saint1 (sant)

and n. [ 1. The inflorescence of sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa). 2. The lower part of the stem with the leaves. a, the pod with the persistent calyx. saint, seint, sainct, m., sancte, sainte, f., F. saint, m., sainte, f., = Pr. sanct, sant, san, m., santa, f., Sp. santo, san, m., santa, f., = Pg. santo, são, m., santa, f., = It. santo, san, m., santa, f., holy, sacred, as a noun a saint (= AS. sanct = D. sant = G. sankt, sanct = Dan. Sw. sankt, saint), And sle me first, for seynte charitee. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 863. It shall here-after be declared how that she was discesed of the seint Graal and wher-fore, and how the aventures of the seynt Graal were brought to fin. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 229. II. n. 1. One who has been consecrated or set apart to the service of God: applied in the Old Testament to the Israeli tes as a people (Ps. cxxxii. 9; compare Num. xvi. 3), and in the New Testament to all members of the Christian churches (2 Cor. i. 1). Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia. 2 Cor. i. 1. 2. One who is pure and upright in heart and life; hence, in Scriptural and Christian usage, one who has been regenerated and sanctified by the Spirit of God; one of the redeemed: applied to them both in their earthly and in their heavenly state; also used of persons of other religions: as, a Buddhist saint. 5307 Than the i seyn that tho ben Seyntes , be cause that the i slowen hemself of here owne gode wille for love of here Ydole. Mandeville , Travels, p. 176. fully, are saints and holy. All faithful Christ's people, that believe in him faith Latimer, Sermons (Parker Soc.), p. 507. In her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints , and of all that were slain upon the earth. Rev. xviii. 24. 3. One who is eminent for consecration, holine , and piety in life and character; character; specifi saint mixture of Paleozoic and Mesozoic forms. - St. Catherine's flower, the Nigella Damascena. - St. Christopher's herb. Same as herb - christopher.- St. Clair's disease, ophthalmia. - St. Crispin's day. See Crispin. St. Cuthbert's beads, duck. See bead, duck2.-St. Dabeoc's heath. See heath, 2.- St. David's day. See day1.-Saint Distaff's day. See distaff. - St. Domingo duck, Erismatura (or Nomonyx ) dominica, a West Indian duck, rarely found in the United States, a near relative of the common ruddy duck. - St. Domingo falcon. See falcon. - St. Domingo grebe, Podiceps or Sylbeocyclus or We have decided and defined the Ble ed Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, to be a Saint, and have inscribed him on the catalogue of the Saints. Bull of Alexander VII. concerning St. Francis de Sales [(1665), quoted in Cath. Dict., p. 114. Any one writing on ecclesiastical history ought to know that the British and Saxon saints were not canonized, but acquired the name of saint not directly from Rome, but from the voice of the people of their own neighbourhood. N. and Q., 7th ser., IX. 319. 4. An angel. The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten you sands of saints . Deut. xxxiii. 2. parts of America, including the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. - St. Dymphna's disease, insanity. - St. Elmo's fire or light [ St. Elmo, patron of navigation], a name given by seamen to brushes and jets of electric light seen on the tips of masts and yard-arms of ve els, especially during thunder-storms. This form of electric discharge occurs also on land, and most frequently on mountain summits, where it glows and hi es in brilliant tongues of white and blue light several inches in length. On Ben Nevis it is most generally seen in winter during storms of dry, hard snow-hail, with rising barometer, falling temperature, and northwesterly wind. Also called corposant. -St. Emilion, a red wine produced in the department of Gironde, on the right bank of the Dordogne, and generally cla ed among clarets, though different in quality and flavor from the wines grown nearer Bordeaux. - St. Erasmus's disease, colic. - St. Estèphe, a red wine produced north of the Garonne, in the department of Gironde, and belonging to the same cla of wines as St. Emilion. It is