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.

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

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

Growing on rocks.

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

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.

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

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

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.

An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

One versed in the Saxon language.

See Mountain soap, under Mountain.

A kind of glossy woolen cloth formerly much used.

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

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

One who says; an utterer.

A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

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

One who assays.

A master of assay; one who tries or proves.

p. p. of Senge, to singe.

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

To put in a scabbard.

Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

Scabbiness.

In a scabby manner.

The quality or state of being scabby.

See Scapple.

Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

The itch.

Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.

A fragment or chip of stone.

Roughness; ruggedness.

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.

The quality of being scabrous.

Elecampane.

A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species. The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler. The friar skate. The cigar fish, or round robin.

To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

A scaffold.

A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body.

A reddish variety of limestone.

An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Capable of being scaled.

See Escalade.

In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.

Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

A scamp; a scapegrace.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.

A Scandinavian poet; a scald.

A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.

Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.

To lead up by steps; to ascend.

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.

The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.

A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.

Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.

Destitute of scales.

A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.

Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.

The state of being scaly; roughness.

Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.

Same as Scagliola.