<B>sarod, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient stringed instrument of India. It has twenty-five strings, ten of which are plucked, the other fifteen providing resonance. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] is a performer on the sarod, a stringed instrument of beautiful design that is plucked according to a highly intricate technique (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>sarodist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a player of the sarod. </DL>
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<B>sarong, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a rectangular piece of cloth, usually a brightly colored printed material, worn as a skirt by men and women in the Malay Archipelago, East Indies, and certain other islands of the Pacific. <BR> <I>Ex. The shop has a selection of filmy and transparent saris from India and hand-painted Javanese sarongs (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a fabric used to make this garment. </DL>
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<B>saros, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Astronomy.) a cycle of 18 years and 11 1/3 days, in which solar and lunar eclipses repeat themselves. If the interval contains five leap years instead of four, it is 18 years and 10 1/3 days. It was discovered by the ancient Chaldeans. </DL>
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<B>Sarouk, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Persian rug, usually dark blue and red, with a fine-grained weave and short, velvety pile. </DL>
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<B>Sarpedon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a son of Zeus and Europa, king of the Lycians, to whom Zeus granted the privilege of living for three generations. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in another account) a son of Zeus and Laodamia, leader of the Lycians in the Trojan War and an ally of the Trojans, killed by Patroclus. </DL>
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<B>sarracenia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bog plant with pitcher-shaped leaves and a more or less arching hood at the top, usually partly filled with rain water and decomposing insects on which the plant subsists; pitcher plant. </DL>
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<B>sarraceniaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to a family of American dicotyledonous bog herbs typified by the sarracenia. </DL>
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<B>sarsaparilla, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tropical American climbing or trailing plant of the lily family; any one of several species of greenbrier. <DD><B> 2. </B>its dried root, used for flavoring and formerly used in medicine. <DD><B> 3. </B>a cooling drink flavored with this root. It is nonalcoholic and usually carbonated. </DL>
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<B>sarsar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a killingly cold wind. </DL>
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<B>sarsen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any number of large boulders or blocks of sandstone found as parts or remnants of prehistoric buildings. The sarsens of Stonehenge, in England, are the most famous stones of this kind. <BR> <I>Ex. Those that first catch the attention are the immense sarsens, great monoliths of sandstone (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>sarsenet, </B>noun. =sarcenet.</DL>
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<B>Sarsi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-si</B> or <B>-sis.</B> =Sarcee.</DL>
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<B>sartor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tailor (in humorously pedantic use). </DL>
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<B>sartorial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of tailors or their work. <BR> <I>Ex. His clothes were a sartorial triumph. His satorial taste runs to loud candy-striped shirts (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Anatomy.) of or having to do with the sartorius. adv. <B>sartorially.</B> </DL>
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<B>sartorius, </B>noun, pl. <B>-torii.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a flat, narrow muscle, the longest in the human body, running from the ilium to the top of the tibia, and crossing the thigh obliquely in front. </DL>
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<B>Sartrian</B> or <B>Sartrean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or characteristic of the French existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre (born 1905), his writings, or his ideas. <BR> <I>Ex. Honesty, objectivity, compassion and acceptance of total personal responsibility is the Sartrian prescription (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Sarum, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the order of divine service and the liturgy used in the diocese of Salisbury, England, from the late Middle Ages to the Reformation. </DL>
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<B>sarus crane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large crane of India, Malaya, and the Philippines. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the first Sarus crane ever to hatch in the United States (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>SAS,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Special Air Services (a special strike force and peacekeeping unit of the British Army). </DL>
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<B>Sasanian, </B>noun, adjective. =Sassanid.</DL>
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<B>sasanqua, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hardy, low camellia of China and Japan. </DL>
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<B>sase</B> or <B>SASE</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> self-addressed stamped envelope. </DL>
