< Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

THE
DICTIONARY
OF
PHRASE AND FABLE.


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Chapters (not listed in original)
  • S
  • S.P.Q.R
  • S.S. Collar
  • S.S.S.
  • S.T.P
  • Saadia
  • Sabbath Day's Journey
  • Sabbath of Sound
  • Sabbathians
  • Sabbatical Year
  • Sabeans
  • Sabeanism
  • Sabeism
  • Sabellians
  • Sabiens
  • Sable
  • Sable black
  • Sablonnière
  • Sabra
  • Sabreur
  • Sabrina
  • Saccharine Principle in Things
  • Saccharissa
  • Sacco Benedetto or Saco Bendito
  • Sachem
  • Sachentege
  • Sack
  • Sack
  • Sack Race
  • Sackbut
  • Sackerson
  • Sacrament
  • Sacramentarians
  • Sacred Anchors
  • Sacred City
  • Sacred Heart
  • Sacred Isle
  • Sacred War
  • Sacred Way
  • Sacred Weed
  • Sacrifice
  • Sacrifice to the Graces
  • Sacring Bell
  • Sacripant
  • Sad Bread
  • Sad Dog
  • Sadah
  • Sadda
  • Sadder and a Wiser man
  • Saddle
  • Saddletree
  • Sadducees
  • Sadi or Saadi
  • Sadler's Wells
  • Sadlerian Lectures
  • Sæhrimnir
  • Safa
  • Safety Matches
  • Saffron
  • Saffron Veil
  • Saga
  • Sagan of Jerusalem
  • Sages
  • Sagittarius
  • Sagittary
  • Sagramour le Desirus
  • Sahib
  • Sail
  • Sail before the Wind
  • Sailing under False Colours
  • Sailing within the Wind or Sailing close to the Wind
  • Sailor King
  • Saint
  • St. Bees' College
  • St. Cecilia
  • St. Cuthbert's Duck
  • St. Distaff
  • St. Elmo
  • St. Francis
  • St. George's Cross
  • St. John Long
  • St. John's Eve, St. Mark's Eve, and Allhallow Even
  • St. Johnstone's Tippet
  • St. Leger Sweepstakes
  • St. Leon
  • St. Lundi
  • St. Michael's Chair
  • St. Monday
  • St. Simonism
  • St. Stephens
  • St. Stephen's Loaves
  • St. Thomas's Castle
  • St. Wilfrid's Needle
  • Saints
  • Saivas
  • Saker
  • Sakhrat
  • Sakta
  • Sa-kuntala
  • Sakya-Muni
  • Sal Prunella
  • Salacacabia or Salacacaby of Apicius
  • Salace
  • Salad Days
  • Salamander
  • Salamander's Wool
  • Salary
  • Salchichon
  • Sale by the Candle
  • Salem
  • Salic Law
  • Saliens
  • Salient Angles
  • Salisbury Cathedral
  • Salisbury Craigs
  • Sallee
  • Sallust of France
  • Sally
  • Sally Lunn
  • Sallyport
  • Salmacis
  • Salmagundi
  • Salmon
  • Salmon
  • Salmoneus
  • Salsabil
  • Salt
  • Salt
  • Salt Bread or Bitter Bread
  • Salt-cellar
  • Salt Hill
  • Salt Junk
  • Salt Lake
  • Salt Ring
  • Salt River
  • Salt an Invoice
  • Salt in Beer
  • Salt in a Coffin
  • Salt Losing its Savour
  • Salt on His Tail
  • Saltarello
  • Saltpetre
  • Salute
  • Salutations
  • Salve
  • Salve
  • Sam
  • Sam Weller
  • Samael
  • Samanides
  • Samaria
  • Samaritan
  • Sambo
  • Samedi
  • Samian
  • Samian Letter
  • Samian Sage
  • Samiasa
  • Samiel
  • Samiel Wind, or Simoom
  • Sammael
  • Samoor
  • Samosatian Philosopher
  • Sampford Ghost
  • Sampi
  • Sampler
  • Sampson
  • Samson
  • Samson Carrasco
  • San Benito
  • San Christobal
  • San Suena
  • Sance-bell
  • Sancha
  • Sancho Panza
  • Sanchoniatho
  • Sanctum Sanctorum
  • Sancy Diamond
  • Sand
  • Sand
  • Sand-blind
  • Sand-man is about
  • Sands
