Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 88
Size (v. i.) (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Size (a.) (Used in combination) sized; "the economy-size package"; "average-size house".
Size (n.) The physical magnitude of something (how big it is); "a wolf is about the size of a large dog".
Size (n.) The property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe"
Size (n.) Any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" [syn: size, sizing].
Size (n.) The actual state of affairs; "that's the size of the situation"; "she hates me, that's about the size of it" [syn: size, size of it].
Size (n.) A large magnitude; "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area".
Size (v.) Cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance).
Size (v.) Sort according to size.
Size (v.) Make to a size; bring to a suitable size.
Sized (a.) Adjusted according to size.
Sized (a.) Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
Sized (a.) Having a specified size [ant: unsized].
Sized (a.) Having the surface treated or coated with sizing [ant: unsized].
Sizel (n.) Same as Scissel, 2.
Sizer (n.) See Sizar.
Sizer (n.) (Mech.) An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
Sizer (n.) (Mech.) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
Siziness (n.) The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.
Sizing (n.) Act of covering or treating with size.
Sizing (n.) A weak glue used in various trades; size.
Sizing (n.) The act of sorting with respect to size.
Sizing (n.) The act of bringing anything to a certain size.
Sizing (n.) (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
Sizing (n.) Any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" [syn: size, sizing].
Sizy (a.) Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. -- Arbuthnot.
Sizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Sizzle.
Sizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sizzle.
Sizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] -- Forby.
Sizzle (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Sizzle (n.) A sizzling noise.
Sizzle (v.) Make a sound like frying fat.
Sizzle (v.) Seethe with deep anger or resentment; "She was sizzling with anger".
Sizzle (v.) Burn or sear with a sizzling sound; "The fat sizzled in the pan".
Sizzling () a. & n. from Sizzle.
Sizzling (a.) Hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather".
Sizzling (a.) Characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" [syn: red-hot, sizzling].
Skaddle (n.) Hurt; damage. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Ray.
Skaddle (a.) Hurtful. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Ray.
Skaddon (n.) (Zool.) The larva of a bee. [Prov. Eng.]
Skag (n.) (Naut.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.
Skag (n.) Street names for heroin [syn: big H, hell dust, nose drops, smack, thunder, skag, scag].
Skain (n.) See Skein. [Obs.]
Skain (n.) See Skean. -- Drayton.
Skainsmate (n.) A messmate; a
companion. [Obs.]
Scurvy knave! I am none of his firt-gills; I am none of
his skainsmates. --
Shak.
Skaith (n.) See Scatch. [Scot.]
Compare: Scald
Scald (n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes. [Written also skald.]
A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. -- Sir W. Scott.
Skald (n.) See 5th Scald.
Skaldic (a.) See Scaldic. -- Max M["u]ller.
Skall (v. t.) To scale; to mount. [Obs.] Skar
Skar (a.) Alt. of Skare.
Skare (a.) Wild; timid; shy. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Skart (n.) (Zool.) The shag. [Prov. Eng.]
Skate (n.) [C] 冰鞋；四輪溜冰鞋 [P]；（一次）滑冰，（一次）溜冰 A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddened all to joy. -- Thomson.
Roller skate. See under Roller.
Skated (imp. & p. p.) of Skate.
Skating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skate.
Skate (v. i.) 滑冰，溜冰；一帶而過，略微觸及 [（+over/ around/ round）]；【口】吊兒郎當，遊戲人間 To move on skates.
Skate (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
Note: Some of the species are used for food, as the European blue or gray skate ({Raia batis), which sometimes weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or barn-door, skate ({Raia laevis) is also a large species, often becoming three or four feet across. The common spiny skate ({Raia erinacea) is much smaller.
Skate's egg. See Sea purse.
Skate sucker, Any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates.
Skate (n.) Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
Skate (n.) Large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins.
Skate (v.) Move along on skates; "The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter".
Skateboard (n.) 滑板 A board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot.
Skateboard (v. i.) 用滑板滑行 Ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom.
