A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Ziziphus lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).

A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German.

A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

To render safe; to make right.

To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.

The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.

A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.

To guard; to protect.

In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.

The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

The safflower.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.

An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin. An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.

An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

State of sinking or bending; sagging.

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.

Sagapenum.

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. See also asafetida.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

In a sage manner; wisely.

A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.

A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.

A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

To make fat; to pamper.

The act of fattening or pampering.

A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.

Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer. A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.

Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

Sagittal; sagittate.

A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.

A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.).

A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.

The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.

A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.

Full of sage; seasoned with sage.

A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.

A lady; mistress.

Same as Thebaic.

See Salite.

A marmoset.

See Capuchin, 3 (a).

A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.

Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.

An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

Same as Saker.

To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.

A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

Duck or canvas used in making sails.

A sailor.

The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.) The basking, or liver, shark. The quillback.

The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

Destitute of sails.

One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.

One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

Like a sail.

Lard; grease.

The squirrel monkey.

To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence.

A leguminous plant (Onobrychis sativa) cultivated for fodder. A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).

To act or live as a saint.

A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils which exist.

The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint- Simonism.

A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitled to share according to the quality and amount of his work, founded by Saint Simon (1760-1825); -- called also Saint- Simonianism.

The state or character of a saint.

Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious.

A female saint.

The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint.

Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness.

Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly.

Quality of being saintly.

Like a saint; becoming a holy person.

One who writes the lives of saints.

The character or qualities of a saint.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Say.

The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.

One of an important religious sect in India which regards Siva with peculiar veneration.

The worship of Siva.

Same as Sagene.

Same as Sapajou.

a traditional alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice.

A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.

The male of the saker (a).

The alcoholic drink of Japan. It is made from rice; it is usually spelled sake.

A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope.

The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.

Salt.

To make or perform a salam.

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.

Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.

Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.

a period when a person is young and inexperienced.

A helmet. See Sallet.

Vegetables for salad.

See Saleratus.

The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.

A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the right palm on the forehead.

Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.

A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.

Like or pertaining to the salamanders.

A division of Amphibia including the Salamanders and allied groups; the Urodela.

A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.