Rhetoric. Rede-speech.
Rhythm. Gr. rhythmos, number, as number of clippings or sounds in a line of verse. Metre, which meant at first tale of sounds rather than sound matching, which we call rime. Rime is not come to us from the Greek, but is the Saxon rim or hrim, tale or number.
‘Manâ and misdædâ ungerím ealrâ’ (a tale, beyond telling, of all wickednesses and misdeeds).—Sermo Lupi ad Anglos.
‘Deer naet in da rime was’ (who was not in the number).—Old Friesic Law.
Salubrious. Healthy, halesome.
Satellite. Henchman.
Scintillate. Sparkle.
Semi-detached houses. Twin-houses, a house-twin.
Sentence. L. sentio, to think, deem, feel. In speech-craft, an uttering of a thought, one thought-wording.
Septuple. Sevenfold.