above.
  
      {Head stock}. See {Headstock}.
  
      {Paper stock}, rags and other material of which paper is
            made.
  
      {Stock account} (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's
            ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or
            stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or
            contribution, the other side showing the amounts
            withdrawn.
  
      {Stock car}, a railway car for carrying cattle.
  
      {Stock company} (Com.), an incorporated company the capital
            of which is represented by marketable shares having a
            certain equal par value.

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   Shark \Shark\, n. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps through OF. fr.
      carcharus a kind of dogfish, Gr. karchari`as, so called from
      its sharp teeth, fr. ka`rcharos having sharp or jagged teeth;
      or perhaps named from its rapacity (cf. {Shark}, v. t. & i.);
      cf. Corn. scarceas.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch
            fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
  
      Note: Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark,
               grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty
               feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in
               length. Most of them are harmless to man, but some are
               exceedingly voracious. The man-eating sharks mostly
               belong to the genera {Carcharhinus}, {Carcharodon}, and
               related genera. They have several rows of large sharp
               teeth with serrated edges, as the great white shark
               ({Carcharodon carcharias, [or] Rondeleti}) of tropical
               seas, and the great blue shark ({Carcharhinus glaucus})
               of all tropical and temperate seas. The former
               sometimes becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most
               voracious and dangerous species known. The rare
               man-eating shark of the United States coast
               ({Charcarodon Atwoodi}) is thought by some to be a
               variety, or the young, of {C. carcharias}. The dusky
               shark ({Carcharhinus obscurus}), and the smaller blue
               shark ({C. caudatus}), both common species on the coast
               of the United States, are of moderate size and not
               dangerous. They feed on shellfish and bottom fishes.
  
      2. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. [Colloq.]
  
      3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
            [Obs.] --South.
  
      {Baskin shark}, {Liver shark}, {Nurse shark}, {Oil shark},
      {Sand shark}, {Tiger shark}, etc. See under {Basking},
            {Liver}, etc. See also {Dogfish}, {Houndfish},
            {Notidanian}, and {Tope}.
  
      {Gray shark}, the sand shark.
  
      {Hammer-headed shark}. See {Hammerhead}.
  
      {Port Jackson shark}. See {Cestraciont}.
  
      {Shark barrow}, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse.
  
      {Shark ray}. Same as {Angel fish}
            (a), under {Angel}.
  
      {Thrasher} shark, [or] {Thresher shark}, a large, voracious
            shark. See {Thrasher}.
  
      {Whale shark}, a huge harmless shark ({Rhinodon typicus}) of
            the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or more in length,
            but has very small teeth.

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   Shark \Shark\, v. t. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps fr. shark,
      n., or perhaps related to E. shear (as hearken to hear), and
      originally meaning, to clip off. Cf. {Shirk}.]
      To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. [Obs.]
      --Shak.

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   Shark \Shark\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sharked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sharking}.]
      1. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to
            swindle.
  
                     Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. --Bp.
                                                                              Earle.
  
      2. To live by shifts and stratagems. --Beau. & Fl.

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   Sharock \Shar"ock\, n.
      An East Indian coin of the value of 12[frac12] pence
      sterling, or about 25 cents.

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   Shears \Shears\, n. pl. [Formerly used also in the singular. See
      {Shear}, n., 1.]
      1. A cutting instrument. Specifically:
            (a) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with
                  bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both
                  sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting
                  cloth and other substances.
  
                           Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in
                           twain.                                          --Pope.
            (b) A similar instrument the blades of which are
                  extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing
                  sheep or skins.
            (c) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades,
                  working against a resisting edge.
  
      2. Anything in the form of shears. Specifically:
            (a) A pair of wings. [Obs.] --Spenser.
            (b) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially
                  for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships.
                  It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber,
                  fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or
                  guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.
                  [Written also {sheers}.]
  
      3. (Mach.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table
            or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or
            planer. See Illust. under {Lathe}.
  
      {Rotary shears}. See under {Rotary}.

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   Shears \Shears\, n. pl. [Formerly used also in the singular. See
      {Shear}, n., 1.]
      1. A cutting instrument. Specifically:
            (a) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with
                  bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both
                  sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting
                  cloth and other substances.
  
                           Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in
                           twain.                                          --Pope.
            (b) A similar instrument the blades of which are
                  extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing
                  sheep or skins.
            (c) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades,
                  working against a resisting edge.
  
