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   serrated
         adj 1: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
                  [syn: {serrate}, {serrated}, {saw-toothed}, {toothed},
                  {notched}]

English Dictionary: sort out by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
serrated wrack
n
  1. brown algae seaweed with serrated edges [syn: {serrated wrack}, Fucus serratus, tang]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shared out
adj
  1. distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
    Synonym(s): divided, divided up, shared, shared out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shore duty
n
  1. naval service at land bases
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
short-dated
adj
  1. of a gilt-edged security; having less than 5 years to run before redemption
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
short-headed
adj
  1. having a brachycephalic head [syn: broad-headed, roundheaded, short-headed]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
short-toed eagle
n
  1. any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles
    Synonym(s): harrier eagle, short-toed eagle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shredded
adj
  1. prepared by cutting; "sliced tomatoes"; "sliced ham"; "chopped clams"; "chopped meat"; "shredded cabbage"
    Synonym(s): chopped, shredded, sliced
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sordid
adj
  1. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
    Synonym(s): seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
  2. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
    Synonym(s): dirty, sordid
  3. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
    Synonym(s): flyblown, squalid, sordid
  4. meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sordidly
adv
  1. in a sordid or squalid way
    Synonym(s): sordidly, squalidly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sordidness
n
  1. sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor, squalidness]
  2. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
    Synonym(s): baseness, sordidness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicability
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sort out
v
  1. arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
    Synonym(s): classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
  2. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
    Synonym(s): clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
  3. punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
    Synonym(s): discipline, correct, sort out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorted
adj
  1. arranged according to size
  2. arranged into groups
    Synonym(s): grouped, sorted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sortition
n
  1. making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn
    Synonym(s): casting lots, drawing lots, sortition
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
square-toed
adj
  1. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
    Synonym(s): priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
  2. having a square toe; "square-toed shoes"
    Synonym(s): square-toed, squared-toe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surtitle
n
  1. translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage
    Synonym(s): supertitle, surtitle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surtout
n
  1. a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scorodite \Scor"o*dite\, n. [G. scorodit; -- so called in
      allusion to its smell under the blowpipe, from Gr. [?]
      garlic.] (Min.)
      A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic
      crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also
      {skorodite}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scortatory \Scor"ta*to*ry\, a. [L. scortator a fornicator, from
      scortari to fornicate, scortum a prostitute.]
      Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scrutation \Scru*ta"tion\, n. [L. scrutatio.]
      Search; scrutiny. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serrate \Ser"rate\, Serrated \Ser"ra*ted\, a. [L. serratus, fr.
      serra a saw; perhaps akin to secare to cut, E. saw a cutting
      instrument. Cf. {Sierra}.]
      1. Notched on the edge, like a saw.
  
      2. (Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as,
            serrate leaves.
  
      {Doubly serrate}, having small serratures upon the large
            ones, as the leaves of the elm.
  
      {Serrate-ciliate}, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on
            the serratures; -- said of a leaf.
  
      {Serrate-dentate}, having the serratures toothed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Serrate \Ser"rate\, Serrated \Ser"ra*ted\, a. [L. serratus, fr.
      serra a saw; perhaps akin to secare to cut, E. saw a cutting
      instrument. Cf. {Sierra}.]
      1. Notched on the edge, like a saw.
  
      2. (Bot.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as,
            serrate leaves.
  
      {Doubly serrate}, having small serratures upon the large
            ones, as the leaves of the elm.
  
      {Serrate-ciliate}, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on
            the serratures; -- said of a leaf.
  
      {Serrate-dentate}, having the serratures toothed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sharded \Shard"ed\, a. (Zo[94]l.)
      Having elytra, as a beetle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shirt \Shirt\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Shirted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Shirting}.]
      To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
      --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran,
      and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin
      to OD. schoore, schoor. See {Shear}, v. t.]
      The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an
      ocean, lake, or large river.
  
               Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
               Is come shore.                                       --Shak.
  
               The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.            --Spenser.
  
      {In shore}, near the shore. --Marryat.
  
      {On shore}. See under {On}.
  
      {Shore birds} (Zo[94]l.), a collective name for the various
            limicoline birds found on the seashore.
  
      {Shore crab} (Zo[94]l.), any crab found on the beaches, or
            between tides, especially any one of various species of
            grapsoid crabs, as {Heterograpsus nudus} of California.
  
      {Shore lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small American lark ({Otocoris
            alpestris}) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on
            the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark
            brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow
            local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black
            streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear
            tufts. Called also {horned lark}.
  
      {Shore plover} (Zo[94]l.), a large-billed Australian plover
            ({Esacus magnirostris}). It lives on the seashore, and
            feeds on crustaceans, etc.
  
