savory 
savory: see Satiircia. As with other plant- 
names of unobvious meaning, the word has 
suffered much variation in popular speech.] A 
plant of the genus Satureia, chiefly <S'. hortetisis, 
the summer savory, and S. montana, the winter 
savory, both natives of southern Europe. They 
are low, homely, aromatic herbs, cultivated in gardens for 
seasoning in cookery. S. Thymbra of the Mediterranean 
region is a small evergreen bush, with nearly the flavor of 
thyme. 
In these Indies there is an herbe much lyke vnto a yel- 
owe lyllie, abowte whose leanes there growe and creepe 
certeyne cordes or lares, as the lyke is partly seene in the 
herbe which we caule lased sauery. 
R. Eden, tr. of Gonzalus Oviedus (First Books on Ameri- 
[ca, ed. Arber, p. 230). 
Now satxry seede in fatte undounged londe 
Dooth weel, and nygh the see best wol it stonde. 
PaUadms, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 81. 
savoy (sa-voi'), n. [So called from Savoy in 
France.] A variety of the common cabbage 
with a compact head and leaves reticulately 
wrinkled. It is much cultivated for winter 
use, and has many subvarieties. 
Savoyard (sa-vorard), a. and n. [< F. Savoy- 
ard, < Savoie, Savoy, -I- -ard.] I. a. Pertain- 
ing to Savoy. 
II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Savoy, 
a former duchy lying south of Lake Geneva, 
afterward a part of the kingdom of Sardinia, 
and in 1860 ceded to France. It forms the two 
departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie. 
Savoy Conference, Declaration. See confer- 
ence, declaration. 
Savoy medlar. A European shrub or tree, 
Amelanchier vulgaris, of the Rosacese, related to 
the June-berry or shad-bush. 
savvy, savvey (sav'i), . [< Sp. sabe, 3d pers. 
sing. pres. ind. of saber, know, with an inf. 
'know how,' 'can'; < L. sapere, be wise: see 
sapient. The word was taken up from Spanish 
speech in the southwestern part of the United 
States, in such expressions as "sabe listed . . .," 
'do you know . . .,' "no sabe," 'he does not 
know,' "sabe hablar Espattol" 'he can speak 
Spanish,'etc. Cf.MPPy,*.] I. trans. Toknow; 
understand; "twig": as, do you savvy thatt 
[Slang.] 
II. intrans. To possess knowledge. 
savvy, savvey (sav'i), n. [< savvy, v. Cf. Sc. 
savie, knowledge, < F. savoir, know, = Sp. saber, 
know.] General cleverness ; knowledge of the 
world: as, he has lots of savry. [Slang.] 
saw 1 (sa), . [< ME. sawe, saghe, sage, < AS. 
saga = MD. saghe, saeglie, D. zaag = MLG. sage 
= OHG. saga, sega, MHG. sage, sege, Q. sage 
= Icel. sog = Sw. sag = Dan. sav, saug, a saw; 
lit. ' a cutter' (of. OHG. sek, MHG. seek, seche, 
G. sech, a plowshare, AS. sigtlie, sithe, E. sithe, 
misspelled scythe, lit. 'a cutter'), < \f sag, cut, 
= L. secare, cut (wheuce ult. E. sickle): see 
secant, section.] 1. A cutting-tool consisting 
of a metal blade, baud, or plate with the edge 
armed with cutting teeth, worked either by a 
reciprocating movement, as in a hand-saw, or 
by a continuous motion in one direction, as in 
a circular saw, a band-saw, and an annular saw. 
Saws are for the most part made of tempered steel. The 
teeth of the smaller kinds are formed by cutting or punch- 
a, circular saw (right-hand and left-hand saws have the teeth run- 
ning in opposite directions) ; *, section of circular saw showing flange 
atr; d, concave saw; e. circular saw with inserted teeth ;/. mill- 
saw ; g, ice-saw ; ft, cross-cut saw ; t, band-saw ; j, rip-saw ; *, hand- 
saw ; /, panel-saw ; in, priming-saw ; , whip-saw ; o, wood-saw ; /, 
keyhole- or compass-saw ; q, hack-saw r, bow-back butchers' -saw. 
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inp: in the plate interdental spaces or gullets. In saws of 
large size inserted or removable teeth are now much used. 
Small saws are generally provided with a single handle of 
hard wood ; larger saws, for use by two workmen, have a 
handle at each end. Reciprocating saws more generally 
have their teeth inclined toward the direction of their cut- 
ting-stroke (see rake*, n., IX but some cut in both direc- 
tions equally. To cut freely, saws must have, for most 
purposes, what is called set that is, alternate teeth must 
be made to project somewhat laterally and uniformly from 
opposite sides of the saw in order that the kerf or saw-cut 
may be somewhat wider than the thickness of the saw- 
blade. This prevents undue friction of the sides of the 
blade against the sides of the kerf. Some saws, however, 
as surgeons' saws, hack-saws, etc., have little or no set, 
and undue friction against the kerf is prevented by mak- 
ing the blades of gradually decreasing thickness from the 
edge toward the back. 
