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  • English Word Sardonic Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.
  • English Word Sardonyx Definition A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
  • English Word Saree Definition The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.
  • English Word Sargasso Definition The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
  • English Word Sargassum Definition A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
  • English Word Sargo Definition Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to Sargus, Pomadasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.
  • English Word Sari Definition Same as Saree.
  • English Word Sarigue Definition A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.
  • English Word Sark Definition A shirt.
  • English Word Sark Definition To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
  • English Word Sarkin Definition Same as Hypoxanthin.
  • English Word Sarking Definition Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
  • English Word Sarlac Definition Alt. of Sarlyk
  • English Word Sarlyk Definition The yak.
  • English Word Sarmatian Definition Alt. of Sarmatic
  • English Word Sarmatic Definition Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.
  • English Word Sarment Definition A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.
  • English Word Sarmentaceous Definition Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.
  • English Word Sarmentose Definition Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.
  • English Word Sarmentose Definition Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous.
  • English Word Sarmentous Definition Sarmentose.
  • English Word Sarn Definition A pavement or stepping-stone.
  • English Word Sarong Definition A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.
  • English Word Saros Definition A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.
  • English Word Sarpened Definition of Sharpen
  • English Word Sarplar Definition A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.
  • English Word Sarplier Definition A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc.
  • English Word Sarpo Definition A large toadfish of the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. pardus).
  • English Word Sarracenia Definition A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.
  • English Word Sarrasin Definition Alt. of Sarrasine