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atists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. [Written also rascolnik.]

Relic. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.

An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters.

Ruffianly. Fulke.

Resembling a rush; weak.

Same as Saker. [Obs.]

bling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. Glossed over only with a saintlike show. Dryden.

See Sheik.

Scholarly. Bacon.

The garfish.

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

See Sheik.

. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also scheik, shaik, sheikh.]

A sportsman; esp., a native hunter. [India]

Suiting a shop; vulgar. B. Jonson.

ine birds of the family Laniidæ, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account c…

Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns. When he is siker of his good name. Chaucer.

Surely; securely. [Obs.] But sikerly, withouten any fable. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.