S, the nineteenth letter of the English Alphabet, is a sibilant articulation, and numbered among the semi-vowels. It represents the hissing made by driving the breath between the end of the tongue and the roof of the mouth, just above the upper teeth. It has two uses; one to express a mere hissing, as in Sabbath, sack, sin, this, thus; the other a vocal hissing, precisely like that of z, as in muse, wise, pronounced muze, wize. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of all proper English words, but in the middle and end of words, its sound is to be known only by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle and viscount.
In abbreviations, s stands for societas, society, or socius, fellow; as F.R.S. fellow of the Royal Society. In medical prescriptions, s adjective signifies secundem artem, according to the rules of art.
In the notes of the ancients, s stands for Sextus; SP. for Spurius; s C. for senatus consultum; s P.Q.R. for senatus populusque Romanus; s S.S. for stratum super stratum, one layer above another alternately; s V.B.E.E.Q.V. for sivales, bene est, ego quoque valeo.
As a numeral, s denoted seven. In the Italian music, s signifies solo. In books of navigation and in common usage, s stands for south; s E. for south-east; s W. for south-west; s S.E. for south south-east; s S.W. for south south-west, etc.
SABAOTH, noun [armies, from the Hebrew word to assemble, to fight. The primary sense is to drive, urge or crowd]
Armies; a word used, Romans 9:29, James 5:4, the Lord of Sabaoth
SABBATARIAN, noun [from sabbath.] One who observes the seventh day of the week as the sabbath, instead of the first. A sect of baptists are called sabbatarians. They maintain that the Jewish sabbath has not been abrogated.
SABBATARIAN, adjective Pertaining to those who keep Saturday, or the seventh day of the week, as the sabbath.
SABBATH, noun
1. The day which God appointed to be observed by the Jews as a day of rest from all secular labor or employments, and to be kept holy and consecrated to his service and worship. This was originally the seventh day of the week, the day on which God rested from the work of creation; and this day is still observed by the Jews and some christians, as the sabbath But the christian church very early begun and still continue to observe the first day of the week, in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ on that day, by which the work of redemption was completed. Hence it is often called the Lords day. The heathen nations in the north of Europe dedicated this day to the sun, and hence their christian descendants continue to call the day Sunday. But in the United States, christians have to a great extent discarded the heathen name, and adopted the Jewish name sabbath
2. Intermission of pain or sorrow; time of rest.
Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb.
3. The sabbatical year among the Israelites. Leviticus 25:2.
SABBATHLESS, adjective Without intermission of labor.
SABBATIC,
SABBATICAL, adjective
1. Pertaining to the sabbath.
2. Resembling the sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
SABBATICal year, in the Jewish economy, was every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage, and the year next following every seventh sabbatical year in succession, that is, every fiftieth year, was the jubilee, which was also a year of rest to the lands, and a year of redemption or release. Leviticus 15:1.
SABBATICAL, a.
1. Pertaining to the sabbath.2. Resembling the sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.Sabbatical year, in the Jewish economy, was every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage, and the year next following every seventh sabbatical year in succession, that is, every fiftieth year, was the jubilee, which was also a year of rest to the lands, and a year of redemption or release. Lev. 15.SABBATISM, noun Rest; intermission of labor.
SABEAN, [See Sabian.]
SABEISM, noun The same as Sabianism.
SABELLIAN, adjective Pertaining to the heresy of Sabellius.
SABELLIAN, noun A follower of Sabellius, a philosopher of Egypt in the third century, who openly taught that there is one person only in the Godhead, and that the Word and Holy Spirit are only virtues, emanations or functions of the Deity.
SABELLIANISM, noun The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius.
SABER,
SABIAN,
SABEAN, adjective Pertaining to Saba, in Ara bia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.
SABIAN, adjective The Sabian worship or religion consisted in the the worship of the sun and other heavenly bodies.
SABIAN, noun A worshiper of the sun.
SABIAN,
SABIANISM, noun That species of idolatry which consisted in worshiping the sun, moon and stars. This idolatry existed in the world, and was propagated by the inhabitants who migrated westward into Europe, and continued among our ancestors till they embraced the christian religion.
SABINE, noun A plant; usually written savin, which see.
SABLE, noun
1. A small animal of the weasel kind, the mustela zibelina, found in the northern latitudes of America and Asia. It resembles the martin, but has a longer head and ears. Its hair is cinereous, but black at the tips. This animal burrows in the earth or under trees; in winter and summer subsisting on small animals, and in autumn on berries. The fur is very valuable.
2. The fur of the sable
SA'BLE, adjective [Gr. darkness. See the Noun.]
Black; dark; used chiefly in poetry or in heraldry; as night with her sable mantle; the sable throne of night.
SAB'LIERE, noun [Latin sabulum.]
1. A sand pit. [Not much used.]
2. In carpentry, a piece of timber as long, but not so thick as a beam.
SABOT, noun A wooden shoe. [Not English.]
SABRE, noun A sword or cimitar with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and a little falcated or hooked at the point; a faulchion.
SABER, verb transitive To strike, cut or kill with a saber. A small party was surprised at night and almost every man sabered.
SABULOS'ITY, noun [from sabulous.] Sandiness; grittiness.
SAB'ULOUS, adjective [Latin sabulosus, from sabulum, sand.] Sandy; gritty.
SAC, noun [This is the English sake, which see.]
In English law, the privilege enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes and imposing fines.
SACCA'DE, noun A sudden violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull; a correction used when the horse bears heavy on the hand. It should be used discretely.
SACCHARIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin saccharum, sugar, and fero, to produce.]
Producing sugar; as sacchariferous canes. The maple is a sacchariferous tree.
SAC'CHARINE, adjective [Latin saccharum, sugar.]
Pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; as a saccharine taste; the saccharine matter of the cane juice.
SACCHOLAC'TIC, adjective [Latin saccharum, sugar, and lac, milk.]
A term in the new chimistry, denoting an acid obtained from the sugar of milk; now called mucic acid.
SAC'CHOLATE, noun In chimistry, a salt formed by the union of the saccholactic acid with a base.
SACERDO'TAL, adjective [Latin sacerdotalis, from sacerdos, a priest. See Sacred.]
Pertaining to priests or the priesthood; priestly; as sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions or garments; sacerdotal character.
SACH'EL, noun [Latin sacculus, dim. of saccus.]
A small sack or bag; a bag in which lawyers and children carry papers and books.
SA'CHEM, noun In America, a chief among some of the native Indian tribes. [See Sagamore.]
SACK, noun [Latin saccus. Heb. See the verb to sack ]
1. A bag, usually a large cloth bag, used for holding and conveying corn, small wares, wool, cotton, hops, and the like. Genesis 42:25.
SACK of wool, in England, is 22 stone of 14lb. each, or 308 pounds. In Scotland, it is 24 stone of 16 pounds each, or 384 pounds.
A sack of cotton, contains usually about 300lb. but it may be from 150 to 400 pounds.
SACK of earth, in fortification, is a canvas bag filled with earth, used in making retrenchments in haste.
2. The measure of three bushels.
SACK, noun A species of sweet wine, brought chiefly from the Canary isles.
SACK, noun [Latin sagum, whence Gr. But the word is Celtic or Teutonic.]
Among our rude ancestors, a kind of cloak of a square form, worn over the shoulders and body, and fastened in from by a clasp or thorn. It was originally made of skin, afterwards of wool. In modern times, this name has been given to a woman's garment, a gown with loose plaits on the back; but no garment of this kind is now worn, and the word is in disuse. [See Varro, Strabo, Cluver, Bochart.]
SACK, verb transitive To put in a sac or in bags.
SACK, verb transitive [From comparing this word and sack a bag, in several languages, it appears that they are both from one root, and that the primary sense is to strain, pull, draw; hence sack a bag, is a tie, that which is tied or drawn together; and sack to pillage, is to pull, to strip, that is, to take away by violence.]
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city. Rome was twice taken and sacked in the reign of one pope. This word is never, I believe, applied to the robbing of persons, or pillaging of single houses, but to the pillaging of towns and cities; and as towns are usually or often sacked, when taken by assault, the word may sometimes include the sense of taking by storm.
The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.
SACK, noun The pillage or plunder of a town or city; or the storm and plunder of a town; as the sack of Troy.
SACK'AGE, noun The act of taking by storm and pillaging.
SACK'BUT, noun [The last syllable is the Latin buxus.]
A wind instrument of music; a kind of trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required.
SACK'CLOTH, noun [sack and cloth.] Cloth of which sacks are made; coarse cloth. This word is chiefly used in Scripture to denote a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress or mortification.
Gird you with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. 2 Samuel 3:31.
Esther 4:1. Job 16:15.
SACK'CLOTHED, adjective Clothed in sackcloth.
SACK'ED, participle passive Pillaged; stormed and plundered.
SACK'ER, noun One that takes a town or plunders it.
SACK'FUL, noun A full sack or bag.
SACK'ING, participle present tense Taking by assault and plundering or pillaging.
SACK'ING, noun The act of taking by storm and pillaging.
SACK'ING, noun
1. Cloth of which sacks or bags are made.
2. The coarse cloth or canvas fastened to a bedstead for supporting the bed.
SACK'LESS, adjective
Quiet; peaceable; not quarrelsome; harmless; innocent. [Local.]