  • Sandabar
  • Sandal
  • Sandals of Theramenes
  • Sandalphon
  • Sandalwood
  • Sandbanks
  • Sandemanians or Glassites
  • Sanden
  • Sandford and Merton
  • Sandjar
  • Sandschaki or Sandschaki-sherif
  • Sandwich
  • Sandwichman
  • Sang Bleu
  • Sang Froid
  • Sangaree
  • Sanglamore
  • Sanglier
  • Sangrado
  • Sangreal
  • Sanguine
  • Sanguinary James
  • Sanhedrim
  • Sanjaksherif
  • Sans Culottes
  • Sans Culottides
  • Sans Peur et Sans Reproche
  • Sans Souci
  • Sanscara
  • Sansfoy
  • Sansjoy
  • Sansloy
  • Sansonetto
  • Santa Casa
  • Santa Claus or Santa Klaus
  • Saophron
  • Sapphics
  • Sappho of Toulouse
  • Saracen Wheat
  • Saracens
  • Saragoza
  • Saraswati
  • Sarcasm
  • Sarcenet
  • Sarcenet Chidings
  • Sarcophagus
  • Sardanapalus
  • Sardinian Laugh
  • Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter
  • Sardonyx
  • Sarnia
  • Sarpedon
  • Sarsen Stones
  • Sartor Resartus
  • Sash Window
  • Sassanides
  • Sassenach
  • Satan
  • Satan's Journey to Earth
  • Satanic
  • Satire
  • Saturday
  • Saturn or Kronos
  • Saturn
  • Saturn's Tree
  • Saturnalia
  • Saturnian Days
  • Saturnian Verses
  • Saturnine
  • Satyr
  • Satyrane
  • Sauce
  • Sauce
  • Sauce to the Goose is Sauce to the Gander
  • Saucer Eyes
  • Saucer Oath
  • Saucy
  • ‘Saul
  • Saut Lairds o Dunscore
  • Savage
  • Save
  • Save the Mark
  • Savoir Faire
  • Savoy
  • Saw
  • Sawdust Parlance
  • Sawny or Sandy
  • Saxifrage
  • Saxon Castles
  • Saxon Characteristics
  • Saxon Duke
  • Saxon English
  • Saxon Relics
  • Saxon Shore
  • Say
  • Sbirri
  • Scævola
  • Scaffold, Scaffolding
  • Scagliola
  • Scales
  • Scallop Shell
  • Scalloped
  • Scammozzi's Rule
  • Scamp
  • Scandal
  • Scandal-broth
  • Scandalum Magnatum
  • Scanderbeg
  • Scanderbeg's Sword must have Scanderbeg's Arm—i.e
  • Scandinavia
  • Scant-of-grace
  • Scantling
  • Scapegoat
  • Scaphism
  • Scapin
  • Scaramouch
  • Scarborough Dress
  • Scarborough Warning
  • Scarlet
  • Scarlet
  • Scarlet Coat
  • Scarlet Woman
  • Scavenger's Daughter
  • Sceatta
  • Scene Painters
  • Scene Plot
  • Scent
  • Sceptic
  • Sceptre
  • Scheherazade
  • Scheltrum
  • Scheme
  • Schiedam
  • Schiites
  • Schlemihl
  • Scholastic
  • Scholastic Divinity
  • Schools
  • Schoolmaster Abroad
  • Schoolmen
  • Schoolmistress
  • Scian
  • Science
  • Science Persecuted
  • Scienter Nesciens et Sapiente Indoctus
  • Scio's Blind Old Bard
  • Scipio dismissed the Iberian Maid
  • Scissors to Grind
  • Sclavonic
  • Scobellum
  • Scone
  • Score
  • Scornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddings
  • Scorpion
  • Scorpions
  • Scot
  • Scot-free
  • Scot and Lot
  • Scots Greys
  • Scots wha hae
  • Scotch
  • Scotch Breakfast
  • Scotch Mist
  • Scotch Pint
  • Scotch Pound
  • Scotch Shilling
  • Scotia
  • Scotists
  • Scotland
  • Scotland Yard
  • Scott
  • Scotus
  • Scourge of Christians
  • Scourge of God
  • Scourge of Princes
  • Scouring
  • Scowerers
  • Scrape
  • Scrape an Acquaintance
  • Scratch
  • Scratch
  • Scratch Cradle
  • Scratch Crew
  • Scratch Eleven
  • Scratch Race
  • Scratched
