Sawmill
(Saw"mill`) n. A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
Sawneb
(Saw"neb`) n. A merganser. [Prov. Eng.]
Saw palmetto
(Saw" pal*met"to). See under Palmetto.
Saw-set
(Saw"-set`) n. An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they
may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; — called also saw-
wrest.
Sawtooth
(Saw"tooth`) n. (Zoöl.) An arctic seal having the molars serrated; — called also crab-eating
seal.
Saw-toothed
(Saw"-toothed") a. Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
Sawtry
(Saw"try) n. A psaltery. [Obs.] Dryden.
Saw-whet
(Saw"-whet`) n. (Zoöl.) A small North American owl destitute of ear tufts and having feathered
toes; — called also Acadian owl.
Saw-wort
(Saw"-wort`) n. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; — so named from the
serrated leaves of most of the species.
Saw-wrest
(Saw"-wrest`) n. See Saw- set.
Sawyer
(Saw"yer) n. [Saw + - yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.]
1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling
with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [U.S.]
3. (Zoöl.) The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]
Sax
(Sax) n. [AS. seax a knife.] A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Saxatile
(Sax"a*tile) a. [L. saxatilis, fr. saxum a rock: cf. F. saxatile.] Of or pertaining to rocks; living
among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.
Saxhorn
(Sax"horn`) n. (Mus.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with
valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands
and in orchestras.
Saxicava
(Sax`i*ca"va) n.; pl. E. saxicavas L. Saxicavæ [NL. See Saxicavous.] (Zoöl.) Any species of
marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring
holes in limestone and similar rocks.
Saxicavid
(Sax`i*ca"vid) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. — n. A saxicava.
Saxicavous
(Sax`i*ca"vous) a. [L. saxum rock + cavare to make hollow, fr. cavus hollow: cf. F. saxicave.]
(Zoöl.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; — said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in
rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
Saxicoline
(Sax*ic"o*line) a. [L. saxum a rock + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.) Stone- inhabiting; pertaining
to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.
Saxicolous
(Sax*ic"o*lous) a. [See Saxicoline.] (Bot.) Growing on rocks.
