Name Report For First Name SELK:
SELK
First name SELK's origin is Other. SELK means "myth name (another form of isis)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SELK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of selk.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with SELK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with SELK - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming SELK
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SELK AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH SELK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (elk) - Names That Ends with elk:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (lk) - Names That Ends with lk:
falkNAMES RHYMING WITH SELK (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 sele seleby selena selene seleta selig selik selima selina 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 semele semiraNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SELK:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'k':
sadeek sadek sahak shaddock shareek shattuck sherlock sobk spark stanwick stanwik stanwyk starbuck stock stokEnglish Words Rhyming SELK
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SELK AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SELK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (elk) - English Words That Ends with elk:
| elk | noun (n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Elke |
| spelk | noun (n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter. |
| yelk | noun (n.) Same as Yolk. |
| welk | noun (n.) A pustule. See 2d Whelk. |
| noun (n.) A whelk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to wither; to wilt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To contract; to shorten. | |
| verb (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely. |
| whelk | noun (n.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe. |
| noun (n.) A papule; a pustule; acne. | |
| noun (n.) A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SELK (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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SELK:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'k':
| sack | noun (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. |
| noun (n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch. | |
| noun (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. | |
| noun (n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. | |
| noun (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. | |
| noun (n.) See 2d Sac, 2. | |
| noun (n.) Bed. | |
| noun (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. |
| saddleback | noun (n.) Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top. |
| noun (n.) The harp seal. | |
| noun (n.) The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus). | |
| noun (n.) The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back. | |
| adjective (a.) Same as Saddle-backed. |
| salework | noun (n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly. |
| sanjak | noun (n.) A district or a subvision of a vilayet. |
| sark | noun (n.) A shirt. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards. |
| sarlyk | noun (n.) The yak. |
| sawbuck | noun (n.) A sawhorse. |
| scaleback | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda. |
| scheik | noun (n.) See Sheik. |
| schoolbook | noun (n.) A book used in schools for learning lessons. |
| scink | noun (n.) A skink. |
| noun (n.) A slunk calf. |
| scrapbook | noun (n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept. |
| scratchback | noun (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons. |
| scratchwork | noun (n.) See Scratch coat. |
| screak | noun (n.) A creaking; a screech; a shriek. |
| verb (v.) To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel. |
| seak | noun (n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth. |
| seamark | noun (n.) Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. |
| seasick | adjective (a.) Affected with seasickness. |
| seck | adjective (a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent. |
| seek | adjective (a.) Sick. |
| verb (v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech. | |
| verb (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. | |
| verb (v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery. |
| setback | noun (n.) Offset, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. | |
| noun (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse. |
| shabrack | noun (n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse. |
| shack | noun (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. |
| noun (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage. | |
| noun (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. | |
| verb (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. | |
| verb (v. i.) A hut; a shanty; a cabin. |
| shacklock | noun (n.) A sort of shackle. |
| shaddock | noun (n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous. |
| shagbark | noun (n.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. |
| noun (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod. |
| shaik | noun (n.) See Sheik. |
| shakefork | noun (n.) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. |
| shamrock | noun (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity. |
| shank | noun (n.) See Chank. |
| verb (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. | |
| verb (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. | |
| verb (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. | |
| verb (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. | |
| verb (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. | |
| verb (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button. | |
| verb (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. | |
| verb (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. | |
| verb (v.) The body of a type. | |
| verb (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. | |
| verb (v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks. | |
| verb (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. |
| sharock | noun (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents. |
| sheepback | noun (n.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural. |
| sheephook | noun (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. |
| sheeprack | noun (n.) The starling. |
| sheepshank | noun (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened. |
| sheik | noun (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. |
| shelduck | noun (n.) The sheldrake. |
| shellbark | noun (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. |
| shellwork | noun (n.) Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. |
| sheriffwick | noun (n.) The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty. |
| shipwreck | noun (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. |
| noun (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. |
| shirk | noun (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor. |
| verb (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty. | |
| verb (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark. | |
| verb (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. |
| shittlecock | noun (n.) A shuttlecock. |
| shock | noun (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook. |
| noun (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. | |
| noun (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body. | |
| noun (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog. | |
| noun (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair. | |
| adjective (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks. | |
| verb (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. | |
| verb (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. | |
| verb (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system. |
| shoeblack | noun (n.) One who polishes shoes. |
| shook | noun (n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form. |
| noun (n.) A set of boards for a sugar box. | |
| noun (n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook. | |
| (imp.) of Shake | |
| () of Shake | |
| () imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake. |
| shopbook | noun (n.) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. |
| shredcook | noun (n.) The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. |
| shriek | noun (n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. |