      2. Anything in the form of shears. Specifically:
            (a) A pair of wings. [Obs.] --Spenser.
            (b) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially
                  for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships.
                  It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber,
                  fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or
                  guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.
                  [Written also {sheers}.]
  
      3. (Mach.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table
            or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or
            planer. See Illust. under {Lathe}.
  
      {Rotary shears}. See under {Rotary}.

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   Sherris \Sher"ris\, n.
      Sherry. [Obs.] --Shak.

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   Shiraz \Shi*raz"\, n.
      A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it
      is brought.

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   Shire \Shire\, n. [AS. sc[c6]re, sc[c6]r, a division, province,
      county. Cf. {Sheriff}.]
      1. A portion of Great Britain originally under the
            supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually
            identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a
            smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire,
            Hallamshire.
  
                     An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a
                     county or shire.                                 --Blackstone.
  
      2. A division of a State, embracing several contiguous
            townships; a county. [U. S.]
  
      Note: Shire is commonly added to the specific designation of
               a county as a part of its name; as, Yorkshire instead
               of York shire, or the shire of York; Berkshire instead
               of Berks shire. Such expressions as the county of
               Yorkshire, which in a strict sense are tautological,
               are used in England. In the United States the composite
               word is sometimes the only name of a county; as,
               Berkshire county, as it is called in Massachusetts,
               instead of Berks county, as in Pensylvania.
  
                        The Tyne, Tees, Humber, Wash, Yare, Stour, and
                        Thames separate the counties of Northumberland,
                        Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc. --Encyc.
                                                                              Brit.
  
      {Knight of the shire}. See under {Knight}.
  
      {Shire clerk}, an officer of a county court; also, an under
            sheriff. [Eng.]
  
      {Shire mote} (Old. Eng. Law), the county court; sheriff's
            turn, or court. [Obs.] --Cowell. --Blackstone.
  
      {Shire reeve} (Old Eng. Law), the reeve, or bailiff, of a
            shire; a sheriff. --Burrill.
  
      {Shire town}, the capital town of a county; a county town.
  
      {Shire wick}, a county; a shire. [Obs.] --Holland.

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   Shirk \Shirk\, v. i.
      1. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
  
      2. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty,
            as by running away.
  
                     One of the cities shirked from the league. --Byron.

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   Shirk \Shirk\, n.
      One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the
      performance of duty or labor.

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   Shirk \Shirk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shirked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shirking}.] [Probably the same word as shark. See {Shark},
      v. t.]
      1. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean
            solicitation.
  
                     You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . .
                     that shirk living from others, but time from
                     Yourselves.                                       --Bp. Rainbow.
  
      2. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying
            unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
  
                     The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk
                     difficulties.                                    --Hare.

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   Shirky \Shirk"y\, a.
      Disposed to shirk. [Colloq.]

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   Shorage \Shor"age\, n.
      Duty paid for goods brought on shore. --Grabb.

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   Shrag \Shrag\, n. [CF. {Scrag}.]
      A twig of a tree cut off. [Obs.]

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   Shrag \Shrag\, v. t.
      To trim, as trees; to lop. [Obs.]

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   Shrewish \Shrew"ish\, a.
      having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding
      disposition; froward; peevish.
  
               My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. --Shak.
      -- {Shrew"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Shrew"ish*ness}, n.

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   Shriek \Shriek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shrieked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shrieking}.] [OE. shriken, originallythe same word as E.
      screech. See {Screech}, and cf. {Screak}.]
      To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds
      and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or
      anguish.
  
               It was the owl that shrieked.                  --Shak.
  
               At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train Echoed
               her grief.                                             --Dryden.

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   Shriek \Shriek\, v. t.
      To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or
      shrieks.
  
               On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his
               baleful note.                                          --Spenser.
  
               She shrieked his name To the dark woods. --Moore.

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   Shriek \Shriek\, n.
      A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as
      is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
  
               Shrieks, clamors, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      {Shriek owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The screech owl.
      (b) The swift; -- so called from its cry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shrike \Shrike\, n. [Akin to Icel. skr[c6]kja a shrieker, the
      shrike, and E. shriek; cf. AS. scr[c6]c a thrush. See
      {Shriek}, v. i.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family
      {Laniid[91]}, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the
      tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European
      gray shrike ({Lanius excubitor}), the great northern shrike
      ({L. borealis}), and several others, kill mice, small birds,
      etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that
      account called also {butcher birds}. See under {Butcher}.
  