Skateboarding (n.) 滑板運動；踩滑板；Skateboard 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The sport of skating on a skateboard.
Skater (n.) One who skates.
Skater (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
Skater (n.) Someone who skates.
Skatol (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N.
Skayles (n.) [[root]159.] Skittles. [Obs.]
Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.] "His skean, or
pistol." -- Spenser.
Skedaddled (imp. & p. p.) of Skedaddle.
Skedaddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skedaddle.
Skedaddle (v. i.) To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away. [Slang, U. S.]
Skedaddle (n.) A hasty flight.
Skedaddle (v.) Run away, as if in a panic.
Compare: Ski
Ski (n.; pl. skis) A long, flat, narrow runner made of wood, plastic or metal, curved upwards in front, having a fitting allowing it to be attached to the foot, and used for gliding or sliding over snow. Commonly used in the plural, to designate the pair. [Also spelled skee.] Skiagraph
Skee (n.) A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding; now usually spelled ski.
Compare: Skid
Skid (n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.
Skid (n.) A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure. Specifically:
Skid (n.) (a) pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo. -- Totten.
Skid (n.) (b) One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.
Skid (n.) (c) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
Skid (n.) (Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
Skid (n.) A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; -- a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet.
Skid (n.) pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.
Skid (n.) [From the v.] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.
Skeed (n.) See Skid.
Skeel (n.) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Grose. Skeelduck
Skeelduck (n.) Alt. of Skeelgoose.
Sheldrake (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. ({Tadorna cornuta syn. Tadorna tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.
Note: It has the head and neck greenish black, the breast, sides, and forward part of the back brown, the shoulders and middle of belly black, the speculum green, and the bill and frontal bright red. Called also shelduck, shellduck, sheldfowl, skeelduck, bergander, burrow duck, and links goose.
Note: The Australian sheldrake ({Tadorna radja) has the head, neck, breast, flanks, and wing coverts white, the upper part of the back and a band on the breast deep chestnut, and the back and tail black. The chestnut sheldrake of Australia ({Casarca tadornoides) is varied with black and chestnut, and has a dark green head and neck. The ruddy sheldrake, or Braminy duck ({Casarca rutila), and the white-winged Sheldrake ({Casarca leucoptera), are related Asiatic species.
Sheldrake (n.) Any one of the American mergansers.
Note: The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.
Skeelgoose (n.) (Zool.) The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]
Skeet (n.) (Naut.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
Skeet (n.) The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird [syn: skeet, skeet shooting, trapshooting].
Skeg (n.) A sort of wild plum. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Skeg (n.) pl. A kind of oats. -- Farm. Encyc.
Skeg (n.) (Naut.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
Skeg (n.) A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
Skegger (n.) (Zool.) The parr. -- Walton.
Compare: Parr
Parr (n.) (Zool.) (a) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.
Parr (n.) (Zool.) (b) A young leveret. Parrakeet
Skein (n.) A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
Note: A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel.
Skein (n.) (Wagon Making) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. -- Knight.
Skein (n.) (Zool.)
A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like). [Prov. Eng.]
Skein (n.) Coils of worsted yarn.
Skeine (n.) See Skean.
Skelder (v. t. & i.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Skelder (n.) A vagrant; a cheat. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson. Skeldrake
Skeldrake (n.) Alt. of Skieldrake
Skieldrake (n.) (Zool.) The common European sheldrake.
Skieldrake (n.) (Zool.) The oyster catcher.
Skelet (n.) A skeleton. See Scelet.
Skeletal (a.) Pertaining to the skeleton.
Skeletal (a.) Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles".
Skeletal (a.) Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted].
Skeletogenous (a.) Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.
Skeletology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.
Skeleton (n.) (Anat.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
Note: [See Illust. of the Human Skeleton, in Appendix.]
Skeleton (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-tissue framework with the integument and its appendages. See Endoskeleton, and Exoskeleton.
Skeleton (n.) Hence, figuratively: A very thin or lean person.
Skeleton (n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
The great skeleton of the world. -- Sir M. Hale.
