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Stavesacre
- - A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.
Stay Fresh
- verb - fail to spoil or rot; "These potatoes keep for a long time"
Staycation
- unknown - A vacation in which one does not travel away from home
Swaggerers
- noun - someone who walks in an arrogant manner
Swaggering
- verb - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- flamboyantly adventurous
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
Swallow Up
- verb - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
Swallowing
- verb - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
- keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
- take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
- utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech"
Swammerdam
- noun - Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)