      Note: The ant shrikes, or bush shrikes, are clamatorial birds
               of the family {Formicarid[91]}. The cuckoo shrikes of
               the East Indies and Australia are Oscines of the family
               {Campephagid[91]}. The drongo shrikes of the same
               regions belong to the related family {Dicrurid[91]}.
               See {Drongo}.
  
      {Crow shrike}. See under {Crow}.
  
      {Shrike thrush}.
      (a) Any one of several species of Asiatic timaline birds of
            the genera {Thamnocataphus}, {Gampsorhynchus}, and
            allies.
      (b) Any one of several species of shrikelike Australian
            singing birds of the genus {Colluricincla}.
  
      {Shrike tit}.
      (a) Any one of several Australian birds of the genus
            {Falcunculus}, having a strong toothed bill and sharp
            claws. They creep over the bark of trees, like titmice,
            in search of insects.
      (b) Any one of several species of small Asiatic birds
            belonging to {Allotrius}, {Pteruthius}, {Cutia},
            {Leioptila}, and allied genera, related to the true tits.
            Called also {hill tit}.
  
      {Swallow shrike}. See under {Swallow}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shrug \Shrug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shrugged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shrugging}.] [Probably akin to shrink, p. p. shrunk; cf.
      Dan. skrugge, skrukke, to stoop, dial. Sw. skrukka, skruga,
      to crouch.]
      To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of
      expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
  
               He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
                                                                              --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shrug \Shrug\, v. i.
      To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike,
      dread, doubt, or the like.
  
               They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they
               snatch, they hug.                                    --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shrug \Shrug\, n.
      A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing
      dislike, dread, or doubt.
  
               The Spaniards talk in dialogues Of heads and shoulders,
               nods and shrugs.                                    --Hudibras.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sirius \Sir"i*us\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?][?][?], properly,
      scorching.] (Astron.)
      The Dog Star. See {Dog Star}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Siroc \Si"roc\, n.
      See {Sirocco}. [Poetic] --Emerson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sirocco \Si*roc"co\ (s[icr]*r[ocr]k"k[osl]), n.
      In general, any hot dry wind of cyclonic origin, blowing from
      arid or heated regions, including the desert wind of Southern
      California, the harmattan of the west coasts of Africa, the
      hot winds of Kansas and Texas, the kamsin of Egypt, the leste
      of the Madeira Islands, and the leveche of Spain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sirocco \Si*roc"co\, n.; pl. {Siroccos}. [It. sirocco, scirocco,
      Ar. shorug, fr. sharq the rising of the sun, the east, fr,
      sharaca to rise as the sun. Cf. {Saracen}.]
      An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly
      experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skerry \Sker"ry\, n.; pl. {Skerries}. [Of Scand. origin; cf.
      Icel. sker, Sw. sk[84]r, Dan. ski[?]r. Cf. {Scar} a bank.]
      A rocky isle; an insulated rock. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skew \Skew\, a.
      Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; --
      chiefly used in technical phrases.
  
      {Skew arch}, an oblique arch. See under {Oblique}.
  
      {Skew back}. (Civil Engin.)
      (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate,
            having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the
            voussoirs of a segmental arch.
      (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive
            the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an
            inclined strut, in a truss or frame.
  
      {Skew bridge}. See under {Bridge}, n.
  
      {Skew curve} (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a
            twisted curve. See {Plane curve}, under {Curve}.
  
      {Skew gearing}, [or] {Skew bevel gearing} (Mach.), toothed
            gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for
            connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor
            intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the
            faces of the gears.
  
      {Skew surface} (Geom.), a ruled surface such that in general
            two successive generating straight lines do not intersect;
            a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface.
  
