Old English | n | English |
Sabbath | n | OE loanword: sabat; a day of rest and worship observed on Saturday by the Jews, Sunday by the Christians and Friday by the Muslims. |
Sabbath-breaker | n | One who profanes the Sabbath by neglecting religious observance of that day |
Sabbath-breaking | n | The act of breaking the observance of the sabbath. |
Sabbath-school | n | Sunday school. |
Sac | n | OE: dispute, case at law, litigation, crime; see "Sake". Certain right or privelege of jurisdiction which formerly by custom belonged to the lord of the manor which gave him the power of holding court, trying cases and imposing fines, as were specified (along with others) and included in the grant of a manor by the crown. NB see: "Sac and Soke." |
Sac | n | The punishment of drowning in a sack (used in ancient Rome for the crime of parricide). 3. "sack and seam": pack-horse traffic. 4. a large or small bag. 5. used as a measure (amount contained in a bag) for corn, fruit, wool, coal etc. |
Sack | n | Dismissal from work or employment: give the sack to. 2. a large strong bag, usually made of hessian, paper or plastic for storing or conveying goods. 3. contents or quantity contained in a sack. 4. a short dress worn by women with a sack-like appearance. |
Sack | vb | To put in a sack or bag. 2. dismiss from employment |
Sack | phr | "Buy a Cat in a Sack" - to buy something without inspecting it. |
Sack | phr | "Get the Sack" - to be dismmised from employment. |
Sack | phr | "Hit the Sack" - go to bed. |
Sack | phr | "Left Holding the Sack" -- expression meaning: saddled with unwelcome responsibility. |
Sack | adj | "In Sack and Ashes" - full of bitter regret and shame. |
Sackcloth | n | A coarse textile fabric (now of flax or hemp) used chiefly in the making of bags or sacks and the wrapping of bales etc., sacking. 2. as the material for mourning clothes. |
Sackcloth | phr | "Sackcloth and Ashes" - humbly to demonstrate repentance. |
Sack-clothed | adj | Clad in a sack. |
Sacked | adj | Dismissed from employment. |
Sackful | n | As much as would fit in a sack, a great quantity, a large amount |
Sacking | n | A coarse material or flax used for making sacks, sackcloth. |
Sackless | adj | Late OE: sacless --- secure from accusation, or dispute. 2. unchallenged; unmolested. 3. not guilty, innocent of wrong intent, having guilt or sack inflicted upon without just cause, guileless, simple. 4. of things: harmless. Hence, feeble-minded, lacking energy, dispirited. |
Sacklike | adj | Resembling or like a sack. |
Sackload | n | Sackful. |
Sack-maker | n | One who makes sacks for a living. |
Sack-making | n | The making of sacks. |
Sackpipe | n | The bagpipes, the pibroch, the pipes. |
Sack-shaped | adj | Shaped or in the form of a sack. |
Sackwise | adv | In the manner of a sack. |
Sad | adj | Of personal immaterial things, satiated, having one's fill, sated, weary, tired. 2. In OE: settled, firmly established in purpose and condition, steadfast, firm, consistent. 3. strong, capable of resisting, valiant. 4. orderly and regular in life; trustworthy in character and judgement, grave, serious, sorrowful. 5. of looks and appearance: dignified, grave, serious. 6. profoundly or solidly learned. 7. of thought and consideration: mature, serious, in sad earnest. 8. of persons, their feelings or disposition: serious, mournful, sad-eyed, sad-hearted. 9. of looks, tones, gestures, costume: expressive of sorrow. 10. of time, place, action: characterized by sorrow, sorrowful. 11. morose, dismal-looking; sad-looking, sad-seeming, causing sorrow, distressing, calamitous, lamentable.. 12. deplorably bad, as a term of depreciation on censure. 13. of material objects: solid, dense, compact, heavy. 14. of liquids: firm, thick. 15. of soil: stiff, heavy. 16. of bread, pastry: unleavened, heavy, not properly baked. 17. of a number of person forming a compact body. 18. of color: dark-colored, deep, not cheerful or bright, dull, sober, neutral. 19. of sleep: sound, deep. 20. of a blow: heavy, strong, vigorous. 21. of fire: violent, fierce, intense. |
Sad | vb | To make solid, thick, firm, compressed. 2. to become steadfast, to establish, to confirm. 3. to darken a color. 4. to make sorrowful, dull or gloomy. |
Sad | phr | "A Sadder and Wiser Man" - one who has learned a lot from failure, betrayal, misjudgement or mishap. |
Sad | phr | "Sad to Say" - sadly, unfortunately, regretfully, ruefully. |
Sad ass | n | (Slang) On who has unfashionable interesets or obsessions. |
Sad bread | n | Heavy bread; bread that has nor risen properly. |
Sadded | pp | Confirmed, strengthen, made sorrowful. |
Sadden | vb | To make solid, firm or stiff; to render into a compact mass, to make coherent. 2. to make sad, unhappy and gloomy. 3. to tone down the color to a duller shade by the addition of mordants. |
Saddening | n | The action of making sad. 2. the process of toning down bright colors. |
Saddish | adj | Somewhat sad. |
Saddle | n | A seat for a rider to be used on the back of a horse. 2. the highest point of the pass between the two mountains. |
Saddle | vb | To put a riding saddle on a horse. 2. to charge or load with a burden; to put a burden on the back of another. |
Saddle | phr | "Be In the Saddle" - mounted. 2. in office, command, control. |
Saddle | phr | "I Will Lose the Horse or Win the saddle" - neck or nothing; double or quits |