  • Screw
  • Screw Loose
  • Screw Plot
  • Screwed
  • Screwed on Right
  • Scribe
  • Scriblerus
  • Scrimmage
  • Scripto rs Decem
  • Scriptors Quinque
  • Scriptors Tres
  • Scriptorium
  • Scriptures
  • Scudamore
  • Scudding under Bare Poles
  • Scullabogue Massacre
  • Sculls
  • Sculpture
  • Scutch
  • Scuttle
  • Scuttle Out
  • Scylla
  • Scylla
  • Scythian or Tartarian Lamb
  • Scythian Defiance
  • Sea
  • Sea-blue Bird of March
  • Sea Deities
  • Sea-girt Isle
  • Sea-green Incorruptible
  • Sea Legs
  • Sea Serpent
  • Seaboard
  • Seal
  • Seamy Side
  • Seasons
  • Sebaraim
  • Sebastian
  • Sebastianistes
  • Second
  • Second-hand
  • Second Sight
  • Second Wind
  • Second of Time
  • Secondary Colours
  • Secret de Polichinelle
  • Secular Clergy
  • Secular Games
  • Sedan Chairs
  • Sedrat
  • Seedy
  • Seel
  • Seemurgh
  • Seian Horse
  • Seidlitz Water
  • Seiks
  • Selah
  • Selama or Selemeh
  • Selen
  • Seleucidæ
  • Selim
  • Seljuks
  • Sell
  • Selling Race
  • Selling the Pass
  • Seltzer Water
  • Semiramis of the North
  • Senanus.
  • Seneca
  • Senior Optime
  • Sennacherib
  • Sennight
  • Sentences
  • Sentinel
  • Sepoy
  • Sept
  • September Massacres
  • Septuagesima Sunday
  • Septuagint
  • Seraglio
  • Seraphim
  • Serapis
  • Serat
  • Serbonian Bog or Serbonis
  • Seremenes
  • Serenade
  • Serene
  • Serif and Sanserif
  • Sèrjeants-at-Law
  • Sermon Lane
  • Serpent
  • Serpentine Verses
  • Serrapurda
  • Servant
  • Serve
  • Servus Servorum
  • Sesame
  • Sesha
  • Set Off
  • Set Scene
  • Set-to
  • Setebos
  • Sethites
  • Setting a Hen
  • Setting a Saw
  • Setting of a Jewel
  • Setting of Plaster or Paint
  • Setting of Sun, Moon, and Stars
  • Setting the Thames on Fire
  • Settie your Hash
  • Seven
  • Seven Bibles (The) or Sacred Books
  • Seven Bodies in Alchemy
  • Seven Champions of Christendom
  • Seven Churches of Asia
  • Seven Deadly Sins
  • Seven Dials
  • Seven Joys of the Virgin
  • Seven Sages of Greece
  • Seven Senses
  • Seven Sisters
  • Seven Sleepers
  • Seven Sorrows of the Virgin
  • Seven Spirits
  • Seven Spirits of God
  • Seven Virtues
  • Seven Weeks' War
  • Seven Wise Masters
  • Seven Wonders of the World
  • Seven Years' Lease
  • Seven Years' War
  • Several = separate;
  • Severn
  • Severus
  • Sèvres Ware
  • Sew the Button on
  • Sex
  • Sexagesima Sunday
  • Sextile
  • Sexton
  • Seyd
  • Sforza
  • Shack
  • Shaddock
  • Shades
  • Shadoff or Shadoof
  • Shadow
  • Shadow
  • Shady
  • Shafalus
  • Shafites
  • Shaft
  • Shatton
  • Shah
  • Shah-pour
  • Shahzada
  • Shakedown
  • Shakers
  • Shakes
  • Shakespeare
  • Shaking Hands
  • Shaky
  • Shallow
  • Shalott
  • Shambles means benches
  • Shamrock
  • Shan Van Voght
  • Shandean Exactness
  • Shandy
  • Shandygaff
  • Shanks' Nag
  • Shannon
  • Shanty
  • Shanty Songs
  • Shark
  • Sharp
  • Sharp
  • Sharp-beak
  • Sharp-set
  • Shave
  • Shaveling
  • Shaving
  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • Shear Steel
  • Sheb-seze
  • Sheba
  • Shebeen
  • Sheep
  • Sheet Anchor
  • Sheik
  • Shekinah
  • Sheldonian Theatre
