Name Report For First Name SEB:
SEB
First name SEB's origin is African. SEB means "myth name (god of the earth)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SEB below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of seb.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with SEB and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with SEB - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming SEB
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SEB AS A WHOLE:
sebastene yoseba orzsebet sebastiana passebreul sebak eusebius sebastian sebestyen erzsebet josebe yosebe joseba sebastiano sebastien sebastyn sebert sebo sebe sebasten seber sebastiene sebastienne sebilleNAMES RHYMING WITH SEB (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (eb) - Names That Ends with eb:
laheeb taleb beb geb horemheb qeb jaleb jeb kaeleb kaleb kaseeb kayleb web ragheb najeeb labeeb kateb caleb lebNAMES RHYMING WITH SEB (According to first letters):
Rhyming 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 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 sela selam selamawit selassie selassiee selby selden seldon sele seleby selena selene seleta selig selik selima selina selk selma selvyn selwin selwine selwyn semadar semele semira sen senalda senapus senen sener senet senghor senior sennet senon senona senora senta sente senusnet seoirseNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SEB:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'b':
shabab shihab sib stanb suhaybEnglish Words Rhyming SEB
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SEB AS A WHOLE:
baseball | noun (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball. |
noun (n.) The ball used in this game. |
baseboard | noun (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard. |
baseborn | adjective (a.) Born out of wedlock. |
adjective (a.) Born of low parentage. | |
adjective (a.) Vile; mean. |
eusebian | noun (n.) A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius. |
gooseberry | adjective (a.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. |
adjective (a.) A silly person; a goose cap. |
horseback | noun (n.) The back of a horse. |
noun (n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition. |
housebote | noun (n.) Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. |
housebreaker | noun (n.) One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. |
housebreaking | noun (n.) The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break. |
housebuilder | noun (n.) One whose business is to build houses; a housewright. |
incensebreathing | adjective (a.) Breathing or exhaling incense. |
marsebanker | noun (n.) The menhaden. |
naseberry | noun (n.) A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla. |
nosebag | noun (n.) A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head. |
noseband | noun (n.) That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose. |
nosebleed | noun (n.) A bleeding at the nose. |
noun (n.) The yarrow. See Yarrow. |
rosebay | noun (n.) the oleander. |
noun (n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron. | |
noun (n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb. |
rosebud | noun (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open. |
rosebush | noun (n.) The bush or shrub which bears roses. |
sebaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals. |
sebacic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance. |
sebat | noun (n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February. |
sebate | noun (n.) A salt of sebacic acid. |
sebesten | noun (n.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases. |
sebic | adjective (a.) See Sebacic. |
sebiferous | adjective (a.) Producing vegetable tallow. |
adjective (a.) Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands. |
sebiparous | adjective (a.) Same as Sebiferous. |
seborrhea | noun (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea. |
tsebe | noun (n.) The springbok. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SEB (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (eb) - English Words That Ends with eb:
bleb | noun (n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. |
cobweb | noun (n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey. |
noun (n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. | |
noun (n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. | |
noun (n.) The European spotted flycatcher. |
coulterneb | noun (n.) The puffin. |
cubeb | noun (n.) The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative. |
neb | noun (n.) The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen. |
saheb | noun (n.) A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank. |
saleb | noun (n.) See Salep. |
sawneb | noun (n.) A merganser. |
tahaleb | noun (n.) A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa. |
web | noun (n.) A weaver. |
noun (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. | |
noun (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven. | |
noun (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication. | |
noun (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood. | |
noun (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. | |
noun (n.) The blade of a sword. | |
noun (n.) The blade of a saw. | |
noun (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter. | |
noun (n.) The bit of a key. | |
noun (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. | |
noun (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail. | |
noun (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc. | |
noun (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist. | |
noun (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot. | |
noun (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye. | |
noun (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians. | |
noun (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SEB (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (se) - Words That Begins with se:
sea | noun (n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea. |
noun (n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee. | |
noun (n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe. | |
noun (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea. | |
noun (n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory. |
seabeach | noun (n.) A beach lying along the sea. |
seabeard | noun (n.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts. |
seaboard | noun (n.) The seashore; seacoast. |
adjective (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town. | |
adverb (adv.) Toward the sea. |
seabord | noun (n. & a.) See Seaboard. |
seabound | adjective (a.) Bounded by the sea. |
seacoast | noun (n.) The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively. |
seafarer | noun (n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor. |
seafaring | adjective (a.) Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man. |
seagirt | adjective (a.) Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle. |
seagoing | adjective (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels. |
seah | noun (n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah. |
seak | noun (n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth. |
seal | noun (n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae. |
noun (n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security. | |
noun (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal. | |
noun (n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it. | |
noun (n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance. | |
noun (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap. | |
verb (v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed. | |
verb (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret. | |
verb (v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like. | |
verb (v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5. | |
verb (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife. | |
verb (v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal. | |
() A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers so as to cut out each one in turn for the renewal of the lime. |
sealer | noun (n.) One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like. |
noun (n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals. |
sealgh | noun (n.) Alt. of Selch |
selch | noun (n.) A seal. |
seam | noun (n.) Grease; tallow; lard. |
noun (n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather. | |
noun (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc. | |
noun (n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal. | |
noun (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. | |
noun (n.) A denomination of weight or measure. | |
noun (n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain. | |
noun (n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. | |
verb (v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite. | |
verb (v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. | |
