Savorless Sa"vor·less adjective Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.

Savorly Sa"vor·ly adjective Savory. [ Obsolete]

Savorly Sa"vor·ly adverb In a savory manner. [ Obsolete] Barrow.

Savorous Sa"vor·ous (-ŭs) adjective [ Confer French savoureux , Old French saveros , Latin saporosus . Confer Saporous , and see Savor , noun ] Having a savor; savory. [ Obsolete] Rom. of R.

Savory Sa"vor·y (-ȳ) adjective [ From Savor .] Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell. [ Written also savoury .]

The chewing flocks
Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb.

Milton.

Savory Sa"vo·ry (sā"vo*rȳ) noun [ French savorée ; confer Italian santoreggia , satureja , Latin satureia ,] (Botany) An aromatic labiate plant ( Satureia hortensis ), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory . [ Written also savoury .]

Savoy Sa·voy" noun [ French chou de Savoie cabbage of Savoy.] (Botany) A variety of the common cabbage ( Brassica oleracea major ), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

Savoyard Sav`oy·ard" noun [ French] A native or inhabitant of Savoy.

Savvy, Savvey Sav"vy, Sav"vey transitive verb & i. [ Written also savey .] [ Spanish saber to know, sabe usted do you know?] To understand; to comprehend; know. [ Slang, U. S.]

Savvy, Savvey Sav"vy, Sav"vey noun Comprehension; knowledge of affairs; mental grasp. [ Slang, U. S.]

Saw Saw (sa), imperfect of See .

Saw Saw noun [ Middle English sawe , Anglo-Saxon sagu; akin to secgan to say. See Say , transitive verb and confer Saga .]

1. Something said; speech; discourse. [ Obsolete] "To hearken all his sawe ." Chaucer.

2. A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

His champions are the prophets and apostles,
His weapons holy saws of sacred writ.

Shak.

3. Dictate; command; decree. [ Obsolete]

[ Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw .

Spenser.

Saw Saw noun [ Middle English sawe , Anglo-Saxon sage ; akin to Dutch zaag , German säge , Old High German sega , saga , Danish sav , Swedish såg , Icelandic sög , Latin secare to cut, securis ax, secula sickle. Confer Scythe , Sickle , Section , Sedge .] An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.

» Saw is frequently used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.

Band saw , Crosscut saw , etc. See under Band , Crosscut , etc. -- Circular saw , a disk of steel with saw teeth upon its periphery, and revolved on an arbor. -- Saw bench , a bench or table with a flat top for for sawing, especially with a circular saw which projects above the table. -- Saw file , a three-cornered file, such as is used for sharpening saw teeth. -- Saw frame , the frame or sash in a sawmill, in which the saw, or gang of saws, is held. -- Saw gate , a saw frame. -- Saw gin , the form of cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney, in which the cotton fibers are drawn, by the teeth of a set of revolving circular saws, through a wire grating which is too fine for the seeds to pass. -- Saw grass (Botany) , any one of certain cyperaceous plants having the edges of the leaves set with minute sharp teeth, especially the Cladium Mariscus of Europe, and the Cladium effusum of the Southern United States. Confer Razor grass , under Razor . -- Saw log , a log of suitable size for sawing into lumber. -- Saw mandrel , a mandrel on which a circular saw is fastened for running. -- Saw pit , a pit over which timbor is sawed by two men, one standing below the timber and the other above. Mortimer. -- Saw sharpener (Zoology) , the great titmouse; -- so named from its harsh call note. [ Prov. Eng.] -- Saw whetter (Zoology) , the marsh titmouse ( Parus palustris ); -- so named from its call note. [ Prov. Eng.] -- Scroll saw , a ribbon of steel with saw teeth upon one edge, stretched in a frame and adapted for sawing curved outlines; also, a machine in which such a saw is worked by foot or power.

Saw Saw transitive verb [ imperfect Sawed ; past participle Sawed or Sawn ; present participle & verbal noun Sawing .] 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 logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.

3. Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

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

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

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

Saw palmetto Saw" pal·met"to See under Palmetto .

Saw-set Saw"-set` noun An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest .

Saw-toothed Saw"-toothed" adjective Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.

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

Saw-wort Saw"-wort` noun (Botany) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula ; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

Saw-wrest Saw"-wrest` noun See Saw- set .

Sawarra nut Sa·war"ra nut` See Souari nut .

Sawbelly Saw"bel`ly noun The alewife. [ Local, U.S.]

Sawbill Saw"bill` noun The merganser. [ Prov. Eng.]

Sawbones Saw"bones` noun A nickname for a surgeon.

Sawbuck Saw"buck` noun A sawhorse.

Sawceflem Saw"ce·flem adjective See Sauseflem . [ Obsolete]

Sawder Saw"der noun A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder .

Soft sawder , seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [ Slang]

Sawdust Saw"dust` noun Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

Sawer Saw"er` noun One who saws; a sawyer.

Sawfish Saw"fish` noun (Zoology) Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis . They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

Sawfly Saw"fly` noun (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ . The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera.

Sawhorse Saw"horse` noun A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck , and sawbuck .

Sawmill Saw"mill` noun A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

Sawneb Saw"neb` noun A merganser. [ Prov. Eng.]

Sawtooth Saw"tooth` noun (Zoology) An arctic seal ( Lobodon carcinophaga ), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal .

Sawtry Saw"try noun A psaltery. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

Sawyer Saw"yer noun [ Saw + - yer , as in lawyer. Confer Sawer .] 1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [ U.S.]

3. (Zoology) The bowfin. [ Local, U.S.]

Sax Sax noun [ Anglo-Saxon seax a knife.] A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Sax-tuba Sax"-tu`ba noun [ See Saxhorn , and Tube .] (Mus.) A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina , or tuba.

Saxatile Sax"a·tile adjective [ Latin saxatilis , from saxum a rock: confer French saxatile .] Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

Saxhorn Sax"horn` noun (Mus.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

Saxicava Sax`i·ca"va noun ; plural English saxicavas , Latin Saxicavæ . [ New Latin See Saxicavous .] (Zoology) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava . Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

Saxicavid Sax`i·ca"vid adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. -- noun A saxicava.

Saxicavous Sax`i·ca"vous adjective [ Latin saxum rock + cavare to make hollow, from cavus hollow: confer French saxicave .] (Zoology) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus .

Saxicoline Sax·ic"o·line adjective [ Latin saxum a rock + colere to inhabit.] (Zoology) Stone- inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Saxicolous Sax·ic"o·lous adjective [ See Saxicoline .] (Botany) Growing on rocks.

Saxifraga Sax·if"ra·ga noun [ Latin , saxifrage. See Saxifrage .] (Botany) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage .

Saxifragaceous Sax`i·fra·ga"ceous adjective (Botany) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants ( Saxifragaceæ ) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.

Saxifragant Sax·if"ra·gant adjective [ See Saxifrage .] Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [ R.] -- noun That which breaks or destroys stones. [ R.]

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