Saddle | phr | "Out of the Saddle" - out of control. |
Saddle | phr | "Saddle (Up)With" - pass on a difficulty, responsibility to someone. 2. to force acceptance; to force on to someone something unwanted. |
Saddle | phr | 'Saddle Up" - to be prepared to do something. |
Saddle | phr | "Set the Saddle on the Right Horse" - lay the blame on those who deserve it. |
Saddle-back | n | In architecture, a roof of a tower with two opposite gables. 2. a hill with a concave upper outline. 3. a black pig with a white stripe across the back. |
Saddle-backed | adj | Having a low back with an elevated head and neck(said of a horse). |
Saddle-back board | n | A raised and rounded floor board under a door to allow the door to clear the floor coverings. |
Saddle-bow | n | The arched front or rear of a saddle. |
Saddle-brown | adj | A medium brown color like that of a saddle. |
Saddle-cloth | n | A cloth laid on a horse's back under the saddle. |
Saddled | adj | Wearing a saddle. 2. heavy with burden or problem. |
Saddle-horse | n | A horse trained for riding. |
Saddle-less | adj | Without a saddle. |
Saddlelike | adj | Resembling or like a saddle. |
Saddle-maker | n | A maker or dealer in saddles and other equipment for horses. |
Saddle-nose | n | A nose with a deep or absence ridge. |
Saddler | n | One who makes saddles and other equipment of saddlery used in horse-riding. |
Saddle ring | n | A small metal ring on the side of a firearm,allowing it to hang on a saddle hook and a attached to a halyard. |
Saddle-roof | n | A roof consisting of two gables and one ridge. |
Saddle-seat | n | A slightly concave (use on a windsor chair) that sometimes has a thick ridge in the front. 2. a style of horseback riding, designed in the USA to show off the horse's gait, especially the trot. |
Saddle-shaped | adj | Having the shape of a saddle. |
Saddle-soap | n | A softening and preserving soap for leather, containing pure white soap. |
Saddle-sore | adj | Chafed by riding on a saddle. |
Saddle-spring | n | A spring upholding a cycle-saddle. |
Saddle-stitch | n | A stitch of thread or a wire staple passed through the centre of a magazine or booklet. |
Saddle-stitch | vb | Sew with this stitch. |
Saddle-tree | n | The frame of a saddle. 2. a tulip tree with saddle-shaped leaves. |
Sade | vb | To become or to make weary. |
Sad-eyed | adj | Having sad or sorrowful eyes. |
Sadfishing | n | One of those rare words when someone uses their emotional problems to hook an audience on the internet. |
Sad-hearted | adj | Dejected; sorrowful. |
Sad iron | n | A solid flat iron. |
Sadly | adv | In a sad manner, sorrowfully. 2. unfortunately, sad to say, regretfully, regrettably. 3. deeply, completely. |
Sadness | n | The state or condition of being sad. |
Sad sack | n | A very inept person. |
Sad-tree | n | The framework which forms the foundation of a saddle. 2. the North American tulip tree, "Liriodendrum tulipfera". 2. The Night Jasmine of India, ( The Melancholy tree), "Nyctanthes arbor-tristus." |
Said | ppl | Named or mentioned before, as in abovesaid, aforesaid; already specified. 2. spoken, uttered; in phrase, said saw. |
Said | phr | "After All is Said and Done" - after everything has been considered. |
Said | phr | "No Sooner Said is Done" - something will be done immediately. |
Sail | n | A piece of canvas attached to a mast of a vessel to secure its propulsion by wind. 2. a trip or passage in sailing vessel. 3. a sailing vessel or craft. 4. sails collectively. 5. the wings of a bird or the broad part of the arm of a windmill. |
Sail | vb | To set sail on a voyage, to begin a voyage 2. to travel over water by ship or boat. 3. to move across the water by the action of the wind on the sails. 4. to move, glide, or float in the air, soar. 5. to proceed boldly in action. 6. to move in a steady, dignified manner; move haughtily. |
Sail | phr | "In Full Sail" - with all sails set. |
Sail | phr | "Make Sail" - to spread more canvas in sailing. |
Sail | phr | "Sail Against the Wind" - take an opposite view to most people. |
Sail | phr | "Sail Into" - to cause or be prepared to enter a place, or (fig), some situation. 2. to enter or begin something in a proud or active manner; move with energy. 3. to go about something actively. 4. attack with violence, to scold, chide, lambaste. |
Sail | phr | "Sail Near to the Wind" - sail as nearly against the wind as possible. 2. come close to indecency or dishonesty. 3. risk overstepping the mark. |
Sail | phr | "Sail Through." - to deal with something successfully. |
Sail | phr | "Strike Sail" - to lower the sails suddenly |
Sail | phr | "Take into the Wind" - furl the sail or sails of a vessel. 3. |
Sail | phr | "Take the Wind Out of One's Sails" - to deprive one of an advantage; to hinder one's progress. |
Sail | phr | "Under Sail" - with sails set. |
Sail-arm | n | The arm of a windmill. |
Sailboard | n | A type of large surfboard with a mast and sail used in windsurfing. |
Sailboarder | n | A person who uses a sailboard and practizes the art of sailboarding. |
Sail-boarding | n | The sport or recreational activity of using a sailboard; windsurfing. |
Sail-boat | n | Sailing boat. |
Sail-borne | adj | Propelled by a sail. |
Sail-cloth | n | Canvas or other material for sails. 2. a canvas-like dress material. |
Sail-craft | n | A boat with one or more sails. 2. the art of sailing. 3. a spcecraft with a sail for propulsion purposes.. |