2. A saw-blade together with the handles or 
frame to which the blade is attached, as a hand- 
saw, wood-saw, or hack-saw. 3. In sool. and 
compar. anat., a serrated formation or organ, 
or a serrated arrangement of parts of forma- 
tions or organs, (a) The set of teeth of a merganser, 
as Mergus serrator. (b) The serrate tomial edges of the 
beak of any bird. See sawbill, serratirostrate. (c) The 
long flat serrate or dentate snout of the saw-fish. See cut 
under Pristis. (d) The ovipositor of a saw-fly (Tenthrr- 
dinida). 
4. A sa wing-machine, as a scroll-saw or jig-saw. 
6. The act of sawing or see-sawing; specifi- 
cally, in whist [U. 8.], same as see-saw. 3 (b). 
Annular saw. (a) A saw having the form of a hollow cylin- 
der or tube, with teeth formed on the end, and projecting 
parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder, around 
which axis the saw is rotated when in use. Also called 
barrel-saw, crown-saw, cylinder-saw, drum-saw, ring-saw, 
spherical saw, and tub-saw. See cut under crown-saw, (b) 
In surg., a trephine. Brier-tooth saw, a saw gulleted 
deeply between the teeth, the gullets being shaped In a 
manner which gives the teeth a curvature resembling some- 
what the prickles of briers (whence the name). This form 
of tooth is chiefly used in circular saws, rarely or never in 
reciprocating saws. Also called gvllet-saw. Butcher's 
saw [named after R. G. Butcher, a Dublin surgeon], a nar- 
row-bladed saw set iu a frame so that it can be fastened 
at any angle : used in resections. Circular saw, a saw 
made of a circular plate or disk with a toothed edge, either 
formed integrally with the plate, or made by inserting re- 
movable teeth, the latter being now the most approved 
method for teeth of large lumber-cutting saws. Circular 
saws are very extensively used for manufacturing lumber, 
and their cutting power is enormous, some of them being 
over 7 feet in diameter, running with a circumferential 
velocity of 9,000 feet and cutting at the rate of 200 feet of 
kerf per minute. From the nature of this class of saws, 
they are exclusively used in sawing-machines. These 
machines, for small saws, are often driven by foot- or hand- 
power, but more generally by steam-, water-, or animal- 
power. Plain circular saws can cut only rectilinear 
kerfs, but some circular saws have a dished or concavo- 
convex form, by which curved shapes corresponding with 
the shape of the saw may be cut. See cut under rim-saw. 
Comb-cutters' saw. Same as comb-saw. Cross-cut 
saw. (a) A saw adapted by its filing and setting to cut 
across the grain. The teeth are filed to act more nearly 
like knife-points than those of rip-saws, which act more 
like chisels. Cross-cut saws have a wider set than rip-saws. 
(&) Particularly, a saw used by lumbermen for cutting logs 
from tree-trunks, having an edge slightly convex in the 
cutting-plane, a handle at each end projecting from and 
at right angles with the back in the plane of the blade, and 
teeth filed so that the saw cuts when drawn iu either 
direction. It is operated by two workmen, one at each 
handle. Double saw, two parallel saw-blades work- 
ing together at a specific distance from each other, 
and iu cutting leaving a piece of specific thickness be- 
tween their kerfs. Endless saw. Same as band-saw. 
Equalizing saw, a pair of circular saws placed on a 
mandrel and set at any desired distance apart by a gage : 
used for squaring off the ends of boards, etc. Hack-saw, 
a small stout frame-saw with little set, close teeth, and 
well tempered : used for sawing metal, as in cutting off 
bolts, nicking heads of hand-made screws, etc. Half-back 
saw, a hand-saw the back of which is stiffened to a dis- 
tance of half the length of the blade from the handle. 
Half-rip saw, a hand-saw without a back, and having a 
width of set intermediate between that of a cross-cut saw 
and that of a rip-saw. Hey'B saw, a small two-edged 
saw set in a short handle : one edge is straight, the other 
convex. It is used in removing pieces of bone from the 
skull. Interosseous saw. See intensseous. Perfo- 
rated saw, a saw having a series of perforations behind 
the teeth. Pitch of a saw. See ptteAi. Mt frame- 
saw, a double frame-saw, worked by nand, to the frame of 
which are attached upper and lower cross-handles analo- 
gous to those used on the ordinary pit-saw. Railway 
cut-off saw, a circular saw or buzz-saw supported on its 
frame upon a carriage moving on a track, so that it can be 
fed backward and forward to its work. Reversible saw, 
a straight-edged saw having both edges armed with teeth, 
so that cutting can be done with either edge, at will, by 
reversing the saw. Smith's saw, a hack-saw. To be 
held at the long sawt, to be kept in suspense. 
Between the one and the other he was held at the long 
saw above a month. 
Xnrth, Life of Lord Guilford, i. 148. (Davits.) 
