n. The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Saccharified p. pr. & vb. n. Saccharifying ] [ L. saccharon sugar + -fy: cf. F. saccharifier. ] To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; sugar + &unr_;, &unr_;, a fungus. ] (Biol.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Biol.) A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sacerdotal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Satiety. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sacramental manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ries [ LL. sacramentarium: cf. F. sacramentaire. ] 1. An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as Sacramentarian, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sacrificatoire. ] Offering sacrifice. [ R. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sacristies [ F. sacristie, LL. sacristia, fr. L. sacer. See Sacred. ] An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The trade or employment of a saddler. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Wearily; heavily; firmly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Seriously; soberly; gravely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame
Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. “He sadly suffers in their grief.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sauveté. ] 1. The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Up led by thee,
Into the heaven I have presumed,
An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down,
Return me to my native element. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would there were any safety in thy sex,
That I might put a thousand sorrows off,
And credit thy repentance! Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Preservation from escape; close custody. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imprison him, . . .
Deliver him to safety; and return. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Amer. Football) the act or result of a ball-carrier on the offensive team being tackled behind his own goal line, or the downing of a ball behind the offensive team's own goal line when it had been carried or propelled behind that goal line by a player on the offensive tream; such a play causes a score of two points to be awarded to the defensive team; -- it is distinguished from touchback, when the ball is downed behind the goal after being propelled there or last touched by a player of the defending team. See Touchdown. Same as Safety touchdown, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

5. Short for Safety bicycle. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

6. a switch on a firearm that locks the trigger and prevents the firearm from being discharged unintentionally; -- also called safety catch, safety lock, or lock. [ archaic ] [ PJC ]

. A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually about 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear. Since the 1930's this has been the most common type of bicycle, now simply called bicycle. The older high-wheelers are often referred to as bone-rattlers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

. (a) (Railroads) A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. (b) An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. (c) A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made up by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Safety arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under Discharge, v. t. --
Safety belt, a belt made of some buoyant material, or which is capable of being inflated, so as to enable a person to float in water; a life preserver. --
Safety buoy, a buoy to enable a person to float in water; a safety belt. --
Safety cage (Mach.), a cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping if the lifting rope should break. --
Safety lamp. (Mining) See under Lamp. --
Safety match, a match which can be ignited only on a surface specially prepared for the purpose. --
Safety pin, a pin made in the form of a clasp, with a guard covering its point so that it will not prick the wearer. --
Safety plug. See Fusible plug, under Fusible. --
Safety switch. See Switch. --
Safety touchdown (Football), the act or result of a player's touching to the ground behind his own goal line a ball which received its last impulse from a man on his own side; -- distinguished from touchback. See Touchdown. Same as safety --
Safety tube (Chem.), a tube to prevent explosion, or to control delivery of gases by an automatic valvular connection with the outer air; especially, a bent funnel tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence. --
Safety valve, a valve which is held shut by a spring or weight and opens automatically to permit the escape of steam, or confined gas, water, etc., from a boiler, or other vessel, when the pressure becomes too great for safety; also, sometimes, a similar valve opening inward to admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than that of the atmosphere, to prevent collapse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish. Lord (1630). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sagacitas. See Sagacious. ] The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some [ brutes ] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness. -- Sagacity, Penetration. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sagatis: cf. Sp. sagatí, saetí. ] A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sage manner; wisely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sagittarius. ] 1. (Myth.) A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sagittarius. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sagitta, and Cyst. ] (Zool.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of sage; seasoned with sage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) Same as Saker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a sail. [ R. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Saintlier superl. Saintliest. ] Like a saint; becoming a holy person. [ 1913 Webster ]

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. } [ Ar. sāqīah canal, trench. ] A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The quality or condition of being salable; salableness. Duke of Argyll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. salacitas: cf. F. salacité ] Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a period when a person is young and inexperienced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably of American Indian origin. ] (Bot.) The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. salarius. ] Saline [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Salaries [ F. salaire, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of their pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt. ] The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Salaried p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying ] To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv., etc. See Salable, Salably, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Roughness or ruggedness. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Salicin + -yl. ] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Salicylic + aldehide. ] (Chem.) A thin, fragrant, colorless oil, HO.C6H4.CHO, found in the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiraea), and also obtained by oxidation of salicin, saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salicylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous acid or spiroylous acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of salicylic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Salicylic + anhydride. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Salicylic + L. oleum oil. ] (Chem.) Same as Salicylal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a substance formerly called salicylous acid, and now salicylal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. “A fatal lack of poetic saliency.” J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a salient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Salified p. pr. & vb. n. Salifying ] [ F. salifier; from L. sal salt + -ficare (only in comp.) to make. See -fy. ] (Chem.) (a) To combine or impregnate with a salt. (b) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid. [ 1913 Webster ]