  • Shelf
  • Shell
  • Shell Jacket
  • Shell of an Egg
  • Shells
  • Shemitic
  • Shepherd
  • Shepherd Kings or Hyksos
  • Shepherd Lord
  • Shepherd of Banbury
  • Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
  • Shepherd of the Ocean
  • Shepherd's Sundial
  • Shepherded
  • Sheppard
  • Shepster Time
  • Sheriffmuir
  • Sheva
  • Shewbread
  • Shewri-while
  • Shiahs
  • Shibboleth
  • Shield
  • Shield-of-Arms
  • Shield of Expectation
  • Shields
  • Shi-ites
  • Shillelagh
  • Shilling
  • Shilly Shally
  • Shimei
  • Shinar
  • Shindy
  • Shingebis
  • Ship
  • Ship Letters
  • Ship-shape
  • Ship of the Desert
  • Ships
  • Ships of the Line
  • Shipton
  • Shire and County
  • Shire Horses
  • Shirt
  • Shittim Wood
  • Shivering Mountain
  • Shoddy
  • Shoe
  • Shoe-loosed
  • Shoe Pinches
  • Shoe a Goose
  • Shoe the Anchor
  • Shoe the Cobbler
  • Shoe the Horse
  • Shoe the Wild Colt
  • Shoes
  • Shoemakers
  • Shoot the Moon
  • Shoot the Sun
  • Shooting-iron
  • Shooting Stars
  • Shop
  • Shop-lifting
  • Shore
  • Shoreditch
  • Shorne (Sir John) or Master John Shorne
  • Short
  • Short Stature
  • Shot
  • Shot in the Locker
  • Shot Window
  • Shotten Herring
  • Shoulder
  • Shovel-board
  • Show
  • Shrew-mouse
  • Shrieking Sisterhood
  • Shrimp
  • Shropshire
  • Shrovetide Cocks
  • Shunamite's House
  • Shunt
  • Shut up
  • Shy
  • Shylock
  • Shylock
  • Si
  • Si Quis
  • Siamese Twins:
  • Sibberidge
  • Sibyl
  • Sibyls
  • Sibylline Books
  • Sibylline Leaves
  • Sibylline Verses
  • Siccis pedibus
  • Sice
  • Sicilian Dishes
  • Sicilian Vespers
  • Sick Man
  • Sick as a Cat
  • Sick as a Dog
  • Sick as a Horse
  • Siddons (Mrs.)
  • Side of the Angels
  • Sidney (Algernon)
  • Sidney (Sir Philip)
  • Sidney-Sussex College
  • Siegfried
  • Sieglind
  • Sienna
  • Sierra
  • Siesta
  • Sieve and Shears
  • Sif
  • Sight
  • Sight
  • Sign your Name
  • Signs instead of words
  • Significavit
  • Siguna
  • Sigurd
  • Sikes
  • Sikh
  • Silbury
  • Silchester
  • Silence gives Consent
  • Silent
  • Silenus
  • Silhouette
  • Silk
  • Silk Gown
  • Silk Purse
  • Silken Thread
  • Silly is the German selig
  • Silly Season
  • Siluria—that is
  • Silurian Rocks
  • Silvana
  • Silvanella
  • Silver was
  • Silver
  • Silver Cooper
  • Silver Fork School
  • Silver-hand
  • Silver Lining
  • Silver Pheasant
  • Silver Spoon
  • Silver Star of Love
  • Silver Streak
  • Silver-Tongued
  • Silver Trumpet
  • Silver Weapon
  • Silver Wedding
  • Silver of Guthrum, or Guthram's Lane
  • Silverside of Beef
  • Simeon
  • Similes in common use:—
  • Similia Similibus Curantur
  • Simmes' Hole
  • Simnel Cakes
  • Simon
  • Simon Magus
  • Simon Pure
  • Simony
  • Simple
  • Simple Simon. A simpleton
  • Simplicity is sine plica
  • Simplon Road
  • Sin
  • Sin-eaters
  • Sincere
  • Sindhu
  • Sindon
  • Sine Die
  • Sine qu Non
  • Sinecure
  • Sinews of War
  • Sing a Song o Sixpence
  • Sing my Music, and not Yours
  • Sing Old Rose
  • Sing Out
  • Sing-su-hay
  • Singapores
  • Singing Apple
  • Singing-Bread
  • Singing Chambermaids
  • Singing Tree
