Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 4

Safe (a.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. "The man of safe discretion." -- Shak.

The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat. -- Milton.

Safe (a.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.

But Banquo's safe? Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. -- Shak.

Safe hit (Baseball), A hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.

Syn: Secure; unendangered; sure.

Safe (v. t.) To render safe; to make right. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Safe (a.) Free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet" [ant: dangerous, unsafe].

Safe (a.) (Of an undertaking) Secure from risk.

Safe (a.) Having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball" [ant: out(p)].

Safe (a.) Financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment" [syn: dependable, good, safe, secure].

Safe (n.) Strongbox where valuables can be safely kept.

Safe (n.) A ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests.

Safe (n.) Contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic].

SAFE () Security And Freedom through Encryption [law] (USA, cryptography)

Safe () A safe program analysis is one which will not reach invalid conclusions about the behaviour of the program.  This may involve making safe approximations to properties of parts of the program.  A safe approximation is one which gives less information.

For example, strictness analysis aims to answer the question "will this function evaluate its argument"?.  The two possible results are "definitely" and "don't know".  A safe approximation for "definitely" is "don't know".  The two possible results correspond to the two sets: "the set of all functions which evaluate their argument" and "all functions."

A set can be safely approximated by another which contains it.

Safe-conduct (n.) That which gives a safe passage.

Safe-conduct (n.) A convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country

Safe-conduct (n.) A writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety.

Safe-conduct (v. t.) To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.

Safecracker (n.) 保險箱竊賊 A person who breaks open and robs safes.

These ratings are not theoretical; employed by UL, actual hotshot safecrackers take actual safes and test them.

Safeguard (n.) One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.

Safeguard (n.) A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.

Safeguard (n.) A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct.

Safeguard (v. t.) To guard; to protect.

Safeguard (v.) [ T ] 保護,保衛;捍衛,維護 To protect something from harm.

// The union safeguards the interests of all its members.

Phrasal verb: Safeguard against sth

Safeguard against sth (- phrasal verb with safeguard) (v.) [ T ] 預防,避免 To do things that you hope will stop something unpleasant from happening.

// A good diet will safeguard against disease.

Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.

Safely (adv.) In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.

Safeness (n.) The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

Safe-pledge (n.) A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.

Safety (n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

Safety (n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.

Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.

Safety (n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.

Safflow (n.) The safflower.

Safflower (n.) An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

Safflower (n.) The dried flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius.

Safflower (n.) A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).

Saffron (n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.

Saffron (n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.

Saffron (n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.

Saffron (a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.

Saffron (v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

Saffrony (a.) Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.

Safranin (n.) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.

Safranin (n.) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.

Safranin (n.) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.

Safranine (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

Sagged (imp. & p. p.) of Sag.

Sagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sag.

Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.

Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.

Sag (v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.

Sag (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.

Sag (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.

Sagas (n. pl. ) of Saga.

Saga (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

Sagacious (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

Sagacious (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.

Sagacious (a.) (Formal) 聰慧的,洞察事理的; 睿智的 Having or showing understanding and the ability to make good judgments.

// A sagacious person/ comment/ choice.

(Syn.) Wise.

Sagacity (n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

Sagamore (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.

Sagamore (n.) A juice used in medicine.

Sagapen (n.) Sagapenum.

Sagapenum (n.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.

Sagathy (n.) A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

Sage (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come, And guides the Eastern sages. -- Milton.

Sage (n.) (Bot.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

Sage (n.) The sagebrush.

Meadow sage (Bot.), A blue-flowered species of Salvia ({Salvia pratensis) growing in meadows in Europe.

Sage cheese, Cheese flavored with sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which are added to the milk.

Sage cock (Zool.), The male of the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse.

Sage green, Of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage.

Sage grouse (Zool.), A very large American grouse ({Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also cock of the plains. The male is called sage cock, and the female sage hen.

Sage hare, or Sage rabbit (Zool.), A species of hare ({Lepus Nuttalli syn. Lepus artemisia) which inhabits the arid regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.

