smalls NOUN smalls are short trousers It is difficult for a large-headed, small-eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any circumstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls (Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens)

sneeze-box NOUN a box for snuff was called a sneeze-box because sniffing snuff makes the user sneeze To think of Jack Dawkins—lummy Jack—the Dodger—the Artful Dodger— going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box! (Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens)

snorted VERB slept Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den? (The Good-Morrow by John Donne)

snuff NOUN snuff is tobacco in powder form which is taken by sniffing as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin. (Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens)

soliloquized VERB to soliloquize is when an actor in a play speaks to himself or herself rather than to another actor “A new servitude! There is something in that,” I soliloquized (mentally, be it understood; I did not talk aloud) (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)

sough NOUN a sough is a drain or a ditch as you may have noticed the sough that runs from the marshes (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

spirits NOUN a spirit is the nonphysical part of a person which is believed to remain alive after their death that I might raise up spirits when I please (Doctor Faustus 1.5 by Christopher Marlowe)

spleen NOUN here spleen means a type of sadness or depression which was thought to only affect the wealthy yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift) NOUN irritability and low spirits Adieu to disappointment and spleen (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

spondulicks NOUN spondulicks is a slang word which means money not for all his spondulicks and as much more on top of it (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

stalled of VERB to be stalled of something is to be bored with it I’m stalled of doing naught (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

stanchion NOUN a stanchion is a pole or bar that stands upright and is used as a building support and slid down a stanchion (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

stang NOUN stang is another word for pole which was an old measurement These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift)

starlings NOUN a starling is a wall built around the pillars that support a bridge to protect the pillars There were states of the tide when, having been down the river, I could not get back through the eddy-chafed arches and starlings of old London Bridge (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)

startings NOUN twitching or night-time movements of the body with midnight’s startings (On His Mistress by John Donne)