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See Sergeanty. [R.] [Written also serjeantry.]

A winding like a serpent's.

A body of servants; servants, collectively. [R.]

See Sacristy. [Obs.]

See Skimmington.

a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.

Art or process of using the spectrometer, or of measuring wave lengths of rays of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*met"ric (#), a.

The art of comparing, photometrically, the brightness of two spectra, wave length by wave length; the use of the spectrophotometer. --Spec`tro*pho`to*met"ric (#), a.

The business of one who spins; spinning. [Obs.] Milton.

The act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

ng and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.

An overseer or superintendent. [R.] "The stewartry of provisions." Tooke.

Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc.

The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.

The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.

Strychnine.

Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning; specifically (Chem.),

ants, especially from species of Loganiaceæ, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called a…