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Safflower
n.
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A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).
Saffron
n.
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A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
Saffron
n.
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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.
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An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
Saffron
a.
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Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
Saffron
v. t.
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To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
Saffrony
a.
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Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.
Safranin
n.
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An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
Safranin
n.
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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.
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An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
Safranine
n.
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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.
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of Sag
Sagging
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Sag
Sag
v. i.
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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.
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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.
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To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
Sag
v. t.
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To cause to bend or give way; to load.
Sag
n.
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State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Sagas
pl.
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of Saga
Saga
n.
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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.
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Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
Sagacious
a.
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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.
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The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Sagamore
n.
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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.
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A juice used in medicine.
Sagapen
n.
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Sagapenum.
Sagapenum
n.
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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.
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A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.
Sage
n.
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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.
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The sagebrush.