Skeleton (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
Skeleton (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
Skeleton bill, A bill or draft made out in blank as to the amount or payee, but signed by the acceptor. [Eng.]
Skeleton key, A key with nearly the whole substance of the web filed away, to adapt it to avoid the wards of a lock; a master key; -- used for opening locks to which it has not been especially fitted.
Skeleton leaf, A leaf from which the pulpy part has been removed by chemical means, the fibrous part alone remaining.
Skeleton proof, A proof of a print or engraving, with the inscription outlined in hair strokes only, such proofs being taken before the engraving is finished.
Skeleton regiment, A regiment which has its complement of officers, but in which there are few enlisted men.
Skeleton shrimp (Zool.), A small crustacean of the genus Caprella. See Illust. under Laemodipoda.
Skeleton (n.) Something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel".
Skeleton (n.) A scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet" [syn: skeleton, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard].
Skeleton (n.) The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal [syn: skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale].
Skeleton (n.) The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" [syn: skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframe].
Skeletonized (imp. & p. p.) of Skeletonize.
Skeletonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skeletonize.
Skeletonize (v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. -- Pop. Sci. Monthly.
Skeletonizer (n.) (Zool.) Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
Skellum (n.) A scoundrel. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Pepys. Burns.
Skelly (v. i.) To squint. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Skelly (n.) A squint. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Skelp (n.) A blow; a smart stroke. [Prov. Eng.] -- Brockett.
Skelp (n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain. [Scot.]
Skelp (v. t.) To strike; to slap. [Scot.] -- C. Reade.
Skelp (v. t.) To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.
Skelp (n.) A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
Skelter (v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off. [Colloq.] -- A. R. Wallace.
Sken (v. i.) To squint. [Prov. Eng.]
Skene (n.) See Skean. -- C. Kingsley.
Skep (n.) A coarse round farm basket. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Tusser.
Skep (n.) A beehive. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Skep (n.) A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
Skep (n.) A domed beehive made of twisted straw.
Skeptic (n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
Skeptic (n.) (Metaph.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
All this criticism [of Hume] proceeds upon the erroneous hypothesis that he was a dogmatist. He was a skeptic; that is, he accepted the principles asserted by the prevailing dogmatism: and only showed that such and such conclusions were, on these principles, inevitable. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Skeptic (n.) (Theol.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.
Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophistries of skeptics. -- S. Clarke.
Note: This word and its derivatives are often written with c instead of k in the first syllable, -- sceptic, sceptical, scepticism, etc. Dr. Johnson, struck with the extraordinary irregularity of giving c its hard sound before e, altered the spelling, and his example has been followed by most of the lexicographers who have succeeded him; yet the prevalent practice among English writers and printers is in favor of the other mode. In the United States this practice is reversed, a large and increasing majority of educated persons preferring the orthography which is most in accordance with etymology and analogy.
Syn: Infidel; unbeliever; doubter. -- See Infidel. Skeptic
Skeptic (a.) Alt. of Skeptical.
Skeptical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
Skeptical (a.) (Theol.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures.
The skeptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals. -- R. Hall. -- Skep"tac*al*ly, adv. -- Skep"tic*al*ness, n.
Skeptic (n.) Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs [syn: skeptic, sceptic, doubter].
Skeptical (a.) Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles" [syn: disbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, unbelieving].
Skeptical (a.) Marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener" [syn: doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical].
Skeptically (adv.) With scepticism; in a sceptical manner; "he looked at her sceptically" [syn: sceptically, skeptically].
// He looked at her skeptically.
Skepticism (n.) An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
That momentary amazement, and irresolution, and confusion, which is the result of skepticism. -- Hune.
Skepticism (n.) (Metaph.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
Skepticism (n.) (Theol.) A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
Let no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. -- S. Miller.
Skepticism (n.) Doubt about the truth of something [syn: incredulity, disbelief, skepticism, mental rejection].
Skepticism (n.) The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge [syn: agnosticism, skepticism, scepticism].