Sailfish | n | A large marine game with spear /saw-like snout and a tall dorsal fin by which it is propelled forward with the wind; basking shark. |
Sailing | n | A voyage by sea. |
Sailing | phr | "Sailing on Another Board" - acting in an unusual or different manner (an obsolete nautical term). |
Sailing-boat | n | A boat driven by sails. |
Sailing master | n | An officer navigating a ship or yacht. |
Sailing-ship | n | A sailing boat. |
Sail-less | adj | Without or not having a sail. |
Sailor | n | Seaman, mariner, seafarer, old-salt. |
Sailorship | n | The act and craft of a sailor, mariner etc. |
Sailor's Home | n | An institution where sailors can finf board and lodging while on shore. |
Sailworthiness | n | Of a boat the characteristic of being seaworthy; suitable for sailing; seaworthiness. |
Sailworthy | adj | Of a ship, in a condition, suitable for sailing; seaworthy. |
Saily | adj | Like a sail. |
Sailyard | n | A yard to which the sails of a ship are bent. 2. one of the structural arms of a windmill in which the waves or sails are attached. 3. an antenna of an insect. |
Sain | vb | To make the sign of the Cross on (a person or thing) in token of consecration or blessing, or in exorcising a demon, warding of evil spirits, witches, poison. 2. to cross oneself, to bless. 3. to secure by prayer, enchantment from evil influence. |
Sain | n | The action of making the sign of the Cross. 2. consecration, blessing, saining. |
Sake | n | See "Sac, Sak." "Sake" only used in modern English --- for the sake of. It has not been found in OE (Probably from ON.) It existed in O.H.G. and Old Frisian. and may have been in in OE., but not found in Literature, and seems to have arisen from the use of the noun to denote a litigant, cause or a cause. 2 an affair, matter, thing, cause, reason. 2.lawsuit, action of law. 4. quarrel, fight, enmity. |
Sake | n | A reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "for the children's sake 2. in the common interest of or for the sake of. 3. the purpose of achieving or obtaining; "for the sake of argument. 4.behalf, purpose, benefit, interest. |
Sake | phr | "For Goodness Sake" - expression of urgency, impatience, supplication, anger. |
Sake | phr | "For Old Time Sake" - in memory of former times and pleasant memories. |
Sake | phr | "For Old Sake's Sake" - for the sake of old acquaintance; for old time sake. |
Sake | phr | "For One's Name Sake" - out of regard for one's reputation or good name. |
Sake | phr | "For the Sake Of" - on behalf of; in the interest of. 2. without justification. |
Sakeful | adj | OE. "Sacu." contentious, quarrelsome, culpable, criminal. |
Sale | n | The action or act of selling. 2. the putting up of goods to be sold. 3. the sale of goods at a lower price |
Sale | phr | "Sale of Work" - in Ireland, a fund raising event with raffles, cake sales, bingo, etc., usually run by schools or churches. |
Sale ring | n | A circle of buyers at an auction. |
Saleroom | n | See 'salesroom' |
Sales | n | The activity involved in the sale of goods and services. 2. the amount or value of goods and services sold. |
Sales floor | n | The part of a business devoted to real activities, such as a showroom or selling areas of a shop or department store, usually manned by sales staff and having free public access to goods on display. |
Sales lady | n | A saleswoman. |
Salesman | n | A salesperson, saleswoman or salesman. 2. a person employed to sell goods in a shop or an agent between a retailer and a producer. 3. a commercial traveler. |
Salesmanship | n | Saleswomanship; the art or skill of selling. 2. the techniques used in selling. |
Salesroom | n | A place where goods are displayed for sale; a saleroom or auction room. |
Sales talk | n | Talk or discussion aimed at selling something. 2. any talk to persuade the sale of goods oor the acceptance of an idea. |
Saleware | n | Merchandise, stock-in-trade. |
Sallow | n | Applied to several species of the willow tree. 2. the wood or shoots of the willow. |
Sallow | adj | Of the skin or complexion, a sickly yellow, sallowish, sallowy or brownish-yellow in color. |
Sallow | vb | To make or become sallow, sallowish, sallowy, sickly or brownish-yellow in colour. |
Sallow | adj | Pale of complexion; unhealthly looking. |
Sallowish | adj | Somewhat sallow in various aspects. |
Sallow-moth | n | A moth with pale yellow forewings. |
Sallowness | n | The state or condition of being paleness of color or complexion. |
Sallowy | adj | Rather sallow. |
Salt | n | A tract of salty land or marshes flooded by the sea. 2. |
Salt | vb | To impregnate with salt. 2. to cure, preserve, season with salt; salting |
Salt | adj | Applied to tears and humors. |
Salt | phr | "Above the Salt" - in a privileged position. |
Salt | phr | "Below the Salt" - in a subordinate, servile or inferior position. |
Salt | phr | "Eat Salt with" - be a guest of. |
Salt | phr | "He Is Not Worth the Salt in Your Tears" - he is no good, untrustworthy; forget him/her for she/he will only bring you grief. |
Salt | phr | "In Salt" - sprinkled with salt or immersed in brine as a preservative. |
Salt | phr | "Not Made of Salt" - not upset or perturbed by wet weather. |
Salt | phr | "Not Worth One's Salt" - not doing one's fair share of the work. |
