ave, austere, sober; distressing, afflictive, sharp, acute,
violent, intense; inexorable, stern, exacting, peremptory, unrelenting,
unmerciful; plain, austere, unembellished, unadorned; methodical, strict,
precise, exact.

severity, n. rigor, rigorousness, harshness, exactness, cruelty;
seriousness, gravity; violence, intensity, acuteness; austerity,
simplicity, plainness; exactness, strictness, preciseness.

sew, v. stitch; baste.

sewer, n. Associated Words: sewerage, sewage.

sewing woman. seamstress.

sex, n. Associated Words: sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual,
epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad.

sexless, a. asexual, agamous.

sexton, n. janitor (of a church), sacristan, sacrist.

sexual desire. lust, venereal appetite, sexual appetite, carnal
appetite, lasciviousness, venery, concupiscence, salacity, salaciousness,
aphrodisia; satyriasis (immoderate); nymphomania (morbid in women);
(of animals) oestrus, rut, heat, oestruation. Antonym: anaphrodisia.
Associated Words: aphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac,
aphrodisiacal, amative, amativeness, amorous, amorousness, amatory,
antiorgastic, philter, oestrual, sedative, erotic, erotomania, sadism,
satyromaniac.

sexual intercourse. coition, copulation, venery, sexual conjunction;
(illicit) fornication, bawdry; prostitution, putage; adultery; incest;
rape; (unnatural) sodomy, buggery, pederasty; (of birds) tread.
Antonyms: continence, chastity, virginity. Associated Words: venereal,
incontinence, incontinent, unchastity, copulatory, gonorrhea, clap,
syphilis, cenogamy, infibulation, intromittent, access, nonaccess, orgasm,
fecundation, impregnate, impregnation, copulate, lecher, lechery,
lecherous, libertine, libertinism, house of assignation, bawd, procurer,
bawdry, pander, catamite.

sexual love. venery, amorousness, amativeness.

sexual organs. genitals, privates, private parts, organs of
generation, pudenda, virilia; (male) penis, testicles; (female
external) vulva, pudendum; (internal) womb, uterus, ovaries, vagina,
clitoris. Associated Words: agamic, agamous, protandric, protandrism,
nympha, maidenhead, pudic, pubes, spermatheca, gonad, masturbation,
infibulation.

sexual power. virility; fecundity. Associated Word: emasculate.

sexual weakness. (male) impotency, sexual debility, invirility,
emasculation, eviration; (female) sterility, defemination, infecundity.

shabby, a. seedy, threadbare, tacky (Colloq.