Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 91
Skiving (n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.
Skiving (n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
Sklayre (n.) A vell. [Obs.]
Sklere (v. t.) To shelter; to cover. [Obs.] Skolecite
Skolecite (n.) Alt. of Skolezite.
Skolezite (n.) (Min.) See Scolecite.
Skonce (n.) See Sconce.
Compare: Saury
Saury (n.; pl. Sauries.) (Zool.) A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
Saury (n.) Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus].
Skopster (n.) The saury. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Scorodite
Scorodite (n.) (Min.) A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also skorodite.].
Skorodite (n.) (Min.) See Scorodite.
Skosh (n.) (US) (Informal) 少量，一丁點兒 A small amount; a little.
// The car could do with a skosh more room in the back.
Skosh (n.) A small amount : Bit, Smidgen -- used adverbially with a.
// Just a skosh bit shook. -- Josiah Bunting
Skout (n.) (Zool.) A guillemot.
Skowitz (n.) (Zool.) The silver salmon.
Skreen (n. & v.) See Screen. [Obs.]
Skrike (v. i. & t.) To shriek. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Skrike (n.) (Zool.) The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
Skrimmage (n.) See Scrimmage.
Skrimp (v. t.) See Scrimp.
Skringe (v. i.) See Scringe.
Skrite (n.) (Zool.) The skrike. [Prov. Eng.]
Skua (n.) (Zool.) (Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
Skua (n.) Gull-like jaeger of northern seas [syn: skua, bonxie].
Skue (a. & n.) See Skew.
Skulked (imp. & p. p.) of Skulk.
Skulking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skulk.
Skulk (v. i.) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." -- W. C. Bryant.
Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. -- Dryden.
Skulk (n.) A number of foxes together. -- Wright. Skulk
Skulk (n.) Alt. of Skulker.
Skulker (n.) One who, or that which, skulks.
Skulk (v.) Lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner [syn: lurk, skulk].
Skulk (v.) Avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill [syn: malinger, skulk].
Skulk (v.) Move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day."
Skulkingly (adv.) In a skulking manner.
Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal. [Obs.]
A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. -- Warner.
These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. -- Holland.
Skull (n.) (Anat.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
Note: In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous but in the higher vertebrates it is more or less completely ossified, several bones are developed in the face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially, of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal, parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in the adult.
Skull (n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn. -- Cowper.
Skull (n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap. [Obs. & R.]
Let me put on my skull first. -- Beau. & Fl.
Skull (n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
Skull and crossbones, A symbol of death. See Crossbones.
Skull (n.) The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates.
Skullcap (n.) A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.
Skullcap (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.
Skullcap (n.) (Zool.) The Lophiomys.
Mad-dog skullcap (Bot.), An American herb ({Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.
Skullcap (n.) Rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head.
Skullcap (n.) A herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised [syn: skullcap, helmetflower].
Skullcap (n.) The dome of the skull [syn: calvaria, skullcap].
Skullfish (n.) A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
Skulpin (n.) (Zool.) See Sculpin.
Skun (n. & v.) See Scum.
Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. [Colloq. U. S.]
Skunk (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
Note: The common species of the Eastern United States ({Mephitis mephitica) is black with more or less white on the body and tail. The spotted skunk ({Spilogale putorius), native of the Southwestern United States and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is variously marked with black and white.
Skunk bird, Skunk blackbird (Zool.), The bobolink; -- so called because the male, in the breeding season, is black and white, like a skunk.
Skunk cabbage (Bot.), An American aroid herb ({Symplocarpus f[oe]tidus) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called swamp cabbage.
Skunk porpoise. (Zool.) See under Porpoise.
Skunk (n.) A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git].
Skunk (n.) A defeat in a game where one side fails to score [syn: shutout, skunk].
Skunk (n.) Street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane].
Skunk (n.) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae [syn: skunk, polecat, wood pussy].
Skunk (v.) Defeat by a lurch [syn: lurch, skunk].
Scoter (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.
Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra, called also black duck, black diver, surf duck; and the velvet, or double, scoter ({Oidemia fusca). The common American species are the velvet, or white-winged, scoter ({Oidemia Deglandi), called also velvet duck, white-wing, bull coot, white-winged coot; the black scoter ({Oidemia Americana), called also black coot, butterbill, coppernose; and the surf scoter, or surf duck ({Oidemia perspicillata), called also baldpate, skunkhead, horsehead, patchhead, pishaug, and spectacled coot. These birds are collectively called also coots. The females and young are called gray coots, and brown coots.
Scoter (n.) Large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere [syn: scoter, scooter].
Skunkhead (n.) (Zool.) The surf duck.
Skunkhead (n.) (Zool.) A duck ({Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.
Skunkish (a.) Like the skunk, especially in odor.
Skunktop (n.) (Zool.) The surf duck.
Skunkweed (n.) (Bot.) Skunk cabbage.
Skunkweed (n.) Tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell [syn: skunkweed, skunk-weed, Polemonium viscosum].
Skurry (n. & v.) See Scurry.
Skute (n.) A boat; a small vessel. [Obs.] -- Sir R. Williams.
Skutterudite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consists of arsenic and cobalt.
Skies (n. pl. ) of Sky.
Sky (n.) A cloud. [Obs.]
[A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. -- Chaucer.
Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]
She passeth as it were a sky. -- Gower.
Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
The Norweyan banners flout the sky. -- Shak.
Sky (n.) The wheather; the climate.
Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. -- Shak.
Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight, sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc.