Salt | phr | "Put Salt on the Tail of" - capture,apprehend (in reference to jocular directions given to children for catching a bird). |
Salt | phr | "Salt Away (or Down)." - to preserve food from decaying by curing with salt. 2. (fig) - to save money or goods etc. for a future hard time or times of hardship. |
Salt | phr | "Salt of the Earth" - an ordinary person or people of great worthiness, high reputation, reliability, honesty, etc those whose qualities are exemplary. |
Salt | phr | "Salt of Youth" - the vigor and strong passion at that time of life predominates. |
Salt | phr | "Salt Out" - to separate (coal tar colors) by adding salt to solutions containing them. |
Salt | phr | 'Salt the Books" - show receipts/proofs larger than the really are. |
Salt | phr | "Salt with." - to make something more lively or interesting by some addition, as in making a story more interesting by "salting" it with violence and sex. |
Salt | phr | "Worth One's Salt" - efficient, capable, conscientous. |
Salt-and-pepper | adj | (of materials and especially of hair) with light and dark colors mixed together. |
Salt-bath | n | In metallurgy, a bath of molten salts used in the process of hardening and tempering steel. |
Salt-box | n | a wooden box, with a sloping lid, for holding kitchen salt. |
Salt-burned | adj | Spoilt by over-salting. |
Salt cat | n | A mass of salt mixed gravel, urine to attract pigeons and keep them at home. |
Saltcote | n | A Saltworks, Saltern. |
Salt-dip | n | A glazed applied to bricks, consisting of washed clay and salt. |
Salted | adj | Of persons or horses: hardened or inured against disease, caused by climatic conditions. 2. experienced or expert. |
Salter | n | One who deals in or manufactures salt. 2. a workman at a saltern. 3. one who salts meat or fish for sale. 4. one who salts bodies for embalming. |
Saltern | n | A building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; a saltworks, also a plot of land, laid out in pools and walls in which water is let in an then allowed to evaporate naturally. |
Salt-fish | n | Fish pickled in brine; fish salted and dried. |
Salt-foot | n | A massive salt-cellar or salver which was formerly placed in the middle of the table to distinguish honored guests from their inferiors who sat below it. |
Saltfree | adj | Free of or with salt. |
Salt-grass | n | Any species of grass that can tolerate alkali and salty conditions. |
Salt-hay | n | A hay made from salt grass. 2. hay made from any grass grown in salty or alkali conditions. |
Salt-horse | n | A sailor's term for salted beef. |
Saltiness | n | The condition of being, or tasting, salty. |
Salting | n | To season with salt. 2. a salt marsh; a marsh overflowed by sea. |
Saltish | adj | Impregnate for preserving with salt. 2. somewhat salty. |
Salt-less | adj | Without salt; tasteless; wersh. |
Salt lick | n | An area where animals go to lick salt left over. 2. a block of salt for animals to lick. |
Salt-like | adj | Resembling salt. |
Salty | adv | In a salt manner; with taste of salt. |
Saltmaker | n | A manufacturer of salt. |
Salt-making | n | The manufacturing of salt. |
Salt marsh | n | An area regularly flooded by seawater. |
Salt meadow | n | A meadow subject to flooding by saltwater. |
Salt mouth | n | A wide-mouthed bottle with a glass stopper for holding chemical, especially crystallised salt. |
Saltness | n | The state or quality of being salty. 2. salt taste; the state of being salt. |
Saltpan | n | A area or pond where salt is found through the evaporation of water. |
Salt shaker | n | A container of salt, with a cap perforated by several small holes, for sprinkling on food. |
Salt-silver | n | A penny, money paid to the Lord by the tenants; to be excused for the service of carrying is salt from the market to his landlord. |
Salt-spoon | n | A small spoon with a short handle and a roundish deep bowl for taking table salt |
Salt-spring | n | A flow of salt from the earth. |
Salt-stone | n | Rock-salt, a mass of Rock-salt. |
Salt-water | n | Salty water or seawater. |
Salt-water | adj | situated or living in saltwater. |
Salt-well | n | A bored well yielding brine. |
Salt-works | n | A building in which salt is made or produced by boiling or evaporation; a salt-works or saltern, also a plot of land, laid out in pools and walls in which water is let in an then allowed to evaporate naturally. |
Saltwort | n | Any plant of the genus, "Salsola. 2. Black Saltwort: Glaux maritima. 3. plant of the genus Salicornia, Salicornia herbacae: Glasswort. |
Salty | adj | Tasting of, containing or preserved with salt. 2. reminiscent of the sea. 3. of humor: risque, racy. 4. piquant, sharp, pungent, as literature, speech. 5. (slang): tough, aggressive. |
Salve | n | A healing ointment or balm. 2. a thing that is soothing, consoling or calming influence for wounded feelings, an uneasy conscience etc.. 3. a thing that explains away a discrepancy or palliates a fault. |
Salve | vb | To soothe (pride,self-love, conscience etc). 2. to smooth over, calm, restore harmony, vindicate, make good. |
Salve-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of salve. |
Sam | vb | OE. samnian: to assemble. 2. to assemble persons. 3. to bring together, join in marriage, friendship, love. 4. to bring together, collect, gather. 5. to bring together the edges of a wound: to sam-together, to sam-up. 6. to join, fasten together, to amass, hoard, to fill full of. 7. to coagulate, curdle milk, cheese. |
