Anglish wordbook/S
From The Anglish Moot
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| sake | v | to disagree, argue; argue, disagree [from the Old English verb "sacan", meaning to contend, disagree, or dispute]
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| saltern | n | a building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; a salt works; a plot of land laid out in pools and walks, in which sea water is allowed to evaporate naturally; salt works [from the Old English nouns salt & aern: dwelling]
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| selfstanding | adj | able to work and live alone without outside help; independent [neologism, from self- + standing]
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| settledom | n | a culture or a civilised societal structure, either as a whole or an individual society; civilisation [neologism, from settle + -dom]
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| shend | vb | shame, revile, blame, reproach; 2. destroy, ruin, discomfit in battle; disgrace, scold, defile; damage, ravage, [OE scendan ashamed]
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| shipshape | n | arange in an orderly manner befitting a ship; orderly, trim , neat,spotless [from the Old English words ship & shape]
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| shoad | n | loose fragments of tin, or copper ore mixed with earth, lying near the surface and indicating the proximity of a lode. Also one of these fragments.; fragments, mullock, shard [OE.scadan to divide]
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| siblair | n | having sex with a member of one’s own kindred.; incest [the Old English word for incest from sibb, kin, relationship, friendliness, public security, happiness, love, peace, peace of mind & lair means lying down.]
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| sickhouse | n | building or structure used to care for the sick or injured; hospital, infirmary [neologism, in part inspired by Old English lǽcehús "leech-house (leech=doctor)", from sick + house]
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| snakehead | n | a smuggler, particularly one from China, who specializes in getting people into another country without going through normal immigration channels.; people smuggler [OE: snaca & heafod; term may come from the "creative smuggling" routes that snake from country to country before entering the target nation.]
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| soot | n | a black carbonaceous substance or deposit consisting of fire particles formed by the combustion of coal, wood, oil or other fuels; coom, smut [OE: sot]
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| soul scot | n | a due paid on behalf of a deceased person to the church of the parish to which he belonged; mortuary; death duty,; deadhouse [OE: soul:sawol & scet:a payment]
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| speechlore | n | the science/study of language and its origins; linguistics [neologism, from speech + -lore]
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| spelk | n | a surgical splint; a splinter or chip, a small strip of wood; a thatching rod; support, slip of wood, cleft off, [archaism, from OE spelc]
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| sprout-month | n | the second month of the year (so called because the cabbages begin to sprout); February [Anglo-Saxon, from Sprote-Kalemonath]
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| starcraft | n | the skill of foretelling by looking at a person's stars; astrology [neologism, from star + -craft]
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| sun | n | the brightest (as seen from the earth) of the heavenly bodies; god's beacon, the day's eye, the day's candle, the warmthgiver [sun: glittering]
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| swanling | n | the young of a swan; cygnet [neologism, from swan + -LING, on analogy of gosling]
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| sward | n | the skin of the body; the rind of the pork; the surface of soil covered by grass or herbage; skin, rind, stretch of grass, gair [uncommon, from OE. "swearþ" "swarð "]
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