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Saltworts
- noun - bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
- low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves
Salvagers
- noun - someone who salvages
Sam Adams
- noun - American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
Samizdats
- noun - a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
Samoyedes
- - An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
Samphires
- noun - fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
Samplings
- noun - (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
- items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
- measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
Sanctions
- noun - a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
- formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"
- give authority or permission to
- give religious sanction to, such as through on oath; "sanctify the marriage"
- give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
- official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times"
- the act of final authorization; "it had the sanction of the church"
Sandaracs
- noun - a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes
- durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain)
- large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes
Sandbanks
- noun - a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide