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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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70 words match “SANS”

Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word. "Sans fail." Chaucer. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Shak.

SANS-CULOTTE n. 2 definitions

A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

SANS-CULOTTIC a.

pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle.

SANS-CULOTTISM n.

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.

SANS-SOUCI adv.

Without care; free and easy.

SANSKRIT a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.

One versed in Sanskrit.

COURTESANSHIP n.

PARTISANSHIP n.

The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.

nsign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet…

7, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC

Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans.

Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans]. C. Reade.

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. [Obs.] And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him. Shak. Arm your prize; I know you will not lose him. Two N. Kins.

ints (Blazoning), completely incased in armor, sometimes described as armed cap-à-pie. Cussans. -- Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute. -- Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature. -- Armed neutrality. See under Neutrality.

One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.

rmory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin. Cussans.