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A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe. But Banquo's safe Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. Shak. Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.

will not prick the wearer. -- safety plug. See Fusible plug, under Fusible. -- Safety switch. See Switch. -- Safety touchdown (Football), the act or result of a player's touching to the ground behind his own goal line a ball which received its last impulse from a man on his own side; -- distinguished from touchback.…

A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (sancho) and five (pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large ga…

A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.

Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites. -- a.

A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.

The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]

The itch.

Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions. Arbuthnot.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

ection and shelter; a stall. One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. Beau. & Fl.

Zoöl.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch t…

A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

shes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. The meanest scullion that followed his camp. South.

ther at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

e the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.