Which Witch is Which? Part V: S-Y

sachet.........a small bag containing perfumed powdertied...........passed tense of tietighten........to make
sashay.........to strut or flouncesacks..........bagstighter
sax............short for saxophonesail...........wind poweredtitan..........a gianttimber.........wood for building
water traveltimbre.........musical qualitytire...........round, rubber things
sale...........the act of sellingsane...........mentally normalon your car
seine..........fishing netsaner..........more mentally normaltyer...........one who tiesto.............toward
than otherstoo............also
seiner.........one who fishes with a netsaver..........onetwo............a coupletoad...........frog
who savestoed...........having toes
savor..........to relish a tastesawed..........cut timbertowed..........pulled aheadtocsin.........an alarm
sod............turfscene..........visual locationtoxin..........a poisontocsins........more than one alarm
seen...........past tense of sawscent, see: centscents,toxins.........more than one poisonstoe............forepart of
see: centsscull..........rowing motionthe foot
skull..........head bonesea............oceantow............to pull aheadtold...........what was spoken
see............to lookseal...........to closetolled.........a bell was rungtole...........lacquered
seel...........to close someone's eyessealing, see:metalware
ceilingseam...........row of stitchestoll...........a tax or chargeton............2000 lbs.
seem...........appearsseamen.........sailorsTun............a large casktongue.........mouth muscle
semen..........male dischargeseams..........more than onetung...........Chinese tree and its oil(similar to
rows of stitchinglinseed)toon...........cartoon personality
seems..........it appears to besear...........scorchedtune...........songtort...........a sweet cake for lawyers
seer...........a person who seestorte..........a sweet multi-layered
sear, see: cereseas...........oceanscaketough..........difficult
sees...........lookstuff...........a stratified, porous rocktracked........having
seize..........to grabsects..........religious factionstracks
sex............if you have to ask, you're too youngseed,tract..........a plot of landtray...........a platter
see: cedeseeder, see: cedarseeding, see:trey...........threetroop..........a company of soldiers
cedingseek...........to look fortroupe.........a company of actorstrooper........a private
Sikh...........Hindu religious sectseer, see: ceresell, see:soldier
cellseller, see: cellarsense, see: centssenses, see:trouper........a staunch colleague or
censussensor, see: censersent, see: centsere, see:actortroopers.......several soldiers
cereserf...........slavetroupers.......multiple actors, or alliestrussed........tied up
surf...........breaking wavesserge..........strong twilled
fabrictrust..........faithUnix, see: eunuchsURL, see: earlurn,
surge..........forceful pushserial, see: cerealseries, see:see: earnuse, see: ewesvain...........worthless
Ceressession, see: cessionsew............needle andvane...........flat piece moving with the air
threadvein...........blood vesselvale...........valley
so.............in the manner shownveil...........gauzy fabric, fabric coveringvary...........to
sol............musical notechange
sow............broadcasting seedssewer..........one whovery...........extremelyverses.........paragraphs
sewsversus.........againstvial...........narrow glass container
sower..........one who sowssewer..........waste drainvile...........despicable
suer...........one who suesshake..........vibrateviol...........stringed instrumentvice...........bad habit
sheik..........Arab princeshall..........is allowedvise...........bench-mounted clampWACs...........members
shell..........aquatic exoskeletonshe'll.........contraction ofof the Women's Army Corps
"she will"wax............candle stuff
shill..........a decoyshear..........to cut or wrenchwhacks.........several blowswade...........walk in shallow
sheer..........thin; abrupt turnshears.........cuts orwater
wrenches; scissorsweighed........past tense of weighwail...........a cry
sheers.........abruptly turnssheave.........pulleywale...........welt; corduroy ridge
shiv...........knifeshoe...........footwearwhale..........large oceanic mammalwain...........a wagon
shoo..........."go away"shoes..........more than one shoewane...........decrease
shoos..........sends awayshoot, see: chutesic............to setWayne..........a man's namewaist..........between ribs and
uponhips
sick...........illsics...........sets uponwaste..........make ill use ofwait...........remain in readiness
six............whole numberside...........lateral
sighed.........breathed sorrowfullysigh, see:weight.........an amount of heavinesswaive..........give up
psisighs..........multiple sad and weary breathsrights
size...........magnitudesight, see: citesighted, see:wave...........undulating motionwaiver.........contract for
citedsights, see: citessign...........displayed boardgiving up rights
bearing informationwaver..........rocking motionWales..........Western division
sine...........reciprocal of the cosecantsignet, see:of UK
cygnetsink...........to submergewales..........corduroy ridges
synch..........together in timeSioux..........tribe of nativewhales.........a pod of ocean
Americansmammalswalk...........perambulate
sou............French coin worth five centimeswok............Chinese cooking panwalks..........moves by
sough..........soft soundfoot
sue............bring civil actionsite, see: citesited, see:woks...........plural form of wokwant...........desire
citedsites, see: citesslay...........killwont...........accustomedwar............large scale armed
sleigh.........snow carriagesleight........cunning skillconflict
slight.........not muchslew...........past tense of slaywore...........past tense of wearware...........merchandise
slough.........bogwear...........attire
slue...........to swing aroundsloe...........blackthorn berrieswhere..........a placewarn...........to advise of a hazard
slow...........not fastsoar...........flyworn...........displaying evidence of usewarrantee......one
sore...........hurtsoared.........to have sailed through thewho is protected by a guarantee
airwarranty.......a guaranteewarship........naval implement
sword..........long fighting bladesolace.........comfortof destruction
soulless.......lacking a soulsole...........onlyworship........revere in a religious