  • Singing in Tribulation
  • Single-Speech Hamilton
  • Sinister
  • Sinning One's Mercies
  • Sinon
  • Sintram
  • Sir
  • Sir Oracle
  • Sir Roger de Coverley
  • Siren
  • Sirius
  • Sirloin of Beef
  • Sisyphus
  • Sit Bodkin
  • Sit Out
  • Sit Under …
  • Sit Up
  • Sit Upon
  • Sit on the Rall or Fence
  • Sit on Thorns (To) or on Tenterhooks
  • Sitâ
  • Sitting in Banco
  • Sieve and Shears
  • Siva
  • Six. Six thrice or three dice
  • Six-and-Eightpence
  • Six Articles
  • Six-hooped Pot
  • Six Members
  • Six Months' War
  • Six Nations
  • Six Points
  • Six-Principle Baptists
  • Sixes and Sevens
  • Sixteen-string Jack
  • Sizar
  • Sizings
  • Skains-mate or Skeins-mate
  • Skald
  • Skedaddle
  • Skeggs
  • Skeleton
  • Skeleton Jackets
  • Skevington's Daughter
  • Skibbereen and Connemara
  • Skibbereen Eagle
  • Skid
  • Skiddaw
  • Skied
  • Skillygolee
  • Skimble-Skamble
  • Skimmington
  • Skin
  • Skin a Flint
  • Skin of his Teeth
  • Skinfaxi
  • Skinflint
  • Skinners
  • Skirt
  • Skogan
  • Skopts, Skopti, or White Doves
  • Skull
  • Skurry
  • Sky
  • Sky
  • Sky-blue
  • Sky-rakers
  • Skye
  • Skylark
  • Skylark
  • Slander, Offence
  • Slang
  • Slang
  • Slap-bang
  • Slap-dash
  • Slap-up
  • Slate
  • Slate Club
  • Slate One
  • Slating
  • Slave
  • Sleave
  • Sleck-stone
  • Sledge-hammer
  • Sleep
  • Sleep like a Top
  • Sleeper
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • Sleepless Hat
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Sleeve
  • Sleeve of Care
  • Sleeve of Hildebrand
  • Sleeveless Errand
  • Sleight of Hand
  • Sleipnir
  • Slender
  • Sleuth-Hound
  • Slewed
  • Slick
  • Slick Off
  • Sliding Scale
  • Slip
  • Slippers
  • Slipshod
  • Slipslop
  • Sloane MSS
  • Slogan
  • Slop
  • Slops
  • Slopard
  • Slope
  • Slough of Despond
  • Slow
  • Slow Coach
  • Slubber-Degullion
  • Slug-abed
  • Slumland
  • Slums
  • Sly
  • Sly-Boots
  • Sly Dog
  • Sly as a Fox
  • Slyme
  • Small
  • Small-back
  • Small Beer
  • Small-endians
  • Small Hours of the Morning
  • Smalls
  • Smart Money
  • Smash
  • Smec
  • Smectymnuans
  • Smectymnus
  • Smell
  • Smell a Rat
  • Smelling Sin
  • Smells of the Lamp
  • Smelts
  • Smiler
  • Smith
  • Smith of Nottingham
  • Smith's Prize-man
  • Smithfield
  • Smoke
  • Smoke Farthings
  • Smoke Silver
  • Snack
  • Snails have no sex
  • Snake-Stones
  • Snake in the Grass
  • Snakes in his Boots
  • Snap-Dragons
  • Snap of the Fingers
  • Snap One's Nose Off
  • Snarling Letter
  • Sneck Posset
  • Sneezed
  • Sneezing
  • Snickersnee
  • Snider Rifle
  • Snob
  • Snood
  • Snooks
  • Snore
  • Snow King
  • Snowdonia
  • Snowdrop
  • Snuff
  • Snuff Out
  • Soane Museum
  • Soap
  • Soap
  • Soaped-pig Fashion
  • Soapy Sam
  • Sober or Sobrius
  • Sober as a Judge—i.e. grave and sedate
  • Sobrino
  • Sobriquet
  • Socialism
  • Société de Momus
  • Society
  • Sock
  • Sock a Corpse
  • Socrates
  • Sodom
  • Soffarides
  • Soft
  • Soft Sawder
  • Soft Soap
  • Soft as Soap
  • Soft Fire makes Sweet Malt
  • Soft Words Butter no Parsnips
  • Softly
  • Softy
  • Soho!
