SAL SUPPLEMENT. SOD 



but it is usually the result of using mercury SEMEIOTIC, relating to the symptoms o 



or some similar remedy for a continuous diseases. 



period I SEMITIC LANGUAGES, the family of 



SAMLET, a piece of heart armour. The languages of the descendants of Shem. 

 Salable of the fifteenth century. They include the Hebraic, Arabic, and 



SAT.PINX, the Eustachian tube, a trum- Aramaic dialects, and those subse- 

 pet like communication between the mouth quently based npon them. The Aramaic 



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large exterior rein of the leg extending SENKCA OIL, the name given to the 

 over the ankle. Pennsylvania petroleum. 



SAPODILLA WOOD, the -wood of Sapota \ SENEGAL HOOT, the root of Cocevlu* 

 A chras, a fine cabinet wood of the West Sakis, a bitter diuretic. 

 Indies, | SSXSOKY, a term of anatomy applied 



SAPOXIFTOATION, the changing of fats to parts of the neutral axis and to those 

 into soap by the displacement of glycerine nerves which convey sensation to them. 

 with alkalies. I SERICI LTURE, or SERICIOULTURE, 



SAPUCAIA XUTP, the nuts of IheLfcythis the cultivation of silk and the silkworm. 

 Zabucajo of Para. They resemble Brazil ] SHAKO, the head-dress worn by the 

 nuts, but are much better and less iudi- infantry of the British Army and by some 

 gestible. foreign troops. 



SATIN "Woon, the fine veneering wood SHEA BUTTER, the solid oil of the 

 of (he Indian tree Chloroxylon Swietenia. ! African Shea tree, Bassia Parkli. 



SCALPRUM, the cutting edge of the in-j SHEAR STEEL, steel bars welded toge- 

 cisor teth of mammals. ther and again drawn out ; wrought steel. 



SC-XPOLiiE, a silicate of alumina and SIALAGOGUK, me<licine which increases 

 lime. the secretion of saliva. 



SCAR AMOUCK, a military braggadocio of SIGUKDR, the hero of the Volsunga 

 the eld Italian comedy. Saga of Scandinavian mythology. 



SCARF SKIN, the epidermis, or cuticle, MNOPITE or SINOPJAN J<:ARTH, the 

 or outer skin, forming the surface of ani- mineralogical name of the bole of Sinope. 

 mated bodies. i SIRE MA, the order of mammals which 



SCLBROSKELETOX, the tendinous liga- includes the mermaids. 



ments of animals, approaching the character i SITOLOOY, alimentary or dietetic science. 

 of tfue bone in their hardness. | SKUNK-WEED, the Symplocarpu* 



SCOLOPKXDRA, the genus of insects com- fcetidus of North America. 

 prehending the centipedes. i SLAVONIC or SCLAVE LANGUAGES, 



SCULPSIT, a term frequently found at the class of languages which includes the 

 the foot of engravings after the engraver's Illyrian and Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, 

 name, signifying that he engraved it, in and Lithuanian. Cyril and Methodius 

 contradistinction to the term PlNXlT, translated the Scriptures into the Eastern 

 after the painter's name, signifying that he Slavonic, or Bulgarian and Illyrian, iu the 

 was the painter of the original work repre- ninth century. 

 seated by the engraving. SMAKAGD, the emerald ; a name given 



.-CUTUM.theshieldof the Roman lepions. however by the Romans to several precious 



SEA-HOLLY, a spiny-leaved plant, stones, and not very precise therefore in its 

 Eryngiwm maritimum. original meaning. 



M.A-PlNK, the Armeria vulgaris, or .SMELT, the genus Osmerus Eperlanu* 

 thrift. of Cuvier, Salmo Eperlanus of Linnaeus, a 



SKA-WOLF, the fish Anarrhichas fine fish of the salmon family. 

 Luput. SNAI L PLANT, the Afedicago tcuteVata, 



si <;MENT SHELL, a shell invented by so called from the snail-like appearance of 

 Sir William Armstrong, consisting of a series its fruit. 



of interior segments of iron built up in rings, SNAPDRAGON, the Antirrhinum majut. 

 rorrounding a central cylinder for holding SXOWHALL TREK, the (Vueldera or 

 the bursting charge. Guelder rrse, Viburnum Oijulu*. 



SELENOGRAPHY, that description and SODA Ai.oi, hydrated sulphate of soda 



representation of the surface of the moon and alumina, frm the Solfatara, Naples, 



xrhich corresponds with Oleography, aa the and other pVvces ; synonymous with SoLiA- 



4ecription of tha surface of the earth. TAiin K. 



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