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Sapphire

SAP'PHIRE, noun [Latin sapphirus; Gr. to scrape, to shine, to be fair, open, beautiful.]

A species of silicious gems or minerals, of several varieties. In hardness it is inferior to the diamond only. Its colors are blue, red, violet, yellow, green, white, or limpid, and one variety is chatoyant, and another asteriated or radiated.

Sapphire is a subspecies of rhomboidal corundum.

The oriental ruby and topaz are sapphires.

Sapphire is employed in jewelry and the arts.

Sapphirine

SAP'PHIRINE, adjective Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the qualities of sapphire.

Sappiness

SAP'PINESS, noun [from sappy.] The state or quality of being full of sap; succulence; juiciness.

Sappy

SAP'PY, adjective

1. Abounding with sap; juicy; succulent.

2. Young; not firm; weak.

When he had passed this weak and sappy age -

3. Weak in intellect.

SAP'PY, adjective [Gr. to putrefy.] Musty; tainted. [Not in use.]

Saraband

SAR'ABAND, noun

A dance and a tune used in Spain, said to be derived from the Saracens.

Saracenic

SARACEN'IC, adjective

1. Pertaining to the Saracens, inhabitants of Arabia; so called from sara, a desert.

2. Denoting the architecture of the Saracens, the modern Gothic.

Saragoy

SAR'AGOY, noun The opossum of the Molucca isles.

Sarasin

SAR'ASIN,

S'ARCASM, noun [Latin sarcasmus; Gr. from to deride or sneer at, primarily to fly or pluck off the skin.]

A keen reproachful expression; a satirical remark or expression, uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe. Of this we have an example in the remark of the Jews respecting Christ, on the cross, 'He saved others, himself he cannot save.'

Sarcastic

SARCAS'TIC,

SARCAS'TICAL, adjective Bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.

What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world!

Sarcastical

SARCAS'TICAL, a. Bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting. What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world!

Sarcastically

SARCAS'TICALLY, adverb In a sarcastic manner; with scornful satire.

Sarcenet

S'ARCENET, noun A species of fine thin woven silk.

Sarcocele

S'ARCOCELE, noun [Gr. flesh, and tumor.]

A spurious rupture or hernia, in which the testicle is swelled or indurated, like a scirrhus, or enlarged by a fleshy excrescence much beyond its natural size.

Sarcocol

S'ARCOCOL,

S'ARCOCOL'LA,

n. [Gr. compounded of flesh and glue.]

A semi-transparent solid substance, imported from Arabia and Persia in grains of a light yellow or red color. It is sometimes called a gum resin, as it partakes of the qualities of both gum and resin. It has its name from its use in healing wounds and ulcers.

Sarcolite

S'ARCOLITE, noun [flesh-stone.] A substance of a vitreous nature, and of a rose flesh color, found near Vesuvius. The French call it hydrolite, water stone.

Sarcolite is a variety of analcime.

Sarcological

SARCOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to sarcology.

Sarcology

SARCOL'OGY, noun [Gr. flesh, and discourse.]

That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts of the body, as the muscles, fat, intestines, vessels, etc.

Sarcoma

SARCO'MA, noun [Gr from flesh.] Any fleshy excrescence on an animal body.

Sarcophagous

SARCOPH'AGOUS, adjective [See sarcophagus.] Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating.

Sarcophagus

SARCOPH'AGUS, noun [Latin from Gr. flesh and to eat.]

1. A species of stone used among the Greeks in their sculptures, which was so called because it consumed the flesh of bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, and said to be found at Assos, a city of Lycia Hence,

2. A stone coffin or grave in which the ancients deposited bodies which they chose not to burn.

Sarcophagy

SARCOPH'AGY, noun [supra.] The practice of eating flesh.

Sarcotic

SARCOT'IC, adjective [Gr. flesh.] In surgery, producing or generating flesh.

SARCOT'IC, noun A medicine or application which promotes the growth of flesh; an incarnative.

Sardachate

S'ARDACHATE, noun The clouded and spotted agate, of a pale flesh color.

Sardan

S'ARDAN, noun A fish resembling the herring.

Sarde

S'ARDE,

S'ARDEL,

S'ARDINE,

S'ARDIUS, noun [Latin sardius; Gr. from Sardis, in Asia Minor, now Sart.] A precious stone. One of this kind was set in Aaron's breastplate. Exodus 28:1.

Sardel

S'ARDEL,

Sardine

S'ARDINE,

Sardius

S'ARDIUS, n. [L. sardius; Gr. from Sardis, in Asia Minor, now Sart.] A precious stone. One of this kind was set in Aaron's breastplate. Ex. 28.

Sardoin

S'ARDOIN, noun A mineral, a variety of carnelian, which displays on its surface a rich reddish brown, but when held between the eye and the light, appears of a deep blood red.

