Saururae 
genus Arclixopteryx, having a long lacertilian 
tail of many separate bones without a pygostyle 
and with the feathers arranged in pairs on each 
side of it, the sternum carinate, the wings func- 
tionally developed, and teeth present ; the liz- 
ard-tailed birds. Also called Som-in-nHlifs, and, 
by Owen, Uroioni. 
saururan (sa-ro'ran), H. and a. [< saurur-ons 
+ -aw.] I. M. A member of the Saururte. 
II. a. Saururous; of or pertaining to the 
Sanmrtt. 
Saurureae (sa-ro're-e), . pi. [NL. (Endlicher, 
1836), < Saururus + -e&.~\ A tribe of apetalous 
plants, of the order Piperacese, the pepper fam- 
ily, distinguished from the other tribe, Pipe- 
rex, by flowers with three or four carpels in- 
stead of one, and each with two to eight 
ovules. It consists of the genera Saururue (the type), 
Anemiopris and Htnttiitynia. American and Asiatic herbs 
with cordate leaves, and Lactoris, a monotypic shrub from 
Juan Fernandez, unlike all others of the order in possess- 
ing a perianth. 
saururous (sa-ro'rus), a. [< NL. saururus, < 
Gr. aavpof, lizard, + oupa, tail.] Lizard-tailed, 
as a bird; specifically, of or pertaining to the 
Saururse. 
Saururus (sa-ro'rus), H. [NL. (Plumier, 1703), 
so called in allusion to the inflorescence ; < Gr. 
aaiipof, lizard, + ovpa, tail.] A genus of apeta- 
lous plants, of the order Piperacese, type of the 
tribe Saurureae. It is characterized l>y naked, bisexual, 
and racemed 
flowers, each ses- 
silewithinapedi- 
celled bract and 
consisting of six 
or eight stamens 
and of three or 
four nearly dis- 
tinct carpels 
which contain 
two to four as- 
cending ovules 
and in fruit coa- 
lesce into a cap- 
sule that soon 
separates into 
three or four 
roughened nut- 
lets. There are 2 
species, S. Lou- 
rein in eastern 
Asia and S. cer- 
nuus in North 
America, the lat- 
ter known as 
lizurdtati and 
breagtweed, and 
extending on the Atlantic coast into Canada. They are 
smooth herbs with broadly heart-shaped alternate leaves, 
and numerous small flowers crowded in a terminal catkin- 
like raceme. 
Saurus (sa'rus), . [NL. (Cuvier, 1817), < Gr. 
aaiipof, m., oarpa, f., a lizard.] In tenth., a ge- 
nus of fishes of the family Syiiodontidie; the 
lizard-fishes. Called Synodus by Scopoli in 
1777. See Synodus. 
saury (sa'ri), . ; pi. sauries (-riz). [Prob. < F. 
saur, sorrel: see saurel.'] A fish, Scomberesox 
Flowering Branch of Lizardtail (Snuritrus 
cernHMs}. a, flower. 
Saury or Skipper (Srornbertso \- saitrns\. 
saunts, the skipper or bill-fish ; any species of 
this genus. The true saury is found on both sides of 
the Atlantic. It attains a length of 18 inches, and is olive- 
brown, silvery on the sides and belly, with a distinct sil- 
very band, as broad as the eye, bounding the dark color 
of the back. 
saury-pike (sa'ri-pik), . The saury; any fish 
of the family Scomberesocidif. 
sausage (sa'saj), . [Early mod. E. also said- 
sage, saucidge; dial, sassage ; < ME. saueige 
(also extended sawcister, sawcyster, saucestour, 
salsister), prop. *saucissc (= D. saucijs), < OF. 
saucme, saulcisse, sancliise, F. saucisse = It. 
xttleiecia, salsiccia = Sp. salchicha (cf. F. sau- 
cisson), salchiclion = Pg. salchicha, salcliicliffo, 
< ML. salsitia, salcitia, salsicia, salsittia, f., 
salsitium, saUutium, etc. (after Rom.), prop. 
