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   S-shape
         n 1: a double curve resembling the letter S

English Dictionary: ship by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
S.U.V.
n
  1. a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis
    Synonym(s): sport utility, sport utility vehicle, S.U.V., SUV
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Saba
n
  1. a island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sabah
n
  1. a region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo [syn: Sabah, North Borneo]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
safe
adj
  1. free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet"
    Antonym(s): dangerous, unsafe
  2. (of an undertaking) secure from risk
  3. having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball"
    Antonym(s): out(p)
  4. financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment"
    Synonym(s): dependable, good, safe, secure
n
  1. strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
  2. a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
  3. contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
    Synonym(s): condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sahib
n
  1. formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sap
n
  1. a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
  2. a person who lacks good judgment
    Synonym(s): fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool
  3. a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
    Synonym(s): blackjack, cosh, sap
v
  1. deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
    Synonym(s): run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire
  2. excavate the earth beneath
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sappho
n
  1. the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sappy
adj
  1. ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"
    Synonym(s): cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany
  2. abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
save
n
  1. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
v
  1. save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage, salve, relieve, save]
  2. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
    Synonym(s): save, preserve
  3. bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
    Synonym(s): save, carry through, pull through, bring through
  4. spend less; buy at a reduced price
  5. accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"
    Synonym(s): save, lay aside, save up
  6. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
    Synonym(s): save, make unnecessary
  7. save from sins
    Synonym(s): deliver, redeem, save
  8. refrain from harming
    Synonym(s): spare, save
  9. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
    Synonym(s): save, economize, economise
  10. retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
    Synonym(s): keep open, hold open, keep, save
  11. record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
    Synonym(s): write, save
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Savoy
n
  1. a geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy
  2. head of soft crinkly leaves
    Synonym(s): savoy cabbage, savoy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
savvy
n
  1. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
    Synonym(s): understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
v
  1. get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
    Synonym(s): grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sb
n
  1. a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite
    Synonym(s): antimony, Sb, atomic number 51
  2. a bachelor's degree in science
    Synonym(s): Bachelor of Science, BS, SB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SBA
n
  1. an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts
    Synonym(s): Small Business Administration, SBA
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SbE
n
  1. the compass point that is one point east of due south [syn: south by east, SbE]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SbW
n
  1. the compass point that is one point west of due south [syn: south by west, SbW]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scab
n
  1. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
    Synonym(s): scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat
  2. the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
v
  1. form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"
  2. take the place of work of someone on strike
    Synonym(s): fink, scab, rat, blackleg
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scabby
adj
  1. covered with scabs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scape
n
  1. erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
    Synonym(s): scape, flower stalk
  2. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
    Synonym(s): shaft, scape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scaup
n
  1. diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
    Synonym(s): scaup, scaup duck, bluebill, broadbill
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Scipio
n
  1. Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC)
    Synonym(s): Scipio, Scipio Africanus, Scipio Africanus Major, Publius Cornelius Scipio, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Scipio the Elder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scoff
n
  1. showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing]
v
  1. laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
    Synonym(s): jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe
  2. treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"
    Synonym(s): scoff, flout
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scoop
n
  1. the quantity a scoop will hold
    Synonym(s): scoop, scoopful
  2. a hollow concave shape made by removing something
    Synonym(s): scoop, pocket
  3. a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
    Synonym(s): exclusive, scoop
  4. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
    Synonym(s): soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay
  5. the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
    Synonym(s): scoop, scoop shovel
  6. a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
v
  1. take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"
    Synonym(s): scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
  2. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
    Synonym(s): outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scope
n
  1. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"
    Synonym(s): scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
  2. the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"
    Synonym(s): setting, background, scope
  3. a magnifier of images of distant objects
    Synonym(s): telescope, scope
  4. electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
    Synonym(s): oscilloscope, scope, cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SCPO
n
  1. a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army
    Synonym(s): senior chief petty officer, SCPO
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scuba
n
  1. a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
    Synonym(s): aqualung, Aqua- Lung, scuba
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scuff
n
  1. a slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: mule, scuff]
  2. the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet)
v
  1. walk without lifting the feet
    Synonym(s): scuff, drag
  2. get or become scuffed; "These patent leather shoes scuffed"
  3. mar by scuffing; "scuffed shoes"
  4. poke at with the foot or toe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scup
n
  1. flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States
  2. lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
    Synonym(s): porgy, scup
  3. porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
    Synonym(s): scup, southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus
  4. found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish
    Synonym(s): scup, northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea pea
n
  1. wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder
    Synonym(s): beach pea, sea pea, Lathyrus maritimus, Lathyrus japonicus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SEB
n
  1. a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare
    Synonym(s): staphylococcal enterotoxin B, SEB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SEbE
n
  1. the compass point that is one point east of southeast [syn: southeast by east, SEbE]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seep
v
  1. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
    Synonym(s): seep, ooze
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sep
n
  1. the month following August and preceding October [syn: September, Sep, Sept]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sep 11
n
  1. the day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs
    Synonym(s): 9/11, 9-11, September 11, Sept. 11, Sep 11
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sepia
n
  1. a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany]
  2. rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes
  3. type genus of the Sepiidae
    Synonym(s): Sepia, genus Sepia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shabby
adj
  1. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
    Synonym(s): moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tatty
  2. mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shabu
n
  1. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
    Synonym(s): methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shape
n
  1. any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes"
    Synonym(s): shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation
  2. the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"
    Synonym(s): shape, form
  3. alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
    Synonym(s): human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
  4. a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life"
    Synonym(s): shape, embodiment
  5. the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features"
    Synonym(s): form, shape, cast
  6. the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')
    Synonym(s): condition, shape
  7. the supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe
    Synonym(s): Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, SHAPE
  8. a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
    Synonym(s): form, shape, pattern
v
  1. shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
    Synonym(s): determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate
  2. make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
    Synonym(s): shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge
  3. give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"
    Synonym(s): shape, form
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shave
n
  1. the act of removing hair with a razor [syn: shave, shaving]
v
  1. remove body hair with a razor
  2. cut closely; "trim my beard"
    Synonym(s): shave, trim
  3. cut the price of
    Synonym(s): shave, knock off
  4. cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
    Synonym(s): plane, shave
  5. make shavings of or reduce to shavings; "shave the radish"
  6. touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sheaf
n
  1. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
    Synonym(s): bundle, sheaf
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sheep
n
  1. woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
  2. a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
  3. a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SHF
n
  1. 3 to 30 gigahertz
    Synonym(s): superhigh frequency, SHF
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shibah
n
  1. (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva"
    Synonym(s): shiva, shivah, shibah
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ship
n
  1. a vessel that carries passengers or freight
v
  1. transport commercially
    Synonym(s): transport, send, ship
  2. hire for work on a ship
  3. go on board
    Synonym(s): embark, ship
    Antonym(s): debark, disembark, set down
  4. travel by ship
  5. place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shipway
n
  1. structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
    Synonym(s): ways, shipway, slipway
  2. a canal large enough for seagoing vessels
    Synonym(s): ship canal, shipway
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shiv
n
  1. a knife used as a weapon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shiva
n
  1. (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva"
    Synonym(s): shiva, shivah, shibah
  2. the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon
    Synonym(s): Siva, Shiva
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shivah
n
  1. (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva"
    Synonym(s): shiva, shivah, shibah
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shoo off
v
  1. drive away by crying `shoo!' [syn: shoo off, shoo, shoo away]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shop
n
  1. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
    Synonym(s): shop, store
  2. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
    Synonym(s): workshop, shop
  3. a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop"
    Synonym(s): shop class, shop
v
  1. do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"
  2. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
    Synonym(s): patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor
    Antonym(s): boycott
  3. shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"
    Synonym(s): shop, browse
  4. give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
    Synonym(s): denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shop boy
n
  1. a young male shop assistant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shove
n
  1. the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"
v
  1. come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train"
    Synonym(s): jostle, shove
  2. push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"
  3. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
    Synonym(s): thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
show off
v
  1. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"
    Synonym(s): flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
show up
v
  1. appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
    Synonym(s): come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up
  2. be or become visible or noticeable; "His good upbringing really shows"; "The dirty side will show"
    Synonym(s): show, show up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
show-off
n
  1. someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention
    Synonym(s): exhibitionist, show-off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sib
n
  1. a person's brother or sister
    Synonym(s): sibling, sib
  2. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
    Synonym(s): blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sieve
n
  1. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
    Synonym(s): sieve, screen
v
  1. examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
    Synonym(s): screen, screen out, sieve, sort
  2. check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
    Synonym(s): sieve, sift
  3. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
    Synonym(s): sift, sieve, strain
  4. distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
    Synonym(s): sieve, sift
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sif
n
  1. (Norse mythology) wife of Thor and guardian of the home
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sip
n
  1. a small drink
v
  1. drink in sips; "She was sipping her tea"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Siva
n
  1. the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon
    Synonym(s): Siva, Shiva
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skep
n
  1. a large round wicker basket (used on farms)
  2. a domed beehive made of twisted straw
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skew-whiff
adv
  1. turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"
    Synonym(s): askew, awry, skew- whiff
adj
  1. turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
    Synonym(s): askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skiff
n
  1. any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skip
n
  1. a gait in which steps and hops alternate
  2. a mistake resulting from neglect
    Synonym(s): omission, skip
v
  1. bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
    Synonym(s): jump, pass over, skip, skip over
  2. intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"
    Synonym(s): cut, skip
  3. jump lightly
    Synonym(s): hop, skip, hop-skip
  4. leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
    Synonym(s): decamp, skip, vamoose
  5. bound off one point after another
    Synonym(s): skip, bound off
  6. cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
    Synonym(s): skim, skip, skitter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skive
v
  1. remove the surface of; "skive leather"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skivvy
n
  1. a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
    Synonym(s): skivvy, slavey
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sky wave
n
  1. a radio wave that is reflected back to earth by the ionosphere or a communications satellite; permits transmission around the curve of the earth's surface
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soap
n
  1. a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
  2. money offered as a bribe
  3. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
    Synonym(s): soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay
v
  1. rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
    Synonym(s): soap, lather
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soapy
adj
  1. resembling or having the qualities of soap; "a soapy consistency"
    Synonym(s): saponaceous, soapy
  2. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
    Synonym(s): buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Soave
n
  1. dry white Italian wine from Verona
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SOB
n
  1. a dyspneic condition [syn: shortness of breath, SOB, breathlessness]
  2. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
    Synonym(s): asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB
  3. convulsive gasp made while weeping
    Synonym(s): sob, sobbing
v
  1. weep convulsively; "He was sobbing inconsolably"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sofa
n
  1. an upholstered seat for more than one person [syn: sofa, couch, lounge]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sofia
n
  1. capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria
    Synonym(s): Sofia, Serdica, Bulgarian capital
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sop
n
  1. piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid [syn: sop, sops]
  2. a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings"
  3. a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries"
    Synonym(s): standing operating procedure, standard operating procedure, SOP, standard procedure
v
  1. give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
  2. be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
    Synonym(s): sop, soak through
  3. dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce"
  4. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
    Synonym(s): drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soph
n
  1. a second-year undergraduate
    Synonym(s): sophomore, soph
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soppy
adj
  1. wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"
    Synonym(s): sodden, soppy
  2. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
    Synonym(s): bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soup
n
  1. liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
  2. any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
  3. an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now"
v
  1. dope (a racehorse)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soupy
adj
  1. having the consistency and appearance of soup; "a soupy fog"
  2. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
    Synonym(s): bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spa
n
  1. a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa]
  2. a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area
    Synonym(s): resort hotel, spa
  3. a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness
    Synonym(s): health spa, spa, health club
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spay
v
  1. remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter, neuter, spay, castrate]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spew
v
  1. expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
    Synonym(s): spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue
  2. eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
    Synonym(s): spew, spew out, eruct
  3. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
    Synonym(s): vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
    Antonym(s): keep down
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SPF
n
  1. the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun
    Synonym(s): sun protection factor, SPF
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spue
v
  1. expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
    Synonym(s): spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue
  2. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
    Synonym(s): vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
    Antonym(s): keep down
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spy
n
  1. (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
    Synonym(s): spy, undercover agent
  2. a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people; "my spies tell me that you had a good time last night"
v
  1. catch sight of
    Synonym(s): descry, spot, espy, spy
  2. watch, observe, or inquire secretly
    Synonym(s): spy, stag, snoop, sleuth
  3. catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
    Synonym(s): spy, sight
  4. secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage; "spy for the Russians"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squab
adj
  1. short and fat
    Synonym(s): squab, squabby
n
  1. flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled
    Synonym(s): squab, dove
  2. a soft padded sofa
  3. an unfledged pigeon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squabby
adj
  1. short and fat
    Synonym(s): squab, squabby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squib
n
  1. firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squiffy
adj
  1. very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SSPE
n
  1. a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years
    Synonym(s): subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, SSPE, inclusion body encephalitis, subacute inclusion body encephalitis, sclerosing leukoencephalitis, subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis, Bosin's disease, Dawson's encephalitis, Van Bogaert encephalitis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
suave
adj
  1. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
    Synonym(s): debonair, debonaire, debonnaire, suave
  2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
    Synonym(s): politic, smooth, suave, bland
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sub
n
  1. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
    Synonym(s): bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
  2. a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
    Synonym(s): submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
v
  1. be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream-- we are on a strict diet"
    Synonym(s): substitute, sub, stand in, fill in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subway
n
  1. an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
    Synonym(s): metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway
  2. an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway
    Synonym(s): underpass, subway
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sufi
adj
  1. of or relating to the Sufis or to Sufism
n
  1. a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam; a Muslim who seeks direct experience of Allah; mainly in Iran
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sup
n
  1. a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale" [syn: swallow, sup]
v
  1. take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SUV
n
  1. a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis
    Synonym(s): sport utility, sport utility vehicle, S.U.V., SUV
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Suva
n
  1. the capital and largest city of Fiji (on Viti Levu island)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swab
n
  1. implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion
  2. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
    Synonym(s): swab, swob, mop
v
  1. wash with a swab or a mop; "swab the ship's decks" [syn: swab, swob]
  2. apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint"
    Synonym(s): dab, swab, swob
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swap
n
  1. an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"
    Synonym(s): barter, swap, swop, trade
v
  1. exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade, swap, swop, switch]
  2. move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
SWbW
n
  1. the compass point that is one point west of southwest [syn: southwest by west, SWbW]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sweep
n
  1. a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains" [syn: sweep, expanse]
  2. someone who cleans soot from chimneys
    Synonym(s): chimneysweeper, chimneysweep, sweep
  3. winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
    Synonym(s): slam, sweep
  4. a long oar used in an open boat
    Synonym(s): sweep, sweep oar
  5. (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
    Synonym(s): end run, sweep
  6. a movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm"
v
  1. sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"
    Synonym(s): brush, sweep
  2. move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"
    Synonym(s): sweep, sail
  3. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
    Synonym(s): sweep, broom
  4. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
    Synonym(s): embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
  5. to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
    Synonym(s): cross, traverse, span, sweep
  6. clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor"
  7. win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships"
  8. cover the entire range of
  9. make a big sweeping gesture or movement
    Synonym(s): swing, sweep, swing out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sweep away
v
  1. eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
    Synonym(s): wipe out, sweep away
  2. overwhelm emotionally; "Her swept her away"
    Synonym(s): sweep away, sweep off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swipe
n
  1. a sweeping stroke or blow
v
  1. strike with a swiping motion
  2. make off with belongings of others
    Synonym(s): pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swob
n
  1. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
    Synonym(s): swab, swob, mop
v
  1. wash with a swab or a mop; "swab the ship's decks" [syn: swab, swob]
  2. apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint"
    Synonym(s): dab, swab, swob
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swoop
n
  1. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
    Synonym(s): swoop, slide
  2. a very rapid raid
  3. a swift descent through the air
v
  1. move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
    Synonym(s): pounce, swoop
  2. move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
  3. seize or catch with a swooping motion
    Synonym(s): swoop, swoop up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swop
n
  1. an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"
    Synonym(s): barter, swap, swop, trade
v
  1. exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade, swap, swop, switch]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
syph
n
  1. a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
    Synonym(s): syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Safe \Safe\, v. t.
      To render safe; to make right. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Safe \Safe\, a. [Compar. {Safer}; superl. {Safest}.] [OE. sauf,
      F. sauf, fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare,
      safety. Cf. {Salute}, {Salvation}, {Sage} a plant, {Save},
      {Salvo} an exception.]
      1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened
            by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as,
            safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.
            [bd]And ye dwelled safe.[b8] --1 Sam. xii. 11.
  