generally exported from Bordeaux, and is considered a claret. St. Francis's firet. See fire. - St. George, a cro of St. George-that is, an upright red cro on a white field: as, "a St. George cantoned with the Jack," C. Boutell. St. Georges. (a) A red wine of Burgundy, produced in the immediate neighborhood of wines of the highest quality, but not ranking above the second grade. (b) A Bordeaux wine, especially red, of medium quality. (c) A red wine grown near Poitiers. St. George's day, fish, mushroom. See day 1, fish1, etc. - St. George's ensign, the distinguishing flag of ships of the British navy, consisting of a red cro on a white field, with the union flag in the upper quarter next the mast. - St. Germain tea. See tea. - St. Giles's disease, cancer. - St. Gilles, a white wine produced at St. Gilles, in the department of Gard. It is one of the best of the wines of southern France. -St. Gothard's disease, a disease due to the intestinal worm Ankylostomum duodenale. - St. Helena black Holy! holy! holy! all the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the gla y sea. Heber, Holy! holy! holy! Lord God Almighty. 6. An image of a saint. No silver saints by dying misers given Here bribed the rage of ill-requited Heaven. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 137. All Saints' day, a feast of all martyrs and saints, observed as early as the fourth century. In the Greek Church it occurs on the first Sunday after Pentecost; in the Latin Church at first observed on the 13th of May, since Pope Gregory III. on the 1st of November. Also called All saints. Christians of St. John. See Mandæan, 1.Common of the Saints. See common. - Communion of saints, the spiritual fellowship of all true believers, both living and dead, mystically united with each other in Christ their head. - Cro of St. George, of St. James, of St. Julian, of St. Patrick. See cro l. - Herb of St. Martin. See herb.-Interce ion of saints. See interce ion. Invocation of saints. See invocation. Knights of the Order of St. Crispin. See knight. Latter-day Saints, the name a umed by the people popularly called Mormons. See Mormon2. For thus shall my Church be called in the last days; even the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints . Mormon Catechism , p. 14. Lion of St. Mark. See lion. - Nativity of a saint, nativity of St. John Baptist. See nativity. - Oratory of St. Philip Neri. See oratory. - Order of St. Andrew, St. George, St. Michael, etc. See order. Patron saint, a saint who is regarded as a protector, a guardian, or a favorer: as, St. Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris; St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music; St. George is the patron saint of England, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, St. Denys of France. - Perseverance of the saints. See perseverance1. - Proper of Saints. See proper. - St. Agatha's disease, disease of the mam me. - St. Agnes's flower, the snowflake ( Leucoium ). - St. Aignon's disease, tinea. - St. Andrew's cro . (a) See cro 1, 1, and saltier. (b) A North American shrub, Ascyrum Crux Andreæ. St. Andrew's day. See dayl.- St. Ann's bark. Same as Santa Ana bark (which see, under bark2 ). - St. Anthony's cro . See cro 1, 1.- St. Anthony's fire. (a) Epidermic gangrene, as in ergotism. (b) Erysipelas. - St. Anthony's nut, the pignut or hawknut: so called because St. Anthony was the patron of pigs.St. Anthony's rape or turnip. See turnip. - St. A poll on i a's disease, pains in the jaw, accompanied by toothache. - St. Audrey's necklace, a string of holy stones or "fairy beads." - St. Augustine gra , Stenotaphrum Americanum, a common coarse gra of Florida, making a firm sod, green through the year. [Local name.] - St. Avert in's disease, epilepsy. - St. Barbara's cre or herb, the yellow rocket, Barb are a vulgar is. - St. Barnaby's thistle. See thistle. - St. Bennet's herb, the herb-bennet. - St. Blase's disease, sore throat; quin St. Bruno's lily. See Paradisia. - St. Ca ian beds, a division of the Tria ic series, particularly well developed near St. Ca ian in southern Tyrol, and consisting of calcareous marls, extremely rich in fo ils: among these are ammonites, orthoceratites, gastropods, lamellibranchs, brachiopods, echinoderms, crinoids, corals, and sponges. The fauna of the Alpine Trias, to which the St. Ca ian beds belong, is remarkable as presenting a culiaceæ, formerly of St. Helena, now extinct. Its dark, heavy wood was still at a recent date collected and turned into ornaments. - St. Helen's beds. See Osborne series, under series. St. Hubert's disease, hydrophobia. - St. Ignatius' beans. See bean1. - St. James lily. Same as jacobæa - lily. St. James's flower. See Lotus, 2.