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   Salvia farinacea
         n 1: Texas sage having intensely blue flowers [syn: {blue sage},
               {mealy sage}, {Salvia farinacea}]

English Dictionary: slap-up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Salvia officinalis
n
  1. shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb
    Synonym(s): common sage, ramona, Salvia officinalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Salvia pratensis
n
  1. tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands
    Synonym(s): meadow clary, Salvia pratensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Salvia verbenaca
n
  1. Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
    Synonym(s): wild sage, wild clary, vervain sage, Salvia verbenaca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
salvific
adj
  1. pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
school paper
n
  1. a newspaper written and published by students in a school
    Synonym(s): school newspaper, school paper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
school phobia
n
  1. a child's sudden fear of attending school
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seal of approval
n
  1. an indication of approved or superior status [syn: cachet, seal, seal of approval]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-abasement
n
  1. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
    Synonym(s): penance, self-mortification, self- abasement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-abnegating
adj
  1. used especially of behavior [syn: renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-abnegation
n
  1. renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
    Synonym(s): abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-absorbed
adj
  1. absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc [syn: self-absorbed, self-involved]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-absorption
n
  1. preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-abuse
n
  1. manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure
    Synonym(s): self-stimulation, self-abuse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-appointed
adj
  1. designated or chosen by yourself; "a self-appointed guardian of public morals"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-effacement
n
  1. withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
    Synonym(s): effacement, self-effacement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-effacing
adj
  1. reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: reticent, self-effacing, retiring]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-evident
adj
  1. evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"
    Synonym(s): axiomatic, self-evident, taken for granted(p)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-evident truth
n
  1. an assumption that is basic to an argument [syn: {basic assumption}, constatation, self-evident truth]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-evidently
adv
  1. in a self-evident manner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-hypnosis
n
  1. hypnosis induced by yourself
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-opinionated
adj
  1. obstinate in your opinions [syn: opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionated]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sillabub
n
  1. spiced hot milk with rum or wine [syn: syllabub, sillabub]
  2. sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor
    Synonym(s): syllabub, sillabub
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slap-up
adj
  1. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
    Synonym(s): bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slaphappy
adj
  1. cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
    Synonym(s): carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy
  2. dazed from or as if from repeated blows; "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion"
    Synonym(s): punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sleep apnea
n
  1. apnea that occurs during sleep
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sleep off
v
  1. get rid of by sleeping; "sleep off a hangover"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sleep over
v
  1. stay overnight; "The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over after the birthday party"
    Synonym(s): sleep over, stay over
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sleepover
n
  1. an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slip of paper
n
  1. a small sheet of paper; "a receipt slip" [syn: slip, slip of paper]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slip of the tongue
n
  1. an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slip off
v
  1. take off with ease or speed; "She slipped off her jacket"
    Antonym(s): slip on
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slip up
v
  1. make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" [syn: stumble, slip up, trip up]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slip-up
n
  1. a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
    Synonym(s): slip, slip-up, miscue, parapraxis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slipover
n
  1. a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head [syn: pullover, slipover]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slivovitz
n
  1. a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sloop of war
n
  1. a sailing or steam warship having cannons on only one deck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soil pipe
n
  1. drain that conveys liquid waste from toilets, etc.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
solvability
n
  1. the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve
    Synonym(s): solvability, solubility
    Antonym(s): insolubility, unsolvability
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
solvable
adj
  1. capable of being solved; "such problems are perfectly solvable"
    Synonym(s): solvable, resolvable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Solvay process
n
  1. an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sulfapyridine
n
  1. sulfa drug derived from pyridine and sulfanilamide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
syllabification
n
  1. forming or dividing words into syllables [syn: syllabication, syllabification]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
syllabify
v
  1. divide into syllables; "syllabify the words" [syn: syllabify, syllabicate, syllabize, syllabise]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
syllabub
n
  1. spiced hot milk with rum or wine [syn: syllabub, sillabub]
  2. sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor
    Synonym(s): syllabub, sillabub
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sylvia Plath
n
  1. United States writer and poet (1932-1963) [syn: Plath, Sylvia Plath]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulk \Bulk\ (b[ucr]lk), n. [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan.
      bulk lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b[?]lkast to be
      bulky. Cf. {Boll}, n., {Bile} a boil, {Bulge}, n.]
      1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size;
            as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
  
                     Against these forces there were prepared near one
                     hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a
                     more nimble motion, and more serviceable. --Bacon.
  