SAC'RAMENT, noun [Latin sacramentum, an oath, from sacer, sacred.]
1. Among ancient christian writers, a mystery. [Not in use.]
2. An oath; a ceremony producing an obligation; but not used in this general sense.
3. In present usage, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace; or more particularly, a solemn religious ceremony enjoined by Christ, the head of the christian church, to be observed by his followers, by which their special relation to him is created, or their obligations to him renewed and ratified. Thus baptism is called a sacrament for by it persons are separated from the world, brought into Christ's visible church, and laid under particular obligations to obey his precepts. The eucharist or communion of the Lord's supper, is also a sacrament for by commemorating the death and dying love of Christ, christians avow their special relation to him, and renew their obligations to be faithful to their divine Master. When we use sacrament without any qualifying word, we mean by it,
4. The eucharist or Lord's supper.
SAC'RAMENT, verb transitive To bind by an oath. [Not used.]
SACRAMENT'AL, adjective Constituting a sacrament or pertaining to it; as sacramental rites or elements.
SACRAMENT'AL, noun That which relates to a sacrament.
SACRAMENT'ALLY, adverb After the manner of a sacrament.
SACRAMENTA'RIAN, noun One that differs from the Romish church in regard to the sacraments, or to the Lord's supper; a word applied by the catholics to protestants.
SACRAMENT'ARY, noun
1. An ancient book of the Romish church, written by pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained all the prayers and ceremonies practiced in the celebration of the sacraments.
2. A sacramentarian; a term of reproach applied by papists to protestants.
SACRAMENT'ARY,
SACRAMENTA'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to sacramentarians and to their controversy respecting the eucharist.
SACRE. [See Saker.]
SA'CRED, adjective [Latin sacer, sacred holy, cursed, damnable. We here see the connection between sacredness and secrecy. The sense is removed or separated from that which is common, vulgar, polluted, or open, public; and accursed is separated from society or the privileges of citizens, rejected, banished.]
1. Holy; pertaining to God or to his worship; separated from common secular uses and consecrated to God and his service; as a sacred place; a sacred day; a sacred feast; sacred service; sacred orders.
2. Proceeding from God and containing religious precepts; as the sacred books of the Old and New Testament.
3. Narrating or writing facts respecting God and holy things; as a sacred historian.
4. Relating to religion or the worship of God; used for religious purposes; as sacred songs; sacred music; sacred history.
5. Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; with to.
A temple sacred to the queen of love.
6. Entitled to reverence; venerable.
Poet and saint to thee alone were given, the two most sacred names of earth and heav'n.
7. Inviolable, as if appropriated to a superior being; as sacred honor or promise.
Secrets of marriage still are sacred held.
Sacred majesty. In this title, sacred has no definite meaning, or it is blasphemy.
Sacred place, in the civil law, is that where a deceased person is buried.
SA'CREDLY, adverb
1. Religiously; with due reverence as of something holy or consecrated to God; as, to observe the sabbath sacredly; the day is sacredly kept.
2. Inviolably; strictly; as, to observe one's word sacredly; a secret to be sacredly kept.
SA'CREDNESS, noun
1. The state of being sacred, or consecrated to God, to his worship or to religious uses; holiness; sanctity; as the sacredness of the sanctuary or its worship; the sacredness of the sabbath; the sacredness of the clerical office.
2. Inviolableness; as the sacredness of marriage vows or of a trust.
SACRIF'IC,
SACRIF'ICABLE, adjective Capable of being offered in sacrifice. [Ill formed, harsh and not used.]
SACRIF'ICABLE, a. Capable of being offered in sacrifice. [Ill formed, harsh and not used.]
SACRIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin sacrificus. See Sacrifice.] Employed in sacrifice.
SACRIF'ICANT, noun [Latin sacrificans.] One that offers a sacrifice.
SACRIFICA'TOR, noun A sacrificer; one that offers a sacrifice. [Not used.]
SACRIF'ICATORY, adjective Offering sacrifice.
SAC'RIFICE, verb transitive sac'rifize. [Latin sacrifico; sacer, sacred, and facio, to make.]
1. To offer to God in homage or worship, by killing and consuming, as victims on an altar; to immolate, either as an atonement for sin, or to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a lamb. 2 Samuel 6:13.
2. To destroy, surrender or suffer to be lost for the sake of obtaining something; as, to sacrifice the peace of the church to a little vain curiosity. We should never sacrifice health to pleasure, nor integrity to fame.
3. To devote with loss.
Condemn'd to sacrifice his childish years to babbling ignorance and to empty fears.
4. To destroy; to kill.
SAC'RIFICE, verb intransitive To make offerings to God by the slaughter and burning of victims, or of some part of them. Exodus 3:18.
SAC'RIFICE, noun [Latin sacrificium.]
1. An offering made to God by killing and burning some animal upon an altar, as an acknowledgment of his power and providence, or to make atonement for sin, appease his wrath or conciliate his favor, or to express thankfulness for his benefits. Sacrifices have been common to most nations, and have been offered to false gods, as well as by the Israelites to Jehovah. A sacrifice differs from an oblation; the latter being an offering of a thing entire or without change, as tithes or first fruits; whereas sacrifice implies a destruction or killing, as of a beast. Sacrifices are expiatory, impetratory, and eucharistical; that is, atoning for sin, seeking favor, or expressing thanks.
Human sacrifices, the killing and offering of human beings to deities, have been practiced by some barbarous nations.
2. The thing offered to God, or immolated by an act of religion.
My life if thou preserv'st, my life thy sacrifice shall be.
3. Destruction, surrender or loss made or incurred for gaining some object, or for obliging another; as the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
4. Any thing destroyed.
SAC'RIFICED, participle passive Offered to God upon an altar; destroyed, surrendered, or suffered to be lost.
SAC'RIFICER, noun One that sacrifices or immolates.
SACRIFI'CIAL, adjective Performing sacrifice; included in sacrifice; consisting in sacrifice.
SAC'RILEGE, noun [Latin sacrilegium; sacer, sacred, and lego, to take or steal.]
The crime of violating or profaning sacred things; or the alienating to laymen or to common purposes what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb with sacrilege to dig.
SACRILE'GIOUS, adjective [Latin sacrilegus.]
1. Violating sacred things; polluted with the crime of sacrilege.
Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.
2. Containing sacrilege; as a sacrilegious attempt or act.
SACRILE'GIOUSLY, adverb With sacrilege; in violation of sacred things; as sacrilegiously invading the property of a church.
SACRILE'GIOUSNESS, noun
1. The quality of being sacrilegious.
2. Disposition to sacrilege.
SAC'RILEGIST, noun One who is guilty of sacrilege.
SA'CRING, participle present tense Consecrating. [Not in use.]
SA'CRIST, noun A sacristan; a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.
SAC'RISTAN, noun [Latin sacer, sacred.]
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables of the church. It is now corrupted into sexton.
SAC'RISTY, noun [Latin sacer, sacred.]
An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils are kept; now called the vestry.
SAC'ROSANCT, adjective [Latin sacrosanctus; sacer and sanctus, holy.] Sacred; inviolable. [Not in use.]
SAD, adjective [It is probable this word is from the root of set. I have not found the word is from the root of set. I have not found the word in the English sense, in any other language.]
1. Sorrowful; affected with grief; cast down with affliction.
Th' angelic guards ascended, mute and sad
SAD for their loss, but joyful of our life.
2. Habitually melancholy; gloomy; not gay or cheerful.
See in her cell sad Eloisa spread.
3. Downcast; gloomy; having the external appearance of sorrow; as a sad countenance. Matthew 6:16.
4. Serious; grave; not gay, light or volatile.
Lady Catherine, a sad and religious woman.
5. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
6. Dark colored.
Woad or wade is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors.
[This sense is, I believe, entirely obsolete.]
7. Bad; vexatious; as a sad husband. [Colloquial.]
8. Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
With that his hand more sad than lump of lead. obsolete
9. Close; firm; cohesive; opposed to light or friable.
Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad obsolete
[The two latter senses indicate that the primary sense is set, fixed.]
SADDEN, verb transitive sad'n.
1. To make sad or sorrowful; also, to make melancholy or gloomy.
2. To make dark colored. obsolete
3. To make heavy, firm or cohesive.
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. obsolete
SAD'DENED, participle passive Made sad or gloomy.
SAD'DENING, participle present tense Making sad or gloomy.
SADDLE, noun sad'l. [Latin sedeo, sedile.]
1. A seat to be placed on a horse's back for the rider to sit on. Saddles are variously made, as the common saddle and the hunting saddle and for females the side-saddle.
2. Among seamen, a cleat or block of wood nailed on the lower yard-arms to retain the studding sail-booms in their place. The name is given also to other circular pieces of wood; as the saddle of the bow-spirit.
SAD'DLE, verb intransitive
1. To put a saddle on.
Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass.
Genesis 22:3.
2. To load; to fix a burden on; as, to be saddled with the expense of bridges and highways.
SAD'DLER, n. One whose occupation is to make saddles.
SADDUCE'AN, adjective Pertaining to the Sadducees, a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. Acts 23:1.
SAD'DUCISM, noun The tenets of the Sadducees.
SAD'LY, adverb
1. Sorrowfully; mournfully.
He sadly suffers in their grief.
