Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 16

Savoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Savor

Savor (n.) To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.

Savor (n.) To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.

Savor (n.) To use the sense of taste.

Savor (v. t.) To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.

Savor (v. t.) To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.

Savor (v. t.) To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.

Savorily (adv.) In a savory manner.

Savoriness (n.) The quality of being savory.

Savorless (a.) Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.

Savorly (a.) Savory.

Savorly (adv.) In a savory manner.

Savorous (n.) Having a savor; savory.

Savory (a.) Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.

Savory (n.) An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.

Savoy (n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

Savoyard (n.) A native or inhabitant of Savoy.

Saw () imp. of See.

Saw (v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.

Saw (v. t.) A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

Saw (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.

Saw (n.) 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.

Sawed (imp.) of Saw

Sawed (p. p.) of Saw

Sawn () of Saw

Sawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saw

Saw (v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.

Saw (v. t.) 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.

Saw (v. t.) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

Saw (v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.

Saw (v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.

Saw (v. i.) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.

Sawarra nut () See Souari nut.

Sawbelly (n.) The alewife.

Sawbill (n.) The merganser.

Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.

Sawbuck (n.) A sawhorse.

Sawceflem (a.) See Sauseflem.

Sawder (n.) A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.

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

Sawer (n.) One who saws; a sawyer.

Sawfish (n.) 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 (n.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. 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 larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.

Sawhorse (n.) 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 (n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

Sawneb (n.) A merganser.

Saw palmetto () See under Palmetto.

Saw-set (n.) 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.

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

Saw-toothed (a.) Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.

Sawtry (n.) A psaltery.

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

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

Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.

Sawyer (n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

Sawyer (n.) 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.

Sawyer (n.) The bowfin.

Sax (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Saxatile (a.) Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

Saxhorn (n.) 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.

saxicavas (pl. ) of Saxicava

Saxicavae (pl. ) of Saxicava

Saxicava (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas.

Saxicavid (n.) A saxicava.

Saxicavous (a.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.

Saxicoline (a.) Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Saxicolous (a.) Growing on rocks.

Saxifraga (n.) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

Saxifragaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceae) 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 (a.) Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous.

Saxifragant (n.) That which breaks or destroys stones.

Saxifrage (n.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.

Saxifragous (a.) Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

Saxon (n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.

Saxon (n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.

Saxon (n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

Saxon (n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.

Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.

Saxon (a.) Anglo-Saxon.

Saxon (a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

Saxonic (a.) Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.

Saxonism (n.) An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

Saxonist (n.) One versed in the Saxon language.

Saxonite (n.) See Mountain soap, under Mountain.

Saxophone (n.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

Sax-tuba (n.) A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.

Say (imp.) Saw.

Say (n.) Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack.

Say (n.) Tried quality; temper; proof.

Say (n.) Essay; trial; attempt.

Say (v. t.) To try; to assay.

Say (n.) A kind of silk or satin.

Say (n.) A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth.

Said (imp. & p. p.) of Say

Saying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Say

Say (v. t.) To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things.

Say (v. t.) To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson.

Say (v. t.) To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to.

Say (v. t.) To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.

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