Saururæ Sau·ru"ræ noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... a lizard + ... a tail.]
(Paleon.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archæopteryx is the type. See Archæopteryx , and Odontornithes .
Saury Sau"ry noun ;
plural Sauries . [ Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zoology) A slender marine fish ( Scomberesox saurus ) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish , gowdnook , gawnook , skipper , skipjack , skopster , lizard fish , and Egypt herring .
Sausage Sau"sage noun [ French
saucisse , Late Latin
salcitia ,
salsicia , from
salsa . See
Sauce .]
1. An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson . Wilhelm.
Sauseflem Sau"se·flem adjective [ Old French
saus salt (L.
salsus ) +
flemme phlegm.]
Having a red, pimpled face. [ Obsolete] [ Written also
sawceflem .]
Chaucer.
Saussurite Saus"sur·ite noun [ French So called from M.
Saussure .]
(Min.) A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.
Saut, Saute Saut, Saute noun An assault. [ Obsolete]
Saute Sau`te" past participle of Sauter . C. Owen.
Sauter Sau`ter" transitive verb [ French, properly, to jump.]
To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.
Sauter Sau"ter noun Psalter. [ Obsolete]
Piers Plowman.
Sauterelle Sau`te·relle noun [ French]
An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.
Sauterne Sau`terne" noun [ French]
A white wine made in the district of Sauterne , France.
Sautrie Sau"trie noun Psaltery. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Sauvegarde Sau`ve·garde" noun [ French]
(Zoology) The monitor.
Savable Sav"a·ble adjective [ From
Save . Confer
Salvable .]
Capable of, or admitting of, being saved. In the person prayed for there ought to be the great disposition of being in a savable condition.
Jer. Taylor.
Savableness Sav"a·ble·ness noun Capability of being saved.
Savacioun Sa·va"ci·oun` noun Salvation. [ Obsolete]
Savage Sav"age adjective [ French
sauvage , Old French
salvage , from Latin
silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, from
silva a wood. See
Silvan , and confer
Sylvatic .]
1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.
Dryden. 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?
E. D. Griffin. 4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. Syn. -- Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See
Ferocious .
Savage 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. 2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
Savage Sav"age transitive verb To make savage. [ R.]
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Southey.
Savagely Sav"age·ly adverb In a savage manner.
Savageness Sav"age·ness noun The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say,
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity.
Shak.
Savagery Sav"age·ry noun [ French
sauvagerie .]
1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery .
C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery , the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
Shak. 3. Wild growth, as of plants. Shak.
Savagism Sav"a·gism noun The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
Savanilla Sav`a·nil"la noun (Zoology) The tarpum. [ Local, U.S.]
Savanna Sa·van"na noun [ Of American Indian origin; confer Spanish
sabana , French
savane .]
A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. [ Spelt also
savannah .]
Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods.
Dampier. Savanna flower (Botany) ,
a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites . --
Savanna sparrow (Zoology) ,
an American sparrow ( Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus savanna ) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. --
Savanna wattle (Botany) ,
a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum .
Savant Sa`vant" noun ;
plural Savants (F. ...; E. ...). [ French, from
savoir to know, Latin
sapere . See
Sage ,
adjective ]
A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Save Save noun [ See
Sage the herb.]
The herb sage, or salvia. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Save Save transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Saved ;
present participle & verbal noun Saving .] [ Middle English
saven ,
sauven ,
salven , Old French
salver ,
sauver , French
sauver , Latin
salvare , from
salvus saved, safe. See
Safe ,
adjective ]
1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. God save all this fair company.
Chaucer. He cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Matt. xiv. 30. Thou hast . . . quitted all to save
A world from utter loss.
Milton. 2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
1 Tim. i. 15. 3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. Now save a nation, and now save a groat.
Pope. 4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. I'll save you
That labor, sir. All's now done.
Shak. 5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?
Dryden. 6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit.
Swift. To save appearances ,
to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things. Syn. -- To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.
Save Save intransitive verb To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.
Bacon.
Save Save preposition or conj. [ French
sauf , properly adj., safe. See
Safe ,
adjective ]
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one.
2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See
Except .
Save Save conj. Except; unless.
Save-all Save"-all` noun [
Save +
all .]
Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically:
(a) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. (b) (Nautical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it. Totten. (c) A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
Saveable Save"a·ble adjective See Savable .
Saveloy Sav"e·loy noun [ French
cervelas , Italian
cervellata , from
cervello brain, Latin
cerebellum , dim. of
cerebrum brain. See
Cerebral .]
A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.
Savely Save"ly adverb Safely. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Savement Save"ment noun The act of saving. [ Obsolete]
Saver Sav"er noun One who saves.
Savin, Savine Sav"in, Sav"ine noun [ Middle English
saveine , Anglo-Saxon
safinæ ,
savine , Latin
sabina herba . Confer
Sabine .] [ Written also
sabine .]
(Botany) (a) A coniferous shrub ( Juniperus Sabina ) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhœa, etc. (b) The North American red cedar ( Juniperus Virginiana .)
Saving Sav"ing adjective 1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed.
Ps. xxviii. 8. 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. 3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage. 4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. »
Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-
saving , life-
saving , etc.
Saving Sav"ing (sāv"ĭng)
preposition or conj. ; but properly a
participle .
With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. "
Saving your reverence."
Shak. "
Saving your presence."
Burns. None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Neh. iv. 23. And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Rev. ii. 17.
Saving Sav"ing noun 1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy. 2. Exception; reservation. Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
L'Estrange. Savings bank ,
a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.
Savingly Sav"ing·ly adverb 1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit.
Waterland.
Savingness Sav"ing·ness noun 1. The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Tendency to promote salvation. Johnson.
Savior Sav"ior (sāv"yẽr)
noun [ Middle English
saveour , Old French
salveor , French
sauveur , from Latin
salvator , from
salvare to save. See
Save ,
v. ] [ Written also
saviour .]
1. One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger. 2. Specifically: The (or our , your , etc.) Savior , he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.
Savioress Sav"ior·ess noun A female savior. [ Written also saviouress.] [ R.]
Bp. Hall.
Savor Sa"vor noun [ Middle English
savour ,
savor ,
savur , Old French
savor ,
savour , French
saveur , from Latin
sapor , from
sapere to taste, savor. See
Sage ,
adjective , and confer
Sapid ,
Insipid ,
Sapor .] [ Written also
savour .]
1. That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor . I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things.
Shak. 2. Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like. Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
Baxter. 3. Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. [ R.] "Beyond my
savor ."
Herbert. 4. Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. [ Obsolete]
She shall no savor have therein but lite.
Chaucer. Syn. -- Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.
Savor Sa"vor intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Savored ;
present participle & verbal noun Savoring .] [ Confer Old French
savorer , French
savourer . See
Savor ,
noun ] [ Written also
savour .]
1. To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of . 2. To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of . This savors not much of distraction.
Shak. I have rejected everything that savors of party.
Addison. 3. To use the sense of taste. [ Obsolete]
By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring , and feeling.
Chaucer.
Savor Sa"vor transitive verb 1. To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson. 2. To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of. [ R.]
That cuts us off from hope, and savors only
Rancor and pride, impatience and despite.
Milton. 3. To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor. [ R.]
Shak.
Savorily Sa"vor·i·ly adverb In a savory manner.
Savoriness Sa"vor·i·ness noun The quality of being savory.
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