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.

Same as Sacs.

Same as Sal, the tree.

A hired mourner at a funeral.

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

See Sandress.

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

A sauntering, or a sauntering place.

One who saunters.

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

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.

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.

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

Same as Sauroid.

The Urodela.

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

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

The fossil track of a saurian.

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.

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

Same as Plesiosauria.

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.

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.

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.

Having a red, pimpled face.

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.

p. p. of Sauter.

An assault.

Psalter.

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

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

Psaltery.

The monitor.

Capable of, or admitting of, being saved.

Salvation.

To make savage.

In a savage manner.

The state or quality of being savage.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

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

The tarpum.

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.

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

Except; unless.

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.

See Savable.

A kind of dried sausage.

Safely.

The act of saving.

One who saves.

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.)

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

In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.

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

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

A female savior.

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

In a savory manner.

The quality of being savory.

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

In a savory manner.

Having a savor; savory.

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

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

A native or inhabitant of Savoy.

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

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

An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest.

Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.

A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.

Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

See Saw-set.

The alewife.

The merganser.

A nickname for a surgeon.

A sawhorse.

See Sauseflem.

A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.

Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

One who saws; a sawyer.

Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.

A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

A merganser.

An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.

A psaltery.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.

Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. A saxicava.