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Shealing
- - The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
Shearing
- verb - become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
- cut with shears; "shear hedges"
- removing by cutting off or clipping
- shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
Shoading
- - The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.
Shoaling
- verb - become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
- make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
Simazine
- noun - a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops)
Sinamine
- - A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.
Sinapine
- - An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.
Sinapism
- noun - a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient
Sitarist
- unknown - musician who plays the sitar
Sleazier
- adjective - morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"
- of very poor quality; flimsy