      {Skew symmetrical determinant} (Alg.), a determinant in which
            the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the
            elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the
            signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0
            (2) 4 -1 71 8 -2-7 2 1
  
      Note: This requires that the numbers in the diagonal from the
               upper left to lower right corner be zeros. A like
               determinant in which the numbers in the diagonal are
               not zeros is a skew determinant, as in (2), above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scirrhous \Scir"rhous\ (sk[icr]r"r[ucr]s), a. [NL. scirrhosus.]
      (Med.)
      Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus;
      indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous
      disease. [Written also {skirrhous}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scirrhus \Scir"rhus\, n.; pl. L. {Scirrhi}, E. {Scirrhuses}.
      [NL., from L. scirros, Gr. [?], [?], fr. [?], [?], hard.]
      (Med.)
      (a) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated
            gland. [Obs.]
      (b) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray
            or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
            [Sometimes incorrectly written {schirrus}; written also
            {skirrhus}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skirrhus \Skir"rhus\, n. (Med.)
      See {Scirrhus}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scirrhus \Scir"rhus\, n.; pl. L. {Scirrhi}, E. {Scirrhuses}.
      [NL., from L. scirros, Gr. [?], [?], fr. [?], [?], hard.]
      (Med.)
      (a) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated
            gland. [Obs.]
      (b) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray
            or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
            [Sometimes incorrectly written {schirrus}; written also
            {skirrhus}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skirrhus \Skir"rhus\, n. (Med.)
      See {Scirrhus}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skrike \Skrike\, v. i. & t.
      To shriek. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skrike \Skrike\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whistlefish \Whis"tle*fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A gossat, or rockling; -- called also {whistler},
      {three-bearded rockling}, {sea loach}, and {sorghe}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorgo \Sor"go\, n. [Cf. It. sorgo. See {Sorghum}.] (Bot.)
      Indian millet and its varieties. See {Sorghum}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Ostensorium \[d8]Os`ten*so"ri*um\, Ostensory \Os*ten"so*ry\,
      n.; pl. L. {-soria}, E. {-sories}. [NL. ostensorium: cf. F.
      ostensoir. See {Ostensible}.] (R. C. Ch.)
      Same as {Monstrance}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorrage \Sor"rage\ (?; 48), n. [Cf. {Sorrel}, n.]
      The blades of green or barley. [Obs.] --Bailey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorus \So"rus\, n.
            (a) In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting
                  through the epidermis of a host plant.
            (b) In lichens, a heap of soredia on the thallus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Source \Source\, n. [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F.
      source, fr. OF. sors, p. p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre,
      to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or
      raise up, to spring up. See {Surge}, and cf. {Souse} to
      plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.]
      1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.]
  
                     Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth
                     into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their
                     sours to Goddes ears two.                  --Chaucer.
  
      2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of
            water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
  
                     Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his
                     firste springing and his sours.         --Chaucer.
  
                     Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the
                     Nile.                                                --Addison.
  
      3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its
            cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates;
            first cause.
  
                     This source of ideas every man has wholly in
                     himself.                                             --Locke.
  
                     The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      Syn: See {Origin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sourish \Sour"ish\, a.
      Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish
      taste.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sours \Sours\, n.
      Source. See {Source}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squarish \Squar"ish\, a.
      Nearly square. --Pennant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squarrose \Squar*rose"\ (? [or] ?; 277), a. [L. squarrosus
      (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.]
      Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough;
      jagged; as:
      (a) (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Consisting of scales widely
            divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other
            bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are
            crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem.
      (b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the
            plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a
            leaf.
      (c) (Zo[94]l.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing
            upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a
            shell.
  
      {Squarrose-slashed} (Bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller
            divisions at right angles to the others, as a leaf.
            --Landley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squarrous \Squar"rous\ (? [or] ?), a.
      Squarrose.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Isomorphism \I`so*mor"phism\, n. [Cf. F. isomorphisme.]
      (Crystallog.)
      A similarity of crystalline form between substances of
      similar composition, as between the sulphates of barium
      ({BaSO4}) and strontium ({SrSO4}). It is sometimes extended
      to include similarity of form between substances of unlike
      composition, which is more properly called hom[d2]omorphism.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surge \Surge\, v. i.
      1. To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
  
                     The surging waters like a mountain rise. --Spenser.
  
      2. (Naut.) To slip along a windlass.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surge \Surge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Surging}.] [Cf. F. surgir to cast anchor, to land. Cf.
      {Surge}, n.] (Naut.)
      To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a
      hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a
      capstan).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surge \Surge\, n. [L. surgere, surrectum, to raise, to rise; sub
      under + regere to direct: cf. OF. surgeon, sourgeon,
      fountain. See {Regent}, and cf. {Insurrection}, {Sortie},
      {Source}.]
      1. A spring; a fountain. [Obs.] [bd]Divers surges and springs
            of water.[b8] --Ld. Berners.
  
