Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certa ...
Saadh:
See Sadh.
Saan:
Same as Bushmen.
Sabadilla:
A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
Sabaean:
Same as Sabian.
Sabaeanism:
Same as Sabianism.
Sabaeism:
Alt. of Sabaism
Sabaism:
See Sabianism.
Sabal:
A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.
Sabaoth:
Armies; hosts.
Sabaoth:
Incorrectly, the Sabbath.
Sabbat:
In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
Sabbatarian:
One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.
Sabbatarian:
A strict observer of the Sabbath.
Sabbatarian:
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
Sabbatarianism:
The tenets of Sabbatarians.
Sabbath:
A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a tran ...
Sabbath:
The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.
Sabbath:
Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
Sabbathless:
Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest.
Sabbatic:
Alt. of Sabbatical
Sabbatical:
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Sabbatism:
Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.
Sabbaton:
A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
Sabean:
Same as Sabian.
Sabeism:
Same as Sabianism.
Sabella:
A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
Sabellian:
Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabellian:
A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operatio ...
Sabellianism:
The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabelloid:
Like, or related to, the genus Sabella.
Saber:
Alt. of Sabre
Sabre:
A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
Sabered:
of Sabre
Sabred:
of Sabre
Sabering:
of Sabre
Sabring:
of Sabre
Saber:
Alt. of Sabre
Sabre:
To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.