SHUNLESS
SHUN'LESS, adjective Not to be avoided; inevitable; unavoidable; as shunless destiny. [Little used.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SHUNNED
SHUN'NED, participle passive Avoided.
SHUNNING
SHUN'NING, participle present tense Avoiding; keeping clear from; declining.
SHURK
SHURK. [See Shark.]
SHUT
SHUT, verb transitive pretand participle passiveshut.1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.2. To prohibit; to ...
SHUTTER
SHUT'TER, noun1. A person that shuts or closes.2. A door; a cover; something that closes a passage; as the shutters of a window.
SHUTTING
SHUT'TING, participle present tense Closing; prohibiting entrance; confining.
SHUTTLE
SHUT'TLE, noun [from the root of shoot; Ice. skutul.] An instrument used by weavers for shooting the thread of the woof in weaving from one side of the cloth to the other, betwe...
SHUTTLE-COCK
SHUT'TLE-COCK, noun [shuttle and cock or cork.] A cork stuck with fethers, used to be struck by a battledore in play; also, the play.
SHY
SHY, adjective1. Fearful of near approach; keeping at a distance through caution or timidity; shunning approach; as a shy bird.She is represented in a shy retiring posture. Addi...
SHYLY
SHY'LY, adverb In a shy or timid manner; not familiarity; with reserve.
SHYNESS
SHY'NESS, noun Fear of near approach or of familiarity; reserve; coyness.
SIALOGOGUE
SIALOGOGUE, nounsial'ogog. [Gr. saliva, and leading.] A medicing that promotes the salivary discharge.
SIB
SIB, a relation, in Saxon, but not in use in English.
SIBERIAN
SIBE'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to Siberia, a name given to a great and indefinite extent of territory in the north of Asia; as a Siberian winter.
SIBERITE
SIB'ERITE, noun Red tourmalin.
SIBILANT
SIB'ILANT, adjective [Latin sibilo, to hiss.] Hissing; making a hissing sound. S and z are called sibilant letters.SIB'ILANT, noun A letter that is uttered with a hissing of the...
SIBILATION
SIBILA'TION, noun A hissing sound.
SIBYL
SIB'YL, noun [from the Latin] In pagan antiquity, the Sibyls were certain said to be endowed with a prophetic spirit. Their number is variously stated; but the opinion of Varro,...
SIBYLLINE
SIB'YLLINE, adjective Pertaining to the Sibyls; uttered, written or composed by the Sibyls.
SICAMORE
SIC'AMORE, noun More usually written sycamore, which see.
SICCATE
SIC'CATE, verb transitive To dry. [Not in use.]
SICCATION
SICCA'TION, noun The act or process of drying. [Not in use.]
SICCATIVE
SIC'CATIVE, adjective [from Latin sicco, to dry.] Drying; causing to dry.SIC'CATIVE, noun That which promotes the process of drying.
SICCITY
SIC'CITY, noun [Latin siccitas.] Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture; as the siccity of flesh or af the air.
SICE
SICE, nounsize. The number six at dice.
SICH
SICH, for such. [See Such.]