Italian to English Dictionary (Dizionario Italiano-Inglese)

Mountebank

A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan or trickster.

Overwise

Wiser than is appropriate or desirable; excessively or pretentiously wise; pedantic.

Pulk

A small, low-slung, boat-shaped sledge used in Scandinavia and polar regions for transporting goods, equipment, or children over snow.

Quiesce

To cause a software process, hardware device, or system to become inactive or dormant temporarily, typically in preparation for a backup or shutdown.

Samizdat

The clandestine publication and distribution of literature banned by an oppressive government, typically in the former Soviet Union.

Sententia

A concise maxim, aphorism, or pithy saying that summarizes a general truth or moral principle, often used as a rhetorical device in literature and oratory.

Sepulcher

A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

Sepulture

A place of burial; a grave, tomb, or sepulcher.

Shiv

A crude, makeshift knife or sharp-pointed weapon, typically improvised by inmates in prisons.

Signalment

A detailed description or profile of the identifying marks, age, breed, sex, and physical characteristics of an animal patient.

Signary

A systematic set or chart of signs, symbols, or characters used in a writing system or script.

Sonneteer

A writer of sonnets, often used to describe a poet who writes inferior or repetitive verse.