                     They escaped all safe to land.            --Acts xxvii.
                                                                              44.
  
                     Established in a safe, unenvied throne. --Milton.
  
      2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to
            danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not
            dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. [bd]The
            man of safe discretion.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     The King of heaven hath doomed This place our
                     dungeon, not our safe retreat.            --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Safe \Safe\, n.
      A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:
      (a) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of
            steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for
            containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
      (b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing
            provisions from noxious animals or insects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saiva \Sai"va\ (? [or] ?), n. [Skr. [cced]aiva devoted to Siva.]
      One of an important religious sect in India which regards
      Siva with peculiar veneration.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sap \Sap\, n. [AS. s[91]p; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel.
      safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to
      taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf.
      {Sapid}, {Sapient}.]
      1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
            and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
            nutrition.
  
      Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of
               which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the
               elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.
  
      2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  
      3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
  
      {Sap ball} (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
            See {Polyporus}.
  
      {Sap green}, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
            juice of the ripe berries of the {Rhamnus catharticus}, or
            buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
           
  
      {Sap rot}, the dry rot. See under {Dry}.
  
      {Sap sucker} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            American woodpeckers of the genus {Sphyrapicus},
            especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker ({S. varius}) of
            the Eastern United States. They are so named because they
            puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name
            is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
  
      {Sap tube} (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sap \Sap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sapping}.] [F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a
      sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock.]
      1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to
            undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  
                     Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods,
                     Their houses fell upon their household gods.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps.
  
      3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  
                     Ring out the grief that saps the mind. --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sap \Sap\, v. i.
      To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute
      saps. --W. P. Craighill.
  
               Both assaults are carried on by sapping. --Tatler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sap \Sap\, n. (Mil.)
      A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel
      toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by
      digging under cover of gabions, etc.
  
      {Sap fagot} (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in
            sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before
            the parapet is made.
  
      {Sap roller} (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long,
            filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls
            along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toadfish \Toad"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Any marine fish of the genus {Batrachus}, having a large,
            thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance
            to a toad. The American species ({Batrachus tau}) is very
            common in shallow water. Called also {oyster fish}, and
            {sapo}.
      (b) The angler.
      (c) A swellfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sappho \Sap"pho\, n. [See {Sapphic}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of brilliant South American
      humming birds of the genus {Sappho}, having very
      bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also
      {firetail}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Compar. {Sappier}; superl. {Sappiest}.]
      [From 1st {Sap}.]
      1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.
  
      2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.
  
                     When he had passed this weak and sappy age.
                                                                              --Hayward.
  
      3. Weak in intellect. [Low]
  
      4. (Bot.) Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely
            of, sapwood.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Written also {sapy}.] [Cf. L. sapere to
      taste.]
      Musty; tainted. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sappy \Sap"py\, a. [Written also {sapy}.] [Cf. L. sapere to
      taste.]
      Musty; tainted. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sauf \Sauf\, a.
      Safe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sauf \Sauf\, conj. & prep.
      Save; except. [Obs.] [bd]Sauf I myself.[b8] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Save \Save\, n. [See {Sage} the herb.]
      The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Saving}.] [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F.
      sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See {Safe}, a.]
      1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from
            injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from
            impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
  
                     God save all this fair company.         --Chaucer.
  
                     He cried, saying, Lord, save me.         --Matt. xiv.
                                                                              30.
  
                     Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from
                     utter loss.                                       --Milton.
  
      2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its
            penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and
            spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
  
                     Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
                                                                              --1 Tim. i.
                                                                              15.
  
      3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
            expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
  
                     Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
  
      4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
            prevent from doing something; to spare.
  
                     I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate
            the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
  
                     Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
  
      6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
  
                     Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
                     merit.                                                --Swift.
  
      {To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
            exposure of a discreditable state of things.
  
      Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
               prevent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Save \Save\, v. i.
      To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent
      waste; to be economical.
  
               Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
                                                                              --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Save \Save\, prep. [or] conj. [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See
      {Safe}, a.]
      Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
      reserving; saving.
  
               Five times received I forty stripes save one. --2 Cor.
                                                                              xi. 24.
  
      Syn: See {Except}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Save \Save\, conj.
      Except; unless.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savvy \Sav"vy\, Savvey \Sav"vey\, v. t. & i. [Written also
      {savey}.] [Sp. saber to know, sabe usted do you know?]
      To understand; to comprehend; know. [Slang, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savoy \Sa*voy"\, n. [F. chou de Savoie cabbage of Savoy.] (Bot.)
      A variety of the common cabbage ({Brassica oleracea major}),
      having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savvy \Sav"vy\, Savvey \Sav"vey\, v. t. & i. [Written also
      {savey}.] [Sp. saber to know, sabe usted do you know?]
      To understand; to comprehend; know. [Slang, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savvy \Sav"vy\, Savvey \Sav"vey\, n.
      Comprehension; knowledge of affairs; mental grasp. [Slang, U.
      S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savvy \Sav"vy\, Savvey \Sav"vey\, v. t. & i. [Written also
      {savey}.] [Sp. saber to know, sabe usted do you know?]
      To understand; to comprehend; know. [Slang, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Savvy \Sav"vy\, Savvey \Sav"vey\, n.
      Comprehension; knowledge of affairs; mental grasp. [Slang, U.
      S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Symbol \Sym"bol\, n. [L. symbolus, symbolum, Gr. sy`mbolon a
      sign by which one knows or infers a thing, from [?] to throw
      or put together, to compare; sy`n with + [?] to throw: cf. F.
      symbole. Cf. {Emblem}, {Parable}.]
      1. A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything
            which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by
            resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation;
            a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage;
            the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
  
                     A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it
                     represents, e. g., an actual part chosen to
                     represent the whole, or a lower form or species used
                     as the representative of a higher in the same kind.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
  
      2. (Math.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an
            operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
  
      Note: In crystallography, the symbol of a plane is the
               numerical expression which defines its position
               relatively to the assumed axes.
  
      3. (Theol.) An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a
            creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
  
      4. [Gr. [?] contributions.] That which is thrown into a
            common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
            [Obs.]
  
                     They do their work in the days of peace . . . and
                     come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.
                                                                              --Jer. Taylor.
  
      5. Share; allotment. [Obs.]
  
                     The persons who are to be judged . . . shall all
                     appear to receive their symbol.         --Jer. Taylor.
  
      6. (Chem.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an
            element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin
            or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with
            a following one; as, {C} for carbon, {Na} for sodium
            (Natrium), {Fe} for iron (Ferrum), {Sn} for tin (Stannum),
            {Sb} for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names
            and symbols under {Element}.
  
      Note: In pure and organic chemistry there are symbols not
               only for the elements, but also for their grouping in
               formulas, radicals, or residues, as evidenced by their
               composition, reactions, synthesis, etc. See the diagram
               of {Benzene nucleus}, under {Benzene}.
  
      Syn: Emblem; figure; type. See {Emblem}.

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   Stibonium \Sti*bo"ni*um\, n. (Chem.)
      The hypothetical radical {SbH4}, analogous to ammonium; --
      called also {antimonium}.

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   Scab \Scab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Scabbing}.]
      To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

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   Scab \Scab\ (sk[acr]b), n. [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS.
      sc[91]b, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies,
      fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See {Shave}, and
      cf. {Shab}, {Shabby}.]
      1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule,
            formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased
            part.
  
      2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]
  
      3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. --Chaucer.
  
      4. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface,
            caused by a minute fungus ({Tiburcinia Scabies}).
  
      5. (Founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces
            the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a
            part of the mold.
  
      6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] --Shak.
  
      7. A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than
            are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes
            the place of a workman on a strike. [Cant]

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   Scab \Scab\, n. (Bot.)
      Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases
      attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored
      crustlike spots.

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   Scabby \Scab"by\, a. [Compar. {Scabbier}; superl. {Scabbiest}.]
      1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
  
      2. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. --Swift.

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   Scape \Scape\, n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. [?] a
      staff: cf. F. scape. Cf. {Scepter}.]
      1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a
            subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the
            bloodroot, and the like.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[91] of an
            insect.
  
      3. (Arch.)
            (a) The shaft of a column.
            (b) The apophyge of a shaft.

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   Scape \Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Scaped}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Scaping}.] [Aphetic form of escape.]
      To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton.
  
               Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.

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   Scape \Scape\, n.
      1. An escape. [Obs.]
  
                     I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of
                     hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] --Donne.
  
      3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]
  
                     Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and
                     ignorance.                                          --Milton.
  
      4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] --Shak.

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   d8Apophyge \[d8]A*poph"y*ge\, n. [Gr. 'apofygh` escape, in arch.
      the curve with which the shaft escapes into its base or
      capital, fr. 'apofey`gein to flee away; 'apo` from + fey`gein
      to flee: cf. F. apophyge.] (Arch.)
      The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the
      shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the
      fillet; -- called also the {scape}. --Parker.

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   Scape \Scape\, n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. [?] a
      staff: cf. F. scape. Cf. {Scepter}.]
      1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a
            subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the
            bloodroot, and the like.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[91] of an
            insect.
  
      3. (Arch.)
            (a) The shaft of a column.
            (b) The apophyge of a shaft.

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   Scape \Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Scaped}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Scaping}.] [Aphetic form of escape.]
      To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton.
  
               Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.

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   Scape \Scape\, n.
      1. An escape. [Obs.]
  
                     I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of
                     hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] --Donne.
  
      3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]
  
                     Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and
                     ignorance.                                          --Milton.
  
      4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] --Shak.

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   d8Apophyge \[d8]A*poph"y*ge\, n. [Gr. 'apofygh` escape, in arch.
      the curve with which the shaft escapes into its base or
      capital, fr. 'apofey`gein to flee away; 'apo` from + fey`gein
      to flee: cf. F. apophyge.] (Arch.)
      The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the
      shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the
      fillet; -- called also the {scape}. --Parker.

