SELE
First name SELE's origin is Hebrew. SELE means "rock". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SELE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of sele.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with SELE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming SELE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SELE AS A WHOLE:
selena selene seleta eadsele selebyNAMES RHYMING WITH SELE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ele) - Names That Ends with ele:
udele adele cybele nephele odele semele kiele rachele bekele kafele daniele emmanuele ariele danele emele gabriele hannele kendele mariele michaele michele mikele mychele nichele noele fidele haele kele lele maiele steele mele naheleRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (le) - Names That Ends with le:
kifle njemile naile nile tale crocale eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle omphale akinwole kelile roble sule tekle stille bankole chibale tearle michelle neville scoville maoltuile murthuile somhairle aristotle ercole theophile zale kale gamble vasile abbigale abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camile camille carole cecile cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelle cherrelle chevelle daleNAMES RHYMING WITH SELE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (sel) - Names That Begins with sel:
sela selam selamawit selassie selassiee selby selden seldon selig selik selima selina selk selma selvyn selwin selwine selwynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (se) - Names That Begins with se:
seabert seabrig seabright seabroc seabrook seaburt seadon seafra seafraid seager seaghda sealey seamere seamus sean seana seanachan seanan seanlaoch seanna searbhreathach searlait searlas searle searlus seaton seaver seaward seb sebak sebasten sebastene sebastian sebastiana sebastiano sebastien sebastiene sebastienne sebastyn sebe seber sebert sebestyen sebille sebo secg secgwic sechet seda sedge sedgeley sedgewic sedgewick sedgewik seely seentahna seeton sefton sefu segar segenam seger segulah segunda segundo seif seignour seiji sein seina seireadan sekai sekani sekhet sekou semadar semira sen senalda senapus senen senerNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SELE:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':
sadie sae saffire sage sahale saidie saige salbatore salhdene sallie salome salvadore salvatore sanbourne sandrine sanersone sanuye sapphire sarajane sauville saveage saville sawyere sce scirwode scolaighe scottie sente seoirse serafine seraphine serihilde severne seyane shace shadoe shae shaine shalene shanaye shane shantae sharlene shaundre shawe shawnette shayde shaye shaylee shayne sherborne sherbourne sherburne sherise shermarke shiye shizhe'e siddalee sidonie sifiye sigehere sigfriede sighle sigune sike sile silvestre simone sinclaire sine sive skene skete skippere skye slade slaine slainie slanie sloane smythe sofie solaine solange solonie somerville sonnie sophie sorine sparke spence spere sproule sprowle squire stacie stanhope stanwode starlene stefanieEnglish Words Rhyming SELE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SELE AS A WHOLE:
baseless | adjective (a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support. |
causeless | adjective (a.) 1. Self-originating; uncreated. |
adjective (a.) Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. | |
adverb (adv.) Without cause or reason. |
causelessness | noun (n.) The state of being causeless. |
ceaseless | adjective (a.) Without pause or end; incessant. |
adverb (adv.) Without intermission or end. |
cheeselep | noun (n.) A bag in which rennet is kept. |
chryselephantine | adjective (a.) Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory. |
corselet | noun (n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece. |
noun (n.) The thorax of an insect. |
decreaseless | adjective (a.) Suffering no decrease. |
defenseless | adjective (a.) Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. |
denseless | noun (n.) The quality of being dense; density. |
diselenide | noun (n.) A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule. |
easeless | adjective (a.) Without ease. |
excuseless | adjective (a.) Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. |
expenseless | adjective (a.) Without cost or expense. |
geoselenic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena. |
houseleek | noun (n.) A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen. |
houseless | adjective (a.) Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer. |
houselessness | noun (n.) The state of being houseless. |
horseless | adjective (a.) Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck. |
museless | adjective (a.) Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. |
noiseless | adjective (a.) Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. |
noseless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a nose. |
offenseless | adjective (a.) Unoffending; inoffensive. |
opposeless | adjective (a.) Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. |
osselet | noun (n.) A little bone. |
noun (n.) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish. |
paraselene | noun (n.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion. |
phaseless | adjective (a.) Without a phase, or visible form. |
phraseless | adjective (a.) Indescribable. |
praiseless | adjective (a.) Without praise or approbation. |
pretenseless | adjective (a.) Not having or making pretenses. |
pulseless | adjective (a.) Having no pulsation; lifeless. |
pulselessness | noun (n.) The state of being pulseless. |
purposeless | adjective (a.) Having no purpose or result; objectless. |
remorseless | adjective (a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. |
repulseless | adjective (a.) Not capable of being repulsed. |
responseless | adjective (a.) Giving no response. |
reverseless | adjective (a.) Irreversible. |
select | adjective (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. |
verb (v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal. |
selecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Select |
selection | noun (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. |
noun (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. |
selective | adjective (a.) Selecting; tending to select. |
selectman | noun (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. |
selectness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being select. |
selector | noun (n.) One who selects. |
selenate | noun (n.) A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate. |
