Saul, n. Same as Sal, the tree.
Sau"lie (?), n. A hired mourner at a funeral. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
||Sault (?), n. [OF., F. saut, fr. L. saltus. See Salt a leap.] A rapid
||in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie. [U.S.] Bartlett.
Saun"ders (?), n. See Sandress.
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 copper. [Written also sanders-blue.]
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 form s'auntrer. See
Adventure, n. & v.] To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or
lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by
the side of a stream.
Masson.
Syn. -- To loiter; linger; stroll; wander.
Saun"ter, n. A sauntering, or a sauntering place.
That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.
Young.
Saun"ter*er (?), n. One who saunters.
Saur (?), n. [Contracted from Gael. salachar filth, nastiness, fr.
salach nasty, fr. sal filth, refuse.] Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine
from a cowhouse. [Prov. Eng.]
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 skipjack, and horse mackerel.
||Sau"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; a lizard.] (Zoöl.) A division
||of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia,
||Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is
||restricted to the Lacertilia.
Sau"ri*an (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the
Sauria. -- n. One of the Sauria.
Sau"ri*oid (?), a. (Zoöl.) Same as Sauroid.
||Sau"ro*ba*tra"chi*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Sauria, and Batrachia.]
||(Zoöl.) The Urodela.
Sau*rog"na*thous (?), a. [Gr. &?; a lizard + &?; the jaw.] (Zoöl.)
Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer
consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici).
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.
Sau`roid*ich"nite (?), n. [See Sauroid, and Ichnite.] (Paleon.) The
fossil track of a saurian.
||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 are in many
||dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to
||Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in
||Appendix.
||Sau*rop"si*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a lizard + &?;
||appearance.] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising
||the reptiles and birds.
||Sau*rop`te*ryg"i*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a lizard + &?;, &?;,
||a wing.] (Paleon.) Same as Plesiosauria.
||Sau*ru"ræ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a lizard + &?; a tail.]
||(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 Odontornithes.
Sau"ry (?), n.; pl. Sauries (#). [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) A slender
marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long,
thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper,
skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
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 in a cylindrical case or skin usually
made of the prepared intestine of some animal.