Sardonian

SARDO'NIAN,

SARDON'IC, adjective sardonian or sardonic laughter, a convulsive involuntary laughter, so called from the herba sardonia, a species of ranunculus, which is said to produce such convulsive motions in the cheeks and lips as are observed during a fit of laughter.

SARDON'IC, adjective Denoting a kind of linen made at Colchis.

Sardonic

SARDON'IC, a. Sardonian or sardonic laughter, a convulsive involuntary laughter, so called from the herba sardonia, a species of ranunculus, which is said to produce such convulsive motions in the cheeks and lips as are observed during a fit of laughter.

SARDON'IC, a. Denoting a kind of linen made at Colchis.

Sardonyx

S'ARDONYX, noun [Latin sardonyches, from Gr. from Sardis, a city of Asia Minor, and a nail; so named, according to Pliny, from the resemblance of its color to the flesh under the nail.]

A silicious stone or gem, nearly allied to carnelian. Its color is a reddish yellow, or nearly orange. We are informed that the yellow or orange colored agate, with an undulating surface, is now often called sardonyx

Sargus

S'ARGUS, noun A fish of the Mediterranean, whose body is variegated with brown transverse rings, resembling the variegations of the perch. This is also a name of the gardon.

Sark

S'ARK, noun

1. In Scotland, a shirt.

2. A shark. [Not used.]

Sarlac

S'ARLAC, noun The grunting ox of Tartary.

Sarmatian

SARMA'TIAN,

SARMAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to Sarmatia and its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and Poles.

Sarmentous

SARMENT'OUS, adjective [Latin sarmentosus, from sarmentum, a twig.]

A sarmentous stem, in botany, is one that is filiform and almost naked, or having only leaves in bunches at the joints or knots, where it strikes root.

Saronic

SARON'IC, adjective Denoting a gulf of Greece between Attica and Sparta.

Sarplar

S'ARPLAR, noun A sarplar of wool is a sack containing 80 tod; a tod contains two stone of 14 pounds each.

Sarplier

S'ARPLIER, noun Canvas, or a packing cloth.

Sarrasine

SAR'RASINE, noun

1. A plant, a kind of birth wort.

2. A portcullis or herse.

Sarsa

S'ARSA,

S'ARSAPARIL'LA, noun A plant, a species of Smilax, valued in medicine for its mucilaginous and farinaceous or demulcent qualities.

Sarse

S'ARSE, noun A fine sieve; usually written searce or searse. [Little used.]

S'ARSE, verb transitive [from the noun.] To sift through a sarse [Little used.]

Sart

S'ART, noun A piece of woodland turned into arabic. [Not used in America.]

Sash

SASH, noun

1. A belt worn for ornament. Sashes are worn by military officers as badges of distinction, round the waist or over the shoulders. They are usually of silk, variously made and ornamented.

2. The frame of a window in which the lights or panes of glass are set.

She ventures now to lift the sash

Sashoon

SASH'OON, noun A kind of leather stuffing put into a boot for the wearer's ease.

Sassafras

SAS'SAFRAS, noun [Latin saxifraga; saxum, a stone, and frango, to break.]

A tree of the genus Laurus, whose bark has an aromatic smell and taste.

Sasse

SASSE, noun A sluice, canal or lock on a navigable river; a word found in old British statutes.

Sassolin

SAS'SOLIN,

SAS'SOLINE, noun Native boracic acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

Sassoline

SAS'SOLINE, n. Native boracic acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

Sassorol

SAS'SOROL,

SASSOROL'LA, noun A species of pigeon, called rock pigeon.

Sassorolla

SASSOROL'LA, n. A species of pigeon, called rock pigeon.

Sastra

SAS'TRA, noun Among the Hindoos, a sacred book; a book containing sacred ordinances. The six great Sastras, in the opinion of the Hindoos, contain all knowledge, human and divine. These are the Veda, Upaveda, Vedanga, Purana, Dherma, and Dersana.

Sat

SAT, pret of sit.

Satan

SA'TAN, noun [Heb. an adversary.] The grand adversary of man; the devil or prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels.

Satanic

SATAN'IC,

SATAN'ICAL, adjective Having the qualities of Satan; resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal.

Detest the slander which with a satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined.

Satanical

SATAN'ICAL, a. Having the qualities of Satan; resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal. Detest the slander which with a satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined.

Satanically

SATAN'ICALLY, adverb With the wicked and malicious spirit of Satan; diabolically.

Satanism

SA'TANISM, noun The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.

Satanist

SA'TANIST, noun A very wicked person. [Little used.]

Satchel

SATCH'EL, noun [See Sachel.] A little sack or bag.

Sate

SATE, verb transitive [Latin satio. The primary sense is to stuff, to fill, from crowding, driving.]

To satiate; to satisfy appetite; to glut; to feed beyond natural desire.

