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  • English Word Sanguivorous Definition Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
  • English Word Sanhedrim Definition the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.
  • English Word Sanhedrin Definition Alt. of Sanhedrim
  • English Word Sanhedrist Definition A member of the sanhedrin.
  • English Word Sanhita Definition A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda.
  • English Word Sanicle Definition Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.
  • English Word Sanidine Definition A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.
  • English Word Sanies Definition A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
  • English Word Sanious Definition Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.
  • English Word Sanious Definition Discharging sanies; as, a sanious ulcer.
  • English Word Sanitarian Definition Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.
  • English Word Sanitarian Definition An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
  • English Word Sanitarist Definition A sanitarian.
  • English Word Sanitarium Definition A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.
  • English Word Sanitary Definition Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.
  • English Word Sanitation Definition The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
  • English Word Sanity Definition The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
  • English Word Sanjak Definition A district or a subvision of a vilayet.
  • English Word Sank Definition imp. of Sink.
  • English Word Sank Definition of Sink
  • English Word Sankha Definition A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.
  • English Word Sankhya Definition A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness.
  • English Word Sannop Definition Same as Sannup.
  • English Word Sannup Definition A male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.
  • English Word Sanny Definition The sandpiper.
  • English Word Sans Definition Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.
  • English Word Sans-culotte Definition A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
  • English Word Sans-culotte Definition Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.
  • English Word Sans-culottic Definition Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
  • English Word Sans-culottism Definition Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.