      2. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water,
            produced generally by a high wind.
  
                     He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven
                     by the wind and tossed.                     --James i. 6
                                                                              (Rev. Ver.)
  
                     He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues
                     the foaming surges to the shore.         --Dryden.
  
      3. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
  
      4. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon
            which the cable surges, or slips.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surgy \Sur"gy\, a.
      Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling
      surges in motion or appearance; swelling. [bd]Over the surgy
      main.[b8] --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syriac \Syr"i*ac\, a. [L. Syriacus, from Syria: cf. F.
      syriaque.]
      Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac
      version of the Pentateuch. -- n. The language of Syria;
      especially, the ancient language of that country.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Schurz, NV (CDP, FIPS 65400)
      Location: 38.99286 N, 118.83282 W
      Population (1990): 617 (249 housing units)
      Area: 91.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 89427

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Searcy, AR (city, FIPS 63020)
      Location: 35.24288 N, 91.73079 W
      Population (1990): 15180 (5572 housing units)
      Area: 35.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sears, MI
      Zip code(s): 49679

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Souris, ND (city, FIPS 74020)
      Location: 48.91030 N, 100.68047 W
      Population (1990): 97 (57 housing units)
      Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Squires, MO
      Zip code(s): 65755

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sua]rez, PR (comunidad, FIPS 80639)
      Location: 18.43291 N, 65.85103 W
      Population (1990): 2438 (640 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   screwage /skroo'*j/ n.   Like {lossage} but connotes that the
   failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple
   inadequacy or a mere bug.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   scrog /skrog/ vt.   [Bell Labs] To damage, trash, or corrupt a
   data structure.   "The list header got scrogged."   Also reported as
   `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id".
   Compare {scag}; possibly the two are related.   Equivalent to
   {scribble} or {mangle}.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   shriek n.   See {excl}.   Occasional CMU usage, also in common
   use among APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   skrog v.   Syn. {scrog}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   screwage
  
      /skroo'*j/ Like {lossage} but connotes that the failure is due
      to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or
      a mere bug.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1994-12-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   scrog
  
      /skrog/ [Bell Labs] To damage, trash, or corrupt a data
      structure.   "The list header got scrogged."   Also reported as
      "skrog", and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id".
      Compare {scag}; possibly the two are related.   Equivalent to
      {scribble} or {mangle}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SERC
  
      {Science and Engineering Research Council}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   shriek
  
      {exclamation mark}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   skrog
  
      {scrog}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   source
  
      {source code}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SURGE
  
      Sorter, Updater, Report Generator, Etc.   IBM 704, 1959.
      Sammet 1969, p.8.
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Serug
      branch, the father of Nahor (Gen. 11:20-23); called Saruch in
      Luke 3:35.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sheresh
      root, a descendant of Manasseh (1 Chr. 7:16).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sorek
      choice vine, the name of a valley, i.e., a torrent-bed, now the
      Wady Surar, "valley of the fertile spot," which drains the
      western Judean hills, and flowing by Makkedah and Jabneel, falls
      into the sea some eight miles south of Joppa. This was the home
      of Deliah, whom Samson loved (Judg. 16:4).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Syriac
      (2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Dan. 2:4), more correctly rendered
      "Aramaic," including both the Syriac and the Chaldee languages.
      In the New Testament there are several Syriac words, such as
      "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" (Mark 15:34; Matt. 27:46 gives
      the Heb. form, "Eli, Eli"), "Raca" (Matt. 5:22), "Ephphatha"
      (Mark 7:34), "Maran-atha" (1 Cor. 16:22).
     
         A Syriac version of the Old Testament, containing all the
      canonical books, along with some apocryphal books (called the
      Peshitto, i.e., simple translation, and not a paraphrase), was
      made early in the second century, and is therefore the first
      Christian translation of the Old Testament. It was made directly
      from the original, and not from the LXX. Version. The New
      Testament was also translated from Greek into Syriac about the
      same time. It is noticeable that this version does not contain
      the Second and Third Epistles of John, 2 Peter, Jude, and the
      Apocalypse. These were, however, translated subsequently and
      placed in the version. (See {VERSION}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Saruch, branch; layer; lining
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Serug, branch; layer; twining
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sorek, vine; hissing; a color inclining to yellow
  
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