2. In a calamitous or miserable manner. The misfortunes which others experience we may one day sadly feel.
3. In a dark color. obsolete
SAD'NESS, noun
1. Sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind; as grief and sadness at the memory of sin.
2. A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.
Dim sadness did not spare Celestial visages.
3. Seriousness; sedate gravity. Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness
SAFE, adjective [Latin salvus, from salus, safety, health.]
1. Free from danger of any kind; as safe from enemies; safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from the malice of foes.
2. Free from hurt, injury or damage; as, to walk safe over red hot plowshares. We brought the goods safe to land.
3. Conferring safety; securing from harm; as a safe guide; a safe harbor; a safe bridge.
4. Not exposing to danger. Philippians 3:1.
5. No longer dangerous; placed beyond the power of doing harm; a ludicrous meaning.
Banquo's safe - Aye, my good lord, safe in a ditch.
SAFE, noun A place of safety; a place for securing provisions from noxious animals.
SAFE, verb transitive To render safe [Not in use.]
SA'FEGU'ARD, noun [safe and guard.]
1. He or that which defends or protects; defense; protection.
The sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne.
2. A convoy or guard to protect a traveler.
3. A passport; a warrant of security given by a sovereign to protect a stranger within his territories; formerly, a protection granted to a stranger in prosecuting his rights in due course of law.
4. An outer petticoat to save women's clothes on horseback.
SA'FEGU'ARD, verb transitive To guard; to protect. [Little used.]
SA'FELY, adverb
1. In a safe manner; without incurring danger or hazard of evil consequences. We may safely proceed, or safely conclude.
2. Without injury. We passed the river safely
3. Without escape; in close custody; as, to keep a prisoner safely
SA'FENESS, noun
1. Freedom from danger; as the safeness of an experiment.
2. The state of being safe, or of conferring safety; as the safeness of a bridge or of a beat.
SA'FETY, noun
1. Freedom from danger or hazard; as the safety of an electrical experiment; the safety of a voyage.
I was not in safety nor had I rest. Job 3:26.
2. Exemption from hurt, injury or loss. We crossed the Atlantic in safety
SAF'FLOW,
SAF'FLOWER, noun The plant, bastard saffron, of the genus Carthamus.
SAF'FLOWER, noun A deep red fecula separated from orange-colored flowers, particularly those of the Carthamustinctorius; called also Spanish red and China lake.
The dried flowers of the Carthamustinctorius.
SAF'FRON, noun [The radical sense is to fail, or to be hollow, or to be exhausted.
1. A plant of the genus Crocus. The bastard saffron is of the genus Carthamus, and the meadow saffron of the genus Colchicum.
2. In the materia medica, saffron is formed of the stigmata of the Crocus officinalis, dried on a kiln and pressed into cakes.
SAF'FRON, adjective Having the color of saffron flowers; yellow; as a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
SAF'FRON, verb transitive To tinge with saffron; to make yellow; to gild.
SAG, verb intransitive [a different spelling of swag, which see.]
1. To yield; to give way; to lean or incline from an upright position, or to bend from a horizontal position. Our workmen say, a building sags to the north or south; or a beam sags by means of its weight.
2. In sailing, to incline to the leeward; to make lee way.
SAG, verb transitive To cause to bend or give way; to load or burden.
SAGA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin sagax, from sagus, wise, foreseeing; saga, a wise woman; sagio, to perceive readily. The latter signifies wise, prudent, sage, and an essay, which unites this word with seek, and Latin sequor.]
1. Quick of scent; as a sagacious hound; strictly perhaps, following by the scent, which sense is connected with Latin sequor; with of; as sagacious of his quarry.
2. Quick of thought; acute in discernment or penetration; as a sagacious head; a sagacious mind.
I would give more for the criticisms of one sagacious enemy, than for those of a score of admirers.
SAGA'CIOUSLY, adverb
1. With quick scent.
2. With quick discernment or penetration.
SAGA'CIOUSNESS, noun
1. The quality of being sagacious; quickness of scent.
2. Quickness or acuteness of discernment.
SAGAC'ITY, noun [Latin sagacitas.]
1. Quickness or acuteness of scent; applied to animals.
2. Quickness or acuteness of discernment or penetration; readiness of apprehension; the faculty of readily discerning and distinguishing ideas, and of separating truth from falsehood.
Sagacity finds out the intermediate ideas, to discover what connection there is in each link of the chain.
SAG'AMORE, noun Among some tribes of American Indians, a king or chief.
SAG'APEN,
SAGAPE'NUM, noun In pharmacy, a gum-resin, brought from Persia and the East in granules or in masses. It is a compact substance, heavy, of a reddish color, with small whitish or yellowish specks. It is an attenuant, sperient and discutient.
SAG'ATHY, noun A kind of serge; a slight woolen stuff.
SAGE, noun A plant of the genius Salvia, of several species; as the officinalis, or common large sage of several varieties; the tomentosa or balsamic sage; the auriculata, or sage of virtue; and the pomifera.
SAGE, adjective [Latin saga, sagus, sagio. See sagacious.]
1. Wise; having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; as a sage counselor.
2. Wise; judicious; proceeding from wisdom; well judged; well adapted to the purpose; as sage counsels.
SAGE, noun A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; particularly, a man venerable for years, and known as a man of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
At his birth a star proclaims him come, and guides the eastern sages.
Groves where immortal sages taught.
SA'GELY, adverb Wisely; with just discernment and prudence.
SAGE'NE, noun A Russian measure of about seven English feet. [See Sajene.]
SA'GENESS, noun Wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.
SAG'ENITE, noun Acicular rutile.
SAG'ITTAL, adjective [Latin sagittalis, from sagitta, an arrow; that which is thrown or driven, probably from the root of say and sing.]
Pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; as sagittal bars of yellow.
In anatomy, the sagittal suture is the suture which unites the parietal bones of the skull.
SAGITTA'RIUS, noun [Latin an archer.] One of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters November 22.
SAG'ITTARY, noun [supra.] A centaur, an animal half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.
SAG'ITTATE, adjective In botany, shaped like the head of an arrow; triangular, hollowed at the base, with angles at the hinder part; or with the hinder angles acute, divided by a sinus; applied to the leaf, stipula or anther.
SA'GO, noun a dry mealy substance or granulated paste, imported from Java and the Philippine and Molucca isles. It is the pith or marrow of a species of palm tree, and much used in medicine as a restorative diet.
SAGOIN', noun The Sagoins form a division of the genus Simia, including such of the monkeys of America as have hairy tails, not prehensile.
SA'GY, adjective [from sage.] Full of sage; seasoned with sage.
SAH'LITE, noun A mineral name from the mountain Sahla, in Westermania, where it was discovered. It is of a light greenish gray color, occurs massive, and composed of coarse granular concretion. It is called also malacolite; a subspecies or variety of augite.
SAIC, noun a Turkish or Grecian vessel, very common in the Levant, a kind of ketch which has no top-gallant-sail, nor mizen-top-sail.
SAID, preterit tense and participle passive of say; so written for sayed.
1. Declared; uttered; reported.
2. Aforesaid; before mentioned.
SAIL, noun [Latin sal, salt.]
1. In navigation, a spread of canvas, or an assemblage of several breadths of canvas, [or some substitute for it, ] sewed together with a double seam at the borders, and edged with a cord called the bolt-rope, to be extended on the masts or yards for receiving the impulse of wind by which a ship is driven. The principal sails are the courses or lower salts, the top-sails and top-gallant-sails.
2. In poetry, wings.
3. A ship or other vessel; used in the singular for a single ship, or as a collective name for many. We saw a sail at the leeward. We saw three sail on our star-board quarter. The fleet consists of twenty sail
To loose sails, to unfurl them.
To make sail to extend an additional quantity of sail
To set sail to expand or spread the sails; and hence; to begin a voyage.
To shorten sail to reduce the extent of sail or take in a part.
1. To strike sail to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting or in sudden gusts of wind.
2. To bate show or pomp.
SAIL, verb intransitive
1. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water. A ship sails from New York for Liverpool. She sails ten knots an hour. She sails well close-hauled.
2. To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water. We sailed from London to Canton.
3. To swim.
Little dolphins, when they sail in the vast shadow of the British whale.
4. To set sail; to begin a voyage. We sailed from New York for Havre, June 15, 1824. We sailed from Cowes for New York, May 10, 1825.
5. To be carried in the air, as a balloon.
6. To pass smoothly along.
As is a wing'd messenger from heaven, when he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, and sails upon the bosom of the air.
7. To fly without striking with the wings.
SAIL, verb transitive
1. To pass or move upon in a ship, by means of sails.
A thousand ships were mann'd to sail the sea.
[This use is elliptical, on or over being omitted.]
2. To fly through
Sublime she sails th' aerial space, and mounts the winged gales.
SA'ILABLE, adjective Navigable; that may be passed by ships.
SA'ILED, participle passive Passed in ships or other water craft.
SA'ILER, noun
1. One that sails; a seaman; usually sailor.
2. A ship or other vessel, with reference to her manner of sailing. Thus we say, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer; a prime sailer
SA'ILING, participle present tense Moving on water or in air; passing in a ship or other vessel.
SA'ILING, noun
1. The act of moving on water; or the movement of a ship or vessel impelled or wafted along the surface of water by the action of wind on her sails.
