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[For etym. and def. see extract under SAJOU.] sā-Ic, s. (Fr. saïque, from Turk. shaika.] Naut .: A Levantine ve el like a ketch, but without top-gallant sail or mizzen-topsail. said (ai as ě), pret. of v., pa. par. & a. [SAY, v.] A. As pret. & pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Declared, uttered, spoken. 2. Before-mentioned, aforesaid. (Used chiefly in legal documents.) "King John succeeded his said brother in the kingdom of England and dutchy of Normandy."-Hale. sā-i-ga, s. [Native name.] Zoology : 1. A genus of Bovide, with one species, Saïga tar tarica , from eastern Europe and Western Asia. [COLUS.] They differ so much from all other antelopes that some naturalists have made them a distinct family. ( Wallace .) 2. Any individual of the genus Saïga. They are about the size of a fallow-deer, twany yellow in summer, and light gray in winter; horns, found only in the male, le than a foot long, slightly lyrate and annulated. The nose is large, fleshy, and probosciform, and the nostrils are widely expanded, so that the animals have to walk backward as they feed. saiga-antelope, s. Zool.: The same as SAIGA, 1. (2.) "The large animals in the center are the remarkable saiga- antelopes ." - Wallace : Geo. Dist . Anim ., i. 218. sāil, *sayle, *seil, *seyl, s . [A. S. segel, segl; cogn. with Dut. zeil ; Icel. segt ; Dan. seil ; Sw.segel; Ger.segel. From a root signifying to bear, to endure, to resist.] I. Literally : 1. A piece of canvas cloth spread to catch the wind, so as to cause or a ist in causing a ship or boat to move through the water. Sails are supported by the masts, spars, or stays of the ve el, and take their names from the mast, yard, or stay on which they are stretched, as the mainsail, . The upper edge of a sail is the head, the lower edge the foot, the vertical edge the leech, the weather side or edge (that is, the side or edge next the mast or stay to which it is attached) of any but a square sail (q. v.) is the luff, and the other edge the after leech. The clews or clues are the lower corners of a square sail, or the lower after corner of a fore and-aft sail. A tack is the lower weather corner of a square sail, or the lower forward corner of a fore and-aft sail. The earing is the upper corner of a square sail. A square sail is one extended by a yard hung (slung) by the middle and balanced. A sail set upon a gaff, boom, or stay is called a fore and-aft sail. 2. A wind-sail (q. v.). 3. That part of the arm of a windmill which catches the wind. 4. A ship, a ve el. (By extension, applied to a "We have descried fleet.) A portly sail of ships make hitherward." Shakesp.: Pericles , i. 4. 5. A journey or excursion by water; a pa age in a ve el or boat. "The very sea-mark of my outward sail ." Shakesp.: Othello , v. 2. *II. Fig .: A wing. ( Poet .) "Like to an eagle, in his kingly pride Soaring through his wide empire of the aire, To weather his brode sails ." Spenser: F. Q., V. iv. 42. (1) Full sail : With all sails set. (2) To sail close to the wind : To go to the very verge of propriety, or to act so as just to escape the letter of the law. (3) To sail under false colors: [FALSE-COLORS.] (4) Under sail: Having the sails spread.