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- English Word Sans-souci Definition Without care; free and easy.
- English Word Sanscrit Definition See Sanskrit.
- English Word Sanskrit Definition The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
- English Word Sanskrit Definition Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
- English Word Sanskritic Definition Sanskrit.
- English Word Sanskritist Definition One versed in Sanskrit.
- English Word Santal Definition A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.
- English Word Santalaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.
- English Word Santalic Definition Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.
- English Word Santalin Definition Santalic acid. See Santalic.
- English Word Santalum Definition A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.
- English Word Santees Definition One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.
- English Word Santer Definition See Saunter.
- English Word Santon Definition A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.
- English Word Santonate Definition A salt of santonic acid.
- English Word Santonic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Santonin Definition A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.
- English Word Santoninate Definition A salt of santoninic acid.
- English Word Santoninic Definition Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.
- English Word Sao Definition Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
- English Word Sap Definition The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- English Word Sap Definition The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- English Word Sap Definition A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
- English Word Sap Definition To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- English Word Sap Definition To pierce with saps.
- English Word Sap Definition To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- English Word Sap Definition To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- English Word Sap Definition A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- English Word Sapadillo Definition See Sapodila.
- English Word Sapajo Definition The sapajou.