Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 15
Sault (n.) A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie. [U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Saunders (n.) See Sandress.
Sandalwood (n.) (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and Santalum pyrularium, the Australian Santalum latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
Sandalwood (n.) (Bot.) (b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yield sandalwood.
Sandalwood (n.) (Bot.) (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus).
False sandalwood, The fragrant wood of several trees not of
the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti.
Red sandalwood, A heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood. Sandarach
Saunders -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 19830
Housing Units (2000): 8266
Land area (2000): 753.895158 sq. miles (1952.579413 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.921790 sq. miles (12.747377 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 758.816948 sq. miles (1965.326790 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.218350 N, 96.606171 W
Headwords:
Saunders
Saunders, NE
Saunders County
Saunders County, NE
Saunders-blue (n.) A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper. [Written also sanders-blue.]
Sauntered (imp. & p. p.) of Saunter.
Sauntering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saunter.
Saunter (n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
One
could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a
stream. -- Masson.
Syn: To loiter; linger; stroll; wander.
Saunter (n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.
That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town. -- Young.
Saunter (n.) A careless leisurely gait; "he walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world".
Saunter (n.) A leisurely walk (usually in some public place) [syn: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation].
Saunter (v.) Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim [syn: stroll, saunter].
Saunterer (n.) One who saunters.
Saunterer (n.) Someone who walks at a leisurely pace [syn: saunterer, stroller, ambler].
Saur (n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Saurel (n.) (Zool.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.
Saurel (n.) Large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe [syn: horse mackerel, saurel, Trachurus trachurus].
Saurel (n.) A California food fish [syn: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus]
Sauria (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.
Sauria (n.) True lizards; including chameleons and geckos [syn: Sauria, suborder Sauria, Lacertilia, suborder Lacertilia].
Saurian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria. -- n. One of the Sauria.
Saurian (n.) One of the Sauria.
Saurian (a.) Of or relating to lizards [syn: saurian, lacertilian].
Saurian (n.) Any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
Saurioid (a.) (Zool.) Same as Sauroid.
Saurobatrachia (n. pl.) (Zool.) The Urodela.
Saurognathous (a.) (Zool.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers ({Pici).
Sauroid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the saurians.
Sauroid (a.) (Zool.) Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.
Sauroidichnite (n.) (Paleon.) The fossil track of a saurian.
Sauropoda (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Sauropoda (n.) Any of the sauropod dinosaurs [syn: Sauropoda, suborder Sauropoda].
Sauropsida (n. pl.) (Zool.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.
Sauropterygia (n. pl.) (Paleon.) Same as Plesiosauria.
Compare: Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also {Sauropterygia">{Sauropterygia.
Saururae (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.
Sauries (n. pl. ) of Saury
Saury (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Saury (n.) Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus].
Sausage (n.) 香腸，臘腸 [C] [U]；裝香腸的碎肉 [U]；【口】香腸狀的東西 [C] 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.
Sausage (n.) A saucisson. See {Saucisson}. -- Wilhelm.
Sausage (n.) Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
Sausage (n.) A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon [syn: {blimp}, {sausage balloon}, {sausage}].
Sauseflem (a.) Having a red, pimpled face. [Obs.] [Written also sawceflem.] -- Chaucer.
Saussurite (n.) (Min.) 糟化石 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
Saut (n.) Alt. of Saute
Saute (n.) An assault. [Obs.]
Compare: Assault
Assault (n.) 攻擊，襲擊；譴責，抨擊 [C] [U] [（+on/ against）]；【律】侵犯人身 [U]；【律】施暴，強姦 [U] A physical attack.
‘His imprisonment for an assault on the film director.’
‘A sexual assault.’
Assault (n.) (Law) An act that threatens physical harm to a person, whether or not actual harm is done.
‘He admitted an assault and two thefts.’
[Mass noun] ‘He appeared in court charged with assault.’
Assault (n.) A military attack or raid on an enemy position.
‘Troops began an assault on the city.’
Assault (n.) A strong verbal attack.
‘An articulate assault on all forms of prejudice.’
Assault (n.) A concerted attempt to do something demanding.
‘A winter assault on Mt Everest.’
Assault (v.) [With object] 攻擊；襲擊；譴責，抨擊；【律】對……施暴 Make a physical attack on.
‘He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer.’
‘She was sexually assaulted as a child.’
Assault (v.) [With object] Carry out a military attack or raid on (an enemy position)
‘They left their strong position to assault the hill.’
Assault (v.) [With object] Bombard with something undesirable or unpleasant.
‘Thunder assaulted the ears.’
Saute () p. p. of {Sauter}. -- C. Owen.
Saute (a.) 嫩煎的 Fried quickly in a little fat [syn: {saute}, {sauteed}].
Saute (n.) 嫩煎菜餚 A dish of sauteed food.
Saute (v.) 煎炒（或炒、煸） Fry briefly over high heat; "saute the onions".
Compare: Briefly
Briefly (adv.) 簡潔地，簡短地；簡單地說；短時間地，短暫地 For a short time; fleetingly.