verb (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. | |
verb (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open. |
seaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seam |
noun (n.) The act or process of forming a seam or joint. | |
noun (n.) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. |
seaman | noun (n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid. |
noun (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman. |
seamanlike | adjective (a.) Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman. |
seamanship | noun (n.) The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship. |
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. |
seamed | adjective (a.) Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Seam |
seamless | adjective (a.) Without a seam. |
seamster | noun (n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew. |
seamstress | noun (n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman. |
seamstressy | noun (n.) The business of a seamstress. |
seamy | adjective (a.) Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. |
sean | noun (n.) A seine. See Seine. |
seance | noun (n.) A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called. |
seannachie | noun (n.) A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. |
seapiece | noun (n.) A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. |
seaport | noun (n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town. |
seapoy | noun (n.) See Sepoy. |
seaquake | noun (n.) A quaking of the sea. |
sear | noun (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Sere | |
adjective (a.) To wither; to dry up. | |
adjective (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. |
sere | noun (n.) Claw; talon. |
adjective (a.) [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. | |
adjective (a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear. |
searing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sear |
searce | noun (n.) A fine sieve. |
verb (v. t.) To sift; to bolt. |
searcer | noun (n.) One who sifts or bolts. |
noun (n.) A searce, or sieve. |
searching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Search |
adjective (a.) Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye. |
searchable | adjective (a.) Capable of being searched. |
searchableness | noun (n.) Quality of being searchable. |
searcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. |
noun (n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. | |
noun (n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc. | |
noun (n.) An inspector of leather. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities. | |
noun (n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc. |
searchless | adjective (a.) Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable. |
searcloth | noun (n.) Cerecloth. |
verb (v. t.) To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth. |
seared | adjective (a.) Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Sear |
searedness | noun (n.) The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. |
sea saurian | noun (n.) Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SEB:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'b':
sahib | noun (n.) Alt. of Saheb |
scab | noun (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part. |
noun (n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy. | |
noun (n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. | |
noun (n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies). | |
noun (n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold. | |
noun (n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. | |
noun (n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike. | |
noun (n.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots. | |
verb (v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over. |
scarab | noun (n.) Alt. of Scarabee |
noun (n.) Alt. of Scarabee |
scrub | noun (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. |
noun (n.) Something small and mean. | |
noun (n.) A worn-out brush. | |
noun (n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. | |
noun (n.) Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above. | |
noun (n.) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality. | |
adjective (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. | |
verb (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate. | |
verb (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living. |
shab | noun (n.) The itch in animals; also, a scab. |
verb (v. t.) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily. | |
verb (v. t.) To scratch; to rub. |
shrub | noun (n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it. |
noun (n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root. | |
verb (v. t.) To lop; to prune. |
sib | noun (n.) A blood relation. |
adjective (a.) Related by blood; akin. |
sillabub | noun (n.) A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. |
slab | noun (n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. |
noun (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc. | |
noun (n.) The wryneck. | |
noun (n.) The slack part of a sail. | |
noun (n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. | |
adjective (a.) Thick; viscous. |
slub | noun (n.) A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing. |
verb (v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool. |
snib | noun (n.) A reprimand; a snub. |
verb (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb. |
snob | noun (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. |
noun (n.) A townsman. | |
noun (n.) A journeyman shoemaker. | |
noun (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. |
snub | noun (n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song. |
noun (n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight. | |
verb (v. i.) To sob with convulsions. | |
verb (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop. | |
verb (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. |
sob | noun (n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow. |
noun (n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound. | |
verb (v. t.) To soak. | |
verb (v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath. |
sorb | noun (n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. |
noun (n.) The fruit of these trees. |
sparerib | noun (n.) A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them. |
squab | noun (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged. |
noun (n.) A person of a short, fat figure. | |
noun (n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa. | |
adjective (a.) Fat; thick; plump; bulky. | |
adjective (a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon. | |
adverb (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. |
squib | adjective (a.) A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack. |
adjective (a.) A kind of slow match or safety fuse. | |
adjective (a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. | |
adjective (a.) A writer of lampoons. | |
adjective (a.) A paltry fellow. | |
verb (v. i.) To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate. |
stab | noun (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon. |
noun (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character. | |
verb (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person. | |
verb (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation. | |
verb (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon. | |
verb (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon. |
stromb | noun (n.) Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus. |
stub | noun (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. |
noun (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead. | |
noun (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar. | |
noun (n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded. | |
noun (n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib. | |
noun (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. | |
verb (v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. | |
verb (v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. |
sub | noun (n.) A subordinate; a subaltern. |
suburb | noun (n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. |
noun (n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. |
superb | adjective (a.) Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade. |
adjective (a.) Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations. | |
adjective (a.) Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition. |
swab | noun (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. |
noun (n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads. | |
noun (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc. | |
noun (n.) An epaulet. | |
noun (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. | |
noun (n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm. |
swob | noun (n. & v.) See Swab. |
syb | adjective (a.) See Sib. |
syllabub | noun (n.) Same as Syllabub. |