Sam | adj | Half or imperfectly as in sam quick; sam dead; sam ripe or red; sam-hale: half-whole or in poor health; sam-sodden: half cooked or half-done. 2. stupid, half-baked; 2. samel: half-burned or imperfectly burned |
Same | adj | ON 'sami' 'samr' akin to O.E. same equally. similar in identity, like, alike. 2. closely similar or comparable in kind, quality, quantity, degree. 3. equal in amount or value. 4. unchanged in character or nature. 5. like, not different or otherwise. 6. of like kind, sort, size, nature; corresponding, similar. |
Same | adv | In a like manner. |
Same | prn | The same person or thing. |
Same | phr | "All In the Same Boat" - in similar difficult circumstances. |
Same | phr | "All Sing from the Same Hymn Book" - act consistently with each other. |
Same | phr | "All the Same" - make no difference, or nevertheless. |
Same | phr | "At the Same Time" - simultaneously. |
Same | phr | "Be All the Same to" - something does not matter. |
Same | phr | "Be of the Same Mind" - agree, think alike. |
Same | phr | "By the same Token" - moreover; similarly. |
Same | phr | "In the Same Breath" - simultaneously, at the same time. |
Same | phr | "Much the Same" - unchanged, very similar. |
Same | phr | "Not in the Same Street as" - cannot be (favorably) with. |
Same | phr | "One and the Same" - identical. |
Same | phr | "Same All the World Over" - found everywhere and much alike. |
Same | phr | "Same as Ever" - consistent, unchanged. |
Same | phr | "Same Here" - I agree wholeheartedly. |
Same | phr | "Same Old Same Old" - a familiar, uninteresting or tedious situation, activity, narrative, or set of facts. |
Same | phr | "Same to You" - I wish you the same. |
Same | phr | "The Same Again" - request for, or invitation to have, repeat of whatever, food, drink etc |
Same-blooded | adj | Having the same blood or sharing blood lineages; consanginuity, homogeneity. |
Same-bloodness | n | Sate or condition of being same blood; consangineous |
Sameish | adj | Basically the same; somewhat similar; rather alike. 2. run-of-the-mill; ordinary; usual. 3. dull; drab; boring; typical; not exciting. |
Samel | adj | Pertaining to bricks imperfectly baked, badly shaped, and soft inside. |
Sameliness | n | Identity, sameness |
Samely | adj | Monotonous, unvaried. |
Same-minded | adj | Having or being of the same mindset; similar in thought and thinking. |
Same-mindedness | n | The state of being of the same mindset; similar in thought and thinking. |
Samen | adv | Together; mutually; samenly, samely, agreeably, samenward. |
Sameness | n | The state of being the same, monotony. 2. lack of change, without variety, monotonous. 3. close similarity. 4. identity. |
Samey | adj | All the same: identical, characterised by sameness. |
Samenfere | n | A fellow traveller, associate, |
Saming | n | A meeting, a coming together, symposium, conference, a samening. |
Samtale | adj | Accorded, agreed, mutual, |
Sand | n | The action of sending; that which is sent: a message, present. 2. God's dispensation or ordinance. 3. the action of sending for; an invitation. 4. a person or body of persons sent on an errand; a messenger, an envoy, a delegation. 5. an embassy, consulate. 6. a sandman; ; a ; the bed of a river or sea. 3. the shore (of a sea); land as opposed to sea. 4. sandy soil; a grain or particle of sand. 5. a bunker on a golf course. 6. sandy or desert wastes. 7. instability of sand (metaphorical and similatively) 8. a sandy colour. |
Sand | vb | Sprinkle, overlay or tip sand on something. 2. to grind or polish with sand. 3. to run a ship on to a sandbank. 4. to clog up with sand. |
Sand | adj | Of a reddish-yellow color. |
Sand | phr | "Build On Sand" - initiate something without foundation. |
Sand | phr | "Bury One's Head in the Sand" - refuse to face up to an unpleasant truth. |
Sand | phr | "Hide One's Head in the Sand" : to ignore or deny unpleasant reality. |
Sand | phr | "Raise Sand" - to create a disturbance or fuss. |
Sand | phr | "Rope Of Sand" - a proverbially weak link, union or tie which is easily broken. 2. that which is virtually worthless or untrustworthy. |
Sand | phr | "Sands Are Running Out" - the time available for some action is nearly at an end. |
Sand | phr | "Sands of Time" - fleeting moments. |
Sand-baked | adj | Extremely hot, dry, etc., as a result of prolonged exposure to hot sand or the scorching heat of a desert |
Sand-bath | n | A vessel of heated sand to provide uniform heating. 2. a receptacle containing sand for birds to roll in. |
Sand-bed | n | A stratum of sand. |
Sandbelt | n | A dun ridge. 2. a sandy area near to the sea prised for expensive housing estates. |
Sandblast | n | To clean a building by blasting with sand at high velocity. |
Sandblaster | n | A machine used for sandblasting. |
Sandblind | n | From the Old English samblind from sam- meaning semi- + blind. In the erroneous belief that the term referred to blindness caused by sand, Samuel Johnson defined the term in his great dictionary of the English Language (1755) as: "Having a defect in the eyes, by which small particles appear to fly before them." |
Sand-blower | n | A sand bellow for sprinkling on fresh paint to imitate stone. |
Sandboard | n | A board similar to snowboard , used to descend upon sand dunes. |
Sandboard | vb | To ride on a sandboard. |
