Webster's Dictionary 1913

1081

Sawfly

Saw″fly′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of saw...

1082

Sawhorse

Saw″horse′ (?), 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.

1083

Sawmill

Saw″mill′ (?), n. A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

1084

Sawneb

Saw″neb′ (?), n. A merganser.

1085

Sawtooth

Saw″tooth′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; — called also crab-eating seal.

1086

Sawtry

Saw″try (?), n. A psaltery. Dryden.

1087

Sawyer

Saw″yer (?), n. [Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.] 1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.2. A tree which has falle...

1088

Sax

Sax (?), n. [AS. seax a knife.] A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

1089

Sax-tuba

Sax″–tu′ba (?), n. [See Saxhorn, and Tube.] (Mus.) A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.

1090

Saxatile

Sax″a‐tile (?), a. [L. saxatilis, fr. saxum a rock: cf. F. saxatile.] Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

1091

Saxhorn

Sax″horn′ (?), n.(Mus.) 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 Pa...

1092

Saxicava

Sax′i‐ca″va (?), n.; pl. E. saxicavas (#), L. Saxicavæ (#). [NL. See Saxicavous.] (Zoöl.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are not...

1093

Saxicavid

Sax′i‐ca″vid (?), a.(Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. — n. A saxicava.

1094

Saxicavous

Sax′i‐ca″vous (?), a. [L. saxum rock + cavare to make hollow, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. saxicave.] (Zoöl.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; — said of certain mollusks which live ...

1095

Saxicoline

Sax‐ic″o‐line (?), a. [L. saxum a rock + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.) Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

1096

Saxicolous

Sax‐ic″o‐lous (?), a. [See Saxicoline.] (Bot.) Growing on rocks.

1097

Saxifraga

‖Sax‐if″ra‐ga (?), n. [L., saxifrage. See Saxifrage.] (Bot.) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

1098

Saxifragaceous

Sax′i‐fra‐ga″ceous (?), a.(Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceæ) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrange...

1099

Saxifragant

Sax‐if″ra‐gant (?), a. [See Saxifrage.] Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. — n. That which breaks or destroys stones.

1100

Saxifrage

Sax″i‐frage (?; 48), n. [L. saxifraga, from saxifragus stone-breaking; saxum rock + frangere to break: cf. F. saxifrage. See Fracture, and cf. Sassafras, Saxon.] (Bot.) Any plan...

1101

Saxifragous

Sax‐if″ra‐gous (?), a. [L. saxifragus: cf. F. saxifrage. See Saxifrage.] Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

1102

Saxon

Sax″on (săks″ŭn or –'n), n. [L. Saxo, pl. Saxones, from the Saxon national name; cf. AS. pl. Seaxe, Seaxan, fr. seax a knife, a short sword, a dagger (akin to OHG. sahs, and per...

1103

Saxon (2)

Sax″on, a. Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language. (b) Anglo-Saxon. (c) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.Saxon blue(Dyeing), a deep blue l...

1104

Saxonic

Sax‐on″ic (?), a. Relating to the Saxons or Anglo- Saxons.

1105

Saxonism

Sax″on‐ism (?), n. An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.

1106

Saxonist

Sax″on‐ist, n. One versed in the Saxon language.

1107

Saxonite

Sax″on‐ite (?), n.(Min.) See Mountain soap, under Mountain.