      2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion;
            the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
  
                     The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them,
                     [bd]to obtain what by labor can be obtained.[b8]
                                                                              --J. Morley.
  
      3. (Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
  
      4. The body. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
                     My liver leaped within my bulk.         --Turbervile.
  
      {Barrel bulk}. See under {Barrel}.
  
      {To break bulk} (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the
            cargo.
  
      {In bulk}, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate
            packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape
            that any desired quantity may be taken or sold.
  
      {Laden in bulk}, {Stowed in bulk}, having the cargo loose in
            the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks.
  
      {Sale by bulk}, a sale of goods as they are, without weight
            or measure.
  
      Syn: Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness;
               massiveness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salifiable \Sal"i*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. salifiable. See
      {Salify}.] (Chem.)
      Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of
      bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salvability \Sal`va*bil"i*ty\, n.
      The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness.
      [R.]
  
               In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not
               possible outside the communion of the visible
               organization.                                          --A. V. G.
                                                                              Allen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salvable \Sal"va*ble\, a. [L. salvare to save, from salvus safe.
      Cf. {Savable}.]
      Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. --Dr. H.
      More. -- {Sal"va*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sal"va*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salvable \Sal"va*ble\, a. [L. salvare to save, from salvus safe.
      Cf. {Savable}.]
      Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. --Dr. H.
      More. -- {Sal"va*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sal"va*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salvable \Sal"va*ble\, a. [L. salvare to save, from salvus safe.
      Cf. {Savable}.]
      Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. --Dr. H.
      More. -- {Sal"va*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sal"va*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salve \Salve\ (?; 277), n. [AS. sealf ointment; akin to LG.
      salwe, D. zalve, zalf, OHG. salba, Dan. salve, Sw. salfva,
      Goth. salb[omac]n to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius)
      [?] oil, [?] butter, Skr. sarpis clarified butter. [root]155,
      291.]
      1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to
            wounds or sores; a healing ointment. --Chaucer.
  
      2. A soothing remedy or antidote.
  
                     Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy
                     sores.                                                --Milton.
  
      {Salve bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large, stout isopod crustacean
            ({[92]ga psora}), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, --
            used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It
            becomes about two inches in length.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sage \Sage\, n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus
      saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See
      {Safe}.] (Bot.)
      (a) A suffruticose labiate plant ({Salvia officinalis}) with
            grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc.
            The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which
            many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet
            sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
      (b) The sagebrush.
  
      {Meadow sage} (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia ({S.
            pratensis}) growing in meadows in Europe.
  
      {Sage cheese}, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green
            by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which
            are added to the milk.
  
      {Sage cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of the sage grouse; in a
            more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse.
           
  
      {Sage green}, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves
            of garden sage.
  
      {Sage grouse} (Zo[94]l.), a very large American grouse
            ({Centrocercus urophasianus}), native of the dry sagebrush
            plains of Western North America. Called also {cock of the
            plains}. The male is called {sage cock}, and the female
            {sage hen}.
  
      {Sage hare}, or {Sage rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), a species of hare
            ({Lepus Nuttalli, [or] artemisia}) which inhabits the arid
            regions of Western North America and lives among
            sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely
            a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.
  
      {Sage hen} (Zo[94]l.), the female of the sage grouse.
  
      {Sage sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a small sparrow ({Amphispiza
            Belli}, var. {Nevadensis}) which inhabits the dry plains
            of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.
  
      {Sage thrasher} (Zo[94]l.), a singing bird ({Oroscoptes
            montanus}) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western
            North America.
  
      {Sage willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix tristis})
            forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green
            leaves.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Salvific \Sal*vif"ic\, a. [L. salficus saving; salvus saved,
      safe + facere to make.]
      Tending to save or secure safety. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-abased \Self`-a*based"\, a.
      Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt,
      or shame.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-abasement \Self`-a*base"ment\, n.
      1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
  
      2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of
            inferiority, guilt, or shame.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-abasing \Self`-a*bas"ing\, a.
      Lowering or humbling one's self.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-abhorrence \Self`-ab*hor"rence\, n.
      Abhorrence of one's self.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-abnegation \Self`-ab`ne*ga"tion\, n.
      Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-abuse \Self`-abuse"\, n.
      1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.
  