  • Soi-disant
  • Soil
  • Soil the Milk before Using It
  • Sojourn
  • Sol
  • Sol-fa
  • Solan Goose
  • Solano
  • Solatium
  • Soldan or Sowdan
  • Soldats
  • Soldier
  • Soldier's Heart
  • Soldiers' Battles
  • Soldiers of Fortune
  • Soldiering
  • Solecism
  • Solemn
  • Soler
  • Solid Doctor
  • Solingen
  • Solomon
  • Solomon's Carpet
  • Solomon's Ring
  • Solon of Parnassus
  • Solstice
  • Solyman
  • Soma
  • Somagia
  • Sombrero
  • Somerset
  • Somerset or Somersault
  • Somerset House
  • Somoreen
  • Son
  • Son of Belial
  • Son of Dripping
  • Son of One Year
  • Son of Perdition
  • Son of the Morning
  • Son of the Star
  • Sons of God
  • Sons of the Band
  • Sons of the Mighty
  • Sons of the Prophets
  • Sons of the Sorceress
  • Song
  • Song of Degrees
  • Song of Roland
  • Song of Songs
  • Sonna or Sunna
  • Sonnambula
  • Sonnet
  • Sop
  • Soph
  • Sophi or Safi
  • Sophis
  • Sophia
  • Sophist, Sophistry, Sophism, Sophisticator, etc
  • Sorbonica
  • Sorbonne
  • Sorceress
  • Sordello
  • Sorites
  • Sorrows of Werther
  • Sorts Biblicæ
  • Sortes Virgilianæ
  • Sorts
  • Sosia
  • Sotadios or Sotadic Verse
  • Sothic Year
  • Soul
  • Soul Cakes
  • Soul and Spirit
  • Soul of a Goose or Capon
  • Sound
  • Sound Dues
  • Sound as a Bell
  • Sound as a Roach
  • Soundings
  • Sour Grapes
  • Sour Grapeism
  • South-Sea Scheme or Bubble
  • Southampton Street
  • Southampton's Wise Sons
  • Southern Gate of the Sun
  • Soutras
  • Sovereign
  • Sow
  • Spa or Spa Water
  • Spade
  • Spadish Language
  • Spafields
  • Spagiric Art
  • Spagiric Food
  • Spagnaletto
  • Spaie
  • Spain
  • Span New
  • Spaniel
  • Spanish Blades
  • Spanish Brutus
  • Spanish Main
  • Spanish Money
  • Spanish Worm
  • Spank
  • Spanker
  • Spanking
  • Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child
  • Sparkling Heat
  • Spartan Dog
  • Spasmodic School
  • Speaker's Eye
  • Speaking
  • Speaking Heads and Sounding Stones
  • Spear
  • Spear-half
  • Spear of Ithuriel
  • Special Pleading
  • Specie, Species
  • Spectacles
  • Spectre of the Brocken
  • Spectrum, Spectra, Spectre
  • Speculate
  • Speech
  • Speed
  • Spell
  • Spellbinders
  • Spelter
  • Spence
  • Spencer
  • Spendthrift
  • Spenser
  • Spenserian Metre
  • Spent
  • Spheres
  • Sphinx
  • Spice
  • Spick and Span New
  • Spider
  • Spidireen or Spidereen
  • Spigot
  • Spilt Milk
  • Spindle-half
  • Spinning Jenny
  • Spinoza's System
  • Spinster
  • Spirit
  • Spirit-writing
  • Spirits
  • Spirits
  • Spirited Away
  • Spiritual Mother
  • Spiritualism or Spiritism
  • Spirt or Spurt
  • Spitalfields
  • Spite of His Teeth
  • Spitfire
  • Spitting for Luck
  • Spittle or Spital
  • Spittle Sermons
  • Splay
  • Spleen
  • Splendid Shilling
  • Splice
  • Splice the Main Brace
  • Spoke
  • Spoke
  • Sponge
  • Spontaneous Combustion
  • Spoon
  • Spoon
  • Spooning
  • Spoony
  • Sporran
  • Sport a Door or Oak
  • Sporting Seasons in England
  • Spouse
  • Spout
  • Sprat
  • Spread-eagle
  • Spread-eagle Oratory
  • Spring Gardens
  • Spring Tide
  • Sprout-kele
  • Spruce
  • Spun
