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instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. -- Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] -- Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] -- Salt lick. See Lick, n. -- Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water. -- Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acre…

Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang] Sand badger (Zoöl.), the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma). -- Sand bag (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins. -- Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball f…

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang] Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus. -- Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. -- Sap rot, the dry rot. See…

To understand; to comprehend; know. [Slang, U. S.]

spelling and pronunciation of solder. Soft sawder, seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [Slang]

A scamp; a scapegrace. [Spelt also scallawag.] [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

] "Too scarce ne too sparing." Chaucer. To make one's self scarce, to decamp; to depart. [Slang]

rive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

hazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards. [Slang] Scratch race, one without restrictions regarding the entrance of competitors; also, one for which the competitors are chosen by lot.

A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] Mayhew.

Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine. [Slang]

To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang] Dickens. To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a…

, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, to set up type. -- To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of tackles. R. H. Dana, Jr.…

re than fifty. [Colloq.] -- To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. [Slang]

The unkempt and ragged part of the community. [Colloq. or Slang.] R. Browning.

g of its head while on the ground. [Prov. Eng.] No great shakes, of no great importance. [Slang] Byron. -- The shakes, the fever and ague. [Colloq. U.S.]

xicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition. [Written also shanghae.] [Slang, U.S.]

An expert. [Slang]

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop. [Slang,U.S.]

legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast. [Slang]