Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.
The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.
The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.
By way of salutation.
A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.
One who salutes.
Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air.
Salutarily.
The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness.
Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.
Savage.
The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.
A place where things are preserved; a repository.
To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
A genus of plants including the sage. See Sage.
Tending to save or secure safety.
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
Together.
a Surface to Air Missile.
A society or congregation; a church or religious body.
A society; a congregation, a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.
A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
See Simar.
Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine. A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.
Resembling a samara, or winged seed vessel.
See Simar.
A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.
A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
Same as Sambur.
A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.
An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.
An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (Rusa equina).
Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
Sameness, 2.
The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
See Samite.
A native or inhabitant of Samos.
A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.
Samian.
A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.
A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.
The parr.
A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning.
Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants. An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.
A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn.
An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.
A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters.
A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles.
To make or show something similar to; to match.
One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.
An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.
In the former feudal system of Japan, the class or a member of the class, of military retainers of the daimios, constituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871. They were referred to as /a cross between a knight and a gentleman/.
The quality or state of being sanable; sanableness; curableness.
Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.
The quality of being sanable.
The act of healing or curing.
Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.
An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.
Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.
Anciently, a sackcloth coat worn by penitents on being reconciled to the church.
The nine of trumps in sancho pedro.
See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.
To sanctify.
The act of sanctifying or making holy; the state of being sanctified or made holy; the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified.
Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.
One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.
To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
In a manner or degree tending to sanctify or make holy.
Discoursing on heavenly or holy things, or in a holy manner.
Sanctimonious.
Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly.
Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.
Of, pertaining to, or giving, sanction.
Holiness; sacredness; sanctity.
The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.
To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges.
A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site. The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem. The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed. A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship. A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.
A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.
To sprinkle or cover with sand.
Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.
A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper. A kind of slipper. An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.
Wearing sandals.
Shaped like a sandal or slipper.
The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and Santalum pyrularium, the Australian Santalum latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
To treat harshly or unfairly.
An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.
The faith or system of the Sandemanians.
A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
See Saunders-blue.
See Sandiver.
A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.
An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
A nickname given to any /poor white/ living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.
The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.
Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.
A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.
a vacant lot, especially one where children play games.
A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.
A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviar.
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.