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   Scaup \Scaup\ (sk[add]p), n. [See {Scalp} a bed of oysters or
      mussels.]
      1. A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]

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   Scobby \Scob"by\, n.
      The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

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   Scoff \Scoff\ (?; 115), n. [OE. scof; akin to OFries. schof,
      OHG. scoph, Icel. skaup, and perh. to E. shove.]
      1. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking
            expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
  
                     With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
  
                     The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
                                                                              --Cowper.

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   Scoff \Scoff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scoffed} (?; 115); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Scoffing}.] [Cf. Dan. skuffe to deceive, delude,
      Icel. skopa to scoff, OD. schoppen. See {Scoff}, n.]
      To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by
      derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
  
               Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And
               fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. --Goldsmith.
  
               God's better gift they scoff at and refuse. --Cowper.
  
      Syn: To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See {Sneer}.

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   Scoff \Scoff\, v. t.
      To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to
      mock at.
  
               To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest.
                                                                              --Glanvill.

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   Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa,
      akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch[81]ppe, and also to E.
      shove. See {Shovel}.]
      1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for
            dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
  
      2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out
            and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop;
            the scoop of a dredging machine.
  
      3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting
            certain substances or foreign bodies.
  
      4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  
                     Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R.
                                                                              Drake.
  
      5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  
      6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a
            motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
  
      {Scoop net}, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net
            for sweeping the bottom of a river.
  
      {Scoop wheel}, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or
            buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

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   Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Scooping}.] [OE. scopen. See {Scoop}, n.]
      1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
  
                     He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
  
      3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig
            out; to form by digging or excavation.
  
                     Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to
                     hold above a pint.                              --Arbuthnot.

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   Scoop \Scoop\, n.
      A beat. [Newspaper Slang]

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   Scoop \Scoop\, v. t.
      To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang]

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   Scope \Scope\, n. [It. scopo, L. scopos a mark, aim, Gr.
      skopo`s, a watcher, mark, aim; akin to [?], [?] to view, and
      perh. to E. spy. Cf. {Skeptic}, {Bishop}.]
      1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind
            directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or
            accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose;
            intention; drift; object. [bd]Shooting wide, do miss the
            marked scope.[b8] --Spenser.
  
                     Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or qualify
                     the laws As to your soul seems good.   --Shak.
  
                     The scope of all their pleading against man's
                     authority, is to overthrow such laws and
                     constitutions in the church.               --Hooker.
  
      2. Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for
            action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent;
            liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
  
                     Give him line and scope.                     --Shak.
  
                     In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is
                     given to the operation of laws which man must always
                     fail to discern the reasons of.         --I. Taylor.
  
                     Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the
                     reflections which have arisen in my mind. --Burke.
  
                     An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or
                     scope.                                                --Hawthorne.
  
      3. Extended area. [Obs.] [bd]The scopes of land granted to
            the first adventurers.[b8] --Sir J. Davies.
  
      4. Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.

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   -scope \-scope\ [Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See {Scope}.]
      A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing
      (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope,
      telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.

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   Scope \Scope\, n. [It. scopo, L. scopos a mark, aim, Gr.
      skopo`s, a watcher, mark, aim; akin to [?], [?] to view, and
      perh. to E. spy. Cf. {Skeptic}, {Bishop}.]
      1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind
            directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or
            accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose;
            intention; drift; object. [bd]Shooting wide, do miss the
            marked scope.[b8] --Spenser.
  
                     Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or qualify
                     the laws As to your soul seems good.   --Shak.
  
                     The scope of all their pleading against man's
                     authority, is to overthrow such laws and
                     constitutions in the church.               --Hooker.
  
      2. Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for
            action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent;
            liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
  
                     Give him line and scope.                     --Shak.
  
                     In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is
                     given to the operation of laws which man must always
                     fail to discern the reasons of.         --I. Taylor.
  
                     Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the
                     reflections which have arisen in my mind. --Burke.
  
                     An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or
                     scope.                                                --Hawthorne.
  
      3. Extended area. [Obs.] [bd]The scopes of land granted to
            the first adventurers.[b8] --Sir J. Davies.
  
      4. Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.

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   -scope \-scope\ [Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See {Scope}.]
      A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing
      (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope,
      telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.

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   Scuff \Scuff\, n. [Cf. D. schoft shoulder, Goth. skuft hair of
      the head. Cf. {Scruff}.]
      The back part of the neck; the scruff. [Prov. Eng.] --Ld.
      Lytton.

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   Scuff \Scuff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scuffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Scuffing}.] [See {Scuffle}.]
      To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping
      or dragging movement; to shuffle.

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   Scup \Scup\, n. [D. schop.]
      A swing. [Local, U.S.]

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   Scup \Scup\, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[97]p, fr.
      mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A marine sparoid food fish ({Stenotomus chrysops}, or {S.
      argyrops}), common on the Atlantic coast of the United
      States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the
      daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night
      and when dead. Called also {porgee}, {paugy}, {porgy},
      {scuppaug}.
  
      Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied
               Southern species. ({Stenotomus Gardeni}).

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   Scyphus \Scy"phus\, n.; pl. {Scyphi}. [L., a cup, Gr. [?].]
      1. (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks
            and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
  
      2. (Bot.)
            (a) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the
                  corolla in other flowers.
            (b) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called
                  {scypha}. See Illust. of {Cladonia pyxidata}, under
                  {Lichen}.

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   d8Scypha \[d8]Scy"pha\, n.; pl. {Scyphae}. [NL.] (Bot.)
      See {Scyphus}, 2
      (b) .

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   Scyphus \Scy"phus\, n.; pl. {Scyphi}. [L., a cup, Gr. [?].]
      1. (Antiq.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks
            and Romans, esp. by poor folk.
  
      2. (Bot.)
            (a) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the
                  corolla in other flowers.
            (b) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called
                  {scypha}. See Illust. of {Cladonia pyxidata}, under
                  {Lichen}.

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   Sea ape \Sea" ape`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The thrasher shark.
      (b) The sea otter.

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   Thrasher \Thrash"er\, Thresher \Thresh"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
            machine.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A large and voracious shark ({Alopias vulpes}),
            remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
            tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
            found both upon the American and the European coasts.
            Called also {fox shark}, {sea ape}, {sea fox}, {slasher},
            {swingle-tail}, and {thrasher shark}.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
            allied species. See {Brown thrush}.
  
      {Sage thrasher}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Sage}.
  
      {Thrasher whale} (Zo[94]l.), the common killer of the
            Atlantic.

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   Sea ape \Sea" ape`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The thrasher shark.
      (b) The sea otter.

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   Thrasher \Thrash"er\, Thresher \Thresh"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing
            machine.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A large and voracious shark ({Alopias vulpes}),
            remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its
            tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is
            found both upon the American and the European coasts.
            Called also {fox shark}, {sea ape}, {sea fox}, {slasher},
            {swingle-tail}, and {thrasher shark}.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other
            allied species. See {Brown thrush}.
  
      {Sage thrasher}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Sage}.
  
      {Thrasher whale} (Zo[94]l.), the common killer of the
            Atlantic.

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   Sea bow \Sea" bow`\
      See {Marine rainbow}, under {Rainbow}.

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   Rainbow \Rain"bow`\, n. [AS. regenboga, akin to G. regenbogen.
      See {Rain}, and {Bow} anything bent,]
      A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several
      colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the
      hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and
      reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
  
      Note: Besides the ordinary bow, called also primary rainbow,
               which is formed by two refractions and one reflection,
               there is also another often seen exterior to it, called
               the secondary rainbow, concentric with the first, and
               separated from it by a small interval. It is formed by
               two refractions and two reflections, is much fainter
               than the primary bow, and has its colors arranged in
               the reverse order from those of the latter.
  
      {Lunar rainbow}, a fainter arch or rainbow, formed by the
            moon.
  
      {Marine rainbow}, [or] {Sea bow}, a similar bow seen in the
            spray of waves at sea.
  
      {Rainbow trout} (Zo[94]l.), a bright-colored trout
            ({Salmoirideus}), native of the mountains of California,
            but now extensively introduced into the Eastern States.
            Japan, and other countries; -- called also {brook trout},
            {mountain trout}, and {golden trout}.
  
      {Rainbow wrasse}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Wrasse}.
  
      {Supernumerary rainbow}, a smaller bow, usually of red and
            green colors only, sometimes seen within the primary or
            without the secondary rainbow, and in contact with them.

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   Sea boy \Sea" boy`\
      A boy employed on shipboard.

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   Sea pie \Sea" pie\ (Zo[94]l.)
      The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus
      {H[91]matopus}.

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   Sea pie \Sea" pie`\
      A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked
      together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors;
      as, a three-decker sea pie.

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   Sea pye \Sea" pye`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      See 1st {Sea pie}.

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   Sea whip \Sea" whip`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      A gorgonian having a simple stem.

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   Seapoy \Sea"poy\ (s[emac]"poy), n.
      See {Sepoy}.

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   Seave \Seave\, n. [Cf. Dan. siv, Sw. s[84]f, Icel. sef.]
      A rush. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

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   Seavy \Seav`y\, a.
      Overgrown with rushes. [Prov. Eng.]

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   Seawife \Sea"wife`\, n.; pl. {Seawives}. (Zo[94]l.)
      A European wrasse ({Labrus vetula}).

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   Seep \Seep\, [or] Sipe \Sipe\, v. i. [AS. s[c6]pan to distill.]
      To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
      [Scot. & U. S.]
  
               Water seeps up through the sidewalks.      --G. W. Cable.

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   Seepy \Seep"y\, [or] Sipy \Sip"y\, a.
      Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well
      drained.

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   Sepia \Se"pi*a\, n.; pl. E. {Sepias}, L. {Sepi[91]}. [L., fr.
      Gr. [?][?][?] the cuttlefish, or squid.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common European cuttlefish.
            (b) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous
                  similar species. See Illustr. under {Cuttlefish}.
  
      2. A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of
            the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it
            has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms
            {Roman sepia}. Cf. {India ink}, under {India}.
  
      {Sepia} {drawing [or] picture}, a drawing in monochrome, made
            in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.

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   Sepia \Se"pi*a\, n.; pl. E. {Sepias}, L. {Sepi[91]}. [L., fr.
      Gr. [?][?][?] the cuttlefish, or squid.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common European cuttlefish.
            (b) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous
                  similar species. See Illustr. under {Cuttlefish}.
  
      2. A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of
            the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it
            has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms
            {Roman sepia}. Cf. {India ink}, under {India}.
  
      {Sepia} {drawing [or] picture}, a drawing in monochrome, made
            in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.

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   Sepia \Se"pi*a\, a.
      Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition;
      also, made of, or done in, sepia.

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   Sepoy \Se"poy\, n. [Per. sip[be]h[c6], fr. sip[be]h an army. Cf.
      {Spahi}.]
      A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a
      European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier
      disciplined in the European manner.

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   Shab \Shab\, n. [OE. shabbe, AS. sc[?]b. See {Scab}.]
      The itch in animals; also, a scab. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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   Shab \Shab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shabbing}.] [See {Scab}, 3.]
      To play mean tricks; to act shabbily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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   Shab \Shab\, v. t.
      To scratch; to rub. [Obs.] --Farquhar.

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   Shabby \Shab"by\, a. [Compar. {Shabbier}; superl. {Shabbiest}.]
      [See {Shab}, n., {Scabby}, and {Scab}.]
      1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
  
                     Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. --Macaulay.
  
      2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
            [bd]The dean was so shabby.[b8] --Swift.
  
      3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. [bd]Very
            shabby fellows.[b8] --Clarendon.

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   Shape \Shape\ (sh[amac]p), v. i.
      To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. [R.] --Shak.

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   Shape \Shape\, n. [OE. shap, schap, AS. sceap in gesceap
      creation, creature, fr. the root of scieppan, scyppan,
      sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect; akin to OS. giskeppian,
      OFries. skeppa, D. scheppen, G. schaffen, OHG. scaffan,
      scepfen, skeffen, Icer. skapa, skepja, Dan. skabe, skaffe,
      Sw. skapa, skaffa, Goth. gaskapjan, and perhaps to E. shave,
      v. Cf. {-ship}.]
      1. Character or construction of a thing as determining its
            external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form;
            guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an
            elegant shape.
  
                     He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a
            being.
  
                     Before the gates three sat, On either side, a
                     formidable shape.                              --Milton.
  
      3. A model; a pattern; a mold.
  
      4. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or
            conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some
            quality. --Milton.
  
      5. Dress for disguise; guise. [Obs.]
  
                     Look better on this virgin, and consider This
                     Persian shape laid by, and she appearing In a
                     Greekish dress.                                 --Messinger.
  
      6. (Iron Manuf.)
            (a) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle
                  iron, etc., having a cross section different from
                  merchant bar.
            (b) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the
                  form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
  
      {To take shape}, to assume a definite form.

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   Shape \Shape\ (sh[amac]p), v. t. [imp. {Shaped} (sh[amac]pt); p.
      p. {Shaped} or {Shapen} (sh[amac]p"'n); p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shaping}.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS. sceapian. The p. p.
      shapen is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan,
      sceppan, p. p. sceapen. See {Shape}, n.]
      1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
            particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
  
                     I was shapen in iniquity.                  --Ps. li. 5.
  
                     Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
                                                                              --Prior.
  
      2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct;
            as, to shape the course of a vessel.
  