      {Shore teetan} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pipit ({Anthus
            obscurus}). [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Short-dated \Short"-dat`ed\, a.
      Having little time to run from the date. [bd]Thy short-dated
      life.[b8] --Sandys.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shorthead \Short"head`\, n.
      A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by
      sailors.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Short-wited \Short"-wit`ed\, a.
      Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or
      judgment.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shred \Shred\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shred} or {Shredded}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Shredding}.] [OE. shreden, schreden, AS.
      scre[a0]dian; akin to OD. schrooden, OHG. scr[?]tan, G.
      schroten. See {Shred}, n.]
      1. To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and
            long pieces, as of cloth or leather. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To lop; to prune; to trim. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shrouded \Shroud"ed\, a.
      Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
  
      {Shrouded gear} (Mach.), a cogwheel or pinion having flanges
            which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and
            thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shroud \Shroud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shrouded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shrouding}.] [Cf. AS. scr[?]dan. See {Shroud}, n.]
      1. To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a
            winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  
                     The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a
                     number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      2. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to
            cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
  
                     One of these trees, with all his young ones, may
                     shroud four hundred horsemen.            --Sir W.
                                                                              Raleigh.
  
                     Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that
                     light the skies, To shroud my shame.   --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shrouded \Shroud"ed\, a.
      Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
  
      {Shrouded gear} (Mach.), a cogwheel or pinion having flanges
            which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and
            thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skirt \Skirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skirted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Skirting}.]
      1. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
  
                     Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the
            edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
            [bd]When sundown skirts the moor.[b8] --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scorodite \Scor"o*dite\, n. [G. scorodit; -- so called in
      allusion to its smell under the blowpipe, from Gr. [?]
      garlic.] (Min.)
      A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic
      crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also
      {skorodite}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skorodite \Skor"o*dite\, n. (Min.)
      See {Scorodite}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scorodite \Scor"o*dite\, n. [G. scorodit; -- so called in
      allusion to its smell under the blowpipe, from Gr. [?]
      garlic.] (Min.)
      A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic
      crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also
      {skorodite}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skorodite \Skor"o*dite\, n. (Min.)
      See {Scorodite}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sordet \Sor"det\, n. [See {Sordine}.] (Mus.)
      A sordine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sordid \Sor"did\, a. [L. sordidus, fr. sordere to be filthy or
      dirty; probably akin to E. swart: cf. F. sordide. See
      {Swart}, a.]
      1. Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
  
                     A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of
                     beard descends, uncombed, unclean.      --Dryden.
  
      2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
            [bd]To scorn the sordid world.[b8] --Milton.
  
      3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
  
                     He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold.
                                                                              --Sir J.
                                                                              Denham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sordidly \Sor*did"ly\, n.
      Sordidness. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sordidly \Sor"did*ly\, adv.
      In a sordid manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sordidness \Sor"did*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being sordid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sorediate \So*re"di*ate\, a. (Bot.)
      Soredi[8b]ferous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sort \Sort\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sorted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Sorting}.]
      1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions,
            as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths
            according to their colors; to sort wool or thread
            according to its fineness.
  
                     Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted
                     and sorted from one another.               --Sir I.
                                                                              Newton.
  
      2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker.
  
      3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  
                     Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients,
                     compared and sorted with insects.      --Bacon.
  
                     She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J.
                                                                              Davies.
  
      4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  
                     That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman.
  
                     I'll sort some other time to visit you. --Shak.
  
      5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
  
                     I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sortition \Sor*ti"tion\, n. [L. sortitio, from sortiri to draw
      or cast lots, fr. sors, sortis, a lot.]
      Selection or appointment by lot. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Square-toed \Square"-toed`\ (-t[omac]d`), n.
      Having the toe square.
  
               Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes.
                                                                              --V. Knox.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Squirt \Squirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squirted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Squirting}.] [Cf. LG. swirtjen to squirt, OSw. sqv[84]tta,
      E. squander.]
      To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or
      orifice; as, to squirt water.
  
               The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco
               in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire
               grate.                                                   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      {Squirting cucumber}. (Bot.) See {Ecballium}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Suraddition \Sur`ad*di"tion\, n. [F.]
      Something added or appended, as to a name. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surdity \Surd"i*ty\, n. [L. surditas.]
      Deafness. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Surtout \Sur*tout"\, n. [F., fr. sur over + tout all.]
      A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat,
      especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.
      --Gay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sward \Sward\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Swarded}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Swarding}.]
      To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
      --Mortimer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Swarded \Sward"ed\, a.
      Covered with sward. --Mrs. Browning.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sworded \Sword"ed\, a. [Cf. AS. geswurdod.]
      Girded with a sword. --Milton.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   square-headed boyfriend
  
      {square-headed girlfriend}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   square-headed girlfriend
  
      A computer.
  
      (1999-01-15)
  
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Sardites, removing a dissension
  
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