While the vultures sate their maws with full repast.

Sated

SA'TED, participle passive Filled; glutted; satiated.

Sateless

SA'TELESS, adjective Insatiable; not capable of being satisfied.

Satellite

SAT'ELLITE, noun [Latin satelles.]

1. A secondary planet or moon; a small planet revolving round another. In the solar system, eighteen satellites have been discovered. The earth has one, called the moon, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and Herschel six.

2. A follower; an obsequious attendant or dependant.

Satellitious

SATELLI'TIOUS, adjective Consisting of satellites.

Satiate

SATIATE, verb transitive sa'shate. [Latin satiatus, from satio. See sate.]

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

2. To fill to the extent of want; as, to satiate the earth or plants with water.

3. To glut; to fill beyond natural desire.

He may be satiated, but not satisfied.

4. To gratify desire to the utmost.

I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood.

5. To saturate. [Not unusual. See saturate.]

SA'TIATE, adjective Filled to satiety; glutted; followed by with or of. the former is most common; as satiate of applause. [Unusual.]

Satiation

SATIA'TION, noun The state of being filled.

Satiety

SATI'ETY, noun [Latin satietas. See Sate.]

Properly, fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or any sensual desire; but it usually implies fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or lothing; state of being glutted.

In all pleasures there is satiety

- But thy words, with grace divine imbu'd, bring to their sweetness no satiety

Satin

SAT'IN, noun [Gr. Latin sindon. Heb.]

A species of glossy silk cloth, of a thick close texture.

Satin-Flower

SAT'IN-FLOWER, noun A plant of the genus Lunaria.

Satin-Spar

SAT'IN-SPAR, noun A mineral, fibrous limestone.

Satinet

SATINET', noun

1. A thin species of satin.

2. A particular kind of woolen cloth.

Satire

SAT'IRE, noun [Latin satira; so named from sharpness, pungency. See satyriasis.]

1. A discourse or poem in which wickedness or folly is exposed with severity. It differs from lampoon and pasquinade, in being general rather than personal.

2. Severity of remark. It differs from sarcasm, in not expressing contempt or scorn.

Satiric

SATIR'IC,

SATIR'ICAL, adjective [Latin satiricus.]

1. Belonging to satire; conveying satire; as a satiric style.

2. Censorious; severe in language.

Satirical

SATIR'ICAL, a. [L. satiricus.] 1. Belonging to satire; conveying satire; as a satiric style.2. Censorious; severe in language.

Satirically

SATIR'ICALLY, adverb With severity of remark; with invective; with intention to censure.

Satirist

SAT'IRIST, noun One who writes satire.

Wycherly, in his writings, is the sharpest satirist of his time.

Satirize

SAT'IRIZE, verb transitive To censure with keenness or severity.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Satirized

SAT'IRIZED, participle passive Severely censured.

Satirizing

SAT'IRIZING, participle present tense Censuring with severity.

Satisfaction

SATISFAC'TION, noun [Latin satisfactio. See Satisfy.]

1. That state of the mind which results from the full gratification of desire; repose of mind or contentment with present possession and enjoyment. Sensual pleasure affords no permanent satisfaction

2. The act of pleasing or gratifying.

The mind having a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction of its desires -

3. Repose of the mind on the certainty of any thing; that state which results from relief from suspense, doubt or uncertainty; conviction.

What satisfaction can you have?

4. Gratification; that which pleases.

Exchanging solid quiet to obtain the windy satisfaction of the brain.

5. That which satisfies; amends; recompense; compensation; indemnification; atonement. satisfaction for damages, must be an equivalent; but satisfaction in many cases, may consist in concession or apology.

6. Payment; discharge; as, to receive a sum in full satisfaction of a debt; to enter satisfaction on record.

Satisfactive

SATISFAC'TIVE, adjective Giving satisfaction. [Little used or not at all.]

Satisfactorily

SATISFAC'TORILY, adverb

1. In a manner to give satisfaction or content.

2. In a manner to impress conviction or belief. The crime was satisfactorily proved.

Satisfactoriness

SATISFAC'TORINESS, noun The power of satisfying or giving content; as the satisfactoriness of pleasure or enjoyment.

Satisfactory

SATISFAC'TORY, adjective

1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; particularly, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty and enabling it to rest with confidence; as, to give a satisfactory account of any remarkable transaction. A judge seeks for satisfactory evidence of guilt before he condemns.

2. Making amends, indemnification or recompose; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology for an offense.

- A most wise and sufficient means of salvation by the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Satisfied

SAT'ISFIED, participle passive Having the desires fully gratified; made content.

Satisfier

SAT'ISFIER, noun One that gives satisfaction.

Satisfy

SAT'ISFY, verb transitive [Latin satisfacio; satis, enough, and facio, to make.]

