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   schoolmarm
         n 1: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
               [syn: {schoolmarm}, {schoolma'am}, {schoolmistress},
               {mistress}]

English Dictionary: slammer by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Selenarctos
n
  1. Asiatic black bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus
    Synonym(s): Selenarctos, genus Selenarctos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Selenarctos thibetanus
n
  1. bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
    Synonym(s): Asiatic black bear, black bear, Ursus thibetanus, Selenarctos thibetanus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slammer
n
  1. a person who closes things violently; "she's a dramatic slammer of doors"
  2. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
    Synonym(s): jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slum area
n
  1. a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
    Synonym(s): slum, slum area
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
solo homer
n
  1. a home run with no runners on base [syn: solo homer, solo blast]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Meadowsweet \Mead"ow*sweet`\, Meadowwort \Mead"ow*wort`\, n.
      (Bot.)
      The name of several plants of the genus {Spir[91]a},
      especially the white- or pink-flowered {S. salicifolia}, a
      low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous {S.
      Ulmaria}, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sal \Sal\ (s[acr]l), n. [L. See {Salt}.] (Chem. & Pharm.)
      Salt.
  
      {Sal absinthii} [NL.] (Old Chem.), an impure potassium
            carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood ({Artemisia
            Absinthium}).
  
      {Sal acetosell[91]} [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt of sorrel.
  
      {Sal alembroth}. (Old Chem.) See {Alembroth}.
  
      {Sal ammoniac} (Chem.), ammonium chloride, {NH4Cl}, a white
            crystalline volatile substance having a sharp salty taste,
            obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It
            is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent,
            and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because
            originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the
            temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also {muriate of
            ammonia}.
  
      {Sal catharticus} [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), Epsom salts.
  
      {Sal culinarius} [L.] (Old Chem.), common salt, or sodium
            chloride.
  
      {Sal Cyrenaicus}. [NL.] (Old Chem.) See {Sal ammoniac} above.
           
  
      {Sal de duobus}, {Sal duplicatum} [NL.] (Old Chem.),
            potassium sulphate; -- so called because erroneously
            supposed to be composed of two salts, one acid and one
            alkaline.
  
      {Sal diureticus} [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), potassium acetate.
           
  
      {Sal enixum} [NL.] (Old Chem.), acid potassium sulphate.
  
      {Sal gemm[91]} [NL.] (Old Min.), common salt occuring native.
           
  
      {Sal Jovis} [NL.] (Old Chem.), salt tin, or stannic chloride;
            -- the alchemical name of tin being Jove.
  
      {Sal Martis} [NL.] (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or ferrous
            sulphate; -- the alchemical name of iron being Mars.
  
      {Sal microcosmicum} [NL.] (Old Chem.) See {Microcosmic salt},
            under {Microcosmic}.
  
      {Sal plumbi} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead.
  
      {Sal prunella}. (Old Chem.) See {Prunella salt}, under 1st
            {Prunella}.
  
      {Sal Saturni} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead, or lead
            acetate; -- the alchemical name of lead being Saturn.
  
      {Sal sedativus} [NL.] (Old Chem.), sedative salt, or boric
            acid.
  
      {Sal Seignette} [F. seignette, sel de seignette] (Chem.),
            Rochelle salt.
  
      {Sal soda} (Chem.), sodium carbonate. See under {Sodium}.
  
      {Sal vitrioli} [NL.] (Old Chem.), white vitriol; zinc
            sulphate.
  
      {Sal volatile}. [NL.]
      (a) (Chem.) See {Sal ammoniac}, above.
      (b) Spirits of ammonia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Huch \[d8]Huch\, d8Huchen \[d8]Hu"chen\, n. [G.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A large salmon ({Salmo, [or] Salvelinus, hucho}) inhabiting
      the Danube; -- called also {huso}, and {bull trout}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seleniuret \Sel`e*ni"u*ret\, n. (CHem.)
      A selenide. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seleniureted \Sel`e*ni"u*ret`ed\, a. (Chem.)
      Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted
      hydrogen. [Written also {seleniuretted}.] [Obsoles.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seleniureted \Sel`e*ni"u*ret`ed\, a. (Chem.)
      Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted
      hydrogen. [Written also {seleniuretted}.] [Obsoles.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Marble \Mar"ble\, n. [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor,
      fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to sparkle, flash. Cf. {Marmoreal}.]
      1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite,
            capable of being polished and used for architectural and
            ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black,
            being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently
            beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to
            other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or
            verd antique marble, and less properly to polished
            porphyry, granite, etc.
  
      Note:
  
      {Breccia marble} consists of limestone fragments cemented
            together.
  
      {Ruin marble}, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins,
            due to disseminated iron oxide.
  
      {Shell marble} contains fossil shells.
  
      {Statuary marble} is a pure, white, fine-grained kind,
            including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If
            coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.
  
      2. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art,
            or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of
            such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the
            Elgin marbles.
  
      3. A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance,
            used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a
            child's game played with marbles.
  
      Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds;
               when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means,
               hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as,
               marble-breasted, marble-faced, marble-hearted.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shell \Shell\, n. [OE. shelle, schelle, AS. scell, scyll; akin
      to D. shel, Icel. skel, Goth. skalja a tile, and E. skill.
      Cf. {Scale} of fishes, {Shale}, {Skill}.]
      1. A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
            Specifically:
            (a) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a
                  hazelnut shell.
            (b) A pod.
            (c) The hard covering of an egg.
  
                           Think him as a serpent's egg, . . . And kill him
                           in the shell.                              --Shak.
            (d) (Zo[94]l.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external
                  covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other
                  invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes,
                  it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the
                  hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo,
                  the tortoise, and the like.
            (e) (Zo[94]l.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having
                  such a covering.
  
      2. (Mil.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for
            a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive
            substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means
            of which the projectile is burst and its fragments
            scattered. See {Bomb}.
  
      3. The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and
            shot, used with breechloading small arms.
  
      4. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior
            structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the
            shell of a house.
  
      5. A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin
            inclosed in a more substantial one. --Knight.
  
      6. An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre
            having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a
            tortoise shell.
  
                     When Jubal struck the chorded shell.   --Dryden.
  
      7. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
  
      8. pl. The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is
            often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
  
      9. (Naut.) The outer frame or case of a block within which
            the sheaves revolve.
  
      10. A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood
            or with paper; as, a racing shell.
  
      {Message shell}, a bombshell inside of which papers may be
            put, in order to convey messages.
  
      {Shell bit}, a tool shaped like a gouge, used with a brace in
            boring wood. See {Bit}, n., 3.
  
      {Shell button}.
            (a) A button made of shell.
            (b) A hollow button made of two pieces, as of metal, one
                  for the front and the other for the back, -- often
                  covered with cloth, silk, etc.
  
      {Shell cameo}, a cameo cut in shell instead of stone.
  
      {Shell flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Turtlehead}.
  
      {Shell gland}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A glandular organ in which the rudimentary shell is
                  formed in embryonic mollusks.
            (b) A glandular organ which secretes the eggshells of
                  various worms, crustacea, mollusks, etc.
  
      {Shell gun}, a cannon suitable for throwing shells.
  
      {Shell ibis} (Zo[94]l.), the openbill of India.
  
      {Shell jacket}, an undress military jacket.
  
      {Shell lime}, lime made by burning the shells of shellfish.
           
  
      {Shell marl} (Min.), a kind of marl characterized by an
            abundance of shells, or fragments of shells.
  
      {Shell meat}, food consisting of shellfish, or testaceous
            mollusks. --Fuller.
  
      {Shell mound}. See under {Mound}.
  
      {Shell of a boiler}, the exterior of a steam boiler, forming
            a case to contain the water and steam, often inclosing
            also flues and the furnace; the barrel of a cylindrical,
            or locomotive, boiler.
  
      {Shell road}, a road of which the surface or bed is made of
            shells, as oyster shells.
  
      {Shell sand}, minute fragments of shells constituting a
            considerable part of the seabeach in some places.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slamkin \Slam"kin\, Slammerkin \Slam"mer*kin\, n. [Cf. G.
      schlampe, schlamp, dim. schl[84]mpchen; schlampen to dangle,
      to be slovenly in one's dress.]
      A slut; a slatternly woman. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slimy \Slim"y\, a. [Compar. {Slimier}; superl. {Slimiest}.]
      Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of
      slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with
      slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
  
               Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
                                                                              --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slim \Slim\, a. [Compar. {Slimmer}; superl. {Slimmest}.]
      [Formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry, fr. D. slim;
      akin to G. schlimm, MHG. slimp oblique, awry; of uncertain
      origin. The meaning of the English word seems to have been
      influenced by slender.]
      1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  
      2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
            [bd]That was a slim excuse.[b8] --Barrow.
  
      3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height
            or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
            --Grose.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   -->
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A task of a wild boar.
  
      {Razor fish}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A small Mediterranean fish ({Coryph[91]na novacula}),
                  prized for the table.
            (b) The razor shell.
  
      {Razor grass} (Bot.), a West Indian plant ({Scleria
            scindens}), the triangular stem and the leaves of which
            are edged with minute sharp teeth.
  
      {Razor grinder} (Zo[94]l.), the European goat-sucker.
  
      {Razor shell} (Zo[94]l.), any marine bivalve shell belonging
            to Solen and allied genera, especially {Solen, [or]
            Ensatella, ensis, [and] Americana}, which have a long,
            narrow, somewhat curved shell, resembling a razor handle
            in shape. Called also {rasor clam}, {razor fish}, {knife
            handle}.
  
      {Razor stone}. Same as {Novaculite}.
  
      {Razor strap}, [or] {razor strop}, a strap or strop used in
            sharpening razors.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Selmer, TN (town, FIPS 66940)
      Location: 35.17181 N, 88.58995 W
      Population (1990): 3838 (1780 housing units)
      Area: 14.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 38375

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shalimar, FL (town, FIPS 65425)
      Location: 30.44420 N, 86.58195 W
      Population (1990): 341 (194 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 32579

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shallmar, MD
      Zip code(s): 21538

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sylmar, CA
      Zip code(s): 91342
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