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One versed in Sanskrit.

The state of being saturated; fullness of supply. [Obs.] Warner.

A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.

A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennæ of many Crustacea.

The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology.

Scholarship. [Obs.] . Jonson.

Reproduction by fission.

A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.

See Sclerottis.

al observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.

Writing; document; scroll. [Obs.] "Of every scrit and bond." Chaucer.

A screech. [R.] Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch. Coleridge.

the lesser tern (Sterna minuta). [Prov. Eng.]

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.

afety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please. Sir W. Scott.

Self-love. [Obs.] Shak.

The quality or state of being senior.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity." Milton.