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A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.

Psaltery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive. [R.] A pen so scaturient and unretentive. Sir W. Scott.

isions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology.

The young of any gull. [Written also scaurie.] [prov. Eng.]

One of a breed of small terriers with long, rough hair.

Same as Scotch terrier.

One who scurries.

Same as Sea letter.

A semibreve. [R.]

Series. [Obs.]

A large South American bird (Dicholophus, or Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.

d by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. During some years his life a series of triumphs. Macaulay.

A series-wound dynamo.

A series-wound motor.

The turns in a series circuit.

A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.

Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together. Nor seemed it to relax their serried files. Milton.

and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish. It was the owl that shrieked. Shak. At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train Echoed her grief. Dryden.