| verb (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks. |
| shrink | noun (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. |
| verb (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. | |
| verb (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. | |
| verb (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw. |
| shuck | noun (n.) A shock of grain. |
| noun (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. | |
| noun (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. |
| shuttlecock | noun (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself. |
| verb (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. |
| shuttlecork | noun (n.) See Shuttlecock. |
| sick | noun (n.) Sickness. |
| superlative (superl.) Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. | |
| superlative (superl.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. | |
| superlative (superl.) Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken. |
| sidewalk | noun (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. |
| siegework | noun (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted. |
| sik | adjective (a.) Alt. of Sike |
| silk | noun (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori. |
| noun (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material. | |
| noun (n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. |
| sillock | noun (n.) The pollock, or coalfish. |
| silverback | noun (n.) The knot. |
| singlestick | noun (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. |
| noun (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling. |
| sink | noun (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. |
| noun (n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. | |
| noun (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. | |
| noun (n.) The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. | |
| verb (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. | |
| verb (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. | |
| verb (v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. | |
| verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. | |
| verb (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. |
| skeelduck | noun (n.) Alt. of Skeelgoose |
| sketchbook | noun (n.) A book of sketches or for sketches. |
| skimback | noun (n.) The quillback. |
| skink | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents. |
| noun (n.) Drink; also, pottage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink. | |
| verb (v. i.) To serve or draw liquor. |
| skipjack | noun (n.) An upstart. |
| noun (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle. | |
| noun (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section. |
| skirlcock | noun (n.) The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note. |
| skulk | noun (n.) A number of foxes together. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Skulker | |
| verb (v. i.) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. |
| skunk | noun (n.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense. |
| verb (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. |
| skylark | noun (n.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark. |
| slack | noun (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. |
| noun (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell. | |
| noun (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Slacken | |
| superlative (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. | |
| superlative (superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. | |
| superlative (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. | |
| adverb (adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops. | |
| verb (v. t.) Alt. of Slacken |
| slapjack | noun (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. |
| sleek | noun (n.) That which makes smooth; varnish. |
| noun (n.) A slick. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not rough or harsh. | |
| adverb (adv.) With ease and dexterity. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over. |
| slick | noun (n.) See Schlich. |
| noun (n.) A wide paring chisel. | |
| noun (n.) A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek. | |
| adjective (a.) Sleek; smooth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make sleek or smoth. |
| slik | adjective (a.) Such. |
| slink | noun (n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time. |
| noun (n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak. | |
| adjective (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. | |
| adjective (a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts. | |
| adjective (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf. | |
| adjective (a.) Thin; lean. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf. |
| slopwork | noun (n.) The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. |
| slowback | noun (n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. |
| smack | noun (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. |
| noun (n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste. | |
| noun (n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality. | |
| noun (n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss. | |
| noun (n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything. | |
| verb (v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. | |
| verb (v. i.) A small quantity; a taste. | |
| verb (v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss. | |
| verb (v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip. | |
| verb (v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap. | |
| adverb (adv.) As if with a smack or slap. | |
| verb (v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss. | |
| verb (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. |
| smerk | noun (n. & v.) See Smirk. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Smerky |
| smirk | noun (n.) A forced or affected smile; a simper. |
| adjective (a.) Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering. | |
| verb (v. i.) To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper. |
| smock | noun (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. |
| noun (n.) A blouse; a smoock frock. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. |
| smokejack | noun (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney. |
| smokestack | noun (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc. |
| snakeneck | noun (n.) The snakebird, 1. |
| snapsack | noun (n.) A knapsack. |
| snattock | noun (n.) A chip; a alice. |
| sneak | noun (n.) A mean, sneaking fellow. |
| noun (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub. | |
| verb (v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch. |
| sneck | noun (n.) A door latch. |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. |
| snick | noun (n.) A small cut or mark. |
| noun (n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional. | |
| noun (n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn. | |
| noun (n.) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast. | |
| noun (n. & v. t.) See Sneck. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly. |
| snippack | noun (n.) The common snipe. |
| snook | noun (n.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. |
| noun (n.) The cobia. | |
| noun (n.) The garfish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lurk; to lie in ambush. |
| snowfleck | noun (n.) See Snowbird, 1. |
| sock | noun (n.) A plowshare. |
| noun (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. | |
| noun (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg. | |
| noun (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. |
| souslik | noun (n.) See Suslik. |
| spank | noun (n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly. |
| sparhawk | noun (n.) The sparrow hawk. |
| spark | noun (n.) A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. |
| noun (n.) A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle. | |
| noun (n.) That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle. | |
| noun (n.) A brisk, showy, gay man. | |
| noun (n.) A lover; a gallant; a beau. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sparkle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play the spark, beau, or lover. | |
| verb (v. i.) To produce, or give off, sparks, as a dynamo at the commutator when revolving under the collecting brushes. |
| spatchcock | noun (n.) See Spitchcock. |
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