Sage hen (Zool.), The female of the sage grouse.

Sage sparrow (Zool.), A small sparrow ({Amphispiza Belli"> Sage sparrow (Zool.), a small sparrow ({Amphispiza Belli, var. Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.

Sage thrasher (Zool.), A singing bird ({Oroscoptes montanus) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America.

Sage willow (Bot.), A species of willow ({Salix tristis"> Sage willow (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix tristis) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves.

Sage (a.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.

All you sage counselors, hence! -- Shak.

Sage (a.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.

Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counseled the general to retreat. -- Milton.

Sage (a.) Grave; serious; solemn. [R.] "[Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung." -- Milton.

Syn: Wise; sagacious; sapient; grave; prudent; judicious.

Sage (a.) Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.

Sage (a.) Of the grey-green color of sage leaves [syn: sage, sage-green].

Sage (n.) A mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom.

Sage (n.) Aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc.

Sage (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb [syn: sage, salvia].

SAGE () Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system (OS, IBM AN/FSQ7, mil.)
SAGE ()
Software Aided Group Environment (GSS, NUS)

SAGE () Systems Administrators Guild.

SAGE ()  Semi-Automatic Ground Environment. (2001-01-27)

Sagebrush (n.) A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

Sagely (adv.) In a sage manner; wisely.

Sagene (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

Sageness (n.) The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

Sagenite (n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

Sagenitic (a.) Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.

Sagger (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.

Sagger (n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

Saginate (v. t.) To make fat; to pamper.

Sagination (n.) The act of fattening or pampering.

Sagitta (n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.

Sagitta (n.) The keystone of an arch.

Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.

Sagitta (n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.

Sagitta (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha.

Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.

Sagittal (a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.

Sagittarius (n.) (Astron.) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [[sagittarius]] in almanacs; the Archer.

Sagittarius (n.) (Astron.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.

Sagittarius (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius [syn: Sagittarius, Archer].

Sagittarius (n.) A large zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Scorpius and Capricornus.

Sagittarius (n.) The ninth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about November 22 to December 21 [syn: Sagittarius, Sagittarius the Archer, Archer].

Sagittarius (n.) Type genus of the Sagittariidae [syn: Sagittarius, genus Sagittarius].

Sagittary (n.) (Myth.) A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver. -- Shak.

Sagittary (n.) The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door. -- Shak.

Sagittary (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow. -- Sir T. Browne.

Sagittate (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

Sagittate (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Like an arrow head without flaring base lobes [syn: sagittate, sagittiform, arrow-shaped].

Sagittated (a.) Sagittal; sagittate.

Sagittocyst (n.) (Zool.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.

Sago (n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants ({Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.).

Portland sago, A kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum).

Sago palm. (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago.

Sago palm. (Bot.) (b) A species of Cycas ({Cycas revoluta).

Sago spleen (Med.), A morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.

Sago (n.) Powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener

Sagoin (n.) (Zool.) A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.

Saga (n.; pl. Sagas) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. -- Longfellow.

Saga (n. pl. ) of Sagum.

Sagum (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.

Saga (n.) A narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account.

SAGA, () Standards und Architekturen fuer eGovernment Anwendungen (IDA).
Saga
(n.) [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.

Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L. Steele: Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard P. Gabriel (RPG).

RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to Palo Alto (going logical south on route 101, parallel to El Camino Bignum ). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a ?health food? restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake ? the waitress claimed the flavor of the day was ?lalaberry?. I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the color of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant.

After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavors. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: ?If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's ? MOVE!? Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in Berkeley, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast.

When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavor, ginger honey.

Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth ? indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit ? a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that ?Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat.? After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: ?Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!? ?Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some ginger on it for dinner?!? ?

Right! With a lalaberry shake!? And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humor, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream.

Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: ?Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today.? RPG: ?Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any ginger!?)

We finished the meal late, about 11PM, which is 2AM Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's!

Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley.

RPG said ?Fine!? and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, ?Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!? , referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said ?University Avenue?. I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said ?Right!? and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's.

Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all.

JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, ?This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks just like the one back in Palo Alto!?

