Safe (superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.
Safe (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
Safe (n.) A place for keeping things in safety.
Safe (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.
Safe (n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
Safe (v. t.) To render safe; to make right.
Safe-conduct (n.) That which gives a safe passage
Safe-conduct (n.) a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country
Safe-conduct (n.) a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety.
Safe-conduct (v. t.) To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.
Safeguard (n.) One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.
Safeguard (n.) A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.
Safeguard (n.) A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct.
Safeguard (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
Safely (adv.) In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.
Safeness (n.) The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.
Safe-pledge (n.) A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.
Safety (n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Safety (n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
Safety (n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Safflow (n.) The safflower.
Safflower (n.) An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
Safflower (n.) The dried flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius.
Safflower (n.) A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).
Saffron (n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
Saffron (n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
Saffron (n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
Saffron (a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
Saffron (v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
Saffrony (a.) Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.
Safranin (n.) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
Safranin (n.) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.
Safranin (n.) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
Safranine (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
Sagged (imp. & p. p.) of Sag
Sagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sag
Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
Sag (v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
Sag (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
Sag (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Sagas (pl. ) of Saga
Saga (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
Sagacious (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
Sagacious (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
Sagacity (n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Sagamore (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.
Sagamore (n.) A juice used in medicine.
Sagapen (n.) Sagapenum.
Sagapenum (n.) A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.
Sagathy (n.) A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.
Sage (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
Sage (n.) The sagebrush.
Sage (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
Sage (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
Sage (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.
Sage (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
Sagebrush (n.) A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
Sagely (adv.) In a sage manner; wisely.
Sagene (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.
Sageness (n.) The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.
Sagenite (n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.
Sagenitic (a.) Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.
Sagger (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.
Sagger (n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.
Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.
Saginate (v. t.) To make fat; to pamper.
Sagination (n.) The act of fattening or pampering.
Sagitta (n.) A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.
Sagitta (n.) The keystone of an arch.
Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
Sagitta (n.) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.
Sagitta (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha.
Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.
Sagittal (a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.
Sagittarius (n.) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer.
Sagittarius (n.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
Sagittary (n.) A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.
Sagittary (n.) The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.
Sagittary (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.
Sagittate (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
Sagittated (a.) Sagittal; sagittate.
Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
Sago (n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.).
Sagoin (n.) A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.
Saga (pl. ) of Sagum
Sagum (n.) The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.
Sagus (n.) A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.
Sagy (a.) Full of sage; seasoned with sage.
Sahib (n.) Alt. of Saheb
Saheb (n.) A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.
Sahibah (n.) A lady; mistress.
Sahidic (a.) Same as Thebaic.
Sahlite (n.) See Salite.
Sahui (n.) A marmoset.
Sai (n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Saibling (n.) A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.