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<B>sash</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a long, broad strip of cloth or ribbon, worn as an ornament or belt around the waist, especially by women and children. <BR> <I>Ex. She wore a white dress with a blue sash around her waist.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar ornamental strip, often fringed, worn over one shoulder or around the waist as part of a uniform or as an emblem of rank. <BR> <I>Ex. Acting President Nereu Ramos took off the green-and-gold sash of office and draped it across the incoming President's breast (Time).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to dress or adorn with a sash. <BR> <I>Ex. Her lace dress was sashed in satin.</I> </DL>
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<B>sash</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the frame for the glass in a window or door. <BR> <I>Ex. A pane of glass, broken out of the sash, lay in splinters on the floor.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>such frames collectively. <DD><B> 3. </B>the part or parts of a window that can be moved to open or close it. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to provide with a sash or sashes. </DL>
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<B>sashay, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) to glide, move, or go about, especially lightly or casually. <DD><B> 2. </B>to do a chasse, especially in folk dancing. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a chasse, especially in folk dancing. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a short trip or excursion. <BR> <I>Ex. From time to time, he also permits himself cautious sashays into such subjects as history, education, politics ... (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>sash cord,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>rope which runs over a pulley and connects a window sash with its counterbalancing weight. <DD><B> 2. </B>the rope made for this purpose. </DL>
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<B>sashimi, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> thin slices of raw fish, eaten as an appetizer in Japan. </DL>
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<B>sash weight,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a slender, metal weight hung within the frame of a window by a sash cord, and used to counterbalance the weight of the sash. </DL>
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<B>sasin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the common Indian antelope; the black buck. It is brown or black on the upper parts with a white abdomen and breast, and straight corkscrew horns. </DL>
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<B>Sask.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Saskatchewan. </DL>
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<B>saskatoon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Canadian.) <DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various shadbushes, especially the serviceberry and a species with purple fruit. <DD><B> 2. </B>the berry of any one of these plants. </DL>
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<B>Sasquatch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a big-footed hairy beast supposed to live in the Pacific Northwest. </DL>
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<B>sass, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) rudeness; back talk; impudence. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) vegetables, especially those used in making sauces; sauce. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Informal.) to be saucy to; sauce. <BR> <I>Ex. He'd come to me and sass me sumthin' dreadful, naggin' me to let him play (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Informal.) to talk or act rudely or impudently. </DL>
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<B>sassaby, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bies</B> or (collectively) <B>-by.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, dark red, South African antelope. </DL>
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<B>sassafras, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a slender tree of eastern North America that has fragrant, yellow flowers, bluish-black fruit, and light, soft, yellowish wood. It belongs to the laurel family. <DD><B> 2. </B>the aromatic dried bark of its root, used in medicine and to flavor candy, soft drinks, and tea. It yields an aromatic volatile oil used in making perfume. </DL>
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<B>sassafras tea,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tea made by boiling the dried root bark of the sassafras, formerly much used as a tonic. </DL>
<B>Sassanid</B> or <B>Sassanide, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> one of the Sassanidae. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Sassanidae. </DL>
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<B>Sassanidae, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> the dynasty that ruled Persia from A.D. 226 to 651. </DL>
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<B>Sassenach, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish and Irish.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an Englishman. <BR> <I>Ex. It had been hoped that a special commemorative stamp would be issued ... but the Sassenachs in Parliament in London would not agree (Cape Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the English; Englishmen collectively. </DL>
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<B>sassily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) saucily. <BR> <I>Ex. All that viewers saw or heard was Elsa Maxwell sassily telling Host Jack Paar that Walter Winchell had never voted (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>sassy</B> (1), adjective, <B>-sier,</B> <B>-siest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) saucy. <BR> <I>Ex. Also on the bill are Bobbi Wright, a Harlem miss with a sassy voice and great ebullience (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>sassy</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=sassy bark.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a large African tree of the pea family, whose poisonous bark is used by the natives as a poison to test a person at an ordeal, and for capturing fish; sassywood. </DL>
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<B>sassy bark,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the bark of the sassy tree. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=sassy</B> (2) (def. 2). </DL>