(See also back-saw, band-saw, belt-saw, buzz-saw, center-saw, 
chain-saw, fret-saw, gang-saw, gig-saw, ice-saw, jiff-saw, 
rabbet-saw, ring-saw, etc.) 
saw 1 (sa), v. ; pret. sawed, pp. sawed oisawn, ppr. 
xawing. [< ME. sawen, saghen, sagen, < AS. 
*xfi(/ian = D. zagen = MLG. sagen, OHG. sagon, 
segon, MHG. sagen, segen, G. stigen = Icel. saga 
= Sw. saga = Dan. save, saw; from the noun.] 
I. trans. 1. To cut or divide with a saw; cut 
in pieces with a saw. 
saw-bearing 
By Caine Abel was slaine. ... by Achab Michea* \\as 
imprisoned, by Zedechias Esaias was sawen. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 90. 
Probably each pillar [of the temple] was sawn into two 
parts; they are of the most beautiful granite, in large 
spots, and finely polished. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 108. 
2. To form by cutting with a saw: as, to sate 
boards or planks (that is, to saw timber into 
boards or planks). 3. To cut or cleave as with 
the motion of a saw. 
Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but 
use all gently. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 5. 
4. In bookbinding, to score or cut lightly 
through the folded edges of, as the gathered 
sections of a book, in four or five equidistant 
spaces. The stout bands which connect the book to its 
covers are snnk in the saw-track, and the sewing-thread 
which holds the leaves together is bound around these 
bands. 
II. intrans. 1. To use a saw; practise the use 
of a saw ; cut with a saw. 2. To be cut with a 
saw : as, the timber saws smoothly Sawing In, 
in bookbinding, the operation of making four or more 
shallow cross saw-cuts in the back of the gathered sections 
of a book, in which cuts the binding cord or thread is 
placed. 
saw 2 (sa), n. [< ME. sawe, sage, sage, sane, 
< AS. sagu, saying, statement, report, tale, 
prophecy, saw (= MLG. sage = OHG. saga, 
MHG. G. sage, a tale, = Icel. saga = Sw. Dan. 
saga, a tale, story, legend, tradition, history, 
saga); < secgan (i/ sag), say: see sayi. Cf. 
saga.~\ If. A saying; speech; discourse; word. 
Leue lord & ludes lesten to mi sawes! 
William n/ Palerne (E. E. T. S.), L 1439. 
So what for o thynge and for other, swete, 
I shal hym so encbaunten with my sawes 
That right In hevene his soul is, shal he mete. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1395. 
I will be subgett nyght & day as me well awe, 
To serue my lord Jesu to paye in dede & sawe. 
York Plays, p. 174. 
2. A proverbial saying ; maxim ; proverb. 
On Salomones sawes selden thow biholdest. 
Piers Plowman (B), Til. 187. 
The justice, . . . 
Full of wise saws and modern Instances. 
Shak., As you Like It, ii. 7. 166. 
3f. A tale; story; recital. Compare saga. 
Now cease wee the sawe of this seg Sterne. 
Alisaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.X 1. 452. 
4t. A decree. 
A ! myghtfull God, here is it sene, 
Thou will fulfllle thi forward right, 
And all thi sawes thou will maynteyne. 
York Plays, p. 604. 
So love is Lord of all the world by right, 
And rules the creatures by his powrfull saw. 
Spenser, Colin Clout, 1. 884. 
=Syn. 2. Axiom, Maxim, etc. Hee aphorism. 
saw 3 (sa). Preterit of see 1 . 
saw 4 (s&), n. A Scotch form of salre*. 
A' doctor's mics and whittles. 
Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook. 
sawara, See Betinospora. 
saw-arbor (sa'ar'bor), . The shaft, arbor, or 
mandrel upon which a circular, annular, or 
ring saw is fastened and rotated. Also called 
saw-shaft, saw-spindle, and saw-mandrel. 
sawarra-nut (sa-war'a-nut), n. Same as 
soiiari-nut. * 
saw-back (sa'bak), . An adjustable or fixed 
gage extending over the back of a saw, and 
covering the blade to a line at which it is de- 
sired to limit the depth of the kerf. Compare 
saw-gage. 
sawback (sa'bak), H. The larva of Herice bi- 
dentata, an American bombycid moth, the dor- 
sum of whose abdomen is serrate. 
saw-backed (sa'bakt), . Having the dorsuni 
serrate by the extension of the tip of each ab- 
Saw-hacked I-arva of j\'eru-e bidtntata, natural size. 
dominal segment, as the larva of Xcrice bideii- 
tata and other members of that genus. 
Eight or ten of these peculiar saw backed larvae. 
C. L. Marlatt, Trans. Kansas Acad. ScL, XI. 110. 
saw-beaked (sa'bekt), a. Having the beak 
serrated. Also sale-billed. See cut under ser- 
ratirostral. 
saw-bearing (sa'bar'ing), n. In entom., secu- 
riferous: as, the taw-bearing hymenopters, the 
saw-flies. 
