Quotes: S

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Sabbath

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
— Ex. xx. 8.
Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb.

Saber

You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission.

Sable

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.
Sabled all in black the shady sky.
— G. Fletcher.

Sacerdotal

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority.

Sack

Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson.
— L. Wallace.
The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.

Sackcloth

Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.
— 2 Sam. iii. 31.
Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe.
— Sandys.

Sacrament

I'll take the sacrament on't.
God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud . . . and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide his people through their portion of sorrows.

Sacramental

The sacramental host of God's elect.

Sacramentary

Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries.

Sacramentize

Both to preach and sacramentize.

Sacred

Smit with the love of sacred song.
Such neighbor nearness to our sacred [royal] blood Should nothing privilege him.
Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven.
— Cowley.
Secrets of marriage still are sacred held.
A temple, sacred to the queen of love.
But, to destruction sacred and devote.

Sacrifice

Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon.
Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice.
My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be.
Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid.
Condemned to sacrifice his childish years To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum . . . for the sake of . . . making this boy his heir.
O teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed.

Sacrilege

And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig.
Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the spoils of sacrilege.

Sacrilegious

Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.

Sad

Yet of that art they can not waxen sad, For unto them it is a bitter sweet.
His hand, more sad than lump of lead.
Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.
Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors.
Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman.
Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties.
— Ld. Berners.
First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.
How it sadded the minister's spirits!
— H. Peters.

Sadden

Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.

Saddle

Abraham rose up early, . . . and saddled his ass.
— Gen. xxii. 3.

Saddletree

For saddletree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin.

Sadly

In go the spears full sadly in arest.
To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came.

Sadness

Her sadness and her benignity.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.

Safe

They escaped all safe to land.
— Acts xxvii. 44.
Established in a safe, unenvied throne.
The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.
But Banquo's safe? Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides.

Safe-conduct

He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love.

Safeguard

Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne.
— Granville.

Safety

Up led by thee, Into the heaven I have presumed, An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down, Return me to my native element.
Would there were any safety in thy sex, That I might put a thousand sorrows off, And credit thy repentance!
Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return.

Saffron

And in Latyn I speak a wordes few, To saffron with my predication.

Sag

The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.

Saga

And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old.

Sagacious

Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our apprehension.
Only sagacious heads light on these observations, and reduce them into general propositions.

Sagacity

Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell.
Natural sagacity improved by generous education.
— V. Knox.

Sage

All you sage counselors, hence!
Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counseled the general to retreat.
At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come, And guides the Eastern sages.

Sail

Behoves him now both sail and oar.
Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails.
As is a winged messenger of heaven, . . . When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air.
A thousand ships were manned to sail the sea.
Sublime she sails The aerial space, and mounts the wingèd gales.

Saint

Them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints.
— 1 Cor. i. 2.
Then shall thy saints, unmixed, and from the impure Far separate, circling thy holy mount, Unfeigned hallelujahs to thee sing.
A large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beatified, though never sainted.
Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.

Sainted

Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.

Sainthood

It was supposed he felt no call to any expedition that might endanger the reign of the military sainthood.

Saintlike

Glossed over only with a saintlike show.

Saintly

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity.

Sake

Moved with wrath and shame and ladies' sake.
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake.
— Gen. viii. 21.
Will he draw out, For anger's sake, finite to infinite?
Knowledge is for the sake of man, and not man for the sake of knowledge.

Saker

On the bastions were planted culverins and sakers.
The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart.

Salaam

Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the exciseman just as he was folding up that letter.
— Prof. Wilson.
I have salaamed and kowtowed to him.
— H. James.

Salad

Leaves eaten raw are termed salad.

Salamander

I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years.
Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that on hot coals, it dieth immediately.

Salary

This is hire and salary, not revenge.

Sale

They shall have ready sale for them.

Salient

He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action.
He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.

Salique

She fulmined out her scorn of laws salique.

Sallenders

On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called “mallenders” in the fore leg, and “sallenders” in the hind leg.
— Youatt.

Sallet

Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved.

Sallow

And bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
— Fawkes.
The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.
July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields.

Sally

They break the truce, and sally out by night.
The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host.
Sallies were made by the Spaniards, but they were beaten in with loss.
Every one shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that . . . goes still round in the same track.
The unaffected mirth with which she enjoyed his sallies.
The excursion was esteemed but a sally of youth.

Saloon

The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls.
We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.]
— J. P. Mahaffy.

Salt

Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us.
I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
Ye are the salt of the earth.
— Matt. v. 13.
His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt.
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here.

Saltation

Continued his saltation without pause.
We greatly suspect that nature does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms.

Saltimbanco

Saltimbancos, quacksalvers, and charlatans.

Salue

There was no “good day” and no saluyng.

Salutation

In all public meetings or private addresses, use those forms of salutation, reverence, and decency usual amongst the most sober persons.
Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
— Luke xi. 43.
When Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb.
— Luke i. 41.
I shall not trouble my reader with the first salutes of our three friends.

Salute

I salute you with this kingly title.
You have the prettiest tip of a finger . . . I must take the freedom to salute it.

Salutiferous

Innumerable powers, all of them salutiferous.
— Cudworth.

Salvability

In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization.
— A. V. G. Allen.

Salvage

Salvage of life from a British ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods.

Salvation

To earn salvation for the sons of men.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
— 2. Cor. vii. 10.
Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day.
— Ex. xiv. 13.

Salve

By this that stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salved them.
Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores.
But Ebranck salved both their infamies With noble deeds.
What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?

Salvo

They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations.
— Eikon Basilike.

Same

Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
— Ps. cii. 27.
The ethereal vigor is in all the same.
What ye know, the same do I know.
— Job. xiii. 2.
Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve.
Bees like the same odors as we do.
— Lubbock.
[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend.

Samian

Fill high the cup with Samian wine.

Samite

In silken samite she was light arrayed.

Samphire

Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!

Sample

Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His sample followed.
I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.

Sampler

Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over.
— E. E. Hale.

Sanatory

Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc.

Sanctification

God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
— 2 Thess. ii. 13.

Sanctify

God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
— Gen. ii. 3.
Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments.
— Lev. viii. 30.
Sanctify them through thy truth.
— John xvii. 17.
A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act.
— Eikon Basilike.
The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.

Sanctimony

Her pretense is a pilgrimage; . . . which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished.

Sanction

The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony.
Would have counseled, or even sanctioned, such perilous experiments.

Sanctity

To sanctity she made no pretense, and, indeed, narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion.
About him all the sanctities of heaven.

Sanctuary

These laws, whoever made them, bestowed on temples the privilege of sanctuary.
The admirable works of painting were made fuel for the fire; but some relics of it took sanctuary under ground, and escaped the common destiny.

Sand

That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles.
The sands are numbered that make up my life.

Sandal

Sails of silk and ropes of sandal.

Sandaled

The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet.

Sanguinary

We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary.
— Broome.

Sanguine

Of his complexion he was sanguine.
Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
In sanguine and in pes he clad was all.

Sanguinely

I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does.

Sanitation

How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century.
— H. Hartshorne.

Sans

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Sap

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind.
Both assaults are carried on by sapping.
— Tatler.

Sapid

Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet.

Sapidity

Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another.
— M. S. Lamson.

Sapidness

When the Israelites fancied the sapidness and relish of the fleshpots, they longed to taste and to return.

Sapience

Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience.

Sapient

Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.

Sapiential

The sapiential books of the Old [Testament].

Sapless

Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.

Sapor

There is some sapor in all aliments.

Sapphire

Of rubies, sapphires, and of pearlés white.

Sappy

When he had passed this weak and sappy age.
— Hayward.

Saraband

She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab.

Sarcasm

The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration.
— Sir J. Reynolds.

Sarcastic

What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world!

Sarcenet

Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye.

Sardonic

Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian.

Sartorial

Our legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages.

Sashery

Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia.

Sassarara

Out she shall pack, with a sassarara.

Satan

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
— Luke x. 18.

Satanic

Detest the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined.
— Dr. T. Dwight.

Satchel

The whining schoolboy with his satchel.

Sate

Crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities.
But sate an equal guest at every board.

Satiate

These [smells] rather woo the sense than satiate it.
I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood.
— Eikon Basilike.
Content with science in the vale of peace.
His whole felicity is endless strife; No peace, no satisfaction, crowns his life.
— Beaumont.
He may be satiated, but not satisfied.
— Norris.

Satiety

In all pleasures there is satiety.
— Hakewill.
But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.

Satin

Cloths of gold and satins rich of hue.

Satirist

The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread terror through the Whig ranks.

Satirize

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Satisfaction

The mind having a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction of any of its desires.
We shall make full satisfaction.
Die he, or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.

Satisfactive

Satisfactive discernment of fish.

Satisfactory

A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ.
— Bp. Sanderson.

Satisfy

Death shall . . . with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying.

Saturate

Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind.
Dries his feathers saturate with dew.
The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs.

Saturnian

Augustus, born to bring Saturnian times.

Satyr

Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long.

Sauce

High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
— Sir S. Baker.
Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
— Beverly.
Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison!
Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.
I'll sauce her with bitter words.

Saucebox

Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here!

Sauciness

Your sauciness will jest upon my love.

Saucy

Am I not protector, saucy priest?
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs.

Saunter

One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
— Masson.
That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.

Savable

In the person prayed for there ought to be the great disposition of being in a savable condition.

Savage

Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.
What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
— E. D. Griffin.
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.

Savageness

Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity.

Savagery

A like work of primeval savagery.
— C. Kingsley.
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

Savanna

Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods.
— Dampier.

Save

God save all this fair company.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me.
— Matt. xiv. 30.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
— 1 Tim. i. 15.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat.
I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit.
Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
Five times received I forty stripes save one.
— 2 Cor. xi. 24.

Saving

He is the saving strength of his anointed.
— Ps. xxviii. 8.
None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
— Neh. iv. 23.
And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
— Rev. ii. 17.
Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.

Savingly

Savingly born of water and the Spirit.
— Waterland.

Savor

I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things.
Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
— Baxter.
She shall no savor have therein but lite.
This savors not much of distraction.
I have rejected everything that savors of party.
By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling.
That cuts us off from hope, and savors only Rancor and pride, impatience and despite.

Savory

The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb.

Saw

His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ.
[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.

Say

If those principal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit.
Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
He found a sword of better say.
Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord!
His garment neither was of silk nor say.
Arise, and say how thou camest here.
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say?
After which shall be said or sung the following hymn.
— Bk. of Com. Prayer.
But what it is, hard is to say.
Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.
To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?
He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap.
That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear.

Sayer

Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings.
— Jeffrey.

Saying

Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled.

Scabbard

Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade.

Scabrous

His verse is scabrous and hobbling.

Scaffold

Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.

Scald

Mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
— Cowley.
A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.

Scale

Long time in even scale The battle hung.
The scales are turned; her kindness weighs no more Now than my vows.
Scaling his present bearing with his past.
Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave.
Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.
There is a certain scale of duties . . . which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
Oft have I scaled the craggy oak.
Satan from hence, now on the lower stair, That scaled by steps of gold to heaven-gate, Looks down with wonder.

Scall

It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head.
— Lev. xiii. 30.

Scalp

By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
— J. S. Wells.

Scamp

A workman is said to scamp his work when he does it in a superficial, dishonest manner.
— Wedgwood.
Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute.
— T. Hughes.

Scamper

The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse.
— S. Sharpe.

Scan

Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand.
The actions of men in high stations are all conspicuous, and liable to be scanned and sifted.

Scandal

O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
[I] have brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt In feeble hearts.
You must not put another scandal on him.
My known virtue is from scandal free.
I do fawn on men and hug them hard And after scandal them.

Scandalize

I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things.
The congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated.
To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order.

Scandalous

Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any.

Scandalously

His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the dignity of his station.
Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice.

Scant

His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.
— Ridley.
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted.
I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.

Scantily

His mind was very scantily stored with materials.

Scantle

All their pay Must your discretion scantle; keep it back.

Scantling

Such as exceed not this scantling; -- to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years.
Reducing them to narrow scantlings.

Scantly

Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work.

Scanty

His dominions were very narrow and scanty.
Now scantier limits the proud arch confine.
In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.

Scape

Out of this prison help that we may scape.
I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.

Scar

This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body.
— T. Burnet.
Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
His cheeks were deeply scarred.
O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

Scarce

You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.
The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.
With a scarce well-lighted flame.
The eldest scarcely five year was of age.
Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom.

Scarceness

A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.
Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity.
— Rambler.
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.
— Collier.

Scare

The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.

Scarecrow

A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat.

Scarf

Put on your hood and scarf.
With care about the banners, scarves, and staves.
— R. Browning.

Scarifier

You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean.

Scarlet

All her household are clothed with scarlet.
— Prov. xxxi. 21.
The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.

Scarmage

Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms.

Scarp

From scarped cliff and quarried stone.
Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain.

Scarring

We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here.

Scath

But she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe.
Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath.
Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction.

Scathe

As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.
Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.

Scathless

He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless.

Scatter

And some are scattered all the floor about.
Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly, Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy.
Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

Scaturient

A pen so scaturient and unretentive.

Scene

My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
The world is a vast scene of strife.
— J. M. Mason.
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait for some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offense, and careless of giving it.

Scenery

Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

Scenic

All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically.

Scent

Methinks I scent the morning air.
Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.
Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone.
With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial.
He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.

Scentful

The scentful osprey by the rock had fished.
— W. Browne.

Scentless

The scentless and the scented rose.

Scepsis

Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant.
— J. Martineau.

Scepter

And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand.
— Esther v. 2.
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.
— Gen. xlix. 10.
To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends.
— Tickell.

Scheme

The appearance and outward scheme of things.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
— J. Edwards.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.
A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief; 'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours; I founded palaces, and planted bowers.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.
— G. Stuart.

Schemer

Schemers and confederates in guilt.
— Paley.

Schism

Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity.
— Eikon Basilike.

Scholar

I am no breeching scholar in the schools.

Scholarship

A man of my master's . . . great scholarship.
Any other house of scholarship.

Scholasticism

The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction.
— J. P. Smith.

Scholiast

No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses.

Scholion

A judgment which follows immediately from another is sometimes called a corollary, or consectary . . . One which illustrates the science where it appears, but is not an integral part of it, is a scholion.
— Abp. Thomson (Laws of Thought).

School

Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
— Acts xix. 9.
As he sat in the school at his primer.
How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day?
At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools.
What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?
— Buckminster.
Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians.
His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
— A. S. Hardy.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.
The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze.

Schooling

Schooling species like the herring and menhaden.
— G. B. Goode.

Schoolmaster

Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
— Brougham.
The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ.
— Gal. iii. 24.

Science

If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.
Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy.
All this new science that men lere [teach].
Science is . . . a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter, the character of real truth.
Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy.
— J. Morley.
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
His science, coolness, and great strength.
— G. A. Lawrence.

Scientific

Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences.

Scientifically

It is easier to believe than to be scientifically instructed.

Scintillate

As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion.

Scintillation

These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided.

Sciolist

These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance.
A master were lauded and sciolists shent.
— R. Browning.

Scise

The wicked steel scised deep in his right side.

Scoff

With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
God's better gift they scoff at and refuse.
To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest.

Scold

Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold.
She is an irksome, brawling scold.

Sconce

No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches.
I must get a sconce for my head.
To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel.
Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.
Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't.
— Marston.

Scoop

Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
— J. R. Drake.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.

Scope

Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or qualify the laws As to your soul seems good.
The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church.
Give him line and scope.
In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is given to the operation of laws which man must always fail to discern the reasons of.
Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind.
An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope.

Scorch

Summer drouth or singèd air Never scorch thy tresses fair.
Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
— Rev. xvi. 8.
The fire that scorches me to death.
Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching.
He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.

Score

Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
He parted well, and paid his score.
But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score.
— Hudibras.
You act your kindness in Cydaria's score.
Amongst three or four score hogsheads.
At length the queen took upon herself to grant patents of monopoly by scores.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?
Let us score their backs.
A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand.
Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten.
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score.

Scorn

Scorn at first makes after love the more.
And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an aeon to be born.
Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
— Ps. xliv. 13.
I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.
This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
— C. J. Smith.
His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously.
He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me.

Scorner

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
— Prov. iii. 34.

Scornful

Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.
The scornful mark of every open eye.

Scorpion

My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
— 1 Kings xii. 11.

Scorse

And recompensed them with a better scorse.

Scot

Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along.

Scot-free

Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free.
Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland.
— A. Lang.

Scotch

We have scotched the snake, not killed it.

Scotia

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!

Scotticism

That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis.
— Masson.

Scoundrel

Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.

Scour

[I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain.
If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch.
Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.
So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
If you catch the two sole denizens [trout] of a particular scour, you will find another pair installed in their place to-morrow.
— Grant Allen.

Scourer

In those days of highwaymen and scourers.

Scourge

Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
Sharp scourges of adversity.
What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman?
— Acts xxii. 25.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
— Heb. xii. 6.
To scourge and impoverish the people.
— Brougham.

Scourger

The West must own the scourger of the world.

Scout

So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.
Scouts each coast light-armèd scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe.
While the rat is on the scout.
Take more men, And scout him round.
With obscure wing Scout far and wide into the realm of night.

Scowl

She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
With solemn phiz, and critic scowl.
— Lloyd.
A ruddy storm, whose scowl Made heaven's radiant face look foul.
— Crashaw.

Scrabble

Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.
David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
— 1. Sam. xxi. 13.

Scrag

Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver.
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
— Pall Mall Mag.

Scramble

Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
Scarcity [of money] enhances its price, and increases the scramble.

Scrambling

A huge old scrambling bedroom.

Scrannel

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.

Scrap

I have no materials -- not a scrap.

Scrape

I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
— Ezek. xxvi. 4.
The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers.
He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously.
— G. W. Cable.
The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through thick and thin has led him into many of these scrapes.
— Bp. Warburton.

Scrappy

A dreadfully scrappy dinner.

Scratch

Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.
— Grew.
Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head, and bite your nails.
Dull, tame things, . . . that will neither bite nor scratch.
The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work.
— Moxon.
These nails with scratches deform my breast.
God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this.

Scrawl

His name, scrawled by himself.
Though with a golden pen you scrawl.
The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible.
You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you.

Scream

I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before.

Screaming

The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry.

Screed

The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind.

Screen

Your leavy screens throw down.
Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high commands.

Screw

But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.
Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France.
— swift.
He screwed his face into a hardened smile.

Scribble

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite.
Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble.

Scribbler

The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine.
— Granville.

Scribbling

Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!

Scribe

With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet.
— A. M. Mayer.

Scrine

But laid them up in immortal scrine.

Scrip

And in requital ope his leathern scrip.
Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.
Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.

Scriptorium

Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated.
— J. R. Green.

Scripture

I have put it in scripture and in remembrance.
Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin.
— Ld. Berners.
There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.
Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity.
— Buckminster.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture.

Scripturist

The Puritan was a Scripturist, -- a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.
— Palfrey.

Scritch

Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch.

Scrivener

The writer better scrivener than clerk.

Scrofulous

Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished.

Scroll

The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll.
— Isa. xxxiv. 4.
Here is the scroll of every man's name.

Scrub

We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

Scruple

I will not bate thee a scruple.
He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples.
We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may.
Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship.
Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of heretics than of gentiles.
Letters which did still scruple many of them.
— E. Symmons.

Scrupulosity

The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires.
Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath.

Scrupulous

Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous.
Equality of two domestic powers Breed scrupulous faction.
The justice of that cause ought to be evident; not obscure, not scrupulous.

Scrutinize

Whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize.
— Ayliffe.
Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
— G. W. Cable.

Scrutiny

They that have designed exactness and deep scrutiny have taken some one part of nature.
Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view And narrower scrutiny.

Scud

The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans.
The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
— Beaconsfield.
Borne on the scud of the sea.
The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon.
— Sir S. Baker.

