A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

The gulf weed. See under Gulf.

A genus of algae including the gulf weed.

Any one of several species of sparoid fishes belonging to Sargus, Pomadasys, and related genera; -- called also sar, and saragu.

Same as Saree.

A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face.

To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

Same as Hypoxanthin.

Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.

The yak.

Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.

A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.

Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.

Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem. Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous.

Sarmentose.

A pavement or stepping-stone.

A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.

A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.

A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.

A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc.

A large toadfish of the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. pardus).

A genus of American perennial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

A portcullis, or herse.

Sarsaparilla.

Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax. The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.

See Parillin.

To sift through a sarse.

One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.

See Sarcenet.

An assart, or clearing.

Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work.

A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes.

A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot.

The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica syn. Antilope cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.

Stones left after sifting.

A word used to emphasize a statement.

A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.

A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.

Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.

Same as Shaster.

imp. of Sit.

The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.

Of or pertaining to Satan; having the qualities of Satan; resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal.

The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.

A very wicked person.

An incarnation of Satan; a being possessed by a demon.

A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.

imp. of Sit.

A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

Insatiable.

Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, satellites.

Satan.

To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.

The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.

A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.

A thin kind of satin.

One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.

The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in Florida and the West Indies.

Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.

A sowing or planting.

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

Of or pertaining to satire; of the nature of satire; as, a satiric style.

One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.

To make the object of satire; to attack with satire; to censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.

The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands.

Satisfactory.

Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

That may be satisfied.

One who satisfies.

To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

Sown; propagated by seed.

To settle.

The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.

Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.

A female satrap.

Satrapal.

The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.

A substance used to neutralize or saturate the affinity of another substance.

Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

One who, or that which, saturates.

The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.

The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.

One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.

Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus.

Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.

Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.

Plumbism.

A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.

A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.

Immoderate venereal appetite in the male.

Of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy.

Any one of several kinds of orchids.

A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

A white sauce or stock made by boiling down ham, veal, beef, fowl, bouillon, etc., then adding soup stock, seasoning, vegetables, and thickening, and again boiling and straining.

Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.

A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.

A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.

The quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.

A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.

Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.

Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.

Save; except.

Safely.

An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.

imp. sing. of See.