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Shudder

The act of shuddering, as with fear.

Shude

The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

Shuffle

The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

Shufflecap

A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.

Shug

To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.

Shun

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

Shunless

Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.

Shunt

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

Shunt winding

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding.

Shunter

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

Shunting

Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.

Shut

The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

Shute

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

Shuttle

To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

Shuttlecock

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.

Shuttlewise

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

Shy

A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

Shyly

In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.

Shyness

The quality or state of being shy.

Shyster

A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.

Sialogogue

An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Siamang

A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

Siamese

A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.

Sib

Related by blood; akin.

Sibbens

A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

Siberian

Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter. A native or inhabitant of Siberia.

Sibilant

Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. A sibiliant letter.

Sibilate

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Sibilation

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

Sibilous

Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

sibling

of or pertaining to a sibling, n.; as, sibling rivalry: the common rivalry between siblings.

Sibyl

A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

Sibylist

One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies.

Sibylline

Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

Sicca

A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

Siccative

Drying; causing to dry. That which promotes drying.

Siccity

Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

Sice

The number six at dice.

Sicer

A strong drink; cider.

Sicilian

A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

Siciliano

A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

Sick

To fall sick; to sicken.

Sicken

To become sick; to fall into disease.

Sickening

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

Sicker

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

Sickle

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.

Sicklebill

Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. A curlew. A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

Sickler

One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Sicklewort

A plant of the genus Coronilla (Coronilla scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods. The healall (Brunella vulgaris).

Sickly

To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

Sickness

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

Sida

A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

Side

To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.

Side line Sideline

A line pertaining or attached to the side of a thing. Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.

Side-taking

A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.

Side-wheel

Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

Sideboard

A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

Sidebone

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

Sided

Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.

Sideflash

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

Sidehill

The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

Sideline

To render unable to participate in an activity, such as a sporting event; as, the pitcher was sidelined by a groin injury.

Sideling

Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

Sidelong

Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

Sidepiece

The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

Sideration

The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.

Sidereal

Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

Siderealize

To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.

Siderite

Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron. A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron. An indigo-blue variety of quartz. Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.

Siderographical Siderographic

Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

Siderography

The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.

Siderolite

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.

Sideromancy

Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.

Sideroscope

An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.

Siderosis

A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

Siderostat

An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

Sideroxylon

A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

Sidesaddle

A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.

Sidetrack

To transfer to a siding from a main line of track.

Sidewalk

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

Sidewise

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.

Siding

Attaching one's self to a party.

Sidle

To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.

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