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714 words match “FELLOW”

SATURATE p.
turate with dew. Cowper. The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs. Longfellow.
SAUCY a.
g the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. Am I not protector, saucy priest Shak.
SCAB n.
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] Shak.
SCALP n.
ead which is usually covered with hair. By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction! Shak.
SCALY a.
Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow. [Low]
SCAT; SCATT n.
Tribute. [R.] "Seizing scatt and treasure." Longfellow.
SCORN v.
with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. Chaucer. To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. Shak.
SCOUNDREL n.
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope.
SCROYLE n.
A mean fellow; a wretch. [Obs.] hak.
SCRUB n.
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A sorry scrub." Bunyan. We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. Goldsmith.
SCUD n.
Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind. Borne on the scud of the sea. Longfellow. The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon. Sir S. Baker.
SCURRILOUS a.
ner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
SEA TANG n.
A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle. To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.
SEABEACH n.
A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.
SEAL n.
e." Milton. Like a red seal is the setting sun On the good and the evil men have done. Lonfellow.
SECEDE v.
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
SECESSION n.
The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
SELF n.
personality. "Those who liked their real selves." Addison. A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope. The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compar…
SEND n.
vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". Longfellow.
SHABBY a.
Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very shabby fellows." Clarendon.
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