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[ᚹ] = widened meaning
| sackless | adj | innocent, blameless, guiltless, free of legal charge; |
| sade | vb | to become sated, to satisfy, to satiate; |
| sad-fishing | n | the practice of writing about one's unhappiness or emotional problems on social media, especially in a vague way, in order to attract attention and sympathetic responses.; [sad + fishing]
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| sailcloth | n | canvas or other material used for making sails; [NE < ME seileclōth; liken with WF seilkleed and NL zeilkleed]
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| sailorly | adj | having the characteristics of a sailor; nautical; [NE < sailor + -ly]
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| sailstone | n | magnet; [Icelandic segull ~ 19th century back-formation from segulsteinn, adapted from Middle Low German segelstēn, from segel 'sail' + stēn 'stone']
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| sain | vb | to make the sign of the cross on or over; to bless so as to protect from evil influence, to sanctify; |
| sake | n | a cause (as in reason for contention), an account (one's behalf), a lawsuit; |
| sake | vb | to sue, to bring a suit against; to contend; PST: sook; PTCP: saken [<OE sacan]
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| saltern | n | an area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands; salt works |
| saltiness | n | salinity; [NE < salty + -ness]
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| saltpig | n | a small container for holding salt at the table, a salt cellar; [<NE salt pig]
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| saltstone | n | halite, rock salt; [NE < ME saltstone/salte ston < OE sealtstān]
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| salty | adj | seasoned with or containing salt, saline; irritated and bitter; [NE < ME saltī]
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| salve | n | an ointment, balm, cream or paste used for medicinal reasons; |
| sam | adj | half-done, imperfectly done; half-heated (esp. of food); [archaic NE < ME sam- < OE sam- < PG *sēmi-]
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| sam | vb | to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean; |
| samblind | adj | half-blind, partially blind; dim-sighted; [< NE sandblind < ME *samblind]
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| samed | adv | together, with one accord; joined or fastened together; simultaneously, at the same time; |
| samefeel | vb | to share in another's feeling or emotions (used with with: "I samefeel with you"; empathize [compound of same + feel]
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| sammilk | n | butter in the churn after the milk breaks into butter; [< archaic NE sam-milk]
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| samsodden | adj | half-cooked, partially cooked; |
| sand | n | a sending, a sending out, a thing which is sent; messenger, envoy; message; a serving of food; |
| sandfarer | n | nomad of the desert (dry-land): a bedouin; mongolian nomad.; [sand + farer]
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| sandglass | n | an hourglass; [NE < sand + glass]
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| sandhill | n | a sand dune; [NE < sand + hill]
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| sandsman | n | a messenger, an emissary; [< ME sōndesman]
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| sare | n | artifice, machination, machine, device, engine; |
| sarecraft | n | stratagem, machination, engineering [ᚹ], technology [ᚹ]; [<OE searucræft]
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| sareman | n | one who makes machines, engines, or machinations; engineer [< OE searu + NE man]
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| saught | n | peace, reconciliation; concord, harmony; |
| saughten | vb | to make peace, to reconcile; |
| saw | n | a narrative, saga, story; a saying, maxim, proverb; a notion [ᚹ]; |
| sawbones | n | a surgeon; [NE < saw + bones]
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| sawer | n | one who saws, a sawyer; [<ME sauer]
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| sax | n | knife, cutting tool; a kind of short sword, dagger; |
| saxstaff | n | a glaive; [< ME sax + NE staff]
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| sythe, sithe | n | an agricultural tool with a shaft and a curved blade used for mowing or pruning; |
| seabarrow | n | rocky sea outcrop, cliff against the sea; [<OE sǽbeorh]
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| seadevil | n | a manta ray; [NE < sea + devil]
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| seadom | n | the domain of the sea and oceans, a thalassocracy, a thalattocracy; [sea + -dom]
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| seadust | n | sea salt; sodium chloride [sea + dust]
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| seafear | n | thalassophobia; [sea + fear]
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| seaglass | n | isinglass; [<NE sea-glass]
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| sealine | n | the horizon (when over water); a line used in the sea (as for sounding or deepwater fishing); [<NE sea line]
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| sealore | n | oceanography; [NE < sea + lore]
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| sealsmolt | n | melted seal blubber, seal oil; [<ME seilesmolt]
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| sealth | n | happiness, pleasure; fortune, prosperity; |
| seam | n | a line of stitching; ridge formed by joined edges; stratum (coal, ore, etc); suture; gully, groove, crevice; |
| seamanship | n | skill in and knowledge of sailing, navigating and maintaining a vessel at sea; [NE < seaman + -ship]
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| seamere | n | a lagoon, an enclosed part of the sea; [sea + mere; calque of sea-lake]
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| seamster | n | a person whose occupation is sewing, a tailor, seamstress; |
| seamy | adj | sordid, disreputable, distasteful, ignoble; [NE < seam + -y]
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| seanettle | n | a jellyfish of the genus Chrysaora; any jellyfish; [<NE sea nettle]