                     To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor
                     speed nor art avail, he shapes his course. --Denham.
  
                     Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And
                     shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior.
  
      3. To image; to conceive; to body forth.
  
                     Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. --Shak.
  
      4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
  
                     When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to
                     point.                                                --Chaucer.
  
      {Shaping machine}. (Mach.) Same as {Shaper}.
  
      {To shape one's self}, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.]
  
                     I will early shape me therefor.         --Chaucer.

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   Shapoo \Sha"poo\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The o[94]rial.

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   Shave \Shave\,
      obs. p. p. of {Shave}. --Chaucer.
  
               His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. --Chaucer.

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   Shave \Shave\, v. t. [imp. {Shaved};p. p. {Shaved} or {Shaven};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Shaving}.] [OE. shaven, schaven, AS. scafan,
      sceafan; akin to D. schaven, G. schaben, Icel. skafa, Sw.
      skafva, Dan. skave, Goth. scaban, Russ. kopate to dig, Gr.
      [?][?][?][?], and probably to L. scabere to scratch, to
      scrape. Cf. {Scab}, {Shaft}, {Shape}.]
      1. To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor
            or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a
            razor; as, to shave the beard.
  
      2. To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface,
            or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair
            from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off
            the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown
            of the head; he shaved himself.
  
                     I'll shave your crown for this.         --Shak.
  
                     The laborer with the bending scythe is seen Shaving
                     the surface of the waving green.         --Gay.
  
      3. To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.
  
                     Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. --Bacon.
  
      4. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or
            touch lightly, in passing.
  
                     Now shaves with level wing the deep.   --Milton.
  
      5. To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [Colloq.]
  
      {To shave a note}, to buy it at a discount greater than the
            legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it
            more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

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   Shave \Shave\, v. i.
      To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence,
      to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to
      cheat.

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   Shave \Shave\, n. [AS. scafa, sceafa, a sort of knife. See
      {Shave}, v. t.]
      1. A thin slice; a shaving. --Wright.
  
      2. A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
  
      3.
            (a) An exorbitant discount on a note. [Cant, U.S.]
            (b) A premium paid for an extension of the time of
                  delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock
                  contract in any particular. [Cant, U.S.] --N. Biddle.
  
      4. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at
            each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.
  
      5. The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze;
            as, the bullet missed by a close shave. [Colloq.]
  
      {Shave grass} (Bot.), the scouring rush. See the Note under
            {Equisetum}.
  
      {Shave hook}, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a
            sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and
            handle.

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   Sheaf \Sheaf\, n. (Mech.)
      A sheave. [R.]

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   Sheaf \Sheaf\, n.; pl. {Sheaves}. [OE. sheef, shef, schef, AS.
      sce[a0]f; akin to D. schoof, OHG. scoub, G. schaub, Icel.
      skauf a fox's brush, and E. shove. See {Shove}.]
      1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other
            grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
  
                     The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the
                     golden sheaves in brittle bands.         --Dryden.
  
      2. Any collection of things bound together; a bundle;
            specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a
            quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually
            twenty-four.
  
                     The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case.
                                                                              --Dryden.

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   Sheaf \Sheaf\, v. t.
      To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to
      sheaf wheat.

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   Sheaf \Sheaf\, v. i.
      To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
  
               They that reap must sheaf and bind.         --Shak.

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   Sheafy \Sheaf"y\, a.
      Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves;
      resembling a sheaf.

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   Sheave \Sheave\, n. [Akin to OD. schijve orb, disk, wheel, D.
      schiff, G. scheibe, Icel. sk[c6]fa a shaving, slice; cf. Gr.
      [?][?][?] a staff. Cf. {Shift}, v., {Shive}.]
      A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and
      set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
  
      {Sheave hole}, a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other
            timber, in which to fix a sheave.

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   Sheave \Sheave\, v. t. [See {Sheaf} of straw.]
      To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to
      collect. --Ashmole.

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   Sheep \Sheep\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. shep, scheep, AS. sc[?]p,
      sce[a0]p; akin to OFries. sk[?]p, LG. & D. schaap, G. schaf,
      OHG. sc[be]f, Skr. ch[be]ga. [root]295. Cf. {Sheepherd}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the
            genus {Ovis}, native of the higher mountains of both
            hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
  
      Note: The domestic sheep ({Ovis aries}) varies much in size,
               in the length and texture of its wool, the form and
               size of its horns, the length of its tail, etc. It was
               domesticated in prehistoric ages, and many distinct
               breeds have been produced; as the merinos, celebrated
               for their fine wool; the Cretan sheep, noted for their
               long horns; the fat-tailed, or Turkish, sheep,
               remarkable for the size and fatness of the tail, which
               often has to be supported on trucks; the Southdowns, in
               which the horns are lacking; and an Asiatic breed which
               always has four horns.
  
      2. A weak, bashful, silly fellow. --Ainsworth.
  
      3. pl. Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government
            and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
  
      {Rocky mountain sheep}.(Zo[94]l.) See {Bighorn}.
  
      {Maned sheep}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Aoudad}.
  
      {Sheep bot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See
            {Estrus}.
  
      {Sheep dog} (Zo[94]l.), a shepherd dog, or collie.
  
      {Sheep laurel} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Kalmia
            angustifolia}) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs.
           
  
      {Sheep pest} (Bot.), an Australian plant ({Ac[91]na ovina})
            related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed
            spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep.
  
      {Sheep run}, an extensive tract of country where sheep range
            and graze.
  
      {Sheep's beard} (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb ({Urospermum
            Dalechampii}) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the
            conspicuous pappus of the achenes.
  
      {Sheep's bit} (Bot.), a European herb ({Jasione montana})
            having much the appearance of scabious.
  
      {Sheep pox} (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep,
            characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon
            the skin.
  
      {Sheep scabious}. (Bot.) Same as {Sheep's bit}.
  
      {Sheep shears}, shears in which the blades form the two ends
            of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as
            often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so
            called because used to cut off the wool of sheep.
  
      {Sheep sorrel}. (Bot.), a prerennial herb ({Rumex
            Acetosella}) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly
            soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel.
           
  
      {Sheep's-wool} (Zo[94]l.), the highest grade of Florida
            commercial sponges ({Spongia equina}, variety
            {gossypina}).
  
      {Sheep tick} (Zo[94]l.), a wingless parasitic insect
            ({Melophagus ovinus}) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes
            its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the
            blood, leaving a swelling. Called also {sheep pest}, and
            {sheep louse}.
  
      {Sheep walk}, a pasture for sheep; a sheep run.
  
      {Wild sheep}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Argali}, {Mouflon}, and
            {O[94]rial}.

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   Sheepy \Sheep"y\, a.
      Resembling sheep; sheepish. --Testament of Love.

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   Shiff \Shiff\, v. i.
      1. To divide; to distribute. [Obs.]
  
                     Some this, some that, as that him liketh shift.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      2. To make a change or changes; to change position; to move;
            to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in
            the various senses of the transitive verb.
  
                     The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered
                     pantaloon.                                          --Shak.
  
                     Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his
                     seat.                                                --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      3. To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to
            contrive; to manage.
  
                     Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave
                     their companions to schift as well as they can.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
      4. To practice indirect or evasive methods.
  
                     All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding
                     witty, yet better teach all their followers to
                     shift, than to resolve by their distinctions. --Sir
                                                                              W. Raleigh.
  
      5. (Naut.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy
            the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo
            shifted.

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   -ship \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
      OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
      n., and {Landscape}.]
      A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
      as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
      horsemanship.

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   Ship \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
      Pay; reward. [Obs.]
  
               In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
               the wages of servants.                           --Chaucer.

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   Ship \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
      skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
      Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
      {Equip}, {Skiff}, {Skipper}.]
      1. Any large seagoing vessel.
  
                     Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
                     and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!   --Longfellow.
  
      2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
            masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
            which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
            topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
            Illustation in Appendix.

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   Ship \Ship\, v. i.
      1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
            man-of-war.
  
      2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)

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   Ship \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shipping}.]
      1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
            transportation; to send by water.
  
                     The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
                     from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
                                                                              --Knolles.
  
      2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
            conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
            freight by railroad.
  
      3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
  
      4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
            ship seamen.
  
      5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
  
      6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

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   Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the
      same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]
      1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
            packet of letters. --Shak.
  
      2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
            dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
            dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
            days of sailing; a mail boat.
  
      {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.
  
      {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
            the sailing day.
  
      {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.

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   -ship \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
      OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
      n., and {Landscape}.]
      A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
      as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
      horsemanship.

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   Ship \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
      Pay; reward. [Obs.]
  
               In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
               the wages of servants.                           --Chaucer.

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   Ship \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
      skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
      Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
      {Equip}, {Skiff}, {Skipper}.]
      1. Any large seagoing vessel.
  
                     Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
                     and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!   --Longfellow.
  
      2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
            masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
            which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
            topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
            Illustation in Appendix.

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   Ship \Ship\, v. i.
      1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
            man-of-war.
  
      2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)

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   Ship \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shipping}.]
      1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
            transportation; to send by water.
  
                     The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
                     from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
                                                                              --Knolles.
  
      2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
            conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
            freight by railroad.
  
      3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
  
      4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
            ship seamen.
  
      5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
  
      6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

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   Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the
      same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]
      1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
            packet of letters. --Shak.
  
      2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
            dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
            dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
            days of sailing; a mail boat.
  
      {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.
  
      {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
            the sailing day.
  
      {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.

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   -ship \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
      OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
      n., and {Landscape}.]
      A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
      as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
      horsemanship.

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   Ship \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
      Pay; reward. [Obs.]
  
               In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
               the wages of servants.                           --Chaucer.

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   Ship \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
      skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
      Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
      {Equip}, {Skiff}, {Skipper}.]
      1. Any large seagoing vessel.
  
                     Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
                     and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!   --Longfellow.
  
      2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
            masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
            which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
            topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
            Illustation in Appendix.

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   Ship \Ship\, v. i.
      1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
            man-of-war.
  
      2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)

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   Ship \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shipping}.]
      1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
            transportation; to send by water.
  
                     The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
                     from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
                                                                              --Knolles.
  
      2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
            conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
            freight by railroad.
  
      3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
  
      4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
            ship seamen.
  
      5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
  
      6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

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   Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the
      same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.]
      1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a
            packet of letters. --Shak.
  
      2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
            dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
            dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed
            days of sailing; a mail boat.
  
      {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2.
  
      {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or
            the sailing day.
  
      {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.

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      3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a
            ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] --Tyndale.
  
      {Armed ship}, a private ship taken into the service of the
            government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a
            ship of war. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
  
      {General ship}. See under {General}.
  
      {Ship biscuit}, hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard;
            -- called also {ship bread}. See {Hardtack}.
  
      {Ship boy}, a boy who serves in a ship. [bd]Seal up the ship
            boy's eyes.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Ship breaker}, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for
            further use.
  
      {Ship broker}, a mercantile agent employed in buying and
            selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in
            transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port.
           
  
      {Ship canal}, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing
            vessels.
  
      {Ship carpenter}, a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a
            shipwright.
  
      {Ship chandler}, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other,
            furniture of vessels.
  
      {Ship chandlery}, the commodities in which a ship chandler
            deals; also, the business of a ship chandler.
  
      {Ship fever} (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also
            {putrid, jail, [or] hospital fever}.
  
      {Ship joiner}, a joiner who works upon ships.
  
      {Ship letter}, a letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet.
           
  
      {Ship money} (Eng. Hist.), an imposition formerly charged on
            the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of
            England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for
            the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I. to
            revive and enforce this tax was resisted by John Hampden,
            and was one of the causes which led to the death of
            Charles. It was finally abolished.
  
      {Ship of the line}. See under {Line}.
  
      {Ship pendulum}, a pendulum hung amidships to show the extent
            of the rolling and pitching of a vessel.
  
      {Ship railway}.
            (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of
                  which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for
                  repairs.
            (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels
                  overland between two water courses or harbors.
  
      {Ship's company}, the crew of a ship or other vessel.
  
      {Ship's days}, the days allowed a vessel for loading or
            unloading.
  
      {Ship's husband}. See under {Husband}.
  
      {Ship's papers} (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is
            required by law to be provided, and the production of
            which may be required on certain occasions. Among these
            papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter
            party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll,
            bill of health, etc. --Bouvier. --Kent.
  
      {To make ship}, to embark in a ship or other vessel.

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   Shive \Shive\, n. [See {Sheave}, n.]
      1. A slice; as, a shive of bread. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
            --Shak.
  
      2. A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales
            or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the
            operation of breaking.
  
      3. A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle;
            also, a thin wooden bung for casks.

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   Shoop \Shoop\, obs.
      imp. of {Shape}. Shaped. --Chaucer.

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   Shop \Shop\, obs.
      imp. of {Shape}. Shaped. --Chaucer.

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   Shop \Shop\, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a
      storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a
      shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG.
      scopf.]
      1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs,
            etc., are sold by retail.
  
                     From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with
                     unfolded silks The polished counter.   --Cowper.
  
      2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe
            shop; a car shop.
  
                     A tailor called me in his shop.         --Shak.
  
      Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as,
               shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief;
               shop window, or shop-window, etc.
  
      {To smell of the shop}, to indicate too distinctively one's
            occupation or profession.
  
      {To talk shop}, to make one's business the topic of social
            conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's
            employment. [Colloq.]
  
      Syn: Store; warehouse. See {Store}.

