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Satire

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.

Satirical Satiric

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

Satirist

One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.

Satirize

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

Satisfaction

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.

Satisfy

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

Sative

Sown; propagated by seed.

Satrap

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

Satrapal

Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.

Satrapy

The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.

Saturable

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.

Saturant

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

Saturate

Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

Saturated

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

Saturation

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

Saturday

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

Saturity

The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.

Saturn

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.

Saturnalia

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.

Saturnian

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.

Saturnicentric

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

Saturnine

Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.

Saturnist

A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.

Satyr

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

Satyriasis

Immoderate venereal appetite in the male.

Satyrion

Any one of several kinds of orchids.

Sauce

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

Sauce veloute Veloute

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.

Saucebox

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

Saucepan

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

Saucer

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

Saucily

In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.

Sauciness

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

Saucisse Saucisson

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.

Saucy

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

Sauerkraut

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

Sauger

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

Saul

Same as Sal, the tree.

Saulie

A hired mourner at a funeral.

Sault

A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie.

Saunders-blue

A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper.

Saunter

A sauntering, or a sauntering place.

Saur

Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.

Saurel

Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially Trachurus trachurus, or Trachurus saurus, of Europe and America, and Trachurus picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.

Sauria

A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.

Saurian

Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria. One of the Sauria.

Saurognathous

Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici).

Sauroid

Like or pertaining to the saurians. Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.

Sauropoda

An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.

Sauropsida

A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.

Saururae

An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.

Saury

A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.

Sausage

An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

Saussurite

A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.

Sauterelle

An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.

Sauterne

A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.

Savable

Capable of, or admitting of, being saved.

Savagery

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

Savagism

The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

Savanna

A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.

Savant

A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

Save-all

Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.

Savine Savin

A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc. The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)

Saving

Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.

Savingly

In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.

Savingness

The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.

Savior

One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

Savor

To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.

Savorless

Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.

Savory

An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.

Savoy

A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

Savoyard

A native or inhabitant of Savoy.

Savvey Savvy

Comprehension; knowledge of affairs; mental grasp; also, practical know-how; common sense. knowledgeable; well-informed; clever; canny; wise.

Saw

To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.

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