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| sear | vb | to burn, to scorch; to wither, to dry up; to mark permanently; |
| searim | n | the horizon of a sea or ocean; [sea + rim]
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| Searmonth | n(p) | June; [<OE searmónaþ]
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| seldseen | adj | rare; seldom, hardly ever seen, uncommon, unfamiliar [CED(Obsolete) OE seldsīne ME seldsene]
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| selfdom | n | independence; [self + -dom]
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| selfshrithing | adj | automatic; [self + OE scrīþan + -ing]
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| self-sparkle | n | radiance, panache, vim, vitality; [self + sparkle]
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| selfstanding | adj | able to work and live alone without outside help; independent [OED]
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| settledom | n | a culture or a civilised societal structure, either as a whole or an individual society; civilisation [neologism, from settle + -dom]
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| settlegang | n | a heavenly body's course of sinking below the horizon; sunset [OE setlgang]
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| shadow on my shoulder | phr | sad, unhappy and depressed; [OE]
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| shakeneedy | adj | having a very great desire, need; offering so little chance for improvement as to cause despair; desperate [compound of shake + need + y]
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| shakeshaft | n | a argumentative and confrontational person.; take on; come up against [derived from the Old English schakken, meaning to brandish, and speer, meaning spear.]
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| sharedom | n | A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.; communism, marxism [share + -dom]
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| shareware | n | a type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience; [OE words 'sheep & fold'.]
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| shathe | vb | to injure, to harm, to scathe; [<ME shāthien < OE sceaþian]
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| shedtear | n | one prone to weeping and lamentation. 2. one who cries or sheds tears to take control of a troubling situation.; [shed + tear]
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| shedwise | adj | sagacious intelligent discerning discriminating rational reasonable wise; [OE sceadwís]
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| sheepfold | n | enclosure for keeping sheep; [OED]
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| sheepmonger | n | seller or trader of sheep; [OED]
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| shipshape | adj | neat, orderly; [ship + shape; of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his/her quarters arranged neatly and securely against the inevitable turbulence at sea. It also implies a neat and efficient packing to fit into the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship.]
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| shiremight | n | power of the local community, self-rule of people free of a professional political class; democracy [shire ‘local community’ + might ‘power’, loanshift from Gk δῆμος ‘rural district’ + κράτος ‘might’]
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| shopwise | adv | about or regarding matters or issues at one's place of work.; [shop + -wise]
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| short eats | n | a snack; [Sri Lankan English]
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| shredling | n | a minute portion, part, portion, nano-bit.; shreddings, mote, small bite [OE "scread"]
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| sinkright | adj | vertical, upright; perpendicular to the given horizontal field [calque from Modern German "senkrecht"]
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| sickhouse | n | building or structure used to care for the sick or injured; hospital, infirmary [NE ?< ME sek hous]
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| sidely | adj | sober, sedate, modest, discreet; [<OE sidelíc]
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| sightpath | n | the eyes, vision; [sight + path]
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| sightlike | adj | visual; seeinglike [sight + -like]
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| silebeam | n | architrave; [sile 'column, pillar, support' (<OE sýl) + beam]
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| sinshalk | n | a seneschal; [(<PG *siniskalkaz)]
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| sithen [1] | adv | Obsolete word for "since then"; after that, afterwards, subsequently [CED (Obsolete) OE siþþan, ME ſiþen/siþen
† This word can be located at the beginning of the manuscript for Sir Gawain and The Green Knight in Middle English. This is exemplified as "Siþen þe ſege ⁊ þe aſſaut watz ſeſed at Troye".]
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| sithing | n | A journey or a way; one's experiences in life; an instant in time or an occasion; synonym with trip (when referring to a journey) [From the Old English "sīþ", which holds the same meanings as above]
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| silver
'a shoe of silver makes iron soft.' |
pvb | a bribe will soften the heart of the most obdurate; [OE]
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| sinwash | vb | cleanse or absolve from sin; [compound of sin + wash]
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| sleep-stealers | n | those things that keep you awake at night, such as stress, medication, a snoring partner etc.; sleeplessnesses [compound of OE wordssleep + stealer]
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| smay | vb | to scrutinize, to investigate; to meditate on, to ponder; [ME smēȝen < OE smeagan]
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| snakehead | n | a smuggler, particularly one from China, who specializes in getting people into another country without going through normal immigration channels; people smuggler [OE snaca & heafod; term may come from the "creative smuggling" routes that snake from country to country before entering the target nation.]