1. To gratify wants, wishes or desires to the full extent; to supply possession or enjoyment till no more is desired. The demands of hunger may be easily satisfied; but who can satisfy the passion for money or honor?

2. To supply fully what is necessary and demanded by natural laws; as, to satisfy with rain the desolate and waste ground. Job 38:27.

3. To pay to content; to recompense or indemnify to the full extent of claims; as, to satisfy demands.

He is well paid, that is, well satisfied.

4. To appease by punishment; as, to satisfy rigor.

5. To free from doubt, suspense or uncertainty; to cause the mind to rest in confidence by ascertaining the truth; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.

6. To convince. A jury must be satisfied of the guilt of a man, before they can justly condemn him.

The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid and satisfying.

7. To pay; to discharge; as, to satisfy an execution.

Debts due to the United States are to be first satisfied.

SAT'ISFY, verb intransitive

1. To give content. Earthly good never satisfies.

2. To feed or supply to the full.

3. To make payment. [But the intransitive use of this verb is generally elliptical.]

Satisfying

SAT'ISFYING, participle present tense Giving content; feeding or supplying to the full extent of desire; convincing; paying.

Sative

SA'TIVE, adjective [Latin sativus, from sero, satum, to sow.] Sown in gardens.

Satrap

SAT'RAP, noun In Persia, an admiral; more generally, the governor of a province.

Satrapal

SAT'RAPAL, adjective Pertaining to a satrap or a satrapy.

Satrapess

SAT'RAPESS, noun A female satrap.

Satrapy

SAT'RAPY, noun The government or jurisdiction of a satrap.

Saturable

SAT'URABLE, adjective [See Saturate.] That may be saturated; capable of saturation.

Saturanlian

SATURAN'LIAN, adjective [from Latin saturnalia, feasts of Saturn.]

1. Pertaining to the festivals celebrated in honor of Saturn, Dec. 16, 17 or 18, in which men indulged in riot without restraint. Hence,

2. Loose; dissolute; sportive.

Saturant

SAT'URANT, adjective [Latin saturans.] Saturating; impregnating to the full.

SAT'URANT, noun In medicine, a substance which neutralizes the acid in the stomach; an absorbent.

Saturate

SAT'URATE, verb transitive [Latin saturo, from satur, filled; satio, to feed to the full. See Sate.]

1. To impregnate or unite with, till no more can be received. Thus an acid saturates an alkali, and an alkali saturates an acid, when the solvent can contain no more of the dissolving body.

2. To supply or fill to fullness.

Saturated

SAT'URATED, participle passive Supplied to fullness.

Saturating

SAT'URATING, participle present tense Supplying to fullness.

Saturation

SATURA'TION, noun In a general sense, a filling or supply to fullness. In chimistry, the union, combination or impregnation of one body with another by natural attraction, affinity or mixture, till the receiving body can contain no more; or solution continued till the solvent can contain no more. The saturation of an alkali by an acid, is by affinity; the saturation of water by salt, is by solution.

Saturday

SAT'URDAY, noun

The last day of the week; the day next preceding the sabbath.

Saturity

SATU'RITY, noun [Latin saturitas. See Saturate.]

Fullness of supply; the state of being saturated. [Little used.]

Saturn

SAT'URN, noun [Latin saturnus.]

1. In mythology, one of the oldest and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra, (heaven and earth, ) and the father of Jupiter. He answers to the Greek Chronus or Time.

2. In astronomy, one of the planets of the solar system, less in magnitude than Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy nine thousand miles, is mean distance from the sun somewhat more than nine hundred millions of miles and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty nine years and a half.

3. In the old chimistry, an appellation given to lead.

4. In heraldry, the black color in blazoning the arms of sovereign princes.

Saturnian

SATURN'IAN, adjective In fabulous history, pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age; hence, golden; happy; distinguished for purity, integrity and simplicity.

Th' Augustus, born to bring saturnian times.

Saturnine

SAT'URNINE, adjective [Latin Saturnus.]

1. Supposed to be under the influence of Saturn. Hence,

2. Dull; heavy; grave; not readily susceptible of excitement; phlegmatic; as a saturnine person or temper.

Saturnist

SAT'URNIST, noun A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.

Saturnite

SAT'URNITE, noun A metallic substance of recent discovery, separated from lead in torrefaction, resembling lead in its color, weight, solubility in acids, etc. but more fusible and brittle; easily scorified and volatilized.

Satyr

SA'TYR, noun [Latin satyrus; Gr. a monkey, a fawn.]

In mythology, a sylvan deity or demi-god, represented as a monster, half man and half goat, having horns on his head, a hairy body, with the feet and tail of a goat. Satyrs are usually found in the train of Bacchus, and have been distinguished for lasciviousness and riot. They have been represented as remarkable for their piercing eyes and keen raillery.

Satyriasis

SATYRI'ASIS, noun [Gr. We observe in this word a connection with satire, in the sense of excitement, pungency.]

