Webster's Dictionary 1913

1000

Saururæ

‖Sau‐ru″ræ (?), n. pl.(Paleon.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archæopteryx is the type. See Archæopteryx, and Odont...

1001

Saury

Sau″ry (?), n.; pl.Sauries (#). (Zoöl.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawno...

1002

Sausage

Sau″sage (?; 48), n. [F. saucisse, LL. salcitia, salsicia, fr. salsa. See Sauce.] 1. An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed i...

1003

Sauseflem

Sau″se‐flem (?), a. [OF. saus salt (L. salsus) + flemme phlegm.] Having a red, pimpled face. [Written also sawceflem.] Chaucer.

1004

Saussurite

Saus″sur‐ite (?), n. [F. So called from M. Saussure.] (Min.) A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at...

1005

Saut

{ Saut, Saute (?) }, n. An assault.

1006

Saute (2)

‖Sau′te″ (?), p. p. of Sauter. C. Owen.

1007

Sauter

‖Sau′ter″ (?), 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.

1008

Sauter (2)

Sau″ter (?), n. Psalter. Piers Plowman.

1009

Sauterelle

Sau′te‐relle (?), n. An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.

1010

Sauterne

Sau′terne″ (?), n. A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.

1011

Sautrie

Sau″trie (?), n. Psaltery. Chaucer.

1012

Sauvegarde

‖Sau′ve‐garde″ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The monitor.

1013

Savable

Sav″a‐ble (?), a. [From Save. Cf. Salvable.] Capable of, or admitting of, being saved.In the person prayed for there ought to be the great disposition of being in a savable cond...

1014

Savableness

Sav″a‐ble‐ness, n. Capability of being saved.

1015

Savacioun

Sa‐va″ci‐oun′ (?), n. Salvation.

1016

Savage

Sav″age (?; 48), a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.] 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; re...

1017

Savage (2)

Sav″age, n. 1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal ...

1018

Savage (3)

Sav″age (?; 48), v. t. To make savage.Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. Southey.

1019

Savagely

Sav″age‐ly, adv. In a savage manner.

1020

Savageness

Sav″age‐ness, n. The state or quality of being savage.Wolves and bears, they say,Casting their savageness aside have doneLike offices of pity. Shak.

1021

Savagery

Sav″age‐ry (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.] 1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.2. An act of cruelty; barbarity.The wil...

1022

Savagism

Sav″a‐gism (?), n. The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

1023

Savanilla

Sav′a‐nil″la (?), n.(Zoöl.) The tarpum.

1024

Savanna

Sa‐van″na (?), n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane.] A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, ...

1025

Savant

‖Sa′vant″ (?), n.; pl.Savants (F. �; E. �). [F., fr. savoir to know, L. sapere. See Sage, a.] A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquir...

1026

Save

Save (?), n. [See Sage the herb.] The herb sage, or salvia. Chaucer.