Scuffle

A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.
— Eikon Basilike.
The dog leaps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned.

Scullion

The meanest scullion that followed his camp.

Sculpture

There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

Scum

Some to remove the scum as it did rise.
The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people.
You that scum the molten lead.
— Dryden & Lee.
Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over.
— A. K. H. Boyd.

Scumbling

Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards.
— L. Wallace.

Scurf

The scurf is worn away of each committed crime.
There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire Shone with a glossy scurf.

Scurrile

The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter.
— Cowley.
A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than your father's ancient name.

Scurrility

Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility.
Interrupting prayers and sermons with clamor and scurrility.

Scurrilous

The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment.

Scurvy

That scurvy custom of taking tobacco.
[He] spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms.

Scut

How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, whereas that part in others attains no higher than a scut.
My doe with the black scut.

Scutal

A good example of these scutal monstrosities.
— Cussans.

Scutcheon

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.

Scutcheoned

Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old.

Scutter

A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.
— Kipling.

Scuttle

With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.

Scythe

The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass.
Whatever thing The scythe of Time mows down.
Time had not scythed all that youth begun.

Scythed

Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled.
— Glover.

Sdeign

But either sdeigns with other to partake.

Sea

I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
Ambiguous between sea and land The river horse and scaly crocodile.
He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof.
— 2 Chron. iv. 2.
All the space . . . was one sea of heads.

Sea marge

You are near the sea marge of a land teeming with life.
— J. Burroughs.

Sea tang

To their nests of sedge and sea tang.

Seal

Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud.
Like a red seal is the setting sun On the good and the evil men have done.
And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.
Seal up your lips, and give no words but “mum”.
If a man once married desires a second helpmate . . . she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church.
— H. Stansbury.
I will seal unto this bond.

Seam

Precepts should be so finely wrought together . . . that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
Seamed o'er with wounds which his own saber gave.
Later their lips began to parch and seam.
— L. Wallace.

Seamless

Christ's seamless coat, all of a piece.

Seamy

Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.

Sear

I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.
I'm seared with burning steel.
It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience.
The discipline of war, being a discipline in destruction of life, is a discipline in callousness. Whatever sympathies exist are seared.
— H. Spencer.

Seared

A seared conscience and a remorseless heart.

Season

The several seasons of the year in their beauty.
The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs.
Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.
— Acts xiii. 11.
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
He is fit and seasoned for his passage.
You season still with sports your serious hours.
The proper use of wit is to season conversation.
Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles.

Seasonable

Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction.
— Ecclus. xxxv. 20.

Seasoning

Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings.

Seat

And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
— Matt. xxi. 12.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
— Rev. ii. 13.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.
They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills.

Seaward

Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece.
— G. W. Cable.

Secern

Averroes secerns a sense of titillation, and a sense of hunger and thirst.

Seclude

Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves.

Seclusion

O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys!

Second

And he slept and dreamed the second time.
— Gen. xli. 5.
May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him.
Man An angel's second, nor his second long.
Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset.
Give second, and my love Is everlasting thine.
— J. Fletcher.
In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.
Sin is seconded with sin.
We have supplies to second our attempt.
In human works though labored on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use.

Second-sight

He was seized with a fit of second-sight.
Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second-sight.
— Trumbull.

Secondarily

God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers.
— 1 Cor. xii. 28.

Secondariness

Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love.
— Mrs. Oliphant.

Secondary

Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it.
Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four.
Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary.

Secondhand

They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge.

Secre

To be holden stable and secre.

Secrecy

The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married.
It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show.

Secret

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us.
— Deut. xxix. 29.
There, secret in her sapphire cell, He with the Nais wont to dwell.
— Fenton.
Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.
They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.
— Cudworth.
To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.
— Rambler.
All secrets of the deep, all nature's works.
Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
— Prov. ix. 17.

Secretarial

Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training.

Secretary

That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance with the secretaries, and employed men of ambassadors.

Secrete

Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
— Carpenter.

Sect

He beareth the sign of poverty, And in that sect our Savior saved all mankind.
— Piers Plowman.
As of the sect of which that he was born, He kept his lay, to which that he was sworn.
The cursed sect of that detestable and false prophet Mohammed.
— Fabyan.
As concerning this sect [Christians], we know that everywhere it is spoken against.
— Acts xxviii. 22.

Sectary

I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries.

Section

It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections.
The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics.

Sectional

All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition.
— Story.

Sectionalize

The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties.
— Nicolay & Hay (Life of Lincoln).

Secular

The secular year was kept but once a century.
New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy.
I speak of folk in secular estate.

Secularity

A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible.

Secularize

At the Reformation the abbey was secularized.
— W. Coxe.

Secundo-geniture

The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain.

Secure

But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
Confidence then bore thee on, secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial.
I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
— T. Dick.

Securely

His daring foe . . . securely him defied.

Securement

Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment.
— C. A. Ives.

Security

His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, From firm security.
Some . . . alleged that we should have no security for our trade.
Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.

Sedate

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show.

Sedentary

Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
— Beaconsfield.
The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
— Spectator.

Sederunt

'T is pity we have not Burns's own account of that long sederunt.
— Prof. Wilson.

Sedged

With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.

Sedgy

On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank.

Sedition

In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.
— Gal. v. 19, 20.

Seduce

For me, the gold of France did not seduce.

Seducer

He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love.

Seductive

This may enable us to understand how seductive is the influence of example.

Sedulity

The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter.
— Feltham.

Sedulous

What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

See

Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see.
I will now turn aside, and see this great sight.
— Ex. iii. 3.
Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren.
— Gen. xxxvii. 14.
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly.
— Mark xii. 34.
Who's so gross That seeth not this palpable device?
I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for contradicting him.
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
— 1 Sam. xv. 35.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
— Ps. xc. 15.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
— John viii. 51.
Improvement in wisdom and prudence by seeing men.
Whereas I was blind, now I see.
— John ix. 25.
For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
— John ix. 39.
Many sagacious persons will find us out, . . . and see through all our fine pretensions.
See that ye fall not out by the way.
— Gen. xlv. 24.
Cassio's a proper man, let me see now, - To get his place.

Seed

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.
— Gen. i. 11.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed.
Of mortal seed they were not held.
Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs.
A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes.

Seediness

What is called seediness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged.
— J. S. Blackie.

Seedsman

The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

Seedtime

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
— Gen. viii. 22.

Seedy

Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law.

Seeing

Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me?
— Gen. xxvi. 27.

Seek

The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren.
— Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
— Luke xi. 16.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal.
— Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.
— Isa. xxxiv. 16.
To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.

Seeker

A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers.
— Bullokar.

Seel

Fools climb to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
— J. Reading.
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.
Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel.

Seem

Thou picture of what thou seem'st.
All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death.
— Prov. xiv. 12.
A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake.
Ham. Ay, madam, it is common. Queen. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”

Seemer

Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.

Seeming

My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.
These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long.
Nothing more clear unto their seeming.
His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming.

Seemingly

This the father seemingly complied with.

Seemly

He had a seemly nose.
I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons.
Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
Suddenly a men before him stood, Not rustic as before, but seemlier clad, As one in city or court or place bred.

Seen

Well seen in every science that mote be.
Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men.

Seep

Water seeps up through the sidewalks.
— G. W. Cable.

Seesaw

He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact.
He seesaws himself to and fro.
— Ld. Lytton.

Seethe

Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
— 2 Kings iv. 38.
A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam.
— G. W. Cable.

Seether

Like burnished gold the little seether shone.

Segregate

They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations.

Seigniorage

If government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holders, by making a charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving back rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called “levying a seigniorage”), the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bullion.
— J. S. Mill.

Seigniorize

As proud as he that seigniorizeth hell.

Seigniory

O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English.

Seize

For by no means the high bank he could seize.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?
At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's sons.
Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul.
As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak.

Seizure

Make o'er thy honor by a deed of trust, And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.

Selah

Beyond the fact that Selah is a musical term, we know absolutely nothing about it.
— Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)

Selcouth

[She] wondered much at his so selcouth case.

Seldom

Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one.

Select

A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
The pious chief . . . A hundred youths from all his train selects.

Selective

This selective providence of the Almighty.

Selectman

The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an “order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;” the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors.
— Palfrey.

Self

To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first.
At that self moment enters Palamon.
A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world.
The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
She was beauty's self.

Self-approving

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.

Self-centered

There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved.

Self-confidence

A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him.
— Beaconsfield.

Self-examinant

The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good.

Self-government

It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, -- the system that lets in all to participate in the councels that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.
— D. Webster.

Self-love

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.

Self-motion

Matter is not induced with self-motion.
— Cheyne.

Self-neglecting

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.

Self-posited

These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited.

Self-positing

The self-positing of the molecules.
— R. Watts.

Self-sufficient

Neglect of friends can never be proved rational till we prove the person using it omnipotent and self-sufficient, and such as can never need any mortal assistance.

Selfish

They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions.
— Cudworth.
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue.
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.
— Fleming.

Selfishness

Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
— Sir J. Mackintosh.

Selfless

Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood.

Selfsame

His servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
— Matt. viii. 13.

Sell

He left his lofty steed with golden self.
If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
— Matt. xix. 21.
I am changed; I'll go sell all my land.
You would have sold your king to slaughter.
I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you.

Semblance

Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were.
Only semblances or imitations of shells.

Semblant

His flatterers made semblant of weeping.

Semblative

And all is semblative a woman's part.

Semble

Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.

Seminal

The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
— Hare.

Seminary

But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds.

Sempstress

Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts.

Senate

The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass.
— Dr. W. Smith.

Senator

The duke and senators of Venice greet you.

Send

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
— Jer. xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
— John viii. 42.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
— Esther viii. 10.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
— Ps. xliii. 3.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
— Deut. xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
— Matt. v. 45.
God send your mission may bring back peace.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
— 2 Kings vi. 32.

Sendal

Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver?

Seneschal

Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.

Senior

Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan.

Sensate

As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.
— R. Hooke.

Sensation

Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling. . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other.
The sensation caused by the appearance of that work is still remembered by many.
— Brougham.

Sense

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate.
The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest.
In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover.
High disdain from sense of injured merit.
He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.
I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom.
— Roscommon.
The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
— Neh. viii. 8.
I think 't was in another sense.
Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
— L' Estrange.
Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?

Senseless

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things.
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
They were a senseless, stupid race.
They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late.

Sensibility

The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility.
His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride.
— Marshall.
This adds greatly to my sensibility.

Sensible

Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.
The disgrace was more sensible than the pain.
Any very sensible effect upon the prices of things.
— A. Smith.
Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
He [man] can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
They are now sensible it would have been better to comply than to refuse.
Now a sensible man, by and by a fool.
Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
— Krauth-Fleming.
This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
— Burton.

Sensibleness

The sensibleness of the divine presence.
— Hallywell.

Sensibly

What remains past cure, Bear not too sensibly.

Sensitive

She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.

Sensitivity

Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling.
— Hickok.

Sensitizer

The sensitizer should be poured on the middle of the sheet.
— Wilis & Clements (The Platinotype).

Sensual

Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies.
Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
— Jude 19.
The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine.
No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity.

Sensuality

Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality.
They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality.

Sensualize

By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized.
— T. H. Skinner.

Sensuous

To this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Sentence

Tales of best sentence and most solace.
The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.
My sentence is for open war.
That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
Received the sentence of the law.
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
A king . . . understanding dark sentences.
— Dan. vii. 23.
Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

Sententious

How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious!

Sentience

An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
— Earle.

Sentiment

The word sentiment, agreeably to the use made of it by our best English writers, expresses, in my own opinion very happily, those complex determinations of the mind which result from the cooperation of our rational powers and of our moral feelings.
— Stewart.
Alike to council or the assembly came, With equal souls and sentiments the same.
Sentiments of philosophers about the perception of external objects.
— Reid.
Sentiment, as here and elsewhere employed by Reid in the meaning of opinion (sententia), is not to be imitated.
Mr. Hume sometimes employs (after the manner of the French metaphysicians) sentiment as synonymous with feeling; a use of the word quite unprecedented in our tongue.
— Stewart.
Less of sentiment than sense.

Sentimental

Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line.
— Whitehead.
A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness.
— Whately.

Sentinel

The sentinels who paced the ramparts.

Sentry

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.

Separable

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold.

Separate

From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me.
— Gen. xiii. 9.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
— Rom. viii. 35.
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem.
— Acts xiii. 2.
Him that was separate from his brethren.
— Gen. xlix. 26.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere.
— Heb. vii. 26.

Separatist

Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting of separatist .

Seppuku

Seppuku, or hara-kiri, also came into vogue.
— W. E. Griffis.

Sept

The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
— S. Lover.

Septentrion

Both East West, South and Septentrioun.

Septuagesimal

Our abridged and septuagesimal age.

Sepulcher

The stony entrance of this sepulcher.
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher.
— John xx. 1.
And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

Sepulchral

This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone.
— H. Sweet.

Sepulture

Where we may royal sepulture prepare.
Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason.

Sequacious

Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre.
In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious.
The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day.
Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets.

Sequel

O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.

Sequela

Sequelae, or thoughts suggested by the preceding aphorisms.

Sequence

How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession?
Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.
Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose.
— Shipley.

Sequent

What to this was sequent Thou knowest already.

Sequester

Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics.
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
When men most sequester themselves from action.
A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation.
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.

Sequestered

Along the cool, sequestered vale of life.

Sequestration

Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had.

Seraglio

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins.

Seraph

As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns.

Serbonian

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . . Where armies whole have sunk.

Sere

But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere.

Serenata

Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his pround fair.

Serene

The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
To their master is denied To share their sweet serene.
Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie To raise his being, and serene his soul.

Serenely

Now setting Phœbus shone serenely bright.

Serenity

A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble.
I can not see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity.

Serf

In England, at least from the reign of Henry II, one only, and that the inferior species [of villeins], existed . . . But by the customs of France and Germany, persons in this abject state seem to have been called serfs, and distinguished from villeins, who were only bound to fixed payments and duties in respect of their lord, though, as it seems, without any legal redress if injured by him.

Sergeant

The sergeant of the town of Rome them sought.
The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those men go.
— Acts xvi. 35.
This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

Series

During some years his life a series of triumphs.

Serious

He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease.
The holy Scriptures bring to our ears the most serious things in the world.

Sermon

This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.
His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught.
What needeth it to sermon of it more?

Sermonize

Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep?

Serpentine

Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine.

Serpentize

The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive.

Serried

Nor seemed it to relax their serried files.

Servant

Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country.
— D. Webster.
Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt.
— Deut. v. 15.
In my time a servant was I one.
Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves.

Serve

God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit.
— Rom. i. 9.
Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
— Gen. xxix. 18.
No man can serve two masters.
— Matt. vi. 24.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright.
To serve a lady in his beste wise.
Others, pampered in their shameless pride, Are served in plate and in their chariots ride.
Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
Some part he roasts, then serves it up so dressed.
— Dryde.
Turn it into some advantage, by observing where it can serve another end.
I will serve myself of this concession.
— Chillingworth.
They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment.
The Lord shall give thee rest . . . from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
— Isa. xiv. 3.
But Martha . . . said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?
— Luke x. 40.
Many . . . who had before been great commanders, but now served as private gentlemen without pay.
This little brand will serve to light your fire.
As occasion serves, this noble queen And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.

Service

Madam, I entreat true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my duteous service.
God requires no man's service upon hard and unreasonable terms.
I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . . . and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows.
This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles.
To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor?
The outward service of ancient religion, the rites, ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law.
When he cometh to experience of service abroad . . . ne maketh a worthy soldier.
The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures.
There was no extraordinary service seen on the board.
— Hakewill.

Serviceable

I know thee well, a serviceable villain.
Courteous he was, lowly, and servysable.
Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable.
Seeing her so sweet and serviceable.
— Tennnyson.

Servile

She must bend the servile knee.
Fearing dying pays death servile breath.
Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!

Servility

To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility.

Servitor

Your trusty and most valiant servitor.

Servitude

You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude.
A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goes to bed late, only to receive addresses, is really as much abridged in his freedom as he that waits to present one.
After him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude.

Sesquiplicate

The periodic times of the planets are in the sesquiplicate ratio of their mean distances.

Session

So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.
It's fit this royal session do proceed.
It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament.

Set

I do set my bow in the cloud.
— Gen. ix. 13.
Set your affection on things above.
— Col. iii. 2.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain.
— Gen. iv. 15.
The Lord thy God will set thee on high.
— Deut. xxviii. 1.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.
— Matt. x. 35.
Every incident sets him thinking.
They show how hard they are set in this particular.
His eyes were set by reason of his age.
— 1 Kings xiv. 4.
On these three objects his heart was set.
Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint.
And him too rich a jewel to be set In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.
Tables for to sette, and beddes make.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet.
Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have a son set your decrees at naught.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians.
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself.
— Collier.
They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs.
An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become.
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
I could set out that best side of Luther.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
Ere the weary sun set in the west.
Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning.
A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.
The king is set from London.
If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth.
Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.
The weary sun hath made a golden set.
We will in France, by God's grace, play a set Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
That was but civil war, an equal set.
This falls into different divisions, or sets, of nations connected under particular religions.
— R. P. Ward.

Set-off

I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman.
— D. Jerrold.

Setter

They come as . . . setters off of thy graces.
— Whitlock.

Setting

Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
— Ex. xxviii. 17.

Settle

And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
— Ezek. xliii. 14.
And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him, until he was ashamed.
— 2 Kings viii. 11. (Rev. Ver.)
The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son.
God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.
Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.
It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.
The wind came about and settled in the west.
Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.
As people marry now and settle.
A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.
Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him.
He sighs with most success that settles well.
— Garth.

Settlement

Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world.
My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take, With settlement as good as law can make.
Fuller's earth left a thick settlement.

Seven

Of every beast, and bird, and insect small, Game sevens and pairs.

Sevenfold

Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
— Gen. iv. 15.

Sevenscore

The old Countess of Desmond . . . lived sevenscore years.

Seventeenth

In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up.
— Gen. vii. 11.

Seventh

On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
— Gen. ii. 2.

Sever

The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
— Matt. xiii. 49.
Our state can not be severed; we are one.
I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there.
— Ex. viii. 22.
The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt.
— Ex. ix. 4.
They claimed the right of severing in their challenge.

Several

Each several ship a victory did gain.
Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished.
Four several armies to the field are led.
Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses.
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals.
Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them.
They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation.

Severally

There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself.

Severalty

Forests which had never been owned in severalty.

Severe

Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe.
Come! you are too severe a moraler.
Let your zeal, if it must be expressed in anger, be always more severe against thyself than against others.
The Latin, a most severe and compendious language.

Severity

Confining myself to the severity of truth.

Sew

I will not tell of their strange sewes.
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment.
— Mark ii. 21.

Sewer

Then the sewer Poured water from a great and golden ewer, That from their hands to a silver caldron ran.

Sexly

Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weakness, I were not worthy to live.
— Queen Elizabeth.

Sexual

In these cases, therefore, natural selection seems to have acted independently of sexual selection.
— A. R. Wallace.

Shabby

Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts.

Shack

All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
— H. W. Beecher.
These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect.
— D. C. Worcester.

Shackle

His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean.
His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles.
Most of the men and women . . . had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs and arms.
— Dampier.
To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief.
— J. Philips.
Shackled by her devotion to the king, she seldom could pursue that object.

Shade

The shades of night were falling fast.
Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty.
The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
— Ps. cxxi. 5.
Sleep under a fresh tree's shade.
Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables.
— J. Philips.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue.
Swift as thought the flitting shade Thro' air his momentary journey made.
White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the eyes.
New shades and combinations of thought.
Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters.
I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens.
Ere in our own house I do shade my head.
Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams.
[The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity.
This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
— Edmund Gurney.

