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Raws
- noun - informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
Rays
- noun - (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
- a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
- cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"
- expose to radiation; "irradiate food"
- extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions"
- John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists.
His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an imp
Sacs
- noun - a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule
- a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay
- a structure resembling a bag in an animal
- an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
Sags
- noun - a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"
- cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably"
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
Sans
- - Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.
Saps
- noun - a person who lacks good judgment
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- excavate the earth beneath
SARS
- noun - a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal
Sass
- noun - an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass"
- answer back in an impudent or insolent manner; "don't sass me!"; "The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning";
Saws
- noun - a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- a power tool for cutting wood
- cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"
- hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
Says
- noun - communicate or express nonverbally; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?"
- express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"
- express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
- have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"
- indicate; "The clock says noon"
- recite or repeat a fixed text; "Say grace"; "She said her `Hail Mary'"
- report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"