RPG deadpanned, ?Well, this is the one I always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain.?

JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant ? he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto.

JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavor, as not too many people like it.

JONL said, ?I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone.? The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. ?Some people think it tastes like soap.? JONL insisted, ?Look, I love ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I know I like that flavor!?

At the words ?back in Palo Alto? the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel (?makes rotten meat a dish for princes?) for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully.

RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles.

JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time.

At length the g.b.t.c.: said, ?How's the ginger honey?? JONL said, ? Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?? Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c.: got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c.: could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, ?You really like that stuff, huh?? JONL said, ?Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!? G.b.t.c.: looked him straight in the eye and said, ?You're in Palo Alto!?

JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, ?I've been hacked!?

[My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an ?ollalieberry? ?ESR] [Ironic footnote: the meme about ginger vs. rotting meat is an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of medieval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. The truth seems to be that ginger was used to cover not rot but the extreme salt taste of meat packed in brine, which was the best method available before refrigeration. ?ESR]
Saga, ()
(WPI) A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.

Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy

Steele (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years.  One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard Gabriel (RPG).

RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to Palo Alto (going logical south on route 101, parallel to El Camino Bignum).  Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco.

We ate at The Good Earth, a "health food" restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder.  JONL ordered such a shake - the waitress claimed the flavour of the day was "lalaberry".  I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke.  It was the colour of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter.  I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant.

After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor.  They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours.  It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's - MOVE!"

Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage).  JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in Berkeley, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast.  When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store.  The ice cream there was very good.  During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey.

Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory.  We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times.  Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad!  That's why they sought a route to the East!  They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat."  After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow!

Ginger!  The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!"  "Say!

Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some *ginger* on it for dinner?!"

"Right!  With a lalaberry shake!"  And so on.  This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's.  He loves ginger honey ice cream.

Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing.  I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit).  (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today."  RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!")

We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy.  But it wasn't yet midnight.  Off to Uncle Gaylord's!

Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto.  In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south.  JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it.  We still knew very little of the local geography.  I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley.

RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked.  I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes.  When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay.  Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue".  I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more.  Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's.

Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all.

JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on.  (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.)  He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley!  It looked like a barn!  But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!"

RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley.  They've got two in San Francisco, too.

Remember, they're a chain."

JONL accepted this bit of wisdom.  And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue.  What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto.

JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey.  The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it.

JONL said, "I'm sure I like it.  Just give me a cone."  The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first.  "Some people think it tastes like soap."  JONL insisted, "Look, I *love* ginger.  I eat Chinese food.  I eat raw ginger roots.  I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto.  I *know* I like that flavour!"

At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing.  KBT caught his eye and winked.  Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time.  At this point, RPG clued me in fully.

RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles.  JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time.

At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?"  JONL said, "Fine!  I wonder what exactly is in it?"  Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home.  So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while.  But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?"  JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days.  In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!"

G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're *in* Palo Alto!"

JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles.  He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!"

[My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an "ollalieberry" -- ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the meme about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend.  It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. -- ESR]

[{Jargon File]

(1994-12-08)

Sagus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.

Sagy (a.) Full of sage; seasoned with sage. Sahib

Sahib (n.) Alt. of Saheb.

Saheb (n.) A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank. [India]
Sahib
(n.) Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name.

Sahibah (n.) A lady; mistress. [India]

Sahidic (a.) Same as Thebaic.

Salite (n.) (Min.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color. [Written also sahlite.]

Sahlite (n.) (Min.) See Salite.

Sahui (n.) (Zool.) A marmoset.

Sai (n.) (Zool.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).

Compare: Capuchin

Capuchin (n.) (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.

A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. -- Sir W. Scott.

Capuchin (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

Capuchin (n.) (Zool.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

Capuchin (n.) (Zool.) (b) Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the brown capucine or horned capucine.), Cabus albifrons (the cararara), and Cabus apella.

Capuchin (n.) (Zool.) (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.

Capuchin nun, One of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.

Saibling (n.) (Zool.) A European mountain trout ({Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

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