Immoderate venereal appetite.

Satyrion

SATYR'ION, noun A plant.

Sauce

SAUCE, noun [Latin salsus, salt, from sal.]

1. A mixture or composition to be eaten with food for improving its relish.

High sauces and rich spices are brought from the Indies.

2. In New England, culinary vegetables and roots eaten with flesh. This application of the word falls in nearly with the definition.

Roots, herbs, vine-fruits, and salad-flowers - they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.

SAUCE consisting of stewed apples, is a great article in some parts of New England; but cranberries make the most delicious sauce

To serve one the same sauce is to retaliate one injury with another. [Vulgar.]

SAUCE, verb transitive

1. To accompany meat with something to give it a higher relish.

2. To gratify with rich tastes; as, to sauce the palate.

3. To intermix or accompany with any thing good, or ironically, with any thing bad.

Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.

Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings.

4. To treat with bitter, pert or tart language. [Vulgar.]

Sauce-Box

SAUCE-BOX, noun saus'-box. [from saucy.] A saucy impudent fellow.

Sauce-Pan

SAUCE-PAN, noun saus'-pan. A small pan for sauce, or a small skillet with a long handle, in which sauce or small things are boiled.

Saucer

SAU'CER, noun

1. A small pan in which sauce is set on a table.

2. A piece of china or other ware, in which a tea cup or coffee cup is set.

Saucily

SAU'CILY, adverb [from saucy.] Impudently; with impertinent boldness; petulantly.

Sauciness

SAU'CINESS, noun Impudence; impertinent boldness; petulance; contempt of superiors.

Saucisse

SAU'CISSE,

SAU'CISSON, noun

In mining or gunnery, a long pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and extending from the chamber of the mine to the entrance of the gallery. To preserve the powder from dampness, it is generally placed in a wooden pipe. It serves to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb-chests, etc.

Saucy

SAU'CY, adjective [from sauce; Latin salsus, salt or salted. The use of this word leads to the primary sense of salt, which must be shooting forward, penetrating, pungent, for boldness is a shooting forward.]

1. Impudent; bold to excess; rude; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt. It expresses more than pert; as a saucy boy; a saucy fellow.

2. Expressive of impudence; as a saucy eye; saucy looks.

Saul

SAUL, an old spelling of soul.

Saunders

SAUNDERS. [See Sandal and Sanders.]

Saunter

SAUNTER, verb intransitive s'anter.

1. To wander about idly; as sauntering from place to place.

2. To loiter; to linger.

This must not run it into a lazy sauntering about ordinary things.

Saunterer

S'AUNTERER, noun One that wanders about idly.

Sauntering

S'AUNTERING, participle present tense Wandering about lazily or idly; loitering.

Saurian

SAU'RIAN, adjective [Gr. a lizard.] Pertaining to lizards; designating an order of reptiles.

Sausage

SAUS'AGE, noun [Latin salsus.]

The intestine of an animal stuffed with minced meat and seasoned.

Saussurite

SAUS'SURITE, noun A mineral so named from Saussure, the discoverer, of a white gray or green color, found at the foot of mount Rosa. It approaches andalusite.

Savable

SA'VABLE, adjective [from save.] Capable of being saved.

Savableness

SA'VABLENESS, noun Capability of being saved.

Savage

SAV'AGE, adjective [Latin silva, a wood, or silvicola, an inhabitant of a wood, or silvaticus.]

1. Pertaining to the forest; wild; remote from human residence and improvements; uncultivated; as a savage wilderness.

Cornels and savage berries of the wood.

2. Wild; untamed; as savage beasts of prey.

3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as savage life; savage manners.

What nation since the commencement of the christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without christianity?

4. Cruel; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as a savage spirit.

SAV'AGE, noun

1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized or without cultivation of mind or manners. The savages of America, when uncorrupted by the vices of civilized men, are remarkable for their hospitality to strangers, and for their truth, fidelity and gratitude to their friends, but implacably cruel and revengeful towards their enemies. From this last trait of the savage character, the word came to signify,

2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

3. The name of a genus of fierce voracious flies.

SAV'AGE, verb transitive To make wild, barbarous or cruel. [Not well authorized and little used.]

Savagely

SAV'AGELY, adverb In the manner of a savage; cruelly; inhumanly.

Savageness

SAV'AGENESS, noun

1. Wildness; an untamed, uncultivated or uncivilized state; barbarism. Hence,

2. Cruelty; barbarousness.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savageness aside, have done like offices of pity.

Savagery

SAV'AGERY, noun

1. Wild growth, as of plants.

2. Cruelty; barbarity.

Savagism

SAV'AGISM, noun The state of rude uncivilized men; the state of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

The greater part of modern philosophers have declared for the original savagism of men.

Savanna

SAVAN'NA, noun

An extensive open plain or meadow, or a plain destitute of trees.

