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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.

Saw-set

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.

Saw-toothed

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

Saw-whet

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

Saw-wort

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

Sawder

A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.

Sawdust

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

Sawer

One who saws; a sawyer.

Sawfish

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.

Sawfly

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.

Sawhorse

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.

Sawmill

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

Sawtooth

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

Sawyer

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

Sax

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

Sax-tuba

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

Saxatile

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

Saxhorn

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.

Saxicava

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.

Saxicavid

Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. A saxicava.

Saxicavous

Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.

Saxicoline

Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Saxifraga

A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

Saxifragaceous

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.

Saxifragant

Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. That which breaks or destroys stones.

Saxifrage

Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.

Saxifragous

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

Saxon

Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language. Anglo-Saxon. Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

Saxonic

Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.

Saxonism

An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

Saxonist

One versed in the Saxon language.

Saxonite

See Mountain soap, under Mountain.

Saxony

A kind of glossy woolen cloth formerly much used.

Saxophone

A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

Say

A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb.

Sayer

One who says; an utterer.

Sayette

A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

Saying

That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.

Saymaster

A master of assay; one who tries or proves.

Saynd

p. p. of Senge, to singe.

Scab

To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

Scabbed

Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

Scabby

Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

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