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RIDDANCE n. 2 definitions
ct of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22.
RITARDANDO a.
Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.
ROPEDANCER n.
One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.
SARDAN; SARDEL n.
A sardine. [Obs.]
SEDAN n.
vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
SERPULIAN; SERPULIDAN n.
A serpula.
SHANDRYDAN n.
A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle. [Ireland]
SILURIDAN n.
Any fish of the family Silurid or of the order Siluroidei.
SOLDAN n.
A sultan. [Obs.] Milton.
SOLDANEL n.
A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.
SOLDANRIE n.
The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan. [Poet.] Sir W. Scott.
SOUDAN n.
A sultan. [Obs.]
SOWDAN n.
Sultan. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SOWDANESSE n.
A sultaness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
STELLERIDAN; STELLERIDEAN n.
A starfish, or brittle star.
SUCCEDANE n.
A succedaneum. [Obs.]
SUCCEDANEOUS a.
Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Sir T. Browne.
SUCCEDANEUM n. 2 definitions
emedy used as a substitute for another. In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. Walpole.
SUCCEEDANT a.
Succeeding one another; following.
SUPERABUNDANCE n.
The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
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