  • Spun Out
  • Spunging House
  • Spur Money
  • Spurs
  • Spy
  • Spy
  • Spy Wednesday
  • Squab Pie
  • Squad
  • Squalls
  • Square
  • Square the Circle
  • Squash
  • Squib
  • Squint-eyed
  • Squintifego
  • Squire of Dames
  • Stabat Mater
  • Stable-door
  • Stable Keys
  • Staff
  • Staff of Life
  • Stafford
  • Stafford Law
  • Stag
  • Stags
  • Stagirite or Stagyrite
  • Stain
  • Stalking-horse
  • Stammerer
  • Stamp
  • Stampede
  • Stand
  • Stand Nunky
  • Stand Off
  • Stand Out
  • Stand Sam
  • Stand Treat
  • Stand Upon
  • Stand to a Bargain
  • Stand to his Guns
  • Stand to Reason
  • Standing Dish
  • Standing Orders
  • Standing Stones
  • Standard
  • Standards
  • Standards of Individuals
  • Standards
  • Stang
  • Stanhope
  • Stanhope Lens
  • Stank Hen
  • Stannary Courts
  • Star
  • Star
  • Star Chamber
  • Star-crossed
  • Star of Bethlehem
  • Star of the South
  • Stars and Garters!
  • Stars and Stripes (The) or the Star-spangled Banner
  • Starboard and Larboard
  • Starch
  • Starry Sphere
  • Starvation Dundas
  • Starved with Cold
  • Stations
  • Statira
  • Stator
  • Statue
  • Status of Great Men
  • Statute Fairs
  • Steak
  • Steal
  • Steal a Horse
  • Steal a March on One
  • Steam-kettles
  • Steelyard
  • Steenie
  • Steeple-engine
  • Steeple-Jack
  • Steeplechase
  • Stelvio
  • Stentor
  • Stentorian Lungs
  • Stentorophonic Voice
  • Stepfather and Father-in-law
  • Stephen
  • Stephen's Bread
  • Stephens
  • Stepney Papers
  • Sterling Money
  • Stern
  • Sternhold
  • Sterry
  • Stewing in their own Gravy
  • Stick
  • Stickler
  • Stiff
  • Stigmata
  • Stigmatise
  • Stigmites, or St. Stephen's Stones
  • Stiletto of the Storm
  • Still
  • Still Sow
  • Still Waters Run Deep
  • Stilling
  • Stilo Novo
  • Stimulants of Great Men
  • Stinkomalee
  • Stipulate
  • “Stir Up” Sunday
  • Stirrup
  • Stirrup Cup
  • Stirrup-Oil
  • Stiver
  • Stock
  • Stock Exchange Slang
  • Stock, Lock, and Barrel
  • Stockdove
  • Stockfish
  • Stocking
  • Stockwell Ghost
  • Stoics
  • Stole
  • Stolen Things are Sweet
  • Stomach
  • Stone
  • Stone Age
  • Stone Blind
  • Stone Cold
  • Stone Dead
  • Stone Jug
  • Stone Soup or St. Bernard's Soup
  • Stone Still
  • Stone of the Broken Treaty
  • Stone of Stumbling
  • Stone of Tongues
  • Stones
  • Stonebrash
  • Stonehenge
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Stony Arabia
  • Stool of Repentance
  • Stops
  • Store
  • Stork
  • Storks' Law or Lex Ciconaria
  • Storm in a Teapot
  • Storms
  • Stormy Petrel
  • Stornello Verses
  • Storthing
  • Stovepipe hat
  • Stowe
  • Stowe Nine Churches
  • Strabo
  • Stradivarius
  • Straight as an Arrow
  • Strain
  • Stralenheim
  • Strand
  • Strange
  • Stranger of the Gate
  • Strangers Sacrificed
  • Strap Oil
  • Strappado
  • Strasburg Goose
  • Stratagem means generalship
  • Straw
  • Straw
  • Strawberry
  • Strawberry Preachers
  • Streak of Silver
  • Street and Walker
  • Stretcher
  • Strike
  • Strike
  • Strike Amain
  • Strike a Bargain
  • Strike Sail
  • Strike while the Iron is Hot
  • String
  • Stripes
  • Strode
