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   sack up
         v 1: make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
               [syn: {net}, {sack}, {sack up}, {clear}]

English Dictionary: size up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sassaby
n
  1. a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal
    Synonym(s): sassaby, topi, Damaliscus lunatus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea chub
n
  1. schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sea squab
n
  1. delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
    Synonym(s): blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seascape
n
  1. a view of the sea
  2. a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape)
    Synonym(s): seascape, waterscape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Segovia
n
  1. Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987)
    Synonym(s): Segovia, Andres Segovia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sex up
v
  1. give erotic character to or make more interesting; "eroticize the ads"
    Synonym(s): eroticize, sex up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shack up
v
  1. share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
    Synonym(s): cohabit, live together, shack up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shake off
v
  1. get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
    Synonym(s): shake, shake off, throw off, escape from
  2. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
    Synonym(s): shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shake up
v
  1. shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
    Synonym(s): jar, shake up, bump around
  2. organize anew; "We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under"
    Synonym(s): reorganize, reorganise, shake up
  3. shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)
    Synonym(s): succuss, shake up
  4. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
    Synonym(s): stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
  5. change the arrangement or position of
    Synonym(s): agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up
  6. make fuller by shaking; "fluff up the pillows"
    Synonym(s): fluff up, plump up, shake up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shake-up
n
  1. the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
    Synonym(s): reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shakeup
n
  1. the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"
    Synonym(s): reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shock wave
n
  1. a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity; "the explosion created a shock wave"
    Synonym(s): shock wave, blast wave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shoe shop
n
  1. a shop where shoes are sold [syn: shoe shop, shoe-shop, shoe store]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shoe-shop
n
  1. a shop where shoes are sold [syn: shoe shop, shoe-shop, shoe store]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sick of
adj
  1. having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke"
    Synonym(s): disgusted, fed up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sick pay
n
  1. wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sickbay
n
  1. (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship)
    Synonym(s): sickbay, sick berth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sihasapa
n
  1. a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
size up
v
  1. to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror"
    Synonym(s): size up, take stock, scrutinize, scrutinise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ski cap
n
  1. a close-fitting woolen cap; often has a tapering tail with a tassel
    Synonym(s): ski cap, stocking cap, toboggan cap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skycap
n
  1. a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soak up
v
  1. take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
    Synonym(s): absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up
  2. devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies"
    Synonym(s): steep, immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squash pie
n
  1. similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squeak by
v
  1. manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"
    Synonym(s): scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along
  2. escape; "She squeaked by me"
    Synonym(s): squeak by, squeak through
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
squeeze by
v
  1. manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"
    Synonym(s): scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
succuba
n
  1. a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
    Synonym(s): succubus, succuba
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
suck up
v
  1. take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
    Synonym(s): absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up
  2. ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"
    Synonym(s): cozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck up
  3. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"
    Synonym(s): fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sassaby \Sas"sa*by\, Sassabye \Sas"sa*bye\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A large African antelope ({Alcelaphus lunata}), similar to
      the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sassaby \Sas"sa*by\, Sassabye \Sas"sa*bye\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A large African antelope ({Alcelaphus lunata}), similar to
      the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skiascope \Ski"a*scope\, Sciascope \Sci"a*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a
      shadow + -scope.] (Med.)
      A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by
      observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. --
      {Ski*as"co*py}, {Ski*as"co*py}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sea cob \Sea" cob`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      The black-backed gull.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seascape \Sea"scape\, n. [Cf. {Landscape}.]
      A picture representing a scene at sea. [Jocose] --Thackeray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek,
      sik, ill, AS. se[a2]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak,
      D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj[?]kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan.
      syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
      1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in
            health. See the Synonym under {Illness}.
  
                     Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i.
                                                                              30.
  
                     Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
                                                                              18.
  
      2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
            as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
  
      3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
            as, to be sick of flattery.
  
                     He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
      4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
  
                     So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that,
                     if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would
                     either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
                                                                              --Fuller.
  
      {Sick bay} (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the
            ship's hospital.
  
      {Sick bed}, the bed upon which a person lies sick.
  
      {Sick berth}, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.
  
      {Sick headache} (Med.), a variety of headache attended with
            disorder of the stomach and nausea.
  
      {Sick list}, a list containing the names of the sick.
  
      {Sick room}, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which
            he is confined by sickness.
  
      Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also
               written both hyphened and solid.]
  
      Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed;
               weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bay \Bay\, n. [F. baie, fr. LL. baia. Of uncertain origin: cf.
      Ir. & Gael. badh or bagh bay harbor, creek; Bisc. baia,
      baiya, harbor, and F. bayer to gape, open the mouth.]
      1. (Geol.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf,
            but of the same general character.
  
