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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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| sake | vb | to disagree, argue; argue, disagree [OE sacan, meaning to contend, disagree, or dispute]
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| saltern | n | an area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands; salt works [OED; salt + aern 'dwelling']
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| 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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| sam | vb | to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean; {{{synonyms}}} [from ME sammen, samnen, OE samnian, ġesamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), Proto-Germanic *samnōną (“to gather”), Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”)]
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| sandfarer | n | nomad of the desert (dry-land): a bedouin.; herder-wanderer - Mongolian nomad. [compound of sand & farer]
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| sarecraft | n | technology; [from OE searocræft]
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| seaberg | n | rocky sea outcrop; [OE sæbeorg]
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| sea-dust | n | salt.; sodium chloride [OE sea: a division of an ocean or water partially enclosed by land & dust: fine dry, small powdery particles.]
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| searim | n | coast; []
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| skiðe | n | physical harm or damage to a person; injury [OE sciethan]
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| seldseen | adj | rare; seldom, hardly ever seen, uncommon, unfamiliar [CED(Obsolete) OE seldsīne ME seldsene]
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| selfdo-ly | adj | done or happening without any influence from the outside, as if by reflex or
habit; automatic [compound of self + do + ly]
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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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| 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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| 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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| shedtear | n | one prone to weeping and lamentation. 2. one who cries or sheds tears to take control of a troubling situation.; [O.E words 'shed' & 'tear']
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| shedwise | adj | sagacious intelligent discerning discriminating rational reasonable wise; [OE sceadwis]
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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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| shiðe | vb | to tear down or bring to an end by wrecking, ruining, killing, etc.; destroy [OE sciethan]
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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 | n | about or regarding matters or issues at one's place of work.; [OE "shop" & "wise".]
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| short eats | n | a snack; [OE "short" & "eats" from 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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| shutting-in | n | the evening.; the dusk, nightfall. [OE "shut"]
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| sickhouse | n | building or structure used to care for the sick or injured; hospital, infirmary [neologism, in part inspired by OE lǽcehús "leech-house" (leech=doctor), from sick + house]
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| sidely | adj | sober sedate modest discreet; [OE sidlic]
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| silebeam | n | architrave; [sile 'column, pillar, support' (<OE sýl) + beam]
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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 byspled as "Siþen þe ſege ⁊ þe aſſaut watz ſeſed at Troye".]
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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 from sin; absolve [compound of sin + wash]
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| smay | vb | consider think about mediate examine scrutinize; [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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| soom | n | agreement; [Old English "som", meaning agreement, somewhat linked to "seem"]
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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 [OE sot]
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| soot-dew | n | a black fulginous grime coating plants and buildings.; coom, smut [OE sot and "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, []
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| soothly | adv | in truth; in sooth,verily, truly, legitimately [same as sooth]
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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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| 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 [OE sawol, "soul" & scet, "a payment"]
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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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| 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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| 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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| stepmeal | adv | by degrees, gradually; [OE stæpmælum]
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| stiff stander | n | cow; [OE: from an old Nursery rhyme.]
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| still-hill | n | cemetery, necropolis; lichfield, graveyard [OE: still: not moving, silent & hill:]
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| stire | vb | to break up the quiet or stillness of; to upset mentally or emotionally, make uneasy, anxious; disturb [from stir (vowel change from schwa to /aI/; akin to German stören)]
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| stolen-time | n | time stolen when served in prison for a crime one has not committed.; stolen time [OE: stolen and time:]
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| stonewall | adj | certain, stone cold; [OED]
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| stoorthlore | n | mathematics; [a direct calque of Icelandic "stærðfræði".]
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| stop stick | n | a spike strip (also known as traffic spikes, tire shredders, stingers, stop sticks, a stinger in police slang, and formally known as a tire deflation device) is a device or weapon used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles by puncturing their tires.; stingers [OE: 'stop' & 'stick']
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| stowaway | n | a person who hides on a ship, aircraft or other vehicle; [CED]
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| streave | n | consonant; [OE: blend of 'stop' & 'breathe' (Barnes suggestion for consonant)]
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| street-whisperer | n | a good samaritan, social worker who cares for the disadvantaged, the sick, the drug-addicted, the homeless etc.; good samaritan [OE: stræt & whisperer: one who acts & speak caringly]
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| stringer | n | a newspaper correspondent; news photographer who is retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place; [OE:]
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| sucklewight | n | mammal; [suck(le) OE 'sūcan' + wight OE 'wiht'
akin to Dutch 'Zoogdier' and German 'Säugetier'] |
| swanling | n | the young of a swan; cygnet [OED]
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| swamb | n | fungus; [from OE swamm]
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| sward | n | the skin of the body; the rind of the pork; the surface of soil covered by grass or herbage; skin, rind, stretch of grass, gair [uncommon, from OE swearþ, swarð]
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| swarm smart | n | collective intelligent; . [OE. swearm: large cluster of insects. & smeotan: clever.]
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| swey | adj | silent; [OE swige]
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| swincraft | n | music; [OE swin 'sound, melody' + -craft]
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| sye | n | victory; overthrow, win [update of OE sige]
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