| sauba ant | <zoology> A South American ant (Ecodoma cephalotes) remarkable for having two large kinds of workers besides the ordinary ones, and for the immense size of its formicaries. The sauba ant cuts off leaves of plants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus often does great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sauce | 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce." "High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies." (Sir S. Baker) 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. "Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . They dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt." (Beverly) 3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. "Stewed apple sauce." 4. Sauciness; impertinence. To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. Origin: F, fr. OF. Sausse, LL. Salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. Salsus salted, salt, p.p. Of salire to salt, fr. Sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sauce-alone | <botany> Jack-by-the-hedge. See Jack. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saucer-shaped cataract | A common form of senile cataract often confined to a region just within the posterior capsule. Synonym: saucer-shaped cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saucerization | Excavation of tissue to form a shallow depression, performed in wound treatment to facilitate drainage from infected areas. Synonym: craterization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saucisse | 1. <chemical> A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc. 2. A fascine of more than ordinary length. Origin: F, fr. Saucisse sausage. See Sausage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sauger | <zoology> An American fresh water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense). Synonym: gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sauks | <ethnology> Same as Sacs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saul | Same as Sal, the tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Saundby's test | A test for blood in the stools; on the addition of 30 drops of a 20-volume hydrogen peroxide solution to a mixture of 10 drops of a saturated benzidine solution and a small quantity of faeces in a test tube, a persistent dark blue colour denotes the presence of blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Saundby, Robert | <person> English physician, 1849-1918. See: Saundby's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saunter | To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter. "One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream." (Masson) Synonym: To loiter, linger, stroll, wander. Origin: Sauntered; Sauntering Alternative forms: santer] [Probably fr. F. S'aventurer to adventure (one's self), through a shortened form s'auntrer. See Adventure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saurel | <zoology> Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. Trachurus, or T. Saurus, of Europe and America, and T. Picturatus of California. Synonym: skipjack, and horse mackarel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sauria | <zoology> A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia. Origin: NL, from Gr. A liard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saurian | <zoology> Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria. One of the Sauria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |