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Self-Denial
- noun - renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
- the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses
- the trait of practicing self discipline
Semi-Diesel
- - Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.
Serendipity
- noun - good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
Sextodecimo
- - Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.
Shield Fern
- noun - any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori
Shoulder In
- verb - push one''s way in with one''s shoulders
- push one's way in with one's shoulders
Shouldering
- verb - carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"
- lift onto one's shoulders
- push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd"
Shroud-Laid
- - Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.
Skedaddling
- verb - run away, as if in a panic