Each particular taken singly; distinction.

To distinguish.

Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.

A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.

Serious in feeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

The quality or state of being severe.

A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.

A calling aside.

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.

A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.

A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.

A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.

The construction of a sewer or sewers.

Same as Sewen.

The act or occupation of one who sews.

A seamstress.

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

A person who is sixty years old.

Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.

The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

A sexagesimal fraction.

A hexagon.

Having six angles; hexagonal.

Hexagonally.

See Sexivalent.

The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.

One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.

Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.

Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. A sexennial event.

Once in six years.

Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

Having six syllables.

A word of six syllables.

Hexavalent.

Having no sex.

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

Pertaining to sex.

Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.

The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary. The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.

A stanza of six lines; a sestine.

A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as.

The sixth part of a circle.

A sacristy.

See Sestet.

A sacristan.

Of the sixth degree or order. A quantic of the sixth degree.

The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: 8star/.

According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16/.

A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.

A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Sextonship.

The office of a sexton.

Six times as much; sixfold.

Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.

One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

To attribute sex to.

In a sexual manner or relation.

imp. pl. p. p. of See.

imp. sing. 2d pers. pl. of See.

p. p. of Senge, to singe.

A gridle. See 1st Seint.

Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

To scratch; to rub.

Shabby.

In a shabby manner.

The quality or state of being sghabby.

A kind of crooked sword or hanger.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.

The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.

to live together in a sexual relationship, without being legally married.

A hound.

To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.

A sort of shackle.

Shaky; rickety.

Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa), and the twaite shad (Alosa finta formerly Clupea finta), are less important species.

See Shadbird (a)

A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad. The common European sandpiper.

Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.

obs. imp. of Shed.

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.

Full of shade; shady.

Being without shade; not shaded.

One who, or that which, shades.

In a shady manner.

Quality or state of being shady.

Act or process of making a shade.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.

The quality or state of being shadowy.

Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading.

Shadowy; vague.

Having no shadow.

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

To hobble or limp; to shuffle.

A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer.

A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafe/.

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.

Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

A measure of about six inches.

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

Having shaggy hair.

The unkempt and ragged part of the community.

A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.