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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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SPHINCTER n. 2 definitions

scle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.

SPHINGID n. 2 definitions

SPHINX n. 5 definitions

s body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.

SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING n.

A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

The light of the stars. [R.] The starshine lights upon our heads. R. L. Stevenson.

STEALTHINESS n.

The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.

STITCHING n. 2 definitions

The act of one who stitches.

Resentment. [Obs.]

The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

A stronghold. [Obs.]

STREPSORHINA n.

Same as Lemuroidea.

STREPSORHINE a. 2 definitions

One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.

from Stretch, v. Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.

A salt of a sulphinic acid.

SULPHINDIGOTIC a.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.

are oily or crystalline deliquescent substances having a peculiar odor; as, trimethyl sulphine, (CH3)3S.OH. Cf. Sulphonium.

a series of acids regarded as acid ethereal salts of hyposulphurous acid; as, methyl sulphinic acid, CH3.SO.OH, a thick unstable liquid.

A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and fo…

SUNSHINE n. 3 definitions

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give. But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.