Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Sized (a.) Adjusted according to size.
Sized (a.) Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
Sizel (n.) Same as Scissel, 2.
Sizer (n.) See Sizar.
Sizer (n.) An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
Sizer (n.) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
Siziness (n.) The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.
Sizing (n.) Act of covering or treating with size.
Sizing (n.) A weak glue used in various trades; size.
Sizing (n.) The act of sorting with respect to size.
Sizing (n.) The act of bringing anything to a certain size.
Sizing (n.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
Sizy (a.) Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood.
Sizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Sizzle
Sizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sizzle
Sizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
Sizzle (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.
Sizzling () a. & n. from Sizzle.
Skaddle (n.) Hurt; damage.
Skaddle (a.) Hurtful.
Skaddon (n.) The larva of a bee.
Skag (n.) An additional piece fastened to the keel of a boat to prevent lateral motion. See Skeg.
Skain (n.) See Skein.
Skain (n.) See Skean.
Skainsmate (n.) A messmate; a companion.
Skaith (n.) See Scatch.
Skald (n.) See 5th Scald.
Skaldic (a.) See Scaldic.
Skall (v. t.) To scale; to mount.
Skar (a.) Alt. of Skare
Skare (a.) Wild; timid; shy.
Skart (n.) The shag.
Skate (n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
Skated (imp. & p. p.) of Skate
Skating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skate
Skate (v. i.) To move on skates.
Skate (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
Skater (n.) One who skates.
Skater (n.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
Skatol (n.) A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N.
Skayles (n.) [Ã159.] Skittles.
Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]
Skedaddled (imp. & p. p.) of Skedaddle
Skedaddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skedaddle
Skedaddle (v. i.) To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.
Skee (n.) A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding.
Skeed (n.) See Skid.
Skeel (n.) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
Skeelduck (n.) Alt. of Skeelgoose
Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Skeet (n.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
Skeg (n.) A sort of wild plum.
Skeg (n.) A kind of oats.
Skeg (n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
Skegger (n.) The parr.
Skein (n.) A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
Skein (n.) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
Skein (n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
Skeine (n.) See Skean.
Skelder (v. t. & i.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
Skelder (n.) A vagrant; a cheat.
Skeldrake (n.) Alt. of Skieldrake
Skieldrake (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Skieldrake (n.) The oyster catcher.
Skelet (n.) A skeleton. See Scelet.
Skeletal (a.) Pertaining to the skeleton.
Skeletogenous (a.) Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.
Skeletology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.
Skeleton (n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
Skeleton (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
Skeleton (n.) A very thin or lean person.
Skeleton (n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
Skeleton (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
Skeleton (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
Skeletonized (imp. & p. p.) of Skeletonize
Skeletonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skeletonize
Skeletonize (v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.
Skeletonizer (n.) Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
Skellum (n.) A scoundrel.
Skelly (v. i.) To squint.
Skelly (n.) A squint.
Skelp (n.) A blow; a smart stroke.
Skelp (n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
Skelp (v. t.) To strike; to slap.
Skelp (n.) A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
Skelter (v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
Sken (v. i.) To squint.
Skene (n.) See Skean.
Skep (n.) A coarse round farm basket.
Skep (n.) A beehive.
Skeptic (n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
Skeptic (n.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
Skeptic (n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.
Skeptic (a.) Alt. of Skeptical
Skeptical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
Skeptical (a.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures.
Skepticism (n.) An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
Skepticism (n.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
Skepticism (n.) A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.