soul...........immortal part of a personsome...........a fewmannerwary...........cautious
sum............result of additionson............male childwherry.........light row boatway............path or direction
sun............starsonny..........diminutive for male childweigh..........to measure weight
sunny..........lit by the sunsoot...........black residue ofwhey...........watery part of milkwe.............first person
burningplural
suit...........clothessordid.........squalidwee............very smallwe'd...........contraction of "we
sorted.........arrangedspade..........shovelwould"
spayed.........to sterilize a female animalspoor..........trailweed...........like how our flowers won't
of an animalgrowwe'll..........contraction of "we will"
spore..........single cell reproductivewheel..........what we keep
bodystaid..........reservedreinventingwe're..........contraction of "we are"
stayed.........remainedstair..........a stepweir...........a low dam, or a fence in a river for
stare..........look intentlystake..........wooden polecatching fishwe're..........contraction of "we are"
steak..........slice of meatstatice........an astringent herbwere...........past tense plural of "to be"
status.........position with regard towhir...........prolonged swish or
lawstationary.....not movingbuzzwe've..........contraction of "we have"
stationery.....writing papersteal..........take unlawfullyweave..........to make clothweak...........not strong
steel..........iron alloystep...........a measure takenweek...........seven daysweal...........a skin welt
steppe.........a level, grassy, unforestedwheel..........what we in Silicon Valley continually
plainstile..........narrow passagereinventweald..........a rural area
style..........modestoop..........a small porchwheeled........having wheels
stoup..........a drinking cupstorey.........the horizontalwield..........to apply or useweather........meteorological
divisions of a buildingconditions
story..........a narrative talestraight.......not crookedwether.........a castrated ram
strait.........narrow waterwaysuccor.........reliefwhether........if it be the caseweld...........to join metal
sucker.........one who suckssuede..........split leatherby melting its edges
swayed.........curved; convincedsuite..........ensemblewelled.........pouring forthwen............a benign skin tumor
sweet..........sugarysummary........a statement givingwhen...........at a specific timewet............watery
only the main pointswhet...........primewhich..........selection
summery........like summersundae.........ice cream withwitch..........broomstick ridin' croneswhig...........supporter
syrup on itof American revolution
Sunday.........first day of the weeksymbol, see:wig............false hairpiecewhile..........during
cymbaltach...........short for tachometerwile...........craftwhiled.........passing the time
tack...........small nailtacks..........small nailswild...........untamedwhine..........annoying cry
tax............governmental tithetail...........spinal appendagewine...........fermented grape juicewhined.........past
tale...........storytailer.........one who hauls in on a ship'stense of whine
linewind...........what you do to a clockwork
tailor.........one who makeswined..........drank well of spiritswhirled........rapidly
clothestaper..........wedge-shapedrotated
tapir..........hoglike, Malaysianworld..........Earthwhirred........made a whizzing or
mammaltare...........allowance for the weight ofbuzzing sound
packing materialsword...........one of the basic elements of
tear...........to riptaught.........past tense of teachspeechwhit...........insignificant amount
taut...........stretched tighttea............herbal infusionwit............cleverness; sense of humorwhither........to
tee............golfball propwhich place, point, condition
ti.............musical noteteam...........a group workingwither.........shrivel upwho's..........contraction of "who is"
together
teem...........to swarmteaming........a fortuitous pairingwhose..........belonging to whomwhoa...........equestrian
teeming........a swarmingtear...........eyeball lubricantdirective to stop
tier...........a horizontal rowteas...........more than onewoe............despairwhole, see: holewholly, see:
herbal infusionholeywhore, see: hoarwhored, see:
tease..........tantalizehoardwhy............how come?
tees...........more than one teetenner.........English slangwye............the shape of the letter "Y"won, see: one
for a ten pound notewon't..........contraction of "will not"
tenor..........tendencytense..........nervouswont...........accustomedwood...........what trees are
tents..........more than one temporarymade of
sheltertern...........a shorebirdwould..........will doworst..........least best
terne..........alloy of lead and tinwurst..........sausagewrack, see: rackwrap, see:
turn...........rotateThai...........from Thailandrapwrapped, see: rappedwreak, see: reekwreck,
tie............a drawthe............denoting persons alreadysee: reck
mentionedwrest, see: restwretch, see: retchwright, see:
thee...........objective case of thoutheir..........belonging torightwring, see: ringwrite, see: rightwrote, see:
themrotewrought, see: rotwry, see: ryexi, see:
there..........a placepsiy'all..........Southern contraction of "you all"
they're........contraction of "they are"threw..........toyawl...........two-masted sailboat with mizzenmast
propel by handabaft the tilleryack...........informal talk
through........from end to endthroe..........a spasm ofyak............long-haired Tibetan oxyew, see: ewe
painyews, see: ewes
throw..........to discharge through theyoke...........oxen harness
airthroes.........spasms of painyolk...........yellow egg centeryokes..........more than one
throws.........discharging through the airthrone.........theharness
royal seatyolks..........an omeletyore...........the past
thrown.........was hurledthyme..........herbyou're.........contraction of "you are"
time...........natures way of keeping everything fromyour...........belonging to youyou, see: ewe
happening at oncetic............twitchyou'll.........contraction of "you will"
tick...........small noise; parasitic bugticks..........the soundsyule...........ChristmasAE Wise is an author on
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tics...........more than one twitchtide...........periodic ebbeducation for over 20 years.
and flow of oceans