Save

SAVE, verb transitive [Latin salvo. As salve is used in Latin for salutation or wishing health, as hail is in English, I suspect this word to be from the root of heal or hail, the first letter being changed. Gr. See Salt.]

1. To preserve from injury, destruction or evil of any kind; to rescue from danger; as, to save a house from the flames; to save a man from drowning; to save a family from ruin; to save a state from war.

He cried, saying Lord, save me. Matthew 14:30. Genesis 45:7.

2. To preserve from final and everlasting destruction; to rescue from eternal death.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Timothy 1:15.

3. To deliver; to rescue from the power and pollution of sin.

He shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21.

4. To hinder from being spent or lost; as, to save the expense of a new garment. Order in all affairs saves time.

5. To prevent. method in affairs saves much perplexity.

6. To reserve or lay by for preservation.

Now save a nation, and now save a groat.

7. To spare; to prevent; to hinder from occurrence.

Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?

Silent and unobserv'd, to save his tears.

8. To salve; as, to save appearances.

9. To take or use opportunely, so as not to lose. The ship sailed in time to save the tide.

10. To except; to reserve from a general admission or account.

Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only. Joshua 11:13.

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one. 2 Corinthians 11:24.

[Save is here a verb followed by an object. It is the imperative used without a specific nominative; but it is now less frequently used than except.]

SAVE, verb intransitive To hinder expense.

Brass ordinance saveth in the quantity of the material.

Saveall

SA'VEALL, noun [save and all.] A small pan inserted in a candlestick to save the ends of candles.

Saved

SA'VED, participle passive Preserved from evil; injury or destruction; kept frugally; prevented; spared; taken in time.

Savelin

SA'VELIN, noun A fish of the trout kind, having very small scales and a black back.

Saver

SA'VER, noun

1. One that saves, preserves or rescues from evil or destruction; as the saver of the country.

2. One that escapes loss, but without gain.

3. One that is frugal in expenses; an economist.

Savin

SAV'IN, noun A tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus. The savin of Europe resembles the red cedar of America, and the latter is sometimes called savin

Saving

SA'VING, participle present tense

1. Preserving from evil or destruction; hindering from waste or loss; sparing; taking or using in time.

2. Excepting.

3. adjective Frugal; not lavish; avoiding unnecessary expenses; economical; parsimonious. But it implies less rigorous economy than parsimonious; as a saving husbandman or housekeeper.

4. That saves in returns or receipts the principal or sum employed or expended; that incurs no loss, though not gainful; as a saving bargain. The ship has made a saving voyage.

5. That secures everlasting salvation; as saving grace.

SA'VING, noun

1. Something kept from being expended or lost.

By reducing the interest of the debt, the nation makes a saving

2. Exception; reservation.

Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.

Savingly

SA'VINGLY, adverb

1. With frugality or parsimony.

2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death; as savingly converted.

Savingness

SA'VINGNESS, noun

1. Frugality; parsimony, caution not to expend money without necessity or use.

2. Tendency to promote eternal salvation.

SA'VINGS BANK, noun A bank in which the savings or earnings of the poor are deposited and put to interest for their benefit.

Savior

SAVIOR, noun savyur. One that saves or preserves; but properly applied only to Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, who has opened the way to everlasting salvation by his obedience and death, and who is therefore called the savior by way of distinction, the savior of men, the savior of the world. General Washington may be called the saver, but not the savior of his country.

Savor

SA'VOR, noun [Latin sapor, sapio, to taste.]

1. Taste or odor; something that perceptibly affects the organs of taste and smell; as the savor of an orange or rose; an ill savor; a sweet savor

I smell sweet savors -

In Scripture, it usually denotes smell, scent, odor.

Leviticus 26:1. Ecclesiastes 10:1.

2. The quality which renders a thing valuable; the quality which renders other bodies agreeable to the taste.

If the salt hath lost its savor - Matthew 5:1.

3. In Scripture, character; reputation. Exodus 5:1.

4. Cause; occasion. 2 Corinthians 2:1.

Sweet savor in Scripture, denotes that which renders a thing acceptable to God, or his acceptance. Hence, to smell a sweet savor is to accept the offering or service. Genesis 8:1.

SA'VOR, verb intransitive

1. To have a particular smell or taste.

2. To partake of the quality or nature of; or to have the appearance of. The answers savor of a humble spirit; or they savor of pride.

I have rejected every thing that savors of party.

SA'VOR, verb transitive

1. To like; to taste or smell with pleasure.

2. To like; to delight in; to favor. Mat 16.

Savorily

SA'VORILY, adverb [from savory.]

1. With gust or appetite.

2. With a pleasing relish.

Savoriness

SA'VORINESS, noun Pleasing taste or smell; as the savoriness of a pineapple or a peach.

Savorless

SA'VORLESS, adjective Destitute of smell or taste; insipid.

