SAX, saks, _n._ a knife, a dagger: a slate-cutter's hammer. [A.S. _seax_, a
knife.]
SAX, a Scotch form of _six_.
SAXATILE, sak'sa-til, _adj._ rock inhabiting. [L. _saxatilis_--_saxum_, a
rock.]
SAXE, saks, _n._ (_phot._) a German albuminised paper.
SAXHORN, saks'horn, _n._ a brass wind-instrument having a long winding tube
with bell opening, invented by Antoine or Adolphe _Sax_, of Paris, about
1840.
SAXICAVA, sak-sik'a-va, _n._ a genus of bivalve molluscs.--_adj._
SAXIC'AVOUS. [L. _saxum_, a rock, _cavus_, hollow.]
SAXICOLA, sak-sik'[=o]-la, _n._ the stone-chats: the wheat-ear.--_adjs._
SAXIC'[=O]LINE, SAXIC'[=O]LOUS, living among rocks. [L. _saxum_, a rock,
_col[)e]re_, inhabit.]
SAXIFRAGE, sak'si-fr[=a]j, _n._ a genus of plants of the natural order
_Saxifrageæ_ or _Saxifragaceæ_, its species chiefly mountain and rock
plants.--_adjs._ SAXIFRAG[=A]'CEOUS, SAXIF'R[=A]GAL, SAXIF'R[=A]GANT,
SAXIF'R[=A]GOUS.--_n._ SAXIF'R[=A]GINE, a gunpowder in which barium nitrate
takes the place of sulphur.--_adj._ SAXIG'ENOUS, growing on rocks.--BURNET
SAXIFRAGE, the _Pimpinella Saxifraga_, whose leaves are eaten as a salad;
GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE, a low half-succulent herb with yellow flowers. [Fr.,--L.
_saxum_, a stone, _frang[)e]re_, to break.]
SAXON, saks'un, _n._ one of the people of North Germany who conquered
England in the 5th and 6th centuries: the language of the Saxons: one of
the English race: a native or inhabitant of Saxony in its later German
sense: a Lowlander of Scotland: modern English.--_adj._ pertaining to the
Saxons, their language, country, or architecture.--_n._ SAX'ONDOM, the
Anglo-Saxon world.--_adj._ SAXON'IC.--_v.t._ SAX'ONISE, to impregnate with
Saxon ideas.--_ns._ SAX'ONISM, a Saxon idiom; SAX'ONIST, a Saxon
scholar.--SAXON ARCHITECTURE, a style of building in England before the
Norman Conquest, marked by the peculiar 'long and short' work of the
quoins, the projecting fillets running up the face of the walls and
interlacing like woodwork, and the baluster-like shafts between the
openings of the upper windows resembling the turned woodwork of the period;
SAXON BLUE, a deep liquid blue used in dyeing; SAXON GREEN, a green colour;
SAXON SHORE (_Litus Saxonicum_), in Roman times, the coast districts of
Britain from Brighton northwards to the Wash, peculiarly exposed to the
attacks of the Saxons from across the North Sea, and therefore placed under
the authority of a special officer, the 'Count of the Saxon Shore.' [A.S.
_Seaxe_--_seax_, Old High Ger. _sahs_, a knife, a short sword.]
SAXONY, sak'sni, _n._ a woollen material: flannel.
SAXOPHONE, sak's[=o]-f[=o]n, _n._ a brass wind-instrument, with about
twenty finger-keys, like the clarinet. [_Sax_, the inventor--Gr.
_ph[=o]n[=e]_, the voice.]
SAY, s[=a], _v.t._ to utter in words: to speak: to declare: to state: to
answer: to rehearse: to recite: to take for granted.--_v.i._ to speak: to
relate: to state:--_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ said (sed).--_n._ something said: a
remark: a speech: a saw.--_ns._ SAY'ER, one who says: a speaker: one who
assays; SAY'ING, something said: an expression: a maxim; SAY'-SO, an
authoritative declaration: a rumour, a mere report.--SAY TO, to think
of.--IT IS SAID, or THEY SAY, it is commonly reputed; IT SAYS, equivalent
to 'it is said;' THAT IS TO SAY, in other words. [A.S. _secgan_ (sægde,
gesægd); Ice. _segja_, Ger. _sagen_.]
SAY, s[=a], _n._ (_Spens._) assay, proof, temper (of a sword): (_Shak._)
taste, relish: a sample: trial by sample.--_v.t._ to assay, to try.--_n._
SAY'MASTER, one who makes proof. [A contr. of _assay_.]
SAY, s[=a], _n._ a thin kind of silk: a kind of woollen stuff.--_adj._
(_Shak._) silken. [O. Fr. _saie_--Low L. _seta_, silk--L. _seta_, a
bristle.]
SAY, s[=a], _n._ (_Scot._) a strainer for milk.
SAYETTE, s[=a]-et', _n._ a kind of serge: a woollen yarn. [Fr. _sayette_,
dim. of _saye_, serge.]
SAYNAY, s[=a]'n[=a], _n._ a lamprey.
SAYON, s[=a]'on, _n._ a medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket. [O.
Fr.,--_saye_, serge.]
SAYORNIS, s[=a]-or'nis, _n._ the pewit fly-catchers. [Thomas _Say_, an
American ornithologist.]
SBIRRO, sbir'r[=o], _n._ an Italian police-officer:--_pl._ SBIRRI
(sbir'r[=e]). [It.]
'SBLOOD, sblud, _interj._ an imprecation. [_God's blood_.]
SCAB, skab, _n._ a crust formed over a sore: a disease of sheep resembling
the mange: a disease of potatoes, or a fungous disease of apples, &c.: a
mean fellow: a workman who refuses to join a trades-union or to take part
in a strike, or who takes the place of a man out on strike.--_v.i._ to heal
over, to cicatrise: to form a new surface by encrustation.--_n._ (_print._)
a scale-board.--_adj._ SCAB'BED, affected or covered with scabs: diseased
with the scab: vile, worthless.--_ns._ SCAB'BEDNESS; SCAB'BINESS.--_adj._
SCAB'BY, scabbed: injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of
a shell: (_print._) of matter that is blotched or uneven.--_n._ SCAB'-MITE,
the itch-mite. [A.S _scæb_ (Dan. _scab_, Ger. _schabe_)--L.
_scabies_--_scab[)e]re_, to scratch.]
SCABBARD, skab'ard, _n._ the case in which the blade of a sword is kept: a
sheath.--_v.t._ to provide with a sheath.--_n._ SCABB'ARD-FISH, a fish of
the family _Lepidopodidæ_. [M. E. _scauberk_, prob. an assumed O. Fr.
_escauberc_--Old High Ger. _scala_, a scale, _bergan_, to protect.]
SCABBLE, skab'l, _v.t._ to hew a stone to a level surface without making it
smooth.--Also SCAPP'LE. [Prob. A.S. _scafan_, to shave.]
SCABELLUM, sk[=a]-bel'um, _n._ an ancient musical appliance, consisting of
plates of metal, &c., fastened to the feet to be struck together. [L., also
_scabillum_, dim. of _scamnum_, a bench.]
SCABERULOUS, sk[=a]-ber'[=u]-lus, _adj._ (_bot._) slightly roughened.
[_Scabrous_.]