selenhydric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid. |
selenic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds. |
selenide | noun (n.) A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide. |
seleniferous | adjective (a.) Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SELE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ele) - English Words That Ends with ele:
abele | noun (n.) The white poplar (Populus alba). |
blastocoele | noun (n.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity. |
borele | noun (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis). |
bronchocele | noun (n.) See Goiter. |
bubonocele | noun (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo. |
circocele | noun (n.) See Cirsocele. |
cirsocele | noun (n.) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein. |
clientele | noun (n.) The condition or position of a client; clientship |
noun (n.) The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron. | |
noun (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc. |
cystocele | noun (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia. |
cannele | noun (n.) A style of interweaving giving to fabrics a channeled or fluted effect; also, a fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep. |
dischevele | adjective (a.) Disheveled. |
dishevele | adjective (p. p. & a.) Disheveled. |
encephalocele | noun (n.) Hernia of the brain. |
enterocele | noun (n.) A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine. |
enterocoele | noun (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo. |
epicoele | noun (n.) A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates. |
fele | adjective (a.) Many. |
hele | noun (n.) Health; welfare. |
verb (v. t.) To hide; to cover; to roof. |
hematocele | noun (n.) A tumor filled with blood. |
hepatocele | noun (n.) Hernia of the liver. |
hydrocele | noun (n.) A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle. |
laparocele | noun (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions. |
merocele | noun (n.) Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia . |
mesocoele | noun (n.) Alt. of Mesocoelia |
mucocele | noun (n.) An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. |
myelocoele | noun (n.) The central canal of the spinal cord. |
matabele | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Matabeles |
neele | noun (n.) A needle. |
neurocoele | noun (n.) The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity. |
omphalocele | noun (n.) A hernia at the navel. |
optocoele | noun (n.) Alt. of Optocoelia |
querele | noun (n.) A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela. |
noun (n.) A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela. |
quirpele | noun (n.) The Indian ferret. |
noun (n.) The Indian ferret. |
paragrele | noun (n.) A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. |
parentele | noun (n.) Kinship; parentage. |
peele | noun (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc. |
pneumatocele | noun (n.) A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs. |
procoele | noun (n.) A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. |
proctocele | noun (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani. |
prosocoele | noun (n.) The entire cavity of the prosencephalon. |
pseudocoele | noun (n.) Same as Pseudocoelia. |
sarcocele | noun (n.) Any solid tumor of the testicle. |
schizocoele | noun (n.) See Enterocoele. |
scrotocele | noun (n.) A rupture or hernia in the scrotum; scrotal hernia. |
semele | noun (n.) A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus. |
splenocele | noun (n.) Hernia formed by the spleen. |
stele | noun (n.) Same as Stela. |
noun (n.) A stale, or handle; a stalk. |
syringocoele | noun (n.) The central canal of the spinal cord. |
thalamocoele | noun (n.) The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle. |
tracheocele | noun (n.) Goiter. |
noun (n.) A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SELE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (sel) - Words That Begins with sel:
selch | noun (n.) A seal. |
selachian | noun (n.) One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix. |
selachii | noun (n. pl.) An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei. |
selachoidei | noun (n. pl.) Same as Selachii. |
selachostomi | noun (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth. |
selaginella | noun (n.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories. |
selah | noun (n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song. |
selcouth | noun (n.) Rarely known; unusual; strange. |
seld | adjective (a.) Rare; uncommon; unusual. |
adverb (adv.) Rarely; seldom. |
seldom | adjective (a.) Rare; infrequent. |
seldomness | noun (n.) Rareness. |
seldseen | adjective (a.) Seldom seen. |
seldshewn | adjective (a.) Rarely shown or exhibited. |
selenious | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds. |
selenite | noun (n.) A salt of selenious acid. |
noun (n.) A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses. |
selenitic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Selenitical |
selenitical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite. |
selenium | noun (n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9. |
seleniuret | noun (n.) A selenide. |
seleniureted | adjective (a.) Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen. |
selenecentric | adjective (a.) As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central. |
selenograph | noun (n.) A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it. |
selenographer | noun (n.) One skilled in selenography. |
selenographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Selenographical |
selenographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to selenography. |
selenographist | noun (n.) A selenographer. |
selenography | noun (n.) The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; -- corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. |
selenonium | noun (n.) A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium. |
selenology | noun (n.) That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. |
self | noun (n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. |
noun (n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. | |
noun (n.) Personification; embodiment. | |
adjective (a.) Same; particular; very; identical. | |
adjective (a.) Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored. |
selfhood | noun (n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. |
selfish | adjective (a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. |
