Savoriness noun The quality of being savory.

Savorless adjective Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.

Savorly adjective Savory. [ Obsolete]

Savorly adverb In a savory manner. [ Obsolete] Barrow.

Savorous (-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 (-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 (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 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 noun [ French] A native or inhabitant of Savoy.

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

Saw (sa), imperfect of See .

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 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 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 See under Palmetto .

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 adjective Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.

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

Saw-wrest noun See Saw- set .

Sawarra nut See Souari nut .

Sawbelly noun The alewife. [ Local, U.S.]

Sawbill noun The merganser. [ Prov. Eng.]

Sawbones noun A nickname for a surgeon.

Sawbuck noun A sawhorse.

Sawceflem adjective See Sauseflem . [ Obsolete]

Sawder noun A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder .

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

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

Sawer noun One who saws; a sawyer.

Sawfish 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 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 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 noun A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

Sawneb noun A merganser. [ Prov. Eng.]

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

Sawtry noun A psaltery. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

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

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

Saxhorn 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 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 adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. -- noun A saxicava.

Saxicavous 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 adjective [ Latin saxum a rock + colere to inhabit.] (Zoology) Stone- inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Saxicolous adjective [ See Saxicoline .] (Botany) Growing on rocks.

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

Saxifragaceous 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 adjective [ See Saxifrage .] Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [ R.] -- noun That which breaks or destroys stones. [ R.]