English to English Dictionary

Shiv

A crude, makeshift knife or sharp-pointed weapon, typically improvised by inmates in prisons.

Signally

In a notable, striking, or conspicuous manner; remarkably.

Signalment

A detailed description or profile of the identifying marks, age, breed, sex, and physical characteristics of an animal patient.

Signary

A systematic set or chart of signs, symbols, or characters used in a writing system or script.

Silver-thaw

A meteorological phenomenon involving a deposit of clear ice formed by the freezing of supercooled drizzle or rain on objects whose surface temperature is below freezing.

Sine qua non

An essential condition or element; something that is absolutely necessary.

Somewhen

At some unspecified or unknown time.

Sonneteer

A writer of sonnets, often used to describe a poet who writes inferior or repetitive verse.

Sorosis

A multiple fruit formed from the coalescent ovaries of a cluster of flowers, such as the pineapple or breadfruit.

Sough

A soft, murmuring, or whistling sound, such as that of the wind in the trees or the waves.

Spenserian sonnet

A variation of the sonnet form consisting of fourteen lines with a specific interlocking rhyme scheme (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE).

Spinal tuberculosis

An extrapulmonary form of tuberculosis in which infection localizes in the vertebrae and intervertebral discs, often leading to bone destruction and spinal deformity.