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To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

heads formed by a die or swaging tool. -- Snap shot, a quick offhand shot, without deliberately taking aim.

A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.

To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [Slang]

In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.

Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. -- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater nu…

Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.

Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices. -- n.

Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.

Moderately narcotic.

Moderately saline or salt.

Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers." Sir W. Scott.

on starch from corn, potatoes, etc.; -- called also potato sugar, corn sugar, and, inaccurately, invert sugar. See Dextrose, and Glucose. -- Sugar barek, one who refines sugar. -- Sugar beet (Bot.), a variety of beet (Beta vulgaris) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtain…

rce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates). I. Remsen.

A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide. Ferric sulphocyanate (Chem.), a dark red crystalline substance usually obtained in a blood-red solution, and recognized as a test for ferric iron.

Bible of a sundry translation. Coleridge. All and sundry, all collectively, and each separately.

o the roots of grasses and other plants. -- Surface plate (Mach.), a plate having an accurately dressed flat surface, used as a standard of flatness by which to test other surfaces. -- Surface printing, printing from a surface in relief, as from type, in distinction from plate printing, in which the ink is contained…

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.