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See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

Since. See Sith, and Sithen. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

See Sibbens.

The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines. [Local, U. S.]

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

Same as Slickensides.

Fragments; atoms; smithers. [Colloq.] W. Black.

A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [Written also sowans, and sowins.]

Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.

Supersensible.

Supersensible.

m as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.

f suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.

Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding. [Obs.] [The great light of day] suspense in heaven. Milton.

In suspense. [Obs.] Hales.