saguin 
must general term, meaning monkey. Sajou nnd snpajoii 
are the same, meaning a prehensile-tailed monkey of one 
of the genera Cebutt and Ateles; but sapajou has become 
associated specially with Ateles, then meaning spider-mon- 
key. Saguin was one of the smaller species of Cebus, but 
became confused with saimiri. Sagvin and saimiri arc 
now specially attached to the small non -prehensile-tailed 
squirrel-monkeys, respectively of the genera Callithrix 
and Chryxothrix, but arc also loosely used for any of the 
marmosets. 
Saguinus (sag-u-i'mis), . [NL. (Lac^pede): 
sec Mii/niit.'} A genus of South American mar- 
mosets: same as Hapalc. 
sagum(sa'gum), . [L., also sat/nil ; =Gr. aayof, 
a coarse woolen blanket or mantle : said to be 
of Celtic origin : see sa# 4 .] A military cloak 
worn by ancient Roman soldiers and inferior 
officers, iu contradistinction to the paludamen- 
tum of the superior officers. It was the garb 
of war, as the toga was the garb of peace. 
SagUS (sa'gus), H. [NL. (Blume, 1836), < Malay 
mii/u, sago : see sago.] A former genus of palms, 
now known as Metroxylou. See also Raphia, 
species of which are often cultivated under the 
name Sagus. See cut under sago. 
sagy (sa'ji), a. [< sage 2 + -i/ 1 .] Full of sage ; 
seasoned with sage. 
Saharan (sa-ha'ran), a. Same as Saharic. 
Saharic (sa-har'ik), a. [< Sahara (see def.) (< 
Ar. sahrd, a desert plain) + -ic.] Of or per- 
taining to the desert of Sahara, a vast region 
in northern Africa. 
sahib (sa'ib), . [< Hind, sahib, < Ar. sahib (with 
initial letter sad), master, lord, sovereign, ruler, 
a gentleman, European gentleman, sir, posses- 
sor, owner, prop, companion, associate ; fern. 
sdhiba, mistress, lady.] A term of respect used 
by the natives of India and Persia in addressing 
or speaking of Europeans : equivalent to Master 
or Sir, and even to Mistress : as, Colonel saliib; 
the sahib did so and so ; it is the mem-sahib's 
command. (See mem-sahib. ) It is also occasion- 
ally used as a specific title among both Hindus 
and Mohammedans, as Tippoo Sahib. 
sahlite (sii'lit), n. See satite 2 . 
sahtit, sahteti and n. See saught. 
sahtlet, v. See settle^. 
Sahuca bean. See beani and soy. 
sai (sa'i), n. [= F. salon, < Braz. sai, fat.] 1. 
A South American monkey of the genus Ce- 
bus in a broad sense. See synonyms under 
saguin. 2. A guitguit of the genus Ccereba, C. 
cyanea, about 4^ inches long, bright-blue, varied 
with black, green, and yellow, and with red bill 
and feet, inhabiting tropical America. See cut 
under Ccerebime, 
saibling (sab'ling), n. The char of Europe, Sal- 
ft-linus alpimts. 
saic (sa'ik), . [< F. sa'ique = Sp. It. silica = 
Pg. saique = Buss, saiku, < Turk, shaiqa.] A 
Turkish or Grecian vessel, very common in 
the Levant, a kind of ketch which has no top- 
gallantsail nor mizzen-topsail. 
saice (sis), . See sice 2 . 
said (sed), p. a. [Pp. of miy\ /.] 1. Declared ; 
uttered; reported. 2. Mentioned; before-men- 
tioned; aforesaid: used chiefly in legal style: 
as, the said witness. 
And ther our Savyr for gar? the synnys of the sayd mary 
Mawdleyn. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 54. 
And so there at the sayde Hounte Syon we toke our asses 
and rode forth at the sayd time, and neuer we alyghted to 
beyte vnto tyme we come to Rama. 
Sir R. Guyl/orde, Pylgrymage, p. 50. 
The said Charles by his writing obligatory did acknow- 
ledge himself to be bound to the said William in the said 
sum of two hundred pounds. 
Proceedings on an Action of Debt, Blackstone's Com., 
[III., App. iii. 
saiet, " See say*. 
saiga (si'ga), . [= F. saiga, < Russ. saiga, an 
antelope, saiga.] 1. A ruminant of the genus 
Saiga, remarkable for the singular conforma- 
tion of the head, which gives it a peculiar physi- 
ognomy. 2. [co;).] (sa'i-ga) [NL.] The typi- 
cal and only genus of Saigirlse. There is only OTIC 
species, the saiga or saiga-anteiope, AntUope saiga, Colvs 
saiga, or Saiga tartarica, inhabiting western Asia and east- 
ern Europe. Also called Colus. See cut in next column. 
saiga-antelope (si'ga-au"te-16p), . The saiga. 