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   Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shopping}.]
      To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
  
               He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go
               shopping.                                                --Byron.

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   Shop \Shop\, n.
      1. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like,
            as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.;
            -- generally in deprecation.
  
      2. A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's
            shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business
            which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor,
            broker, etc.
  
      3. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.
            [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]

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   Shopboy \Shop"boy`\, n.
      A boy employed in a shop.

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   Shoppy \Shop"py\, a.
      1. Abounding with shops. [Colloq.]
  
      2. Of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business;
            as, shoppy talk. [Colloq.] --Mrs. Gaskell.

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   Shove \Shove\, n.
      The act of shoving; a forcible push.
  
               I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove.
                                                                              --Swift.
  
      Syn: See {Thrust}.

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   Shove \Shove\, v. i.
      1. To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or
            jostling.
  
      2. To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a
            pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
  
                     He grasped the oar, eceived his guests on board, and
                     shoved from shore.                              --Garth.

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   Shove \Shove\ (sh[ucr]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shoved}
      (sh[ucr]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoving}.] [OE. shoven, AS.
      scofian, fr. sc[umac]fan; akin to OFries. sk[umac]va, D.
      schuiven, G. schieben, OHG. scioban, Icel. sk[umac]fa,
      sk[ymac]fa, Sw. skuffa, Dan. skuffe, Goth. afskiuban to put
      away, cast away; cf. Skr. kshubh to become agitated, to
      quake, Lith. skubrus quick, skubinti to hasten. [root]160.
      Cf. {Sheaf} a bundle of stalks, {Scoop}, {Scuffle}.]
      1. To drive along by the direct and continuous application of
            strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to
            make it move along the surface of another body; as, to
            shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the
            floor.
  
      2. To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude
            manner; to jostle.
  
                     And shove away the worthy bidden guest. --Milton.
  
                     He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.

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   Shove \Shove\, obs.
      p. p. of {Shove}. --Chaucer.

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   Spout \Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See
      {Spout}, v. t.]
      1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip,
            pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind
            through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is
            conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the
            spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the
            roof of a building. --Addison. [bd]A conduit with three
            issuing spouts.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is
                     contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir
                                                                              T. Browne.
  
                     From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a
            receptacle.
  
      3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when
            rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
  
      {To put}, {shove}, [or] {pop}, {up the spout}, to pawn or
            pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up
            which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]

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   Shove \Shove\, n.
      The act of shoving; a forcible push.
  
               I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove.
                                                                              --Swift.
  
      Syn: See {Thrust}.

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   Shove \Shove\, v. i.
      1. To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or
            jostling.
  
      2. To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a
            pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
  
                     He grasped the oar, eceived his guests on board, and
                     shoved from shore.                              --Garth.

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   Shove \Shove\ (sh[ucr]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shoved}
      (sh[ucr]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoving}.] [OE. shoven, AS.
      scofian, fr. sc[umac]fan; akin to OFries. sk[umac]va, D.
      schuiven, G. schieben, OHG. scioban, Icel. sk[umac]fa,
      sk[ymac]fa, Sw. skuffa, Dan. skuffe, Goth. afskiuban to put
      away, cast away; cf. Skr. kshubh to become agitated, to
      quake, Lith. skubrus quick, skubinti to hasten. [root]160.
      Cf. {Sheaf} a bundle of stalks, {Scoop}, {Scuffle}.]
      1. To drive along by the direct and continuous application of
            strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to
            make it move along the surface of another body; as, to
            shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the
            floor.
  
      2. To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude
            manner; to jostle.
  
                     And shove away the worthy bidden guest. --Milton.
  
                     He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.

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   Shove \Shove\, obs.
      p. p. of {Shove}. --Chaucer.

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   Spout \Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See
      {Spout}, v. t.]
      1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip,
            pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind
            through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is
            conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the
            spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the
            roof of a building. --Addison. [bd]A conduit with three
            issuing spouts.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is
                     contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir
                                                                              T. Browne.
  
                     From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a
            receptacle.
  
      3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when
            rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
  
      {To put}, {shove}, [or] {pop}, {up the spout}, to pawn or
            pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up
            which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]

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   Sib \Sib\, n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative. [root]289.
      See {Gossip}.]
      A blood relation. [Obs.] --Nash.

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   Sib \Sib\, a.
      Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W.
      Scott.
  
               Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. --Chaucer.
  
               [He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but
               sprung of seed terrestrial.                     --Spenser.

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   Sieva \Sie"va\, n. (Bot.)
      A small variety of the Lima bean ({Phaseolus lunatus}).

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   Sieve \Sieve\, n. [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift,
      OHG. sib, G. sieb. [root]151a. Cf. {Sift}.]
      1. A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a
            pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It
            consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom
            perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in
            meshes. [bd]In a sieve thrown and sifted.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      2. A kind of coarse basket. --Simmonds.
  
      {Sieve cells} (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under
            {Cribriform}.

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   Sip \Sip\, n.
      1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
  
      2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
  
                     One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in
                     delight Beyond the bliss of dreams.   --Milton.
  
                     A sip is all that the public ever care to take from
                     reservoirs of abstract philosophy.      --De Quincey.

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   Sip \Sip\, v. i.
      See {Seep}. [Scot. & U.S.]

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   Sip \Sip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sipping}.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s[?]pan
      to sip, suck up, drink. See {Sup}, v. t.]
      1. To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to
            take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid;
            as, to sip tea. [bd]Every herb that sips the dew.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar
            from the flowers.
  
      3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]
  
                     They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
                                                                              --Dryden.

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   Sip \Sip\, v. i.
      To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to
      take a sip or sips of something.
  
               [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then,
               sipping, offered to the next in place.   --Dryden.

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   Seep \Seep\, [or] Sipe \Sipe\, v. i. [AS. s[c6]pan to distill.]
      To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
      [Scot. & U. S.]
  
               Water seeps up through the sidewalks.      --G. W. Cable.

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   Seepy \Seep"y\, [or] Sipy \Sip"y\, a.
      Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well
      drained.

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   Skep \Skep\, n. [Icel. skeppa a measure, bushel; cf. Gael. sgeap
      a basket, a beehive.]
      1. A coarse round farm basket. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
            --Tusser.
  
      2. A beehive. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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   Skiff \Skiff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skiffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Skiffing}.]
      To navigate in a skiff. [R.]

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   Skiff \Skiff\, n. [F. esquif, fr. OHG. skif, G. schiff. See
      {Ship}.]
      A small, light boat.
  
               The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      {Skiff caterpillar} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a moth
            ({Limacodes scapha}); -- so called from its peculiar
            shape.

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   Skip \Skip\, v. t.
      1. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
  
      2. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as,
            to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
  
                     They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these
                     two chapters.                                    --Bp. Burnet.
  
      3. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. [Colloq.]

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   Skip \Skip\, n.
      1. A light leap or bound.
  
      2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to
            another; an omission of a part.
  
      3. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a
            degree at once. --Busby.
  
      {Skip kennel}, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] --Swift.
  
      {Skip mackerel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bluefish}, 1.

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   Skip \Skip\, n. [See {Skep}.]
      1. A basket. See {Skep}. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  
      2. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
  
      3. (Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for
            hoisting mineral and rock.
  
      4. (Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
  
      5. A beehive; a skep.

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   Skip \Skip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Skipping}.] [OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel.
      skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw.
      skimmpa to run, skimpa, skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to
      snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W.
      ysgipio to snatch.]
      1. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly
            implying a sportive spirit.
  
                     The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy
                     reason, would he skip and play?         --Pope.
  
                     So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and
                     frisking fantastically.                     --Hawthorne.
  
      2. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking,
            or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing;
            -- often followed by over.

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   Hop \Hop\, n.
      1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a
            jump; a spring.
  
      2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]
  
      {Hop}, {skip} ([or] {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic
            sport in which the participants cover as much ground as
            possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.

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   Skip \Skip\, v. t.
      1. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
  
      2. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as,
            to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
  
                     They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these
                     two chapters.                                    --Bp. Burnet.
  
      3. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. [Colloq.]

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   Skip \Skip\, n.
      1. A light leap or bound.
  
      2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to
            another; an omission of a part.
  
      3. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a
            degree at once. --Busby.
  
      {Skip kennel}, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] --Swift.
  
      {Skip mackerel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bluefish}, 1.

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   Skip \Skip\, n. [See {Skep}.]
      1. A basket. See {Skep}. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  
      2. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
  
      3. (Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for
            hoisting mineral and rock.
  
      4. (Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
  
      5. A beehive; a skep.

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   Skip \Skip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Skipping}.] [OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel.
      skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw.
      skimmpa to run, skimpa, skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to
      snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W.
      ysgipio to snatch.]
      1. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly
            implying a sportive spirit.
  
                     The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy
                     reason, would he skip and play?         --Pope.
  
                     So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and
                     frisking fantastically.                     --Hawthorne.
  
      2. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking,
            or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing;
            -- often followed by over.

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   Hop \Hop\, n.
      1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a
            jump; a spring.
  
      2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]
  
      {Hop}, {skip} ([or] {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic
            sport in which the participants cover as much ground as
            possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.

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   Skive \Skive\, v. t.
      To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or
      leather).

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   Skive \Skive\, n. [Cf. Icel. sk[c6]fa a shaving, slice, E.
      shive, sheave.]
      The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the
      facets of the gem.

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   Soap \Soap\, n. [OE. sope, AS. s[be]pe; akin to D. zeep, G.
      seife, OHG. seifa, Icel. s[be]pa, Sw. s[?]pa, Dan. s[?]be,
      and perhaps to AS. s[c6]pan to drip, MHG. s[c6]fen, and L.
      sebum tallow. Cf. {Saponaceous}.]
      A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather,
      and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by
      combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths,
      usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium,
      potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic,
      palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf.
      {Saponification}. By extension, any compound of similar
      composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent
      or not.
  
      Note: In general, soaps are of two classes, hard and soft.
               Calcium, magnesium, lead, etc., form soaps, but they
               are insoluble and useless.
  
                        The purifying action of soap depends upon the
                        fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of
                        water into free alkali and an insoluble acid
                        salt. The first of these takes away the fatty
                        dirt on washing, and the latter forms the soap
                        lather which envelops the greasy matter and thus
                        tends to remove it.                        --Roscoe &
                                                                              Schorlemmer.
  
      {Castile soap}, a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled,
            made of olive oil and soda; -- called also {Marseilles,
            [or] Venetian, soap}.
  
      {Hard soap}, any one of a great variety of soaps, of
            different ingredients and color, which are hard and
            compact. All solid soaps are of this class.
  
      {Lead soap}, an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by
            saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; -- used
            externally in medicine. Called also {lead plaster},
            {diachylon}, etc.
  
      {Marine soap}. See under {Marine}.
  
      {Pills of soap} (Med.), pills containing soap and opium.
  
      {Potash soap}, any soap made with potash, esp. the soft
            soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil.
  
      {Pumice soap}, any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as
            silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists
            mechanically in the removal of dirt.
  
      {Resin soap}, a yellow soap containing resin, -- used in
            bleaching.
  
      {Silicated soap}, a cheap soap containing water glass (sodium
            silicate).
  
      {Soap bark}. (Bot.) See {Quillaia bark}.
  
      {Soap bubble}, a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a
            film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something
            attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.
  
                     This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. --J. C.
                                                                              Shairp.
  
      {Soap cerate}, a cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax,
            and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an
            application to allay inflammation.
  
      {Soap fat}, the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses,
            etc., used in making soap.
  
      {Soap liniment} (Med.), a liniment containing soap, camphor,
            and alcohol.
  
      {Soap nut}, the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the
            soapberry tree, -- used for making beads, buttons, etc.
  
      {Soap plant} (Bot.), one of several plants used in the place
            of soap, as the {Chlorogalum pomeridianum}, a California
            plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and
            rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells
            not unlike new brown soap. It is called also {soap apple},
            {soap bulb}, and {soap weed}.
  
      {Soap tree}. (Bot.) Same as {Soapberry tree}.
  
      {Soda soap}, a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps
            are all hard soaps.
  
      {Soft soap}, a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and
            of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the
            lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often
            contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in
            cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively,
            flattery; wheedling; blarney. [Colloq.]
  
      {Toilet soap}, hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and
            perfumed.

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   Soap \Soap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soaped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Soaping}.]
      1. To rub or wash over with soap.
  
      2. To flatter; to wheedle. [Slang]

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   Soapy \Soap"y\, a. [Compar. {Soapier}; superl. {Soapiest}.]
      1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like,
            soap; soft and smooth.
  
      2. Smeared with soap; covered with soap.

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   Sob \Sob\, v. t. [See {Sop}.]
      To soak. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

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   Sob \Sob\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sobbing}.] [OE. sobben; akin to AS. se[a2]fian, si[a2]fian,
      to complain, bewail, se[a2]fung, si[a2]fung, sobbing,
      lamentation; cf. OHG. s[?]ft[94]n, s[?]ft[?]n, to sigh, MHG.
      siuften, siufzen, G. seufzen, MHG. s[?]ft a sigh, properly, a
      drawing in of breath, from s[?]fen to drink, OHG. s[?]fan.
      Cf. {Sup}.]
      To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind
      of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a
      convulsive drawing in of the breath.
  
               Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
               She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She
               rent her garments, and she tore her hair. --Dryden.

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   Sob \Sob\, n.
      1. The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of
            the breath, as in sorrow.
  
                     Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. Any sorrowful cry or sound.
  
                     The tremulous sob of the complaining owl.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.

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   Sofa \So"fa\, n.; pl. {Sofas}. [Ar. soffah, from saffa to
      dispose in order: cf. F. sofa, It. sof[85].]
      A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends;
      -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
  
               Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. --Cowper.
  
      {Sofa bed}, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to
            form a bed; -- called also {sofa bedstead}.

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   Sofi \So"fi\, n.; pl. {Sofis}.
      Same as {Sufi}.

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   Sufi \Su"fi\, n. [Ar. & Per. s[?]f[c6], wise, pious, devout.]
      One of a certain order of religious men in Persia. [Written
      also {sofi}.]

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   Sofi \So"fi\, n.; pl. {Sofis}.
      Same as {Sufi}.

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   Sufi \Su"fi\, n. [Ar. & Per. s[?]f[c6], wise, pious, devout.]
      One of a certain order of religious men in Persia. [Written
      also {sofi}.]

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   Soofee \Soo"fee\, Soofeeism \Soo"fee*ism\
      Same as {Sufi}, {Sufism}.

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   Sop \Sop\, n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s[?]pan to sup, to
      sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop.
      See {Sup}, v. t., and cf. {Soup}.]
      1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid;
            especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and
            intended to be eaten.
  
                     He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have
                     dipped it.                                          --John xiii.
                                                                              26.
  
                     Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine
                     itself.                                             --Bacon.
  
                     The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher
                     than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid
                     globe.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given
            to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
  
                     All nature is cured with a sop.         --L'Estrange.
  
      3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.
  
      {Sops in wine} (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink,
            alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.
  
                     Garlands of roses and sops in wine.   --Spenser.
  
      {Sops of wine} (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a
            yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also
            {sopsavine}, and {red shropsavine}.

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   Sop \Sop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sopping}.]
      To steep or dip in any liquid.

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   Sope \Sope\, n.
      See {Soap}. [Obs.]

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   Soph \Soph\, n. (Eng. Univ.)
      A contraction of {Soph ister}. [Colloq.]

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   Soph \Soph\, n. (Amer. Colleges)
      A contraction of {Sophomore}. [Colloq.]

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   Sophi \So"phi\, n.; pl. {Sophis}.
      See {Sufi}.

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   Soppy \Sop"py\, a.
      Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or
      sloppy.
  
               It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy.
                                                                              --Dickens.

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   Soup \Soup\, n. [F. soupe, OF. sope, supe, soupe, perhaps
      originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin;
      cf. D. sop sop, G. suppe soup. See {Sop} something dipped in
      a liquid, and cf. {Supper}.]
      A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and
      vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned
      or flavored; strong broth.
  
      {Soup kitchen}, an establishment for preparing and supplying
            soup to the poor.
  
      {Soup ticket}, a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving
            soup at a soup kitchen.

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   Soup \Soup\, v. t.
      To sup or swallow. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

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   Soup \Soup\, v. t.
      To breathe out. [Obs.] --amden.

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   Soup \Soup\, v. t.
      To sweep. See {Sweep}, and {Swoop}. [Obs.]

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   Soupy \Soup"y\, a.
      Resembling soup; souplike.

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   Spa \Spa\ (?; 277), n.
      A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this
      name in Belgium.

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   Spae \Spae\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Spaed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Spaeing}.] [Scot. spae, spay, to foretell, to divine, Icel.
      sp[be].]
      To foretell; to divine. [Scot.]

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   Spaw \Spaw\, n.
      See {Spa}.

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   Spay \Spay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Spaying}.] [Cf. Armor. spac'hein, spaza to geld, W. dyspaddu
      to geld, L. spado a eunuch, Gr. [?].]
      To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch;
      to castrate (a female animal).

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   Spay \Spay\, n. [Cf. {Spade} a spay, {Spay}, v. t.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

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   Spew \Spew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spewed}; p. pr.& vb. n.
      {Spewing}.] [OE. spewen, speowen, AS. sp[c6]wan;n to D.
      spuwen to spit. OS & OHG. sp[c6]wan, G. speien, Icel. sp[?]ja
      to spew, Sw. spy, Dan. spye, Goth. spiewan, th. spjauti, L.
      spuere to split, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. shtiv, shth[c6]v. Cf.
      {Pyke}, {Spit}.] [Written also {spue}.]
      1. To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
  
      2. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
  
                     Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,
                     I will spew thee out of my mouth.      --Rev. ii. 16.

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   Spew \Spew\, v. i.
      1. To vomit. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

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   Spew \Spew\, n.
      That which is vomited; vomit.

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   Spewy \Spew"y\, a.
      Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

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   Spew \Spew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spewed}; p. pr.& vb. n.
      {Spewing}.] [OE. spewen, speowen, AS. sp[c6]wan;n to D.
      spuwen to spit. OS & OHG. sp[c6]wan, G. speien, Icel. sp[?]ja
      to spew, Sw. spy, Dan. spye, Goth. spiewan, th. spjauti, L.
      spuere to split, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. shtiv, shth[c6]v. Cf.
      {Pyke}, {Spit}.] [Written also {spue}.]
      1. To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
  
      2. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
  
                     Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,
                     I will spew thee out of my mouth.      --Rev. ii. 16.

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   Spue \Spue\, v. t. & i.
      See {Spew}.

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   Spew \Spew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spewed}; p. pr.& vb. n.
      {Spewing}.] [OE. spewen, speowen, AS. sp[c6]wan;n to D.
      spuwen to spit. OS & OHG. sp[c6]wan, G. speien, Icel. sp[?]ja
      to spew, Sw. spy, Dan. spye, Goth. spiewan, th. spjauti, L.
      spuere to split, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. shtiv, shth[c6]v. Cf.
      {Pyke}, {Spit}.] [Written also {spue}.]
      1. To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
  
      2. To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
  
                     Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,
                     I will spew thee out of my mouth.      --Rev. ii. 16.

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   Spue \Spue\, v. t. & i.
      See {Spew}.

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   Spy \Spy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Spying}.] [OE. spien, espien, OF. espier, F. [82]pier, OHG.
      speh[?]n, G. sp[84]hen; akin to L. specere to see, Skr.
      spa([?]). [?] 169. Cf. {Espy}, v.t., {Aspect}, {Auspice},
      {Circumspect}, {Conspicuouc}, {Despise}, {Frontispiece},
      {Inspect}, {Prospect}, {Respite}, {Scope}, {Scecimen},
      {Spectacle}, {Specter}, {Speculate}, {Spice}, {Spite},
      {Suspicion}.]
      To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of
      concealment; to espy; to see.
  
               One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he
               spied a note of admiration.                     --Swift.
  
      2. To discover by close search or examination.
  
                     Look about with yout eyes; spy what things are to be
                     reformed in the church of England.      --Latimer.
  
      3. To explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a
            country; -- usually with out.
  
                     Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages
                     thereof.                                             --Num. xxi.
                                                                              32.

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   Spy \Spy\, v. i.
      To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
  
               It is my nature's plague To spy into abuses. --Shak.

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   Spy \Spy\, n.; pl. {Spies}. [See {Spy}, v., and cf. {Espy}, n.]
      1. One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.
            [bd]These wretched spies of wit.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      2. (Mil.) A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp,
            territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works,
            ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to
            communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.
  
      {Spy money}, money paid to a spy; the reward for private or
            secret intelligence regarding the enemy.
  
      {Spy Wednesday} (Eccl.), the Wednesday immediately preceding
            the festival of Easter; -- so called in allusion to the
            betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot.
  
      Syn: See {Emissary}, and {Scout}.

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   Squab \Squab\, a. [Cf. dial. Sw. sqvabb a soft and fat body,
      sqvabba a fat woman, Icel. kvap jelly, jellylike things, and
      and E. quab.]
      1. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
  
                     Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
                                                                              --Betterton.
  
      2. Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon. --King.

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   Squab \Squab\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird,
            esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
  
      2. A person of a short, fat figure.
  
                     Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab
                     upon a Chinese fan.                           --Cowper.
  
      3. A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the
            seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
  
                     Punching the squab of chairs and sofas. --Dickens.
  
                     On her large squab you find her spread. --Pope.

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   Squab \Squab\, adv. [Cf. dial. Sw. squapp, a word imitative of a
      splash, and E. squab fat, unfledged.]
      With a heavy fall; plump. [Vulgar]
  
               The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and
               dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.      --L'Estrange.

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   Squab \Squab\, v. i.
      To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
      [Obs.]

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   Squabby \Squab"by\, a.
      Short and thick; suqabbish.

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   Squib \Squib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Squibbing}.]
      To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to
      contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
      [Colloq.]

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   Squib \Squib\, n. [OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftky, Icel.
      svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS. swipian to
      whip, and E. swift, a. See {Swift}, a.]
      1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with
            powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air
            while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
  
                     Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.
                                                                              --Waller.
  
                     The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . .
                     . is punishable.                                 --Blackstone.
  
      2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
  
      3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a
            brief, witty essay.
  
                     Who copied his squibs, and re[89]choed his jokes.
                                                                              --Goldsmith.
  
      4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.]
  
                     The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the
                     world are called libelers, lampooners, and
                     pamphleteers.                                    --Tatler.
  
      5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.] --Spenser.

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   Squiffy \Squif"fy\, a.
      Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy. [Slang] --Kipling.

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   Suave \Suave\, a. [L. suavis sweet, pleasant: cf. F. suave. See
      {Sweet}, and cf. {Suasion}.]
      Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner;
      bland. -- {Suave"ly}, adv.

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   Sub- \Sub-\ [L. sub under, below; akin to Gr. [?], Skr. upa to,
      on, under, over. Cf. {Hypo-}, {Super-}.]
      1. A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence
            often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect
            or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve,
            subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular,
            suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before
            m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-,
            and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p,
            and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b
            from a collateral form, subs-).
  
      2. (Chem.) A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a
            compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is
            present in only a small proportion, or less than the
            normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to
            the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as,
            subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]

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   Sub \Sub\, n.
      A subordinate; a subaltern. [Colloq.]

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   Sub- \Sub-\ [L. sub under, below; akin to Gr. [?], Skr. upa to,
      on, under, over. Cf. {Hypo-}, {Super-}.]
      1. A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence
            often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect
            or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve,
            subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular,
            suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before
            m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-,
            and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p,
            and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b
            from a collateral form, subs-).
  
      2. (Chem.) A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a
            compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is
            present in only a small proportion, or less than the
            normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to
            the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as,
            subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]

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   Sub \Sub\, n.
      A subordinate; a subaltern. [Colloq.]

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   Subway \Sub"way`\, n.
      An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a
      street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires,
      etc., are conducted.

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   Suf- \Suf-\
      A form of the prefix {Sub-}.

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   Sufi \Su"fi\, n. [From the name of a dynasty of Persian kings,
      Saf[c6], Safav[c6]; said to come from name Saf[c6]-ud-d[c6]n
      of an ancestor of the family, confused with s[?]f[c6] pious.]
      A title or surname of the king of Persia.

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   Sufi \Su"fi\, n. [Ar. & Per. s[?]f[c6], wise, pious, devout.]
      One of a certain order of religious men in Persia. [Written
      also {sofi}.]

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   Sup \Sup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Supped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Supping}.] [OE. soupen to drink, AS. s[?]pan; akin to D.
      zuipen, G. saufen, OHG. s[?]fan, Icel. s[?]pa, Sw. supa, Dan.
      s[94]be. Cf. {Sip}, {Sop}, {Soup}, {Supper}.]
      To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or
      drink by a little at a time; to sip.
  
               There I'll sup Balm and nectar in my cup. --Crashaw.

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   Sup \Sup\, n.
      A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with
      the lips; a sip.
  
               Tom Thumb had got a little sup.               --Drayton.

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   Sup \Sup\, v. i. [See {Supper}.]
      To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
  
               I do entreat that we may sup together.   --[?]

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   Sup \Sup\, v. t.
      To treat with supper. [Obs.]
  
               Sup them well and look unto them all.      --Shak.

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   Supe \Supe\, n.
      A super. [Theatrical Cant]

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   Swab \Swab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swabbing}.] [See {Swabber}, n.]
      To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after
      washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also {swob}.]

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   Swab \Swab\, n. [Written also swob.]
      1. A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels,
            etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.
  
      2. A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle,
            for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying
            medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.
  
      3. (Naut.) An epaulet. [Sailor's Slang] --Marryat.
  
      4. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Obs.] --Bailey.
  
      5. A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long
            rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.

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   Swaip \Swaip\, v. i. [Cf. {Sweep}.]
      To walk proudly; to sweep along. [Prov. Eng.] --Todd.

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   Swap \Swap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swapping}.] [OE. swappen to strike; cf. E. to strike a
      bargain; perh. akin to E. sweep. Cf. {Swap} a blow, {Swap},
      v. i.] [Written also {swop}.]
      1. To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [bd]Swap off
            his head![b8] --Chaucer.
  
      2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to
            swop. [Colloq.] --Miss Edgeworth.

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   Swap \Swap\, v. i. [Cf. {Swap}, v. t.]
      1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. --C.
            Richardson (Dict.).
  
                     All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion
            or noise; to flap.