Shadow

Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.
In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.
Sin and her shadow Death.
The law having a shadow of good things to come.
— Heb. x. 1.
[Types] and shadows of that destined seed.
I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement.
The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.
Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host.
Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
Augustus is shadowed in the person of Æneas.
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.
Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.

Shadowing

There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.
— Tylor.

Shadowy

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.
The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things.
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death.

Shady

The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
— Job. xl. 22.
And Amaryllis fills the shady groves.
Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.
Shady characters, disreputable, criminal.
— London Spectator.

Shaft

His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft.
A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head.
— Ascham.
And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts.
Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule.
— V. Knox.
Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold . . . his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
— Ex. xxv. 31.
Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to thee.

Shag

True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn.
Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies.
— J. Barlow.

Shaggy

About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin.
[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell.

Shake

As a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
— Rev. vi. 13.
Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis.
When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation.
Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced.
Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age.
I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God.
What danger? Who 's that that shakes behind there?
The great soldier's honor was composed Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake.
Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, consisting of many kind shakes of the hand.

Shaken

Nor is the wood shaken or twisted.
— Barroe.

Shale

Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk.

Shalloon

In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad.

Shallop

[She] thrust the shallop from the floating strand.

Shallow

The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand.

Sham

Believe who will the solemn sham, not I.
They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.
— Jowett (Thucyd)
Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
We must have a care that we do not . . . sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.
Wondering . . . whether those who lectured him were such fools as they professed to be, or were only shamming.

Shamble

As summer flies are in the shambles.
To make a shambles of the parliament house.

Shame

HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny.
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
Ye have borne the shame of the heathen.
— Ezek. xxxvi. 6.
Honor and shame from no condition rise.
And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.
O Csar, what a wounding shame is this!
Guides who are the shame of religion.
Were there but one righteous in the world, he would . . . shame the world, and not the world him.
And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor.
— Ps. xiv. 6.
I do shame To think of what a noble strain you are.

Shamefaced

Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise.

Shamefast

Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness.
[Conscience] is a blushing shamefast spirit.
Modest apparel with shamefastness.
— 1 Tim. ii. 9 (Rev. Ver.).

Shameful

His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat.

Shameless

Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.

Shank

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank.

Shape

I was shapen in iniquity.
— Ps. li. 5.
Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course.
Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And shape my foolishness to their desire.
Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not.
When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to point.
I will early shape me therefor.
He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman.
Before the gates three sat, On either side, a formidable shape.
Look better on this virgin, and consider This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing In a Greekish dress.
— Messinger.

Shapeless

The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice.

Shapely

Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn.
Where the shapely column stood.
— Couper.
Shaply for to be an alderman.

Shaper

The secret of those old shapers died with them.

Shaps

A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins.
— The Century.

Shard

The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board.
— E. Arnold.
They are his shards, and he their beetle.

Share

Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.
While avarice and rapine share the land.
The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father.

Shark

Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
— Bp. Earle.

Sharp

He dies upon my scimeter's sharp point.
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
The morning sharp and clear.
In sharpest perils faithful proved.
To that place the sharp Athenian law Can not pursue us.
Be thy words severe, Sharp as merits but the sword forbear.
Nothing makes men sharper . . . than want.
Many other things belong to the material world, wherein the sharpest philosophers have never ye arrived at clear and distinct ideas.
— L. Watts.
A sharp assault already is begun.
The necessity of being so sharp and exacting.
The head [of a spear] full sharp yground.
You bite so sharp at reasons.
If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
— Collier.

Sharp-set

The town is sharp-set on new plays.

Sharpen

The air . . . sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it.

Sharper

Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind.

Sharply

They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish.
The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants.
— Hayward.
You contract your eye when you would see sharply.

Shatter

A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects.
A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor.
— Norris.
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some shatter and fly in many places.

Shave

His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can.
I'll shave your crown for this.
The laborer with the bending scythe is seen Shaving the surface of the waving green.
Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root.
Now shaves with level wing the deep.

Shaveling

I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back.

Shaver

By these shavers the Turks were stripped.
As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king.

Shaw

Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw.
The green shaws, the merry green woods.
— Howitt.

Shawm

Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute.

She

She loved her children best in every wise.
Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid.
— Gen. xviii. 15.
Lady, you are the cruelest she alive.

Sheaf

The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.
The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case.
They that reap must sheaf and bind.

Sheal

That's a shealed peascod.

Shear

Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
On his head came razor none, nor shear.
Short of the wool, and naked from the shear.
After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
— Youatt.

Shearer

Like a lamb dumb before his shearer.
— Acts viii. 32.

Shears

Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain.

Sheath

The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew.

Sheathe

The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes.
— Grew.
'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now.

Shed

The first Aletes born in lowly shed.
Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel.
— Sandys.
Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head.
Such a rain down from the welkin shadde.
White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.
They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise.
— Sir T. North.

Sheen

This holy maiden, that is so bright and sheen.
Up rose each warrier bold and brave, Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
This town, That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

Sheepbiter

There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private.

Sheepish

Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature.

Sheep's-eye

I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye.
— Wycherley.

Sheer

Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.
It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow.
A sheer precipice of a thousand feet.
— J. D. Hooker.
It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent.
Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore.

Sheet

He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners.
— Acts x. 10, 11.
If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets.
To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer.
— Waterland.
The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky.
— J. R. Drake.

Shelf

On the tawny sands and shelves.
On the secret shelves with fury cast.

Shelfy

The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root.

Shell

Think him as a serpent's egg, . . . And kill him in the shell.
When Jubal struck the chorded shell.

Shelly

Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.

Shelter

The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade.
Thou [God] hast been a shelter for me.
— Ps. lxi. 3.
Who into shelter takes their tender bloom.
Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name.
They sheltered themselves under a rock.
— Abp. Abbot.
There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool.

Shelterless

Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies.

Shelvy

The shore was shelving and shallow.

Shend

I fear my body will be shent.
The famous name of knighthood foully shend.
She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend The lesser stars.

Sheol

For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheol.
— Ps. xvi. 10. (Rev. Ver.)

Shepen

The shepne brenning with the blacke smoke.

Shepherd

White, fleecy clouds . . . Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind.

Shepherdess

She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess.

Sherd

The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove.

Shibboleth

Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth.
The th, with its twofold value, is . . . the shibboleth of foreigners.
— Earle.

Shield

Now put your shields before your hearts and fight, With hearts more proof than shields.
Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
— Gen. xv. 1.
Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield.
A woman's shape doth shield thee.
They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured.
God shield that it should so befall.
God shield I should disturb devotion!

Shift

To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling.
Hastily he schifte him[self].
— Piers Plowman.
Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways.
— Tusser.
Carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and thither at pleasure.
I would advise you to shift a shirt.
As it were to ride day and night; and . . . not to have patience to shift me.
Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power.
Some this, some that, as that him liketh shift.
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.
Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat.
Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.
All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift, than to resolve by their distinctions.
My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
I 'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
Little souls on little shifts rely.
[They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland.

Shifter

'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down.

Shiftiness

Diplomatic shiftiness and political versatility.
— J. A. Syminds.

Shifty

Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.
— C. Kingsley.

Shill-I-shall-I

I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't.

Shilly-shally

She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, -- no shilly-shally in Kate.

Shimmer

The shimmering glimpses of a stream.
TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet apartment.

Shine

Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine.
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist.
— 2 Cor. iv. 6.
Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster.
Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honor and virtues, upon men equally.
Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine.
Fair opening to some court's propitious shine.
The distant shine of the celestial city.
Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine.

Shiner

Has she the shiners, d' ye think?
— Foote.

Shingle

I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
They shingle their houses with it.

Shining

True paradise . . . inclosed with shining rock.
Some in a brilliant buckle bind her waist, Some round her neck a circling light display.
His sparkling blade about his head he blest.

Shiny

Like distant thunder on a shiny day.

Ship

In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants.
Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.

Shipman

About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country.
— Acts xxvii. 27.

Shipment

The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle.
— Story.

Shippon

Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese.

Shipshape

Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner.
Keep everything shipshape, for I must go

Shipwreck

Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
— 1 Tim. 1. 19.
It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
— J. Morley.
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break.

Shire

An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire.
The Tyne, Tees, Humber, Wash, Yare, Stour, and Thames separate the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc.

Shirk

You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves.
— Bp. Rainbow.
The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties.
— Hare.
One of the cities shirked from the league.

Shirt

Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
— Bp. Fisher.

Shittleness

The vain shittlenesse of an unconstant head.
— Baret.

Shiver

Of your soft bread, not but a shiver.
All the ground With shivered armor strown.
There shiver shafts upon shields thick.
The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms.
Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver.
The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
— Creech.

Shoal

Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span.
Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor.
The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals.

Shoaly

The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground.

Shock

And cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
— Tusser.
Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks.
Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace.
— Tusser.
These strong, unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous.
— Blackmore.
He stood the shock of a whole host of foes.
Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them.
I shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont.
Advise him not to shock a father's will.
His red shock peruke . . . was laid aside.

Shocking

The grossest and most shocking villainies.
— Secker.

Shoddy

Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride.
— Compton Reade.

Shode

Full straight and even lay his jolly shode.

Shoe

Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied.
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon.
The sharp and small end of the billiard stick, which is shod with brass or silver.

Shoon

They shook the snow from hats and shoon.

Shoot

If you please To shoot an arrow that self way.
The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another.
When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house.
— A. Tucker.
An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle.
A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores.
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
— Ps. xxii. 7.
Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.
— Moxon.
She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.
The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
The archers have . . . shot at him.
— Gen. xlix. 23.
There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
Thy words shoot through my heart.
These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.
Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
Well shot in years he seemed.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.

Shop

From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter.
A tailor called me in his shop.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.

Shore

Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore.
The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.

Short

The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it.
— Isa. xxviii. 20.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
To short absense I could yield.
We shall be short in our provision.
Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.
Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present.
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
The first remove above bran is shorts.
— Halliwell.
If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in “bit” and “beat,” “not” and “naught,” we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs.
— H. Sweet.
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.

Shorten

Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.

Shortly

I shall grow jealous of you shortly.
The armies came shortly in view of each other.

Shortsighted

Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness.

Shot

Here no shots are where all shares be.
A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say “Welcome.”
He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.

Shot-clog

Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies.

Shoulder

Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore The gates of Azza.
Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair.
In thy shoulder do I build my seat.
The north western shoulder of the mountain.
As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.
Around her numberless the rabble flowed, Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
As if Hercules Or burly Atlas shouldered up their state.
— Marston.
A yoke of the great sulky white bullocks . . . came shouldering along together.
— Kipling.

Shout

Shouting of the men and women eke.
They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?
The Rhodians, seeing the enemy turn their backs, gave a great shout in derision.

Shove

And shove away the worthy bidden guest.
He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants.
He grasped the oar, eceived his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
— Garth.
I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove.

Show

Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest.
— Matt. viii. 4.
Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?
Shew them the way wherein they must walk.
— Ex. xviii. 20.
If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away.
— 1 Sam. xx. 13.
I 'll show my duty by my timely care.
Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.
— Ex. xx. 6.
Just such she shows before a rising storm.
All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood.
My lord of York, it better showed with you.
As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows.
I envy none their pageantry and show.
He through the midst unmarked, In show plebeian angel militant Of lowest order, passed.
Beware of the scribes, . . . which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
— Luke xx. 46. 47.

Shower

In drought or else showers.
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.
With showers of stones he drives them far away.
He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts.
Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth.
Csar's favor, That showers down greatness on his friends.

Showy

A present of everything that was rich and showy.

Shredless

And those which waved are shredless dust ere now.

Shrew

A man . . . grudgeth that shrews [i. e., bad men] have prosperity, or else that good men have adversity.
A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her.

Shrewd

[Egypt] hath many shrewd havens, because of the great rocks that ben strong and dangerous to pass by.
— Sir J. Mandeville.
Every of this happy number That have endured shrewd days and nights with us.
These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
Professing to despise the ill opinion of mankind creates a shrewd suspicion that we have deserved it.
— Secker.

Shrewish

My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours.

Shriek

It was the owl that shrieked.
At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train Echoed her grief.
On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note.
She shrieked his name To the dark woods.
Shrieks, clamors, murmurs, fill the frighted town.

Shrievalty

It was ordained by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance.

Shrift

In shrift and preaching is my diligence.
Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?
Therefore, my lord, address you to your shrift, And be yourself; for you must die this instant.

Shright

She cried alway and shright.

Shrill

Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused.
Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high.
Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.
No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
His voice shrilled with passion.
— L. Wallace.
How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth.

Shrilly

Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound.
— Keats.

Shrimp

This weak and writhled shrimp.

Shrine

Too weak the sacred shrine guard.

Shrink

And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
Against this fire do I shrink up.
And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
All the boards did shrink.
What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right.
They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
— Jowett (Thucyd.)
The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.
Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
— Leigh Hunt.

Shrive

That they should shrive their parishioners.
— Piers Plowman.
Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . . Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
Till my guilty soul be shriven.
Get you to the church and shrive yourself.

Shroud

Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.
— Sandys.
Jura answers through her misty shroud.
The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen.
A vault, or shroud, as under a church.
— Withals.
The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad.
— Ezek. xxxi. 3.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame.
If your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits.

Shrug

He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug.
On Sept. 23, in a major speech in New York, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commision, Arthur Levitt asked the Big Board to spike the rule [Rule 390] in the interest of free and unfettered markets. . . . Mr. Grasso responded with a shrug, saying that he had no plans to kill the rule.
— Gretchen Morgenson (N. Y. Times Nov. 28, 1999 sect. 3 p. 1.)
The Spaniards talk in dialogues Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs.
— Hudibras.

Shuck

Shucking” his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water.
— F. A. Ober.
He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony.
— Pall Mall Mag.

Shudder

The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone.

Shuffle

A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
— Rombler.
It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen.
I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself.
The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand.
— Keats.
The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.
The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles.

Shug

There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance.

Shun

I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
— Acts xx. 26,27.
Scarcity and want shall shun you.

Shunt

For shunting your late partner on to me.
— T. Hughes.

Shut

Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open?
Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
— Gal. iii. 23.
When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better.
— Collier.
Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.

Shuttle

Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours.
— Sandys.
I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be.

Shy

The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.
What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
The embarrassed look of shy distress And maidenly shamefacedness.
I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.
Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors.
If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
— Punch.

Shyness

Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul.
— Baxter.

Sib

Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you.
[He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial.

Sibilance

Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath.

Sibilation

He, with a long, low sibilation, stared.

Siccity

The siccity and dryness of its flesh.

Sick

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
— Mark i. 30.
Behold them that are sick with famine.
— Jer. xiv. 18.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.

Sicken

Raise this strength, and sicken that to death.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

Sicker

When he is siker of his good name.
Believe this as siker as your creed.
Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well.

Sickerly

But sikerly, withouten any fable.

Sickle

When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine.

Sickleman

You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary.

Sickless

Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease.
— Marston.

Sickly

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
— Jeffrey.

Sickness

I do lament the sickness of the king.
Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

Sicle

The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God.

Side

Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert.
One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side.
— John xix. 34.
Along the side of yon small hill.
God on our side, doubt not of victory.
We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics.
Sets the passions on the side of truth.
To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father.
One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.
The law hath no side respect to their persons.
His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg.
— Laneham.
To insure a side-box station at half price.
All side in parties, and begin the attack.
His blind eye that sided Paridell.

Sideboard

At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused.

Sideling

A fellow nailed up maps . . . some sideling, and others upside down.

Sidelong

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

Siderealize

German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators.
— W. Pater.

Sidetrack

Such a project was, in fact, sidetracked in favor of the census of school children.
— Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Sideways

A second refraction made sideways.
His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings.

Sidewise

I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids.

Sidle

He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl.

Siege

A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.
In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it “The siege perilous.”
Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever.
— Painter (Palace of Pleasure).
I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege.
The siege of this mooncalf.
Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast.
Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man.
— Buron.

Sierra

The wild sierra overhead.
— Whitter.

Sift

When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show.
Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable.
Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee.
Let him but narrowly sift his ideas.

Sigh

He sighed deeply in his spirit.
— Mark viii. 12.
And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge.
The winter winds are wearily sighing.
Never man sighed truer breath.
Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
— Pior.
They . . . sighed forth proverbs.
The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief.
— Hoole.
I could drive the boat with my sighs.
With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.

Sight

A cloud received him out of their sight.
— Acts. i. 9.
Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
— Ex. iii. 3.
They never saw a sight so fair.
Why cloud they not their sights?
That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
— Luke xvi. 15.
Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel.
A wonder sight of flowers.
— Gower.

Sightless

Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar.
The sightless couriers of the air.

Sightproof

Hidden in their own sightproof bush.

Sigil

Of talismans and sigils knew the power.

Sign

Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God.
— Rom. xv. 19.
It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
— Ex. iv. 8.
What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign.
— Num. xxvi. 10.
The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves.
— Brerewood.
Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory.
They made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
— Luke i. 62.
The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
— Bk. of Common Prayer.
I signed to Browne to make his retreat.
We receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross.
— Bk. of Com Prayer.
Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it.

Signal

All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice Of this great potentate.
The weary sun . . . Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow.
There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen.
— De Foc.
As signal now in low, dejected state As erst in highest, behold him where he lies.

Signalize

It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.

Signature

The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images.
The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with.
Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use.

Signet

I had my father's signet in my purse.

Significance

With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess.

Significant

It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.

Signification

A signification of being pleased.
All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another.

Significative

The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative.
— Brerewood.
Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words.
— Camden.

Significator

In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention.

Signify

I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
He bade her tell him what it signified.
A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Sike

That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore.

Silence

I saw and heared; for such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep.
The administration itself keeps a profound silence.
— D. Webster.
And what most merits fame, in silence hid.
Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the isle.
This would silence all further opposition.
These would have silenced their scruples.
The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was silenced for nonconformity.
— B. Trumbull.

Silent

How silent is this town!
Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
— Broome.
This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent.
Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead.

Silhouette

A flock of roasting vultures silhouetted on the sky.
— The Century.

Silicify

The specimens found . . . are completely silicified.
— Say.

Silk-stocking

[They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers.
— Jefferson.

Silly

The silly virgin strove him to withstand.
A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog.
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
After long storms . . . With which my silly bark was tossed sore.
The silly buckets on the deck.
A fourth man, in a sillyhabit.
All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

Silvan

Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene Appears above, and groves forever green.

Silver

Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast.
And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.
His head was silvered o'er with age.
The eastern sky began to silver and shine.
— L. Wallace.

Silverling

A thousand vines at a thousand silverings.
— Isa. vii. 23.

Silverly

Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks.

Silvern

Speech is silvern; silence is golden.
— Old Proverb.

Silvery

All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

Similarity

Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

Similary

Rhyming cadences of similarly words.

Similative

In similative or instrumental relation to a pa. pple. [past participle], as almond-leaved, -scented, etc.

Simile

A good swift simile, but something currish.

Similitude

Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude.
If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine.
Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country.
Man should wed his similitude.

Simious

That strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others.
— Sydney Smith.

Simmer

I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil.
— Palsgrave.

Simnel

Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels.

Simoniacal

The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom.
— J. S. Harford.

Simper

Behold yond simpering dame.
With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling.
— ir. P. Sidney.
Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine.
The conscious simper, and the jealous leer.

Simperer

A simperer that a court affords.
— T. Nevile.

Simple

A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin.
Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
— Marston.
Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?
To be simple is to be great.
In simple manners all the secret lies.
The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
— Prov. xiv. 15.
Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights.
A simple husbandman in garments gray.
Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire.
I am a simple woman, much too weak To oppose your cunning.
He is the companion of the silliest people in their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diversion.
— Law.
What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.
As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed.
— Garth.

