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In a savage manner.

The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. Shak.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, common in the United States. See also…

A scaffold. [R.] Shak.

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.

A toll duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. Cowell.

Refuse water after scouring.

Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.

The contents of a scrip, or wallet. [Obs.] Shak.

See Scrimmage.

Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.

See Sea kale, under Kale.

The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

A seasoning. [Obs.] outh.

A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.

Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.]

as money of the pieces coined from it. If government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holders, by making a charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving back rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called "levying a seigniorage"), the coin will rise to th…

The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

Having a selvage.