satin-de-laine 
riety of cassimere, thinner than satin-cloth. 
2. Same as stitiii-rlotli. 
satine, . Same as sateen, 2. 
sating (sat-i-na'), . [F. satine, satin, velvet, 
< satin, satin: see satin.'] A wood of French 
Guiana, of uncertain origin, perhaps from a 
species of Parintiniim. It is of a red color, hard, 
heavy, and solid, suitable for flue work, and for civil and 
naval architecture. 
satinet (sat-i-nef), it. [I 1 ', satinrt, < xnliii, satin ; 
as satin + -et.~] If. A very slight, thin satin. 
Chambers 1 s Cyc. 2. A material made of cotton 
and woolen, so woven that the woolen forms 
the surface : so called because the smooth sur- 
face is thought to resemble that of satin. It 
is cheap and very durable. 
satinet-loom (sat-i-net'lom), . A loom of the 
open-shed type, used for heavy goods, as twills, 
jeans, satinets, etc. The usual form has four boxes 
at one end, and an endless chain controlling and actuat- 
ing the heddle-levers, and may, without the use of cams, 
be changed readily to any pattern. 
satin-finish (sat'in-fin'ish), n. 1. A finish re- 
sembling satin. 2. In silversmitlnntj, a lus- 
trous pearly finish produced by the scratch- 
brush, with or without the use of water. 
satin-flower (sat'in-flou'er), n. See Litnaria. 
Crimson satin-flower, an English garden name of 
Brevoortia (Brodixa)coccinea, a liliaceous plant from Cali- 
fornia. It bears drooping umbels of showy flowers on 
slender scapes a foot and a half high. 
satin-foulard (sat'in-fo-lard'), . Foulard silk 
the surface of which is especially smooth and 
has a satiny appearance. 
satin-grackle (sat'in-grak'l), n. The satin- 
bird. 
satining (sat'in-ing), n. [Verbal n. of satin, r.] 
In metal-work, a method of treating silver by 
holding it against a revolving wire brush, which 
makes minute scratches on the surface, and 
gives the metal a satin-like finish. 
satining-machine (sat'in-ing-ma-shen' 1 '), n. In 
paper-manuf., a machine for giving a satin-fin- 
ish to paper by causing it to pass in contact 
with a cylindrical brush revolving at high speed. 
It is used for some kinds of wall- and letter- 
paper. 
satiniscot (sat-i-nis'ko), n. [< It. as if "setinesco, 
< setino, satin: see satin.] A poor quality of 
satin. 
He weares his apparell much after the fashion ; his 
meanes will not suffer him come too nigh ; they afford him 
mockvelvet, or satinisco, but not without the colleges next 
lease's acquaintance. 
Sir T. Owrbury, Characters, A Meere Fellow of an House. 
satinity (sa-tin'i-ti), n. [< satin + -ity ; formed 
in imitation of Latinity.] Satin-like character 
or quality. [Rare.] 
I knew him immediately by the smooth salinity of his 
style. Lamb, To Oilman, 1830. 
satinleaf (sat'in-lef), . The common alum- 
root, Heuchera Americana. 
satin-lisse (sat'in-les), n. A cotton cloth of 
fine satin-like surface, usually printed with 
small delicate patterns and used as a dress- 
material. 
satin-lpom (sat'in-lom), n. A loom for weav- 
ing satin. The heddles are five-leaved or more, with 
corresponding treadles, and are so mounted as to pass the 
shuttle, at each throw, over at least four warp-threads 
and under one the glossy or right side of the fabric, ex- 
cept in double satin de Lyon, being always woven under- 
most. 
satin-moth (sat'in-mdth), n. A British moth, 
Liparis or Leucoma sa/icis : an English collec- 
tors' name. 
satin-paper (sat'in-pa"per), . A fine kind of 
writing-paper with a satiny gloss. 
satin-sheeting (sat'in-she"ting), w. A twilled 
cotton fabric with a satin surface, made of so- 
called waste silk. It is employed especially for 
upholstery, curtains, and the like, and is made 
of great width. 
satin-spar (sat'in-spar), n. 1. A fine fibrous 
variety of calcite (or aragonite) which assumes 
a silky or pearly luster when polished. 2. A 
similar variety of gypsum. 
satin-sparrow (sat'in-spar"6), n. A flycatcher 
of Australia and Tasmania, Mi/itit/n/ i/ilida, be- 
longing to the Mnni'ii'ii)iiilie. It i's 6J inches long, 
the wing 3 j ; the male is glossy steel-black, with a satiny 
green luster in some places, and most of the under parts 
white ; the female is quite different. It received its New 
Latin name from (iould in 1837, and the French name myi- 
ayre brillant from Hombron and Jacqninot, who figured it 
on plate 12 bis of their "Voyage au Pole Sud." 
satin-stitch (sat'in-stich), n. An embroidery- 
stitch by which the surface is covered with long 
parallel stitches side by side and regular in 
their arrangement, so as to produce a glossy 
satin-like surfaceRaised satin-stitch, a kind of 
.-,.! HI 
satin-stitch done over a padding of threads laid down 
upon the surface of the ground, so that the pattern stands 
out considerably. 
satin-Stone (sat'iu-ston), n. A fibrous kind of 
gypsum used by lapidaries; satin-spar. 
satin-striped (sat'in-stript), a. Having bars 
or stripes of glossy satin-like surface contrast- 
ing with a surface less smooth and brilliant : 
said of a textile material. 
satin-Sultan (sat'in-sul"tan), . A silk textile 
material made in India, with a glossy surface : 
it is used for women's clothes. 
satin-surah (sat'in-so'ra), H. Surah silk hav- 
ing an unusually smooth" and glossy surface. 
satin-Turk (sat'in-terk), . Same as Turk satin. 