Sand-boarding | n | A recreational activity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand or snow. |
Sandbox | n | A small enclosure filled with sand for children to play in; a sandpit. 2. a security mechanism for separating running programs, usually in an effort to mitigate system failures or software vulnerabilities from spreading. |
Sandcat | n | A small wild cat Felis marganta distributed over African and Asian deserts. |
Sand cloud | n | Driving sand in a simoon. |
Sand-crack | n | A fissure in a horse's hoof. 2. a crack in the human foot from walking on hot sand. 3. a crack in a brick due to imperfect mixing. |
Sandfish | n | Also called the beaked sand-fish, with a long, thin ray-fin. 2. any of the several marine fish that burrow into sandy seabeds |
Sand flea | n | a chikoe of tropical america; a sand-hopper. |
Sand-flood | n | A roving mass of drifting sand, especially in the deserts of Arabia. |
Sand fly | n | A minute, black, biting midge which causes pellagra and sand-fly fever. |
Sand glass | n | An instrument that measures time by the running of sand through a small opening. 2. an hourglass. |
Sand grass | n | Grass whose roots bind loose sand. |
Sand-hill | n | A hill or bank of sand; esp a dune on the seashore. |
Sandhillers | n | A depressed class of white people in Georgia and South Carolina, USA. |
Sand hog | n | A person who works underwater lying foundations, constructing tunnels etc. 2. (US, slang, also figuratively) a person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water. |
Sandhog | vb | (US, slang) to work at digging tunnels, or (more generally) underground or under water. |
Sand-hopper | n | Any of various small jumping crustaceans of the order Amphipoda, burrowing on the seashore. |
Sandlot | n | In the USA, a piece of unoccupied land used for children's games. |
Sandily | adv | In a sandy way. |
Sandiness | n | The property of containing or resembling sand. |
Sanding | n | The action of sanding: |
Sanding sheet | n | A sheet of sanding paper; sandpaper. |
Sand iron | n | A sand wedge used when playing golf. |
Sandish | adj | Somewhat like the nature of sand or loose. |
Sandland | n | Desert regions, collectively the Middle East or North Africa. |
Sandless | adj | Without sand. |
Sand-like | adj | resembling sand. |
Sand lot | n | A vacant lot whrer children play. |
Sandman | n | A imaginary being who sends children to sleep by sprinkling sand in their eyes. 2. the personification of tiredness causing children's eyes to smart towards bedtime. |
Sand mole | n | A South African rodent, about the size of a rabbit. |
Sand mouse | n | The dunlin, a kind of sandpiper, a common shore bird. |
Sandpiper | n | Any of numerous small wading birds. |
Sandpit | n | A place from where sand is dug out of. 2. a hollow partly filled with sand, usu for children to play in; See 'sandbox' |
Sand rat | n | An African rodent, almost hairless |
Sand reed | n | Coarse reedy grass of the seashore. |
Sand ridge | n | A bank of sand formed by tides or currents. |
Sand runner | n | A sandpiper. |
Sands | n | Unit of time, as 'the sands of time'. 2. a desert region, as the sands of arabia. |
Sand sedge | n | A rush-like plant with creeping underground stem, growing on the seashore. |
Sand sheet | n | A flat, gently undulating plots of sand surfaced by grains that may be too large for saltation. They form approximately 40 percent of aeolian depositional surfaces. |
Sandshoe | n | A shoe with canvas, rubber, hemp etc., sole for use on sand. |
Sand soap | n | A heavy-duty, gritty soap. |
Sand star | n | A sea-animal resembling the starfish in having five distinct arms, found in pools at low tide. |
Sandstone | n | A rock composed of consolidated or compacted sand. |
Sandstorm | n | A windstorm, in or near a desert, carrying clouds of sand, |
Sand-sucker | n | A small fish allied to the halibut, the rough dab. |
Sand-washer | n | A cylindrical wire-screen for separating sand from earthy matter. |
Sand wasp | n | a digger-wasp, resembling wasps in color, but with wings not folded. |
Sand wedge | n | A golf club used for hitting a ball out of a sand trap. |
Sand-weld | vb | To weld iron with a silaceous sand. |
Sand worm | n | Any worm which dwells in sand, as the lugworm or builds a tube of sand and shell glued together to anchor it into one position, as a terebella. |
Sandwort | n | Of several plants which grow in sandy places, of the genus: Arenaria. |
Sandy | adj | Of the nature of, or like sand. 2. sprinkled with sand; arenacious. 3. of a large proportion of sand. 4. of a yellow-grey, yellowish-red color. 5. a person with sandy hair. |
Sandyish | adj | Somewhat sandy. |
Sank | vb | To assemble, bring together, come together. |
Sanking | n | An assembly, forum. |
Sann | adj | True: a variant of sooth. |
Sap | n | Juice or fluid of any kind. 2. the vital juice or fluid circulating in plants and on which the life and growth of a tree depends. 3. moisture in stone. |
Sapful | adj | Abounding in sap or moisture. |
Sap green | n | The green pigment made from the buckthorn berry. |
Sap green | adj | Of the color of the pigment extracted from the buckthorn berry. |
Saphead | n | A dolt, fool, idiot. |
Sapless | adj | Without or having sap. |
Saplessness | n | The state or condition of being sapless. |
Saplike | adj | Resembling sap, (the juice f plants). |