Saigidse (sa-ij'i-de), H. pi. ["NL.,< Saiga + -i'rf>.] 
In J. E. Gray's classification, a family of hollow- 
horned ruminants, represented by the genus 
Sttigrt :; the saiga-antelopes, having the nose 
peculiarly inflated and expanded, the conforma- 
tion affecting not only the outward parts, but 
the bones of the nasal region. The nasal bones 
are short, arched upward, and entirely separated from 
the maxillaries and lacrymals ; the frontal bone projects 
between the lacrymals and nasals, and the maxillaries 
and premaxilhmes are both much reduced. The group 
would be better named Saiintue, as a subfamily of Bonder. 
Saijia-antelope (Satfa tartarica}. 
saikless (sak ' les), a. A dialectal (Scotch) 
form of sackless. 
sail 1 (sal), n. [< ME. saile, sayle, sell, seyl, < AS. 
segel, segl = OS. segel = MD. seyl, D. zeil = MLG. 
LG. segel, seil = OHG. segal, MHG. G. segel = 
Icel. segl = Sw. segel = Dan. sejl (Goth, not 
recorded), a sail. Root unknown; certainly not 
< L. stigiiliim, a mantle.] 1. A piece of cloth, 
or a texture or tissue of some kind, spread to 
the wind to cause, or assist in causing, a vessel 
to move through the water. Sails are usually made 
of several breadths of canvas, sewed together with a 
double seam at the borders, and edged all round with a 
cord or cords called the bolt-rope or bolt-ropes. A sail ex- 
tended by a yard hung (slung) by the middle is called a 
square sail ; a sail set upon a gaff, boom, or stay is called 
a fore-and-aft sail. (See fore-and-aft.) The upper part of 
every sail is the head, the lower part the/oo(, the sides in 
general are called leeches; but the weather side or edge 
(that is, the side next the mast or stay to which it is at- 
tached) of any but a square sail is called the luff, and the 
other edge the after leech. The two lower corners of a 
square sail are in general clues ; the weather clue of a fore- 
and-aft sail, or of a course while set, is the tack. Sails 
generally take their names, partly at least, from the mast, 
yard, or stay upon which they are stretched ; thus, the 
main-course, maintopsail, and maintopgallantsail are re- 
spectively the sails on the mainmast, maintopmast, and 
maintopgallantmast. The principal sails in a full-rigged 
vessel are the courses or lower sails, the topsails, and the 
topgallantsails. Sec topsail, topsail-yard, and cut under 
ship. 
Fearing lest they should fall Into the quicksands, strake 
mil, and so were driven. Acts xxvil. 17. 
Their sails spread forth, and with a fore-right gale 
Leaving our coast. Massinger, Renegado, v. 8. 
2. That part of the arm of a windmill which 
catches the wind. 
And the whirring saU goes round. Tennyson, The Owl. 
3. One of the canvas flaps of a cart or wagon. 
[South Africa.] 
He drew the sails down before and behind, and the 
wagon rolled away slowly." 
Olive Schreiner, Story of an African Farm, II. xii. 
4. Figuratively, a wing. 
He, cutting way 
With his broad sayles, about him soared round ; 
At last, low stouping with unweldy sway, 
Snatcht up both horse and man. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. xL 18. 
5. A single ship or vessel, especially a ship con- 
sidered as one of a number : the same form iu the 
singular and the plural : as, at noon we sighted 
a sail and gave chase ; a fleet of twenty sail. 
Returning back to Legorne, suddainly in the way we 
met with Fiftie mile of the Turkes Gallics. 
E. Webb, Travels (ed. Arber), p. 19. 
How many sail of well-mann'd ships before us, 
As the bonito does the flying-fish, 
Have we pursu'd and scour'd. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, ii. 1. 
Our great fleet goes still forward amain, of above one 
hundred sail of ships. Court and Times of Charles I. , I. 5. 
6. A fleet. [Rare.] 
We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore, 
A portly sail of ships make hitherward. 
Shak., Pericles, 1. 4. 61. 
7t. Sailing qualities; speed. 
We departed from Constantinople in the Trinity of Lon- 
don : a snip of better defence then sailr. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 68. 
8. A journey or excursion upon water; a pas- 
sage in a vessel or boat. 
Here is my Journey's end, here is my butt, 
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 268. 
The other monastery, best known as the Badia, once a 
house of Benedictines, afterwards of Franciscans, stands 
on a separate island, approached by a pleasant sail. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 216. 
9. A ride in a carter other conveyance. [Ire- 
land.] 10. In :<><!!., a structure or formation 
of parts suggesting a sail in shape or use. (a) 
A very large dorsal flu. See sailfish. (b) The arm by means 
of which a nautilus is wafted over the water. After- 
sail 
sail, a term generally applied to the sails carried on the 
mainmast and mi/zenmast of three-masted vessels, and on 
the mainmast of vessels having hut two masts. 
