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Vegetable for salad.

The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.

A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.

ich are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pichardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia. -- n.

A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body. Pope.

Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n.

a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.

In a scolding manner.

Any large holothurian. [Prov. Eng.]

The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.

The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion. [Colloq.] G. Eliot. What is called seedness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged. J. S. Blackie.

Depending on one's self.

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.

, n. Quality or state of being shady.

Act or process of making a shade.

Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [Written also shoding.] Pryce.