Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 12
Saprophyte (n.) (Bot.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
Saprophyte (n.) An organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium [syn: saprophyte, saprophytic organism].
Saprophytic (a.) Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
Saprophytic (a.) Obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material.
Saprophytic (a.) (Of some plants or fungi) Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter.
Sapsago (n.) A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
Sapsago (n.) A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
Sapskull (n.) A saphead. [Low]
Sapucaia (n.) (Bot.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. [Written also sapucaya.]
Sapucaia nut (Bot.), The seed of the sapucaia; -- called also paradise nut.
Sapwood (n.) (Bot.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood.
Sapwood (n.) Newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction.
Sarabaite (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.
Saraband (n.) A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.
She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab. -- Sir W. Scott.
Saraband (n.) Music composed for dancing the saraband.
Saraband (n.) A stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time.
Saracen (n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
Saracens' consound (Bot.), A kind of ragwort ({Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds. Saracenic
Saracen (n.) (Historically) A member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
Saracen (n.) (When used broadly) Any Arab.
Saracen (n.) (Historically) A Muslim who opposed the Crusades.
Saracenic (a.) Alt. of Saracenical.
Saracenical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture. "Saracenic music." -- Sir W. Scott.
Sarasin (n.) (Arch.) See Sarrasin.
Sarrasin, Sarrasine (n.) (Fort.) A portcullis, or herse. [Written also sarasin.]
Saraswati (n.) (Hind. Myth.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.
Sarcasm (n.) 諷刺，挖苦，嘲笑 [U]；譏諷語，挖苦話 [C] A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.
The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. -- Sir J. Reynolds.
Syn: Satire; irony; ridicule; taunt; gibe.
Sarcasm (n.) Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" -- Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark].
Sarcasm (n.) [ U ] 諷刺，挖苦，嘲笑 The use of remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what they say, made in order to hurt someone's feelings or to criticize something in a humorous way.
// "You have been working hard," he said with heavy sarcasm, as he looked at the empty page.
Compare: Irony
Irony (n.) [ U ] (Opposite result) [C2] 具有諷刺意味的情況；出乎意料的情況；令人啼笑皆非的事情 A situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result.
// The irony (of it) is that the new tax system will burden those it was intended to help.
Irony (n.) [ U ] (Type of speech) [C2] 反語；諷刺 The use of words that are the opposite of what you mean, as a way of being funny.
// Her voice heavy with irony, Simone said, "We're so pleased you were able to stay so long." (= Her voice made it obvious they were not pleased.)
Idiom:
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit (Saying) 挖苦是最低級的幽默；挖苦乃刻薄之舉 Said to mean that sarcasm is unkind and not very funny.
Sarcasmous (a.) Sarcastic. [Obs.] "Sarcasmous scandal." -- Hubidras. Sarcastic
Sarcastic (a.) Alt. of Sarcastical.
Sarcastical (a.) Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world! -- South.
Sarcastically (adv.) In a sarcastic manner.
Sarcastically (adv.) In a sarcastic manner; "`Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically" [syn: sarcastically, sardonically].
Sarcel (n.) One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.
Sarceled (a.) (her.) Cut through the middle.
Sarcelle (n.) (Zool.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.
Sarcenet (n.) A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc. [Written also sarsenet.]
Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. -- Shak.
Sarcenet (n.) A fine soft silk fabric often used for linings [syn: sarcenet, sarsenet].
Sarcin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Compare: Hypoxanthin
Hypoxanthin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.
Sarcina (n.) (Biol.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group.
Sarcina form (Biol.), The tetrad form seen in the division of a dumb-bell group of micrococci into four; -- applied particularly to bacteria. See micrococcus.
Sarcle (v. t.) To weed, or clear of weeds, with a hoe. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Sarco- () A combining form from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology.
Sarcobases (n. pl. ) of Sarcobasis.
Sarcobasis (n.) (Bot.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
Sarcoblast (n.) (Zool.) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.
Sarcocarp (n.) (Bot.) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
Note: The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout. -- M. T. Masters.
Sarcocele (n.) (Med.) Any solid tumor of the testicle. Sarcocol
Sarcocol (n.) Alt. of Sarcocolla.
Sarcocolla (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.
Sarcode (n.) (Biol.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm. Sarcoderm
Sarcoderm (n.) Alt. of sarcoderma.
Sarcoderma (n.) (Bot.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.
sarcoderma (n.) (Bot.) A sarcocarp.
Sarcodic (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to sarcode.
Sarcoid (a.) (Biol.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.
Sarcolactic (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.
Sarcolemma (n.) (Anat.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
Sarcolemma (n.) An extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber.
Sarcoline (a.) (Min.) Flesh-colored. Sarcologic
Sarcologic (a.) Alt. of Sarcological.
