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A salt of sacchulmic acid.

A pupil who attends the same school as another.

Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.

One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

A messmate; a companion. [Obs.] Scurvy knave! I am none of his firt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates. Shak.

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.

Same as Squamose.

A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).

To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

One who steers; steersman. [Obs.] Milton.

A stoma.

into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

ined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified. [Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Dryden.

A salt of succinamic acid.

A salt of sulphamic acid.

Being above, or superior to, matter.

A salt of tartramic acid.

A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.

Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] Bp. J. King (1608).