2. Movement through the air, as in a balloon.
3. The act of setting sail or beginning a voyage.
SA'ILOR, noun [a more common spelling than sailer.]
A mariner; a seaman; one who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels, or one who understands the management of ships in navigation. The word however does not by itself express any particular skill in navigation. It denotes any person who follows the seas, and is chiefly or wholly applied to the common hands. [See Seaman.]
SAIM, noun [Latin sebum, contracted.] Lard. [Local.]
SAIN, for sayen, participle passive of say. obsolete
SA'INFOIN,
SAINT, noun [Latin sanctus.]
1. A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue. It is particularly applied to the apostles and other holy persons mentioned in Scripture. A hypocrite may imitate a saint. Psalms 16:1.
2. One of the blessed in heaven. Revelation 18:1.
3. The holy angels are called saint. Deuteronomy 33:1. Jude 1:14.
4. One canonized by the church of Rome.
SAINT, verb transitive To number or enroll among saints by an official act of the pope; to canonize.
Over against the church stands a large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beautified, though never sainted.
SAINT, verb intransitive To act with a show of piety.
SAINT, n. [L. sanctus.]
1. A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue. It is particularly applied to the apostles and other holy persons mentioned in Scripture. A hypocrite may imitate a saint. Ps. 16.2. One of the blessed in heaven. Rev. 18.3. The holy angels are called saint. Deut. 33. Jude 14.4. One canonized by the church of Rome.SAINT, v.t. To number or enroll among saints by an official act of the pope; to canonize.
Over against the church stands a large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beautified, though never sainted.SAINT, v.i. To act with a show of piety.
SA'INTED, participle passive
1. Canonized; enrolled among the saints.
2. adjective Holy; pious; as, thy father was a most sainted king.
3. Sacred; as the gods on sainted hills.
SA'INTESS, noun A female saint.
SAINT JOHN'S BREAD, noun A plant of the genus Ceratonia.
SAINT JOHN'S WORT, noun A plant of the genus Hypericum.
SA'INTFOIN, noun A plant cultivated for fodder, of the genus Hedysarum.
SA'INTLIKE, adjective [saint and like.]
1. Resembling a saint; as a saintlike prince.
2. Suiting a saint; becoming a saint.
Gloss'd over only with a saintlike show.
SA'INTLY, adjective Like a saint; becoming a holy person; as wrongs with saintly patience borne.
SAINT PETER'S WORT, noun A plant of the genus Ascyrum, and another of the genus Hypericum.
SA'INT'S BELL, noun A small bell rung in churches when the priest repeats the words sancte, sancte, sancte, Deus sabaoth, that persons absent might fall on their knees in reverence of the holy office.
SA'INTSHIP, noun The character or qualities of a saint.
SAJE'NE, noun [written also sagene. Tooke writes it sajene ]
A Russian measure of length, equal to seven feet English measure.
SAKE, noun [Heb. to press or oppress. The primary sense is to strain, urge, press or drive forward, and this is from the same root as seek, essay and Latin sequor, whence we have pursue and prosecute. We have analogous words in cause, thing, and the Latin res.]
1. Final cause; end; purpose; or rather the purpose of obtaining. I open a window for the sake of air, that is, to obtain it, for the purpose of obtaining air. I read for the sake of instruction, that is, to obtain it. sake then signifies primarily effort to obtain, and secondarily purpose of obtaining. The hero fights for the sake of glory; men labor for the sake of subsistence or wealth.
2. Account; regard to any person or thing.
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake Genesis 8:21.
Save me for thy mercies' sake Psalms 6:4.
SA'KER, noun
1. A hawk; a species of falcon.
2. A piece of artillery.
SAK'ERET, noun The male of the sakerhawk.
SAL, noun [See Salt.] Salt; a word much used in chimistry and pharmacy.
SA'LABLE, adjective [from sale.] That may be sold; that finds a ready market; being in good demand.
SA'LABLENESS, noun The state of being salable.
SA'LABLY, adverb In a salable manner.
SALA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin salax, from the root of sal, salt; the primary sense of which is shooting, penetrating, pungent, coinciding probably with Latin salio, to leap. salacious then is highly excited, or prompt to leap.] Lustful; lecherous.
SALA'CIOUSLY, adverb Lustfully; with eager animal appetite.
SALA'CIOUSNESS,
SALAC'ITY, noun Lust; lecherousness; strong propensity to venery.
SALAC'ITY, n. Lust; lecherousness; strong propensity to venery.
SAL'AD, noun
Raw herbs, usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil or spices, and eaten for giving a relish to other food.
Leaves eaten raw, are termed salad
SAL'ADING, noun Vegetables for salads.
SALAM', noun [Oriental, peace or safety.] A salutation or compliment of ceremony or respect. [Not in use.]
SAL'AMANDER, noun [Latin Gr. salamandra.] An animal of the genus Lacerta or Lizard, one of the smaller species of the genus, not being more than six or seven inches in length. It has a short cylindrical tail, four toes on the four feet, and a naked body. The skin is furnished with small excrescences like teats, which are full of holes from which oozes a milky liquor that spreads over the skin, forming a kind of transparent varnish. The eyes are placed in the upper part of the head. The color is dark, with a bluish cast on the belly, intermixed with irregular yellow spots. This animal is oviparous, inhabits cold damp places among trees or hedges, avoiding the heat of the sun. The vulgar story of its being able to endure fire, is a mistake.
Salamander's hair or wool, a name given to a species of asbestos or mineral flax; I believe no long used.
SALAMAN'DRINE, adjective Pertaining to or resembling a salamander; enduring fire.
Sal ammoniac, muriate of ammonia. The native sal ammoniac is of two kinds, volcanic and conchoidal.
SAL'ARIED, adjective Enjoying a salary.
SAL'ARY, noun [Latin salarium; said to be from sal, salt, which was part of the pay of Roman soldiers.]
The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, as to governors, magistrates, settled clergymen, instructors of seminaries, or other officers, civil or ecclesiastical. When wages are stated or stipulated by the month, week or day, we do not call the compensation salary but pay or wages; as in the case of military men and laborers.
SALE, noun [The primary sense of sell, is simply to deliver or cause to pass from one person to another.]
1. The act of selling; the exchange of a commodity for money of equivalent value. The exchange of one commodity for another is barter or permutation, and sale differs from barter only in the nature of the equivalent given.
2. Vent; power of selling; market. He went to market, but found no sale for his goods.
3. Auction; public sale to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market. [Little used.]
4. State of being venal, or of being offered to bribery; as, to set the liberty of a state to sale
5. A wicker basket.
SALE, adjective Sold; bought; as opposed to homemade. [Colloquial.]
SALEBROS'ITY, noun [See Salebrous.] Roughness or ruggedness of a place or road.
SAL'EBROUS, adjective [Latin salebrosus, from salebra, a rough place; probably allied to salio, to shoot out.] Rough; rugged; uneven. [Little used.]
SAL'EP, noun [said to be a Turkish word; written also salop, saloop and saleb.]
In the materia medica, the dried root of a species of orchis; also, a preparation of this root to be used as food.
SA'LESMAN, noun [sale and man.] One that sells clothes ready made.
SA'LEWORK, noun Work or things made for sale; hence, work carelessly done. This last sense is a satire on man.
SAL'IC, adjective [The origin of this word is not ascertained.]
The salic law of France is a fundamental law, by virtue of which males only can inherit the throne.
SA'LIENT, adjective [Latin saliens, salio, to leap.]
1. Leaping; an epithet in heraldry applied to a lion or other beast, represented in a leaping posture, with his right foot in the dexter point, and his hinder left foot in the sinister base of the escutcheon, by which it is distinguished from rampant.
2. In fortification, projecting; as a salient angle. A salient angle points outward, and is opposed to a re-entering angle, which points inward.
SA'LIENT, adjective [Latin saliens, from salio, to leap or shoot out.]
1. Leaping; moving by leaps; as frogs.
2. Beating; throbbing; as the heart.
3. Shooting out or up; springing; darting; as a salient sprout.
SALIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sal, salt, and fero, to produce.]
Producing or bearing salt; as saliferous rock.
SAL'IFIABLE, adjective [from salify.] Capable of becoming a salt, or of combining with an acid to form a neutral salt. salifiable bases are alkalies, earths and metallic oxyds.
SALIFICA'TION, noun The act of salifying.
SAL'IFIED, participle passive Formed into a neutral salt by combination with an acid.
SAL'IFY, verb transitive [Latin sal, salt, and facio, to make.]
To form into a neutral salt, by combining an acid with an alkali, earth or metal.
SAL'IFYING, participle present tense Forming into a salt by combination with an acid.
SAL'IGOT, noun A plant, the water thistle.
SALINA'TION, noun [Latin sal, salt; salinator, a salt maker.]
The act of washing with salt water.
SALI'NE,
SALINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sal, salinum, and fero, to produce.] Producing salt.
SALINIF'EROUS, a. [L. sal, salinum, and fero, to produce.] Producing salt.
SALIN'IFORM, adjective [Latin sal, salinum, and form.] Having the form of salt.
SALI'NOUS, adjective [Latin sal, salt.]
1. Consisting of salt or constituting salt; as saline particles; saline substances.
2. Partaking of the qualities of salt; as a saline taste.
SALI'NE, noun A salt spring, or a place where salt water is collected in the earth; a name given to the salt springs in the United States.
SAL'ITE, verb transitive [Latin salio, from sal, salt.] To salt; to impregnate or season with salt. [Little used.]
SALI'VA,
SAL'IVAL,
SAL'IVARY, adjective [from saliva ] Pertaining to saliva; secreting or conveying saliva; as salivary glands; salivary ducts or canals.
SAL'IVAL,
SAL'IVARY, a. [from saliva.] Pertaining to saliva; secreting or conveying saliva; as salivary glands; salivary ducts or canals.
SAL'IVATE, verb transitive [from saliva.]
To excite an unusual secretion and discharge of saliva in a person, usually by mercury; to produce ptyalism in a person. Physicians salivate their patients in diseases of the glands, of the liver, in the venereal disease, in yellow fever, etc.
SAL'IVATED, participle passive Having an increased secretion of saliva from medicine.
SAL'IVATING, participle present tense Exciting increased secretion of saliva.
SALIVA'TION, noun The act or process of promoting ptyalism, or of producing an increased secretion of saliva, for the cure of disease.
SAL'IVE, noun [Latin saliva.]
The fluid which is secreted by the salivary glands, and which serves to moisten the mouth and tongue. It moistens our food also, and by being mixed with it in mastication, promotes digestion. When discharged from the mouth, it is called spittle.
SALI'VOUS, adjective Pertaining to saliva; partaking of the nature of saliva.
SAL'LET, noun A head-piece or helmet.
SAL'LETING, noun [corrupted from salad. Not in use.]
SAL'LIANCE, noun [from sally.] An issuing forth. [Not in use.]
SAL'LOW, noun [Latin salix.] A tree of the willow kind, or genus Salix.
SAL'LOW, adjective [Latin salix, the tree, supra.]
Having a yellowish color; of a pale sickly color, tinged with a dark yellow; as a sallow skin.
SAL'LOWNESS, noun A yellowish color; paleness tinged with a dark yellow; as sallowness of complexion.
SAL'LY, noun [See the Verb.] In a general sense, a spring; a darting or shooting. Hence,
1. An issue or rushing of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
2. A spring or darting of intellect, fancy or imagination; flight; sprightly exertion. We say, sallies of wit, sallies of imagination.
3. Excursion from the usual track; range.
He who often makes sallies into a country, and traverses it up and down, will know it better than one that goes always round in the same track.
4. Act of levity or extravagance; wild gaiety; frolic; a bounding or darting beyond ordinary rules; as a sally of youth; a sally of levity.
SAL'LY, verb intransitive [Latin salio. Gr. to impel, to shoot. See Solar, from Latin sol. Gr.]
1. To issue or rush out, as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers.
They break the truce, and sally out by night.
2. To issue suddenly; to make a sudden eruption.
SAL'LYING, participle present tense Issuing or rushing out.
SALMAGUN'DI, noun [See salpicon.]
A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring with oil, vinegar, pepper and onions.
Salmiac, a contraction of sal ammoniac.
SALMON, noun sam'mon. [Latin salmo.]
A fish of the genus Salmo, found in all the northern climates of America, Europe and Asia, ascending the rivers for spawning in spring, and penetrating to their head streams. It is a remarkably strong fish, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of its progress. It has been known to grow to the weight of 75 pounds; more generally it is from 15 to 25 pounds. It furnishes a delicious dish for the table, and is an article of commerce.
SALOON', noun [See Hall.]
In architecture, a lofty spacious hall, vaulted at the top, and usually comprehending two stories with two ranges of windows. It is a magnificent room in the middle of a building, or at the head of a gallery, etc. It is a state room much used in palaces in Italy for the reception of embassadors and other visitors.
SALOOP,
SALOP, [See Salep.]
SALOP, [See Salep.]
SAL'PICON, noun
Stuffing; farce; chopped meat or bread, etc. used to stuff legs of veal; called also salmagundi. [I believe not used.]
SALSAMENTA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin salsamentarius.] Pertaining to salt things. [Not in use.]
SAL'SIFY, noun Goat's beard, a plant of the genus Tragopogon.
SALSOAC'ID, adjective [Latin salsus, salt, and acidus, acid.]
Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidness. [Little used.]
SALSU'GINOUS, adjective [from Latin salsugo, from sal, salt.] Saltish; somewhat salt.
SALT, noun [Gr.; Latin The radical sense is probably pungent, and if s is radical, the word belongs to the root of Latin salio; but this is uncertain.]
1. Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, or it is produced by evaporation and crystallization from water impregnated with saline particles.
2. In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd. Accordingly, salts are alkaline, earthy, or metallic. Many compounds of this kind, of which common salt (muriate of soda, ) is the most distinguished, exist in nature; but most of these, together with many others not known in nature, have been formed by the artificial combination of their elements. Their entire number exceeds 2000. When the acid and base mutually saturate each other, so that the individual properties of each are lost, the compound is a neutral salt; when the acid predominates, it is a super salt; and when the base predominates, it is a sub salt Thus we have a subcarbonate, a carbonate, and a supercarbonate of potash.
3. Taste; sapor; smack.
We have some salt of our youth in us.
4. Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt
SALT, adjective
1. Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water
2. Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6.
3. Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.
4. Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.
5. Producing salt water; as a salt spring.
6. Lecherous; slacious.
SALT, noun
1. The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt
2. A vessel for holding salt
SALT, verb transitive
1. To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.
2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
SALT, verb intransitive To deposit salt from a saline substance; as, the brine begins to salt [Used by manufacturers.]
SALT, noun A leap; the act of jumping. [Not in use.]
SALT'ANT, adjective [Latin saltans, from salto, to leap.] Leaping; jumping; dancing.
SALTA'TION, noun [Latin saltatio, from salto, to leap.]
1. A leaping or jumping.
2. Beating or palpitation; as the saltation of the great artery.
SALT'CAT, noun A lump or heap of salt, made at the salt-works, which attracts pigeons.
SALT'-CELLAR, noun [salt and cellar.] A small vessel used for holding salt on the table.
SALT'ED, participle passive Sprinkled, seasoned or impregnated with salt.
SALT'ER, noun
1. One who salts; one who gives or applies salt.
2. One that sells salt.
SALT'ERN, noun A salt-work; a building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation.
SALT'IER, noun [Latin salto, to leap.]
In heraldry, one of the honorable ordinaries, in the form of St. Andrew's cross.
SALT'INBANCO, noun A mountebank; a quack. [Not in use.]
SALT'ING, participle present tense Sprinkling, seasoning or impregnating with salt.
SALT'ING, noun The act of sprinkling or impregnating with salt.
SALT'ISH, adjective Somewhat salt; tinctured or impregnated moderately with salt.
SALT'ISHLY, adverb With a moderate degree of saltness.
SALT'ISHNESS, noun A moderate degree of saltness.
SALT'LESS, adjective Destitute of salt; insipid.
SALT'LY, adverb With taste of salt; in a salt manner.
SALT'-MINE, noun A mine where fossil salt is obtained.
SALT'NESS, noun
1. The quality of being impregnated with salt; as the saltness of sea water or of provisions.
2. Taste of salt.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Mark 9:50
SALTPE'TER, 'TRE, noun [salt and Gr. stone.] A neutral salt formed by the nitric acid in combination with potash, and hence denominated nitrate of potash. It is found native in the East Indies, in Spain, in Naples and other places. It is also found on walls sheltered from rain, and it is extracted by lixiviation from the earths under cellars, stables and barns, etc.
SALTPE'TROUS, adjective Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
SALTS, noun The salt water of rivers entering from the ocean.
SALT'-WATER, noun Water impregnated with salt; sea water.
SALU'BRIOUS, adjective [Latin saluber, salubris, from salus. See safe.]
Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as salubrious air or water; a salubrious climate.
SALU'BRIOUSLY, adverb So as to promote health.
SALU'BRITY, noun [Latin salubritas.] Wholesomeness; healthfulness; favorableness to the preservation of health; as the salubrity of aid, of a country or climate.
SAL'UTARINESS, noun [See Salutary.]
1. Wholesomeness; the quality of contributing to health or safety.
2. The quality of promoting good or prosperity
SAL'UTARY, adjective [Latin salutaris, from salus, health.]
1. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health. Diet and exercise are salutary to men of sedentary habits.
2. Promotive of public safety; contributing to some beneficial purpose. The strict discipline of youth has a salutary effect on society.
SALUTA'TION, noun [Latin salutatio. See Salute.]
The act of saluting; a greeting; the act of paying respect or reverence by the customary words or actions; as in inquiring of persons their welfare, expressing to them kind wishes, bowing, etc. Luke 1:29. Mark 12:38.
In all public meetings and private addresses, use the forms of salutation reverence and decency usual among the most sober people.
SALU'TE, verb transitive [Latin saluto; salus or salvus.]
1. To greet; to hail; to address with expressions of kind wishes.
If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Matthew 5:47.
2. To please; to gratify. [Unusual.]
3. To kiss.
4. In military and naval affairs, to honor some person or nation by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by striking colors, by shouts, etc.
SALU'TE, noun
1. The act of expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.
2. A kiss.
3. In military affairs, a discharge of cannon or small arms in honor of some distinguished personage. A salute is sometimes performed by lowering the colors or beating the drums. The officers also salute each other by bowing their half pikes.
4. In the navy, a testimony of respect or deference rendered by the ships of one nation to the ships of another, or by ships of the same nation to a superior or equal. This is performed by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, striking the colors or top-sails, or by shouts of the seamen mounted on the masts or rigging. When two squadrons meet, the two chiefs only are to exchange salutes.
SALU'TED, participle passive Hailed; greeted.
SALU'TER, noun One who salutes.
SALUTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin salutifer; salus, health, and fero, to bring.] Bringing health; healthy; as salutiferous air.
SALVABIL'ITY, noun [from salvable.] The possibility of being saved or admitted to everlasting life.
SALV'ABLE, adjective [Latin salvus, safe; salvo, to save.]
That may be saved, or received to everlasting happiness.
SALV'AGE, noun [Latin salvus, salvo.]
In commerce, a reward or recompense allowed by law for the saving of a ship, or goods from loss at sea, either by shipwreck or other means, or by enemies or pirates.
SALV'AGE, for savage, not used. [See Savage.]
SALVA'TION, noun [Latin salvo, to save.]
1. The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity.
2. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him everlasting happiness. This is the great salvation
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation 2 Corinthians 7:10.
3. Deliverance from enemies; victory. Exodus 14:13.
4. Remission of sins, or saving graces. Luke 19:9.
5. The author of man's salvation Psalms 27:1.
6. A term of praise or benediction. Revelation 19:1.
SALV'ATORY, noun A place where things are preserved; a repository.
SALVE, noun sav. [Latin salvus.]
1. A glutinous composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; when spread on leather or cloth, it is called a plaster.
2. Help; remedy.
SALVE, verb transitive sav.
1. To heal by applications or medicaments. [little used.]
2. To help; to remedy. [Little used.]
3. To help or remedy by a salvo, excuse or reservation. [Little used.]
4. To salute. [Not in use.]
SAL'VER, noun A piece of plate with a foot; or a plate on which any thing is presented.
SALVIF'IC, adjective [Latin salvus and facio.] Tending to save or secure safety. [A bad word and not used.]
SAL'VO, noun [from the Latin salvo jure, an expression used in reserving rights.] An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
They admit many salvos, cautions and reservations.
SALV'OR, noun One who saves a ship or goods at sea.
SAMAR'ITAN, adjective
1. Pertaining to Samaria, the principal city of the ten tribes of Israel, belonging to the tribe of Ephraim, and after the captivity of those tribes, repeopled by Cuthites from Assyria or Chaldea.
2. Denoting the ancient characters and alphabet used by the Hebrews.
SAMAR'ITAN, noun
1. An inhabitant of Samaria, or one that belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans.
2. The language of Samaria, a dialect of the Chaldean.
SAM'BO, noun The offspring of a black person and a mulatto.
SAME, adjective [Latin simul, together. Gr. Shall we suppose then that s has passed into an aspirate in this word, as in salt, Gr. or has the Greek word lost s? The word same may be the Latin idem or dem, dialectically varied. The primary sense is to set, to place, to put together.]
1. Identical; not different or other.
Thou art the same and thy years shall have no end.
Psalms 102:27.
The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. 1 Corinthians 11:23.
2. Of the identical kind or species, though not the specific thing. We say, the horse of one country is the same animal as the horse of another country. The same plants and fruits are produced in the same latitudes. We see in men in all countries, the same passions and the same vices.
Th' etherial vigor is in all the same
3. That was mentioned before.
Do but think how well the same he spends, who spends his blood his country to relieve.
4. Equal; exactly similar. One ship will not run the same distance as another in the same time, and with the same wind. Two balls of the same size have not always the same weight. Two instruments will not always make the same sound.
SAME, adverb Together. obsolete
SA'MENESS, noun
1. Identity; the state of being not different or other; as the sameness of an unchangeable being.
2. Near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as a sameness of manner; a sameness of sound; the sameness of objects in a landscape.
Samian earth. [Gr. the isle.] The name of a marl of two species, used in medicine as an astringent.
SA'MIEL,
SAM'ITE, noun A species of silk stuff. obsolete
SAM'ITE, n. A species of silk stuff. Obs.
SAM'LET, noun A little salmon.
SAMP, noun A species of food composed of maize broken or bruised, boiled and mixed with milk; a dish borrowed from the natives of America, but not much used.
SAMP'ANE, noun A kind of vessel used by the Chinese.
SAM'PHIRE, noun [said to be a corruption of Saint Pierre.]
A plant of the genus Crithmum. The golden samphire is of the genus Inula.
Samphire grows on rocks near the sea shore, where it is washed by the salt water. It is used for pickling.
SAM'PLE, noun [Latin exemplum.]
1. A specimen; a part of any thing presented for inspection or intended to be shown, as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat. Goods are often purchased in market by samples.
I design this as a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.
2. Example; instance.
SAM'PLE, verb transitive To show something similar.
SAM'PLER, noun [Latin exemplar, supra.] A pattern of work; a specimen; particularly, a piece of needle work by young girls for improvement.
SAN'ABLE, adjective [Latin sanabilis, from sano, to heal; sanus, sound. See Sound.]
That may be healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.
SANA'TION, noun [Latin sanatio, from sano, to heal.] The act of healing or curing. [Not used.]
SAN'ATIVE, adjective [Latin sano, to heal.] Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal.
SAN'ATIVENESS, noun The power of healing.
SANC'TIFICATE, verb transitive To sanctify. [Not in use.]
SANCTIFICA'TION, noun [See Sanctify.]
1. The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God.
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13. 1 Peter 1:2.
2. The act of consecrating or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration.
SANC'TIFIED, participle passive
1. Made holy; consecrated; set apart for sacred services.
2. Affectedly holy.
SANC'TIFIER, noun He that sanctifies or makes holy. In theology, the Holy Spirit is, by way of eminence, denominated the sanctifier
SANC'TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]
1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.
2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3.
So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, etc.
3. To purify; to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things. Exodus 19:10.
4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church. John 10:36.
5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy be detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
John 17:17. Ephesians 5:26.
6. To make the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
Those judgments of God are the more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me, as to make me repent of that unjust act.
7. To make free from guilt.
That holy man amaz'd at what he saw, made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.
8. To secure from violation.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.
To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. Isaiah 8:13.
God sanctifies himself or his name, by vindicating his honor from the reproaches of the wicked, and manifesting his glory. Ezekiel 36:23.
SANC'TIFYING, participle present tense
1. Making holy; purifying from the defilements of sin; separating to a holy use.
2. adjective Tending to sanctify; adapted to increase holiness.
SANCTIMO'NIOUS, adjective [Latin sanctimonia, from sanctus, holy.]
Saintly; having the appearance of sanctity; as a sanctimonious pretense.
SANCTIMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With sanctimony.
SANCTIMO'NIOUSNESS, noun State of being sanctimonious; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [little used.]
SANC'TIMONY, noun [Latin sanctimonia.] Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [Little used.]
SANC'TION, noun [Latin sanctio, from sanctus, holy, solemn, established.]
1. Ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body. A treaty is not valid without the sanction of the president and senate.
2. Authority; confirmation derived from testimony, character, influence or custom.
The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony.
3. A law or decree. [Improper.]
SANC'TION, verb transitive To ratify; to confirm; to give validity or authority to.
SANC'TIONED, participle passive Ratified; confirmed; authorized.
SANC'TIONING, participle present tense Ratifying; authorizing.
SANC'TITUDE, noun [Latin sanctus, sanctitudo.] Holiness; sacredness.
SANC'TITY, noun [Latin sanctitas.]
1. Holiness; state of being sacred or holy. God attributes no sanctity to place.
2. Goodness; purity; godliness; as the sanctity of love; sanctity of manners.
3. Sacredness; solemnity; as the sanctity of an oath.
4. A saint or holy being.
About him all the sanctities of heav'n - [Unusual.]
SANC'TUARIZE, verb transitive [from sanctuary.] To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges. [A bad word and not used.]
SANC'TUARY, noun [Latin sanctuarium, from sanctus, sacred.]
1. A sacred place; particularly among the Israelites, the most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and that only once a year to intercede for the people. The same name was given to the most sacred part of the tabernacle. Leviticus 4:6.
Hebrews 9:1.
2. The temple at Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 20:8.
3. A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed. Psalms 73:17.
Hence sanctuary is used for a church.
4. In catholic churches, that part of a church where the altar is placed, encompassed with a balustrade.
5. A place of protection; a sacred asylum. Hence a sanctuary-man is one that resorts to a sanctuary for protection.
6. Shelter; protection.
Some relics of painting took sanctuary under ground.
SAND, noun
1. Any mass or collection of fine particles of stone, particularly of fine particles of silicious stone, but not strictly reduced to powder or dust.
That finer matter called sand is no other than very small pebbles.
2. Sands, in the plural, tracts of land consisting of sand like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; as the Lybian sands.
SAND, verb transitive
1. To sprinkle with sand It is customary among the common people in America, to sand their floors with white sand
2. To drive upon the sand
SAN'DAL, noun [Latin sandalium; Gr.]
1. A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot. The Greek and Roman ladies wore sandals made of a rich stuff, ornamented with gold or silver.
