To shelter; to cover.

See Scolecite.

See Sconce.

The capital city of the Republic of Macedonia, population 448,229./ Skopje is modern city, but it is at the same time an ancient city with deep roots in the past and with a rich history. During the Roman period it was known under the name of Scupi. Later the town acquired its Slav name of Skopje. Skopje experienced a swift development after World War II. This trend was interrupted in 1963 when it was hit by a disastrous eartquake. Thanks to the solidarity of the whole world, Skopje was quickly renewed and rebuilt. Today Skopje is the political, economic, cultural and academic center of Macedonia (he Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. See also Macedonia{2}.

The saury.

See Raskolnik.

See Scorodite.

A guillemot.

The silver salmon.

See Screen.

The missel thrush.

See Scrimmage.

See Scrimp.

See Scringe.

The skrike.

Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.

See Skew.

A number of foxes together.

One who, or that which, skulks.

In a skulking manner.

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.

A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

See Sculpin.

See Scum.

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.

The surf duck.

The surf duck. 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.

Like the skunk, especially in odor.

The surf duck.

Skunk cabbage.

See Scurry.

A boat; a small vessel.

A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consists of arsenic and cobalt.

To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.

Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.

Very high.

Surrounded by sky.

Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky.

Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.

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.

The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing.

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.

An aeronaut.

To rise rapidly; -- usually used figuratively, as of prices.

The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

A skysail of a triangular form. A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high. Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive.

Toward the sky.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.

Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.

A saw for cutting slabs from logs. A slabbing machine.

One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.

Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

Quality of being slabby.

Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.

Thick; viscous.

The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.

A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.

In a slack manner.

A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.

To form, or form into, a slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.

A weaver's reed; a sley.

To go out; to become extinct.

Not capable of being slaked.

Slacken.

The act of one who, or that which, slams.

With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.

A slut; a slatternly woman.

To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.

One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.

Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.

To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.

Quality of being slangy.

Slangy.

Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.

imp. p. p. of Slink.

Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

Oblique; sloping.

In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.

Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite.

A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.

One who, or that which, slaps.

Very large; monstrous; big.

A long cut; a cut made at random.

Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Wet and dirty; slushy.

To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

The period of a transitory breeze. An interval of fair weather. The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.

Of a dark gray, like slate.

Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.

A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.

To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. In a slatternly manner.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.

The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture.

To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.

One who slaughters.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

One employed in slaughtering.

Destructive; murderous.

One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.

To enslave.

Born in slavery.

One who holds slaves.

Holding persons in slavery.

See Slavocracy.

Saliva driveling from the mouth.

A driveler; an idiot.