Sapling | n | A young tree, esp. a young fruit tree with trunks a few millimeters in diameter. 2. a young greyhound not yet entered for racing. |
Sap-monger | n | Maker and trader of beverages. |
Sappily | adv | (Slang) sentimental, mawkish. 2. (slang) silly or foolish. |
Sappiness | n | Succulence, juiciness; doltishness. |
Sappy | adj | Full of sap. 2. young and vigorous. 3. sentimental; mawkish. 4. abounding in sap; silly. |
Sap-sucker | n | A kind of wood-sucker. |
Sapwood | n | Alburnum, the exterior part of the wood of a tree next to the baek. |
Sapwood trees | n | Those from which the wood shows little difference in color between heartwood and sapwood, such as ash, aspen, holly, scyamore, white spruce. |
Sapwort | n | Oenanthe crocata. |
Sard | vb | To jape, jest, play, tricks, jeer, |
Sarding | vb n | The action of japing. |
Sark | n | A garment worn against the skin; a shirt or chemise; occasionally a night-shirt --- transfig. a supplice. 2. the action of covering or wearing a sark; sarking. |
Sark | vb | To furnish or clothe in a sark. 2. to cover a roof with wooden boards or, sarking or sarking felt. |
Sarkful | adj | "A Sarkful of Sore Bones": a sore body. |
Sate | vb | OE 'sadian' to satisfy the appetite or desiring of. 2. to fill up. |
Sateless | adj | Impossible to satisfy. |
Satem | n | The night before Saturday: Friday night. |
Saturday | n | The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in several systems; observed as Sabbath in Judaism; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday. |
Saugh | n | A rope made of twisted sallow withies. |
Saughen | adj | Pertaining to or made of sallow. 2. (fig.): soft, weak, wanting in energy. NB: also spelt: "sauchen" |
Saught | n | An agreement, covenant, reconciliation. 2. agreement, freedom from strife, peace. |
Saught | vb | To bring peace, to become reconcile. 2.. " To be at saught." --- free from strife, at peace, to reconcile. 3. to become calm or quiet. 4. to reconcile a person. |
Saughting | vn. | Peace, reconciliation, strife-free, saughtening. |
Saughtliness | n | In a state of peace, reconciliation, strifelessness. 2. in a state of agreement, calm, quietness. |
Saughy | adj | Inclined to peace, reconcile, quietness, calm. |
Saw | n | A wise saying, proverb, old said saw, tale, story. 2. discourse, speech, story, recital. 2. a decree, command, edict, ukase, fiat. |
Saw | vb | To cut, hew, slice through woods and other materials. |
Saw | phr | "Saw Down" - fell a tree using a saw. |
Saw | phr | "Saw Into" - divide into pieces using a saw. |
Saw | phr | "Saw Off" - remove part of something with a saw. |
Saw | phr | "Saw Up" - cut into pieces using a saw. |
Sawbench | n | A circular saw with a bench to support the material and advance it to saw. |
Sawbones | n | A surgeon (slang). |
Saw back | n | a gauage on the back of a saw to regulate the depth of the groove cut. |
Sawbuck | n | A sawhorse. 2. slang $10 note. |
Sawdust | n | Wood in the state of small particles, detached from a tree plant etc. in the process of sawing. 2. dust of any material produced in the process of sawing; scobicular. |
Sawdusty | adj | Abounding in or resembling sawdust. 2. of the nature of sawdust. |
Saw-edged | adj | With a jagged edge like a saw. |
Saw-falling | n | A term applied to a log as it falls from a log converted according to the judgement of the sawyer, without regard to size or quality. |
Saw-frame | n | The frame in which saw blade is set. |
Sawed-off | adj | Undersized, below average height or length; short. |
Sawer | n | One who cuts timber for a living; a sawyer. |
Sawfish | n | A large ray with a serrated snout. |
Sawfly | n | Any of various insects with saw-like ovipositor????. |
Saw-frame | n | A frame in which a saw blade is held taut; a saw-gate. |
Sawhorse | n | A trestle, etc on which wood is laid for sawing. |
Sawlike | adj | Resembling a saw. |
Sawmill | n | A place where timber is cut into logs or planks. 2. a large sawing machine. |
Sawn | n | Applied to wood from the saw without any other preparation. especially applied to boards, deals, planks. |
Sawn-off | adj | Of a small person. |
Sawpit | n | A pit over which timber is sawn by two men, one standing below, the other above while using a two-handed saw. |
Saw-sharpener | n | The greater titmouse, from its peculiar chirping like that of a saw. |
Saw-stool | n | A saw-horse, sawbuck. |
Sawtooth | adj | (Especially of a roof or a wave etc) shaped like the teeth of a saw with one steep and one slanting side. 2. of a wave form showing a slow linear rise and rapid linear fall. 2. saw-toothed. |
Saw-toothed | adj | Having serrations like a saw. 2. having teeth or tooth-like processes similar to a saw. |
Saw wood | n | (Slang) to snore. |
Saw-wort | n | Name given to several species of the genus "Serratula," namely: Serrutula tinctoria , Saussurea, Cardinuus arvenis. |
Sawyer | n | One who saws logs; especially a lumberman who fells trees by sawing, one who works in a sawmill; also spelt sawer. 2. one who controls the machinery for converting logs and timber into smaller sections. 3. a beetle estructive to softwood. |
Sawyer's handful | n | A quantity fewer than five. 2. a small handful. |
Sax | n | A knife, short sword, or dagger. 2. a chopping tool used for trimming the edges of roofing slate. 3. a writing-knife: a pen. |
Saxish | adj | Saxon, as in Saxish folk; Saxish tung. |
