SILE

Name Report For First Name SILE:

First name SILE's origin is Irish. SILE means "youthful". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SILE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of sile.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with SILE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with SILE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming SILE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES S�LE AS A WHOLE:

penthesilea vasile sileas vasileios basile

NAMES RHYMING WITH S�LE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ile) - Names That Ends with ile:

njemile naile nile kelile maoltuile murthuile theophile camile cecile granuaile lucile maile odile emile gaile jamile kile teofile

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (le) - Names That Ends with le:

kifle udele tale adele crocale cybele eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle nephele odele omphale semele kiele rachele akinwole bekele roble sule tekle stille bankole chibale kafele tearle michelle neville scoville somhairle aristotle ercole zale kale daniele emmanuele gamble abbigale abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille ariele arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camille carole cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelle cherrelle chevelle dale danele danelle danielle dannelle danrelle darelle dawnelle dawnielle denelle donelle elle emele

NAMES RHYMING WITH S�LE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (sil) - Names That Begins with sil:

silana silas silis silny silsby silver silverio silvester silvestre silvia silvino silviu

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (si) - Names That Begins with si:

siann siannan siany sib sibeal sibley sibyl sibyla sibylla sicheii sid siddael siddalee siddell sidell sidney sidon sidonia sidonie sidra sidwell siegfried siena sienna sierra sifiye sig sigebert sigehere sigenert sigf sigfreda sigfreid sigfrid sigfrieda sigfriede sighle sigifrid sigifrith sigilwig sigiwald sigmund sigrid sigune sigwal sigwald sigwalt siham sihr sihtric sihu sik'is sike sikyahonaw sikyatavo sim sima siman simao simba simcha simen simeon simon simona simone simpson simson simu sin sinai sinclair sinclaire sine sinead sineidin sinh sinjin sinley sinobia sinon sinopa sinovia siobhan siodhachan siolat siomon sion

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH S�LE:

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 seamere searle sebastene sebastiene sebastienne sebe sebille sedge selassie selassiee sele selene selwine 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 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 steele

English Words Rhyming SILE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES S�LE AS A WHOLE:

circumfusile

adjective (a.) Capable of being poured or spread round.

circumscissile

adjective (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

expansile

adjective (a.) Expansible.

extensile

adjective (a.) Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.

fissile

adjective (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

fusile

adjective (a.) Same as Fusil, a.

fusileer

noun (n.) Alt. of Fusilier

missile	noun (n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
	adjective (a.) Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.

nonextensile

adjective (a.) Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

pensile

adjective (a.) Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.

pensileness

noun (n.) State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

petrosilex

noun (n.) Felsite.

prehensile

noun (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

protrusile

adjective (a.) Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.

scissile

adjective (a.) Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.

sessile	adjective (a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.
	adjective (a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
	adjective (a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

sile	noun (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
	noun (n.) Filth; sediment.
	noun (n.) A young or small herring.
	verb (v. t.) To strain, as fresh milk.
	verb (v. i.) To drop; to flow; to fall.

silence	noun (n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
	noun (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
	noun (n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
	noun (n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
	noun (n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.
	verb (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
	verb (v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.
	verb (v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
	(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.

silencing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silence

silene

noun (n.) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.

silent	noun (n.) That which is silent; a time of silence.
	adjective (a.) Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
	adjective (a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
	adjective (a.) Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
	adjective (a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
	adjective (a.) Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

silentiary

noun (n.) One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.

silentious

adjective (a.) Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.

silentness

noun (n.) State of being silent; silence.

silenus

noun (n.) See Wanderoo.

silesia	noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.
	noun (n.) A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.

silesian	noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Silesia.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Silesia.

silex

noun (n.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

subprehensile

adjective (a.) Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

silencer	noun (n.) One that silences;
	noun (n.) The muffler of an internal-combustion engine.
	noun (n.) Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
	noun (n.) A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.

tensile	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
	adjective (a.) Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.

tensiled

adjective (a.) Made tensile.

tonsile

adjective (a.) Capable of being clipped.

thermotensile

adjective (a.) Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH S�LE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ile) - English Words That Ends with ile:

abaxile

adjective (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

aedile

noun (n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

aeolipile

noun (n.) Alt. of Aeolipyle

agile

adjective (a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

ancile

noun (n.) The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

anile

adjective (a.) Old-womanish; imbecile.

antifebrile

noun (a. & n.) Febrifuge.

aquatile

adjective (a.) Inhabiting the water.

argoile

noun (n.) Potter's clay.

attractile

adjective (a.) Having power to attract.