Sarcological (a.) Of or pertaining to sarcology.
Sarcology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.
Sarcomata (n. pl. ) of Sarcoma.
Sarcomas (n. pl. ) of Sarcoma.
Sarcoma (n.) (Med.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.
Sarcomatous (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.
Sarcophaga (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
Sarcophaga (n.) (Zool.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.
Sarcophaga (n.) Flesh flies [syn: Sarcophaga, genus Sarcophaga].
Sarcophagan (n.) (Zool.) Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
Sarcophagan (n.) (Zool.) Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
Sarcophagous (a.) (Zool.) Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.
Sarcophagi (n. pl. ) of Sarcophagus.
Sarcophaguses (n. pl. ) of Sarcophagus.
Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. -- Holland.
Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
Sarcophagus (n.) A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
Sarcophagy (n.) The practice of eating flesh.
Sarcophile (n.) (Zool.) A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.
Sarcoptes (n.) (Zool.) A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.
Sarcoptes (n.) Type genus of the family Sarcoptidae: itch mites [syn: Sarcoptes, genus Sarcoptes].
Sarcoptid (n.) (Zool.) Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites.
Sarcoptid (a.) Of or pertaining to the itch mites.
Sarcoptid (n.) Whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals; "itch mites cause scabies" [syn: itch mite, sarcoptid].
Sarcorhamphi (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of raptorial birds comprising the vultures.
Sarcosepta (n. pl. ) of Sarcoseptum.
Sarcoseptum (n.) (Zool.) One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan.
Sarcosin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.
Sarcosis (n.) (Med.) Abnormal formation of flesh.
Sarcosis (n.) (Med.) Sarcoma.
Sarcotic (a.) (Med.) Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.
Sarcotic (n.) A sarcotic medicine. [R.]
Sarcous (a.) (Anat.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.
Sarculation (n.) A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.
Sard (n.) (Min.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.
Compare: Chalcedony
Chalcedony (n.; pl. Chalcedonies) (Min.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]
Note: When chalcedony is variegated with with spots or figures, or arranged in differently colored layers, it is called agate; and if by reason of the thickness, color, and arrangement of the layers it is suitable for being carved into cameos, it is called onyx. Chrysoprase is green chalcedony; carnelian, a flesh red, and sard, a brownish red variety.
Sard (n.) A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard, sardine, sardius].
Sardachate (n.) (Min.) A variety of agate containing sard. Sardan
Sardan (n.) Alt. of Sardel.
Sardel (n.) (Zool.) A sardine. [Obs.]
Sardel (n.) A precious stone. See Sardius.
Sardine (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine ({Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine ({Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
Sardine (n.) See Sardius.
Sardine (n.) Small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine, pilchard].
Sardine (n.) Any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned.
Sardine (n.) A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard, sardine, sardius].
Sardine (n.) Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring [syn: pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus].
Sardinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia.
Sardinian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sardinia.
Sardinian (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Sardinia or its people or its language.
Sardinian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sardinia.
Sardinian (n.) The Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish.
Sardius (n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate. -- Ex. xxviii. 17.
Sardius (n.) A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard, sardine, sardius].
Sardoin (n.) (Min.) Sard; carnelian.
Sardonian (a.) Sardonic. [Obs.] "With Sardonian smile." -- Spenser.
Sardonic (a.) 冷嘲的，譏諷的 Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.
Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. -- Sir H. Wotton.
The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. -- Burke.
{Sardonic grin} or {Sardonic laugh}, An old medical term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter.
Sardonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.
Sardonic (a.) Disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists" -- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing" -- Irwin Edman
Sardonyx (n.) (Min.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
Sardonyx (n.) An onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral.
Sardonyx, () (Rev. 21:20), A species of the carnelian combining the sard and the onyx, having three layers of opaque spots or stripes on a transparent red basis. Like the sardine, it is a variety of the chalcedony.
Saree (n.) 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.
Saree (n.) A dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body [syn: sari, saree].
Sargasso (n.) (Bot.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
Sargasso Sea, A large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.
Sargasso (n.) Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea [syn: gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum].
Sargassum (n.) [NL.] A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
Sargassum (n.) Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea [syn: gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum].
Sargo (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to Sargus, Pomadasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.
Sari (n.) Same as Saree.
Sari (n.) A dress worn primarily by Hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body [syn: sari, saree].
Sarigue (n.) (Zool.) A small South American opossum ({Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.
Sark (n.) A shirt. [Scot.]
Sark (v. t.) (Carp.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
Sarkin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Compare: Hypoxanthin
Hypoxanthin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.
Sarking (n.) (Carp.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
Sarlac (n.) Alt. of Sarlyk