Webster's Dictionary 1913

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S

S (ĕs), the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere ...

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Saadh

Sa″adh (sä″ȧd), n. See Sadh.

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Saan

Saan (sän), n. pl.(Ethnol.) Same as Bushmen.

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Sabadilla

Sab′a‐dil″la (săb′ȧ‐dĭl″lȧ), n. [Sp. cebadilla.] (Bot.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schœnocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was forme...

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Sabæan

Sa‐bæ″an (?), a. & n. Same as Sabian.

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Sabæanism

Sa‐bæ″an‐ism (?), n. Same as Sabianism.

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Sabæism

{ Sa″bæ‐ism (?), Sa″ba‐ism (?) }, n. See Sabianism.

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Sabal

Sa″bal (?), n.(Bot.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.

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Sabaoth

Sab″a‐oth (săb″ā̍‐ŏth or sȧ″bā‐ŏth; 277), n. pl. [Heb. tsebā'ōth, pl. of tsābā', an army or host, fr. tsābā', to go forth to war.] 1. Armies; hosts.2. Incorrectly, the Sabbath.

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Sabbat

Sab″bat (?), n. [See Sabbath.] In mediæval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

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Sabbatarian

Sab′ba‐ta″ri‐an (?), n. [L. Sabbatarius: cf. F. sabbataire. See Sabbath.] 1. One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth...

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Sabbatarian (2)

Sab′ba‐ta″ri‐an, a. Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.

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Sabbatarianism

Sab′ba‐ta″ri‐an‐ism (?), n. The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward (1673).

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Sabbath

Sab″bath (?), n. [OE. sabat, sabbat, F. sabbat, L. sabbatum, Gr. σάββατον, fr. Heb. shabbāth, fr. shābath to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat.] 1. A season or day of rest; one day in...

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Sabbathless

Sab″bath‐less, a. Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. Bacon.

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Sabbatic

{ Sab‐bat″ic (?), Sab‐bat″ic‐al (?) }, a. [Gr. �: cf. F. sabbatique.] Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.Sabb...

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Sabbatism

Sab″ba‐tism (?), n. [L. sabbatismus, Gr. �, fr. � to keep the Sabbath: cf. F. sabbatisme. See Sabbath.] Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest. Dr. H. More.

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Sabbaton

Sab″ba‐ton (?), n. [Cf. Sp. zapaton, a large shoe, F. sabot a wooden shoe.] A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both milita...

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Sabean

Sa‐be″an (?), a. & n. Same as Sabian.

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Sabeism

Sa″be‐ism (?), n. Same as Sabianism.

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Sabella

‖Sa‐bel″la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. sabulum gravel.] (Zoöl.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.

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Sabellian

Sa‐bel″li‐an (?), a. Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

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Sabellian (2)

Sa‐bel″li‐an (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that th...

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Sabellianism

Sa‐bel″li‐an‐ism (?), n.(Eccl.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

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Sabelloid

Sa‐bel″loid (?), a. [Sabella + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like, or related to, the genus Sabella. — Sa‐bel″loid, n.

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Saber

{ Sa″ber, Sa″bre } (?), n. [F. sabre, G. säbel; of uncertain origin; cf. Hung. száblya, Pol. szabla, Russ. sabla, and L. Gr. ζαβόσ crooked, curved.] A sword with a broad and hea...

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Saber (2)

{ Sa″ber, Sa″bre }, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sabered (?) or Sabred (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Sabering or Sabring (�).] [Cf. F. sabrer.] To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as...