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- English Word Safranin Definition An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
- English Word Safranin Definition An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
- English Word Safranin Definition 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.
- English Word Safranine Definition 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.
- English Word Sag Definition 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.
- English Word Sag Definition 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.
- English Word Sag Definition To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- English Word Sag Definition To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- English Word Sag Definition State of sinking or bending; sagging.
- English Word Saga Definition of Sagum
- English Word Saga Definition 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.
- English Word Sagacious Definition Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
- English Word Sagacious Definition 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.
- English Word Sagacity Definition The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
- English Word Sagamore Definition 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.
- English Word Sagamore Definition A juice used in medicine.
- English Word Sagapen Definition Sagapenum.
- English Word Sagapenum Definition A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with.
- English Word Sagas Definition of Saga
- English Word Sagathy Definition A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.