Simplicity

Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded.
— Hayward.
In wit a man; simplicity a child.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning?
— Prov. i. 22.

Simplify

The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified.
— A. Hamilton.
It is important, in scientific pursuits, to be caitious in simplifying our deductions.
— W. Nicholson.

Simply

[They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other.
Simply the thing I am Shall make me live.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek.

Simulacrum

Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum.

Simular

Christ calleth the Pharisees hypocrites, that is to say, simulars, and painted sepulchers.
— Tyndale.

Simulate

The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin.

Sin

Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
— John viii. 34.
Sin is the transgression of the law.
— 1 John iii. 4.
I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win.
Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.
I grant that poetry's a crying sin.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
— 2 Cor. v. 21.
Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned.
— Ps. li. 4.
All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
— Rom. iii. 23.
I am a man More sinned against than sinning.
Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause.

Since

We since become the slaves to one man's lust.
How many ages since has Virgil writ?
— Roscommon.
About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house.
Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field?
The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming.
— Gen. xxx. 30.
I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients.
Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon.
Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obeyed.
— Granville.

Sincere

There is no sincere acid in any animal juice.
A joy which never was sincere till now.
The inviolable body stood sincere.
A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions.
— Law.
The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account.
— Waterland.

Sincerity

I protest, in the sincerity of love.
Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important.
— Knox.

Sinecure

A lucrative sinecure in the Excise.

Sinew

The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry.
The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.
Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures . . . might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger.

Sinewed

When he sees Ourselves well sinewed to our defense.

Sinewy

The sinewy thread my brain lets fall.
— Donne.
A man whose words . . . were so close and sinewy.
— Hare.

Sinful

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity.
— Isa. i. 4.

Sing

The noise of them that sing do I hear.
— Ex. xxxii. 18.
On every bough the briddes heard I sing.
Singing birds, in silver cages hung.
O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.
Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
They should sing if thet they were bent.
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.
— Rev. xv. 3.
And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise.
Arms and the man I sing.
The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing.
I heard them singing home the bride.

Singe

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head!
I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.

Single

No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.
Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth.
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.
Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
I speak it with a single heart.
He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark.
His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind.
— More.
An agent singling itself from consorts.
Men . . . commendable when they are singled.
Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed.
— W. S. Clark.

Single-foot

Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot.
— Stillman (The Horse in Motion.)

Single tax

Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform.
— A. T. Hadley.

Singly

Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man.
At omber singly to decide their doom.

Singular

And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly.
To try the matter thus together in a singular combat.
— Holinshed.
The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound.
So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect.
His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise.
These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind.

Singularist

A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage.
— Borrow.

Singularity

Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
— Sir. W. Raleigh.
I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities.
No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].
Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
— Bp. Pearson.

Sinister

My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's
All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.

Sinistrous

A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice.

Sinistrously

Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed.

Sink

I sink in deep mire.
— Ps. lxix. 2.
The stone sunk into his forehead.
— 1 San. xvii. 49.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears.
— Luke ix. 44.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
He sunk down in his chariot.
— 2 Kings ix. 24.
Let not the fire sink or slacken.
The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.
[The Athenians] fell upon the wings and sank a single ship.
— Jowett (Thucyd.).
I raise of sink, imprison or set free.
If I have a conscience, let it sink me.
Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years.
You sunk the river repeated draughts.
If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account.
A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths.
— Robertson.

Sinner

Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.

Sinuosity

A line of coast certainly amounting, with its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles.
— Sydney Smith.

Sinuous

Streaking the ground with sinuous trace.
Gardens bright with sinuous rills.

Sip

They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
[She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams.
A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy.

Sippet

Your sweet sippets in widows' houses.

Sir

He was crowned lord and sire.
— Gower.
In the election of a sir so rare.
Sir Horace Vere, his brother, was the principal in the active part.
Instead of a faithful and painful teacher, they hire a Sir John, which hath better skill in playing at tables, or in keeping of a garden, than in God's word.

Sire

Pain and distress, sickness and ire, And melancholy that angry sire, Be of her palace senators.
Jankin thet was our sire [i.e., husband].
And raise his issue, like a loving sire.
[He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

Siren

Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please.
Consumption is a siren.

Sirenical

Here's couple of sirenical rascals shall enchant ye.
— Marton.

Sirrah

Go, sirrah, to my cell.

Sirup

Lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon.
— Keats.

Sise

In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom.

Sist

Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.

Sister

I am the sister of one Claudio.

Sisterhood

She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife.
The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood.

Sit

And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat.
— Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.)
I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner.
And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
— Num. xxxii. 6.
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
The calamity sits heavy on us.
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
— Jer. xvii. 11.
Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits.
— Selden.
Sits the wind in that quarter?
Hardly the muse can sit the headstrong horse.
They sat them down to weep.
Sit you down, father; rest you.

Site

The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site.

Sited

[The garden] sited was in fruitful soil.

Sitfast

'T is good, when you have crossed the sea and back, To find the sitfast acres where you left them.

Sith

We need not fear them, sith Christ is with us.
Sith thou art rightful judge.
And humbly thanked him a thousand sithes.

Sithen

Fortune was first friend and sithen foe.

Siththen

Siththen that the world began.

Sitting

The sitting closed in great agitation.
For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting.
The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting.

Situate

Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

Situation

A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity.
There's situation for you! there's an heroic group!
— Sheridan.

Sizar

The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging.

Size

Men of a less size and quality.
The middling or lower size of people.
We had to size up our fellow legislators.
— The Century.
Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
— Donne.

Skainsmate

Scurvy knave! I am none of his firt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates.

Skate

Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddened all to joy.

Skeleton

The great skeleton of the world.

Skeptic

All this criticism [of Hume] proceeds upon the erroneous hypothesis that he was a dogmatist. He was a skeptic; that is, he accepted the principles asserted by the prevailing dogmatism: and only showed that such and such conclusions were, on these principles, inevitable.
Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of skeptics.
— S. Clarke.
The skeptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals.
— R. Hall.

Skepticism

That momentary amazement, and irresolution, and confusion, which is the result of skepticism.
— Hune.
Let no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized.
— S. Miller.

Skepticize

To skepticize, where no one else will . . . hesitate.
— Shaftesbury.

Sketchy

The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough.
— J. S. Harford.

Skew

Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.

Skewer

Meat well stuck with skewers to make it look round.

Skiff

The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff.

Skill

For great skill is, he prove that he wrought.
That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
Nor want we skill or art.
Phocion, . . . by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens.
Where patience her sweet skill imparts.
Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return.
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful.
To skill the arts of expressing our mind.
I can not skill of these thy ways.
What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee?
It skills not talking of it.

Skillful

And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
— Amos v. 16.

Skim

Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
— Hazlitt.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.

Skimble-scamble

Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff.

Skin

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Skink

Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about.
Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.
— Shirley.

Skinny

He holds him with a skinny hand.

Skip

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.

Skippet

A little skippet floating did appear.

Skirling

When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.
— Mrs. J. H. Ewing.

Skirmish

They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit.

Skirt

A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.
Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.
Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers.
— S. S. Smith.

Skit

A similar vein satire upon the emptiness of writers is given in his “Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Human Mind;” but that is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.
— Leslie Stephen.

Skitter

The angler, standing in the bow, 'skitters' or skips the spoon over the surface.
— James A. Henshall.
Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a feet before settling down.
— T. Roosevelt.

Skulk

Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.

Skull

A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
— Warner.
These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls.
Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn.
Let me put on my skull first.

Sky

[A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad.
She passeth as it were a sky.
— Gower.
The Norweyan banners flout the sky.
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.
— The Century.

Skyey

Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits.

Slab

Make the gruel thick and slab.

Slabber

He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.
The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.
— Tusser.

Slabby

They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff.
— Selden.

Slack

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.
— 2 Pet. iii. 9.
Csar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed.
Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.
That through your death your lineage should slack.
They will not of that firste purpose slack.
Slack not the pressage.
I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms.
In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace.
With such delay Well plased, they slack their course.
To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion.

Slake

It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.

Slam

The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.

Slander

Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that which we call “reviling;” the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call “slander”, or “Backbiting.”
[We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander.
Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb.
O, do not slander him, for he is kind.
Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.

Slang

Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs.
— London Spectator.

Slant

On the side of younder slanting hill.
— Dodsley.

Slash

Hewing and slashing at their idle shades.
We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.
— Henry Van Dyke.

Slashed

A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves.

Slat

How did you kill him? Slat[t]ed his brains out.
— Marston.

Slaughter

On war and mutual slaughter bent.
Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered.

Slave

Art thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge?

Slaver

The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go.
Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

Slavery

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught!
I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief.
— Washington.
The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to.
— C. Lever.
There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, -- the slavery of caste.
— G. W. Cable.

Slaw

With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself.
— Wyclif (Acts xvi. 27.)

Slay

With this sword then will I slay you both.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
— Amos ix. 1.
I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk.

Sleave

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.

Sledge

With his heavy sledge he can it beat.

Sleek

So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.
Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.
Sleeking her soft alluring locks.
Gentle, my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks.

Sleep

Watching at the head of these that sleep.
We sleep over our happiness.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
— 1 Thess. iv. 14.
How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!
O sleep, thou ape of death.

Sleepish

Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.

Sleepy

She waked her sleepy crew.
'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.

Sleepyhead

To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead.
— Mother Goose.

Sleeve

The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve.

Sleeveless

The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
— Bp. Warburton.

Sleight

The world hath many subtle sleights.

Slender

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
Mighty hearts are held in slender chains.
They have inferred much from slender premises.
The slender utterance of the consonants.
— J. Byrne.
A slender degree of patience will enable him to enjoy both the humor and the pathos.
Frequent begging makes slender alms.
The good Ostorius often deigned To grace my slender table with his presence.
— Philips.

Slew

The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.
— T. Roosevelt.

Slick

The action of oil upon the water is upon the crest of the wave; the oil forming a slick upon the surface breaks the crest.
— The Century.

Slidder

To a drunk man the way is slidder.

Slide

They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
Beware thou slide not by it.
— Ecclus. xxviii. 26.
Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
Their foot shall slide in due time.
— Deut. xxxii. 35.
With good hope let he sorrow slide.
With a calm carelessness letting everything slide.
A better slide into their business.

Sliding

That sliding science hath me made so bare.

Slight

The rogue slighted me into the river.
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.
Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.
His own figure, which was formerly so slight.
The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies.
Beware . . . lest the like befall . . . If they transgress and slight that sole command.
This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
Think not so slight of glory.

Slime

As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
Slime had they for mortar.
— Gen. xi. 3.

Slimy

Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

Sling

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
At one sling Of thy victorius arm, well-pleasing Son.

Slip

Thus one tradesman slips away, To give his partner fairer play.
Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.
There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.
— Ecclus. xix. 16.
Cry, “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war.
He tried to slip a powder into her drink.
And slip no advantage That my secure you.
The branches also may be slipped and planted.
Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.
This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.
A native slip to us from foreign seeds.
The girlish slip of a Sicilian bride.
— R. Browning.
Moonlit slips of silver cloud.
A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon Sure to be rounded into beauty soon.
We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.
— Sir S. Baker.

Slipper

O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men.

Slippery

The slippery tops of human state.
— Cowley.
The slippery god will try to loose his hold.

Slipshod

The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels.
Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod.

Slit

And slits the thin-spun life.

sliver

They 'll sliver thee like a turnip.

sloggy

Somnolence that is sloggy slumbering

Slop

There's a French salutation to your French slop.

Slope

buildings the summit and slope of a hill.
Under the slopes of Pisgah.
— Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).
A bank not steep, but gently slope.

Sloping

The sloping land recedes into the clouds.

Slopwork

No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen.

Slot

As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.

Sloth

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
[They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
— Franklin.

Slothful

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
— Prov. xviii. 9.

Slough

He's here stuck in a slough.
New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds.

Sloven

He became a confirmed sloven.

Slovenly

A slovenly, lazy fellow, lolling at his ease.

Slow

These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
— Prov. xiv. 29.
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow.

Slubber

Slubber not business for my sake.
There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.

Slue

They laughed, and slued themselves round.

Slug

His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
To slug in sloth and sensual delight.

Sluggard

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
— Prov. vi. 6.

Sluggardy

Idleness is rotten sluggardy.

Sluggish

Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.
And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.

Sluice

Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
— Harte.
This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility.
He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

Sluicy

And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain.

Slumber

He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
— Ps. cxxi. 4.
He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night.
Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.

Slumberous

His quiet and almost slumberous countenance.

Slump

These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.

Slur

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
To slur men of what they fought for.
— Hudibras.

Slut

Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge.
— Old Proverb.
Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others.

Sluttish

Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray.
An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.

Sly

Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves.
— Wyclif (Matt. x. 16).
Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly.
For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess.
Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner.

Slyboots

Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em.

Slyly

Honestly and slyly he it spent.

Smack

So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness.
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
They felt the smack of this world.
All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish.

Smacking

Like the faint smacking of an after kiss.

Small

To compare Great things with small.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
You may speak as small as you will.

Smart

No creature smarts so little as a fool.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
— Prov. xi. 15.
To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.
Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.

Smarten

She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat.
— W. Black.

Smash

Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces.

Smatch

Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it.

Smatter

Of state affairs you can not smatter.

Smattering

I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all.
— Burton.

Smear

Slow broke the morn, All damp and rolling vapor, with no sun, But in its place a moving smear of light.
— Alexander Smith.

Smell

Can you smell him out by that?
From that time forward I began to smellthe Word of God, and forsook the school doctors.
Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.
Breathing the smell of field and grove.
That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violent.

Smell-feast

The epicure and the smell-feast.

Smell-less

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint.

Smerk

So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears.

Smile

He doth nothing but frown. . . . He hears merry tales and smiles not.
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain.
When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.
'T was what I said to Craggs and Child, Who praised my modesty, and smiled.
The desert smiled, And paradise was opened in the wild.
And sharply smile prevailing folly dead.
Sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow.
The brightness of their [the flowers'] smile was gone.

Smilet

Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip.

Smilingness

And made despair a smilingness assume.

Smirch

I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face.

Smirk

The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.

Smit

Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene.

Smite

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
— Matt. v. 39.
And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead.
— 1 Sam. xvii. 49.
Prophesy, and smite thine hands together.
— Ezek. xxi. 14.
Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall.
— 1 Sam. xix. 10.
The flax and the barly was smitten.
— Ex. ix. 31.
Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
— Wake.
The charms that smite the simple heart.
Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
The heart melteth, and the knees smite together.
— Nah. ii. 10.

Smiter

I give my back to the smiters.
— Isa. l. 6.

Smith

Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword.
— Tate.
What smith that any [weapon] smitheth.
— Piers Plowman.

Smither

Smash the bottle to smithers.

Smithery

The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke.

Smithy

Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands.

Smock

In her smock, with head and foot all bare.

Smoke

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man.
— Deut. xxix. 20.
Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him.
He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.

Smoker

That evening A Company had a “smoker” in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp.
— Strand Mag.

Smolder

The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.
The smolder stops our nose with stench.
— Gascoigne.

Smoldering

Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze.

Smoldry

A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke.

Smooth

The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities.
The only smooth poet of those times.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line.
When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows.
This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft Conceal a traitor.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day.
In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm.
Because I can not flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog.

Smore

Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored.
— Du Bartas.

Smother

Not to keep their suspicions in smother.
Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm.
— The Century.

Smug

They be so smug and smooth.
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
The smug and scanty draperies of his style.
A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.
Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
— Dryton.

Smut

He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.

Smutty

The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd.

Snack

At last he whispers, “Do, and we go snacks.”

Snag

The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.
How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side.
— J. Cotgrave.

Snail

They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.
— Vegetius (Trans.).

Snail-paced

Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.

Snaky

The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave it an appearance of snaky life.
— L. Wallace.
So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles.
That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield.

Snap

Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks.
He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last.
MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly.
But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it.
He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having certain snaps of all.

Snappish

The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope.
— Jeffrey.

Snare

If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
Lest that too heavenly form . . . snare them.
The mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

Snarl

[The] question that they would have snarled him with.
It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.

Snary

Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread.

Snatch

When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
They move by fits and snatches.
— Bp. Wilkins.
We have often little snatches of sunshine.
— Spectator.
Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer.

Sneak

You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks.

Sneaker

A sneaker of five gallons.
— Spectator.

Sneap

Biron is like an envious, sneaping frost.
My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.

Sneer

I could be content to be a little sneared at.
And sneers as learnedly as they, Like females o'er their morning tea.
Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
The fop, with learning at defiance, Scoffs at the pedant and science.
“A ship of fools,” he sneered.
Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame.
— Savage.

Snell

That horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man.
— Dr. J. Brown.

Snew

It snewed in his house of meat and drink.

Snib

Him would he snib sharply for the nones.

Snick

Give him money, George, and let him go snick up.

Sniff

So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven.

Snift

It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters.

Snip

Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.

Snippet

To be cut into snippets and shreds.
— F. Harrison.

Snivel

Put stop to thy sniveling ditty.

Snob

Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob.
— R. G. White.
Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being “nobs”

Snood

And seldom was a snood amid Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.

Snottery

To purge the snottery of our slimy time.
— Marston.

Snouty

The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig.
— Otway.

Snow

The field of snow with eagle of black therein.

Snowy

There did he lose his snowy innocence.
— J. Hall (1646).

Snub

[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.

Snuff

If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?

Snuffle

One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle.

Snug

Lie snug, and hear what critics say.

So

Why is his chariot so long in coming?
— Judges v. 28.
As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in.
I viewed in may mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world.
— T. Burnet.
He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent.
Use him [your tutor] with great respect yourself, and cause all your family to do so too.
It concerns every man, with the greatest seriousness, to inquire into those matters, whether they be so or not.
He is Sir Robert's son, and so art thou.
God makes him in his own image an intellectual creature, and so capable of dominion.
Here, then, exchange we mutually forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten.
And when 't is writ, for my sake read it over, And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
There is Percy; if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself.
A week or so will probably reconcile us.
So do, as thou hast said.
— Gen. xviii. 5.
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
— Ps. ciii. 15.
Had woman been so strong as men.
No country suffered so much as England.
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.

So-so

In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show.
He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty.
— Prof. Wilson.

Soak

Their land shall be soaked with blood.
— Isa. xxiv. 7.
The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.

Soap

The purifying action of soap depends upon the fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of water into free alkali and an insoluble acid salt. The first of these takes away the fatty dirt on washing, and the latter forms the soap lather which envelops the greasy matter and thus tends to remove it.
— Roscoe & Schorlemmer.
This soap bubble of the metaphysicians.
— J. C. Shairp.

Soar

When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.
Where the deep transported mind may soar.
Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune.
This apparent soar of the hooded falcon.

Sob

Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.
She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath.
The tremulous sob of the complaining owl.

Sober

That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name.
— Bk. of Com. Prayer.
There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering.
— Druden.
No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
What parts gay France from sober Spain?
See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Vance gradually sobered down.
— Ld. Lytton.

Soberly

[He] looked hollow and thereto soberly.

Sobriety

Public sobriety is a relative duty.
Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad.

Sociable

They are sociable parts united into one body.
Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
What can be more uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensive retirements of solitude?

Social

Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication.

Socialism

[Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy.
We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers.
— F. Harrison.

Sociate

As for you, Dr. Reynolds, and your sociates.

Societarian

The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation.

Society

There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar.
The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings.

Sock

Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear.

Socket

His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink.
And in the sockets oily bubbles dance.

Sod

She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
— Collins.

Soever

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.
— Luke xii. 48.
What great thing soever a man proposed to do in his life, he should think of achieving it by fifty.

Sofa

Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round.

Soft

They that wear soft clothing are in king's houses.
— Matt. xi. 8.
The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds . . . made the softest lights imaginable.
Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, -- an excellent thing in woman.
Soft were my numbers; who could take offense?
I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine.
The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.
— Tyndale.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
— Prov. xv. 1.
A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.
A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.
On her soft axle, white she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.
The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
— Burton.
A knight soft riding toward them.
Soft, you; a word or two before you go.

Soften

Their arrow's point they soften in the flame.
Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe.
— Rambler.
Music can soften pain to ease.
All that cheers or softens life.
He bore his great commision in his look, But tempered awe, and softened all he spoke.

Soil

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil?
Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.
Men . . . soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop.
As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast.
— Marston.
O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man may reach you after three hours' running.
Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
A lady's honor . . . will not bear a soil.

Soilure

Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk.

Sojourn

Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
— Gen. xii. 30.
Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn.
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.
— Hayward.
Though long detained In that obscure sojourn.

Sojourner

We are strangers before thee, and sojourners.
— 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

Soken

Great sooken had this miller, out of doubt.

Sol-fa

Yet can I neither solfe ne sing.
— Piers Plowman.

Solace

In business of mirth and of solace.
The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.
— Rambler.
To make his steed some solace.

Solar

And proud beside, as solar people are.
They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.

Soldier

I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.
It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling, or only soldiering.
— C. D. Warner.

Soldiery

A camp of faithful soldiery.

Sole

The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
— Gen. viii. 9.
Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
The “caliga” was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep.
He, be sure . . . first and last will reign Sole king.

Solecism

A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more.
Caesar, by dismissing his guards and retaining his power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics.
— C. Middleton.
The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him.

Solemn

His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned.
The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year.
— Bp. Stillingfleet.
His feast so solemn and so rich.
To-night we hold a splemn supper.
Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts.
There reigned a solemn silence over all.
Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks.

Solemness

Some think he wanted solemnes.

Solemnity

Great was the cause; our old solemnities From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay These grateful honors to the god of day.
The forms and solemnities of the last judgment.
— Atterburry.
With much glory and great solemnity.
The statelines and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself in the solemnity of their language.
These promises were often made with great solemnity and confirmed with an oath.
— J. Edwards.
Solemnity 's a cover for a sot.

Solemnize

Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another.
Their choice nobility and flowers . . . Met from all parts to solemnize this feast.
Wordsworth was solemnizzed and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow.
— J. C. Shairp.
Every Israelite . . . arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem . . . and prayed.
— L. Wallace.
Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.

Solemnly

There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise.
I do solemnly assure the reader.

Solicit

Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
I view my crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old pleasures, and solicit new.
That fruit . . . solicited her longing eye.
Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind.
Should My brother henceforth study to forget The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever Solicit thy deserts.
Hath any ill solicited thine ears?
But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.

Solicitous

Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future.
The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications.

Solicitude

The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows.
The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
— G. W. Cable.

Solid

The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.
These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.
— J. A. Symonds.
Repose you there; while I [return] to this hard house, More harder than the stones whereof 't is raised.
I hear his thundering voice resound, And trampling feet than shake the solid ground.

Solidarity

Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat.
The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry.

Solidary

Men are solidary, or copartners; and not isolated.

Solidify

Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem.
— H. Spencer.

Solidity

That which hinders the approach of two bodies when they are moving one toward another, I call solidity.

Soliloquy

Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy.
— Spectator.
The whole poem is a soliloquy.

Soliped

The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number.

Solitaire

Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists.
— Mrs. R. H. Davis.

Solitary

Those rare and solitary, these in flocks.
Hie home unto my chamber, Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.
Satan . . . explores his solitary flight.
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people.
— Lam. i. 1.
Let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein.
— Job iii. 7.

Solitude

Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?
The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.
— Law.
In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.
Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.
It is a place of seclusion from the external world.
— Bp. Horsley.
These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village.
— Eustace.

Soluble

Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.

Solute

A brow solute, and ever-laughing eye.

Solution

In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity.
It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor.

Solve

True piety would effectually solve such scruples.
God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
— Tickell.

Somber

The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short.
— Beaconsfield.

Some

Some theoretical writers allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society.
Some man praiseth his neighbor by a wicked intent.
Most gentlemen of property, at some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their county in Parliament.
The number slain on the rebel's part were some two thousand.
On its outer point, some miles away. The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry.
Some [seeds] fell among thorns; . . . but other fell into good ground.
— Matt. xiii. 7, 8.
Your edicts some reclaim from sins, But most your life and blest example wins.
Some to the shores do fly, Some to the woods, or whither fear advised.
Some in his bed, some in the deep sea.

Somebody

Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me.
— Luke viii. 46.
We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger.
Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody.
— Acts v. 36.

Somedeal

Thou lackest somedeal their delight.

Somehow

By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length.
— Cheyne.
Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.

Somersault

Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset.

Something

There is something in the wind.
The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.
Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Something yet of doubt remains.
Something of it arises from our infant state.
If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
— Gal. vi. 3.
I something fear my father's wrath.
We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.
My sense of touch is something coarse.
It must be done to-night, And something from the palace.

Sometime

Did they not sometime cry “All hail” to me?
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion.
Our sometime sister, now our queen.
Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized.

Sometimes

That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march.
It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.
Thy sometimes brother's wife.

Somewhat

These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
— Grew.
Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.
Somewhat back from the village street.

Somewhile

Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile.

Somewhither

Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither.

Somnambulistic

Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her sleep, may remain a subject of contention.

Somnial

The somnial magic superinduced on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind.

Somnolent

He had no eye for such phenomena, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them.

Son

Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son.
— Gen. xxi. 2.
I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings.
— Isa. xix. 11.
I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
— Mal. iii. 6.
The child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.
— Ex. ii. 10.
Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.
Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine.
— Blackmore.
We . . . do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
— 1 John iv. 14.
Who gave His Son sure all has given.

Son-in-law

To take me as for thy son in lawe.

Sond

Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond.

Song

The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
This subject for heroic song.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
— Job xxx. 9.

Songcraft

A half-effaced inscription, Written with little skill of songcraft.

Sonless

As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent.
— J. R. Green.

Sonnet

He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius.

Sonneteer

What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me!

Sonorous

The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
— E. Everett.

Soon

She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned.
How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
— Ex. ii. 18.
Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide.
I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.

Sooterkin

Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.

Sooth

The sentence [meaning] of it sooth is, out of doubt.
That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
— Spensser.
The soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains.
With jellies soother than the creamy curd.
— Keats.
The sooth it this, the cut fell to the knight.
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
In good sooth, Its mystery is love, its meaninng youth.
The soothe of birds by beating of their wings.

Soothe

Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow.
I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing.

Soothfast

Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience!
I care not if the pomps you show Be what they soothfast appear.

Soothsay

God turn the same to good soothsay.

Soothsaying

A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
— Acts xvi. 16.
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
— Eclus. xxxiv. 5.

Sooty

Sootied with noisome smoke.

Sop

He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
— John xiii. 26.
Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe.
All nature is cured with a sop.
Garlands of roses and sops in wine.

Sophime

I trow ye study aboute some sophime.

Sophism

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or “fallacy”.
Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers.

Sophist

Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists.
— Liddell & Scott.

Sophistic

His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.

Sophisticate

To sophisticate the understanding.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.
They purchase but sophisticated ware.
So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate.

Sophistry

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion.

Sopite

The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.

Sopition

Dementation and sopition of reason.

Soppy

It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy.

Sorcerer

Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers.
— Ex. vii. 11.

Sorcery

Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries.

Sordid

A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean.
He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold.
— Sir J. Denham.

Sore

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
The dogs came and licked his sores.
— Luke xvi. 21.
I see plainly where his sore lies.
Thy hand presseth me sore.
— Ps. xxxviii. 2.
[Hannah] prayed unto the Lord and wept sore.
— 1 Sam. i. 10.
Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard.

Sorrily

Thy pipe, O Pan, shall help, though I sing sorrily.

Sorrow

How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite!
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
— Rambler.
Sorrowing most of all . . . that they should see his face no more.
— Acts xx. 38.
I desire no man to sorrow for me.
— Sir J. Hayward.

Sorrowful

My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
— Matt. xxvi. 38.

Sorry

Ye were made sorry after a godly manner.
— 2 Cor. vii. 9.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.
She entered, were he lief or sorry.
All full of chirking was this sorry place.
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.

Sort

By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance].
Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.
Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim.
Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.
I'll deceive you in another sort.
To Adam in what sort Shall I appear?
I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.
A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage.
As when the total kind Of birds, in orderly array on wing, Came summoned over Eden to receive Their names of there.
None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin.
Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.
Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.
She sorts things present with things past.
That he may sort out a worthy spouse.
I'll sort some other time to visit you.
I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.
Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.
The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.
They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.
Things sort not to my will.
— herbert.
I can not tell you precisely how they sorted.

Sortilege

A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries.

Sot

In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dified baboon.
— Oldham.
Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
— Roscommon.
I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

Sottish

How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!

Souded

O martyr souded for virginity!

Sough

The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest.
— W. Howitt.

Soul

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing.
— Law.
Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul.
He is the very soul of bounty!
That he wants algebra he must confess; But not a soul to give our arms success.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
— Prov. xxv. 25.
God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the sword!
Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul).
That to his only Son . . . every soul in heaven Shall bend the knee.

Soulless

Slave, souless villain, dog!

Sound

The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.
Do not I know you a favorer Of this new seat? Ye are nor sound.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me.
— 2 Tim. i. 13.
So sound he slept that naught might him awake.
The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll.
— Camden.
I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast.
I've sounded my Numidians man by man.
I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea.
— Palsgrave.
The warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions.
Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
From you sounded out the word of the Lord.
— 1 Thess. i. 8.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
A bagpipe well could he play and soun[d].
The clock sounded the hour of noon.
— G. H. Lewes.
Soun[d]ing alway the increase of his winning.

Sound-board

To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.

Sour

All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead.
Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart.
— Harte.
They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.

Source

Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.
Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours.
Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.

Sourde

Now might men ask whereof that pride sourdeth.

Souse

And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.
— Tusser.
They soused me over head and ears in water.
Although I be well soused in this shower.
— Gascoigne.
For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main.
— Marston.
Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare.
— J. Dryden. Jr.
[The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near.

Souter

There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one.
— Tyndale.

Souvenance

Of his way he had no sovenance.

Sovereign

At Babylon was his sovereign see.
We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.
— Jefferson.

Sovereignty

Woman desiren to have sovereignty As well over their husband as over their love.

Sovran

On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc.

Sow

A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
— Matt. xiii. 3, 4.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
— Ps. cxxvi. 5.

Space

Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.
They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in].
— R. of Brunne.
While I have time and space.
Put a space betwixt drove and drove.
— Gen. xxxii. 16.
Nine times the space that measures day and night.
God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.
This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space.
And loved in forests wild to space.

Spade

“Let spades be trumps!” she said.

Span

Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound.
Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy.
— Farquhar.
My right hand hath spanned the heavens.
— Isa. xiviii. 13.
The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
— prescott.

Spang

But when they spang o'er reason's fence, We smart for't at our own expense.
— Ramsay.
With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.

Spangle

What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?
Some men by feigning words as dark as mine Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine.

Spaniel

As a spaniel she will on him leap.

spanking

Four spanking grays ready harnessed.
— G. Colman, the Younger.

Spar

Made believe to spar at Paul with great science.

Sparble

The king's host was sparbled and chased.
— Fabyan.

Spare

[Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare.
He that hath knowledge, spareth his words.
— Prov. xvii. 27.
Be pleased your plitics to spare.
Spare my sight the pain Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you.
Spare us, good Lord.
— Book of Common Prayer.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.
Man alone can whom he conquers spare.
All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he estowed on . . . serving of God.
Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate air.
— Roscommon.
I could have better spared a better man.
Her thought that a lady should her spare.
I, who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between carelessness and care.
He will not spare in the day of vengeance.
— Prov. vi. 34.
He was spare, but discreet of speech.
If that no spare clothes he had to give.
O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.
Killing for sacrifice, without any spare.
Poured out their plenty without spite or spare.

Spark

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
— Job v. 7.
We have here and there a little clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge.
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
The finest sparks and cleanest beaux.
A sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, sparking, within.
— W. Irwing.

Sparkle

As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is.
The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper.
A mantelet upon his shoulder hanging Bretful of rubies red, as fire sparkling.
I see bright honor sparkle through your eyes.
The Landgrave hath sparkled his army without any further enterprise.
— State Papers.

Sparrow

He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!

Sparth

He hath a sparth of twenty pound of weight.

Spat

Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands.
— Judd.

Spate

Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate.

Spatter

Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.
That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after.

Spawl

Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it In vain, against the people's favorite.

Spawn

One edition [of books] spawneth another.

Spawner

The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand.
— Walton.

Speak

Till at the last spake in this manner.
Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.
— 1 Sam. iii. 9.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak.
An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history.
Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.
Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.
Make all our trumpets speak.
Thine eye begins to speak.
They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him.
— Job. ii. 13.
It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds.
Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes.
And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence.
Report speaks you a bonny monk.
And French she spake full fair and fetisely.
[He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
— Ecclus. xiii. 6.
each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan.

Spear

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
— Micah iv. 3.

Special

A special is called by the schools a “species”.
Our Savior is represented everywhere in Scripture as the special patron of the poor and the afficted.
To this special evil an improvement of style would apply a special redress.
The king hath drawn The special head of all the land together.

Speciality

On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent.
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality.
— Ld. Lytton.
We 'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man, - For that'a his speciality.
Think of this, sir, . . . remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities -- if I may use that strong remark -- of prejudice.

Specialty

Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.
Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject.
— C. Kingsley.

Specie

“[The king] expects a return in specie from them” [i. e., kindness for kindness].

Species

Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

specific

Specific difference is that primary attribute which distinguishes each species from one another.
In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science.
His parents were weak enough to believe that the royal touch was a specific for this malady.

specification

This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry.

Specify

He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified.

Speciosity

Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance.

Specious

Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye.
— Bp. Richardson.
The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied.
Misled for a moment by the specious names of religion, liberty, and property.
In consequence of their greater command of specious expression.
— J. Morley.

Speck

Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.
Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold.

Speckle

An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied.
— Spebser.

Spectacle

O, piteous spectacle? O, bloody times!
Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.
Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books to read nature.

Spectacled

As spectacled she sits in chimney nook.
— Keats.

Specter

The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice.

Spectral

He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man to spread light.
— F. W. Robertson.

Specular

Thy specular orb Apply to well-dissected kernels; lo! In each observe the slender threads Of first-beginning trees.
— J. Philips.

Speculate

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society.

Speculation

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts.
Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.
— A. Smith.
Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.
— F. A. Walker.
From him Socrates derived the principles of morality, and most part of his natural speculations.
To his speculations on these subjects he gave the lofty name of the “Oracles of Reason.”
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes.

Speculatist

The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume.
— V. Knox.

Speculative

The mind of man being by nature speculative.
The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business.
— A. Smith.

Speculator

A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal.

Speech

There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts.
— Holder.
O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage.
The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told.
People of a strange speech and of an hard language.
— Ezek. iii. 6.
The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey.
The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point.
I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied.

Speechifying

The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds.

Speechless

Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear.

Speed

O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day.
— Gen. xxiv. 12.
Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails.
To warn him now he is too farre sped.
— Remedy of Love.
Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.
Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!
— Lydgate.
I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.
With rising gales that speed their happy flight.
He sped him thence home to his habitation.
Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.
— Ayliffe.
A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Speedy

I will wish her speedy strength.
Darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy ould outfly.

Spell

A spell at the wheel is called a trick.
Nothing new has happened in this quarter, except the setting in of a severe spell of cold weather.
— Washington.
Their toil is so extreme that they can not endure it above four hours in a day, but are succeeded by spells.
— Garew.
Start not; her actions shall be holy as You hear my spell is lawful.
Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.
— T. Warton.
He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.
— Sir G. Buck.
The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect.
The word “satire” ought to be spelled with i, and not with y.
To spell out a God in the works of creation.
To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident.
When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell, And he a god, who could but read or spell.
Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew.

Spellful

Here, while his eyes the learned leaves peruse, Each spellful mystery explained he views.
— Hoole.

Spellwork

Like those Peri isles of light That hang by spellwork in the air.

Spence

In . . . his spence, or “pantry” were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered.
Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift.

Spend

Spend thou that in the town.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
— Isa. lv. 2.
I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
— Ps. xc. 9.
Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning.
The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

Spendthrift

A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life.
— Mrs. R. H. Davis.

Spent

Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.

Spew

Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
— Rev. ii. 16.

Sphere

Of celestial bodies, first the sun, A mighty sphere, he framed.
To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in 't.
Taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell.
The glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other.

Spherical

Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance.
Though the stars were suns, and overburned Their spheric limitations.

Sphery

She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime.

Sphinx

The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx.

Spice

The spices of penance ben three.
Abstain you from all evil spice.
— Wyclif (1. Thess,v. 22).
Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
— Sir T. Elyot.
Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices?
— Piers Plowman.
So much of the will, with a spice of the willful.
She 'll receive thee, but will spice thy bread With flowery poisons.
In the spiced Indian air, by night.

Spicy

Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales.
In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew.

Spike

He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.

Spiked

A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes.
— Wiseman.

Spiky

These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors.
— C. A. Young.
Or by the spiky harrow cleared away.
— Dyer.
The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore.

Spill

And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill.
Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.
They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
— Puttenham.
Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.
And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.
That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill.

Spilth

Choicest cates, and the flagon's best spilth.
— R. Browning.

Spin

All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths.
Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?
— Sheridan.
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives.
They neither know to spin, nor care to toll.
Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together.
With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head.
— G. W. Cable.

Spindle

It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.

Spindrift

The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm wrack and spindrift of the tempest-tossed sea.
— J. E. Marr.

Spinny

The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.
— C. Kingsley.

Spinster

She spake to spinster to spin it out.
— Piers Plowman.
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ.
— Coke.

Spiny

The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy.
— Bp. Warburton.

Spire

An oak cometh up a little spire.
A spire of land that stand apart, Cleft from the main.
Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear.
The spire and top of praises.
It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.

Spirit

The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit.
Be it a letter or spirit, we have great use for it.
There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
— Job xxxii. 8.
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
— James ii. 26.
Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
— Eccl. xii. 7.
Ye gentle spirits far away, With whom we shared the cup of grace.
Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
“Write it then, quickly,” replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
God has . . . made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ.
All bodies have spirits . . . within them.
The four spirits and the bodies seven.
Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.
The ministry had him spirited away, and carried abroad as a dangerous person.
— Arbuthnot & Pope.
I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
— Willis.

Spiritful

The spiritful and orderly life of our own grown men.

Spiritless

A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone.

Spiritous

More refined, more spirituous and pure.

Spiritual

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
— 1 Cor. xv. 44.
God's law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man.
That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.
— Rom. i. ll.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings.
— Eph. i. 3.
If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one.
— Gal. vi. 1.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

Spiritualism

What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
— R. H. Hutton.

Spirituality

A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality.
If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality.
Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.
— Bickersteth.
During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.
Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.

Spiritualize

This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.

Spirituous

The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work.

Spiry

Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.

Spiss

This spiss and . . . copious, yet concise, treatise.
— Brerewood.

Spissated

The spissated juice of the poppy.
— Bp. Warburton.

Spit

She's spitting in the kitchen.
— Old Play.
It had been spitting with rain.

Spite

This is the deadly spite that angers.
The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion.
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language.
— Sir. W. Temple.

Splay

Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.

Spleen

In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
Thy silly thought enforces my spleen.

Spleenful

Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny.
Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine.

Spleeny

Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause.

Splenetic

You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic?

Splenitive

Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash.
— T. N. Page.

Splint

The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel.
— Sir. W. Scott.

Splinter

After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy.

Split

Cold winter split the rocks in twain.
A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water.
The ship splits on the rock.
Each had a gravity would make you split.

