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Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel. R. H. Dana, Jr.

small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. [Written also spinney, and spinny.] The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies. C. Kingsley.

Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.

Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak.

Same as Spooney.

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

To squint. [Obs.] Shak.

See Stannel.

stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

Stramonium.

The guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

Subitaneous; sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Hales.

Subterranean. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.

A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.

Sultanry. [Obs.] Fuller.

; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant. "Sunny beams." Spenser. "Sunny locks." Shak.

Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.

A sardine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.