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An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Balfour (Cyc. of India)

A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.

Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. Amos v. 5. Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. Pope.

nal law, to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.

llection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc. [In this sense, sometimes incorrectly written sett.]

A sort of shackle. [Obs.]

To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage. Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to schift as well as they can. L'Estrange.

To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.

orth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven. -- Shutten race, a sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine. -- Shuttle shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the g…

A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.

Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker.

Sipping often. [Obs.] "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.

The act of sorting with respect to size.

A sort of wild plum. [Obs.] Holland.

read, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.

A sort of oar. See Scull. Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones.