- skip - Brewer’s

Sepoy

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The Indian soldier is so called, says Bishop Heber, from sip, a bow, their principal weapon in olden times. (Sipahi, a soldier.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Seltzer Water
Semiramis of the North
Senanus. (St.)
Seneca
Senior Optime
Sennacherib
Sennight
Sentences
Sentinel
Sepoy
Sept
September Massacres
Septuagesima Sunday
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Serapis
Serat (Al)
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