Savorly

SA'VORLY, adjective Well seasoned; of good taste.

SA'VORLY, adverb With a pleasing relish.

Savory

SA'VORY, adjective [from savor.] Pleasing to the organs of smell or taste; as a savory odor.

Make me savory meat. Genesis 27:1.

SA'VORY, noun A plant of the genus Satureia.

Savoy

SAVOY', noun A variety of the common cabbage, much cultivated for winter use.

Saw

SAW, preterit tense of see.

SAW, noun [See the Verb.]

1. A cutting instrument consisting of a blade or thin plate of iron or steel, with one edge dentated or toothed.

2. A saying; proverb; maxim; decree. obsolete [See Say.]

SAW, verb transitive preterit tense sawed; participle passive sawed or sawn. [Latin seco; ]

1. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.

2. To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw timber into boards or planks.

SAW, verb intransitive

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

2. To cut with a saw; as, the mill saws fast or well.

3. To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smooth.

SAW'-DUST, noun Dust or small fragments of wood or stone made by the attrition of a saw

Saw-Fly

SAW'-FLY, noun A genus of flies, having a serrated sting.

Saw-Pit

SAW'-PIT, noun A pit over which timber is sawed by two men, one standing below the timber and the other above.

SAW'-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Serratula, so named from its serrated leaves.

SAW'-WREST, noun An instrument used to wrest or turn the teeth of saws a little outwards, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade.

Sawed

SAW'ED, participle passive Cut, divided or formed with a saw.

Sawer

SAW'ER, noun One that saws; corrupted into sawyer.

SAW'-FISH, noun A fish of the genus Pristis, which has a long beak or snout, with spines growing like teeth on both edges, and four or five spiracles or breathing holes in the sides of the neck.

Sawyer

SAW'YER, noun

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

2. In America, a tree which, being undermined by a current of water, and falling into the stream, lies with its branches above water, which are continually raised and depressed by the force of the current, from which circumstance the name is derived. The sawyers in the Mississippi render the navigation dangerous, and frequently sink boats which run against them.

Saxifrage

SAX'IFRAGE, noun [Latin saqxifraga; composed of saxum, a stone, and frango, to break.]

A medicine that has the property of breaking or dissolving the stone in the bladder. But in botany, a genus of plants of many species. The burnet saxifrage is of the genus Pimpinella; the golden saxifrage is of the genus Chrysoplenium; the meadow saxifrage is of the genus Peucedanum.

Saxifragous

SAXIF'RAGOUS, adjective Dissolving the stone.

Saxon

SAX'ON, noun

1. One of the nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. The Welsh still call the English Saesons.

2. The language of the Saxons.

SAX'ON, adjective Pertaining to the Saxons, to their country, or to their language.

Saxonism

SAX'ONISM, noun An idiom of the Saxon language.

Saxonist

SAX'ONIST, noun One versed in the Saxon language.

Say

SAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive said, contracted from sayed.

1. To speak; to utter in words; as, he said nothing; he said many things; he says not a word. say a good word for me.

It is observable that although this word is radically synonymous with speak and tell, yet the uses are applications of these words are different. Thus we say to speak an oration, to tell a story; but in these phrases, say cannot be used. Yet to say a lesson is good English, though not very elegant. We never use the phrases to say a sermon or discourse, to say an argument, to say a speech, to say testimony.

A very general use of say is to introduce a relation, narration or recital, either of the speaker himself or of something said or done or to be done by another. Thus Adam said, this is bone of my bone; Noah said, blessed be the Lord God of Shem. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. say to the cities of Judah, behold your God. I cannot say what I should do in a similar case. say thus precedes a sentence. But it is perhaps impracticable to reduce the peculiar and appropriate uses of say speak and tell, to general rules. They can be learned only by observation.

2. To declare. Genesis 38:1.

3. To utter; to pronounce.

SAY now Shibboleth. Judges 12:6.

4. To utter, as a command.

God said, let there be light. Genesis 1:3.

5. To utter, as a promise. Luke 23:29.

6. To utter, as a question or answer. Mark 11:3.

7. To affirm; to teach. Matthew 17:10.

8. To confess. Luke 17:6.

9. To testify. Acts 26:22.

10. To argue; to allege by way of argument.

After all that can be said against a thing -

11. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; as, to say a lesson.

12. To pronounce; to recite without singing. Then shall be said or sung as follows.

13. To report; as in the phrases, it is said, they say

14. To answer; to utter by way of reply; to tell.

SAY, Stella, feel you no content, reflecting on a life well spent?

[Note - This verb is not properly intransitive. In the phrase, 'as when we say Plato is no fool, ' the last clause is the object after the verb; that is, 'we say what follows.' If this verb is properly intransitive in any case, it is in the phrase, 'that is to say ' but in such cases, the subsequent clause is the object of the verb, being that which is said, uttered or related.]