salsicium, iieut., a sausage, of salted or sea- 
soned meat, < L. salsus, salted: see sauce.'] An 
article of food, consisting usually of chopped or 
minced meat, as pork, beef, or Veal, seasoned 
with sage, pepper, salt, etc., and stuffed into 
properly cleaned entrails of the ox, sheep, or 
pig, tied or constricted at short intervals. When 
sausages are made on an extensive scale the 
meat is minced and stuffed into the intestines 
by machinery. 
Varius Heliogabalus . . . had the peculiar glory of flrst 
making sawtaqe* of shrimps, crabs, oysters, prawns, and 
lobsters. If. King, Art of Cookery, Letter ix. 
R866 
Bologna sausage, a large sausage made of bacon, veal, 
and pork-suet, chopped tine, and inclosed in a skin, as a 
large intestine. 
sausage-cutter (sa'saj-kut'er), . A machine 
for cutting sausage-nieat. Such machines exist in 
great variety. Some operate chopping-knives in a hori- 
zontally rotating circular metal trough with a wooden 
bottom ; others consist of u horizontally rotating cylinder 
with cutting-teeth that pass between flxed cutting-teeth 
in an environing shell ; and others act merely to tear the 
meat into the required state of fineness. Most of them are 
hand-machines operated by cranks ; but in large manu- 
factories they are often driven by power. 
sausage-grinder (sa'saj-grin'der), . A do- 
mestic machine for mincing meat for sausages. 
sausage-machine (sa'saj-ma-shen"), . A ma- 
chine for grinding, mincing, or pounding meat 
as material for sausages ; a sausage-grinder. 
sausage-poisoning (sa'saj-poi'zn-ing), n. A 
poisoning by spoiled sausages, characterized 
by vertigo, vomiting, colic, diarrhea, and pros- 
tration, and sometimes fatal. Also called allan- 
tiasis and botalismus. 
sausage-roll (sa'saj-rol), H. Meat minced and 
seasoned as for sausages, enveloped in a roll 
of flour paste, and cooked. 
sauset, n. An obsolete form of sani-i-. 
sausefleinet, and a. [< ME. sauseflcmc, murcc- 
flem,(. OF. sausefleme, < ML. salsum fleijma, ' salt 
phlegm,' salty humor or inflammation: sal- 
sum, salty (neut. of salsus, salted: see sauce); 
phlegma, phlegm: see phlegm.'] I. w. An erup- 
tion of red spots or scabs on the face. 
II. a. Having a red pimpled face. 
For mwcejkm he was, with eyes narwe. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 625. 
sausert, . An obsolete form of saucer. 
Saussurea (sa-su're-a), . [NL. (A. P. de Can- 
dolle, 1810), named after Theodore de Saussure 
(1767-1845), and his father, H. B. de Saussure 
(1740-99), Swiss writers on botanical science.] 
A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Cyna- 
roideee and subtribe Carduinese. it is characterized 
by smooth and free filaments, by pappus of one row of 
equal and plumose bristles, with sometimes an additional 
row of small slender and unbranched bristles, and by the 
absence of spines on either leaves or involucres. There 
are about 70 species, natives of Europe, Asia, and North 
America, mainly mountain plants. They are smooth or 
white-woolly perennial herbs, bearing alternate leaves 
which vary from entire to pinnatifld, and purplish or blu- 
ish flowers in heads which are small and corymbed, or 
broad and solitary or loosely paniclcd. Several species 
are sometimes known as tamcort, from their cut toothed 
leaves. For Lappa, see cogtus-root. 
saussurite (sa-su'rit), n. [Named after H. B. 
de Saussure (1740-99), its discoverer: see Saus- 
surea.'] A fine-grained compact mineral of a 
white, gray, or green color. It has a specific grav- 
ity above 3, and in part is identical with zoisite ; in many 
cases it can be shown to have been derived from the alter- 
ation of feldspar. It is found in the Alps at various points 
as a constituent of the rock gabbro (including euphotide), 
and also at other localities. 
saussuritic (sa-su-rit'ik), a. [< saussurite + 
-ic.] Resembling, pertaining to, or character- 
ized by the presence of saussurite. Amer. 