      Note: The name is not used with much precision, and is often
               applied to large tracts of water, around which the land
               forms a curve; as, Hudson's Bay. The name is not
               restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance,
               but is used foe any recess or inlet between capes or
               headlands; as, the Bay of Biscay.
  
      2. A small body of water set off from the main body; as a
            compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a
            canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
  
      3. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
  
      4. A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part
            of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by
            the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one
            of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a
            bridge between two piers.
  
      5. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in
            the stalks.
  
      6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
  
      {Sick bay}, in vessels of war, that part of a deck
            appropriated to the use of the sick. --Totten.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skiascope \Ski"a*scope\, Sciascope \Sci"a*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a
      shadow + -scope.] (Med.)
      A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by
      observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. --
      {Ski*as"co*py}, {Ski*as"co*py}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skiascope \Ski"a*scope\, Sciascope \Sci"a*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] a
      shadow + -scope.] (Med.)
      A device for determining the refractive state of the eye by
      observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows. --
      {Ski*as"co*py}, {Ski*as"co*py}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Suasive \Sua"sive\, a.
      Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory. --South.
      [bd]Genial and suasive satire.[b8] --Earle. -- {Sua"sive*ly},
      adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Succuba \[d8]Suc"cu*ba\, n.; pl. {Succub[91]}. [NL., fr. L.
      succubare to lie under; sub under + cubare to lie down; cf.
      L. succuba, succubo, one who lies under another.]
      A female demon or fiend. See {Succubus}.
  
               Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of
               the kind that succub[91] some call.         --Mir. for
                                                                              Mag.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Succubus \[d8]Suc"cu*bus\, n.; pl. {Succubi}. [See {Succuba}.]
      1. A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed
            to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a
            succuba. Cf. {Incubus}.
  
      2. (Med.) The nightmare. See {Nightmare}, 2.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Saxapahaw, NC (CDP, FIPS 59580)
      Location: 35.94791 N, 79.32106 W
      Population (1990): 1178 (449 housing units)
      Area: 13.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shakopee, MN (city, FIPS 59350)
      Location: 44.77060 N, 93.47558 W
      Population (1990): 11739 (4340 housing units)
      Area: 68.5 sq km (land), 3.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55379

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Susupe, MP (CDP, FIPS 70800)
      Location: 15.15636 N, 145.70571 E
      Population (1990): 1776 (285 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   segv /seg'vee/ n.,vi.   Yet another synonym for {segmentation
   fault} (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation').
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   sysape /sys'ayp/ n.   A rather derogatory term for a computer
   operator; a play on {sysop} common at sites that use the banana
   hierarchy of problem complexity (see {one-banana problem}).
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   sysop /sis'op/ n.   [esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and
   usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system.   A common neophyte
   mistake on {FidoNet} is to address a message to `sysop' in an
   international {echo}, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around
   the world.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   segv
  
      /seg'vee/ segmentation violation.
  
      {segmentation fault}
  
      (1994-12-15)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Shockwave
  
      A program from {Macromedia} for viewing files created
      with {Macromedia Director}.   Shockwave is freely available as
      a {plug-in} for the {Netscape Navigator} web {browser}.
  
      "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director
      can usually only be enjoyed by users with an {ISDN} or faster
      connection.
  
      {Home (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/)}.
  
      [Filetypes?   More detail?]
  
      (1998-07-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   shockwave
  
      The propagation of failure, shutdown, {meltdown},
      net overload, or a {virus} from one network node to another,
      resulting in a wave of inactivity across the net.
  
      (1997-05-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Shockwave
  
      A program from {Macromedia} for viewing files created
      with {Macromedia Director}.   Shockwave is freely available as
      a {plug-in} for the {Netscape Navigator} web {browser}.
  
      "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director
      can usually only be enjoyed by users with an {ISDN} or faster
      connection.
  
      {Home (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/)}.
  
      [Filetypes?   More detail?]
  
      (1998-07-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   shockwave
  
      The propagation of failure, shutdown, {meltdown},
      net overload, or a {virus} from one network node to another,
      resulting in a wave of inactivity across the net.
  
      (1997-05-16)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   sysape
  
      /sys'ayp/ A rather derogatory term for a computer operator; a
      play on {sysop} common at sites that use the banana hierarchy
      of problem complexity (see {one-banana problem}).
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   sysop
  
      {system operator}
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Segub
      elevated. (1.) The youngest son of Hiel the Bethelite. His death
      is recorded in 1 Kings 16:34 (comp. Josh. 6:26).
     
         (2.) A descendant of Judah (1 Chr. 2:21, 22).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Segub, fortified; raised
  
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