adjective (a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. |
selfishness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. |
selfism | noun (n.) Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. |
selfist | noun (n.) A selfish person. |
selfless | adjective (a.) Having no regard to self; unselfish. |
selflessness | noun (n.) Quality or state of being selfless. |
selfness | noun (n.) Selfishness. |
selfsame | adjective (a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical. |
selion | noun (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. |
seljukian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. |
seljuckian | noun (n.) A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk. |
sell | noun (n.) Self. |
noun (n.) A sill. | |
noun (n.) A cell; a house. | |
noun (n.) A saddle for a horse. | |
noun (n.) A throne or lofty seat. | |
noun (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. | |
verb (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. | |
verb (v. i.) To practice selling commodities. | |
verb (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price. |
selling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sell |
sellanders | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Sellenders |
sellenders | noun (n. pl.) See Sallenders. |
seller | noun (n.) One who sells. |
selvage | noun (n.) Alt. of Selvedge |
selvedge | noun (n.) The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling. |
noun (n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes. | |
noun (n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4. |
selvaged | adjective (a.) Alt. of Selvedged |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SELE:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':
sabre | noun (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. |
noun (n. & v.) See Saber. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. |
sabine | noun (n.) One of the Sabine people. |
noun (n.) See Savin. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy. |
sable | noun (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur. |
noun (n.) The fur of the sable. | |
noun (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. | |
noun (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other. | |
adjective (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry. | |
verb (v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black. |
sabotiere | noun (n.) A kind of freezer for ices. |
sabretasche | noun (n.) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt. |
sabulose | adjective (a.) Growing in sandy places. |
saccade | noun (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull. |
saccate | adjective (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted. |
saccharate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharic acid. |
noun (n.) In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate. |
saccharinate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid. |
noun (n.) A salt of saccharine. |
saccharine | noun (n.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. |
saccharonate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid. |
saccharone | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. |
noun (n.) An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin. |
saccharose | noun (n.) Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose. |
saccholactate | noun (n.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. |
sacchulmate | noun (n.) A salt of sacchulmic acid. |
saccule | noun (n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear. |
sackage | noun (n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. |
sacque | noun (n.) Same as 2d Sack, 3. |
sacre | noun (n.) See Saker. |
verb (v. t.) To consecrate; to make sacred. |
sacrificable | adjective (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice. |
sacrifice | noun (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. |
noun (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. | |
noun (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest. | |
noun (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value. | |
noun (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep. | |
noun (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering. | |
noun (n.) To destroy; to kill. | |
noun (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value. | |
verb (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice. |
sacrilege | noun (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. |
saddle | noun (n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle. |
noun (n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc. | |
noun (n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc. | |
noun (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar. | |
noun (n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support. | |
noun (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm. | |
noun (n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors. | |
noun (n.) A ridge connected two higher elevations; a low point in the crest line of a ridge; a col. | |
noun (n.) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, esp. in Australia. | |
verb (v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways. |
saddletree | noun (n.) The frame of a saddle. |
sadducee | noun (n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. |
safe | noun (n.) A place for keeping things in safety. |
noun (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like. | |
noun (n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. | |
superlative (superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. | |
superlative (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe. | |
verb (v. t.) To render safe; to make right. |
safranine | noun (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type. |
sagamore | noun (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. |
noun (n.) A juice used in medicine. |
sage | noun (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. |
noun (n.) The sagebrush. | |
noun (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher. | |
superlative (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious. | |
superlative (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose. | |
superlative (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn. |
sagene | noun (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet. |
sagenite | noun (n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz. |
sagittate | adjective (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward. |