Jour. Sci.. 3d ser., XXXII. 239. 
saussuritization (sa-su-rit-i-za'shon), n. [< 
saussurite + -ize + -iition.~\ Conversion into 
saussurite : a term used by some lithologists in 
describing certain metamorphic changes in va- 
rious feldspars. Also, and less correctly, ttaux- 
nurisation. 
The felspar in all these rocks affords more or less evi- 
dence of incipient savssurization. 
Quart. Jour. Geol. Soe., XLV. 532. 
saut 1 (sat), n. and a. A Scotch form of salt 1 . 
The king he turned round about. 
And the until tear blinded his ee. 
Young Akin (Child's Ballads, I. 184). 
saut 2 t, w. See saiilft. 
sautet, . and r. See saulft. 
sautellust (sa-tel'us), w. [NL.] In hot., a de- 
ciduous bulb formed in the axil of a leaf or on 
the crown of a root. 
sauter (sd-ta'),r. t. [F.] To fry in a pan light- 
ly, with very little grease or butter. 
sautert, . A Middle English form of psalter. 
sautereau (so-te-ro'), . [F., a jack, grass- 
hopper, etc., (sauter, leap: see satilii. Cf. 
sauterelle.'] In musical instruments like the 
harpsichord, spinet, etc., same nsjackl, 11 (g). 
sauterellt, . [ME., < OF. sauterel, "saulterel, 
saidtereau, a leaper, jumper, also a locust, grass- 
hopper, < sauter, < L. saltare, leap: see saulft.'] 
A term of abuse (exact sense uncertain, being 
used in depreciation). 
Mi souerayne lorde, yone scmterett he sais, 
He schall caste doune oure tempill, nogt for to layne. 
And dresse it vppe dewly with-in thre dales, 
Alg wele as it was, full poodely agayne. 
York Play*, }>. 310. 
savage 
sauterelle (sd-te-ivl'). n. [< F. nauterellt; ;i 
shifting-bevel, grasshopper; cf. OF. sauterel, a 
leaper, grasshopper : see sa u tercll. ] An instru- 
ment used by stone-cutters and carpenters for 
tracing and forming angle-. 
Sauterne (so-tern'J, . [< f^niterne, a place in 
France, department of Gironde.] A name for 
certain white wines from the department of 
Gironde, France, (a) A wine grown at and near the 
village of Sauterne, on the left bank of the Garonne, some 
distance above Bordeaux, (b) A general name for the 
white wines of similar character and flavor exported from 
Bordeaux, including some of quality much superior to (a) : 
thus, Chateau Yquem and Chateau Suduiraut are consid- 
ered as Sauternes. All these wines are sweet, but lose 
their excess of sweetness with age. 
sautfit (sat'fit), w. A dish for salt. [Scotch.] 
sautoire, sautoir (so-twor'), n. [F., a saltier: 
see saltier^.] In her., a saltier __ En sautoire. 
>) In her., saltierwise, or in saltier, (b) Borne or worii 
iagonally : as, a ribbon worn en sautoire crosses the body 
from one shoulder to the opposite hip. 
sautriet, A Middle English form of psaltery. 
sautrient, f. '. [ME., < sautrie, sautry, psaltery : 
see psaltery.'] To play on the psaltery. 
Nother sailen ne sautrien ne singe with the giterne. 
Piers Plowman (C), xvi. 208. 
sautry 't, . A Middle English form of psaltery. 
sautry 2 t, a. [Cf. saltier, sautoire.'] In her., 
same as en sautoire (which see, under sautoire). 
sauvaget, and . An obsolete form of savage. 
