Webster's Dictionary 1913

973

Sauf

Sauf (?), a. Safe. Chaucer.

974

Sauf (2)

Sauf, conj. & prep. Save; except. “Sauf I myself.” Chaucer.

975

Saufly

Sauf″ly, adv. Safely. Chaucer.

976

Sauger

Sau″ger (?), n.(Zoöl.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); — called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.

977

Saugh

{ Saugh, Sauh (?) }, obs.imp. sing. of See. Chaucer.

978

Sauks

Sauks (?), n. pl.(Ethnol.) Same as Sacs.

979

Saul

Saul (?), n. Soul.

980

Saul (2)

Saul, n. Same as Sal, the tree.

981

Saulie

Sau″lie (?), n. A hired mourner at a funeral. Sir W. Scott.

982

Sault

‖Sault (?), n. [OF., F. saut, fr. L. saltus. See Salt a leap.] A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie. Bartlett.

983

Saunders

Saun″ders (?), n. See Sandress.

984

Saunders-blue

Saun″ders–blue′ (?), n. [Corrupted fr. F. cendres bleues blue ashes.] A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of c...

985

Saunter

Saun″ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Sauntered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sauntering.] [Written also santer.] [Probably fr. F. s'aventurer to adventure (one's self), through a shortened fo...

986

Saunter (2)

Saun″ter, n. A sauntering, or a sauntering place.That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town. Young.

987

Saunterer

Saun″ter‐er (?), n. One who saunters.

988

Saur

Saur (?), n. [Contracted from Gael. salachar filth, nastiness, fr. salach nasty, fr. sal filth, refuse.] Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.

989

Saurel

Sau″rel (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skip...

990

Sauria

‖Sau″ri‐a (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restric...

991

Saurian

Sau″ri‐an (?), a.(Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria. — n. One of the Sauria.

992

Saurioid

Sau″ri‐oid (?), a.(Zoöl.) Same as Sauroid.

993

Saurobatrachia

‖Sau″ro‐ba‐tra″chi‐a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Sauria, and Batrachia.] (Zoöl.) The Urodela.

994

Saurognathous

Sau‐rog″na‐thous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici).

995

Sauroid

Sau″roid (?), a. [Gr. � a lizard + -oid: cf. Gr. � lizardlike.] (Zoöl.) (a) Like or pertaining to the saurians. (b) Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.

996

Sauroidichnite

Sau′roid‐ich″nite (?), n. [See Sauroid, and Ichnite.] (Paleon.) The fossil track of a saurian.

997

Sauropoda

‖Sau‐rop″o‐da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � a lizard + -poda.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they ...

998

Sauropsida

‖Sau‐rop″si‐da (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.

999

Sauropterygia

‖Sau‐rop′te‐ryg″i‐a (?), n. pl.(Paleon.) Same as Plesiosauria.