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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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SILENCE v. 10 definitions

To put to rest; to quiet. This would silence all further opposition. Clarendon. These would have silenced their scruples. Rogers.

SILENT a. 6 definitions

Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent. Parnell. Sir W. Raleigh.

umana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.

SINGLE a. 17 definitions

a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope.

SIPUNCULOIDEA n. 2 definitions

In a restricted sense, same as Sipunculacea.

SIT v. 15 definitions

To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you, jest, sir, as…

SKELETON n. 7 definitions

The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale.

SKITTISH a. 2 definitions

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.

SLACK a. 8 definitions

about, as a ship. -- Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide. -- Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams.

SLEEP v. 9 definitions

To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. Chaucer. Watching at the head of these that sleep. Milton.

SLEEPLESS a. 2 definitions

Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.

SLIDE n. 25 definitions

e lathe. See under Lathe. -- Slide rail, a transfer table. See under Transfer. -- Slide rest (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion. -- Slide rule, a mathematical instrument consisting of t…

One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

SLUMBER n. 5 definitions

t night. Bunyan. Fast asleep It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden.

SNAG n. 6 definitions

A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. Prior.

SOLACE n. 5 definitions

Rest; relaxation; ease. [Obs.] To make his steed some solace. Chaucer.

SOLE n. 9 definitions

The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself. The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Gen. viii. 9. Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. Spenser.

Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.

he doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

iam and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, a…