- St. James's shell. See pilgrim's shell (a), under pilgrim. St.-James's-wort. Same as rag - wort. St. Job's disease, syphilis. St. John's bread. (a) The carob-bean: used medicinally as an expectorant and demulcent. See Cera tonia. (b) The ergot of rye ( Claviceps purpure a ). See ergot1 for figure and description. - St. John's evil, epilepsy.St. John's falcon. See falcon. - St. John's hawk or buzzard, a blackish variety of the rough-legged buzzard, Arch i buteo lagopus, var. sanctijohannis, originally described as Falco sanctijohannis, from St. John's in Newfoundland.St. John stone's tippet. See tippet. - St.-John's-wort. See Hypericum. - St. Julien. (a) A red Bordeaux wine produced in the Médoc region, and properly in the small district of St. Julien de Reignac. The name has become known in the United States, and is commonly understood to denote claret of a medium grade without especial reference to the place of production. ( b ) A red wine produced in the neighborhood of the Rhone, not often exported. - St. Julien plum. See plum1. - St. Lawrence's tearst. See tear2. - St. Lazarus disease. ( a ) Leprosy. (b) Tinea. (c) Measles of the hog. See Trichina, trichinosis. - St. Louis limestone, a division of the mountain limestone, well developed in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Mi ouri, and having a maximum thickne of 250 feet. - St. Lucas cactus-wren, Campylorhynchus affinis, closely related to C. brunneicapillus. See Campylorhynchus. - St. Lucas gecko, robin, thrasher. See gecko, robin1, etc.St. Lucia bark. See bark2.- St. Luke's summer, in weather lore, a period of fine pleasant weather about October 18th.- St. Martin's evil, drunkenne . - St. Martin's flower, an ornamental plant of the Amaryllid aceæ, Alstræmeri a pulchra (A. Flos - Martini ). - St. Martin's herb. See herb of St. Martin, under herb. St. Martin's Lent. See Lent1.- St. Martin's little summer, a period beginning about the 11th of November, popularly considered in the Mediterranean to mark a period of warm, quiet weather. - St. Martin's rings. See ring1.- St. Mary's trout. See trout. - St. Mathurin's disease. ( a ) Epilepsy. (b) Insanity. - St. Michael's bannock, an oatmeal cake made especially for Michael mas time. [Prov. Eng.]-St. Michael's orange. See or angel. - St. Nicholas's clerkt. See clerk. - St. Nicholas's day. See day1.St. Patrick's cabbage, day, Purgatory. See cabbage1, dayl, etc. - St. Peter's chair. See chair.-St. Peter's corn, a species of wheat, Triticum mопососсит. wheat. St. Peter's finger. (a) A belemnite, or some similar fo il cephalopod. These are among many petrifactions which, like some prehistoric artificial implements, have been generally regarded superstitiously by the ignorant, and sometimes worshiped. See ammonite, ram's-horn, thunder - stone, and cut under belemnite. Compare salagrama. (b) The garfish, Belone belone or B. vul garis. [Local, Eng.] - St. Peter's fish, the dory. See dory1, 1.- St. Peter's sandstone. See sandstone.-St.Peter's-wort. (a) In old herbals, same as herb - peter. (b) In later books, the European Hypericum quadrangulum. (c) Perhaps transferred from the last, the American genus Ascyrum, especially A. stans. (d) The snowberry, Sym phoricarpos. - St. Peter's wreath. Same as Italian may (which see, under may1 ). - St. Pierre. (a) A claret of See the second grade. (b) A white wine produced in the department of Gironde, in the neighborhood of St. Emilion. - St. Pierre group, a thick ma of shales, marls, and clays covering a very extensive area in the upper Mi ouri region. It belongs to the Cretaceous system, is rich in fo ils, especially cephalopods, and lies between the [ sainten (see sainted ), saint1 (sant), v. OF.saintir ; from the noun.] I. trans . 