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   Swap \Swap\, n. [Cf. G. schwapp, n., a slap, swap, schwapp,
      schwapps, interj., slap! smack! and E. swap, v.t.]
      1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  
      2. An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott.

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   Swap \Swap\, adv. [See {Swap}, n.]
      Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]

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   Swape \Swape\, n.
      See {Sweep}, n., 12.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

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   Swape \Swape\, n.
      See {Sweep}, n., 12.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swept}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sweeping}.] [OE. swepen; akin to AS. sw[be]pan. See {Swoop},
      v. i.]
      1. To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose
            dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for
            the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street,
            or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
  
                     I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
                                                                              --Isa. xiv.
                                                                              23.
  
      2. To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or
            as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing;
            as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow
            from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or
            rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
  
                     The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. --Isa.
                                                                              xxviii. 17.
  
                     I have already swept the stakes.         --Dryden.
  
      3. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
  
                     Their long descending train, With rubies edged and
                     sapphires, swept the plain.               --Dryden.
  
      4. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence,
            to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
  
                     And like a peacock sweep along his tail. --Shak.
  
      5. To strike with a long stroke.
  
                     Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the
                     sounding lyre.                                    --Pope.
  
      6. (Naut.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the
            bottom of a river with a net.
  
      7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an
            instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a
            telescope.
  
      {To sweep, [or] sweep up}, {a mold} (Founding), to form the
            sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it
            around the pattern.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, v. i.
      1. To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt,
            litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
  
      2. To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass
            with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of
            anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps
            across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
  
      3. To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through
            with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swept}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sweeping}.] [OE. swepen; akin to AS. sw[be]pan. See {Swoop},
      v. i.]
      1. To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose
            dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for
            the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street,
            or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
  
                     I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
                                                                              --Isa. xiv.
                                                                              23.
  
      2. To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or
            as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing;
            as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow
            from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or
            rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
  
                     The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. --Isa.
                                                                              xxviii. 17.
  
                     I have already swept the stakes.         --Dryden.
  
      3. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
  
                     Their long descending train, With rubies edged and
                     sapphires, swept the plain.               --Dryden.
  
      4. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence,
            to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
  
                     And like a peacock sweep along his tail. --Shak.
  
      5. To strike with a long stroke.
  
                     Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the
                     sounding lyre.                                    --Pope.
  
      6. (Naut.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the
            bottom of a river with a net.
  
      7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an
            instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a
            telescope.
  
      {To sweep, [or] sweep up}, {a mold} (Founding), to form the
            sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it
            around the pattern.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, v. i.
      1. To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt,
            litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
  
      2. To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass
            with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of
            anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps
            across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
  
      3. To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through
            with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

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   Sweepy \Sweep"y\, a.
      Moving with a sweeping motion.
  
               The branches bend before their sweepy away. --Dryden.

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   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swipe \Swipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swiped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swiping}.]
      1. To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping
            motion, as a ball.
  
                     Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. --R. A.
                                                                              Proctor.
  
      2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. {Sweep}, {Swiple}.]
      1. A swape or sweep. See {Sweep}.
  
      2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat
            or club.
  
                     Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over
                     either of the long fields.                  --R. A.
                                                                              Proctor.
  
      3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written
            also {swypes}.] --Craig.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sweep \Sweep\, n.
      1. The act of sweeping.
  
      2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  
      3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
            sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  
      4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
            carried away everything within its sweep.
  
      5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
            epidemic disease.
  
      6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
            sweep of a compass.
  
      7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
            like, away from a rectlinear line.
  
                     The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
            sweeper.
  
      9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
            molding.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the
                  rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of
                  a circle.
            (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel
                  them and partly to steer them.
  
      11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
  
      12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal
            fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower
            a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written
            {swape}, {sweep}, {swepe}, and {swipe}.]
  
      13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or
            combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing
            them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks
            (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  
      14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
            worked, containing filings, etc.
  
      {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.
  
      {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
            tiller traverses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swipe \Swipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swiped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swiping}.]
      1. To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping
            motion, as a ball.
  
                     Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. --R. A.
                                                                              Proctor.
  
      2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. {Sweep}, {Swiple}.]
      1. A swape or sweep. See {Sweep}.
  
      2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat
            or club.
  
                     Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over
                     either of the long fields.                  --R. A.
                                                                              Proctor.
  
      3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written
            also {swypes}.] --Craig.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swive \Swive\, v. t. [OE. swiven, fr. AS. sw[c6]fan. See
      {Swivel}.]
      To copulate with (a woman). [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swab \Swab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swabbing}.] [See {Swabber}, n.]
      To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after
      washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also {swob}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swob \Swob\, n. & v.
      See {Swab}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swab \Swab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swabbing}.] [See {Swabber}, n.]
      To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after
      washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also {swob}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swob \Swob\, n. & v.
      See {Swab}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swoop \Swoop\, n.
      A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird;
      the act of swooping.
  
               The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter
               of cubs at a swoop.                                 --L'Estrange.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swoop \Swoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swooping}.] [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. sw[be]pan to
      sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to
      curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to
      AS. sw[c6]fan to move quickly. Cf. {Sweep}, {Swift}, a. & n.,
      {Swipe}, {Swivel}.]
      1. To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing;
            as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
  
      2. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  
                     And now at last you came to swoop it all. --Dryden.
  
                     The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb]
                     in with the common grass.                  --Glanvill.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swoop \Swoop\, v. i.
      1. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a
            hawk; to swoop.
  
      2. To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] --Drayton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swap \Swap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swapping}.] [OE. swappen to strike; cf. E. to strike a
      bargain; perh. akin to E. sweep. Cf. {Swap} a blow, {Swap},
      v. i.] [Written also {swop}.]
      1. To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [bd]Swap off
            his head![b8] --Chaucer.
  
      2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to
            swop. [Colloq.] --Miss Edgeworth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swop \Swop\, v. & n.
      Same as {Swap}. --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swap \Swap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Swapping}.] [OE. swappen to strike; cf. E. to strike a
      bargain; perh. akin to E. sweep. Cf. {Swap} a blow, {Swap},
      v. i.] [Written also {swop}.]
      1. To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [bd]Swap off
            his head![b8] --Chaucer.
  
      2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to
            swop. [Colloq.] --Miss Edgeworth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swop \Swop\, v. & n.
      Same as {Swap}. --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syb \Syb\, a.
      See {Sib}. [Obs. or Scot.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Savoy, IL (village, FIPS 67860)
      Location: 40.06504 N, 88.25271 W
      Population (1990): 2674 (1150 housing units)
      Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61874
   Savoy, MA
      Zip code(s): 01256
   Savoy, TX (city, FIPS 66008)
      Location: 33.59949 N, 96.36919 W
      Population (1990): 877 (345 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 75479

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Scipio, IN
      Zip code(s): 47273
   Scipio, UT (town, FIPS 67880)
      Location: 39.24757 N, 112.10198 W
      Population (1990): 291 (133 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Scobey, MS
      Zip code(s): 38953
   Scobey, MT (city, FIPS 66925)
      Location: 48.79072 N, 105.42057 W
      Population (1990): 1154 (636 housing units)
      Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 59263

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Scooba, MS (town, FIPS 66160)
      Location: 32.83144 N, 88.47767 W
      Population (1990): 541 (211 housing units)
      Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 39358

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shaw A F B, SC
      Zip code(s): 29152

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shoup, ID
      Zip code(s): 83469

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sophia, NC
      Zip code(s): 27350
   Sophia, WV (town, FIPS 75172)
      Location: 37.70778 N, 81.25602 W
      Population (1990): 1182 (547 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Supai, AZ (CDP, FIPS 71230)
      Location: 36.22416 N, 112.69321 W
      Population (1990): 423 (136 housing units)
      Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 86435

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Svea, MN
      Zip code(s): 56216

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Swoope, VA
      Zip code(s): 24479

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   swab /swob/   [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte'
   instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab' (see
   {dd})] 1. vt. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a
   file.   2. n. The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or
   anything functionally equivalent to it.   See also {big-endian},
   {little-endian}, {middle-endian}, {bytesexual}.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   swap vt.   1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access
   memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap
   in').   Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual
   memory'.   As pieces of data or program are needed, they are swapped
   into {core} for processing; when they are no longer needed they may
   be swapped out again.   2. The jargon use of these terms analogizes
   people's short-term memories with core.   Cramming for an exam might
   be spoken of as swapping in.   If you temporarily forget someone's
   name, but then remember it, your excuse is that it was swapped out.
   To `keep something swapped in' means to keep it fresh in your
   memory: "I reread the TECO manual every few months to keep it
   swapped in."   If someone interrupts you just as you got a good idea,
   you might say "Wait a moment while I swap this out", implying that a
   piece of paper is your extra-somatic memory and that if you don't
   swap the idea out by writing it down it will get overwritten and
   lost as you talk.   Compare {page in}, {page out}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   safe
  
      A safe program analysis is one which will not reach invalid
      conclusions about the behaviour of the program.   This may
      involve making safe approximations to properties of parts of
      the program.   A safe approximation is one which gives less
      information.
  
      For example, strictness analysis aims to answer the question
      "will this function evaluate its argument"?.   The two possible
      results are "definitely" and "don't know".   A safe
      approximation for "definitely" is "don't know".   The two
      possible results correspond to the two sets: "the set of all
      functions which evaluate their argument" and "all functions".
      A set can be safely approximated by another which contains it.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SAP
  
      1. {SAP AG} (Systems, Applications and Products in
      Data Processing).
  
      2. {Service Advertising Protocol}.
  
      3. {Service Access Point}.
  
      4. {Symbolic Assembler Program}.
  
      (1999-05-26)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SAPI
  
      1. {Speech Application Programming Interface}.
  
      2. {Scheduling Application Programming
      Interface}.
  
      3. {Service Access Point Identifier}.
  
      (1996-10-03)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SAVE
  
      An {assembler} for the {Burroughs 220} by Melvin Conway (see
      {Conway's Law}).   The name "SAVE" didn't stand for anything,
      it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings
      because they all had SAVE written on them.
  
      (1995-01-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   save
  
      To copy {data} to a more
      permanent form of storage.   The term is commonly used for when
      some kind of document editing {application program} writes the
      current document from {RAM} to a {file} on {hard disk} at the
      request of the user.   The implication is that the user might
      later {load} the file back into the editor again to view it,
      print it, or continue editing it.   Saving a document makes it
      safe from the effects of power failure.
  
      The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a {word
      processor} document, the current state of a game, a piece of
      music, a {web site}, or a memory image of some program being
      executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common
      here).
  
      Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard
      disk, {floppy disk}, {CD-R}; either locally or via a
      {network}.
  
      A program might save its data without any explicit user
      request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or
      if it forms part of a {pipeline} of processes which pass data
      via intermediate files.   In the latter case the term suggests
      all data is written in a single operation whereas "output"
      might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.
  
      When copying several files from one storage medium to another,
      the terms "back-up", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather
      than "save".   The term "store" is similar to "save" but
      typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a
      number, from a {processor}'s {register} to {RAM}.
  
      (2002-06-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SAVE
  
      An {assembler} for the {Burroughs 220} by Melvin Conway (see
      {Conway's Law}).   The name "SAVE" didn't stand for anything,
      it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings
      because they all had SAVE written on them.
  
      (1995-01-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   save
  
      To copy {data} to a more
      permanent form of storage.   The term is commonly used for when
      some kind of document editing {application program} writes the
      current document from {RAM} to a {file} on {hard disk} at the
      request of the user.   The implication is that the user might
      later {load} the file back into the editor again to view it,
      print it, or continue editing it.   Saving a document makes it
      safe from the effects of power failure.
  
      The "document" might actually be anything, e.g. a {word
      processor} document, the current state of a game, a piece of
      music, a {web site}, or a memory image of some program being
      executed (though the term "dump" would probably be more common
      here).
  
      Data can be saved to any kind of (writable) storage: hard
      disk, {floppy disk}, {CD-R}; either locally or via a
      {network}.
  
      A program might save its data without any explicit user
      request, e.g. periodically as a precaution ("auto save"), or
      if it forms part of a {pipeline} of processes which pass data
      via intermediate files.   In the latter case the term suggests
      all data is written in a single operation whereas "output"
      might be a continuous flow, in true pipeline fashion.
  
      When copying several files from one storage medium to another,
      the terms "back-up", "dump", or "archive" would be used rather
      than "save".   The term "store" is similar to "save" but
      typically applies to copying a single item of data, e.g. a
      number, from a {processor}'s {register} to {RAM}.
  
      (2002-06-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   sb
  
      The {country code} for the Solomon Islands.
  
      (1999-01-27)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SB AWE32
  
      A standard {SB16 MultiCD} {sound
      card} with the {EMU8000} "Advanced WavEffect" music
      synthesizer {integrated circuit}.   The card includes all the
      standard SB16 features as well as the {Advanced Signal
      Processor} and multiple interfaces supporting {Creative},
      {Mitsumi} and {Sony} {CD-ROM} drives.
  
      The EMU8000 comes integrated with 1MB of {General MIDI}
      samples and 512kB of {DRAM} for additional sample downloading.
      It can address up to 28 MB of external DRAM.   The SB AWE32
      supports General MIDI, Roland GS, and Sound Canvas MT-32
      {emulation}.
  
      (1996-12-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SCOOP
  
      Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.
  