Spoil

My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eyes.
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.
— Mark iii. 27.
Spiritual pride spoils many graces.
Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.
Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
From a principle of gratitude I adhered to the coalition; my vote was counted in the day of battle, but I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.
Each science and each art his spoil.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils.
Villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

Spoken

Methinks you 're better spoken.

Spokesman

He shall be thy spokesman unto the people.
— Ex. iv. 16.

Spoliation

Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder.
— Sir G. C. Lewis.

Sponge

The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers.

Sponsional

He is righteous even in that representative and sponsional person he put on.
— Abp. Leighton.

Spontaneity

Romney Leigh, who lives by diagrams, And crosses not the spontaneities Of all his individual, personal life With formal universals.

Spontaneous

Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn away.

Spoom

When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.

Spoon

We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
“Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend,” thus heard I say.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike.
— Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Spooney

There is no doubt, whatever, that I was a lackadaisical young spooney.

Sport

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.
— Prov. x. 23.
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
Think it but a minute spent in sport.
Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind.
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
— John Clarke.
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.
— Broome.
[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
— Isa. lvii. 4.
Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

Sporter

As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a friendship for him.

Sportful

Down he alights among the sportful herd.
They are no sportful productions of the soil.

Sportingly

The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.

Sportive

Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court?

Sportling

When again the lambkins play -- Pretty sportlings, full of May.
— Philips.

Sportula

To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula.

Spot

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot.
That spot to which I point is Paradise.
“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”
It was determined upon the spot.
My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury.

Spotless

A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife.

Spousal

Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.
The spousals of the newborn year.

Spouse

At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That I that lady to my spouse had won.
At which marriage was [were] no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man.
— Fabyan.
This markis hath her spoused with a ring.
Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.
She was found again, and spoused to Marinell.

Spout

Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee?
Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide.
— Creech.
Pray, spout some French, son.
All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills.
In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head.
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.

Sprawl

The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled.

Spray

The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing.
And from the trees did lop the needless spray.

Spread

He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent.
— Gen. xxxiii. 19.
Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch.
Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit.
They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
— Matt. ix. 31.
Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.
Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall.
Governor Winthrop, and his associates at Charlestown, had for a church a large, spreading tree.
— B. Trumbull.
I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.

Spreadingly

The best times were spreadingly infected.

Sprent

All the ground with purple blood was sprent.

Spreynd

When spreynd was holy water.

Sprig

A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago.

Spright

Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright.
Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions of sprights.
To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright.

Sprightful

Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.
Steeds sprightful as the light.
— Cowley.

Sprightliness

In dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she [the soul] exert herself!

Sprightly

The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green.

Spring

The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
— Philips.
And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
— Otway.
Till well nigh the day began to spring.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
— Job xxxviii. 27.
Do not blast my springing hopes.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring?
She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke.
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love.
O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.
Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me.
— Gayton.

Springal

Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall.

Springe

As a woodcock to mine own springe.
He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane corn.

Springing

Thou blessest the springing thereof.
— Ps. lxv. 10.

Springlet

But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still.

Springy

Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy.

Sprinkle

Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
— Heb. x. 22.
And the priest shall . . . sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
— Lev. xiv. 16.

Sprinkling

Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water.
— Ayliffe.

Sprint

A runner [in a quarter-mile race] should be able to sprint the whole way.

Sprite

Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.

Spruce

Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather.
— E. Phillips.
He is so spruce that he can never be genteel.
— Tatler.

Spry

She is as spry as a cricket.
— S. Judd (Margaret).
If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry.

Spud

My spud these nettles from the stone can part.

Spume

Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume.

Spumous

The spumous and florid state of the blood.
The spumy waves proclaim the watery war.

Spunk

A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body.
— Prof. Wilson.

Spur

And on her feet a pair of spurs large.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days.
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
The Parthians shall be there, And, spurring from the fight, confess their fear.
The roads leading to the capital were covered with multitudes of yeomen, spurring hard to Westminster.
Some bold men, . . . by spurring on, refine themselves.
— Grew.

Spurn

[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
The miller spurned at a stone.
The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

Spurt

Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.
The long, steady sweep of the so-called “paddle” tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of the spurt.
— T. Hughes.

Sputter

They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame.
In the midst of caresses, and without the least pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations.

Spy

One, in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.
Look about with your eyes; spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England.
Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof.
— Num. xxi. 32.
It is my nature's plague To spy into abuses.

Squab

Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
— Betterton.
Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.
Punching the squab of chairs and sofas.
On her large squab you find her spread.
The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.

Squabble

The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.

Squadron

Those half-rounding quards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.

Squalid

Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire.
Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals.

Squall

The gray skirts of a lifting squall.
There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, -- The short, thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall.

Squalor

The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.

Squander

Our squandered troops he rallies.
The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly.
— Rambler.
They often squandered, but they never gave.
— Savage.
The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool.

Square

He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches.
The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.
They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.
I have not kept my square.
We live not on the square with such as these.
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.
By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.
Square my trial To my proportioned strength.
The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales.
— Creech.
No works shall find acceptance . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan.
Are you such fools To square for this?

Square-toed

Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes.
— V. Knox.

Squash

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod.
My fall was stopped by a terrible squash.

Squat

Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat.
— Grew.

Squatter

In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown.

Squeak

Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch?
Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the “squeaking pigs” of Homer.
If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.

Squeamish

Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish.
— Hudibras.
His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain.
— Southern.
So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven.

Squeeze

In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden.
One of the many “squeezes” imposed by the mandarins.
— A. R. Colquhoun.

Squelch

Oh 't was your luck and mine to be squelched.
If you deceive us you will be squelched.
He turned and strode to the fire, his boots squelching as he walked.
— P. L. Ford.
A crazy old collier squelching along under squared yards.
— W. C. Russell.

Squib

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.
The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable.
Who copied his squibs, and reechoed his jokes.
The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.
— Tatler.

Squier

Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.

Squint

Some can squint when they will.
Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
— The Forum.
He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.

Squiralty

That such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom.

Squirt

The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.

Squiry

The flower of chivalry and squiry.
— Ld. Berners.

Stab

None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Stabiliment

They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade.
— Derham.

Stability

Since fluidness and stability are contrary qualities.

Stable

In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable.
And to her husband ever meek and stable.

Staccato

Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism].

Stack

But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

Staddle

His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout.

Staff

And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal.
— Ex. xxxviii. 7.
With forks and staves the felon to pursue.
The boy was the very staff of my age.
He spoke of it [beer] in “The Earnest Cry,” and likewise in the “Scotch Drink,” as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand.
— Prof. Wilson.
Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, Was broke in twain.
All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.
— Hayward.
I ascended at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves.
— Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels).
Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.

Stage

Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
— C. Sprague.
When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.
Music and ethereal mirth Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
— Miton.
A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road.
— Jeffrey.
He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite horse performing the journey by easy stages.
— Smiles.
Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
I went in the sixpenny stage.

Stagger

Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
— Rom. iv. 20.
That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person.
Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered.
Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.

Stagnant

That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul.
For him a stagnant life was not worth living.
— Palfrey.

Stagnate

Ready-witted tenderness . . . never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.

Staid

O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

Staidness

If sometimes he appears too gay, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age be wanting.

Stain

Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
That did all other beasts in beauty stain.
Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains.
Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains.
Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy.
You have some stain of soldier in you.

Stainless

The very care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame.
— Crabbe.

Staircase

To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture.

Stake

A sharpened stake strong Dryas found.
Every city, or “stake,” including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
I'll stake yon lamb, that near the fountain plays.

Stale

But seeing the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen.
Wit itself, if stale is less pleasing.
— Grew.
How weary, stale flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
Still, as he went, he crafty stales did lay.

Stalk

To climb by the rungs and the stalks.
Into the chamber he stalked him full still.
[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed.
The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . “I must stalk,” said he.
One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean.
I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.
— Merivale.
As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.
When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
— T. Roosevelt.

Stalking-horse

Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under an affectation of simplicity and religion.
How much more abominable is it to make of him [Christ] and religion a stalking-horse, to get and enjoy the world!

Stalky

At the top [it] bears a great stalky head.

Stall

At last he found a stall where oxen stood.
How peddlers' stalls with glittering toys are laid.
The dignified clergy, out of humility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls.
— Bp. Warburton.
Loud the monks sang in their stalls.
Cries the stall reader, “Bless us! what a word on A titlepage is this!”
Where King Latinus then his oxen stalled.
His horses had been stalled in the snow.
— E. E. Hale.
This is not to be stall'd by my report.
Stall this in your bosom.
We could not stall together In the whole world.

Stalwart

Fair man he was and wise, stalworth and bold.
— R. of Brunne.

Stamina

He succeeded to great captains who had sapped the whole stamina and resistance of the contest.

Stammer

I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all.

Stamp

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small.
— Deut. ix. 21.
God . . . has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.
These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind.
But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies.
— Dennis.
'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy.
That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass.
Hanging a golden stamp about their necks.
At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence.
Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone.
A soldier of this season's stamp.

Stampede

She and her husband would join in the general stampede.
— W. Black.

Stanch

Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
Immediately her issue of blood stanched.
— Luke viii. 44.
One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
In politics I hear you 're stanch.
This is to be kept stanch.
His gathered sticks to stanch the wall Of the snow tower when snow should fall.

Stand

It stands as it were to the ground yglued.
The ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
Wite ye not where there stands a little town?
I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
— Matt. ii. 9.
My mind on its own center stands unmoved.
Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall.
— Spectator.
The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
— Esther viii. 11.
We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment.
Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor.
From the same parts of heaven his navy stands.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
— Walton.
Or the black water of Pomptina stands.
Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species.
He stood the furious foe.
Bid him disband his legions, . . . And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
I took my stand upon an eminence . . . to look into their several ladings.
— Spectator.
Vice is at stand, and at the highest flow.
I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the duke, He shall not pass you.
Father, since your fortune did attain So high a stand, I mean not to descend.

Standard

His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display.
The court, which used to be the standard of propriety and correctness of speech.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards, some against walls.

Standing

An ancient thing of long standing.
I will provide you a good standing to see his entry.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing.
— Ps. lxix. 2.

Standish

I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish.

Stannary

The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.

Stannel

With what wing the staniel checks at it.

Stanza

Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode.

Staple

The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.
For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was minded to erect the town into a staple for wool.
Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. Whenever there was a rumor that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head.
We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandise, of Manchester.
Wool, the great staple commodity of England.

Star

His eyen twinkled in his head aright, As do the stars in the frosty night.
O malignant and ill-brooding stars.
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
On whom . . . Lavish Honor showered all her stars.
With the old flag, the true American flag, the Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the chamber in which we sit.
— D. Webster.

Star-crossed

Such is my star-crossed destiny.

Star-read

Which in star-read were wont have best insight.

stare

For ever upon the ground I see thee stare.
Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret.
Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.
Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.
I will stare him out of his wits.

Stark

Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
The north is not so stark and cold.
Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now.
A stark, moss-trooping Scot.
Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
— Collier.
Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
— Selden.
Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
Strip your sword stark naked.
If horror have not starked your limbs.
— H. Taylor.

Starkly

Its onward force too starkly pent In figure, bone, and lineament.

Starlight

Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
A starlight evening and a morning fair.

Starlike

The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness.

Starred

My third comfort, Starred most unluckily.

Starry

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence?

Starshine

The starshine lights upon our heads.
— R. L. Stevenson.

start

And maketh him out of his sleep to start.
I start as from some dreadful dream.
Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.
But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
At once they start, advancing in a line.
At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet?
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.
One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.
— Wiseman.
The fright awakened Arcite with a start.
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.
To check the starts and sallies of the soul.
The start of first performance is all.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start.
At a start he was betwixt them two.

Start-up

A startuppe, or clownish shoe.

Startle

Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.
After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident.
— Spectator.

Starve

In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.
Have I seen the naked starve for cold?
— Sandys.
Starving with cold as well as hunger.
From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth.
Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa.
The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions.
The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.

Starvedly

Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after.

Starveling

Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.

Statal

I have no knowledge of any other kind of political citizenship, higher or lower, statal or national.
— Edward Bates.

State

State is a term nearly synonymous with “mode,” but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent.
Declare the past and present state of things.
Keep the state of the question in your eye.
Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me.
She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again?
Where least of state there most of love is shown.
His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread.
When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.
Your state, my lord, again is yours.
The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states.
Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame.
Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.
The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop.
— R. Choate.
I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy.
We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life.
— Cook.
And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?
— Cowley.
I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated.
— Wither.
Who calls the council, states the certain day.

Stated

He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office.

Stateliness

For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse?

Stately

Here is a silly stately style indeed!

Statesman

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

Stateswoman

A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing.

Station

A station like the herald, Mercury.
Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them.
All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet.
By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.
— R. Nelson.
The fig and date -- why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain?
The greater part have kept, I see, Their station.
They in France of the best rank and station.
He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed.
— Lyttelton.

Stationary

Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story.

Statism

The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism.

Statist

Statists indeed, And lovers of their country.

Statua

They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other.

Statuary

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.

Statue

I will raise her statue in pure gold.

Statuesque

Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background.
— Hare.

Statuesquely

A character statuesquely simple in its details.

Stature

Foreign men of mighty stature came.

Stave

Let us chant a passing stave In honor of that hero brave.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously.
All the wine in the city has been staved.
— Sandys.
Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank.

Stay

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.
— Ex. xvii. 12.
Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines.
He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.
Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement.
All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.
Your ships are stayed at Venice.
This business staid me in London almost a week.
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new.
Stay your strife.
For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay.
She would command the hasty sun to stay.
Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first.
I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay.
I 'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us.
The father can not stay any longer for the fortune.
I must stay a little on one action.
I stay here on my bond.
Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon.
— Isa. xxx. 12.
Here my commission stays.
Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
How the strait stays the slender waist constrain.
Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay.
Embrace the hero and his stay implore.
Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his revolution was at stay.
Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay.
— Hayward.
They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false.
— Robynson (More's Utopia).
The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.
With prudent stay he long deferred The rough contention.
— Philips.

Stead

Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon.
In stead of bounds, he a pillar set.
The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead.
The smallest act . . . shall stand us in great stead.
Here thy sword can do thee little stead.
Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue.
It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves.

Steadfast

Abide steadfast unto him [thy neighbor] in the time of his trouble.
— Ecclus. xxii. 23.
Whom resist steadfast in the faith.
— 1 Pet. v. 9.

Steadfastly

Steadfastly believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true.
— Wake.

Steadfastness

To prove her wifehood and her steadfastness.

Steadiness

Steadiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage.

Steady

Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute.
Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel.

Steal

And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long.
Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow, thy dispense.
The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in alms.
They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
He will steal himself into a man's favor.
So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
— 2 Sam. xv. 6.
Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.
Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it.
She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy.
Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea.
Thou shalt not steal.
— Ex. xx. 15.
Fixed of mind to avoid further entreaty, and to fly all company, one night she stole away.
From whom you now must steal, and take no leave.
A soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich, distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air.

Stealth

The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth.
I told him of your stealth unto this wood.

Stealthy

[Withered murder] with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost.

Steam

My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intense.
— J. Philips.
The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air.
The vessel steamed out of port.
— N. P. Willis.

Steatopygous

Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed.
— Burton.

Steed

Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed.

Steel

While doubting thus he stood, Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood.
Lies well steeled with weighty arguments.
O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts.
Why will you fight against so sweet a passion, And steel your heart to such a world of charms?
These waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish.

Steely

Around his shop the steely sparkles flew.
She would unarm her noble heart of that steely resistance against the sweet blows of love.

Steep

His eyen steep, and rolling in his head.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling flowers.
The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
— Earle.
We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices.
Bare steeps, where desolation stalks.

Steep-down

Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire.

Steep-up

Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill.

Steepen

As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path.
— H. Miller.

Steeple-crowned

This grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor.

Steepy

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme.

Steer

That with a staff his feeble steps did steer.
Where the wind Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers, and shifts her sail.

Steerage

He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the commonwealth.
He that hath the steerage of my course.
Here he hung on high, The steerage of his wings.

Stele

One of these steles, containing the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered.
— I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Stellar

[These soft fires] in part shed down Their stellar virtue.

Stem

His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron].
After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain.
While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent.
This is a stem Of that victorious stock.
Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
Stemming nightly toward the pole.

Stench

Clouds of savory stench involve the sky.

Stenograph

I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs.

Stent

Then would he weep, he might not be stent.
Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement.
And of this cry they would never stenten.

Stentorophonic

Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican.
— Derham.

Step

Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
— John v. 4.
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
— G. W. Cable.
Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.

Stepping-stone

These obstacles his genius had turned into stepping-stones.
That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

Stereotype

Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
— Duke of Argyll (1887).

Stereotyped

Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities.
— J. C. Shairp.

Sterling

So that ye offer nobles or sterlings.
And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
Sterling was the known and approved standard in England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign.
— S. M. Leake.

Stern

The sterne wind so loud gan to rout.
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard.
These barren rocks, your stern inheritance.
And sit chiefest stern of public weal.

Sternforemost

A fatal genius for going sternforemost.

Stertorous

Burning, stertorous breath that hurt her cheek.
The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls.

Steven

Ye have as merry a steven As any angel hath that is in heaven.
They setten steven for to meet To playen at the dice.

Stew

As burning Aetna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames.
The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews.
— Abp. Abbot.
There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews.
— Aschman.

Steward

Worthy to be stewards of rent and land.
They came near to the steward of Joseph's house.
— Gen. xliii. 19.
As good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
— 1 Pet. iv. 10.

Stewardly

To be stewardly dispensed, not wastefully spent.
— Tooker.

Stick

Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day.
And sticked him with bodkins anon.
It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.
Thou stickest a dagger in me.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew.
The points of spears are stuck within the shield.
The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
— Prov. xviii. 24.
I am a kind of bur; I shall stick.
If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick through malice of your own.
I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” Stuck in my throat.
The trembling weapon passed Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last.
They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas.
Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will.
This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable.

Sticked

And in the sand her ship sticked so fast.
They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt.

Sticking

But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Stickle

When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle.
— Hudibras.
While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
— Hazlitt.
Which [question] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be.
They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.
— W. Browne.

Stickler

Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.

Sticky

Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk.

Stiff

[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky.
It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws.
The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.

Stiffen

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Like bristles rose my stiffening hair.
The tender soil then stiffening by degrees.
Some souls we see, Grow hard and stiffen with adversity.

Stiffness

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too.

Stifle

Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit.
I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
— Waterland.
You shall stifle in your own report.

Stifled

The close and stifled study.

Stigma

The blackest stigma that can be fastened upon him.
All such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery.
— Sir G. Buck.

Stigmatize

That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness.
To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.

Stile

May I not write in such a stile as this?
There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way.
Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle.

Stiletto

The very quack of fashions, the very he that Wears a stiletto on his chin.

Still

The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still.
By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.
Hourly joys be still upon you!
The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.
As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
In the primitive church, such as by fear being compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel.
— Whitgift.
And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.
He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it.
With his name the mothers still their babies.
Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me.

Stillness

Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages.
— J. A. Symonds.
The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted.

Stillroom

Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action.

Stilly

The stilly hour when storms are gone.
The hum of either army stilly sounds.

Stilt

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Stilton cheese

Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner from the soup to the stilton.
— C. Lever.

Stimulant

His feelings had been exasperated by the constant application of stimulants.

Stimulate

To excite and stimulate us thereunto.
— Dr. J. Scott.

Sting

The sting of death is sin.
— 1 Cor. xv. 56.

Stinger

Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusae of our seas are stingers.
— Owen.

Stingo

Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow?

Stingy

A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten.
— L'estrange.

Stint

I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
She stints them in their meals.
— Law.
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
— J. H. Walsh.
They can not stint till no thing be left.
And stint thou too, I pray thee.
The damsel stinted in her song.
God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.

