settling on the lees
Making the best of a bad job ; settling down on what is left, after having squandered the main part of one's fortune.
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Seven Churches of Asia
Those mentioned in Rev. i, 11, viz.: — (1) Ephesus, founded by St. Paul, 57, in a ruinous state in the time of Justinian.
Seven Deadly sins
Pride, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth. The Island of the Seven Cities. A land of Spanish fable, where seven bishops, who quit- ted Spain during the dominion of the Moors, founded seven cities. The legend says that many have visited the island, but no one has ever quitted it.
Seven Dials
A column with seven dials formerly stood facing the seven streets which radiated therefrom.
Seven Hills
The walls of Ancient Rome, built about the 6th century B.C., included the seven hills, Palatine, Capitol, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal and Quirmal. The heart of the modern city clings to these hills, in some cases now scarcely perceptible rises in the street level.
Seven Sacraments
Many previous kings, and even subjects, had been termed "defenders of the Catholic faith," "defenders of the Church," and so on, but no one had borne it as a title.
seven-leagued boots
The boots worn by Boot 132 Bore the giant in the fairy tale, called The Seven- leagued Soots. A pace taken in them measured, seven leagues.
seven-pennorth
Transportation for seven years.
seven-sided animal
A one-eyed man or woman, each having a right side and a left side, a fore side and a back side, an outside, an inside, and a blind side.
seven-up
The game of all-fours, when played for seven chalks—that is, when seven points or chalks have to be made to win the game.
sevendible
A very curious word, used only in the North of Ireland, to denote something particularly severe, strong, or sound. It is, no doubt, derived from sevendouble—that is, sevenfold—and is applied to linen cloth, a heavy beating, a harsh reprimand, &c.
Seventh-day Adventists
A small sect of millenanans holding very strict Sabbatarian views.
Seventh-day Baptists
Modern representa- tives of the Traskites (tf.v.); more numerous m America than in England.
Sevres Ware
Porcelain of fine quality made at the French government works at Sevres, near Paris. The factory was first established at Vincennes in 1745; in 1756 it was removed to Sevres, and three years later was acquired by the state. Sexagesima Sunday (seks ajes' ima). The second Sunday before Lent; so called because in round numbers it is sixty days (Lat. sexagesima dies) before Easter.
sew buttons
to do nothing or idle away time
sewed up
Drunk.
sewed-up
Done up, used up, intoxicated. Dutch, SEEUWT, sick.
sewn-up
Quite worn-out, or "dead beat."
sex machine
A person, usually a man, who is considered highly sexually attractive or skilled.
sex on legs
An extremely attractive or sexy person
sex pact
An agreement to have sex with someone
sex talk
conversations about sex or sexual matters
sex tool
The penis.
sex up
to make something more interesting or attractive
Sexagesima Sunday
Sixty days before Easter Sunday. Ascension Day or Holy Thursday. Fortieth day after Easter Sunday.
sexual congress
Sexual intercourse or intimacy
sexual relation
A romantic or intimate relationship between two people
sexual relations
Intimate physical contact between people
sexual tension
an unexpressed romantic or erotic attraction between people
sexy up
to make something more attractive or appealing
sey
Yes. Pronounced SEE.
sh-t-ng through the teeth
Vomiting. Hark ye, friend, have you got a padlock on your a-se, that you sh-te through your teeth? Vulgar address to one vomiting.
shabbaroon
An ill-dressed shabby fellow; also a mean-spirited person.
shaboingboing
A penis.
shack
A "chevalier d’industrie." A scamp, a blackguard.—Nottingham.
shack-per-swaw
Every one for himself,—a phrase in use amongst the lower orders at the East-end of London, derived apparently from the French, CHACUN POUR SOI.
shacked up
Living together in a romantic relationship without being married
shackjob
A mistress.
shackly
Loose, rickety.—Devonshire.
shadow of one's former self
Someone who has greatly deteriorated physically or mentally
shady
An expression implying decadence. On "the SHADY side of forty" implies that a person is considerably older than forty. SHADY also means inferiority in other senses. A "shady trick" is either a shabby one, mean or trumpery, or else it is one contemptible from the want of ability displayed. The SHADY side of a question is, and fairly enough too, that which has no brightness to recommend it.
shaftsbury
A gallon pot full of wine, with a cock.
shake
To shake one's elbow; to game with dice. To shake a cloth in the wind; to be hanged in chains.
shake
A disreputable man or woman.—North. In London a SHAKE is a prostitute.
shake a leg
to hurry up or move quickly
shake a stick at
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shake and bake
a simple and effective method or process
shake hands with the unemployed
To urinate.
shake it
To dance.
shake it up
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shake up, it.
shake like a leaf
Tremble with fear or anxiety
shake off the dust from one's feet
To leave a place in protest or disgust
shake out
to remove or get rid of something unwanted
shake over
to frisk
shake the elbow
TO, a roundabout expression for dice-playing. To "crook the ELBOW" is an Americanism for "to drink."
shake the pagoda tree
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shake the plum tree
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shake up
To change or reform something drastically
shake-lurk
A false paper carried by an impostor, giving an account of a "dreadful shipwreck."
shakers
A Puritanical sect, almost peculiar to America, and not similar to our Quakers, as is generally believed. They have very strange notions on things in general, and especially on marriage and the connexion of the sexes.
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