| saw | noun (n.) An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing. |
| | verb (v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse. |
| | verb (v. t.) A saying; a proverb; a maxim. |
| | verb (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel. |
| | verb (v. t.) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air. |
| | verb (v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well. |
| | verb (v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly. |
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| screw | noun (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below. |
| | noun (n.) Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below. |
| | noun (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. |
| | noun (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. |
| | noun (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. |
| | noun (n.) A small packet of tobacco. |
| | noun (n.) An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. |
| | noun (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. |
| | noun (n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand. |
| | verb (v. t.) To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press. |
| | verb (v. t.) To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions. |
| | verb (v. t.) To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage. |
| | verb (v. t.) To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. |
| | verb (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair. |
| seesaw | noun (n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down. |
| | noun (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play. |
| | noun (n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Crossruff. |
| | adjective (a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. |
| sew | noun (n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. |
| | verb (v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. |
| | verb (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip. |
| | verb (v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag. |
| | verb (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. |
| shadow | noun (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. |
| | noun (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. |
| | noun (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. |
| | noun (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. |
| | noun (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. |
| | noun (n.) A small degree; a shade. |
| | noun (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. |
| | noun (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen. |
| | noun (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. |
| | noun (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. |
| | noun (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. |
| | noun (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. |
| | noun (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. |
| show | noun (n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition. |
| | noun (n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show. |
| | noun (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp. |
| | noun (n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance. |
| | noun (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense. |
| | noun (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor. |
| | noun (n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). |
| | verb (v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs. |
| | verb (v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. |
| skew | noun (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place. |
| | adjective (a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases. |
| | adverb (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew. |
| | verb (v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. |
| | verb (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse. |
| | verb (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. |
| | adverb (adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. |
| | adverb (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely. |
| slow | noun (n.) A moth. |
| | superlative (superl.) Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive. |
| | superlative (superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow. |
| | superlative (superl.) Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences. |
| | superlative (superl.) Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. |
| | adverb (adv.) Slowly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge. |
| | () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. |
| snow | noun (n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. |
| | noun (n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow. |
| sow | noun (n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind. |
| | noun (n.) A sow bug. |
| | noun (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed. |
| | noun (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner. |
| | noun (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sew. See Sew. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle. |
| | verb (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively. |
| stew | noun (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. |
| | noun (n.) An artificial bed of oysters. |
| | verb (v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture. |
| | verb (v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. |
| | verb (v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural. |
| | verb (v. t.) A prostitute. |
| | verb (v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons. |
| | verb (v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. |
| straw | noun (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease. |
| | noun (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw. |
| | noun (n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. |
| swallow | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift. |
| | noun (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. |
| | noun (n.) The act of swallowing. |
| | noun (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat. |
| | noun (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking. |
| | noun (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity. |
| | noun (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water. |
| | noun (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. |
| | verb (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up. |
| | verb (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ. |
| | verb (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. |
| | verb (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow. |