2. A shoe or slipper worn by the pope and other Romish prelates when they officiate. A like sandal is worn by several congregations of monks.
SAN'DARACH, n. [L. sandaraca.]
1. A resin in white tears, more transparent than those of mastic; obtained from the juniper tree, in which it occupies the place between the bark and the wood. It is used in powder to prevent ink from sinking or spreading. This is the substance denoted by the Arabic word, and it is also called varnish. For distinction, this is called gum sandarac or sandaric.The sandarach is obtained from the Thuya articulata, from the Juniperus cedrus.2. A native fossil; also, a combination of arsenic and sulphur; orpiment.SAND'ED, participle passive
1. Sprinkled with sand; as a sanded floor.
2. adjective Covered with sand; barren.
3. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.
4. Short sighted.
SAND'-EEL, noun The ammodyte, a fish that resembles an eel. It seldom exceeds a foot in length; its head is compressed, the upper jaw larger than the under one, the body cylindrical, with scales hardly perceptible. There is one species only, a native of Europe. It coils with its head in the center, and penetrates into the sand; whence its name in Greek and English. It is a delicate food.
SAND'ERLING, noun A bird of the plover kind.
SANDERS. [See Sandal.]
SAN'DERS, noun
A kind of wood which grows in the East Indies and on some of the isles of the Pacific. It is of three kinds, the white, the yellow, and the red. The tree which produces the two former is of the genus Santalum. It grows to the size of a walnut tree. Its wood has a bitter taste and an aromatic smell. The oriental nations burn it in their houses for the sake of its fragrant odor, and with the powder of it a paste is prepared, with which they anoint their bodies. The white and the yellow sandal-wood are different parts of the same tree; the white is the wood next to the bark; the yellow is the inner part of the tree. The red sandal-wood is obtained from a different tree, the Pierocarpus santolinus. It is of a dull red color, has little taste or smell, and is principally used as a coloring drug.
SAN'DEVER,
SAND'INESS, noun [from sandy.]
1. The state of being sandy; as the sandiness of a road.
2. The state of being of a sandy color.
SAND'INESS, n. [from sandy.]
1. The state of being sandy; as the sandiness of a road.2. The state of being of a sandy color.SAND'ISH, adjective [from sand.] Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.
SAN'DIVER, noun
Glass-gall; a whitish salt which is cast up from the materials of glass in fusion, and floating on the top, is skimmed off. A similar substance is thrown out in eruptions of volcanoes. It is used by gilders of iron, and in the fusion of certain ores. It is said to be good for cleansing the skin, and taken internally, is detergent.
SAND'-FLOOD, noun A vast body of sand moving or borne along the deserts of Arabia.
SAND'-HEAT, noun The heat of warm sand in chimical operations.
SAND'IX, noun A kind of minium or red lead, made of ceruse, but inferior to the true minium.
SAND'PIPER, noun A bird of the genus Tringa.
SAND'STONE, noun [sand and stone.] sandstone is, in most cases, composed chiefly of grains of quartz united by a cement, calcarious, marly, argillaceous, or even silicious. The texture of some kinds is loose, of others close; the fracture is granular or earthy.
Sandstones usually consist of the materials of older rocks, as granite, broken up and comminuted, and afterwards deposited again.
SAND'-WORT, noun A plant.
SAND'Y, adjective
1. Abounding with sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as a sandy desert or plain; a sandy road or soil.
2. Consisting of sand; not firm or solid; as a sandy foundation.
3. Of the color of sand; of a yellowish red color; as sandy hair.
SANE, adjective [Latin sanus, Eng. sound. This is the Eng. sound. See sound.]
1. Sound; not disordered or shattered; healthy; as a sane body.
2. Sound; not disordered; having the regular exercise of reason and other faculties of the mind; as a sane person; a person of a sane mind.
SANG, preterit tense of sing.
SANG FROID, noun
1. Coolness; freedom from agitation or excitement of mind.
2. Indifference.
SAN'GIAC, noun A Turkish governor of a province.
SANGUIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sanguifer; sanguis, blood, and fero, to carry.]
Conveying blood. The sanguiferous vessels are the arteries and veins.
SANGUIFICA'TION, noun [Latin sanguis, blood, and facio, to make.]
In the animal economy, the production of blood; the conversion of chyle into blood.
SAN'GUIFIER, noun A producer of blood.
SANGUIF'LUOUS, adjective [Latin sanguis, blood, and fluo, to flow.] Floating or running with blood.
SAN'GUIFY, verb intransitive To produce blood.
SAN'GUIFYING, participle present tense Producing blood.
SAN'GUIN, adjective [Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, blood.]
1. Red; having the color of blood; as a sanguine color or countenance.
2. Abounding with blood; plethoric; as a sanguine habit of body.
3. Warm; ardent; as a sanguine temper.
4. Confident. He is sanguine in his expectations of success.
SAN'GUINE, noun Blood color. [Not in use.]
SAN'GUINE, verb transitive
1. To stain with blood. [But ensanguine is generally used.]
2. To stain or varnish with a blood color.
SAN'GUINARY, adjective [Latin sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood.]
1. Bloody; attended with much bloodshed; murderous; as a sanguinary war, contest or battle.
2. Blood thirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
Passion - makes us brutal and sanguinary
SAN'GUINARY, noun A plant.
SAN'GUINE,
SAN'GUINELESS, adjective Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]
SAN'GUINELESS, a. Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]
SAN'GUINELY, adverb Ardently; with confidence of success.
SAN'GUINENESS, noun
1. Redness; color of blood in the skin; as sanguineness of countenance.
2. Fullness of blood; plethory; as sanguineness of habit.
3. Ardor; heat of temper; confidence.
SANGUIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin sanguineus.]
1. Abounding with blood; plethoric.
2. Constituting blood.
SANGUIN'ITY, for sanguineness, is not in use.
SAN'GUISUGE, noun [Latin sanguisuga; sanguis, blood, and sugo, to suck.]
The blood-sucker; a leech, or horse leech.
SAN'HEDRIM, noun [Low Latin synedrium; Gr. with, together and seat.]
The great council of seventy elders among the Jews, whose jurisdiction extended to all important affairs. They received appeals from inferior tribunals, and had power of life and death.
SAN'ICLE, noun [from Latin sano, to heal.] Self-heal, a plant or genus of plants, the Sanicula; also, a plant of the genus Saxifraga. The American bastard sanicle is of the genus Mitella, and the bear's ear sanicle of the genus Cortusa.
SANID'IUM, noun A genus of fossils of the class of selenites, composed of plain flat plates.
SA'NIES, noun [Latin] A thin acrid discharge from wounds or sores; a serous matter, less thick and white than pus.
SA'NIOUS, adjective [from sanies.]
1. Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin; serous; as the sanious matter of an ulcer.
2. Running a thin serous matter; as a sanious ulcer.
SAN'ITY, noun [Latin sanitas. See Sane.] Soundness; particularly, a sound state of mind; the state of a mind in the perfect exercise of reason.
SANK, preterit tense of sink, but nearly obsolete.
SAN'NAH, noun The name of certain kinds of India muslins.
SANS, preterit tense Without.
SAN'SCRIT, noun
The ancient language of Hindoostan, from which are formed all the modern languages or dialects of the great peninsula of India. It is the language of the Bramins, and in this are written the ancient books of the country; but it is now obsolete. It is from the same stock as the ancient Persic, Greek and Latin, and all the present languages of Europe.
SANTER. [See Saunter.]
SANT'ON, noun A Turkish priest; a kind of dervis, regarded by the vulgar as a saint.
SAP, noun
1. The juice of plants of any kind, which flows chiefly between the wood and the bark. From the sap of a species of maple, is made sugar of a good quality by evaporation.
2. The alburnum of a tree; the exterior part of the wood, next to the bark. [A sense in general use in New England.]
SAP, verb transitive
1. To undermine; to subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine.
Their dwellings were sapp'd by floods.
2. To undermine; to subvert by removing the foundation of. Discontent saps the foundation of happiness. Intrigue and corruption sap the constitution of a free government.
SAP, verb intransitive To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining.
Both assaults are carried on by sapping.
SAP, noun In sieges, a trench for undermining; or an approach made to a fortified place by digging or under cover. The single sap has only a single parapet; the double has one on each side, and the flying is made with gabions, etc. In all saps, traverses are left to cover the men.
SAP'AJO, noun The sapajos form a division of the genus Simia, including such of the monkeys of America as have prehensile tails.
SAP'-COLOR, noun An expressed vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation, for the use of painters, as sap-green, etc.
SAP'ID, adjective [Latin sapidus, from sapio, to taste.]
Tasteful; tastable; having the power of affecting the organs of taste; as sapid water.
SAPID'ITY,
SAP'IDNESS, noun Taste; tastefulness; savor; the quality of affecting the organs of taste; as the sapidness of water or fruit.
SAP'IDNESS, n. Taste; tastefulness; savor; the quality of affecting the organs of taste; as the sapidness of water or fruit.
SA'PIENCE, noun [Latin sapientia, from sapio, to taste, to know.]
Wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
- Still has gratitude and sapience to spare the folks that give him ha' pence.
SA'PIENT, adjective Wise; sage; discerning.
There the sapient king held dalliance.
SAPIEN'TIAL, adjective Affording wisdom or instructions for wisdom. [Not much used.]