SAY, noun A speech; something said. [In popular use, but not elegant.]

SAY, noun [for assay.]

1. A sample. obsolete

2. Trial by sample. obsolete

SAY, noun A thin silk. obsolete

Saye

SAYE, noun In commerce, a kind of serge used for linings, shirts, aprons, etc.

Saying

SA'YING, participle present tense Uttering in articulate sounds or words; speaking; telling; relating; reciting.

SA'YING, noun

1. An expression; a sentence uttered; a declaration.

Moses fled at this saying Acts 7:26.

Cicero treasured up the sayings of Scaevola.

2. A proverbial expression. Many are the sayings of the wise.

Scab

SCAB, noun [Latin scabbies, scaber, rough.]

1. An encrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing.

2. The itch or mange in horses; a disease of sheep.

3. A mean, dirty paltry fellow. [Low.]

Scabbard

SCAB'BARD, noun The sheath of a sword.

SCAB'BARD, verb transitive To put in a sheath.

Scabbed

SCAB'BED, adjective [from scab.]

1. Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs.

2. Mean; paltry; vile; worthless.

Scabbedness

SCAB'BEDNESS, noun The state of being scabbed.

Scabbiness

SCAB'BINESS, noun [from scabby.] The quality of being scabby.

Scabby

SCAB'BY, adjective [from scab.]

1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

2. Diseased with the scab or mange; mangy.

Scabious

SCA'BIOUS, adjective [Latin scabisus, from scabies, scab.]

Consisting of scabs; rough itch; leprous; as scabious eruptions.

SCA'BIOUS, noun A plant of the genus Scabiosa.

Scabredity

SCABRED'ITY, noun [Latin scabredo, scabrities.] Roughness; ruggedness. [Not in use.]

Scabrous

SCA'BROUS, adjective [Latin scabrosus, scaber, from scabies, scab.

1. Rough; rugged; having sharp points.

2. Harsh; unmusical.

Scabrousness

SCA'BROUSNESS, noun Roughness; ruggedness.

Scabwort

SCAB'WORT, noun A plant, a species of Helenium.

Scad

SCAD, noun

1. A fish, the shad which see.

2. A fish of the genus Caranx.

Scaffold

SCAF'FOLD, noun [The last syllable is the Latin fala.]

1. Among builders, an assemblage or structure of timbers, boards or planks, erected by the wall of a building to support the workmen.

2. A temporary gallery or stage raised either for shows or spectators.

3. A stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal.

SCAF'FOLD, verb transitive To furnish with a scaffold; to sustain; to uphold.

Scaffoldage

SCAF'FOLDAGE, noun A gallery; a hollow floor.

Scaffolding

SCAF'FOLDING, noun

1. A frame or structure for support in an elevated place.

2. That which sustains; a frame; as the scaffolding of the body.

3. Temporary structure for support.

4. Materials for scaffolds.

Scalable

SCA'LABLE, adjective That may be sealed.

Scalade

SCALA'DE,

SCALA'DO, noun [Latin scala, a latter. See Scale.]

A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also escalade.

Scalado

SCALA'DO, n. [L. scala, a latter. See Scale.] A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also escalade.

Scalary

SCA'LARY, adjective Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Little used.]

Scald

SCALD, verb transitive [Latin caleo, caida, calidus. I suppose the primary sense of caleo is to contract, to draw, to make hard.]

1. To burn or painfully affect and injure by immersion in or contact with a liquor of a boiling heat, or a heat approaching it; as, to scald the hand or foot. We scald the part, when the heat of the liquor applied is so violent as to injure the skin and flesh. scald is sometimes used to express the effect of the heat of other substances than liquids.

Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in water or other liquor; as, to scald meat or milk.

SCALD, noun [supra.] A burn, or injury to the skin and flesh by hot liquor.

SCALD, noun Scab; scurf on the head.

SCALD, adjective Scurvy; paltry; poor; as scald rhymers.

SCALD, noun

Among the ancient Scandinavians, a poet; one whose occupation was to compose poems in honor of distinguished men and their achievements, and to recite and sing them on public occasions. The scalds of Denmark and Sweden answered to the bards of the Britons or Celts.

Scalded

SCALD'ED, participle passive Injured by a hot liquor; exposed to boiling heat.

Scalder

SCALD'ER, noun A scald; a Scandinavian poet.

Scaldhead

SCALD'HEAD, noun [See Scald.] A lothesome affection of the head, in which it is covered with a continuous scab.

Scaldic

SCALD'IC, adjective Pertaining to the scalds or poets of antiquity; composed by scalds.

Scalding

SCALD'ING, participle present tense

1. Burning or injuring by hot liquor.

2. Exposing to a boiling heat in liquor.

Scalding-Hot

SCALD'ING-HOT, adjective So hot as to scald the skin.