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Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. Dryden. All the boards did shrink. Coleridge.

A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. Along the side of yon small hill. Milton.

A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. The wild sierra overhead. Whitter.

e sighing. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge. Coleridge. The winter winds are wearily sighing. Tennyson.

hich includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.

rms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like. Hence:

. . With which my silly bark was tossed sore. Spenser. The silly buckets on the deck. Coleridge.

. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. Coleridge.

To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11.

One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.…

of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame. -- Skew bridge. See under Bridge, n. -- Skew curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Skew gearing, or Skew bevel gearing (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearin…

A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. [Written also skilligolee, skillygalee, etc.]

ng, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

ielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.

An untidy woman; a slattern. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. Old Proverb.

layensis) in the best-known species. Called also snow cock, and snow chukor. -- Snow partridge. (Zoöl.) See under Partridge. -- Snow pigeon (Zoöl.), a pigeon (Columba leuconota) native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black. -- Snow plant (Bot…

en obstructed. This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle. Coleridge.

The act of soaring; upward flight. This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. Coleridge.

he somnial magic superinducted on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind. Coleridge.