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See siserary. sa et (sas), n. [ They have made divers great and navigable sa es and sluices, and bridges. The Great Level (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 320). Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sa e in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships. Pepys , Diary, Jan. 25, 1662. any thing they could, being of a comely proportion and the best condition of any Salvages we had yet in count red. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 107. 2. [ cap.] [NL. (C. G. Nees, 1836).] A genus of apetalous trees of the order Laurineæ and tribe Litseaceæ, characterized by an umbel like inflorescence of diœcio us flowers in loose and short racemes from terminal buds, and produced around the base of the new growth of the season. The flowers have a six-lobed perianth and nine stamens in three rows, with their anthers in a stalked gland at the base. The only species, S. offici nale, is a native of the United States, especially southward and principally east of the Mi i ippi, extending also into Canada. It is a small or middle-sized tree, with aromatic bark and roots, and remarkable for the green color of its flowers, bud-scales, and branches, and for its dimorphous leaves, the earlier entire and oval, the later three-lobed or irregular. See cut in next column. -Australian sa afras. (a) Of Victoria (and Tasmania): At hero sperm a moschata of the order Monimiaceæ, a lofty evergreen, with a somewhat useful wood and an aromatic bark used to make a kind of tea and affording an e ential oil. Also called plume - nutmeg. (b) Of New South Wales: Dorypha Sa afras of the same order, another large tree, with very fragrant leaves, and aromatic Saxon: see Saxon. ] A Saxon; an English man: a general name applied by the Scottish Highlanders of the British Isles to persons of Saxon race. The term Sa enach , or Saxon, is applied by the Highlanders to their Low-Country neighbors. Scott , Glenfinlas, note. satchel sa y-bark (sas'i-bärk), n. [W. African sas sy (1) + E. bark2 .] The mancona bark (which see, under bark2 ); also, the tree that yields it. See Erythrophlœum . See shaster. sastra (säs trä), n. sat (sat). Preterit of sit . Sat. An abbreviation of Saturday .