SAP'LESS, adjective [from sap.]
1. Destitute of sap; as a sapless tree or branch.
2. Dry; old; husky; as a sapless usurer.
SAP'LING, noun [from sap.] A young tree.
Nurse the saplings tall.
SAPONA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin sapo, soap.] Soapy; resembling soap; having the qualities of soap. saponaceous bodies are often formed by oil and alkali.
SAP'ONARY, adjective Saponaceous.
SAPONIFICA'TION, noun Conversion into soap.
SAPON'IFY, verb transitive [Latin sapo, soap, and facio, to make.]
To convert into soap by combination with an alkali.
SAP'ONULE, noun A combination of volatile or essential oil with some base.
SA'POR, noun [Latin] Taste; savor; relish; the power of affecting the organs of taste.
There is some sapor in all aliments.
SAPORIF'IC, adjective [Latin sapor and facio, to make.]
Having the power to produce taste; producing taste.
SAPOROS'ITY, noun The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.
SA'POROUS, adjective Having taste; yielding some kind of taste.
SAPO'TA, noun In botany, a tree or plant of the genus Achras.
SAP'PARE, n. A mineral or species of earth, the kyanite; called by Hauy, disthene.
SAP'PED, participle passive Undermined; subverted.
SAP'PER, noun One who saps. In an army, sappers and miners are employed in working at saps, to protect soldiers in their approach to a besieged place, or to undermine the works.
SAPPHIC, adjective saf'ic. Pertaining to Sappho, a Grecian poetess; as sapphic odes; sapphic verse. The sapphic verse consists of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl, in the first three lines of each stanza, with a fourth consisting only of a dactyl and a spondee.
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.
SAP'PHIRINE, adjective Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the qualities of sapphire.
SAP'PINESS, noun [from sappy.] The state or quality of being full of sap; succulence; juiciness.
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.]
SAR'ABAND, noun
A dance and a tune used in Spain, said to be derived from the Saracens.
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.
SAR'AGOY, noun The opossum of the Molucca isles.
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.'
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!
SARCAS'TICAL, a. Bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting.
What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world!SARCAS'TICALLY, adverb In a sarcastic manner; with scornful satire.
S'ARCENET, noun A species of fine thin woven silk.
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.
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.
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.
SARCOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to 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.
SARCO'MA, noun [Gr from flesh.] Any fleshy excrescence on an animal body.
SARCOPH'AGOUS, adjective [See sarcophagus.] Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating.
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.
SARCOPH'AGY, noun [supra.] The practice of eating flesh.
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.
S'ARDACHATE, noun The clouded and spotted agate, of a pale flesh color.
S'ARDAN, noun A fish resembling the herring.
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.
S'ARDEL,
S'ARDINE,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
S'ARK, noun
1. In Scotland, a shirt.
2. A shark. [Not used.]
S'ARLAC, noun The grunting ox of Tartary.
SARMA'TIAN,
SARMAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to Sarmatia and its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and Poles.
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.
SARON'IC, adjective Denoting a gulf of Greece between Attica and Sparta.
S'ARPLAR, noun A sarplar of wool is a sack containing 80 tod; a tod contains two stone of 14 pounds each.
S'ARPLIER, noun Canvas, or a packing cloth.
SAR'RASINE, noun
1. A plant, a kind of birth wort.
2. A portcullis or herse.
S'ARSA,
S'ARSAPARIL'LA, noun A plant, a species of Smilax, valued in medicine for its mucilaginous and farinaceous or demulcent qualities.
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.]
S'ART, noun A piece of woodland turned into arabic. [Not used in America.]
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
SASH'OON, noun A kind of leather stuffing put into a boot for the wearer's ease.
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, noun A sluice, canal or lock on a navigable river; a word found in old British statutes.
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.
SAS'SOLINE, n. Native boracic acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
SAS'SOROL,
SASSOROL'LA, noun A species of pigeon, called rock pigeon.
SASSOROL'LA, n. A species of pigeon, called rock pigeon.
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, pret of sit.
SA'TAN, noun [Heb. an adversary.] The grand adversary of man; the devil or prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels.
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.
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.SATAN'ICALLY, adverb With the wicked and malicious spirit of Satan; diabolically.
SA'TANISM, noun The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.
SA'TANIST, noun A very wicked person. [Little used.]
SATCH'EL, noun [See Sachel.] A little sack or bag.
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.
SA'TED, participle passive Filled; glutted; satiated.
SA'TELESS, adjective Insatiable; not capable of being satisfied.
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.
SATELLI'TIOUS, adjective Consisting of satellites.
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.]
SATIA'TION, noun The state of being filled.
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
SAT'IN, noun [Gr. Latin sindon. Heb.]
A species of glossy silk cloth, of a thick close texture.
SATINET', noun
1. A thin species of satin.
2. A particular kind of woolen cloth.
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.
SATIR'IC,
SATIR'ICAL, adjective [Latin satiricus.]
1. Belonging to satire; conveying satire; as a satiric style.
2. Censorious; severe in language.
SATIR'ICAL, a. [L. satiricus.]
1. Belonging to satire; conveying satire; as a satiric style.2. Censorious; severe in language.SATIR'ICALLY, adverb With severity of remark; with invective; with intention to censure.
SAT'IRIST, noun One who writes satire.
Wycherly, in his writings, is the sharpest satirist of his time.
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.
SAT'IRIZED, participle passive Severely censured.
SAT'IRIZING, participle present tense Censuring with severity.
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.
SATISFAC'TIVE, adjective Giving satisfaction. [Little used or not at all.]
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.
SATISFAC'TORINESS, noun The power of satisfying or giving content; as the satisfactoriness of pleasure or enjoyment.
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.
SAT'ISFIED, participle passive Having the desires fully gratified; made content.
SAT'ISFIER, noun One that gives satisfaction.
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.]
SAT'ISFYING, participle present tense Giving content; feeding or supplying to the full extent of desire; convincing; paying.
SA'TIVE, adjective [Latin sativus, from sero, satum, to sow.] Sown in gardens.
SAT'RAP, noun In Persia, an admiral; more generally, the governor of a province.
SAT'RAPAL, adjective Pertaining to a satrap or a satrapy.
SAT'RAPESS, noun A female satrap.
SAT'RAPY, noun The government or jurisdiction of a satrap.
SAT'URABLE, adjective [See Saturate.] That may be saturated; capable of saturation.
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.
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.
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.
SAT'URATED, participle passive Supplied to fullness.
SAT'URATING, participle present tense Supplying to fullness.
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.
SAT'URDAY, noun
The last day of the week; the day next preceding the sabbath.
SATU'RITY, noun [Latin saturitas. See Saturate.]
Fullness of supply; the state of being saturated. [Little used.]
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.
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.
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.
SAT'URNIST, noun A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.
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.
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.
SATYRI'ASIS, noun [Gr. We observe in this word a connection with satire, in the sense of excitement, pungency.]
Immoderate venereal appetite.
SATYR'ION, noun A plant.
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.]
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.
SAU'CILY, adverb [from saucy.] Impudently; with impertinent boldness; petulantly.
SAU'CINESS, noun Impudence; impertinent boldness; petulance; contempt of superiors.
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.
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, an old spelling of soul.
SAUNDERS. [See Sandal and Sanders.]
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.
S'AUNTERER, noun One that wanders about idly.
S'AUNTERING, participle present tense Wandering about lazily or idly; loitering.
SAU'RIAN, adjective [Gr. a lizard.] Pertaining to lizards; designating an order of reptiles.
SAUS'AGE, noun [Latin salsus.]
The intestine of an animal stuffed with minced meat and seasoned.
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.
SA'VABLE, adjective [from save.] Capable of being saved.
SA'VABLENESS, noun Capability of being saved.
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.]
SAV'AGELY, adverb In the manner of a savage; cruelly; inhumanly.
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.
SAV'AGERY, noun
1. Wild growth, as of plants.
2. Cruelty; barbarity.
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.
SAVAN'NA, noun
An extensive open plain or meadow, or a plain destitute of trees.
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.
SA'VEALL, noun [save and all.] A small pan inserted in a candlestick to save the ends of candles.
SA'VED, participle passive Preserved from evil; injury or destruction; kept frugally; prevented; spared; taken in time.
SA'VELIN, noun A fish of the trout kind, having very small scales and a black back.
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.
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
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.
SA'VINGLY, adverb
1. With frugality or parsimony.
2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death; as savingly converted.
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, 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.
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.
SA'VORILY, adverb [from savory.]
1. With gust or appetite.
2. With a pleasing relish.
SA'VORINESS, noun Pleasing taste or smell; as the savoriness of a pineapple or a peach.
SA'VORLESS, adjective Destitute of smell or taste; insipid.
SA'VORLY, adjective Well seasoned; of good taste.
SA'VORLY, adverb With a pleasing relish.
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', noun A variety of the common cabbage, much cultivated for winter use.
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'ED, participle passive Cut, divided or formed with a saw.
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.
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.
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.
SAXIF'RAGOUS, adjective Dissolving the stone.
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.
SAX'ONISM, noun An idiom of the Saxon language.
SAX'ONIST, noun One versed in the Saxon language.
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, noun In commerce, a kind of serge used for linings, shirts, aprons, etc.
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.