      2. Self-deception; delusion. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-affairs \Self`-af*fairs"\, n. pl.
      One's own affairs; one's private business. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-affrighted \Self`-af*fright"ed\, a.
      Frightened at or by one's self. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-applause \Self`-ap*plause"\, n.
      Applause of one's self.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-applying \Self`-ap*ply"ing\, a.
      Applying to or by one's self.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-approving \Self`-ap*prov"ing\, a.
      Approving one's own action or character by one's own
      judgment.
  
               One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid
               starers and of loud huzzas.                     --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-evidence \Self`-ev"i*dence\, n.
      The quality or state of being self-evident. --Locke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-evident \Self`-ev"i*dent\, a.
      Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or
      conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a
      self-evident proposition or truth. -- {Self`-ev"i*dent*ly},
      adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-evident \Self`-ev"i*dent\, a.
      Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or
      conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a
      self-evident proposition or truth. -- {Self`-ev"i*dent*ly},
      adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-evolution \Self`-ev`o*lu"tion\, n.
      Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or
      power.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-opininating \Self`-o*pin"i*na`ting\, a.
      Beginning wwith, or springing from, one's self.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-opinion \Self`-o*pin"ion\, n.
      Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an
      overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion.
      --Collier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Self-opinioned \Self`-o*pin"ioned\, a.
      Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited.
      --South.

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]:
   Sillabub \Sil"la*bub\, n. [Cf. sile to strain, and bub liquor,
      also Prov. E. sillibauk.]
      A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus
      forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with
      wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also {syllabub}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slapeface \Slape"face`\, n.
      A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slaveborn \Slave"born`\, a.
      Born in slavery.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slavophil \Slav"o*phil\, Slavophile \Slav"o*phile\, n. [Slavic +
      Gr. [?][?][?] loving.]
      One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development
      and prosperity of that race.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slavophil \Slav"o*phil\, Slavophile \Slav"o*phile\, n. [Slavic +
      Gr. [?][?][?] loving.]
      One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development
      and prosperity of that race.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Sleep of plants} (Bot.), a state of plants, usually at
            night, when their leaflets approach each other, and the
            flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded
            leaves.
  
      Syn: Slumber; repose; rest; nap; doze; drowse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sleeve \Sleeve\, n. [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. sl[?]fe, sl[?]fe;
      akin to sl[?]fan to put on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove the
      turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves,
      sleve a sleeve, G. schlaube a husk, pod.]
      1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve
            of a coat or a gown. --Chaucer.
  
      2. A narrow channel of water. [R.]
  
                     The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve.
                                                                              --Drayton.
  
      3. (Mach.)
            (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady
                  another part, or to form a connection between two
                  parts.
            (b) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
            (c) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or
                  forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
  
      {Sleeve button}, a detachable button to fasten the wristband
            or cuff.
  
      {Sleeve links}, two bars or buttons linked together, and used
            to fasten a cuff or wristband.
  
      {To laugh in the sleeve}, to laugh privately or unperceived,
            especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious
            demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is,
            perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide
            sleeves of former times.
  
      {To pin}, [or] {hang}, {on the sleeve of}, to be, or make,
            dependent upon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sleevefish \Sleeve"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A squid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sloop \Sloop\, n.[D. sloep, of uncertain origin. Cf. {Shallop}.]
      (Naut.)
      A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of
      a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail.
      The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing
      rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily
      shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends
      for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel.
      The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One
      radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard.
      See {Cutter}, and Illustration in Appendix.
  
      {Sloop of war}, formerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a
            ship, brig, or schooner, and mounting from ten to
            thirty-two guns; now, any war vessel larger than a
            gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slope \Slope\, n. [Formed (like abode fr. abide) from OE.
      slipen. See {Slip}, v. i.]
      1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a
            horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an
            inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
  
      2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of
            the horizon.
  
                     buildings the summit and slope of a hill.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
                     Under the slopes of Pisgah.               --Deut. iv.
                                                                              49. (Rev.
                                                                              Ver.).
  
      Note: A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity;
               considered as ascending, an acclivity.
  
      {Slope of a plane} (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as,
            parallel planes have the same slope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Soil pipe \Soil pipe\
      A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Soil \Soil\, n. [OE. soile, F. sol, fr. L. solum bottom, soil;
      but the word has probably been influenced in form by soil a
      miry place. Cf. {Saloon}, {Soil} a miry place, {Sole} of the
      foot.]
      1. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound
            substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is
            particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
  
      2. Land; country.
  
                     Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee,
                     native soil?                                       --Milton.
  
      3. Dung; f[91]ces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
  
                     Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.
                                                                              --Mortimer.
  
