stomacher NOUN a panel at the front of a dress but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher (Emma by Jane Austen)

stoop VERB swoop Once a kite hovering over the garden made a stoop at me (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift)

succedaneum NOUN a succedaneum is a substitute But as a succedaneum (The Prelude by William Wordsworth)

suet NOUN a hard animal fat used in cooking and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

sultry ADJ sultry weather is hot and damp. Here sultry means unpleasant or risky for it was getting pretty sultry for us (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

summerset NOUN summerset is an old spelling of somersault. If someone does a somersault, they turn over completely in the air I have seen him do the summerset (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift)

supper NOUN supper was a light meal taken late in the evening. The main meal was dinner which was eaten at four or five in the afternoon and the supper table was all set out (Emma by Jane Austen)

surfeits VERB to surfeit in something is to have far too much of it, or to overindulge in it to an unhealthy degree He surfeits upon cursed necromancy (Doctor Faustus chorus by Christopher Marlowe)

surtout NOUN a surtout is a long close-fitting overcoat He wore a long black surtout reaching nearly to his ankles (The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens)

swath NOUN swath is the width of corn cut by a scythe while thy hook Spares the next swath (Ode to Autumn by John Keats)

sylvan ADJ sylvan means belonging to the woods Sylvan historian (Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats)

taction NOUN taction means touch. This means that the people had to be touched on the mouth or the ears to get their attention without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing (Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift)

Tag and Rag and Bobtail PHRASE the riff-raff, or lower classes. Used in an insulting way “No,” said he; “not till it got about that there was no protection on the premises, and it come to be considered dangerous, with convicts and Tag and Rag and Bobtail going up and down.” (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)

tallow NOUN tallow is hard animal fat that is used to make candles and soap and a lot of tallow candles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

tan VERB to tan means to beat or whip and if I catch you about that school I’ll tan you good (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

tanyard NOUN the tanyard is part of a tannery, which is a place where leather is made from animal skins hid in the old tanyard (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)