Saxon | n | One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. 2. Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. 3. A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony 3. The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon. |
Saxondom | n | Countries inhabited by Saxons; the Anglo-saxon world. |
Say | n | What a person says. 2. words as compared to actions. 3. the right to voice an opinion on a matter or to influence a decision. 4. avail oneself of the opportunity of expressing one's views. |
Say | phr | "And So Say All Of Us" - we all agree. |
Say | phr | "As the Saying Goes/ As They Say" - expression emphasizing that an idiom/saying has been used. |
Say | phr | "As You Say" - I agree. |
Say | phr | "Before One Can Say Jack Robinson" - very quickly. |
Say | phr | "Can't Say No" - not have the strength of mind, or good sense to refuse an invitation or proposal. |
Say | phr | "Don't Say" - expression of annoyance, surprise. |
Say | phr | "Don't Say Much for" - expressing inferior or low quality of something. |
Say | phr | "Do You Mean To Say" - do you really mean. |
Say | phr | "Have No Say (in)" - have no authority /opportunity to express one's view. |
Say | phr | "Have Nothing to Say" - be unable to account for one's actions or behavior. |
Say | phr | "Have One's Say" - express one's point of view (forcefully). |
Say | phr | "Have Something to Say" - be able to account for one's actions or behavior. |
Say | phr | "How Say You" - addressed to a jury as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. |
Say | phr | "I Cannot/Can't Say" - I do not know. |
Say | phr | "I Couldn't Say" - I don't know. |
Say | phr | "I Dare Say" - I suppose, i venture to say. |
Say | phr | "If I May Say So" - if you want to know my point of view. |
Say | phr | "I'll Say" - emphatically yes. |
Say | phr | "I'm Not Only Saying that/this" - I really mean it. |
Say | phr | "I Must Say" - I must emphasize. |
Say | phr | "I Say" - expression of surprize, or to attract somebody's attention. |
Say | phr | "It is Said" - the rumor is that. |
Say | phr | 'It Goes Without Saying" - you can assume, it need not be mentioned. |
Say | phr | "I Wouldn't Say" - I don't mean exactly. |
Say | phr | "I Wouldn't Say No" - I would gladly agree. |
Say | phr | "I Wouldn't Say That" - I disagree |
Say | phr | "Not to Say" - even, perhaps, almost. |
Say | phr | "Say Again" - used instead of beg your pardon when someone wants something to be repeated. |
Say | phr | "Say a Mouthful" - say something very true, perceptive, or something a listener or reader thoroughly agrees with. |
Say | phr | "Say Cheese" - mime the word 'cheese' so as to get a natural-looking smile. |
Say | phr | "Say for Oneself" - say by the way of conversation, oratory |
Say | phr | "Say Goodbye" - wish someone farewell on their leaving. 2. to separate from somebody or something. |
Say | phr | "Say It" - don't hold back - say what you want to say. |
Say | phr | "Says Me" - (colloquially) - I say so; on my authority. |
Say | phr | "Say No More" - I do not need to be persuaded. |
Say | phr | "Say Nothing of (it0" - not to mention; it is assumed. |
Say | phr | "Say One's Last Words" - give one's last command, opinion etc which will not be changed or said again. |
Say | phr | "Say the Least" - sating somthing, describing something less forcefully, critically than one easily could. 2. put it mildly. |
Say | phr | "Say the Right Thing" - be tactful in bringing about an intended result. |
Say | phr | "Say the Wrong Thing" - be tactful in bringing about an unintended result |
Say | phr | "Say the Word" - say that you agree or give permission. 2. say what you require. |
Say | phr | "Say to" - to have opinion; to think of. |
Say | phr | "Say What" - without overstating. |
Say | phr | "Say When" - indicate when enough drink or food has been served. |
Say | phr | "Say You" - according to you. |
Say | phr | "That is to Say" - in other words; more explicitly. |
Say | phr | "There's no Saying" - one cannot even guess. |
Say | phr | "They Say That" - it is rumored that. |
Say | phr | "What Would You Say to?" - would you like. |
Say | phr | "When All Is Said and Done - after all, in the long run. |
Say | phr | "You Can Say That Again" - I agree with you emphatically. |
Say | phr | "You Don't Say " - an expression of amazement or disbelief. 2. is that a fact. |
Sayer | n | One who says; a professional reader; a poet, narrator, speaker. |
Saying | n | Utterance, enunciation, recitation. 2. something commonly said; a common remark, proverb, maxim, adage. 3. repetition of a spell, incantation. |
Saying | phr | "As the Saying Goes" - an expression used introducing a proverb, cliche. |
Saying | phr | "Goes Without Saying" - to be too well known or obvious to mention. |
Saying | phr | "There's No Saying" - it is impossible to know. |
Say-so | n | An unfounded assertion or unsupported decision, on the 'authority' of. 2. the right or power of authorization; according to the authority of that person. |
Say-what | n | A definition. |
Scathe | n | One who works harmer, a malefactor, wretch, fiend, 2. hurt, harm, damage, physical hurt. 3. Something which wroughts injury and harm, supposingly produced from witchcraft. 4. an injury, damage or loss from which legal compensation is claimed; also cost or expenses incurred by the claiming. |
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