Sky blue, An azure color.
Sky scraper (Naut.), A skysail of a triangular form. -- Totten.
Under open sky, out of doors. "Under open sky adored." -- Milton.
Skied (imp. & p. p.) of Sky. v. t.
Skied (imp. & p. p.) of Sky. v. i.
Skyed () of Sky.
Skying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sky.
Sky (v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen. [Colloq.]
Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. -- The Century.
Sky (v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloq.]
Sky-blue (a.) Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. -- Wordsworth.
Sky-blue (a.) Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather" [syn: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue].
Sky-blue (n.) A light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue].
Skychology (n.) [U] The act of looking up at the sky, thought by some people to be good for your wellbeing.
Introducing “skychology”-- the simple act of looking upwards, towards the sky. It has been found to have a positive effect on our wellbeing. The practice of skychology was coined by coaching psychologist Paul Conway. Paul says: “The sky can often mirror how we are feeling, and remind us that everything is constantly changing – including our emotions and how we are feeling”.
Skydiving (n.) （由飛機跳下時先自由墜落一段時間後再張開降落傘的）特技跳傘；skydive 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute.
Skyed (a.) Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." -- Thomson.
Skye terrier () (Zool.) See Terrier.
Skye terrier (n.) Scottish breed of terrier with shaggy hair and long low body with short legs; native to the Isle of Skye.
Skyey (a.) Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. "Skyey regions." -- Thackeray.
Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits. -- Shelley.
Sky-high (adv. & a.) Very high. [Colloq.]
Sky-high (adv.) (With verb `to blow') Destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces; "they blew the bridge sky-high"; "the committee blew the thesis sky-high."
Sky-high (adv.) In a lavish or enthusiastic manner; "he extolled her virtues sky-high" [syn: sky-high, enthusiastically].
Sky-high (adv.) To a very high level; "prices have gone sky-high"; "garbage was piled sky-high"; "the men were flung sky-high by the explosion."
Skyish (a.) Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [R.] -- Shak.
Skylark (n.) (Zool.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species ({Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.
Note: The Australian skylark ({Cincloramphus cantillans) is a pipit which has the habit of ascending perpendicularly like a skylark, but it lacks the song of a true lark. The Missouri skylark is a pipit ({Anthus Spraguei) of the Western United States, resembling the skylark in habit and song.
Skylark (n.) Brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height [syn: skylark, Alauda arvensis].
Skylark (v.) Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about].
Skylarking (n.) The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]
Skylight (n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
Skylight (n.) A window in a roof to admit daylight [syn: skylight, fanlight].
Skyrocket (v. i.) To rise rapidly; -- usually used figuratively, as of prices.
Skyrocket (n.) A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
Skyrocket (n.) Propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon [syn: rocket, skyrocket].
Skyrocket (n.) Sends a firework display high into the sky [syn: skyrocket, rocket].
Skyrocket (v.) Shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed" [syn: rocket, skyrocket].
Skysail (n.) (Naut.) The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
Skysail (n.) The sail above the royal on a square-rigger.
Skyscraper (n.) [C] (Naut.) 摩天樓，超高層大樓；特別高的東西；三角形的帆 A skysail of a triangular form. [Rare].
Skyscraper (n.) [C] (Naut.) A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [Obs.]
Skyscraper (n.) A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high.
Skyscraper (n.) Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive. [Slang or Colloq.]
Skyscraper (n.) A very tall building with many stories.
Skyward (a. & adv.) Toward the sky.
Skyward (adv.) Toward the sky; "look skywards!" [syn: skyward, skywards].
Skyward (a.) Directed toward heaven or the sky; "the soul in its heavenward flight" [syn: heavenward, skyward].
Slab (n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. -- Gwilt.
Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
Slab (n.) (Zool.) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
Slab (n.) (Naut.) The slack part of a sail.
Slab line (Naut.), A line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. -- Totten.
Slab (a.) Thick; viscous. [Obs.]
Make the gruel thick and slab. -- Shak.
Slab (n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Slab (n.) Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
Slab (n.) A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the same color.
Slab (v. i.) To paint a slab on an output device. Apple's QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems, renders polygons and lines not with Bresenham's algorithm, but by calculating slab points for each scan line on the screen in succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels.
Slabbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slabber.
Slabbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slabber.
Slabber (v. i.) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]
Slabber (v. t.) To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.
He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. -- Arbuthnot.
Slabber (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking.
The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. -- Tusser.
Slabber (n.) Spittle; saliva; slaver.
Slabber (n.) [See 1st Slab.] (Mach.) A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
Slabber (n.) [See 1st Slab.] (Mach.) A slabbing machine.
Slabber (v.) Let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble].
Slabberer (n.) One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.
Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.
Slabbiness (n.) Quality of being slabby.
Slabbing (a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.
Slabbing machine, a milling machine.
Slabby (a.) Thick; viscous.
They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. -- Selden.
Slabby
(a.)
Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy. -- Gay.
Slab-sided (a.) Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.
[Colloq. U. S.]
Slack (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
Slack (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
Slack (a.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.
Slack (a.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. -- Milton.
Slack (a.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. -- 2 Pet. iii. 9.
Slack (a.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. "With slack pace." -- Chaucer.
C?sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed. -- Milton.
Slack in stays (Naut.), Slow in going about, as a ship.
Slack water, The time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.
Slack-water navigation, Navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a
dam or dams.
Syn: Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull.
Slack (adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops.
Slack (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. Slack