Sauvagesia (sa-va-je'si-a), n. [NL. (Linnseiis, 
1753), named after P. A. Boissier de la Croix 
de Sauvages (1710-95), a writer on vegetable 
morphology, and professor of botany at Paris 
in 1752.] A genus of polypetalous plants, type 
of the tribe Sauvagexiex, in the order Tiolarieee, 
the violet family. It is characterized by flowers with 
five equal and convolute petals, five very short fertile sta- 
mens, and dimorphous staminodes of two rows, the outer 
thread-shaped and very numerous or only five, the inner 
five and petaloid, and by a one-celled ovary with three 
placenta:, becoming in fruit a three-valved capsule with 
many small seeds and fleshy albumen. There are about 
10 species, natives of tropical America, one of them also 
extending into the Old World. They are extremely smooth 
herbs or undershrubs, with alternate and slightly rigid 
leaves, deeply fringed stipules, and white, rose, or violet 
flowers in the axils or in terminal racemes. S. erecta is 
known as herb of St. Martin (which see, under herb). 
Sauvagesieae (sa'va-je-si'e-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(Barthng, 1830), < Sauvagesia + -ex.'] A tribe 
of polypetalous plants of the order Violariese, 
the violet family. It is unlike all others of its family 
in the possession of staminodes which are thread-like or 
petaloid, five or many in number, and free or united into 
a tube, and in the septicidal dehiscence of the three-valved 
capsule, which opens only at the top. It includes 6 gen- 
era, of which Samagema is the type. The 26 species are 
all tropical, and mainly South American. 
sauvet, v. A Middle English form of save. 
sauvegarde (sov'gard), . [< F. sauvegarde, 
lit. safeguard: see safeguard.'] A monitor, or 
varaniau lizard; a safeguard. 
Hence, probably, their names of sauvegarde and monitor. 
Curier, Regne Anim., 1829 (trans. 1849), p. 274. 
sauveourt, " An obsolete form of savior. 
savable (sa'va-bl), . [< save 1 + -able.'] Capa- 
ble of being saved. Also sareable. 
All these difficulties are to be past and overcome before 
the man be put into a mvaUe condition. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 187. 
savableness (sa'va-bl-nes), . Capability of 
being saved. 
The narnUfnexit of Protestants. 
Chillinyu'orth, Religion of Protestants, p. 317. 
savaciount, . A Middle English form of sal- 
savage (sav'aj), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also 
xtn-iidge, salvage, samage; < ME. savage, sauvage, 
< OF. salvage, saurage, savaige, F. sauvage = 
Pr. salvatge, salvage = Sp. salraje Pg. salva- 
gcm = It. salvatico, selvaggio, < L. silratieus, be- 
longing to a wood, wild, ML. silvatictis, si/l- 
riitieus, also salraticus, n., a savage, < silra, a 
wood: see silva, sylvan.'] I. a. 1. Of or per- 
taining to the forest or wilderness, (a) Growing 
wild; uncultivated; wild. 
And when you are come to the lowe and playn ground, 
the residue of the ionrney is all together by the sandes ; 
it is throughout baren and saluage. so that it is not able 
to nourishe any beastes for lacke of pasture. 
K. Eden, tr. of Sebastian Minister (First Books on 
[America, ed. Arber, p. 27). 
A place . . . which yeeldeth balme in great plenty, but 
xaluafif. wilde, and without vertue. 
Balrlvyt'i Voyaffes, II. 202. 
rornels and sai'aye berries of the wood. 
Dryden. Xneid, iii. 855. 
(b) Possessing, characterized by, or presenting the wild- 
ness of the forest or wilderness^ 
The scene was snvaffe. but the .-on., was new. 
Jlj/rmi, ( hilrte Harold, ii. 4:;. 