See satin. 
satin- wave (sat'in-wav), n. A British geomet- 
rid moth, Acidalia subsericata. 
Satin-weave (sat'in-wev), n. A style of weav- 
ing executed on a loom having five or more har- 
nesses. E. H. Eniglit. 
satinwood (sat'in-wud), n. The wood of Chlo- 
roxylon Swietenia, of the order Meliacex ; also, 
the tree itself. The tree is a native of southern India 
and Ceylon, of moderate size, bearing long pinnate decidu- 
ous leaves and large branching panicles of small whitish 
flowers. The heart-wood is of a yellowish color and fine 
satiny luster, hard, heavy, and durable. It Is used in In- 
dia for furniture, agricultural implements, etc., but in 
western countries is used only for cabinet-work, backs of 
brushes, turnery, etc. Another East Indian satinwood is 
furnished by Maba buxtfolia. Bahama satinwood, a fine 
article entering commerce, is attributed to some ebena- 
ceous tree, perhaps a Maba. Xanthoxylum CarCbsnim of 
Florida and the West Indies is another satiuwood, a small 
tree with extremely hard, fine-grained wood, susceptible 
of a beautiful polish. There is also a Tasmania!) satin- 
wood, the source of which is botanically unknown. 
satiny (sat'i-ni), a. [< satin + -y 1 .] Some- 
what resembling satin ; having a gloss like that 
of satin. 
Satiny slates, with dark limestones. Nature, XXX. 46. 
sationt (sa'shon), n. [< L. satio(n-), a sowing, 
< serere, pp. satus, sow, plant: see soic'i. Cf. 
season, a doublet of sation."] A sowing or plant- 
ing. [Rare.] 
Eke sumen sayen the benes sation 
In places colde is best to fructifle, 
On nem if me doo noon occacion. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 207. 
satire (sat'Ir or safer), n. [Formerly also 
satyre, satyr; = Gr. Dan. satire = Sw. satir,< OF. 
satire, satyre, F. satire = Sp. sdtira = Pg. satyra, 
satira = It. satira, < L. satira, satura-, also, erro- 
neously, satyra, satire (see def.), orig. satura, a 
medley, as in the phrase per saturam, in the 
gross, confusedly; a species of poesy, orig. 
dramatic and later didactic, peculiar to the 
Romans; a medley: orig., according to the 
statements of the grammarians, satura lanx, 
lit. a full dish, a dish of various kinds of fruit, 
or food composed of various ingredients: sa- 
tura, fern, of satur, full (see saturate); lanx, a 
dish: see lanx, lance 2 , balance. The spelling 
satyre, satyr, L. satyra, was due to confusion 
with satyr 1 ; so satiric was confused with sa- 
tyric.] 1. A literary composition, originally 
in verse, characterized by the expression of in- 
dignation, scorn, or contemptuous facetious- 
ness, denouncing vice, folly, incapacity, or fail- 
ure, and holding it up to reprobation or ridi- 
cule : a species of literary production cultivated 
by ancient Roman writers and in modern lit- 
erature, and directed to the correction of cor- 
ruption, abuses, or absurdities in religion, pol- 
itics, law, society, and letters. 
The first and most bitter inuectiue against vice and 
vicious men was the Satyre. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 24. 
The one [sort of readers] being ignorant, not knowing the 
nature of a satire (which is, under feigned private names to 
note general vices), will needs wrest each feigned name 
to a private unfeigned person. 
Marston, Scourge of Villanie, To Him That Hath Perused 
[Me. 
Adjourn not that virtue unto those years when Cato 
could lend out his wife, and impotent Satyrs write Satyrs 
against Lust. Sir T. Browne, Letter to a Friend, p. 148. 
2. Hence, in general, the use, in either speak- 
ing or writing, of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, etc., 
in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, 
indecorum, incapacity, or insincerity. 
Satire has always shone among the rest, 
And is the boldest way, if not the best, 
To tell men freely of their foulest faults, 
To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts. 
Dryden. 
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet 
To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet. 
Pope, Imit. of Hor., II. I. 69. 
Cervantes excels In that sly mtire which hides itself 
under the cloak of gravity. 
/. D'Tsraeli, Lit. Char. Men of Genius, p. 43f>. 
satirist 
\\iihout humor, satire is invective; without literary 
form, it is mere clownish jeering. 
