One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.

Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.

The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

To place.

Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.

One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.

To simmer.

See Sibbens.

Same as Sewen.

The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.

One who is six feet tall.

A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.

Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.

An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

See Sextodecimo.

The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.

The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.

In the sixth place.

The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.

Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.

Of considerable size or bulk.

One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.

The position or standing of a sizar.

To take greater size; to increase in size.

Adjusted according to size.

Same as Scissel, 2.

See Sizar.

The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.

The act of sorting with respect to size.

Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood.

A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.

a. n. from Sizzle.

Hurtful.

The larva of a bee.

An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.

See Skean.

A messmate; a companion.

See Scatch.

See 5th Scald.

See Scaldic.

To scale; to mount.

Wild; timid; shy.

The shag.

A three-handed card game played with 32 cards, of which two constitute the skat (sense 2), or widow. The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks, in most of which the player undertaking the game must take tricks counting in aggregate at least 61 (the counting cards being ace 11, ten 10, king 4, queen 3, jack 2). The four jacks are the best trumps, ranking club, spade, heart, diamond, and ten outranks king or queen (but when the player undertakes to lose all the tricks, the cards rank as in whist). The value of hands depends upon the game played, trump suit, points taken, and number of matadores.

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.

One who skates.

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.

[/159.] Skittles.

A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]

To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.

A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding; now usually spelled ski.

See Skid.

The common European sheldrake.

A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

A sort of wild plum.

The parr.

A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

See Skean.

A vagrant; a cheat.

A skeleton. See Scelet.

Pertaining to the skeleton.

Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.

That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.

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.

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.

Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.

A scoundrel.

A squint.

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.

To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.

To squint.

See Skean.

A coarse round farm basket.

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.

Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.

An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.

To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.

A rocky isle; an insulated rock.

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

A book of sketches or for sketches.

One who sketches.

In a sketchy or incomplete manner.

The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.

Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.

To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.

To fasten with skewers.

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.

See Sciagraph, Sciagraphy, etc.

To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.

The black guillemot.

One that skids; one that uses a skid; One that skids logs. An engine for hauling the cable used in skidding logs. The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.

See Skid, n., 1.

imp. p. p. of Ski, v. i.

The common European sheldrake. The oyster catcher.

See Skyey.

To navigate in a skiff.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.

To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.

See Skilful.

To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.

Lacking skill.

Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.

A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.

A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.

A money of account in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in L/beck.

A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn.

The water rail.

Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

The quillback.

Rambling; disorderly; unconnected.