1. Το number or enroll among saints officially; can- onize. Thou shalt be sainted , woman, and thy tomb Cut out in crystal, pure and good as thou art. Think women still to strive with men, To sin and never for to saint . saintly (sant'li), a. [ saint1 + -ly1.] Like or characteristic of a saint; befitting a holy person; saintlike. I mention still Him whom thy wrongs, with saintly patience borne, Made famous in a land and times obscure. With eyes astray, she told mechanic beads Before some shrine of saintly womanhood. Lowell, Cathedral. saint ologist (san-tol'ō-jist), n. [ saint1 + -olog-y + -ist .] One who writes the lives of saints; one versed in the history of saints; a hagiologist. [Rare.] Imp . Dict . Saints' bell. See belll . Whene'er the old exchange of profit rings Her silver saint's - bell of uncertain gains. Quarles , Emblems, iv. 3. saint-seeming (sānt'sē"ming), a . Having the appearance of a saint. A saint - seeming and Bible-bearing hypocritical puritan. Bp . Mountagu , Appeal to Cæsar, p. 43. ( Latham . ) Those are the Saint - seeming Worthies of Virginia, that haue notwithstanding all this meate, drinke, and wages. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 199. saintship (sānt's hip), n. [ saint + -ship .] The character or qualities of a saint; the pos i- tion of a saint; as a sort of title, saint. Saint Frip, Saint Trip, Saint Fill, Saint Fillie; Neither those other saint - ships will I Here goe about for to recite. Herrick , The Temple. Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. Saint-Simon i an (sānt-sī-mō'ni-an), a . and n. [ Saint - Simon (see Saint - Simonism ) + -i - an . ] IMG:content-2717.png:[blocks in formation] I give you check and mate to your white king, Simplicity itself, your saintish king there. John Pointer. became acquainted with Oliver Cromwel; who, when Protector, gave him a Canonry Ch. in Oxon, as a reward for the pains he took in converting him to godline , i. e, to canting Puritanism and Saintism . A. Wood , Fasti Oxon., I. 209. saintlike (sānt'lik), a . [ saint1 + like .] 1. Resembling a saint; saintly: as, a saintlike prince.-2. Suiting a saint; befitting a saint. Glo ed over only with a saint - like show,... Still thou art bound to vice. While the economists were discu ing theories, the Saint - Simonians were trying courageously the hazards of practice, and were making, at their risk and peril, experi- ments preparatory to the future. Blanqui , Hist. Pol. Econ. (trans.), xliii. Saint-Simon i an ism (sānt-si-mō'ni-an-izm), n . [ Saint - Simon i an + -ism .] Same as Saint- Simonism . sakt, n. A Middle English form of sack1 . saka (sä'kä), n . [S. Amer.] The native name of the bastard purple-heart tree, a species of Copaifera . Saka era. See Çaka era , under era . sakel (sāk), n. [ sake , sak , sac , dispute, contention, lawsuit, cause, purpose, guilt, sake, sacu , strife, distre , persecution, fault, a lawsuit, jurisdiction in litigious suits (see sacl), guilt, crime, = OS. saka , strife, crime, lawsuit, cause, thing, = MD. saecke , D. zaak , matter, case, cause, busine , affair, = MLG. LG . sake = OHG. sacha , sahha , MHG. sac he, strife, contention, lawsuit, case, cause, thing, G. sac he , case, affair, thing, = Icel. sök (gen. sa- kar ), a lawsuit, plaint, charge, offense charged, guilt, cause, sake, = Sw. sak = Dan. sag , case, cause, matter, thing; cf. Goth. sakjō , strife; orig. strife, contention, esp. at law; from the verb represented by AS. sac an (pret. sōc ), strive, contend at law, bring a charge against, accuse (also in comp. ætsacan , deny, disown, for sac an , deny, forsake, onsacan , strive against, resist, deny, etc.), = Goth. sakan (pret. sók ), contend, blame, rebuke; perhaps akin to L. sancire , render sacred, forbid, etc. (see sanc- tion ), Skt. sanj , sajj , adhere. From the same Teut. root are ult. seek and sacl , soc , socage , saught , settle2 ; cf. also forsake and ransack .] 1†. Strife; contention; dispute. That he with Romleode sum me sake arerde. Layamon , 1. 26290. Owl and Nightingale , 1. 