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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,473 words match “URN”

SATURNISM n.
Plumbum. Quain.
SATURNIST n.
A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.
SEA TURN n.
A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
SEMIDIURNAL a. 2 definitions
hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.
SERIES TURNS n.
The turns in a series circuit.
SOJOURN v. 2 definitions
he place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.
SOJOURNER n.
One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.
SOJOURNING n.
The act or state of one who sojourns.
SOJOURNMENT n.
Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]
SOURNESS n.
The quality or state of being sour.
SPIGURNEL n.
Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery. Mozley & W.
SPURN v. 7 definitions
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup. Chaucer. I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. Shak.
SPURN-WATER n.
A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
SPURNER n.
One who spurns.
STILL-BURN v.
To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
STURNOID a.
Like or pertaining to the starlings.
SUN-BURNER n.
A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.
SUNBURN v. 2 definitions
To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
SUNBURNING n.
Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
SURNAME n. 3 definitions
An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen. "My surname, Coriolanus." Shak.
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