axile

adjective (a.) Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

audile

noun (n.) One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

automobile

noun (n.) An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

benzile

noun (n.) A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.

besaile

noun (n.) Alt. of Besayle

bevile

noun (n.) A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.

bibliophile

noun (n.) A lover of books.

bile	noun (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
	noun (n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.
	noun (n.) A boil.

bipartile

adjective (a.) Divisible into two parts.

biquintile

noun (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

bissextile

noun (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.

adjective (a.) Pertaining to leap year.

camomile

noun (n.) Alt. of Chamomile

chamomile	noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.
	noun (n.) See Camomile.

campanile

noun (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.

cantabile	noun (n.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
	adjective (a.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

coctile

adjective (a.) Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

contractile

adjective (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.

cortile

noun (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

crocodile

noun (n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

noun (n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.

cubile

noun (n.) The lowest course of stones in a building.

debile

adjective (a.) Weak.

decile

noun (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36�.

defile	noun (n.) Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.
	noun (n.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.
	verb (v. i.) To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
	verb (v. t.) Same as Defilade.
	verb (v. t.) To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.
	verb (v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.
	verb (v. t.) To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.
	verb (v. t.) To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.
	verb (v. t.) To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.

dentile

noun (n.) A small tooth, like that of a saw.

difficile

adjective (a.) Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.

dissimile

noun (n.) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

distractile

adjective (a.) Tending or serving to draw apart.

docile	adjective (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
	adjective (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

domicile	noun (n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.
	noun (n.) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
	verb (v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

draintile

noun (n.) A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.

ductile	adjective (a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
	adjective (a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

dysodile

noun (n.) An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

edile

noun (n.) See Aedile.

eolipile

noun (n.) Same as Aeolipile.

erectile

adjective (a.) Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

estoile

noun (n.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.

etoile

noun (n.) See Estoile.

evangile

noun (n.) Good tidings; evangel.

exile	noun (n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
	noun (n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
	adjective (a.) Small; slender; thin; fine.
	verb (v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.

exoptile

noun (n.) A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH S�LE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (sil) - Words That Begins with sil:

silage

noun (n. & v.) Short for Ensilage.

silhouette	noun (n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
	verb (v. t.) To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

silica

noun (n.) Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

silicate

noun (n.) A salt of silicic acid.

silicated

adjective (a.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks.

silicatization

noun (n.) Silicification.

silicea

noun (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.

siliceous

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.

silicic

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.

silicicalcareous

adjective (a.) Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

silicide

noun (n.) A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.

siliciferous

adjective (a.) Producing silica; united with silica.

silicification

noun (n.) Thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood.

silicified	adjective (a.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Silicify

silicifying

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Silicify

silicioidea

noun (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.

silicious

adjective (a.) See Siliceous.

silicispongiae

noun (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.

silicited

adjective (a.) Silicified.

silicium

noun (n.) See Silicon.

siliciureted

adjective (a.) Combined or impregnated with silicon.

silicle

noun (n.) A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.

silicofluoric

adjective (a.) Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides.

silicofluoride

noun (n.) A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

silicoidea

noun (n. pl.) An extensive order of Porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.

silicon

noun (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

silicotungstic

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).

silicula

noun (n.) A silicle.

silicule

noun (n.) A silicle.

siliculose	adjective (a.) Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
	adjective (a.) Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.

siliginose

adjective (a.) Made of fine wheat.

siliqua	noun (n.) Same as Silique.
	noun (n.) A weight of four grains; a carat; -- a term used by jewelers, and refiners of gold.

silique

noun (n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

siliqyiform

adjective (a.) Having the form of a silique.

siliquosa

noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques.

siliquose

adjective (a.) Alt. of Siliquous

siliquous

adjective (a.) Bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules.

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.

silken	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
	adjective (a.) Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
	adjective (a.) Dressed in silk.
	verb (v. t.) To render silken or silklike.

silkiness	noun (n.) The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
	noun (n.) Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.

silkman

noun (n.) A dealer in silks; a silk mercer.

silkness

noun (n.) Silkiness.

silkweed

noun (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

silkworm

noun (n.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.

sill	noun (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
	noun (n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
	noun (n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
	noun (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
	noun (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
	noun (n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
	noun (n.) A young herring.

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.

siller

noun (n.) Silver.

sillimanite

noun (n.) Same as Fibrolite.

silliness

noun (n.) The quality or state of being silly.

sillock

noun (n.) The pollock, or coalfish.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH S�LE:

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.

sarcocele

noun (n.) Any solid tumor of the testicle.

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.

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