1160, IMG:content-2718.png:[blocks in formation] Saint-Simonism (sānt-sī'mon-izm), n . [ Saint- Simon (see def.) + -ism .] The socialistic sys- tem founded by Claude Henri, Comte de Saint- 21. Fault; guilt. Simon (1760-1825), and developed by his dis- ciples. According to this system the state should become po e ed of all property; the distribution of the products of the common labor of the community should not, how- ever, be an equal one, but each person should be rewarded according to the services he has rendered the state, the active and able receiving a larger share than the slow and dull; and inheritance should be abolished, as other- wise men would be rewarded according to the merits of their parents and not according to their own. The system proposes that all should not be occupied alike, but differ- ently, according to their vocation and capacity, the labor of each being a igned, like grades in a regiment, by the will of the directing authority. J. S. Mill , Pol. Econ., II. 1. § 4. Saint-Simonist (sānt-si'mon-ist), n. [ Saint- Simon (see Saint - Simonism ) + -ist .] A follower of Saint-Simon; a Saint-Simon i an. He was reproached on all sides as a demagogue, a Saint- Simonist . Nineteenth Century , XXIV. 434. sairl (sar), a . and adv . A Scotch form of sorel . sair2 (sar), v . t. [Also North. dial. sarra , serve, fit, a reduced form (with the common lo of final v after a vowel or, as here, a semi-vowel) of servel . Cf. E. dial. sarrant , a servant.] To serve; fit; be large enough for; satisfy, as with food. [Scotch.] sairing (sar'ing), n . [Verbal n. of sair2 , v .] As much as satisfies or serves the turn; enough for any one: as, he has got his sairing . [Scotch.] You couldna look your sair in at her face, So meek it was, so sweet, so fu' o' grace. sairly (sar'li), adv . A Scotch form of sorely . saiset, v. A Middle English form of seize . Saisnet, n. [ME., Saisne , a Saxon: see Saxon .] A Saxon. That tyme the Saisnes made euell waich, for the i were nothynge war till these were euein a-monge hem. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 231. saith1 (seth). Third person singular present in- dicative of say1 . saith2 (sath), n. [Also saithe , seth ; sa- vidhean , the coalfish, especially in its 2d, 3d, and 4th years.] The coalfish. [Scotch.] religion. If my gaynlych God such gref to me wolde, Fof [for?] desert of sum sake that I slayne were, At alle peryles, quoth the prophete, I aproche hit no nerre. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 84. IMG:content-2719.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2720.png:[blocks in formation] I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake . Gen. viii. 21. Our hope is that the God of Peace shall enable us quietly and even gladly to suffer all things, for that work sake which we covet to perform. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., L For old sake's sake, for the sake of old times; for auld langsyne. [Colloq. or prov. Eng.] Yet for old sake's sake she is still, dears, The prettiest doll in the world. sake Of saké there are many varieties, from the best quality down to shiro-zaké, or "white saké , " and the turbid sort, drunk only in the poorer districts, known as nigori-zaké; there is also a sweet sort, called mirin. Encyc. Brit ., XIII. 574. 2. The generic name in Japan for all kinds of spirituous liquors, whether made from grain or grapes, fermented or distilled. sake3 (sā'ke), n. Same as saki. sakeen, n. [Native name (?).] A kind of ibex found in the Him a lay as. saker1 (sā'kėr), n. [Also written sacre, formerly also sakre; Ar. saqr, a falcon, or a sakeret or sacret . It is a true falcon of Asia and Europe, Falco sacer . A related falcon of western North America, Falco polyagrus or F. mexican us , is known as the American saker . Let these proud sakers and gerfalcons fly; Do not thou move a wing. Middle ton, Spanish Gypsy, ii. 1. saker2 (sā'kėr), n. [Also sacker, sayker; a particular use of saker1. Cf. falcon, 4, falconet, 3, musket2, etc., guns similarly named from birds.] A small piece of artillery, smaller than the dem i culverin, formerly much employed in sieges. They set vpa mantel let, vnder the which they put three or foure pieces, as sacres , where with they shot against the posterns. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 79. I reckoned about eight and twenty great pieces [of ordnance), besides those of the le er sort, as Sakers . Coryat, Crudities, I. 125.