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One who utters a shriek.

Of or pertaining to a sheriff.

by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance. Blackstone.

To shrive; to question. [Obs.] "She gan him soft to shrieve." Spenser.

See Terrier.

Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone.

The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan. [Poet.] Sir W. Scott.

The state of being solitary; solitariness. [Obs.] Cudworth.

partum and Stipa (or Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. Loudon.

One whose occupation is to make spurs. B. Jonson. "The saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by thousands." Macaulay.

A company of squires; the whole body of squires.

Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past. Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath Gray.

A relater of stories; an historian. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.

A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.

Dried by the heat of the sun. "Sun-dried brick." Sir T. Herbert.

Many different or small things; sundry things.

(Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

One who, or that which, tarries.

The arctic fox.

small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.