      ["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog",
      J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS
      322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   scope
  
      The scope of an identifier is the region of a
      program source within which it represents a certain thing.
      This usually extends from the place where it is declared to
      the end of the smallest enclosing block (begin/end or
      procedure/function body).   An inner block may contain a
      redeclaration of the same identifier in which case the scope
      of the outer declaration does not include (is "shadowed" or
      "{occlude}d" by) the scope of the inner.
  
      See also {activation record}, {dynamic scope}, {lexical
      scope}.
  
      (1994-11-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SCOPE
  
      Software Evaluation and Certification Programme
      Europe.
  
      An {ESPRIT} project.
  
      (1995-04-12)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   scope
  
      The scope of an identifier is the region of a
      program source within which it represents a certain thing.
      This usually extends from the place where it is declared to
      the end of the smallest enclosing block (begin/end or
      procedure/function body).   An inner block may contain a
      redeclaration of the same identifier in which case the scope
      of the outer declaration does not include (is "shadowed" or
      "{occlude}d" by) the scope of the inner.
  
      See also {activation record}, {dynamic scope}, {lexical
      scope}.
  
      (1994-11-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SCOPE
  
      Software Evaluation and Certification Programme
      Europe.
  
      An {ESPRIT} project.
  
      (1995-04-12)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SCPI
  
      {Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SEP
  
      1. Someone Else's Problem.
  
      2. A {SASD} tool from {IDE}.
  
      (1995-10-12)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SEPIA
  
      Standard ECRC Prolog Integrating Applications.   Prolog with
      many extensions including attributed variables ("metaterms")
      and declarative coroutining.   "SEPIA", Micha Meier
      et al, TR-LP-36 ECRC, March 1988.   Version 3.1
      available for Suns and VAX.   (See ECRC-Prolog).   E-mail:
      .
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SEPP
  
      {Single Edge Processor Package}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SFA
  
      {Sales Force Automation}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SFBI
  
      Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect (Intel)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SFFA
  
      {Sales Force Automation}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SGCP
  
      {Simple Gateway Control Protocol}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SHEEP
  
      A package for {symbolic mathematics},
      especially {tensor analysis} and General Relativity, developed
      by Inge Frick in Stockholm in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
      SHEEP was implemented in {DEC-10} {assembly language}, then in
      several {LISPs}.   The current version runs on {Sun}-3 and is
      based on {Portable Standard LISP}.
  
      ["Sheep, a Computer Algebra System for General Relativity",
      J.E.F. Skea et al in Proc First Brazilian School on Comp Alg,
      W. Roque et al eds, Oxford U Press 1993, v2].
  
      {(http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/archive/can/SystemsOverview/Special/Tensoranalysis/SHEEP/index.html)}.
  
      (2002-12-28)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SIP
  
      {Session Initiation Protocol}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SIPB
  
      Student Information Processing Board, {MIT}.
  
      {(http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/rei/WWW/GAME/sipbroom.html)}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SIPP
  
      {Single Inline Pin Package}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SOAP
  
      1. {Simple Object Access Protocol}.
  
      2. {Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program}.
  
      (2001-03-23)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SOIF
  
      {Summary Object Interchange Format}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SP
  
      Simplicity and Power.
  
      A {Prolog}-like language.
  
      ["Simplicity and Power - Simplifying Ideas in Computing",
      J.G. Wolff, Computer J 33(6):518-534 (Dec 1990)].
  
      (1994-12-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SP2
  
      {SP/2}
  
      [Which is correct?]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SP/2
  
      Scalable POWERparallel 2.
  
      A line of {RISC}-based processors from {IBM} using {symmetric
      multi-processing}.   SP/2 replaced SP/1.
  
      The SP2 is a classical {MPP} design, based on a {Shared
      Nothing} architecture.   The SP2 is an example of the
      {Distributed Memory Processor} (DMP) parallel model, with
      individual nodes interconnected over a {LAN}, or a
      High-Performance Switch (HPS).   SP2 systems can have from 2 to
      512 nodes.   Each node is a {RISC system/6000} running {IBM}'s
      {AIX} {operating system}.
  
      The SP2 supports applications in both technical and commercial
      environments.   In terms of commercial applications, the SP2 is
      typically being used in support of, {MIS}/{DSS} including
      {data mining}, {business applications} e.g. {SAP}, {Alternative
      Mainframe}/{Mainframe Offload}, {LAN Server Consolidation}.
  
      (1995-03-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SP2
  
      {SP/2}
  
      [Which is correct?]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SP/2
  
      Scalable POWERparallel 2.
  
      A line of {RISC}-based processors from {IBM} using {symmetric
      multi-processing}.   SP/2 replaced SP/1.
  
      The SP2 is a classical {MPP} design, based on a {Shared
      Nothing} architecture.   The SP2 is an example of the
      {Distributed Memory Processor} (DMP) parallel model, with
      individual nodes interconnected over a {LAN}, or a
      High-Performance Switch (HPS).   SP2 systems can have from 2 to
      512 nodes.   Each node is a {RISC system/6000} running {IBM}'s
      {AIX} {operating system}.
  
      The SP2 supports applications in both technical and commercial
      environments.   In terms of commercial applications, the SP2 is
      typically being used in support of, {MIS}/{DSS} including
      {data mining}, {business applications} e.g. {SAP}, {Alternative
      Mainframe}/{Mainframe Offload}, {LAN Server Consolidation}.
  
      (1995-03-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SPE
  
      {Software Practice and Experience}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SPI
  
      1. {Software in the Public Interest, Inc.}.
  
      2. {Serial Peripheral Interface}.
  
      (2003-07-13)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   spoo
  
      Variant of {spooge}, sense 1.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   \sqcap
  
      {LaTeX} inverted square U.   The symbol for {greatest lower
      bound}.
  
      (1994-12-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   \sqcup
  
      {LaTeX} square U.   The symbol for {least upper bound}.
  
      (1994-12-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SSBA
  
      {Suite Synthetique des Benchmarks de l'AFUU}
  
  

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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SUIF
  
      Stanford University Intermediate Format.
  
      A register-oriented intermediate language.
  
      (1994-12-01)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   sv
  
      The {country code} for El Salvador.
  
      (1999-01-27)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   swab
  
      /swob/ The {PDP-11} swap byte instruction mnemonic, as
      immortalised in the {dd} option "conv=swab".
  
      1. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a file.
  
      2.   The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or
      anything functionally equivalent to it.
  
      See also {big-endian}, {little-endian}, {middle-endian},
      {bytesexual}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   swap
  
      To move a program from fast-access memory
      to a slow-access memory ("swap out"), or vice versa ("swap
      in").   The term often refers specifically to the use of a
      {hard disk} (or a {swap file}) as {virtual memory} or "swap
      space".
  
      When a program is to be executed, possibly as determined by a
      {scheduler}, it is swapped into {core} for processing; when it
      can no longer continue executing for some reason, or the
      scheduler decides its {time slice} has expired, it is swapped
      out again.
  
      This contrasts with "paging" systems in which only parts of a
      program's memory is transfered.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1996-11-22)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Saph
      extension, the son of the giant whom Sibbechai slew (2 Sam.
      21:18); called also Sippai (1 Chr. 20:4).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sceva
      an implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts
      19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of
      the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who "took upon them to
      call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord
      Jesus," in imitation of Paul. They tried their method of
      exorcism on a fierce demoniac, and failed. His answer to them
      was to this effect (19:15): "The Jesus whom you invoke is One
      whose authority I acknowledge; and the Paul whom you name I
      recognize to be a servant or messenger of God; but what sort of
      men are ye who have been empowered to act as you do by neither?"
      (Lindsay on the Acts of the Apostles.)
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Seba
      (1.) One of the sons of Cush (Gen. 10:7).
     
         (2.) The name of a country and nation (Isa. 43:3; 45:14)
      mentioned along with Egypt and Ethiopia, and therefore probably
      in north-eastern Africa. The ancient name of Meroe. The kings of
      Sheba and Seba are mentioned together in Ps. 72:10.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sheba
      an oath, seven. (1.) Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7),
      whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian
      Gulf.
     
         (2.) Heb. id. A son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28), probably the
      founder of the Sabeans.
     
         (3.) Heb. id. A son of Jokshan, who was a son of Abraham by
      Keturah (Gen. 25:3).
     
         (4.) Heb. id. A kingdom in Arabia Felix. Sheba, in fact, was
      Saba in Southern Arabia, the Sabaeans of classical geography,
      who carried on the trade in spices with the other peoples of the
      ancient world. They were Semites, speaking one of the two main
      dialects of Himyaritic or South Arabic. Sheba had become a
      monarchy before the days of Solomon. Its queen brought him gold,
      spices, and precious stones (1 Kings 10:1-13). She is called by
      our Lord the "queen of the south" (Matt. 12:42).
     
         (5.) Heb. shebha', "seven" or "an oak." A town of Simeon
      (Josh. 19:2).
     
         (6.) Heb. id. A "son of Bichri," of the family of Becher, the
      son of Benjamin, and thus of the stem from which Saul was
      descended (2 Sam. 20:1-22). When David was returning to
      Jerusalem after the defeat of Absalom, a strife arose between
      the ten tribes and the tribe of Judah, because the latter took
      the lead in bringing back the king. Sheba took advantage of this
      state of things, and raised the standard of revolt, proclaiming,
      "We have no part in David." With his followers he proceeded
      northward. David seeing it necessary to check this revolt,
      ordered Abishai to take the gibborim, "mighty men," and the
      body-guard and such troops as he could gather, and pursue Sheba.
      Joab joined the expedition, and having treacherously put Amasa
      to death, assumed the command of the army. Sheba took refuge in
      Abel-Bethmaachah, a fortified town some miles north of Lake
      Merom. While Joab was engaged in laying siege to this city,
      Sheba's head was, at the instigation of a "wise woman" who had
      held a parley with him from the city walls, thrown over the wall
      to the besiegers, and thus the revolt came to an end.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sheep
      are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and
      Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain
      regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a
      result of intercourse with surrounding nations, other species
      were no doubt introduced into the herds of the people of Israel.
      They are frequently mentioned in Scripture. The care of a
      shepherd over his flock is referred to as illustrating God's
      care over his people (Ps. 23:1, 2; 74:1; 77:20; Isa. 40:11;
      53:6; John 10:1-5, 7-16).
     
         "The sheep of Palestine are longer in the head than ours, and
      have tails from 5 inches broad at the narrowest part to 15
      inches at the widest, the weight being in proportion, and
      ranging generally from 10 to 14 lbs., but sometimes extending to
      30 lbs. The tails are indeed huge masses of fat" (Geikie's Holy
      Land, etc.). The tail was no doubt the "rump" so frequently
      referred to in the Levitical sacrifices (Ex. 29:22; Lev. 3:9;
      7:3; 9:19). Sheep-shearing was generally an occasion of great
      festivity (Gen. 31:19; 38:12, 13; 1 Sam. 25:4-8, 36; 2 Sam.
      13:23-28).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sheva
      Heb. Shebher. (1.) The son of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:49).
     
         (2.) Heb. Sheva', one of David's scribes (2 Sam. 20:25).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Shobai
      captors (Ezra 2:42).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Shobi
      captor, son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite. He showed
      kindness to David when he fled from Jerusalem to Mahanaim (2
      Sam. 17:27).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Soap
      (Jer. 2:22; Mal. 3:2; Heb. borith), properly a vegetable alkali,
      obtained from the ashes of certain plants, particularly the
      salsola kali (saltwort), which abounds on the shores of the Dead
      Sea and of the Mediterranean. It does not appear that the
      Hebrews were acquainted with what is now called "soap," which is
      a compound of alkaline carbonates with oleaginous matter. The
      word "purely" in Isa. 1:25 (R.V., "throughly;" marg., "as with
      lye") is lit. "as with _bor_." This word means "clearness," and
      hence also that which makes clear, or pure, alkali. "The
      ancients made use of alkali mingled with oil, instead of soap
      (Job 9:30), and also in smelting metals, to make them melt and
      flow more readily and purely" (Gesenius).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Sop
      a morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a
      piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of
      bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth
      2:14.)
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Suph
      (Deut. 1:1, R.V.; marg., "some ancient versions have the Red
      Sea," as in the A.V.). Some identify it with Suphah (Num. 21:14,
      marg., A.V.) as probably the name of a place. Others identify it
      with es-Sufah = Maaleh-acrabbim (Josh. 15:3), and others again
      with Zuph (1 Sam. 9:5). It is most probable, however, that, in
      accordance with the ancient versions, this word is to be
      regarded as simply an abbreviation of Yam-suph, i.e., the "Red
      Sea."
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Suphah
      (Num. 21:14, marg.; also R.V.), a place at the south-eastern
      corner of the Dead Sea, the Ghor es-Safieh. This name is found
      in an ode quoted from the "Book of the Wars of the Lord,"
      probably a collection of odes commemorating the triumphs of
      God's people (comp. 21:14, 17, 18, 27-30).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Saph, rushes; sea-moss
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sceva, disposed; prepared
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Schaaph, fleeing; thinking
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Seba, a drunkard; that turns
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shaveh, the plain; that makes equality
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sheba, captivity; old man; repose; oath
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shephi, beholder; honeycomb; garment
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shepho, desert
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sheva, vanity; elevation; fame; tumult
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shiphi, multitude
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shobai, turning captivity
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sippai, threshold; silver cup
  
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