sahlite | noun (n.) See Salite. |
sailable | adjective (a.) Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river. |
saintlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. |
saithe | noun (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock. |
sajene | noun (n.) Same as Sagene. |
sake | noun (n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. |
salable | adjective (a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. |
salade | noun (n.) A helmet. See Sallet. |
salagane | noun (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent. |
salamandrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. |
salamstone | noun (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. |
sale | noun (n.) See 1st Sallow. |
verb (v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money. | |
verb (v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market. | |
verb (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction. |
saliaunce | adjective (a.) Salience; onslaught. |
salicylate | noun (n.) A salt of salicylic acid. |
salicylide | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid. |
salicylite | noun (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt. |
salience | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting. |
noun (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. |
salifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable. |
saline | noun (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. |
noun (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic. | |
adjective (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste. | |
adjective (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth. |
salique | adjective (a.) Salic. |
salite | noun (n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color. |
verb (v. t.) To season with salt; to salt. |
salliance | noun (n.) Salience. |
salse | noun (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name. |
saltle | noun (n.) The European dab. |
saltigradae | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders. |
saltigrade | noun (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey. |
adjective (a.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping. |
saltpetre | noun (n.) Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. |
salvable | adjective (a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. |
salvage | noun (n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea. |
noun (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril. | |
noun (n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved. | |
noun (a. & n.) Savage. |
salve | noun (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. |
noun (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote. | |
noun (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound. | |
noun (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over. | |
verb (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. | |
(interj.) Hail! |
samare | noun (n.) See Simar. |
samarskite | adjective (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals. |
sambuke | noun (n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown. |
samette | noun (n.) See Samite. |
samite | adjective (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. |
samphire | noun (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. |
noun (n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire. | |
noun (n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies. |
sample | noun (n.) Example; pattern. |
noun (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match. | |
verb (v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths. |
sanable | adjective (a.) Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy. |
sanative | adjective (a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. |
sanctitude | noun (n.) Holiness; sacredness; sanctity. |
sandre | noun (n.) A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare. |
sandstone | noun (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. |
sane | adjective (a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind. |
adjective (a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons. |
sangaree | noun (n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink. |
sanguine | noun (n.) Blood color; red. |
noun (n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth. | |
noun (n.) Bloodstone. | |
noun (n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1. | |
adjective (a.) Having the color of blood; red. | |
adjective (a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament. | |
adjective (a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper. | |
adjective (a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success. | |
verb (v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine. |
sanguisuge | noun (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech. |
sanicle | noun (n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers. |
sanidine | noun (n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar. |
santonate | noun (n.) A salt of santonic acid. |
santoninate | noun (n.) A salt of santoninic acid. |
sapience | noun (n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. |
saponifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. |
saponite | noun (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock. |
sappare | noun (n.) Kyanite. |
sapphire | noun (n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem. |
noun (n.) The color of the gem; bright blue. | |
noun (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue. | |
adjective (a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue. |
sapphirine | noun (n.) Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. |
saprophyte | noun (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe. |
sarabaite | noun (n.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church. |
sarcelle | noun (n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck. |
sarcode | noun (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm. |
sarcoline | adjective (a.) Flesh-colored. |
sarcophile | noun (n.) A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials. |
sardachate | noun (n.) A variety of agate containing sard. |
sardine | noun (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden. |
noun (n.) See Sardius. |
saree | noun (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder. |
sarigue | noun (n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face. |
sarmentose | adjective (a.) Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem. |
adjective (a.) Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous. |