      {Soil pipe}, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Solvability \Solv`a*bil"i*ty\, n. [F. solvabilit[82].]
      1. The quality or state of being solvable; as, the
            solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.
  
      2. The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just
            debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Solvable \Solv"a*ble\, a. [F. solvable. See {Solve}, and cf.
      {Soluble}, {Solvible}.]
      1. Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained;
            admitting of solution.
  
      2. Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable
            obligations. --Tooke.
  
      3. Able to pay one's debts; solvent. [Obs.] --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Solvableness \Solv"a*ble*ness\, n.
      Quality of being solvable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Solvible \Solv"i*ble\ (-[icr]*b'l), a.
      See {Solvable}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Booby \Boo"by\ (b[oomac]"b[ycr]), n.; pl. {Boobies} (-b[icr]z).
      [Sp. bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E.
      barbarous.]
      1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A swimming bird ({Sula fiber} or {S. sula}) related to
                  the common gannet, and found in the West Indies,
                  nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account
                  of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes
                  applied to other species of gannets; as, {S.
                  piscator}, the red-footed booby.
            (b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sulphophosphate \Sul`pho*phos"phate\, n. (Chem.)
      A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sulphophosphite \Sul`pho*phos"phite\, n. (Chem.)
      A salt of sulphophosphorous acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sulphophosphoric \Sul`pho*phos*phor"ic\, a.
      Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid
      of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its
      salts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sulphophosphorous \Sul`pho*phos"phor*ous\, a. (Chem.)
      Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of
      phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its
      salts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sulphovinic \Sul`pho*vin"ic\, a. [Sulpho- + vinum wine: cf. F.
      sulfovinique.] (Chem.)
      Of, pertaining to, and formerly designating, ethylsulphuric
      acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d1nothionic \[d1]`no*thi*on"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] wine + thionic.]
      (Chem.)
      Pertaining to an acid now called {sulphovinic, [or] ethyl
      sulphuric, acid}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syllabification \Syl*lab`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See {Syllabify}.]
      Same as {Syllabication}. --Rush.
  
               Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on
               discontinuity of force. --H. Sweet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syllabify \Syl*lab"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Syllabified}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Syllabifying}.] [L. syllaba syllable + -fy.]
      To form or divide into syllables.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syllabify \Syl*lab"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Syllabified}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Syllabifying}.] [L. syllaba syllable + -fy.]
      To form or divide into syllables.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syllabify \Syl*lab"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Syllabified}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Syllabifying}.] [L. syllaba syllable + -fy.]
      To form or divide into syllables.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sillabub \Sil"la*bub\, n. [Cf. sile to strain, and bub liquor,
      also Prov. E. sillibauk.]
      A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus
      forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with
      wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also {syllabub}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syllabub \Syl"la*bub\, n.
      Same as {Syllabub}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sillabub \Sil"la*bub\, n. [Cf. sile to strain, and bub liquor,
      also Prov. E. sillibauk.]
      A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus
      forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with
      wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also {syllabub}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syllabub \Syl"la*bub\, n.
      Same as {Syllabub}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chiff-chaff \Chiff"-chaff\, n. [So called from its note.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A species of European warbler ({Sylvia hippolais}); -- called
      also {chip-chap}, and {pettychaps}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Selbyville, DE (town, FIPS 64840)
      Location: 38.45806 N, 75.22396 W
      Population (1990): 1335 (590 housing units)
      Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19975
   Selbyville, WV
      Zip code(s): 26236

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Shelbyville, IL (city, FIPS 69186)
      Location: 39.40705 N, 88.80403 W
      Population (1990): 4943 (2159 housing units)
      Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Shelbyville, IN (city, FIPS 69318)
      Location: 39.52326 N, 85.77582 W
      Population (1990): 15336 (6567 housing units)
      Area: 16.6 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 46176
   Shelbyville, KY (city, FIPS 70050)
      Location: 38.21758 N, 85.23121 W
      Population (1990): 6238 (2727 housing units)
      Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 40065
   Shelbyville, MI
      Zip code(s): 49344
   Shelbyville, MO (city, FIPS 67196)
      Location: 39.80714 N, 92.03974 W
      Population (1990): 582 (287 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63469
   Shelbyville, TN (city, FIPS 67760)
      Location: 35.49041 N, 86.44671 W
      Population (1990): 14049 (6163 housing units)
      Area: 35.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Shelbyville, TX
      Zip code(s): 75973
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