Stintless

The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus.
— Marston.

Stipendiary

His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full.
If thou art become A tyrant's vile stipendiary.
— Glover.

Stipendiate

It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors.

Stipple

The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect.

Stir

My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
And for her sake some mutiny will stir.
I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive.
All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
— Merivale.
They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.
Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?
Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.

Stirring

A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it.

Stirrup

Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon.

Stirt

They privily be stirt into a well.

Stitch

You have gone a good stitch.
In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.
He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.
If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry.
— Marston.

Stith

He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith.

Stithy

The forge that stithied Mars his helm.

Stive

His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.

Stock

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
— Job xiv. 8,9.
The scion overruleth the stock quite.
All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.
And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock.
Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus.
Add to that stock which justly we bestow.
I must buy the stock; send me good cardings.
With a linen stock on one leg.
He shall rest in my stocks.
— Piers Plowman.
At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.
— Leslie Stephen.

Stock-still

His whole work stands stock-still.

Stockish

Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature.

Stocky

Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.
— Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

Stoic

A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear.
— Campbell.

Stoke

Nor short sword for to stoke, with point biting.

Stola

The stola was not allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands.
— Fairholt.

Stole

But when mild morn, in saffron stole, First issues from her eastern goal.
— T. Warton.

Stoled

After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn.
— G. Fletcher.

Stolidity

Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself.

Stomach

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.
Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.
This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
He was a man Of an unbounded stomach.
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.

Stomacher

A stately lady in a diamond stomacher.

Stomachous

With stern looks and stomachous disdain.

Stomachy

A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety.
— R. L. Stevenson.

Stone

They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.
— Gen. xi. 3.
Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie.
I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
— Acts vii. 59.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.

Stone-cold

Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame.

Stony

The stony dart of senseless cold.

Stoolball

Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play.

Stoop

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
And stoop with closing pinions from above.
Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.
Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop from sovereignty?

Stoor

O stronge lady stoor, what doest thou?

Stop

Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
If his sentences were properly stopped.
He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again.
Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career!
By stopping at home till the money was gone.
— R. D. Blackmore.
It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
The organ sound a time survives the stop.

Stop-gap

Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue.
— Hare.

Stope

A poor widow, somedeal stope in age.

Store

The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
Dora stored what little she could save.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.

Stored

It is charged with stored virtue.
— Bagehot.

Storehouse

Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians.
— Gen. xli. 56.
The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Storied

Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied halls, invade.
Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?

Storm

We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
I will stir up in England some black storm.
Her sister Began to scold and raise up such a storm.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
Storms beat, and rolls the main; O! beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain.
What at first was called a gust, the same Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name.
— Donne.
The master storms, the lady scolds.

Stormy

Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain.

Story

One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story.
Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story.
The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.
How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
— Bp. Wilkins.

Stour

She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts].

Stout

With hearts stern and stout.
A stouter champion never handled sword.
He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.
The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
Your words have been stout against me.
— Mal. iii. 13.
Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout.

Stove

When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
— Earl of Strafford.
How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
— Burton.

Stover

Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep.
Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire.
— Tusser.

Stow

Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides.
Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?

Stowage

In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures.

Straggle

The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

Straggler

Let thy hand supply the pruning knife, And crop luxuriant stragglers.

Straight

Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow.
— Sir J. Mandeville.
And the crooked shall be made straight.
— Isa. xl. 4.
There are many several sorts of crooked lines, but there is only one which is straight.
I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
Everything was going on straight.
— W. Black.

Straight-out

Straight-out and generous indignation.
— Mrs. Stowe.

Straightway

He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose.
— Mark v. 41,42.

Strain

He is of a noble strain.
With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
He sweats, Strains his young nerves.
They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring.
There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
Prudes decayed about may track, Strain their necks with looking back.
Evander with a close embrace Strained his departing friend.
He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Is forced and strained.
The quality of mercy is not strained.
Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
To build his fortune I will strain a little.
Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation.
Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain.
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began.
Such take too high a strain at first.
The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs.
It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains.
Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements.
— Hayward.

Strait

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
— Matt. vii. 14.
Too strait and low our cottage doors.
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.
The straitest sect of our religion.
— Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).
To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
— Secker.
I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.
We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.
A dark strait of barren land.
For I am in a strait betwixt two.
— Phil. i. 23.
Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
— Broome.

Strait-laced

Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced.

Straiten

Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.
In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe.
They straiten at each end the cord.

Strange

One of the strange queen's lords.
I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
— Ascham.
So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.
In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak.

Strangely

You all look strangely on me.
I do in justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it.
How strangely active are the arts of peace!
It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses.
— Law.

Stranger

I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions.
Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
— Granville.
My child is yet a stranger in the world.
I was no stranger to the original.
To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger.

Strangle

Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.
— Ayliffe.
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

Strap

A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.

Strapping

There are five and thirty strapping officers gone.
— Farquhar.

Stratagem

Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Strath

The long green strath of Napa valley.
— R. L. Stevenson.

Straw

I set not a straw by thy dreamings.

Stray

Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray.
A sheep doth very often stray.
We have erred and strayed from thy ways.
— of Com. Prayer.
While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray.

Streak

What mean those colored streaks in heaven?
A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black.
— Sandys.
Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.

Stream

Beneath those banks where rivers stream.
A thousand suns will stream on thee.
It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.

Streamer

Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.
While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.

Streamy

Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water.
His nodding helm emits a streamy ray.

Street

He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field.
— Coverdale.
At home or through the high street passing.
His deserted mansion in Duke Street.

Streetward

Their little streetward sitting room.

Streit

Pyrrhus with his streite sword.

Strenger

Two of us shall strenger be than one.

Strength

All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were.
Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty.
God is our refuge and strength.
— Ps. xlvi. 1.
What they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths.
— Sprat.
Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
And praise the easy vigor of a life Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join.
Bright Phoebus in his strength.

Strengthen

Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves.
Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him.
— Deut. iii. 28.
The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Strengthful

Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful.
— Marston.

Strenuous

And spirit-stirring wine, that strenuous makes.
Strenuous, continuous labor is pain.

Stress

Sad hersal of his heavy stress.
The faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.
A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream.
Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter.
— Clerk Maxwell.

Stretch

And stretch forth his neck long and small.
I in conquest stretched mine arm.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain.
Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve.
— Doddridge.
They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative.
As far as stretcheth any ground.
— Gower.
The inner membrane . . . because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken.
By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.
Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative.
A great stretch of cultivated country.
— W. Black.
But all of them left me a week at a stretch.
— E. Eggleston.
Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind.
This is the utmost stretch that nature can.
— Granville.

Strew

And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about.
— Beaconsfield.
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
She may strew dangerous conjectures.

Stricken

Abraham was old and well stricken in age.
— Gen. xxiv. 1.
He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle.
Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week.
— Bayne.

Strict

It shall be still in strictest measure.
And rules as strict his labored work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line.
Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: - “What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!”

Stricture

A man of stricture and firm abstinence.
[I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage.

Strid

This striding place is called the Strid.

Stride

Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.
I mean to stride your steed.
God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom.

Stridulous

The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.

Strife

Doting about questions and strifes of words.
— 1 Tim. vi. 4.
Thus gods contended -- noble strife - Who most should ease the wants of life.
Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.

Strifeful

The ape was strifeful and ambitious.

Strike

He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
— Ex. xii. 7.
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
— Prov. xvii. 26.
Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
— 2 Kings v. 11.
A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily].
— Piers Plowman.
And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell.
Strike now, or else the iron cools.
A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
A puny subject strikes At thy great glory.
Struck for throne, and striking found his doom.
Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish.
Till a dart strike through his liver.
— Prov. vii. 23.
Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.
Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike.
Strikes are the insurrections of labor.
— F. A. Walker.

Striker

Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish.
— Dampier.

String

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still.
He twangs the grieving string.
Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
The string of his tongue was loosed.
— Mark vii. 35.
Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?
For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

Stringent

They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringent code of procedure.

Stringer

Be content to put your trust in honest stringers.
— Ascham.

Stringless

His tongue is now a stringless instrument.

Strip

And strippen her out of her rude array.
They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
— Gen. xxxvii. 23.
Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
Before the folk herself strippeth she.
Strip your sword stark naked.
When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.
To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.
— Gilpin.

Stripe

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
— Deut. xxv. 3.
Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.

Stripling

Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
— 1 Sam. xvii. 56.

Stripping

The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
— H. Spencer.
Never were cows that required such stripping.
— Mrs. Gaskell.

Strive

Was for this his ambition strove To equal Caesar first, and after, Jove?
— Cowley.
My Spirit shall not always strive with man.
— Gen. vi. 3.
Why dost thou strive against him?
— Job xxxiii. 13.
Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
[Not] that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive.

Strived

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel.
— Rom. xv. 20.

Stroke

His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree.
— Deut. xix. 5.
A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes.
— Prov. xviii. 6.
He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke.
In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
— Isa. xxx. 26.
Well, but what's o'clock? - Upon the stroke of ten. -- Well, let is strike.
O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.
At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
— Harte.
He has a great stroke with the reader.
The oars where silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.
Ye mote with the plat sword again Stroken him in the wound, and it will close.
He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, He stroked her cheeks.

Stroker

Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker.
— Bp. Warburton.

Stroking

I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.

Stroll

These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.

Strong

That our oxen may be strong to labor.
— Ps. cxliv. 14.
Orses the strong to greater strength must yield.
Her mother, ever strong against that match.
He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears.
— Heb. v. 7.
I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism.
Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song, As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong.
— E. Smith.

Stronghand

It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.

Strow

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.
A manner turbid . . . and strown with blemished.

Structure

His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent.
Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.
It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure.
There stands a structure of majestic frame.

Structured

The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process.
— H. Spencer.

Struggle

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract.
— Lincoln.
'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.

Strumpet

Out on thy more than strumpet impudence.
With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.

Strut

The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait?

Stub

Stubs sharp and hideous to behold.
And prickly stubs instead of trees are found.
What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land.
— Berkley.

Stubbed

A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood.
— R. Browning.

Stubbled

A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain.

Stubborn

And I was young and full of ragerie [wantonness] Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie.
These heretics be so stiff and stubborn.
— Sir T. More.
Your stubborn usage of the pope.

Stuck-up

The airs of small, stuck-up, men.
— A. K. H. Boyd.

Stud

In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigor, and size.
He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
Seest not this same hawthorn stud?
A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs.
Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems And studs of pearl.
Thy horses shall be trapped, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen.
— Bp. Hobart.

Studdery

King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery.
— Holinshed.

Student

Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book.

Studied

I shrewdly suspect that he is little studied of a theory of moral proportions.

Studier

Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy.

Studious

You that are so studious Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own.
For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented?
— Rambler.
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale.

Study

Hammond . . . spent thirteen hours of the day in study.
— Bp. Fell.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace.
Just men they seemed, and all their study bent To worship God aright, and know his works.
The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study.
— Law.
The proper study of mankind is man.
I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.
Study thyself; what rank or what degree The wise Creator has ordained for thee.
For their heart studieth destruction.
— Prov. xxiv. 2.

Stuff

For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
— Ex. xxxvi. 7.
Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff.
The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder.
What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?
It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively.
— F. G. Lee.
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
— Hayward.
Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.
Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.
With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.
An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
Taught harmless man to cram and stuff.

Stultify

The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own.
— Hazlitt.

Stum

Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
We stum our wines to renew their spirits.
— Floyer.

Stumble

There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble.
— Prov. iv. 19.
He stumbled up the dark avenue.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him.
— 1 John ii. 10.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake.
— C. Smart.
False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Stumbling-block

We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness.
— 1 Cor. i. 23.

Stumbling-stone

This stumbling-stone we hope to take away.
— T. Burnet.

Stump

Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket.

Stumpage

Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land.
— C. S. Sargent.

Stun

One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe.
And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
William was quite stunned at my discourse.

Stunsail

With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all.

Stunt

When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation.
An extraordinary man does three or four different “stunts” with remarkable dexterity.
— The Bookman.
He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming.
— L. Hutton.

Stupefaction

Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it.

Stupefy

The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied.

Stupendous

All are but parts of one stupendous whole.

Stupid

O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God!
With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood.
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times.

Stupidity

A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear.

Sturdy

This sturdy marquis gan his hearte dress To rue upon her wifely steadfastness.
This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.
— Hudibras.
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps.
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.

Stutter

Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.

Sty

To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene.

Stygian

At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect.

Style

High style, as when that men to kinges write.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
— Chesterfield.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
— I. Disraeli.
The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
— Sir J. Reynolds.
According to the usual style of dedications.
— C. Middleton.
One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe.
How well his worth and brave adventures styled.

Stylist

Distinguished as a stylist, for ease.
— Fitzed. Hall.

Stylistic

The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him [Wyclif].
— G. P. Marsh.

Stylite

The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen. Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom. This was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the Christian equivalent of a flagpole sitter; in other words, Vulfolaic was a monk whose main austerity consisted in living on top of a pillar. By carrying out this feat in the rain, snow, and frost of the Moselle valley, Vulfolaic had convinced the local population to overthrow and abandon the idol of Diana to which they were addicted.
— Walter Goffart, FOREIGNERS IN THE HISTORIES OF GREGORY OF TOURS (http://www.arts.uwo.ca/florilegium/goffart.html).

Subalternate

All their subalternate and several kinds.

Subcommittee

Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed.

Subdichotomy

Many subdichatomies of petty schisms.

Subdivide

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.

Subdivision

In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit.

Subduce

If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.

Subdue

I will subdue all thine enemies.
— 1 Chron. xvii. 10.
Nothing could have subdued nature To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters.
If aught . . . were worthy to subdue The soul of man.

Subhumerate

Nothing surer ties a friend than freely to subhumerate the burden which was his.
— Feltham.

Subindividual

An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals.

Subinfeudation

The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation, or undertenancy.

Subject

Esau was never subject to Jacob.
All human things are subject to decay.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities.
— Titus iii. 1.
Was never subject longed to be a king, As I do long and wish to be a subject.
The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it.
Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.
The unhappy subject of these quarrels.
Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject.
— C. Middleton.
The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied.
That which manifests its qualities -- in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong -- is called their subject or substance, or substratum.
The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing.
The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
— Rockstro.
Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason.
— C. Middleton.
In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
He is the most subjected, the most nslaved, who is so in his understanding.
God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts.
Subjected to his service angel wings.

Subject-matter

As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto.
As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetry recedes from it.

Subjection

The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands.
— 1 Peter iii. 1.
Because the subjection of the body to the will is by natural necessity, the subjection of the will unto God voluntary, we stand in need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be rightly conformed to His.

Subjugate

He subjugated a king, and called him his “vassal.”
— Baker.

Sublimate

The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.

Sublimated

[Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain.

Sublimation

Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality.

Sublimatory

Vials, crosslets, and sublimatories.

Sublime

Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime.
Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule.
The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase.
A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.
— E. P. Whipple.
The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.
An ordinary gift can not sublime a person to a supernatural employment.

Sublunar

All things sublunary are subject to change.
All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under.

Submerge

I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged.
Some say swallows submerge in ponds.

Submission

Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word; We English warrious wot not what it means.
In all submission and humility York doth present himself unto your highness.
No duty in religion is more justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all things.
Be not as extreme in submission As in offense.

Submissive

Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.
With a submissive step I hasted down.

Submit

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
— Gen. xvi. 9.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.
— Eph. v. 22.
Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house.
We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
The revolted provinces presently submitted.
— C. Middleton.
To thy husband's will Thine shall submit.
Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death.

Subnuvolar

Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant.
— Milnes.

Subordinate

The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.

Subordination

Natural creature having a local subordination.
— Holyday.
Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.

Suborn

Thou art suborned against his honor.
Those who by despair suborn their death.

Subornation

Foul subornation is predominant.
The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy.
— De Quinsey.

Subreligion

Loyalty is in the English a subreligion.

Subscribe

[They] subscribed their names under them.
— Sir T. More.
All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward.
So spake, so wished, much humbled Eve; but Fate Subscribed not.
I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke.

Subscription

You owe me no subscription.

Subsecute

To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken.
— E. Hall.

Subserve

It is a great credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
Not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

Subservience

The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions.
There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends.
— Cheyne.

Subservient

Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other.
— Bp. Fell.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit.

Subsidence

The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.
— Bp. Warburton.

Subsidiary

Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary.
— Florio.
They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
— Ld. Mahon.

Subsidize

He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a large body of German mercenaries.

Subsidy

They advised the king to send speedy aids, and with much alacrity granted a great rate of subsidy.

Subsist

And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve.
To subsist on other men's charity.
He laid waste the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army.
— Robertson.

Subsistence

Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.
— Stillingfleet.
His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

Subsizar

Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever.
— J. Fletcher.

Substance

These cooks, how they stamp, and strain, and grind, And turn substance into accident!
Heroic virtue did his actions guide, And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.
This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
— Luke xv. 13.
Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks.
We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest.

Substantial

If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar.
If happinessbe a substantial good.
The substantial ornaments of virtue.
The rainbow [appears to be] a large substantial arch.

Substantiality

The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality.

Substantially

In him all his Father shone, Substantially expressed.
The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate.

Substantiate

Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment.

Substantive

He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner.
Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner.
— Hazlitt.

Substitute

Hast thou not made me here thy substitute?
Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol.
Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others.

Substrate

The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand.

Substruct

He substructs the religion of Asia as the base.

Substruction

It is a magnificent strong building, with a substruction very remarkable.

Subsultory

Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men.

Subsume

To subsume one proposition under another.
A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness.
— W. Pater.

Subsumption

The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion.
But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the subsumption under the rule.

Subterfuge

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument.
By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory.

Subtile

More subtile web Arachne can not spin.
I do distinguish plain Each subtile line of her immortal face.
The slow disease and subtile pain.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtile, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. The genius of the Italians, on the contrary, is acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to be humorous, is merely witty.
The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's.

Subtilism

The high orthodox subtilism of Duns Scotus.

Subtilize

Nor as yet have we subtilized ourselves into savages.

Subtilty

Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions.
To learn a lewd man this subtility.
O full of all subtility and all mischief.
— Acts xiii. 10.

Subtle

Things remote from use, obscure and subtle.
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground [bowling ground].

Subtlety

The fox which lives by subtlety.
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.

Subtly

Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise.
In the nice bee what sense so subtly true.
Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind.

Suburb

[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
The suburb of their straw-built citadel.

Suburban

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen.

Suburbicarian

The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts.

Subvene

A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin.
— Bp. Warburton.

Subversion

The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate.
Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve.

Subversive

Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation.

Subvert

These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.
This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.

Succedaneum

In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope.

Succeed

As he saw him nigh succeed.
Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse.
Succeed my wish and second my design.
If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership.
Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!
No woman shall succeed in Salique land.
It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition.
Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English.
Will you to the cooler cave succeed!

Success

Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success.
Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The tempter stood.
Dream of success and happy victory!
Or teach with more success her son The vices of the time to shun.
Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people.

Successary

My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with my blood.

Successful

Welcome, nephews, from successful wars.

Succession

He was in the succession to an earldom.
You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark.
The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession.

Successive

Send the successive ills through ages down.

Successively

The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet.

Successless

Successless all her soft caresses prove.

Successor

A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists.

Succinct

His habit fit for speed succinct.
Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
— Roscommon.
The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind.

Succor

He is able to succor them that are tempted.
— Heb. ii. 18.
My noble father . . . Flying for succor to his servant Bannister.
This mighty succor, which made glad the foe.

Succuba

Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.

Succursal

Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents.

Such

And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun.
His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping.
That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself.
In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived.
To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.
— James iv. 13.
Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc.
Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life.
And many other such like things ye do.
— Mark vii. 8.

