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Roughleg
- noun - large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers
Runghead
- - The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
Rynchops
- noun - type genus of the Rynchopidae: skimmers
Safehold
- noun - a refuge from attack
Samphire
- noun - fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
Sapphire
- adjective - a light shade of blue
- a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone
- a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- of something having the color of a blue sapphire; "sapphire eyes"
Sapphism
- noun - female homosexuality
Satchels
- noun - luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap
Scaphism
- - An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
Scaphite
- - Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.