‘He worked briefly as a lawyer.’
Briefly (adv.) Using few words; concisely.
‘As I briefly mentioned earlier.’
[Sentence adverb] ‘Briefly, the plot is as follows ….’
Compare: Fleetingly
Fleetingly (adv.) 飛快地；疾馳地；短暫地 For a very short time.
‘Only fleetingly does she let any strain show.’
Sauter (v. t.) To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.
Sauter (n.) Psalter. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Sauterelle (n.) [F.] An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.
Sauterne (n.) [F.] （法國蘇特恩地區所產）白葡萄酒 A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.
Sauterne (n.) Semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California [syn: {Sauterne}, {Sauternes}].
Sautrie (n.) Psaltery. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sauvegarde (n.) (Zool.) The monitor.
Savable (a.) 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 (n.) Capability of being saved.
Savacioun (n.) Salvation. [Obs.]
Savage (a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
Savage (a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. -- Dryden.
Savage (a.) 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.
Savage (a.) 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 (n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
Savage (n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
Savage (v. t.) To make savage. [R.]
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. -- Southey.
Savage (a.) (Of persons or their actions) Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious].
Savage (a.) Wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral, ferine, savage].
Savage (a.) Without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild].
Savage (a.) Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage].
Savage (n.) A member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage, barbarian].
Savage (n.) A cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat].
Savage (v.) Attack brutally and fiercely.
Savage (v.) Criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify].
Savage-Guilford, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 12918
Housing Units (2000): 4943
Land area (2000): 4.936666 sq. miles (12.785905 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.035417 sq. miles (0.091729 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.972083 sq. miles (12.877634 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70487
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.143607 N, 76.824616 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20763
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Savage-Guilford, MD
Savage-Guilford
Savage, MD
Savage
Savage, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 21115
Housing Units (2000): 6994
Land area (2000): 15.912930 sq. miles (41.214297 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.605461 sq. miles (1.568137 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.518391 sq. miles (42.782434 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58738
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.756464 N, 93.355213 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55378
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Savage, MN
Savage
Savagely (adv.) In a savage manner.
Savagely (adv.) In a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked" [syn: viciously, brutally, savagely].
Savagely (adv.) Wildly; like an animal; "she cried out savagely".
Savageness (n.) The state or quality of being savage.
Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. -- Shak.
Savageness (n.) The property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" [syn: savageness, savagery].
Savagery (n.) The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
A like work of primeval savagery. -- C. Kingsley.
Savagery (n.) 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.
Savagery (n.) Wild growth, as of plants. -- Shak.
Savagery (n.) The property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" [syn: savageness, savagery].
Savagery (n.) The trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery].
Savagery (n.) A brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery].
Savagism (n.) The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
Savanilla (n.) (Zool.) The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]
Compare: Tarpum
Tarpum (n.) (Zool.) A very large marine fish ({Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.
Savanna (n.) 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 alsosavannah.]
Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods. -- Dampier.
Savanna flower (Bot.), A West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
Savanna sparrow (Zool.), 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 (Bot.), A name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.
Savants (n. pl. ) of Savant
Savant (a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Save (n.) The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Saved (imp. & p. p.) of Save.
Saving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Save.
Save (v. t.) 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.
Save (v. t.) (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.
Save (v. t.) 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.
Save (v. t.) 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.
Save (v. t.) 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.
Save (v. t.) 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 (v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. -- Bacon.
Save (prep. or conj.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
Five times received I forty stripes save one. -- B2 Cor. xi. 24.
Syn: See Except.
Save (conj.) Except; unless.
Saveable (a.) See Savable.
Save-all (n.) Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specially:
Save-all (n.) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.
Save-all (n.) (Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it. -- Totten.
Save-all (n.) A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
Saveloy (n.) A kind of dried sausage. -- McElrath.
Savely (adv.) Safely. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Savement (n.) The act of saving. [Obs.]
Saver (n.) One who saves. Savin
Savin (n.) Alt. of Savine
Savine (n.) (Bot.) 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, amenorrhoea, etc.
Savine (n.) The North American red cedar ({Juniperus Virginiana.)
Saving (a.) Preserving; rescuing.
Saving (a.) Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
Saving (a.) 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.
Saving (a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.
Saving (prep. or conj.) 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 (n.) Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
Saving (n.) 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 (adv.) In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.
Savingly (adv.) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.
Savingly born of water and the Spirit. -- Waterland.
Savingness (n.) The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony. -- Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
Savingness (n.) Tendency to promote salvation. -- Johnson.
Savior (v.) One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
Savior (v.) Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.
Savioress (n.) A female savior. [Written also saviouress.] [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Savor (n.) 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.
Savor (n.) 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.
Savor (n.) Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. [R.] "Beyond my savor." -- Herbert.
Savor (n.) Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. [Obs.]
She shall no savor have therein but lite. -- Chaucer.
Syn: Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.
Savored (imp. & p. p.) of Savor.