Suck

Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less.

Sucker

They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.

Sucking

I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing.

Suckle

The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier.
They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom.

Sudatory

These sudatories are much in request for many infirmities.

Sudden

Sudden fear troubleth thee.
— Job xxii. 10.
Never was such a sudden scholar made.
The apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye.
Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost!
He withdrew his opposition all of a sudden.

Sue

For yet there was no man that haddle him sued.
I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due.
Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me.
By adverse destiny constrained to sue For counsel and redress, he sues to you.
Caesar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.
— C. Middleton.
The Indians were defeated and sued for peace.
— Jefferson.

Suffer

Our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains.
If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
— Lev. xix. 17.
I suffer them to enter and possess.
O well for him whose will is strong! He suffers, but he will not suffer long.
The father was first condemned to suffer upon a day appointed, and the son afterwards the day following.
Public business suffers by private infirmities.

Sufferance

He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance.
The seeming sufferances that you had borne.
A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet.
But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise.
In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end.
Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories.

Suffice

To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?
Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
— Deut. iii. 26.
The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail.

Sufficiency

His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted.
A substitute or most allowed sufficiency.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others.
— Eikon Basilike.
Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance.

Sufficient

My grace is sufficient for thee.
— 2 Cor. xii. 9.
Who is sufficient for these things?
— 2 Cor. ii. 16.
The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.
Thou art the most sufficient (I'll say for thee), Not to believe a thing.

Suffisance

He could in little thing have suffisaunce.

Suffocate

Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.

Suffrage

I ask your voices and your suffrages.
Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers.
Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine.
I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.

Suffragist

It is curious that . . . Louisa Castelefort should be obliged after her marriage immediately to open her doors and turn ultra liberal, or an universal suffragist.
— Miss Edgeworth.

Suffuse

When purple light shall next suffuse the skies.

Suffusion

To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color.

Sugar

Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf?
With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.

Suggest

Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.
And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still.

Suggestion

Why do I yield to that suggestion?
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night On your suggestion.

Suggestment

They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment.
— Hare.

Suit

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.
I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.
In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.
Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee.
So went he suited to his watery tomb.
The place itself was suiting to his care.
Give me not an office That suits with me so ill.

Suite

Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library.
— Boswell.

Suitor

She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.

Sullage

The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage.
It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below.

Sullen

Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.
Things are as sullen as we are.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The dreaded east is all the wind that blows.
Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness.
— Feltham.

Sulliage

Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind.
— Gov. of Tongue.

Sully

Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
— Roscommon.
No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.
A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation.
— Spectator.

Sulphite

A sulphite is a person who does his own thinking, he is a person who has surprises up his sleeve. He is explosive.
— Gelett Burgess.

Sulphureous

Her snakes united, sulphureous waters drink.

Sultry

Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie.
When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant.

Sum

Take ye the sum of all the congregation.
— Num. i. 2.
With a great sum obtained I this freedom.
— Acts xxii. 28.
Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought My story to the sum of earthly bliss.
A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole.
A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums.
The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard,” in few words sums up the moral of this fable.
He sums their virtues in himself alone.
But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings].

Summation

Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect.

Summer

The fowls shall summer upon them.
— Isa. xviii. 6.

Summit

Fixed on the summit of the highest mount.

Summon

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Trumpets summon him to war.

Summons

Special summonses by the king.
This summons . . . unfit either to dispute or disobey.
— Bp. Fell.
He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.
— Sir J. Hayward.

Sumptuous

We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance.
She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine.

Sun

Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
— Ps. lxxiv. 11.
I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.
— Eikon Basilike.
Then to sun thyself in open air.

Sunbeam

Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam.

Sunburn

Sunburnt and swarthy though she be.

Sunder

It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain.

Sundowner

Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations.
— Francis Adams.

Sundry

With many a sound of sundry melody.
Sundry foes the rural realm surround.
Every church almost had the Bible of a sundry translation.

Sunless

The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep.

Sunny

Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.
My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair.

Sunrise

Which were beyond Jordan toward the sunrising.
— Deut. iv. 47 (Rev. Ver.)
Full hot and fast the Saxon rides, with rein of travel slack, And, bending o'ev his saddle, leaves the sunrise at his back.

Sunset

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
— Campbell.

Sunshine

But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator.
That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor.

Sunshiny

Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield.

Sunup

Such a horse as that might get over a good deal of ground atwixt sunup and sundown.

Sup

There I'll sup Balm and nectar in my cup.
— Crashaw.
Tom Thumb had got a little sup.
I do entreat that we may sup together.
Sup them well and look unto them all.

Superable

Antipathies are generally superable by a single effort.

Superadd

The strength of any living creature, in those external motion, is something distinct from, and superadded unto, its natural gravity.
— Bp. Wilkins.
The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of his plumes.

Superaddition

This superaddition is nothing but fat.

Superadvenient

He has done bravely by the superadvenient assistance of his God.

Superannuation

The world itself is in a state of superannuation.
Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.

Supereminence

He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his own supereminence.
— Prof. Wilson.

Supererogate

The fervency of one man in prayer can not supererogate for the coldness of another.

Superfetate

The female . . . is said to superfetate.
— Grew.

Superfetation

In then became a superfetation upon, and not an ingredient in, the national character.

Superficial

This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise.
He is a presumptuous and superficial writer.
That superficial judgment, which happens to be right without deserving to be so.

Superficialize

It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil.
— E. P. Whipple.

Superfluity

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

Superfluous

An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous.
— E. Everett.

Superinduce

Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires.

Superintend

The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature.

Superior

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
— Spectator.

Superlunar

The head that turns at superlunar things.

Supernaculum

Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and he can not make it stand on by reason there is too much, he must drink again for his penance.
— Nash.

Supernal

Not by the sufferance of supernal power.

Supernatural

That is supernatural, whether it be, that is either not in the chain of natural cause and effect, or which acts on the chain of cause and effect in nature, from without the chain.
— Bushnell.
We must not view creation as supernatural, but we do look upon it as miraculous.
— McCosh.

Superphysical

Something superphysical and superchemical.
— J. Le Conte.

Superpraise

To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts.

Superscription

The superscription of his accusation was written over, The King of the Jews.
— Mark xv. 26.

Supersede

Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion.

Superseminate

That can not be done with joy, when it shall be indifferent to any man to superseminate what he please.

Supersession

The general law of diminishing return from land would have undergone, to that extent, a temporary supersession.
— J. S. Mill.

Superstition

And the truth With superstitions and traditions taint.
[The accusers] had certain questions against him of their own superstition.
— Acts xxv. 19.

Superstitious

Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
— Acts xvii. 22.

Superstruct

This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue.

Superstruction

My own profession hath taught me not to erect new superstructions upon an old ruin.

Superstructure

You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study.

Supervene

Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power.
A tyrany immediately supervened.

Supervenient

That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice.
Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes.
— Z. Swift.

Supine

If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.
He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation.

Supplant

Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.
— Bp. Fell.
You never will supplant the received ideas of God.

Supplantation

Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
— Cloeridge.

Supple

If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will.
They should supple our stiff willfulness.
The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell.

Supple-jack

He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke.

Supplement

Causes of one kind must be supplemented by bringing to bear upon them a causation of another kind.

Suppletory

Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man.

Suppliance

The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
When Greece her knee in suppliance bent.
— Halleck.

Suppliant

The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud.
To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee.
Hear thy suppliant's prayer.

Supplicant

The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God.

Supplicate

A man can not brook to supplicate or beg.

Supply

Burning ships the banished sun supply.
The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

Support

This fierce demeanor and his insolence The patience of a god could not support.
To urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
— J. Edwards.
Wherefore, bold pleasant, Darest thou support a published traitor?

Supporter

The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.
The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries.

Supportress

You are my gracious patroness and supportress.

Supposal

Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom.

Suppose

Suppose they take offence without a cause.
When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence.
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.
— 2 Sam. xiii. 32.
One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.
— Female Quixote.

Supposition

This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false.
He means are in supposition.

Suppress

Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger.
She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense.
— Broome.

Supremacy

The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes.

Supreme

He that is the supreme King of kings.
Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash.

Surbate

Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground.
Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet.

Surbed

It . . . has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded.
— Gilbert White.

Surcease

It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing.
The nations, overawed, surceased the fight.

Surcharge

Four charged two, and two surcharged one.
Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.

Surcoat

A long surcoat of pers upon he had..
At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.

Sure

We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
— Rom. ii. 2.
I'm sure care 's an enemy of life.
The Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord.
— 1 Sam. xxv. 28.
The testimony of the Lord is sure.
— Ps. xix. 7.
Which put in good sure leather sacks.
The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.
— Sir T. More.
I presume . . . that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife.
— Brome.
Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that we are sure enough.
She that's made sure to him she loves not well.
— Cotgrave.
'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print.

Surely

In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
— Gen. ii. 17.
He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise great things out of small.
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely.
— Prov. x. 9.

Surement

Every surement and every bond.

Sureness

For more sureness he repeats it.
The law holds with equal sureness for all right action.

Suresby

There is one which is suresby, as they say, to serve, if anything will serve.
— Bradford.

Surety

Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.
— Gen. xv. 13.
For the more surety they looked round about.
[We] our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none.
There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
— Prov. xi. 15.
She called the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself.

Surface

The bright surface of this ethereous mold.
Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface.
— V. Knox.

Surfeit

Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board.
— Piers Plowman.
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

Surfel

She shall no oftener powder her hair, [or] surfel her cheeks, . . . but she shall as often gaze on my picture.

Surfy

Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves.

Surge

He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
— James i. 6 (Rev. Ver.)
He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
The surging waters like a mountain rise.

Surly

Now softened into joy the surly storm.

Surmise

[We] double honor gain From his surmise proved false.
No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises.
It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true.
This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it.

Surmount

The mountains of Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds.
What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate.

Surname

Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
— Isa. xliv. 5.
And Simon he surnamed Peter.
— Mark iii. 16.

Surpass

This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy.

Surplus

When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, and break no more ground.

Surplusage

Take what thou please of all this surplusage.
A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.

Surprisal

How to secure the lady from surprisal.
Because death is uncertain, let us prevent its surprisal.

Surprise

Pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house.
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.
— Isa. xxxiii. 14.
The castle of Macduff I will surprise.
Who can speak The mingled passions that surprised his heart?
I am surprised with an uncouth fear.
Up he starts, Discovered and surprised.
Not with me, That in my hands surprise the sovereignity.

Surquedry

Then pay you the price of your surquedry.

Surrender

To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them.
That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it.

Surreption

Fame by surreption got May stead us for the time, but lasteth not.

Surround

But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me.

Sursanure

Of a sursanure In surgery is perilous the cure.

Surveillance

That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old.

Survene

A suppuration that survenes lethargies.
— Harvey.

Survey

Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above.
With such altered looks, . . . All pale and speechless, he surveyed me round.
Under his proud survey the city lies.
— Sir J. Denham.

Surveyor

Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold?

Survival

The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the study of manners and customs.
— Tylor.

Survivance

His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.

Survive

I'll assure her of Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors.
— Sir J. Denham.
Alike are life and death, When life in death survives.

Survivor

The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow.

Susceptible

It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day.
Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts.
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises.

Suscitation

A mere suscitation or production of a thing.

Suspect

Suspect [was] his face, suspect his word also.
What I can do or offer is suspect.
So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed.
Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more.
From her hand I could suspect no ill.
If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me.

Suspend

Suspend your indignation against my brother.
The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear.
Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
— Bp. Sanderson.

Suspense

[The great light of day] suspense in heaven.
Ten days the prophet in suspense remained.
Upon the ticklish balance of suspense.
A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain.

Suspensive

The provisional and suspensive attitude.
— J. Morley.

Suspicable

It is a very suspicable business.
— Dr. H. more.

Suspicion

Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight.
The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
— A. W. Ward.

Suspicious

Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects.
Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other.
We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance.
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.

Suspiration

Windy suspiration of forced breath.

Suspire

Fireflies that suspire In short, soft lapses of transported flame.

Sustain

Every pillar the temple to sustain.
No comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him under the evils in this world.
His sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain.
Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain?
You shall sustain more new disgraces.
I waked again, for my sustain was the Lord.

Sustenance

For lying is thy sustenance, thy food.

Sustention

In fine images, in sustention, in irony, they surpass anything that Burke ever wrote.
— J. Morley.

Suster

There are seven sustren, that serve truth ever.
— Piers Plowman.

Susurrus

The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches.

Swad

Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.
— Blount.
There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.

Swaddle

They put me in bed in all my swaddles.
They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen.

Swaddling

Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
— Luke ii. 12.

Swag

I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth.
— Palsgrave.
He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself.
— Lawson.

Swagger

A man who swaggers about London clubs.
— Beaconsfield.
What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!
To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen.
— Colier.
He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us.

Swagman

Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree. And he sang as he sat and watched his billy boiling, `Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?'
— [Waltzing Matilda, an Australian tune.]

Swain

Him behoves serve himself that has no swain.
It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain.
Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel.

Swallow

As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills.
The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses.
— Num. xvi. 32.
Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed.
Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered.
I have no swallow for it.
There being nothing too gross for the swallow of political rancor.
— Prof. Wilson.

Swallowtail

This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons.

Swamp

Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses.
— Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words).
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
— J. R. Green.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory.

Swap

All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.

Sward

The sward was trim as any garden lawn.

Sware

Cophetua sware a royal oath.

Swarm

At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
— W. Coxe.
Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy].
Every place swarms with soldiers.
Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.

Swart

A nation strange, with visage swart.

Swarth

Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.

Swarthy

Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains.

Swathe

Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born.
— Abp. Abbot.
Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe.
Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand.
The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes.

Sway

As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed.
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
She could not sway her house.
This was the race To sway the world, and land and sea subdue.
As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed.
— Hudibras.
Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest.
The balance sways on our part.
The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much.
Hadst thou swayed as kings should do.
With huge two-handed sway brandished aloft.
Expert When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway Of battle.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

Swear

Ye shall swear by my name falsely.
— Lev. xix. 12.
I swear by all the Roman gods.
[I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week.
Swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me.
— Gen. xxi. 23.
He swore consent to your succession.
Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.

Swearer

Then the liars and swearers are fools.

Swearing

Idle swearing is a cursedness.

Sweat

He 'd have the poets sweat.
It made her not a drop for sweat.
With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by “sweating”, or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression.
— R. Cobden.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
— Gen. iii. 19.

Sweaty

No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams.

Sweep

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
— Isa. xiv. 23.
The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies.
— Isa. xxviii. 17.
I have already swept the stakes.
Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre.
The road which makes a small sweep.

Sweeper

It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy.

Sweepy

The branches bend before their sweepy away.

Sweet

The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful.
Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
— Job xxxviii. 31.
Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working.
A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet.

Sweeten

And sweeten every secret tear.
Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.

Swell

You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.
Your equal mind yet swells not into state.
Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.
[The Church] swells her high, heart-cheering tone.
It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.
Little River affords navigation during a swell to within three miles of the Miami.
— Jefferson.
Music arose with its voluptuous swell.
The swell and subsidence of his periods.
The swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay.
The gigantic swells and billows of the snow.

Swelling

Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea.
The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings.

Swelt

Night she swelt for passing joy.

Swerve

A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
I swerve not from thy commandments.
— Bk. of Com. Prayer.
They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion.
The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.

Sweven

I defy both sweven and dream.

Swich

Swich things as that I know I will declare.

Swift

My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
— James i. 19.
Swift of dispatch and easy of access.
And bring upon themselves swift destruction.
— 2 Pet. ii. 1.
Ply swift and strong the oar.

Swig

The lambkins swig the teat.
— Creech.

Swill

As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.

Swim

Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point.
Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
[They] now swim in joy.
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes.
Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.

Swindle

Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres.

Swindler

Fraud and injustice soon follow, and the dignity of the British merchant is sunk in the scandalous appellation of a swindler.
— V. Knox.
Perhaps you 'll think I act the same As a sly sharper plays his game.
— Cotton.

Swing

I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air.
He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief.
— A. V. G. Allen.
He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round.
They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants.
— Spectator.
The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine.
To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius.

Swinge

I had swinged him soundly.
And swinges his own vices in his son.
— C. Dryden.
Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.

Swink

Or swink with his hands and labor.
For which men swink and sweat incessantly.
The swinking crowd at every stroke pant “Ho.”
— Sir Samuel Freguson.
And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
To devour all that others swink.

Swipe

Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields.
— R. A. Proctor.
Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum.
— R. A. Proctor.

Switch

Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch.

Swithe

That thou doest, do thou swithe.
— Wyclif (John xiii. 27).

Swoon

The sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
— Lam. ii. 11.
The most in years . . . swooned first away for pain.
He seemed ready to swoon away in the surprise of joy.
— Tatler.

Swoop

And now at last you came to swoop it all.
The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop.

Sword

He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain.
— Rom. xiii. 4.
She quits the balance, and resigns the sword.
I came not to send peace, but a sword.
— Matt. x. 34.
He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law.

Swough

He sigheth with full many a sorry swough.

Swound

The landlord stirred As one awaking from a swound.

Sycophancy

The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope.
— Bp. Warburton.

Sycophant

A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.
Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.

Sycophantic

To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite.
Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain.

Sycophantish

Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly.

Syle

But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And when they're grown, why then we call them herring.
— J. Ingelow.

Syllabification

Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of force.
— H. Sweet.

Syllable

Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter.
Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
Who dare speak One syllable against him?

Syllogize

Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question.

Sylphid

Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear.

Sylphlike

Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze.

Sylvan

The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious.
Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied.

Symbol

A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it represents, e. g., an actual part chosen to represent the whole, or a lower form or species used as the representative of a higher in the same kind.
They do their work in the days of peace . . . and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.
The persons who are to be judged . . . shall all appear to receive their symbol.

Symbolic

The sacrament is a representation of Christ's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed.

Symbolize

The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
— G. S. Faber.

Sympathetic

Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Sympathize

The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
— Buckminster.
Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures.

Sympathy

They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy.
I value myself upon sympathy, I hate and despise myself for envy.
— Kames.
The adverb has most sympathy with the verb.
— Earle.
Fault, Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration.

Symphonious

Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps.

Symphony

The trumpets sound, And warlike symphony in heard around.
With harp and pipe and symphony.

Symphytism

Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other.
— Earle.

Symposiac

Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance.

Symptom

Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms.

Symptomatic

Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.

Synagogue

My brethren, . . . if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring.
— James ii. 1,2 (Rev. Ver.).

Synchronize

The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity.

Synchrony

Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony.

Syncope

Revely, and dance, and show, Suffer a syncope and solemn pause.

Syncretism

He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial.
— Baxter.
Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy.
— Krauth-Fleming.

Syndetic

With the syndetic juxtaposition of distinct members, the article is not often repeated.
— C. J. Grece (Trans. Maetzner's Gram.).

Syne

[Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne.
— W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace).

Synecdochical

Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another.

Synod

It hath in solemn synods been decreed, Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns.
Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above.

Synodal

Synodals are due, of common right, to the bishop only.
— Gibson.

Synodist

These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes.

Synonym

All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society.
His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy.
In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished.
— G. P. Marsh.

Synonymize

This word “fortis” we may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid.
— Camden.

Synonymous

These words consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed; for wisdom and understanding are synonymous words here.

Synopsis

That the reader may see in one view the exactness of the method, as well as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle.
— Bp. Warburton.

Syntax

They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings.

Synthesis

Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other.

Synthetic

Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments.
— Bolingbroke.

Syriasm

The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms.
— Bp. Warburton.

Syrtis

Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land.

System

The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow compass.

Systematic

Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems.
A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic.
These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical.

Systematize

Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts.
— Harris.

Systematizer

Aristotle may be called the systematizer of his master's doctrines.