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-- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers. -- Winter snipe. See Rock snipe, under Rock. -- Woodcock snipe, the great snipe.

Filth; abomination. [Obs.] To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, si…

about the major planets are twenty-two in number, of which the Earth has one (see Moon.), Mars two, Jupiter five, Saturn nine, Uranus four, and Neptune one. The asteroids, between Mars and Jupiter, thus far discovered (1900), number about five hundred, the first four of which were found near the beginning of the centur…

Being without a son. Marston. As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent. J. R. Green.

Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull. [Obs.] "Rich, but sot." Marston.

Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel. -- Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia. -- Sour grapes. See under Grape. -- Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo. -- Sour plum (Bot.), the edible ac…

eed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. J. Dryden. Jr.

enus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.

One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.

at of a squirrel. -- Squirrel-tail grass (Bot.), a grass (Hordeum jubatum) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns.

Full of state; stately. [Obs.] "A stateful silence." Marston.

Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.

n, or twist. [Obs.] If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry. Marston.

To forge on an anvil. The forge that stithied Mars his helm. Shak.

-- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.

To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

A. Symonds. The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him [Wyclif]. G. P. Marsh.

Impervious to the rays of the sun. "Darksome yew, sunproof." Marston.

Having a limber tongue. [R.] "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.