R. t/arnett, Encyc. Brit., XXI. 317. 
3f. Vituperation ; abuse ; backbiting. 
The owls, bats, and several other birds of night were one 
day got together in a thick shade, where they abused their 
neighbours in a very sociable manner. Their satire at last 
fell upon the sun, whom they all agreed to be veiy trouble- 
some, impertinent, and inquisitive. 
Addimn, Tatler, No. 229. 
4f. A i 
You are turn'd satire. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, Iv. 1. 
Leave dangerous truths to unsuccessful satires. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 592. 
= Syn. 1. Pasquinade, Invective, etc. See lampoon. 2. 
Irony, Sarcasm, Satire, ridicule. Irony may be of the na- 
ture of sarcasm, and sarcasm may possibly take the form 
of irony; but sarcasm, is generally too severe, and there- 
fore too direct, to take an ironical form ; both may be 
means of satire. The essential thing about irony is the 
contradiction between the literal and the manifest mean- 
ing : as, " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with 
unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, 
when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with 
help?" (Johnson, To Chesterfield.) "Irony ... is the 
humorous wresting of language from its literal use for the 
expression of feeling, either happy or painful, but too ve- 
hement to be contented with that literal use. . . . When 
the thoughtful spirit of Macbeth is distorted by guilt, and 
as the agony of that guilt grows more and more intense, 
the pent-up misery either flows foi-th in a subdued irony 
or breaks out in that which is fierce and frenzied." (U. 
Reed, Eng. Lit., p. 866.) The essential thing about sar- 
casm is its cutting edge ; it therefore is intensely concen- 
trated, lying in a sentence or a phrase ; it is used to scourge 
the follies or foibles or vices of men, but has little of re- 
formatory purpose. Satire is more elaborate than sarcasm, 
is not necessarily bitter, and has, presumably, some aim at 
the reformation of that which is satirized. ' ' Well-known 
instances of ironical argument are Burke's 'Vindication 
of Natural Society,' in which Bolingbroke's arguments 
against religious institutions are applied to civil society ; 
Whately's 'Historic Doubts,' in which Hume's arguments 
against Christianity are used to prove the non-existence of 
Napoleon Bonaparte ; Swift's 'Argument against the Abol- 
ishment of Christianity,' and his 'Modest Proposal ' for re- 
lieving Ireland from famine by having the children cooked 
and eaten. " (A . S. Hill, Rhetoric, p. 193. ) 
satiric (sa-tir'ik), a. [Formerly also satyric; < 
F. satirique = Sp. satirico = Pg. satyrico, satiri- 
co = It. satirico, < L. satirictts, satiric, < satira, a 
satire: see satire."] 1. Of, pertaining to, or of 
the nature of satire ; containing or marked by 
satire. 
You must not think that a eatyric style 
Allows of scandalous and brutish words. 
Roscommm, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. 
He gave the little wealth he had 
To build a house for fools and mad ; 
To show by one satiric touch 
No nation wanted it so much. 
Sivtft, Death of l)r. Swift. 
Nature imparting her satiric gift, 
Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, 
With droll sobriety they rais'd a smile 
At Folly's cast, themselves unmov'd the while. 
Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 656. 
2. Indulging in satire ; satirical. 
For now as elegiac I bewail 
These poor base times, then suddenly I rail 
And am satiric. 
Drayton, To Master William Jeffreys. 
satirical (sa-tir'i-kal), o. [Early mod. E. sa- 
tyrical; < satiric + -al.~\ 1. Same &s satiric, 1. 
Yet is not then grossness so intolerable as on the con- 
' trary side the scurrilous and more than satirical immod- 
esty of Martinism. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v., Ded. 
2. Fond of indulging in satire ; given to satire ; 
severe in ridiculing men, manners, or things. 
The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey 
beards. Shale., Hamlet, ii. 2. 198. 
She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but 
adorably simple and full of feeling. 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxi. 
= Syn. 1. Cutting, biting. See irony. 
satirically (sa-tir'i-kal-i), adv. In a satirical 
manner; with sarcastic or witty treatment. 
What has a pastoral tragedy to do with a paper of verses 
satirically written ? Dryden, Ded. 
satiricalness (sa-tir'i-kal-nes), H. The charac- 
ter or practice of being satirical. 
Robert Person . . . had an ill-natured wit, biassed to 
satiricalness. Fuller, Worthies, Somersetshire, III. 105. 
satirise, t'. t. See satirize. 
satirism (sat'i-rizm), n. [Formerly satyrisme ; 
< satire + -ism.] Satire. [Rare.] 
Or should we minister strong pills to thee, 
What lumps of hard and indigested stuff, 
Of bitter Satyrisme, of Arrogance, 
Of Self-love, of Detraction, of a black 
And stinking Insolence, should we fetch up? 
Delcker, Satiromastix. (Danes.) 
satirist (sat'i-rist), . [Formerly also sati/rixt : 
< satire + -i st.'] One who indulges in satire; 
especially, the writer of a satire or satirical 
composition. 
They [the poets] desired by good admonitions to reforme 
the euill of their life, and to bring the bud to amendment 