  • Stroke
  • Stromkarl
  • Strong
  • Strong-back
  • Strong-bow
  • Strontian
  • Struldbrugs
  • Stubble Geese
  • Stuck Pig
  • Stuck Up
  • Stuck-up People
  • Stuck his Spoon in the Wall
  • Stuff Gown
  • Stumers
  • Stump
  • Stump Orator
  • Stùmp Up
  • Stumps
  • Stumped Out
  • Stupid Boy
  • Sty or Stye
  • Stygian
  • Style
  • Styles
  • Stylites or Pillar Saints
  • Styx
  • Suaviter in Modo
  • Sub Cuitro Liquit
  • Sub Hasta
  • Sub Jove
  • Sub-Lapsarian, Supra-Lapsarian
  • Sub Rosa
  • Sublime Port
  • Sublime Porte
  • Submerged (The) or The Submerged Tenth
  • Submit
  • Subpœna
  • Subsidy
  • Substitution of Service
  • Subtle Doctor
  • Subvolvans or Subvolvani
  • Succession Powder
  • Succinct
  • Succoth
  • Suck the Monkey
  • Sucking Young Patricians
  • Suckle
  • Sucre
  • Suds
  • Suffolk
  • Suffrage
  • Sugar-candy
  • Sugar-lip
  • Sugar and Honey
  • Sugared Words
  • Sui Generis
  • Sui Juris
  • Suicides
  • Suisse
  • Suit
  • Suit of Dittos
  • Sullt
  • Sultan of Persia
  • Sultan's Horse, Deadly
  • Sultana
  • Summa Diligentia
  • Summer
  • Summer King
  • Summons
  • Summum Bonum
  • Sumpter Horse or Mule
  • Sumptuary Laws
  • Sun
  • Sun
  • Sun-burst
  • Sun Inn
  • Sun and Moon Falling
  • Sun in one's Eyes
  • Sun of Righteousness
  • Sunday
  • Sunday Saint
  • Sundays
  • Sundew
  • Sunflower
  • Sunna or Sonna
  • Sunnites
  • Suo Jure
  • Suo Marte
  • Super, Supers
  • Supercilious
  • Supernaculum
  • Superstition
  • Supped all his Porridge
  • Supper of Trimalchio
  • Supplication
  • Sure as Demoivre
  • "Surest Way to Peace is a constant Preparation for War"
  • Surety
  • Surfeit Water
  • Surgeon
  • Surloin of Beef
  • Surlyboy
  • Surname
  • Surplice
  • Surrey
  • Surt or Surtur
  • Susan
  • Sussex
  • Sutor
  • Suttee
  • Svalin
  • Swaddler
  • Swag
  • Swag
  • Swagger
  • Swainmote
  • Swallow
  • Swan
  • Swan
  • Swan-hopping
  • Swan of Avon (The), or Sweet Swan of Avon
  • Swan of Cambray
  • Swan of Mantua (The), or The Mantuan Swan
  • Swan of Meander
  • Swan of Padua
  • Swans … Geese
  • Swanimote
  • Swarga
  • Swashbuckler
  • Swear
  • Swear Black is White
  • Swear by my Sword
  • Sweat
  • Sweating Sickness
  • Swedenborgians
  • Swedish Nightingale
  • Sweep
  • Sweepstakes
  • Sweet as sugar
  • Sweet Singer of Israel
  • Sweet Singers
  • Sweet Voices
  • Sweetheart
  • Swell Mob
  • Swi Dynasty
  • Swift
  • Swim
  • Swindle
  • Swine
  • Swing
  • Swinge-buckler
  • Swiss
  • Swiss Boy
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • Swithin
  • Switzers
  • Sword
  • Sword-makers
  • Sword Excalibar
  • Sword of God
  • Sword of Rome
  • Sword of the Spirit
  • ¶ Sword
  • Sword and Cloak Plays
  • Swords Prohibited
  • Sworn Brothers
  • Sworn at Highgate
  • Sybarite
  • Sycamore and Sycomore
  • Sycophant
  • Sycorax
  • Syenite
  • Syllogism
  • Sylphs
  • Sylvam Lignum Ferre
  • Sylvester
  • Sylvius Bonus
  • Symbol
  • Symbols of Saints
  • Symbolism of Colours
  • Symbolism of Metals and Gems
  • Syrens of the Ditch
  • Syria
  • Syrtis


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