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| snake-whisperer | n | one who adopts a sympathetic view of the needs and desires of the snake.; horse-whisper; dog-whisperer, [Old English : snake & whisperer; by analogy with 'horse-whisper' A 33-year-old Malaysian firefighter who had earned the name the “snake whisperer” died Friday, a few days after he was bitten by his pet cobra.]
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| Soalmonth | n(p) | February; [<OE solmónaþ]
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| soleness | n | silence; [<OE sālnes [not found in Bosworth-Toller] (geah, I ƿunder hƿi...)]
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| songlike | adj | musical, rhythmic; rimelike [song + -like]
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| sonsdaughter | n | paternal granddaughter; [son + daughter; inspired by OE sunsunu and dohtorsunu]
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| sonson | n | paternal grandson; [<OE sunsunu]
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| soom | n | agreement, concord; [<ME sōme]
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| soot | n | a black carbonaceous substance or deposit consisting of fire particles formed by the combustion of coal, wood, oil or other fuels; coom, smut [NE < ME soot/soote < OE sōt]
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| soot-dew | n | a black fulginous grime coating plants and buildings.; coom, smut [soot + dew]
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| sooth | n | true; fact, legitimacy, reality [OED (Archaic): Proto-Germanic ᛉᚨᚾᚦᚨᛇ (sanþaz), OE ſoþlic/sōþlīċ & ſoþlice/sōþlīċe (sōþ + -līċ) , ME ſooþ or sooþ. Cognates with Old Saxon sōð, Old Norse sannr (ᛌᛆᚿᛧ/ᛋᛅᚾᛦ) and saðr (ᛌᛆᚦᛧ/ᛋᛅᚦᛦ, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃]
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| soothfather | n | God, King of Truth and Justice; All-mighty, Heavenly Father, Drighten [sooth + father]
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| soothly | adv | truly, verily, actually, really; in sooth, in truth [NE < ME sōthlī]
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| sop in the pan | n | french toast; []
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| so-so-ish | adj | indifferent, passable, of indifferent quality or performance; mediocrity [OE: "So-so": fair & "ish" - inclined.]
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| Soul: One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul yet no one comes to sit by it. | phr | an expression of a lovelorn and lonely Vincent Van Gogh.; [O.E]
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| soulbane | n | ruin, destruction, killing of the soul, spiritual ruin.; [OE sawol, "soul" & bane, "murder, destruction, ruin"]
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| soul scot | n | a due paid on behalf of a deceased person to the church of the parish to which he belonged; mortuary; death duty; deadhouse [soul + ME shot]
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| soul thief | n | lucifer, old sooty, and all the false prophets who seek to rob others of their soul and spirit; Satan, shuck [OE sawol, "soul" & thief, "a robber"]
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| soul whisperer | n | one who cares for the soul and the eternal life of others.; clergy (collectively); proselytiser. [OE sawol, "soul" & whisperer, "a carer"]
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| speechlike | adj | verbal, oral; wordy, spoken, unwritten, word-of-mouth, mouthy [speech + -like]
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| spelk | n | a surgical splint; a splinter or chip, a small strip of wood; a thatching rod; support, slip of wood, cleft off [archaism, from OE spelc]
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| spil | n | amusement, fun, entertainment, celebration; [<ME spile <OE spil]
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| spinse | vb | to live as a spinster (temporarily), of married woman or one soon to be married; [backformation of 'spinster']
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| sprout-month | n | the second month of the year (so called because the cabbages begin to sprout); February [OE, from Sprote-Kalemonath]
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| stalworth | adj | steady, strong, serviceable; [OED; <OE stælwirþe]
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| stead | n | A place, usually an area of land something or someone resides; Place, location, dwelling [OE, from stede (OED)]
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| steadholder | n | a deputy or substitute acting for a superior; lieutenant [McGervey made it up]
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| stepmeal | adv | by degrees, gradually; [<OE stæpmælum]
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| sunny-brained | adj | optimistic; rainy-brained (antonym) [neologism, from sunny + brain]
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| sunny-day flooding | n | when high tides bring the sea or seawater into the streets of a city.; [sunny, day & flood]
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| swart | n | black, the color of pitch and night, the hue of something incredibly dirty or unclean; dark [<OE sweart <PG *swartaz, cognate with NF suart/suurt, SF swot/swoot, and NL zwart. Replaced by black in the Middle English Period.]
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| swarm theft | n | where large groups of people enter an electronics store, rip products from display units and flee; [swarm + theft]
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| swime | n | an unconscious state, a faint; [<ME swīme]
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| swint | vb | to make a swim; to canonize; []
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| swistie | n | swastika; [sw- + ist + -ie]
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| swordnithler | n | foe armed with a sword; [<OE sweordġenīðla]
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