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Sinistral
- adjective - of or on the left; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost"
- preferring to use left foot or hand or eye; "sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye"
Sinistrin
- - A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory.
Societies
- noun - a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
- the fashionable elite
- the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends"
Sovietise
- verb - bring under Soviet control, of a country
- model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union; "Castro sovietized Cuba"
Sovietize
- verb - bring under Soviet control, of a country
- model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union; "Castro sovietized Cuba"
Splinters
- noun - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"
- break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
- divide into slivers or splinters
- withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
- wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks"
Splintery
- adjective - resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
- subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces
Splinting
- verb - support with a splint; "splint a broken finger"