When the after tail* fill and she gathers headway, put 
the helm again to port, and when the wind is astern brace 
up the after yards by the port braces. 
Luce, Seamanship, p. 433. 
Depth Of a sail. *ee rfc;rf*. Full sail, with all sails 
set Lateen sail See lain en. Light sails. Seeliyht'-i. 
If it is perfectly calm and there is a swell on, furl the 
////A' gaits to save them from chafe. 
Luce, Seamanship, p. 437. 
Press of sail See presui . Shoulder-of-mutton sail, 
a triangular sail used in boats, also called a leg-of-mutl&ti 
sail. See cut under sharpio. Sliding-gunter sail, a tri- 
angular boat-sail used with a sliding-gunter mast. To 
back a sail, bend a sail, crowd sail, cut the sail', 
flat in the sail, flatten a sail, loose sail. See the 
verbs. To make sail, (a) To set sail ; depart. 
Sonnday a for Midsom day, abowyt vij of the cloke in 
the mornyng we made Sayle, And passyd by the Costes of 
Slavone and Histria. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 16. 
(b) To spread more sail ; hasten on by spreading more 
sail. To point a sail. See pointi.-To press sail. 
Same as to crowd mil. To ride down a sail See ride. 
To set sail, to expand or spread the sails ; hence, 
to begin a voyage. To shorten sail, to reduce the ex- 
tent of sail, or take in a part. To strike sail, (a) To 
lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting or in sudden gusts 
of wind. Acts xxvii. 17. (b) To abate show or pomp. 
[Hare.] 
Margaret 
Must strike her mil, and learn awhile to serve 
Where kings command. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., Ui. 3. 5. 
To take the wind out of one's sails, to take away one's 
means of progress ; deprive one of an advantage ; discom- 
fit one, especially by sudden or unexpected action. 
I've undermined Oarstin's people. They'll use their 
authority, and give a little shabby treating, but I've taken 
all the wind out of their sails. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, rvii. 
Under sail, having sail spread. 
sail 1 (sal), r. [< ME. sailen, saylei\, seilen, seilien, 
< AS. seglian = MD. seyleii, D. zeilen = MLG. LG. 
segelen = MHG. sigelen, segelen, Or. segeln = Icel. 
sigla = Sw. segla = Dan. style (cf. OF. sigler, 
singler, F. cingler = Sp. singlar = Pg. singrar, 
< MHG.), sail; from the noun.] I. intrans. 1. 
To move along through or over the water by 
the action of the wind upon sails ; by extension, 
to move along through or over the water by 
means of sails, oars, steam, or other mechanical 
agency. 
This seyle sette on thl mast, 
And seyle in-to the blisse of heuene. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 214. 
Tewysday, the v day of Januarii, we seyleyd vp and down 
in the gulff of Venys, ffor the wynde was so straygth a yens 
vs that we myght not kepte the ryght wey in no wyse. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 59. 
Say, shall my little bark attendant Mil, 
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 385. 
2. To set sail; hoist sail and depart; begin a 
journey on shipboard: as, to sail at noon. 
The maistres, whan the mone a-ros manli in come, 
& faire at the fulle flod thei ferden to sayle, 
ifc hadde wind at wille to wende whan hem liked. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.X 1. 2745. 
On leaving Ascension we mileil for Bahia, on the coast 
of Brazil, in order to complete the chronometrical mea- 
surement of the world. 
Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, II. 297. 
3. To journey by water ; travel by ship. 
And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Paui- 
phylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. Acts xxvli. .">. 
Here 's such a merry grig, I could nnd in my heart to 
iil to the world's end with such company. 
Middleton and Deleter, Roaring Girl, i. 1. 
4. To swim, as a fish or a swan. 
Like little dolphins, when they sail 
In the vast shadow of the British whale. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, x. 21. 
5. To fly without visible movement of the 
wings, as a bird; float through the air; pass 
smoothly along; glide: as, the clouds sail across 
the sky. 
He bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds 
And tails upon the bosom of the air. 
Shak., R. and J., ii. 2. 32. 
Sails between worlds and worlds with steady wing. 
Milton, P. L., v. 268. 
Across the sunny vale, 
From hill to hill the wandering rook did mil. 
Lazily croaking. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 339. 
Hence, figuratively 6. To move forward im- 
pressively, as if in the manner of a ship with all 
sail set. [Colloq.] 
Lady B. sailed in, arrayed in ribbons of scarlet, with 
many brooches, bangles, and other glmcrucks ornament- 
ing her plenteous person. 
Thackeray, Level the Widower. 
7. To plunge forward, like a ship; rush for- 
ward: sometimes with in. [Colloq.] 
The fact Is, a man must dismiss all thoughts of pru- 
dence and common-sense when it comes to masquerade 
